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How the internet saved reading
by Jeff McMahon on February 26, 2011
Last week when my friend David Alm published his lament of digital publishing in these pages, I happened to be writing an introduction for a visiting writer. I recognized in my draft a soft rebuttal to David's post, but I decided it had to complete its original mission before I could post it. This introduction could be trimmed into a more concise response to David, but because that visiting writer, Dana Goldstein, is a living example of the reason more Americans than ever are reading, I've left her introduction at the conclusion of this post. You should meet her:
I've been worried that universities would be the last to know.
Universities select and value faculty based in part on the publication of articles and books on paper. And many universities still teach students to write primarily for those media, the media of the printing press, a 15th Century technology.
Meanwhile:
• More than half of all U.S. adults (53 percent) participate in the arts through electronic or digital media, according to a 2008 survey by the National Endowment for the Arts. 2008 was a long time ago in internet time, so expect these numbers to be more striking today.
• For every type of arts performance… other than theater… adults are more likely to participate through electronic media than to attend events in person. So concerts, ballets, operas, dance—most Americans attend online.
When it comes to literature,
• 21 percent of Americans either read or listen to novels, short stories or poems online. That's 46 million readers of online poetry and fiction, just in the U.S.
And twice that number,
• 42 percent, read non-fiction online: magazine articles, essays, or blogs. That's 93 million Americans.
Reading on the Rise
While one branch of the NEA was conducting this study of the arts, another branch of the NEA was conducting a study of reading. It made a startling find, what NEA Chairman Dana Gioia called "a significant turning point in recent American cultural history."
"For the first time in over a quarter-century, our survey shows that literary reading has risen among adult Americans. After decades of declining trends, there has been a decisive and unambiguous increase among virtually every group measured in this comprehensive national survey."
All of the NEA's prior studies of reading, for 25 years, had shown declines.
When it came time to explain the results, the authors of the NEA Reading Study could only speculate.
"The impressive new survey results raise an obvious question: what happened in the past six years to revitalize American literary reading? There is no statistical answer to this question. The NEA survey does not identify the causes either for adult reading or for changes in reading behavior."
Follow ing that disclaimer, though, the study noted that a slight increase in book reading could not explain the results, but that there had been a sharp increase in young people reading online.
And about that slight increase in book reading…. It occurred among people who read online. As if reading online were leading readers to books.
[Founded in 2003, the first year of the most recent NEA study, Contrary went from zero to 2.6 million hits per year by the study's final year: 2008. In 2010, it drew 3.5 million hits.]
The changes have been most dramatic in journalism, of course, where we know that the overwhelming majority of Americans (92 percent) now use multiple platforms to get their news—they use television, the web, their mobile phones, the radio, and still the occasional newspaper. This is according to a survey released last year by the Pew Research Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Television news is number one in that study. Internet news sources come next.
More telling is that more a third of Americans (37 percent), have participated in journalism by commenting on, disseminating, or covering stories themselves.
I've seen writers accustomed to publishing on paper unable to hold readers who can click away at will, and I've seen paper writers lose their composure when confronted with readers who are empowered to respond.
But we still love paper, don't we? Most of us? and we love the writers who write on it. We don't want paper to go away, as long as it' s recycled paper. We love how it feels and how it folds. We love the smell of ink and the musty aroma of used bookstores.
That lovable world can feel terribly still, though, like a pond, once we've waded into the rushing stream of online publishing, where hundreds of millions of writers are publishing and interacting every day.
But we remain fond of that pond, most of us.
So when we selected this year's Emerging Writer in Creative Non-Fiction, we looked for someone who excelled in both realms, not only in the traditional ink and paper media but especially in the dynamic new world of online publishing.
Meet Dana Goldstein
Finding a writer who could swim in both pond and stream was not at all difficult. A few came to mind, but none more immediately or prominently than Dana Goldstein.
Dana Goldstein
The arc of Dana's still young career, across the chaos of this media upheaval, yet unimpeded by it, is a model of navigation for aspiring writers.
She's written for The Nation and Businessweek, but also for Slate and for The Daily Beast, where she served as an associate editor.
The Daily Beast, which you may have heard recently merged with Newsweek, is the online platform where I came to know Dana's diligent and expert coverage of education.
People to whom the internet is still foreign have tended to judge it rather bizarrely as if its contents are of uniform quality. But the internet is no more consistent than print. There is excellence, and there is the less-than-excellent.
Remember that twice as many online readers read non-fiction as read poetry and fiction. I suspect that happens because such a competitive forum—where some other text is always just a click away—lends itself best to forms of prose that reveal their intentions quickly—the expository, the argumentative, the journalistic.
What floats atop the internet, above the less-than-excellent crowd, is substantive content, expertly researched, effectively and elegantly expressed… and cogently argued.
Those are qualities at which Dana Goldstein excels.
She grew up in Ossining, New York, alongside the Hudson River.
I mention that because she writes most personally about going to school in Ossining, where her passion for her topic took root. In her career she has written frequently on women's issues, public health, and American politics, but there's a deep interest and fierce clarity to her work on education:
"I became an education writer in large part, because I attended the public schools in Ossining, New York. Due to a unique integration/busing program that has been maintained throughout the decades, even as other districts reverted to segregated neighborhood schools, the district is currently 39 percent Hispanic, 38 percent white, 18 percent black, and 5 percent Asian. About a third of students are eligible for reduced-price or free lunch.
"So day after day for the 13 most formative years of my life, I (and every other kid in the Ossining schools) saw up close the achievement gap between middle class, mostly white students and everyone else, and the ways in which the school system attempted to fight the problem while, in some cases, exacerbating it."
After Ossining High School, Dana attended Brown University, where she studied European history, and following a year in Paris and four in Washington D.C., she lives in Brooklyn.
She's a Spencer Education Journalism Fellow at Columbia University, spending this academic year as a writer at large there, studying the Obama Administration's education policy with typical intensity, and contributing to national publications on education policy, on schools, on teachers, on children, and on poverty.
Please welcome Dana Goldstein.
David Alm February 26, 2011, 9:16 am
Wonderful introduction of Dana and a compelling defense of online content, Jeff. However, I didn't mean for my post to suggest that people don't or will not read anymore. Clearly, the proliferation of devices and increased methods of getting content in readers' hands is aiding the act of reading in its basic form. But what Heffernan writes about, and which I agree with, is the "loss" we experience from the diminishment of certain formats, i.e., non-digital formats.
That loss is not quantifiable, but more qualitative. The experience of reading online is different from reading in print. No more used book stores. No more going over to a friend's house for dinner and perusing his bookshelf, gaining an intimate insight into who he is and what has shaped his mind over the years. No more sharing books among friends, as a kind of social currency. No more marginalia from decades past that provide a glimpse into another reader's experience with the very text you're now holding.
I don't mean to fetishize objects, but I do believe that we're missing something when we consume everything from movies to novels to academic essays on the same digital screens. I can vividly remember where I was sitting when I read almost each book on my bookshelf. Sometimes those memories are decades old, but they're jogged and brought back to vivid recollection every time I look at the book to which they are attached.
This, in my opinion, is something we're losing, and even though the technology might be from the 15th Century, does that mean it's obsolete? The same could be said of the piano, or the guitar, or the paintbrush. Does their age render those technologies obsolete too?
Jeff McMahon February 26, 2011, 10:43 am
Thank you, David, for the quick and bracing reply. But let's stick to what we actually said. I didn't say 15th Century technologies were obsolete, and you did say digital technology was ruining reading, and that it offers a bleak outlook on thought, education, and human experience too.
In fact digital publishing appears to be responsible for reversing a decline in book reading, and in literary reading more generally, and I think it's enhancing those other realms as well.
I also feel nostalgic for the vanishing ways, but I think it's important we recognize our nostalgia for what it is.
As I look back over a misspent life, I find myself more and more in agreement with H.L. Mencken, who said:
Mencken, when he wrote that, could at least use the present tense. Now it was the life of kings.
It really won't ever again be the way it was in… when exactly? I've been in journalism for 27 years and I can't remember a moment when it was not dying. It never really was the way we remember it. It was always the life of paupers. And it wasn't ever better than what we have now, nor better than what is emerging, except from a limited perspective for a chosen few.
We've lost a particular funding model for a messy medium, the newspaper, and we've lost the luxury of periodic (rather than constant) deadlines. But we've also lost our dependence on that funding model, which was always corrupt, and we've lost the power to throw stones while avoiding scrutiny, and to ignore upset readers and sources. Democracy and accountability, virtues in journalism, are stronger than ever.
I think there is much more gain than loss from new media. The losses tend to be quaint, the gains amazing.
I don't think mechanically reproduced books will disappear, at least not for a long time. They may become more boutique, which will enhance their appeal amongst those who enjoy collecting them, pondering them on the shelves, and feeling nostalgic for idealized times of yore. I came to this position thanks in part to a facebook response from my friend Karen Nagy on my post about the University of Chicago's new Mansueto Library. She said:
"I don't think we're at an "either/or" moment quite yet. We'll likely be in "both/and" land for a good while longer if for no other reason than it would take huge resources to digitize all of the knowledge contained in existing books and other paper-based archival materials. So as someone who savors fine paper, writes with a fountain pen, and loves the physical, tactile qualities of books, to say nothing of the amazing book arts of the past and today, I'm somewhat comforted by that! Having said that, I like the digital world a lot too! The immediacy of information is quite wonderful. Last week when waiting for a concert to begin, the couple next to me were musing about exactly where Moravia was. i was able to pull out my iphone and get to a historical map of Europe in the late 18th century in less than a minute. Can't beat that! So I'm quite happy to live in this "both/and" world."
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May 30, 2019, San Ramon, CA - Contra Costa County Public Works will begin construction on the Camino Tassajara Bike Lane Gap Closure Project. The project will widen the pavement to provide bike lanes in four separate segments along Camino Tassajara between Windemere Parkway and just north of Penny Lane. Segments are as follows:
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Construction will begin on Monday, June 3, 2019, with completion in late November 2019, barring unforeseen circumstances. Work hours will generally be 8:30 am and 4:00 pm to minimize impacts to commute traffic. Drivers should expect delays of up to 15 minutes during construction.
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Колонизација свемира (такође и насељавање свемира, хуманизација свемира, хабитација свемира итд.) представља концепт сталних аутономних (самодовољних) људских насеобина на местима ван Земље. Први је стално присуство људи у свемиру, као што је Међународна свемирска станица.

