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Orange introduces cheap Facebook phones in Europe, Africa
The operator wants to bring mobile services such as Facebook to a wide range of users
Mikael Ricknäs (IDG News Service) 16 November, 2011 21:49
Orange launched three Alcatel One Touch phones on Wednesday with dedicated Facebook buttons priced below €100 (US$135).
The new phones are the Alcatel One Touch 585F, 813F and 908F. The latter smartphone is an Orange exclusive, and will be one of the most affordable Android smartphones available, the operator said without giving a more detailed price than "below €100."
The 908F will have a 2.8-inch screen, an FM radio and A-GPS. The smartphone uses version 2.2 of Android and is powered by a 600MHz Qualcomm processor. Users can access the Internet with HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) or Wi-Fi.
The 585F and 813F both have QWERTY keyboards and Opera's Mini browser preinstalled. They will cost about €40 and €60, respectively.
Using the phones, Facebook addicts will be able to post and tag photos, comment on a friend's wall and sync Facebook friends to their address book.
Orange's goal is provide access to mobile services such as Facebook to the widest possible range of customers. The new phones also integrate Twitter. At a more affordable prices, and with bundles and tariffs to match, the phones will make "mobile Facebook access richer and more widely available for the first time for some customers," it said in a statement.
The integration of Facebook on low-cost phones has recently become trendy. Nokia launched three feature phones with Facebook integration last month. MediaTek, a designer of software and chipsets for low-end phones, is also getting on board and will put Facebook on feature phones that will cost below US$50 before subsidies, it said last week.
The Alcatel phones will be available in Poland and Romania by the end of this year. The devices will become available next year in Armenia, Botswana, Cameroon, France, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Moldova, Niger, Reunion, Senegal, Spain, Tunisia and Uganda.
Orange said the exact launch dates will be announced in those countries at a later date, as well as more countries where the devices will be offered.
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Analysis: As you saw in last week's brief we are actually focusing on the concept of Margin (from the Richard Swenson book by the same title) rather than stress.
Margin is the reserve we have to deal with the challenges thrown at us by a difficult world.
Load is the numerical accumulation of the physical, emotional, and psychological demands made on us by our jobs, our families, and the rest of the people and commitments we sign onto.
Answer: Last week you learned strategies for boosting power. Now let's focus on what you can do to reduce your load.
1. Beat procrastination. Putting things off actually consumes time and energy! Make one of these ideas work for you: Start your workday by doing the task you most dread. Find an accountability partner who'll call you each day to confront you about what you're avoiding. Follow the 24-hour rule of taking at least one small step toward everything marked critical on your to-do list. Make your deadlines public so that you'll be more embarrassed to miss them.
2. Keep a great calendar and priority system. Find appointment and task scheduling tools that work for you. Whether they be paper- or electronic-based, reduce your worries and your workload by avoiding the trauma of missed appointments and blown deadlines.
3. Create a better relationship with your boss. Working for someone who you don't respect is one of the most oppressive factors at work, particularly if this causes you to act in counter-dependent ways. I have coached more than one manager who needed to hear a message that was hard to accept. Here goes: The Bible calls upon us to submit the authorities placed over us (Ro 13:1-7). These managers (and you) have four choices and two of them are good: continue to rebel (bad); avoid your boss as much as possible (bad); quit (better that the first two choices); submit (good). Every manager I know who has submitted–so long as it didn't violate their principles–was happier in the long run.
4. Simplify your life. Understand the difference between needs and wants. Cut back on the expense and complexity of your lifestyle. Reduce the amount of "stuff" and the number of gadgets in your life. Buy fewer items that plug in or require batteries. Don't look for contentment in the arms of technology.
5. Leave work stress behind. When you come home at night—hopefully not too late—leave your shoes at the front door to symbolically separate from the stress producers in your work. Change out of your executive "uniform" immediately. Write a story of the rigors of your day into a journal at the end of the day.
8. Dissolve grudges. Don't waste time and energy placing blame on others or asking, "Why did this happen to me?" Holding a grudge drags you down it the eyes of others, makes you unhappy, and saps your power. As someone once put it, "Holding a grudge is like taking poison hoping the other person dies." It's also like burning down your house to kill a rat.