Колонизација свемира је једна од главних тема некадашње научне фантастике и савремене науке.

Док већина људи мисли на колоније на Месецу и Марсу, остали се залажу да прве колоније буду у орбитама (в. Међународна свемирска станица). Неколико група у Наси и на по другим агенцијама проучавале су могућности стварања орбиталних колонија. Установили су да сви потребни материјали постоје на Месецу и астероидима близу Земље, да је соларна енергија присутна у врло великим количинама и да није потребно правити нова научна достигнућа, иако је неопходно урадити много инжењерског посла.

Спољашње везе

Истраживање свемира

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Комунальний заклад загальної середньої освіти "Рожищенський ліцей №4" Рожищенської районної ради Волинської області (Рожищенський ліцей №4) — загальноосвітній навчальний заклад І-ІІІ ступенів у місті Рожище.

Історія
Рожищенська загальноосвітня школа І-ІІІ ступеня №4 була відкрита 1 вересня 1985 року. В школі функціонувало 23 класи, в яких навчалося 564 учні, працювало 54 вчителі та 19 працівників обслуговчого персоналу. Першим директором школи був Гайко Віктор Павлович, його заступниками були Кучер Поліна Степанівна та Пігрух Святослав Володимирович.

Другим директором навчального закладу став Багнюк Дмитро Іванович.

За рішенням районної Ради, школа у 2005 році була реорганізована в "Навчально-виховний комплекс №4 «загальноосвітня школа І-ІІІ ступенів – гімназія»", а у 2018 році — в "Комунальний заклад загальної середньої освіти "Рожищенський ліцей №4" Рожищенської районної ради Волинської області".

Сьогодні очолює колектив Яблонський Юрій Михайлович.

Опис
Ліцей розташовується у 3-поверховій будівлі та має 34 класних кімнат, включаючи спеціалізовані кабінети:

 інформатики (2);
 біології (1);
 географії (1);
 хімії (1);
 фізики (1);
 іноземних мов (2);
 спортивний зал (1);
 трудового навчання (2).

У ліцеї працюють їдальня, бібліотека та  2 групи подовженого дня.

Станом на 01.09.2022р. у школі навчається 733 учні. З них:

 Молодша школа - 262 учнів;
 Середня школа - 371 учні;
 Старша школа - 100 учнів.

Адміністрація та педагогічний колектив
Очолює колектив ліцею Яблонський Юрій Михайлович.

Адміністрація навчального закладу:

 Зелінська Людмила Миколаївна - заступник директора з навчально-виховної роботи;
 Тананайко Олена Григорівна - заступник директора з навчально-виховної роботи;
 Ткачук Людмила Святославівна - заступник директора з виховної роботи.

Рейтинги

2019 рік.
У ліцеї 40% учнів отримали 180-200 балів ЗНО - це найвищий показник в Рожищенському районі.

Примітки

Джерела
 http://www.rozhysche-nvk4.edukit.volyn.ua
 http://rozhadm.gov.ua

Школи Волинської області
Рожище
Засновані в Україні 1985


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Valerio Paolo Mosco, Nader Tehrani, Anton Garcia Abril
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Nude and Naked
"Recently we have been seeing the return to a naked architecture in many places: architecture that is stripped bare, wiped clean, anti-decorative, simplified not just in its forms but also in its conceptual machinery. It is a generalized phenomenon, from the bottom up, that makes no reference to a defined system of thought, has no putative fathers and it is not supported by any academic institution. What is certain that the return to nudity (for nudity in architecture is never an invention but always a return) represents a significant break with a past that has been seen the proliferation of works of architecture of quite another kind: dressed up, tending to conceal their bodies as much as possible. Frank O. Gehry's well known Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao can be considered the epigone of this architectural season, nowadays at the end, that we could call of the "dressed architecture", iconic symbol of post-modernism. The return today of the nude and naked architecture could be considered the sign of the fall of post-modernism; but there is a difference between naked and nude…."
-Valerio Mosco
Valerio Paolo Mosco (1964) is a critic and architect based in Rome; He teaches Theory of Architecture at the University of Venice (IUAV) and History of Italian Architecture at the Politecnico in Milan; He wrote Naked Architecture (Skira, 2012); Steven Holl (Motta-Sole 24, 2010); Contemporary Public Space, Un-Volumetric Architecture (with Aldo Aymonino, Skira, 2006); an history of Italian Engineers (1950-2010) and a collection of his essays (Edilstampa, 2006). Valerio Paolo Mosco (1964) is a critic and architect based in Rome; He teaches Theory of Architecture at the University of Venice (IUAV) and History of Italian Architecture at the Politecnico in Milan; He wrote Naked Architecture (Skira, 2012); Steven Holl (Motta-Sole 24, 2010); Contemporary Public Space, Un-Volumetric Architecture (with Aldo Aymonino, Skira, 2006); an history of Italian Engineers (1950-2010) and a collection of his essays (Edilstampa, 2006).