9. Enlist allies. Some people rely on scores of instrumental relationships at work to ensure their success. If there are currently people in your network with whom the road has gotten bumpy, pull the rocks out the relationships that are causing the bumps. Sit down with these people and find out what role you may have played in letting the relationship sour and what you can do to help sweeten it.
10. Delegate. Very few executives make the best use of their assistants. Ask this question of yours: "What ideas do you have for how you can help me be more efficient and effective?" Delegation works at home, too. If you have children, are they doing their fair share of the chores? It may be time to buy your life back.
11. Automate. Take advantage of every efficiency afforded you by modern technology. For instance, take a class on how to take full advantage of the timesaving features of your computer and its software. Do your email on PDAs and cell phones from trains, airports, and the back seats of taxis.
12. Negotiate. Talk to your boss about your workload. Can you make a compelling case for having some of it redistributed to others in order to achieve better corporate results? Talk to yourself about your career. Can you make a compelling case for lowering your career goals a notch or two in order to reduce the pressure?
13. Eliminate. Every manager is doing at least one thing that if eliminated wouldn't harm his or her success in the least. This might be a habit or ritual that uses time without providing much return. Or it might be a once significant responsibility whose time has passed. Ask colleagues if they notice anything in your behavior that fits these categories.
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At last count I have approximately 100 web site logins, IDs and passwords. In addition, I've got credit card, airline reward card and bank account information. My brain can't hold all that information effectively. At best I can only remember the user IDs and passwords for my main e-mail accounts so I can at least check mail on the road. So how do you keep track of all the other information effectively and keep everything safe and secure from prying eyes? In a data vault of course.
I'd bet that most people have a sheet of paper with their web banking passwords and other sensitive information tucked underneath a keyboard or in a file folder in a desk drawer. Maybe some of you have web passwords and personal information listed in a neatly organized word processor document or spreadsheet utilizing the typically flimsy password protection built into Microsoft Word and Excel. Unfortunately, thousands of laptops are stolen each year from businesses and homes and the easiest way for crooks to get at your sensitive information is to get their hands on that piece of paper or to hack your word document or excel spreadsheet. If you want piece of mind therefore, the best way to protect your personal information is by making using of a portable data vault.
The SpashID Desktop user interface is designed to be very easy to use. You can store almost anything of importance from birthdays to combination numbers and serial numbers to clothing sizes. Other items that you can store include banking information, calling cards, credit cards, e-mail accounts, emergency contacts, airline rewards, insurance info, memberships, phone numbers, prescriptions, vehicle info, voicemail passwords and web logins. You can even categorize your entries as personal or business and define them as you like.
Entering data is simple and you have the option of adding notes and having SpashID generate a secure password for you. SplashID is supplied with 63 category icons, making it easy to identify your data with easy to recognize symbols. I find that locating information is much easier when an icon is used as an identifier. Operational simplicity is the key and the user interface has been designed to be accessed via the Blackberry thumbwheel. All of the SplashID options and commands are accessible using the thumbwheel and activation button to add items, edit, set passwords, and mask/unmask passwords.
The Blackberry handheld portion of SpashID contains an exact duplicate of the information that you entered in the PC/Mac desktop component, except that the handheld interface is scaled down to make better use of the small screen. Enter information on the handheld and it will be updated in the desktop component at the next sync and vice versa.
Cons: We really didn't find any.
Pros: Relatively small installation footprint on your PC and mobile device. Multi-platform support. Great value for the money. Records are very customizable. Impressive importing capabilities from previous versions. You can access important information while away from your PC. SplashID is a superb software tool to help you keep and protect all your personal information on your handheld device and PC. Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile and Symbian versions of SplashID are customized to take advantage of the various hardware controls (scrollers, d-pads, etc.) found on each device. SplashID is a secure, useful product. Highly recommended.


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2020 Technology Trends
2019 drew to a close with a spectacular decade of technology advancements. Back in 2010 we saw the release of the first iPad, the 3-D bioprinter, the Samsung Galaxy S series and most importantly the ability for AI to detect sarcasm. Then towards the end of the decade, we saw some monumental strides throughout the technology spectrum such as the growth in big data analysis and deep learning, Facebook's AI creating its own 'language' to speak to each other and Space-X's many successful landings.