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Home activism Racist Spirituality: The Moorish Science Temple of America
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Racist Spirituality: The Moorish Science Temple of America
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Most of us have probably at least heard about the heretical disbelieving cult known as Nation of Islam and its charlatan false prophet. This is because despite having a small following, it has a presence in American pop culture. Some famed individuals, such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, were initially associated with Nation of Islam before they left the group and embraced real Islam.
We could probably assume that the extremely problematic nature of Nation of Islam along with its distorted ideas and weird beliefs is something well-known to most (at least in theory).
But there's actually another less-known group that may also require our attention, especially since Wallace Fard Muhammad (the actual founder of Nation of Islam) was strongly linked with it during his formative years. Fard was closely affiliated with the Moorish Science Temple of America (MSTA)—which was most active in the '20s and '30s—and its intriguing founder, Noble Drew Ali.
Racialized "Spirituality"… Covering Liberal Activism?
Who exactly was Timothy Drew (a.k.a. Noble Drew Ali)?
Writing for the Chicago Reader in 2007, Tasneem Paghdiwala summarizes this heretic's wordview as follows:
Not much is known about Timothy Drew before he became Prophet Drew Ali. He was born in North Carolina in 1886, possibly to a Cherokee woman and a Moroccan Muslim father, or maybe to freed slaves. A framed picture of him hangs from the gold domed altar of Temple No. 9. He looks tall and thin, unremarkable except for the belted silk robe and tall fez he's wearing. The Moors' version of his life story says he left home at 16 and joined a band of Gypsies who took him overseas to Egypt, Morocco, and the Middle East. In Morocco he was approached by the high priest of a mystical Egyptian cult who recognized him as the latest reincarnation in a line of prophets including Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad. The priest gave Drew a book that he said was a lost section of the Koran, and when Drew returned to the States he called it the Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America. It says, "The last Prophet in these days is Noble Drew Ali, who was prepared divinely in due time by Allah to redeem men from their sinful ways; and to warn them of the great wrath which is sure to come upon the earth."
Drew claimed that blacks in America were sinfully ignorant of their true racial heritage. They were all descendents of the Moors, a Moroccan Muslim tribe that conquered Spain in the seventh century and spread Islam to Europe. He started dressing in Moorish fashion: fezzes and feathered turbans and silk robes, with a curved sword at his side. When the Moors' descendents were brought to America in slave ships, he said, white slave owners systematically hid the truth of their noble origins and renamed them "black," "colored," and "Negro." Just as bad, these "so-called blacks" forgot Islam and took up "the false god of the Europeans." Drew had been dispatched by Allah to eradicate the "slave marks" from blacks in America. His job was to inform them that their true name was not black, colored, or Negro, but Moorish-American, and return them to Islam—or Islamism, as he called it.
Thus, similar to the Nation of Islam, it is just racial politics disguised in the garb of pseudo-spirituality and some weird rewriting of history (I'm not sure actual Moroccans would appreciate such "cultural appropriation").
This kind of Black nationalism, even radical, was nothing new at the time (see the works and public recognition of Marcus Garvey). However Noble Drew Ali had come along and injected a religious rationale into it.
Prior to him, Edward W. Blyden had written about Christianity and Islam from the perspective of Black nationalism (interestingly, despite being a Christian himself, he believed Christianity had a demoralizing effect on Africans and considered Islam to be more "authentically African").
However, Noble Drew Ali made "racial spirituality" an integral part of the discourse.
Like the Nation of Islam and other Black nationalist (or supremacist, as some would describe them) groups, the Moorish Science Temple of America emphasized the need not only of "racial purity" but also a kind of civilizational allergy towards anything "European."
Emily Suzanne Clark thus notes in a related academic article:
In addition to his concerns about racial identity, Ali preached the importance of keeping physically and spiritually clean. He wrote in the Koran, "We, as a clean and pure nation descended from the inhabitants of Africa, do not desire to amalgamate or marry into the families of the pale skin nations of Europe." Ali argued for racial purity as a means to maintain Moorish integrity, and linked to this was bodily purity. Among the organization's prohibitions and rules, as recorded by Fauset, "Bodies must be kept clean by bathing… Use of meat of any kind and eggs is forbidden. But fish and vegetables may be eaten. Indulgence in European games, attendance at motion picture shows, and secular dancing are forbidden. Shaving, cosmetics, straightening the hair, use of intoxicants, and smoking are forbidden."
Anxieties surrounding food, bodily cleanliness, and the use of particular products existed alongside decrees against European culture, thus interconnecting physical, racial, and religious purity. Physical, mental, and spiritual cleanliness would determine people's susceptibility or resistance to bodily disease and contamination.
But behind this facade of pseudo-religiosity, there is an evident and undeniable link to liberalism.
In fact, it can easily be argued that these New Age pseudoreligions—which haphazardly jumble together all traditions and are devoid of any coherent faith model capable of countering modernity—could only be founded within a liberal era characterized by relativism in every sphere.
RELATED: The Man Who Claimed to Be Allah: Origins of the Nation of Islam
When examining the politics of the Moorish Science Temple of America in particular, the liberalism is apparent in its rhetoric surrounding "citizenship" and its unapologetic endorsement of American democracy and secular-liberalism.
Spencer Dew makes such a thesis in The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali—a book-length study (one of very few) about the Moorish Science Temple of America.
In the introduction he outlines ideas which will be developed upon throughout the course of the book (p. 18):
I conclude with consideration of Ali's theological vision of American democracy. Ali, insisting that religious and cultural difference was a requirement for American citizenship, universalized difference, identifying the state's system of secularism as Allah's plan for humanity. While secularism contains and manages religion, Ali insisted upon a model of religion— as proprietary, inherited, a mode of difference that all people must have in order to be citizens— in which such management was, again, claimed to be the plan of Allah.
He writes a little later, on p. 44:
A religion modeled on and responding to the conditions of the "secular city" with its social, political, and legal demands. Those demands became, to a large part, the focus of the religion, understood as "citizenship," a struggle to transform society and align it with the transcendent true law of God. "True religion," as contemporary Aliite thinkers Matthews-El insists, is "a means to an end, a journey, way of living, it is a process not an event."
The book is replete with such observations.
Just like with other forms of modernist religiosity, we can thus conclude that the Moorish Science Temple of America is merely another Trojan Horse; one that aims to liberalize and secularize the masses in the name of "spirituality" while camouflaged beneath radical racial politics.
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The Moorish Science Temple of America has of course lost the momentum that it had during the '20s and '30s—the decade or so when Noble Drew Ali "worked" before dying under mysterious circumstances.
Apart from the death of its founder, the Moorish Science Temple of America was struck with another heavy blow in the form of the Nation of Islam and also orthodox traditional Sunni Islam. Its membership (which had reached tens of thousands during its peak) was depleted through people leaving and joining one or the other.
Yet, besides its own devotees (such as the YouTube channel Amexem), the ideas of the Moorish Science Temple of America are still present in the public discourses of many Black nationalist groups.
For example I am sure that many of you may have come across discussions about African-Americans supposedly being "Moors."
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The term "moor" was used during the middle ages by the christian romance speaking iberians to designate (regardless of ethnicity) the muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula(andalusis) and later on ,also the muslims of the Maghreb , Sicily and Malta. Later when the spanish empire colonized the Philippines ,they also used the term "moros" to designate the native muslims.
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inLink
Putting invoices at the fingertips of wholesaler's customers with a slick new set of apps.
Mobile + apps
Fablr were appointed by inLink to produce a series of platforms that would deliver a digital invoicing and payment solution for wholesalers and their customers. Emphasising usability and scalability, Fablr built an iOS and Android customer mobile application alongside a web-based portal where wholesalers could manage their account connections and customers.
Key challenges
One of the key issues facing small business owners is receipt and payment of invoices from their wholesalers and suppliers. This is what Jack Boyle was facing on a day-to-day basis in his building firm. Incoming invoices would go missing, get lost, and it was a laborious and confusing process figuring out which invoices were for which job.
Looking to find a solution to the problem, Jack teamed up with friend and co-founder Gavin Stacey, to launch inLink – a platform which would allow building merchants and other wholesalers to quickly and easily send their invoices directly to their customers' inLink mobile app.
To deliver on the objectives of the inLink platform, Fablr would build two MVP applications – a mobile-friendly wholesaler portal where suppliers could review and manage their account, and a customer mobile application where customers could quickly view, download, and pay invoices.
inLink had already commissioned LightStart to undertake a business analysis phase and deliver a full functional specification with wireframes which provided a strong analysis from which to start the development of the apps.
Another key aim of the project was to avoid giving wholesalers and building suppliers yet another system that they would have to moderate and maintain. The solution was for us to design a scalable platform that would integrate with popular SaaS account systems (such as Xero and Sage) which could then automate processes such as inviting customers and electronically sending their invoices.
We took the existing wireframes and design work provided by LightStart and expanded on these to create a series of interactive prototypes. These were used to simulate the functionality in the wholesaler portal and mobile application, and allowed us to run a series of early-stage user workshops. The insights and observed user responses from this process were then fed back into the brief to improve the cost-efficiency and user experience outcomes for the project.
"React Native helped us minimise the amount of time spent on the central API layer while allowing us to deliver the platform on iOS and Android devices."
Philip Bennison
- Fablr Technical Director
The challenge of getting the wholesaler portal and customer application to talk to one another was handled using a central API layer. It was this system that also interfaced directly with the wholesaler accounts systems to download invoices and customers so that they could be created or updated (as appropriate). Initial integrations were created for Xero and Sage accounts systems, and a flexible set of interfaces and abstract functionality was put in place to make future integrations relatively quick and painless.
The customer mobile application was built as a hybrid app using React Native, which minimised the amount of time spent on this key component while allowing us to deliver the platform on iOS and Android devices.
The wholesaler portal was built as a single page application (SPA) using React and with many of the same design patterns, components and interfaces ported over from the mobile application to make it easier to maintain and scale functionality on both systems.
Subscriptions to the wholesaler portal and card payments through the mobile app are both handled using a Stripe integration.
In order to support inLink in managing the platform we also built a bespoke and highly secure admin portal where they could review and manage subscriptions. The wholesaler portal also provides easy access to real time application information and usage data.
Lastly, we built a light-weight marketing website for inLink which provides an overview and top-level proposition for the customer app and wholesaler portal together with useful user guides.
The database, API, website, and admin platforms are all hosted on their own load balanced cloud hosting instances which can be scaled to meet demand. This robust architecture is necessary to deal with what could be a sudden surge in users after signing up larger wholesalers and building merchants.
The portal is now live and the mobile app has been launched as a public beta and is available on both the AppStore and Google Play. We're excited to continue working on the platform in the future to help develop it further and ensure it continues to meet the demands of wholesalers and customers alike.
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Q: Android SDK - List bluetooth profiles In Android, is there any way to list the bluetooth profiles or even consult them by coding or at least in terminal emulator ?
I want that because most of the manufactures does not know or do not specify wich profiles are supported and I want to know (without testing) for a lot of different devices, if they can connect with HID profiles. And even if the manufacture claims support, the user can install custom ROMs that don't or vice-versa.

A: If its a phone and supports bluez, you can check with "sdptool browse local"

A: Not aware of anything in code that can get the list of supported profile,
But if it is a Bluetooth device then it needs to have be Qualified and the Qualification information in https://www.bluetooth.org/tpg/listings.cfm should show the device and list the profiles it supports.
if a user modifies the ROM or anything like that then it cannot be called Bluetooth (since it voilates the Qualification sanctity)

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A MARRIAGE IN MOTION 79: Ukraine on the Brink, Autumn 2013
Sherrill and I visited more than 60 countries and most of the United States during our 52 year marriage. This is number 79 of a series about our lives and travels, true stories of two people discovering the world, each other, and themselves through five decades of traveling together. If you scroll down, you'll come to earlier posts in this series. To start at the beginning of our marriage and travels look at the Archives list in the sidebar and start with May, 2017. Older posts are a previous series.
Sherrill, Ukraine, 2013
 The two girls might have been sisters, just out of school, pink-cheeked, one blonde, one brown-haired, sixteen and seventeen in their first jobs as waitresses on the Lomonosov as it maneuvered along the Black Sea coast and up the Dnieper River, their clever smiling faces bright with ambition and optimism. They had grown up in a better, more promising, world than their parents and grandparents had known and, using their language skills and wits, were eager to make the most of its opportunities. I often wonder about them when I remember the trip that Sherrill and I took through Ukraine in 2013.
Odessa: "Birth of the New Era"
 Ukraine Airlines ferried us from London to Odessa, then—with the help of a young woman who saw that we were struggling to communicate—we took a taxi from the tiny airport to the 19th century Ayvazovsky Hotel in the old part of town. The next morning, starting at the wide hill-top square that overlooked both the bay and the gawky hotel planted by the Communists at the end of a graceless pier, we hiked down the broad, profoundly evocative, 192 stairs that descended to the port—the Potemkin Steps made famous in Eisenstein's epic film Battleship Potemkin. We might have been transported to another world, one accessible only in black and white movies. Then we discovered a bizarre statue of a muscular baby ripping its way out of a concrete shell, supposedly representing the birth of a "new era."
Sherrill & Tom, Pushkin statue, Odessa
 At the ship, Sherrill and I met our friend Tom, who had traveled with us in 2007 along the Dalmatian Coast from Slovenia to Athens, and now had joined us again. That earlier trip also had been through countries adjusting to a new, recently liberated, society. Some, such as Croatia, were finding it easier than others, notably Montenegro and Albania, and, as always seemed to be the case, young people found it easier than the older folks.
The 200 year-old Odessa catacombs that hid resistance bands during World War Two could have been from another old movie, but even more fascinating to us were the great caves at the Black Sea military port of Sebastopol, still the biggest maritime base for the Russian and Ukrainian fleets—and Russia's only warm water port. Deep underground, we explored huge caverns that had been a secret nuclear submarine installation during the Cold War, even a vast underground dry dock for submarines. Although these caverns no longer were used, the port still was an active military base, so we weren't allowed to take photographs outside the caves.
Sherrill on the Black Sea
Bruce off-shore from Yalta
 We sailed from Odessa to Yalta's wide bay, forested mountains descending in front of us to the blue-edged white crescent of the city—a resort town of 80,000, rather like Santa Cruz, but with a port for ships. We toured the bulky white palace built for the czar in 1911 where the final World War II conference was held in 1945 and heard a lot about how Roosevelt was so sick that he gave in to Stalin's plotting and lying. The Ukrainians still resented that they ended up part of the USSR. Then Sherrill, Tom, and I took a taxi to a small graceful house surrounded by gardens in the low hills above the city—where Anton Chekhov spent his last years, writing some of his most well-known plays and stories, still crowded with his furniture, clothing, and random possessions. We could feel that his spirit lingered there, that it might even pick up the pen resting on the stained desk blotter.
Courtyard of Yalta palace where FDR, Churchill, & Stalin met in 1945
Chekhov's house, Yalta
 Across the garden, in a discreetly tucked away visitors' center, a large room displayed historic photographs of the playwright and his life in the theater. A group of women visitors sat on folding chairs while a plump middle-aged woman gave an impassioned presentation in Russian, shawl draped dramatically around her shoulders, describing and acting out with great emotion scenes from the plays. On a screen behind her, large letters declared in both Russian and English: "Chekhov—the Tennessee Williams of Russia."
Sailing on the Black Sea and up the Dnieper River through the heart of Ukraine was the best part of the trip for Sherrill. The stops along the way to visit various towns, churches, palaces, and historic sites were interesting, but moving along the cloud-speckled water under the transparent blue sky, watching the variegated colors of the shore pass by, feeling the caressing motion of the four-deck river ship, made her the happiest. The river flowed down to the sea, but—passing through five locks—we chugged against the current all the way up to the 1,500 year-old capital city of Kiev, called in Ukraine "the Mother of Cities."
Cossack horseman
 During the trip, Sherrill, Tom, and I became friends with a couple from New Jersey with whom we instantly felt at ease. A year later, Sherrill and I had dinner with them at a restaurant overlooking the San Francisco waterfront and expected to get together with them in the future. However, shortly after that Sherrill became sick, changing our plans.
The names of the cities along the way sounded as exotic as the sights we discovered in them. Two that I especially remember: Kherson , founded by Catherine the Great and home to the fabulous Cathedral of St. Catherine, and Zaporozhye, where we discovered Neolithic goddess figures displayed in a park and where the Cossacks stunned us with their skillful, frantic, insane horsemanship. Every town had raised a huge monument to the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis and Lenin's stolid bulk was on display more often than we'd expected.
 The sun was shining and autumn leaves glowed red and orange gold. The young parents romping with their kids on a Sunday afternoon in a Kiev park, taking photographs with their mobile phones, could have been in California or England. However, this new, free, society was hard for older generations who struggled to survive in it. I remember robust older women, red-cheeked in their kerchiefs, reduced to selling lottery tickets or their family treasures, even sweeping and raking in the public park. They missed the old ways, but admitted that the new world was better for young people.
They remembered that although the Ukraine was considered the bread basket of the Soviet Union, 7 million of its people, mostly children, had died of malnutrition because Stalin insisted that the grain it produced be exported. Peasants were shot if they hid grain for their families. One old lady in Kiev, her little body hidden under her kerchief and raincoat, constantly rearranged her treasures to tempt people who might pass—bulky socks and scarves that she'd knitted, an old table lamp, several ashtrays of varying sizes and shapes, dishes and glassware that had survived from once complete sets, small figurines, a bust of Lenin, Communist medals. We didn't need any of it, but Sherrill and I wanted to give her a few hryvnia.
"Okay," Sherrill told me, tugging at my shirt collar. "but not Lenin."
Neolithic goddess, Zaporozhye park
Autumn leaves, Monastery of the Caves, Kiev
"Babushka" selling flowers by old tram, Kiev
 Our hotel was wedged into a corner of a steep, twisting Old City street among art nouveau and neoclassic buildings and some gold-domed churches. Despite the bombing during World War II, a lot seemed to have survived. We visited a large museum dedicated to Ukrainian history and several small museums, including one focused on the eccentric history our hotel's hillside street.
Walking along the city streets and boulevards, sitting in a basement cafe, exploring shops and museums, we were struck that the people of Kiev dressed almost entirely in black, often black leather (or faux leather) jackets and dark blue jeans. For the most part, the clothes were of cheap fabrics and badly made, but the large men we saw standing in small groups near expensive black automobiles wore the real thing. In smaller cities we'd visited, we'd noticed thirty year-old Russian Lada cars, often decorated with dents and rust, but here we saw shiny Mercedes, Porsches, and BMWs, although ordinary people crowded onto antique buses and streetcars. Kiev was a city of contrasts, rich or poor, new or old, powerful or weak, ordinary citizens or those with "contacts."
 Despite all this, we often were told that "life will get better. It just takes time."
Maybe a woman we met outside a small chapel near the Yalta waterfront best symbolized this optimistic spirit. When we peered through the open door into the ornate Orthodox chapel, she rushed out, showing her single tooth and gums in a smile and asking in simple English where we were from. When we said America, she grinned even more broadly.
"Amerrrica!" she shouted. "New Yorrrk!"
And she told us that once upon a time she had danced at Radio City Music Hall. Did she expect us to believe that she'd been a Rockette in her youth? Well, why not? Her husband was dead, now, and her children were gone, but she insisted that life was good.
Woman selling aprons, Kiev
 Ukraine, like Russia, was filled with widows because men there died years before their wives, chiefly because they smoked and drank so much. Independence from the Soviet Union created hope for the future, but also hardship. The change was especially hard for men, women told us. Suddenly, they didn't have jobs and couldn't support their families. Women frequently became the major providers in their households, which drove the men to drink even more. We saw posters urging men to say no to drink, but the campaign didn't seem to be working. The average Ukrainian male died before reaching sixty.
No vodka! poster, Kiev
 When we were there, Ukraine presented two faces, like those ancient Greek masks, smiling toward western Europe on one side and toward Russia and the east on the other. Everyone was equal under the Soviets, but—as George Orwell pointed out—some were more equal than others. Most of those under 40 wanted to embrace the West, now, abandon the patronage of Russia, and escape the corruption still plaguing their country by joining the European Union. Some older Ukrainians, though, feared the materialistic values and lack of morality in the West. In Kiev, we saw a parade of priests, nuns, and Orthodox church members carrying banners denouncing homosexuality. Earlier, we'd discovered that orthodox Ukrainians did a lot of crossing and candle burning, although not as much as we'd seen in Bulgaria.
"Taking Care of the Hungry Man"
Tee shirts for sale, Kiev
 "When it was obvious that the Soviet Union was collapsing," somebody else told us, "the Communist party bosses here were the first to love the free market—and were all for business and industry to go private, as long as they got their share."
Several times, talking with people in Ukraine, we heard how the former Communist leaders quickly dominated the new government and snatched control of major industries and utilities during the privatization process—embracing the future by using tricks from the past. This was an irony that the great Ukrainian satirist Mikhail Bulgakov would have appreciated. Bulgakov struggled against Soviet censorship though his whole career. His greatest work, the novel The Master and Margarita, wasn't published until 26 years after his death in 1940.
 When we visited Bulgakov's house, number 13 on a winding hillside street in upper Kiev, we saw a parade of young men and women not only visiting the rooms in which he lived and wrote, but also taking photographs of the house, the plaque on its facade, and the life-sized statue of the writer in a small garden. They took turns posing with Bulgakov, their arms around his shiny bronze shoulders. This rebel from a bygone era spoke to young Ukrainians all these years later.
Before we left Kiev, Sherrill, Tom, and I gave ourselves a splendid, typical Ukrainian dinner at a hillside restaurant in a wooden 19th century building with traditional scalloped trim that looked out over much of the city. It probably was overpriced, but still was an enjoyable way to say goodbye to Kiev and Ukraine. I'm not sure which of us ordered what, but I remember green borscht with nettle, dumplings with mushroom sauce, goose pate (that was Sherrill), duck breast, and Chicken Kiev. Plus a local wine and to finish local cheeses and Cake Kiev.
Brochure for Mikhail Bulgakov home, Kiev
Bruce with statue of author Mikhail Bulgakov by his house in Kiev
 Soon after we returned to California, Russia invaded the Crimean peninsula and eastern Ukraine, claiming that they were there to protect the rights of Russians who lived there. The scenes flashed across the globe: the massive police and military reaction against the citizens who dared raised their voices against the Ukrainian Old Guard. Independence Square in the capital of Kiev was transformed from the bustling center of a busy city that we saw in October into a potential battle zone.
For more than 20 years, Ukraine had struggled to get its arms around its new independence—the first time in its long history that it had been independent. Or was it independent? That was the question that many Ukrainians were asking. Was the country a province of Russia—or was that where it was headed? Despite the corruption and threats, the Ukrainian population seemed determined to pull through, this time.
To be continued....
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A collaboration between a retailer and online trends publication results in a unique holiday pop-up store.
New popup stores are launching all over New York City in advance of this year's holiday shopping season. Gap and Cool Hunting have partnered on a unique gift shop which officially opens Friday, November 19th on 5th Ave. Curated by the staff of Cool Hunting, the store stocks the work of New York based companies known for offering innovative products or goods with a high level of craftsmanship. Within the space you'll find everything from bicycles to pickles.
The shop interior was designed by Kenyan (Earnest Sewn, The Smile, House of Waris) who chose the theme of a cozy winter retreat. The walls of the store have been clad with reclaimed wood from a barn. NYC based Roll and Hill contributed two large decorative chandeliers which are focal points within the space.