Such an incredible decade of achievements encouraged Mobica to begin a discussion around what technology trends we expect to see and support in 2020. After viewing various articles, we decided to choose three of our favourite and most relevant predictions from the Gartner "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020".
To look at these in more detail, we sat down with our new Head of Solutions, Sean Whitty. Sean shared his thoughts on the article and the trends that align to our direction for the year ahead.
Which of the three technology trends do you find most interesting for Mobica and our direction for 2020?
Looking at Gartner's technology trend picks for 2020, I see three clear standouts that we expect to become increasingly important and drive disruption: multiexperience, empowered edge and autonomous things.
Why these three?
The last decade showed the growth of technology in almost every aspect of our lives. At the same time however, many of these new technologies took time to mature. The 2020 trends of multiexperience, empowered edge and autonomous things will make our usage and overall experience with technology more ubiquitous, and will help take us in the direction of more people-centric smart spaces.
I also see these three trends as technical complements of one another. Multiexperience will help us access our data, profiles, apps and improve our user experience across multiple platforms and in multiple environments, and do it all seamlessly. This includes various rooms of the home such as the bathroom and kitchen, on the way to work in the car or train, at work, or out in public.
Through the empowered edge, our individual and shared endpoint devices will take advantage of increased processing capabilities and localised intelligence. This will support a more decentralised approach of multiexperience implementation, reducing data traffic requirements and increasing security.
Finally, through the increased ubiquity enabled by multiexperience and edge computing, we will require increased and dependable autonomy to save time and manual effort, as well as prevent significant distractions and tech overload.
How do you think our experience in these areas could benefit our customers?
It is important to remember that these trends do not exist in isolation. They continue some of the clear megatrends from the last decade such as AI, autonomy, cloud technologies and ubiquity. Mobica has built extensive expertise through customer projects in our three technology sectors: automotive, silicon, and connected devices. In each sector, we combine a strong blend of both innovation and complete project delivery at scale from our multiple delivery sites spread across the UK, USA, Germany and Poland.
In addition, to ensure constant innovation and continually improve domain expertise, we invest significantly in internal R&D projects that target these trends and new technologies, allowing us to stay one step ahead of customer demand.
Are there any trends you would like to mention, that haven't made this list?
I think data ownership deserves an honorable mention. Privacy and control of increasingly large amounts of valuable, personal data will continue to be a major issue for the industry and all users of technology. Government regulation will also continue to play a role with the GDPR for the EU and the recently-enacted CCPA in California. The combination of regulation with increasing public awareness and tech-savviness, as well as enormous profits in the big data space, indicates this trend will remain relevant in 2020.
Finally, the 2010s saw climate change as a global and overarching issue. Environmental-based trends such as zero emissions will play a fundamental role in the ongoing digital transformation in 2020 and beyond, including more concrete industry-driven environmental targets.
Where do you see Mobica in the next decade?
That's an interesting question. It's incredible to see the growth that Mobica has experienced in the past decade. From our beginnings developing graphics device drivers in automotive IVI systems followed by our expansion into web/mobile applications, alongside a huge growth in our involvement with the cloud, it was a very exciting period.
I believe that our past experience will remain extremely relevant in several key areas. Given our expertise in the automotive industry and data analysis, we are positioned to become a leading supplier in the OEM race to deliver the first commercialised autonomous vehicle. Also, through our experience with connected devices, the telecoms industry and recent experience in smart homes and smart cities, we can develop exciting new IoT applications and products/platforms for our customers.
We have our direction and strategy outlined. At the same time, our experience and incredible engineering talent allow us to remain flexible and adapt along with the pace of advancements in technology brought by these very exciting and disruptive trends. That's what makes this such a great company!


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using Org.Apache.REEF.Common.Client.Parameters;
using Org.Apache.REEF.Tang.Formats;
using Org.Apache.REEF.Tang.Interface;
using Org.Apache.REEF.Tang.Util;
using Org.Apache.REEF.IO.FileSystem.AzureDataLake.Parameters;

namespace Org.Apache.REEF.IO.FileSystem.AzureDataLake
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    /// <summary>
    /// Configuration Module for the Azure Data Lake (ADL) file system implementation of IFileSystem.
    /// </summary>
    public sealed class AzureDataLakeFileSystemConfiguration : ConfigurationModuleBuilder
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The account FQDN to be used to connect to the data lake store
        /// </summary>
        public static readonly RequiredParameter<string> DataLakeStorageAccountFqdn = new RequiredParameter<string>();

        /// <summary>
        /// The Tenant to be used to authenticate with Azure
        /// </summary>
        public static readonly RequiredParameter<string> Tenant = new RequiredParameter<string>();

        /// <summary>
        /// The Application ID to be used to authenticate with Azure
        /// </summary>
        public static readonly RequiredParameter<string> ClientId = new RequiredParameter<string>();

        /// <summary>
        /// The Client Secret to be used to authenticate with Azure
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        public static readonly RequiredParameter<string> SecretKey = new RequiredParameter<string>();

        /// <summary>
        /// The ADL TokenAudience Uri to be used to authenticate with Data Lake Store
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        /// <summary>
        /// Set AzureDataLakeFileSystemConfigurationProvider to DriverConfigurationProviders.
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            .BindSetEntry<DriverConfigurationProviders, AzureDataLakeFileSystemConfigurationProvider, IConfigurationProvider>(
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            .BindNamedParameter(GenericType<DataLakeStorageAccountFqdn>.Class, DataLakeStorageAccountFqdn)
            .BindNamedParameter(GenericType<Tenant>.Class, Tenant)
            .BindNamedParameter(GenericType<ClientId>.Class, ClientId)
            .BindNamedParameter(GenericType<SecretKey>.Class, SecretKey)
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            .Build();
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my purple monkey: Mii Fit? I think not.
Mii Fit? I think not.
I got my Wii Fit yesterday. Of course right off my plans to do this when I get home from work were crushed when Sophie took over and claimed it as her own. If I just stepped on it she cried in anger!
Once she went to bed, we had a go at it. Immediately we were impressed. I just love how sensitive and accurate the Wii board is. The weight was right on (unfortunately) and my lack of balance was immediately apparent. My Wii Fit age? 47. Yes, 47. I lean too much to the left. Dave leans too much to the right. But, we will fix it. Oh yes wii will.
We only played with it for a half hour or so but already I could feel my upper back aching a little. Proof it was doing something. We sampled some yoga, balance exercises, and aerobics. The running in place is hilarious. You have to follow a mii friend down a trail. As you run all your mii friends cheer you on! Hey Celvyn, you look great! I've given myself 2 months to reach my goal. Let's see if I get there.
The best part was during the jogging, your Dad ran by. Never did I think I'd see Leo running!
What, 47?! I'd hate to imagine what my Wii Fit age is!!!
Sounds like a fun new game! Do you call it a "game"? Whatever you call it, it sounds fun!
my wii age would be 87. i'm so tired. i'm sore from just typing this.
I preordered at Walmart. I think Target has them, not sure. I think you'd have excellent balance Celvyn. It's just your insides that aint all that.
Actually the Toys R Us in Times Sq always had the best inventory of Wii's in the past so maybe that is your best bet.
I am gonna try it out at your casa.. if I like I buy it!
So funny about Sophiee taking over.....weigh her there..that i'll be cool..
Sophie looks like a little fitness instructor saying " and 1 ..and 2...you can do it :)"


The six head coaches in the state discuss their goals as the opening of practice approaches.
Jack Cosgrove oversees the state's only NCAA Division I football program at the University of Maine.
Thursday it was obvious how much he had in common with the state's five Division III programs: Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Maine Maritime Academy and Husson.
The coaches from the state's six college football programs gathered at the Howard Johnson Conference Center for the eighth annual National Football Foundation Kick-off Luncheon. Each gave a brief synopsis of their hopes for the season, which begins Monday with Maine's first practice. Division III schools don't begin until later in August.
Each spoke with the excitement and optimism you would expect this time of year.
Maine obviously plays at a level far higher than the state's other programs, able to attract top talent with scholarship offers. But football in Division III, which can't offer athletic scholarships, is just as important to those schools.