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Trailer For BBC2′ s, Close To The Enemy Starring Angela Bassett Released
Posted by Descant Deb | 28 Oct, 2016 | NEWS, Screen, Screen News |
Angela Bassett is Eva, a confident American jazz singer who breathes life into the bomb-damaged London hotel with her music during the aftermath of World War II. She's a member of an ensemble cast that's led by Jim Sturgess, with Freddie Highmore, Charlotte Riley, Phoebe Fox, August Diehl, Robert Glenister, Alfie Allen, Charity Wakefield, with Lindsay Duncan, and Alfred Molina rounding out the starring cast.
Close to the Enemy is a thriller that follows British intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson (Highmore) and the hotel is at the heart of the series.
Ferguson must ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter Koehler (Diehl), hands over secret cutting-edge military technology crucial to national security. He employs unorthodox methods in his attempts to convince Koehler to work for the British. They develop a friendship, which is soon threatened as the German's involvement in the Nazi war machine may be more than it initially seems.
Ferguson encounters a number of other characters whose stories all intertwine around the hotel.
On what attracted her to the series, Bassett said: "Because I love the BBC! It has a very rich history of doing incredible work. I've never had an opportunity to travel that way before… I weighed up the pros and cons, and saw there were so many pros. I realised what an amazing writer and director Stephen is. Sometimes it's brilliant just to be in the company of someone that creative. You don't get those opportunities every five years, or even every lifetime! So you show up and you say, 'Yes, please!'"
Basset describes her character Eva: "She's a courageous businesswoman who has had to leave America in the 1940s to escape racism… She moves to London to exercise her creative instincts and business acumen. She is the leader of the whole band of men. She brings life back to that once grand hotel from the bottom up… She invades the space of the buttoned up, stodgy people upstairs with her boldness, her brassiness, her beauty and her sensuality. They have never seen anyone like her before! She puts me in mind of Josephine Baker, who went to Europe, turned it on its head and generally enlivened the joint!"
Could they have cast anyone else? Nah!
We have to wonder, though, with such a cast, why it isn't airing on BBC1? AND, of course, how much are we actually going to see the dazzling Ms. Bassett? We KNOW she will act every one of them off-screen, BUT, it looks like she will at least make an appearance in EVERY EPISODE!
SO, WE will be glued to BBC2 for all 6 episodes.
Close to the Enemy airs on BBC 2 November 14th 2016
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The beach of Praia do Barril is located on the Ilha de Tavira, just west of the town. This huge stretch of white sand is one of the quietest beaches on the southern Algarve coast, but this in no way reflects on the beach itself.
As a Blue Flag award beach, Barril has plenty of facilities, clean water and is lifeguard patrolled in the summer months. At the far western end of the beach is an officially designated nudist zone, one of the few in Portugal.