"Football is football," said Harriman, a Westbrook native. "I think some of it is the talent level (in Division I) is certainly different. Before I came to Bates, I was a coach at Division I. If you have the right attitude for football, it doesn't matter what level you're at.
Bates and Colby are coming off 4-4 seasons. Husson was 5-5 in 2013, Bowdoin was 3-5 and Maine Maritime 1-8.
The Division III programs haven't won a lot lately. Bowdoin and Colby haven't had winning seasons since 2005, but winning is still important to the players and coaches at those schools.
Jon Michaeles, the Colby coach, said there are different ways to gauge success.
"Everybody has a different definition of success and what they want out of the program," he said. "With our kids we define success by their and our collective commitment to reaching their full potential.
Bates, Bowdoin and Colby also have strict academic guidelines recruits must meet to even be considered.
That tends to shrink the recruiting pool for the NESCAC teams. But, said Harriman, it all evens out.
When Gabby Price, the Husson coach, recruits a player, he sells the schools' academic programs and then taps into the recruit's desire to continue playing.
When Chris McKenney, the Maine Maritime coach, recruits someone, he talks about the school's graduation placement rate, which is high.


Have you noticed that your baby seems to have a lot of earwax. Sometime earwax can build up in a baby's ear faster than the baby's body can remove it. It could possibly cause a problem for your baby or be uncomfortable to your baby.
The buildup of earwax is a natural way for the ear to clean itself. The glands in the ear trap dirt and micro-organisms that try to enter the ear canal. The earwax will then harden and be removed from the ear and so taking the dirt with it. Sometimes with a baby the earwax production can build up faster than your baby's ear can remove it, hence creating a build up of earwax. Babies who have a build up of wax often don't show any signs of discomfort, however you may see your baby tug at her ears or put her fingers in her ears or you may not. But you will notice a soft or sticky yellow substance in her ear. Most of the time this earwax build up is harmless. However, if it is excessive then it could be more of a problem, your baby may not be able to hear so well and so it could cause speech delays and if your baby were to have an ear infection it would prevent your pediatrician from seeing this properly. You can remove the earwax at home by putting a little hydrogen peroxide in your baby's ear or a little mineral oil and then a couple of days later flush the ear with a little water to remove the build up. This is much better than using cotton swabs as this may push the wax in deeper. The best thing to do is to check with your pediatrician as he may feel it's better to remove the wax in his office.
Apparently keeping your baby hydrated can help to prevent thicker earwax production.
Lets help keep those little ears clean!


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OCL is now serving youth, especially transitioning youth, and young to older adults. We're now serving persons in Onondaga, Oswego, and parts of Cayuga, Cortland, and Madison counties.
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Data breach more than 4X worse than first thought for Montgomery County schools
Publish Date December 3, 2019
What at first looked like a single data breach affecting Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland turned out to be a series of breaches that impacted thousands of more students than was originally reported. On Oct. 4, 2019, MCPS disclosed that a district student had one day earlier allegedly executed a brute-force credentials-stealing attack…
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Imaginative attack scenarios elicit intrigue at NYU's CSAW cyber event
Publish Date November 8, 2019
Using AI to create artificial fingerprints that can unlock strangers' phones… abusing electric vehicle charging stations to overwhelm the power grid… exploiting 3D printer technology to execute an all-new form of supply chain attack… These may have once sounded like far-flung ideas, but top cyber minds at New York University have been actively exploring such…
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Wakulla County school board elects to negotiate with ransomware hackers
Wakulla County Schools board members on Wednesday reportedly voted unanimously to negotiate with hackers who infected the Florida-based district's systems with ransomware. The district, located in the Tallahassee metropolitan area, first felt the effects of the attack one earlier this month. Emails, bus routing, and library and food service systems have all been impacted, the…
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Researchers: Iranian phishing campaign targets universities with fake library emails
The Mabna Institute, an Iranian firm whose members were indicted last year for cyberattacks against U.S. universities and other organizations, appears to have launched a new global phishing operation targeting the education sector last July and August. This past's summer campaign follows the same basic m.o. as previous attacks that the same threat group has…
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The Rockford files: Ransomware disrupts Illinois school district's systems
Rockford Public Schools District 250 in Rockford, Ill., last week was struck by a ransomware attack that has disrupted the operations of its electronic and digital systems. In an update via Twitter yesterday, the district reported that the Sept. 6 infection affected its website, internet connectivity, IT systems, phone lines, student information systems (which track…
Cybercrime, Finance, Health Care, Legal, Phishing, Security News
U.S. indicts three over alleged phishing campaign targeting universities, businesses
Publish Date August 1, 2019
The Department of Justice has indicted two Americans and a Nigerian on multiple charges for their alleged roles in a phishing scheme that targeted college employees, banks and other businesses from May 2013 through June 2014. Filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the indictment identifies the defendants as Nigerian citizen Otuokere…
Features, Security News, Women in Security
Publish Date July 1, 2019
A new take on the old adage "you're known by the company you keep," might aptly apply to women in security who've found success, progress and opportunities in organizations that know their value. Take Emily Mossburg, who has been forging a path in cybersecurity for more than 20 years where she's now a principal at…
Executive Insight, Security News
Congratulations, cyber graduates!
Publish Date June 10, 2019
This season millions of students will graduate from a college or university with a degree in their chosen field. This is a great milestone, and each and every one of them is to be congratulated for the fortitude and focus it took to earn their degrees. So, we congratulate the cyber graduates in finance and…
Data Breach, Health Care, Security News
UChicago Medicine secures database after publicly exposing info on donors and patients
The University of Chicago Medicine scrambled to secure a database containing information on patients as well as existing and potential financial donors, after a researcher discovered that a misconfiguration left nearly 1.68 million records exposed to the public. Bob Diachenko, cyber threat intelligence director at Security Discovery, said in a June 3 company report that…
Using fitness tracking tech to fight cyberattacks
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Bath and Goldsmiths, the University of London are looking into the impact a fitness tracker-type device could have to make people aware of cybersecurity dangers. The logic the researchers are following is that if a wearable fitness tracker can remind a person through a buzz or vibration that it's…
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Commodities fell with oil prices lower amid worries the new variant could result in reduced demand.
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US stocks traded slightly lower in November. Investors grappled with both a hawkish tilt to commentary from the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the emergence of a new coronavirus variant. Chair of the Fed, Jerome Powell, noted that the strength of the US economy combined with the threat of persistently higher inflation meant a swifter tapering of asset purchases – currently under way at a rate of $15 billion a month – is under consideration. At the same time, the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has cause some to question the sustainability of the economic strength and advocate for more patience.
As it stands, unemployment in the US is low, having fallen to 4.6% in the latest (October) release from 4.8% in September. Retail sales have been growing for several months and industrial activity, as measured by composite PMI data, is robust. But pent-up demand continues to vie with supply constraints, adding to other contributing factors in higher inflation such as stimulus measures. Consumer price index inflation (CPI) rose 0.9% last month after gaining 0.4% in September, significantly higher than expectations.
The S&P500 declined slightly over the month, as investor sentiment stabilised towards month end. The financials, communication services and energy sectors were amongst the weakest areas of the market. The technology and consumer discretionary sectors held up better, eking out small gains. In particular, US chipmakers gained strongly on expectations that despite current supply constraints, robust demand should ultimately be reflected in future earnings.
Eurozone shares fell in November as rising Covid-19 cases saw some countries re-introduce some restrictions on activity. At the end of the month, the discovery of a new "variant of concern" added to investors' worries that more restrictions may be needed, potentially damaging business activity.
The weakest sectors for the month were energy and financials. Sectors that are sensitive to the economic reopening and recovery fell on fears the new Omicron coronavirus variant could result in lower demand. The best performing sector was communication services amid merger & acquisition activity. Private equity group KKR launched a €33 billion takeover offer for Telecom Italia.
The flash November estimate put eurozone annual inflation at 4.9%, up from 4.1% in October and well above the European Central Bank's 2% target. It is the highest inflation level in the single currency era. However, the European Central Bank (ECB) remained reluctant to tighten monetary policy. Christine Lagarde, president of the ECB, said that the current price pressures would fade by the time tightening measures took effect.