As seen on the Getdpi thread and at the Leica Forum: it is impossible to have an open discussion about this lens without the owner of the company resorting to personal attacks through direct posts and private messages. I suspect the Moderators are trying to sort out things now. I would not be surprised if yet another forum simply bans all talk about this lens, as LUF did.


As I was watching Comedy Central's All Star Non-Denominational Christmas Special, I realized what I was watching served two purposes.
There's something Staples wants you to know, and if you step foot inside some of their stores, this marketing execution guarantees you will never forget it.
When you think about Chipotle, do you think "catering"? Most people don't.


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I have heard from numerous breeders about the Parvo outbreaks either they have had or breeders they know have had in the last couple of years. There is finally a vaccine available to help prevent breakouts in kennels, shelters, and rescues! We recommend use of these vaccines to everyone we speak to! PLEASE help your babies stay healthy and safe!!
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When you think 'Duck Dynasty,' you think long beards, deep Southern drawls and ... ducks. You probably don't think high fashion, but two Robertson family members are out to change those perceptions (well, some of them anyway).
Korie Robertson and foster daughter Rebecca Robertson are trying to make their names known in the fashion industry. These two ladies from the famous Louisiana family recently opened a Monroe, La. clothing store called Duck and Dressing, and because the physical store was getting so much business from fans, they decided to open an online store, as well.
The women both share a love for fashion and are hardly amateurs. Rebecca was able to pursue her fashion dreams when she studied at LSU and then interned in Los Angeles. With a successful show on A&E, the pair decided it was the perfect time to share their talents with the world. The women chatted with Taste of Country about everything fashion for this week's brand new -- and a little different -- edition of Taste of Style.
Korie and Rebecca's fashionable clothing store, Duck and Dressing, is located in their hometown of Monroe, La. Both women admit that opening a retail store has always been a dream of theirs.
"It's actually something that I had talked about for a long time," Korie explains to Taste of Country, adding that she loves to shop. "Of course, you know, it's a big undertaking and so I never knew when, or if I'd ever be able to do it. Then Rebecca got really into fashion, decided to do Fashion Design at LSU and went out to L.A. for a couple of years and did a internship out there and then actually worked out there for a year."
Then, like many college kids, Rebecca got homesick. "[She] called one day and was like 'I think I'm ready to come home' and I said 'I'm ready for you to come home so come on, we'll open a store together' and so we did and it's been so much fun to do together. Rebecca's done all the design, she works late hours. She's done an incredible job. I'm so proud of her and it's been really fun to do together."
But the designs are not necessarily what you would expect from a clothing store in the bayou. Thank Rebecca's extensive travels for that.
The mom and daughter work together on the store, but Rebecca is the head of Duck and Dressing, Korie admits.
Opening a store in their hometown was important to Korie and Rebecca for a number of reasons. They carry fashionable Monroe T-shirts, as well as accessories with the city's coordinates on them. The hometown line is doing so well, they're having a hard time keeping them in stock!
Korie says it was important for them to open Duck and Dressing in their hometown to help with the "West Monroe revival" as she calls it.
If you've ever watched 'Duck Dynasty,' you may have noticed Korie's fashion has changed over the years. That's because, at first, she was asked to wear bright colors (something she calls "horrible") to contrast the men of the show, who prefer camouflage. Now, she's allowed to be a little more herself, which means "really clean, simple shapes."
"Skinny jeans and kind of just like a little cute simple top," Rebecca says, describing her perfect summer outfit to help beat the Louisiana heat. "And I love to tuck my shirt in and that can transform like day to night."
Rebecca also let us in on one of her biggest style obsessions: Boots! "I wear boots all year long," she reveals, adding that socks are optional. An added bonus to wearing boots? Not worrying about your toenail polish.
So who do the Robertson women pick as the best dressed in country music? "I actually like Carrie Underwood because … she's just young and fun," Rebecca says.
Korie agrees, but adds another name. "I would say as far as fashion inspiration, I love Little Big Town…they are tough and cool, a little edgy and I would say classic, as well."
Fans aren't always sure what to expect from their store. Many ask about camouflage via their social medias -- that's something Rebecca says they "struggle with every day."
"It surprised us whenever we very first first started the show how much our show really did influence fashion," Korie says. "It was popping up everywhere, you know, 'camo is the new black' was in Style magazine with Phil and Si."
Of course, their camo is "fashionable" and "not something you wear to the woods."
"It's not just another duck commander souvenir type store, this is a true fashion destination and I think as people see it they will fall in love with it," the ladies dish.


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Challenging the Injustice of Poverty: a Conversation with Rehman Sobhan
Cailin Crockett / July 19, 2011 / 0
Last week, Professor Rehman Sobhan, Chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue in Dhaka, Bangladesh, visited the UN Development Programme in New York City to discuss his most recent book. I had the opportunity to speak with Professor Sobhan about the motivation behind his work and learn about the years of field research that preceded it. Challenging the Injustice of Poverty: Operationalizing an Agenda for Inclusive Development Across Southeast Asia is a culmination of Professor Sobhan's efforts to understand the roots of economic exclusion across 5 countries over the past 4 years. At its core is Sobhan's uncompromising insistence on identifying the source, as opposed to merely addressing the symptoms of poverty. According to Sobhan, poverty is not a social …
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Thomas Pogge on "Globalization, Inequality and the State" Lessons from the International Financial Playground
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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a talk given by Mike Bonnano, one of the Yes Men (self-proclaimed social justice pranksters famous for impersonating the CEOs of Dow Chemical, General Electric and similar corporate giants in the international media). Bonnano spoke about the need for a "post-ideological revolution" in which we rethink the existing inequalities in income and opportunity and return to the values we all learned when we were children: simple ideas such as sharing, respecting others, and fairness. These words stuck with me, and retained their salience as I listened, a week later, to Dr. Thomas Pogge speak on the topic of "Globalization, Inequality and the State." Dr. Pogge is a renowned expert on …
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I'm not necessarily down with the tricks Andy Parry does, but he's out there doing some good things for skiing. An interview with Andy Parry on competition skiing and helping skiing grow through TAFT ( tell a friend tour). Interesting point he makes comparing competition skiing when you are young to team sports when you are high school.
A 10 minute montage from the sauce posse boys with a lot of great Slime footage.
2 short clips of Will Berman and Phil Casabon skiing in the park.
The summer ski movie segment 6 by Windells. Mostly Keegan and Magnus footy but definitely a good recut of some of the best shots from this past summer at Windells.
Magnus talks about Lg Strenios crash reel and making street videos so you want to ski street after watching them. Another interview, podcast style with the 1andonly Mc. the Interviewer is kinda a dufus. If anything, skip to the part about dancing.


Make sure staff is aware of patients' food allergies by using the Lactose Intolerant Food Service Medical Labels. These brightly colored labels will quickly grab your medical staff's attention and will help ensure that your patient receives the best possible care. These, like other food service labels, alert your medical staff of specific dietary warnings and are essential to maintaining efficiency and reducing the risk of human error.