Germany's coalition talks reached a conclusion. Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats (SPD) will succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor with his party in a coalition government with the Greens and Free Democrats (FDP). Climate targets are expected to be a key focus for the new government. Meanwhile, the EU released its first ever estimates of quarterly greenhouse gas emissions. This showed emissions for Q2 2021 were up 18% on the previous year, when activity was hit hard by Covid-19 lockdowns.
UK equities fell over November. In line with many other markets, economically sensitive areas underperformed, including the energy (sharp decline in oil prices) and financial sectors. Areas reliant on reopening, such as the travel and leisure sector (airlines, hotels) performed particularly poorly. This occurred as international travel restrictions as well as domestic measures were reintroduced in response to Omicron.
Financials lagged due to a combination of factors related to the news that the Covid variant was of concern to world health authorities. These related factors included fresh uncertainty as to when developed market central banks might raise interest rates. Additionally, the expectation that China would maintain a zero tolerance approach to the virus added to fears the variant would have a severe impact on business activity, and on UK quoted companies exposed to the country.
At the beginning of November the Bank of England (BoE) refrained from increasing base lending costs, confounding expectations it would become the first major developed market central bank to do so. Some domestically focused areas of the market proceeded to bounce back on this news, reversing underperformance of recent months, when it was thought the BoE would be forced to cool economic activity to get a handle on consumer price inflation.
Consumer-facing domestic sectors, such as housebuilders and retailers, and domestically focused travel and leisure stocks, such as pub companies, helped small and mid-cap (SMID) equities recoup some of the ground lost since the summer – up until the point of the Omicron news. Many of these companies then experienced very sharp sell-offs as some Covid restrictions were reintroduced, including the wearing of face masks, which contributed to UK SMIDs underperforming over the month as a whole.
The Japanese stock market declined by 3.6% in November as initial optimism over the reopening of Japan's domestic economy was reversed sharply in the final week on news of the Omicron variant. Currency markets also changed direction, with yen weakness in the early part of the month quickly reversed as investors sought safe-haven assets during a period of greater uncertainty.
Renewed short-term uncertainty over the new Covid variant has temporarily obscured an increasingly positive outlook for Japan. Prior to this, a stable political situation had emerged as Prime Minister Kishida formed his new cabinet after the general election at the end of October. Details also gradually emerged in November of a substantial fiscal stimulus package, which is slightly larger than previous expectations and could have a significant impact on GDP in 2022.
The government is making a significant effort to reinforce the recovery in the domestic economy following the lifting of the state of emergency at the end of September. Within the stimulus package, there is a particular focus on boosting consumption, by giving direct cash handouts. Although the timing of the package was not a surprise, the actual content has been influenced somewhat by the change in prime minister and the strength of the LDP's victory in the general election.
Economic data released in November provided few surprises as higher commodity prices and supply-chain constraints continue to impact the economy. Industrial production numbers are also influenced by the production cuts announced by Japanese auto makers as a result of the global semiconductor shortage. Historic data for Q3 GDP, released in mid-November, showed a contraction in the overall economy, primarily due to the state of emergency that remained in place throughout the quarter, but this result had no major influence on sentiment. Meanwhile, inflation crept back into positive territory as several one-off factors begin to drop out, but there is still little chance of Japan experiencing a short-term inflation spike as seen elsewhere.
Asia (ex Japan)
Asia ex Japan equities declined in November amid a broad market sell-off following the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Investors feared the new variant could derail the nascent global economic recovery. The news comes amid a surge in new Covid-19 cases in some parts of the world.
Singapore was the worst-performing index market in November as investors continued to track developments surrounding the new Covid-19 variant and whether existing vaccines would prove to be less effective. There were fears that the city-state's government may have to scale back some recently relaxed curbs. Chinese stocks were also sharply lower in November, along with neighbouring Hong Kong, on fears that new lockdown measures would be instigated following the rapid spread of a new Covid-19 variant.
Share prices in Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia recorded significant declines in November. Share prices were also weaker in Indonesia and India in the month, although the declines were less pronounced than in some index markets. Taiwan and the Philippines were the only index markets to achieve a positive return during November, although the gains in both markets were modest.
Emerging market equities were down in November as early month gains were more than erased. Market expectations for earlier Fed policy tightening, together with uncertainty over the outlook for growth and inflation created by the Omicron variant, weighed on risk appetite.