Kashmir has been an object of interest for many travel enthusiasts ad endowed with nature's best. Our travel gude for places to visit in kashmir can help you learn about your destination such as – Srinagar, Jammu city (A blesses land), Rajauri, Gulmark, Udhampur, kathua, kupwara, kargil, sonmarg, pulwama (saffron field and blue sky), pahalgam, Doda (heart of jammu), poonch, anantnag, baramullah, katra, patnitop (where adventure meets nature), kishtwar, nubra valley, Drass (snow land), Zanskar, pangong lake and more for nature and adventure lovers.
Arrive Srinagar, where you will be met upon arrival and transferred to your Houseboat. This afternoon enjoy a shikara ride on Dal Lake visiting floating vegetable gardens etc. Evening is free for leisure activities. Dinner and Overnight stay at the Houseboat in Dal Lake in Srinagar.
After early breakfast leave for Pahalgam, the Valley of Shepherds via Srinagar. Drive through saffron fields; visit Awantipura ruins of an 1100 yr old temple of Lord Vishnu. Drive through the pine forest and along the Lidder River. Arrive Pahalgam and transfer to your hotel. Rest of the day is at leisure. Overnight stay at hotel in Pahalgam.
Today after breakfast, depart for excursion trip to Chandanwadi, Starting point of AmarnathYatra and Betab valley, Located on the way to Chandanwari, the valley was named Betaab after the bollywood movie by the same name! Earlier known as Hajan Valley, after the release of the movie, it was renamed as major part of the movie was shot here. Post lunch proceed for trip to Aru Valley - Aru Valley is a tourist spot 11 km from Pahalgam noted for its scenic meadows, and mountains, it is a base camp for trekking to the Kolhoi Glacier and Tarsar Lake. The village lies of the left bank of the Aruriver, which is a tributary of the Lidder river. Dinner and Overnight at the hotel in Pahalgam.
After breakfast enjoy a picturesque drive to Gulmarg, the Meadow of Flowers, 2730 mts above sea level Gulmarg offers spectacular views of snow capped mountain peaks, conifer forests and green meadows; it is home to the highest 18 hole golf course of the world. Arrive Gulmarg and transfer to hotel. Enjoy a Gondola ride (Gandola ride is subject to weather conditions) to Khilanmarg (1st Phase) for a breathtaking view of Nanga Parbat. One can opt for gondola cable car ride for 2nd level too on direct payment basis, subject to availability and weather conditions .Thereafter time is free for activities on your own. You may enjoy an optional sledge ride on the snow covered slopes (on direct payment basis). Dinner and Overnight at the hotel.
After breakfast, proceed for Srinagar. On arrival check into your hotel. Later proceed for half day Srinagar sightseeing covering the famous Mughal Gardens NishatBagh, Abode of Pleasure on the shore of the Dal lake, Shalimar Abode of Love built by Jehangir for his wife Empress Noor Jehan. Also visit Shankracharya Temple (243 steps). Rest of the day free for shopping on your own. Dinner and Overnight at the hotel.
After Breakfast, proceed for a day excursion to Sonmarg (Golden Meadow). Sonmarg lies in Sind Valley streamed with flowers and surrounded by mountains. Sonmarg is also the base for some interesting treks to the high altitude of Himalayan Lakes. Enjoy horse riding uptoThajiwas glacier and sledge riding on snow (on direct payment). While returning back to Srinagar visit Manasbal Lake (Yet another mesmerizing Lake of the Valley) and KheerBhawani Temple, the most important temple for the followers of Historical Vedic Religion in Kashmir, known as the Kashmiri Pandits. Dinner and Overnight stay at hotel in Srinagar.
After breakfast, transfer to Srinagar airport to board the return flight with Happy Memories!


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Keeneland concludes historic five-day summer meet with total handle of $63 million
Jul 13th, 2020 · 0 Comment
Keeneland successfully closed its unprecedented five-day Summer Meet on Sunday with all-sources wagering of more than $63 million. Driving robust wagering were top-quality race fields and the enthusiastic support of fans who were watching and wagering remotely due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. All-sources wagering on the Summer Meet, held July 8-12, totaled $63,299,331. Average daily all-sources...
Keeneland takes lead in Blue Grass Farms Charities 'Gallop and Graze' matching gift campaign
Blue Grass Farms Charities (BGFC) will launch its inaugural matching gift campaign in July, "Gallop and Graze," to further the mission of the charity. Founded in 2003, Blue Grass Farm Charities' purpose is to provide health and human services to those working in the Thoroughbred racing community. With a commitment to this mission, BGFC has announced Gallop and Graze, a matching campaign to provide...
Keeneland at Home to provide unique opportunities for fans to watch, wager on July 8-12 Summer Meet
Keeneland has announced Keeneland at Home Presented by Central Bank, which offers a variety of creative and fun ways for fans to remotely enjoy Keeneland's five-day Summer Meet, to be held July 8-12. The season, which accommodates a portion of the 16-day Spring Meet that Keeneland was forced to cancel due to the COVID-19 outbreak, will be held without fans. "Fans flock to Keeneland during our...
Ellis Park asks Horse Racing Commission to delay opening to July 2 to ensure health protocols are met
Pending approval by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, live horse racing will return to Ellis Park in Henderson on Thursday, July 2. Originally scheduled for Sunday, June 28, Ellis made the request to move the date four days to ensure all health and safety protocols are met following the COVID-19 pandemic. The summer meet will be highlighted by a pair of stakes-laden programs on Aug. 2 and 9. Ellis...
Keeneland requests five-day Summer Meet in July; event would be held without spectators
May 24th, 2020 · 0 Comment
Keeneland has submitted a request to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission's Race Dates Committee for a five-day Summer Meet, to be held July 8 through July 12. Under the current safety protocols, the Summer Meet would be held without spectators. The summer dates accommodate a portion of the 16-day Spring Meet that Keeneland was forced to cancel due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Keeneland also will share...


Will big business emerge stronger from the recession, leaner and more responsible?
The next few years ahead are going to be tough. The skills that businesses need to deploy today are new. What will determine competitive advantage is changing. These are issues covered in my speeches.
The corporate speaking began after the publication of my first book, the bestselling The Silent Takeover, in 2001. There was a lot of interest from a wide array of businesses and governments. As my reputation continued to grow so did my speaking opportunities.
Yes, I definitely remember my first speaking engagement. I was invited to Brussels by the Belgium Prime Minister to speak on a panel with Bill Clinton (former US President), Mary Robinson (Former PM of Ireland), and Baron Peter Piot (former Under-Secretary-General of the UN and former Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS) in 2001. Quite a way to start!
The last event was this past week in Italy (Reggio Emilia) in one of the oldest theatres in the country. It was a packed auditorium with a great audience.
It's impossible to single one out. The opportunity to interact with diverse, smart audiences all over the world is something I really enjoy and each event is rewarding.
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The boy can't help it, he just can't help it. Apologies from us to Vim! and his fans for not getting these songs out very fast at all – they were tracked much earlier this year. But at least at least they're out, and we guess you should really open wide and say 'aaahh'. Or at least 'ah?' 🙂 Style, grace, Rita Hayworth, all that nice stuff, Vim! has it in spades. So if you've got a heart, let's club together and buy him enough diamonds to jack it all in and live on the Gold Coast forever. Ohdear, we appear to have lost it. In a nice way, of course. Viva Vim!


An Obama 2012 campaign promise to emphasize education has already been fulfilled in some respects: The president's team schooled Romney's on how to run an effective, analytics-driven campaign, and educated marketers on best practices for analytics-enabled marketing using Big Data and social media.
Whatever your political affiliation, if you're a marketer, it's worth studying how the Obama team leveraged analytics to win the election.
1. Treat analytics as a creative force. It takes creativity and broad thinking to consider whether a phone call from a local person versus someone in a non-swing state makes a difference, then analyzing the impact. This was one of many ways that the Obama team was creative in the application of analytics. Since your competitors are likely to have similar data, software, and analytics expertise, the game-changing difference is in uncovering key insights by thinking broadly and creatively about how the world works and how to influence consumers.
2. Target customers with highest potential. The Obama team was masterful at identifying the swing voters who could be persuaded in granular key battleground geographies. Who are your most persuadable "swing voters"? Which customers offer the highest upside potential? Marketers too often focus investments on their current most valuable customers, which often is not where the real opportunity lies. Developing detailed customer profiles, predictive models, and experiments reveals customers who should be targeted for their potentially greater share of wallet and responsiveness to marketing.
3. Drive relevance through analytics to win. The Obama campaign understood the relevance equation. Its robust customer database and profiles guided all marketing tactics. Which target voters got phone calls, emails, or door-knocks? Which social media channels are most relevant? What was the right content in terms of messaging and creative? Aligning with Sarah Jessica Parker engaging on Reddit, and highly targeted television ads further showed the campaign had answers to the who, what, when, where, and how of communications and engagement.
4. Make testing part of the culture. When you have office pools about whose email will perform best, as Obama's team did, testing is imbedded in the culture. World-class, analytics-enabled marketing programs incorporate testing in every facet in two ways: Experimental designs that answer fundamental questions about resource allocation and test a broad set of ideas. Ongoing A/B tests drive continual performance improvements around individual tactics such as email.
5. Set clear, measurable objectives for social media. The Obama team demonstrated this with its creative use of Facebook, where photos of users' friends were posted in swing states to influence such behaviors as registering or voting early. It's critical to have clear business, brand, and marketing goals for each channel across paid, owned, and earned media. A holistic measurement plan will account for cross-channel interactions tied to these objectives.
6. Use robust data and apply context to improve models. Those looking at more robust data did not believe the election was a toss-up -- including both Team Obama and New York Times blogger Nate Silver. The Obama team's predictive accuracy was rooted in very large sample sizes and analysis of very granular but key geographic areas. Having less data to work with, Silver filled the gaps by incorporating judgment and context. The lesson for marketers is that the right Big Data plus simple algorithms can be a powerful predictor. And filling in data gaps with smart, informed assumptions can result in highly accurate predictive models.
7. Leverage analytics across all stakeholders. The Obama team leveraged analytics to drive both fundraising (raising $1 billion) and voting behavior. Similarly, marketers and businesses should consider how they can leverage analytics broadly across stakeholders to drive overall results. For example, analytics can also be leveraged for internal employee engagement to segment employees and target them for increased engagement, skill development, and a variety of other objectives.
Clearly, Team Obama has set the bar for analytics-driven campaigning. It took outstanding analytics as well as a multidisciplinary approach to help achieve the victory.


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Rashami Desai On Reporting Abusive Trollers To Mumbai Police For Calling Her 'Buddhi' And 'Ghatiya Aunty': 'What's Bothering Them?'- EXCLUSIVE
Rashami Desai has shared some grabs on her Instagram story, where she has called out trollers for abusing her and using derogatory words. We spoke to the actress about the episode and here's what she has to say
Updated on Aug 28 2020, 19:54:47
Neeki Singh
Celebrities often become victims of cyberbullying. While some decide to ignore the comments, others raise their voice and school them. Rashami Desai whom we last saw as Shalaka in Ekta Kapoor's Naagin 4, has taken to her Instagram story to call out a few trollers who made some disgraceful comments on her and her family.
Sharing their screenshots where we could see them body shaming her, the actress asked for help from Mumbai Police and cyber cell. ALSO READ: Rashami Desai Cries Talking About Her Special Bond With Late Sushant Singh Rajput, 'At One Point We Were Very Close' - EXCLUSIVE
Now talking to SpotboyE.com exclusively, the actress reveals how such comments are taking a toll on her.ALSO READ: Rashami Desai INTERVIEW: Actress On Naagin 4 Finale, Working With Ekta Kapoor And Her Future Plans- EXCLUSIVE
When we reached out to Rashami Desai to know more about it, the actress said, "I have been seeing a lot of comments like this and have been taking a few screenshots as well for a long time now. I have been thinking that it could be the pandemic that might be frustrating or stressful. May this be the way out for them but they don't even know me and my family. We don't come from any criminal background. I've been working in this industry for more than a decade now and people who know me, are still very well with me."
She went on saying, "One show which claimed to be a reality show is having a power to change their mindset and their psycho behaviour and attitude, which kept me thinking that these people have all the right to show their feelings and anger, but in a limited way. And they should not misuse this platform. Expressing your emotions is not bad but abusing and telling people to finish their life is a bit too much. One side they talk about supporting the current situation and on other side they only change their statements by using such language with brainless opinion. I have a lot to say but they have no right to talk any crap about my family. Or else I really don't mind inviting them into my life and talking to them directly to know what the actual problem is. Is it my outfit, the way I talk, my aura or is it just me, like what is bothering you/them?"
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World Cup could bring $5 billion to U.S., $80 million to Atlanta, study says
By Kristi E Swartz
Officials trying to bring a World Cup soccer tournament to the United States are touting more than just the well-prepped cities with state-of-the art stadiums.
Hosting the 31-day series of matches would be a $5 billion economic boost to the nation's economy, according to an economic-impact study commissioned by the U.S. Bid Committee.
The tournament would also create between 65,000 and 100,000 jobs total across all of the host cities, said real estate and economic consulting firm AECOM.
Atlanta should take note: the study used the city for the national and international media headquarters, saying that alone would bring in $80 million. The study estimated more than 9,000 journalists would be housed at the media headquarters, dubbed by the World Cup as the International Broadcasting Center, or IBC.
Atlanta is one of 27 cities that are part of the committee's bid package to lure the World Cup to the United States in either 2018 or 2022. The study says hosting five or six soccer matches could bring in between $400 million and $600 million to a metro area's economy and create between 5,000 and 8,000 jobs.
Atlanta is also second in an online petition created by the bid committee to host World Cup soccer matches.
The committee chose AECOM, formerly Economics Research Associates, to look at the projected economic impact because the firm had done so for the 1994 World Cup as well as for several Olympic games.
David Downs, executive director of the U.S. Bid Committee, said his group has shared the economic-impact figures with each of the 27 cities.
The U.S. is competing against Netherlands-Belgium and Portugal-Spain, which have submitted joint bids to host either a 2018 or 2022 World Cup tournament. Qatar and South Korea have submitted bids to host the 2022 tournament.
The 24-member FIFA executive committee will select the hosts on Dec. 2, 2010.
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Global Risks: Geopolitical and Societal Risks Top Concerns for Organizations
Disruptive shifts in technology, geopolitics, societal expectations, and economic inequality are creating a new fragility in the world that is directly impacting how governments and businesses operate, according to "The Global Risks Report 2016."
In its 11th edition, the report was prepared by the World Economic Forum with the help of Marsh & McLennan Companies and other partners and presents a picture of the evolving global risk landscape on both short- and long-term horizons.
Nearly 750 risk experts from all industries globally shared their thoughts on the risks that could threaten global prosperity over the next 10 years. This year, involuntary migration and the failure to adapt to and mitigate climate change — including extreme weather events and water and food shortages — emerges as two of the greatest concerns.
Among the other key findings:
Unemployment is of great concern as it relates to social instability in developing economies.
Growing corporate debt to fuel growth in new and emerging markets is pressuring risk bearing capacities. Today, more fragile balance sheets may be unable to absorb major losses.
Cyber-attacks are presenting an enormous threat to advanced economies, in particular for the US.
Emerging market economies are suffering due to slowing demand from China. The economic and societal fallout from the drop in commodity prices in exporter countries remains to be seen.
The crisis in the Middle East has deepened across the region and spilled into other countries in the form of terrorism.
The implications of advances in machine learning are not well-anticipated, and workforce fallout could be profound.
As these and other trends are increasingly interconnected, organizations need to consider risks in the context of other risk to truly understand the potential impact to their organizations. Risks also vary geographically, which pressures global organizations to look beyond trends and exposures in their "home states."
This year's report looks at the potential impacts of risks to businesses, and how private organizations can impact public policy frameworks.
Download the PDF to read the full report.
The Global Risks Report 2016
Key Takeaways From 'The Global Risks Report 2016'
John Drzik, president of Global Risks and Specialties at Marsh, discusses organizations' "broad and deep" vulnerabilities amid the shift from economic risks to geopolitical, societal, and technological exposures.
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A Global Health Emergency: 5 Steps to Address the Zika Virus Outbreak Four Key Considerations in Developing Your Terrorism Insurance Program Concerned About the Zika Virus? Here's What You Need to Know Businesses Globally Face Growing Instability and Deepening Challenges, according to 'The Global Risks Report 2016'
Marsh: More Walls, More Warming, Less Water – A World at Risk in 2016 BRINK News: Rising Instability and Deepening Challenges BUSINESS INSIDER: The Immigration Crisis is a Bigger and More Likely Threat to the World than Weapons of Mass Destruction in 2016


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Section, Pub. L. 95–313, § 4, as added Pub. L. 107–171, title VIII, § 8002(b), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 468, related to the establishment and implementation of a forest land enhancement program.
A prior section 2103, Pub. L. 95–313, § 4, July 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 367; Pub. L. 101–624, title XII, §§ 1214, 1224(1), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3525, 3542; Pub. L. 104–127, title III, §§ 336(a)(2)(B), 373, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1005, 1015, related to forestry incentives program, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–171, title VIII, § 8001(a), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 468.
Pub. L. 107–171, title VIII, § 8002(a), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 468, which listed purposes for the establishment of a forest land enhancement program, was repealed by Pub. L. 113–79, title VIII, § 8001(b), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 913.


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