Turkey, where the lira depreciated by more than 27%, was among the weakest markets in the MSCI EM index. During the month the central bank continued to cut its policy rate, despite ongoing above target inflation. Hungary and Poland underperformed amid concern that more rapid interest rate hikes could be required. Net energy exporters, notably Russia but also Saudi Arabia and Colombia, lagged as crude oil prices fell. China underperformed the index, while markets which were set to benefit from ongoing economic reopening, such as Thailand and Greece, also finished behind the index.
Conversely, the UAE was the best performing market in the MSCI EM index, supported by strong performance from telecoms company Etisalat Group. Chile, where first round presidential election results were well received by markets, the Philippines and Taiwan all posted positive returns and outperformed. Taiwanese equities were led higher by semiconductor related names which benefitted from rising expectations for metaverse, or augmented reality, demand growth.
Global bonds
The emergence of the Omicron Covid-19 variant punctured risk sentiment in November. Government yields fell and the US dollar rallied, while stocks and high yield credit sold off. The oil price fell sharply due to concern over global demand.
Yields were buffeted through the month, as inflation indices in the US, Europe and UK remained elevated. The US consumer price index rose 6.2% year over year in October, the highest level since 1990.
The US Federal Reserve rhetoric turned increasingly hawkish over the course of the month. Chair Powell and other members of the policy committee suggested tapering could be accelerated and that they may stop referring to inflation as "transitory". Nevertheless, the US 10-year Treasury yield fell from 1.56% to 1.46% over the month, with an intra-month high of 1.69%. The yield curve flattened further, as the 2-year yield rose from 0.50% to 0.57%.
The German 10-year yield fell from -0.09% to -0.34%. The Italian 10-year yield from 1.13% to 0.98%. European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde told the European Parliament that rate rises next year are unlikely. Eurozone inflation rose 4.1% year on year in October.
The UK 10-year yield fell from 1.03% to 0.81%, moving markedly lower as the Bank of England left the policy rate unchanged, against market expectations.
The risk-off move was reflected in corporate bonds. Investment grade credit saw flat total returns (local currency), but underperformed government bonds. High yield (HY) declined, with spreads widening sharply in the final week of the month. US HY fell -1.0% while the euro market declined -0.6%. Investment grade bonds are the highest quality bonds as determined by a credit rating agency; high yield bonds are more speculative, with a credit rating below investment grade.
There was mixed performance across both hard and local currency emerging market (EM) debt. EM currencies declined. The Turkish lira fell sharply as the central bank cut rates despite a double digit rate of inflation.
Convertible bonds were dragged down by equity market headwinds and shed -2.6% for November. Primary markets were strong and $17 billion of new convertibles were launched. The combination of falling equity markets and strong primary market supply resulted in a general cheapening of convertible bonds. Valuations of European convertibles were hit the most.
The S&P GSCI Index recorded a negative performance in November, driven lower by sharp declines in the price of oil following a broad market sell-off triggered by the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
Energy was the worst performing component of the index in November. The industrial metals component also recorded a negative performance in November, with lower prices for zinc, lead, aluminium and copper. The precious metals component also declined in November, with lower prices for both silver and gold. The agriculture component was negative overall, with a sharp decline in the price of cocoa. Conversely, the price of coffee was significantly higher in November. Livestock was the only component of the index to record a positive performance in November.
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Born on August 15, 1872, in Calcutta, Sri Aurobindo was the third child of Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose and Swarnlata Devi. At the age of seven he and his two elder brothers were taken by his father to England for education. He lived in England for fourteen years. A brilliant scholar, he had mastered even before he was twenty years old, Greek and Latin, English and French and had also acquired some familiarity with continental languages like German and Italian.
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Born on August 15, 1872, in Calcutta, Sri Aurobindo was the third child of Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose and Swarnlata Devi. At the age of seven he and his two elder brothers were taken by his father to England for education. He lived in England for fourteen years. A brilliant scholar, he had mastered even before he was twenty years old, Greek and Latin, English and French and had also acquired some familiarity with continental languages like German and Italian. In 1890, he passed the open competition for the Indian Civil Service but felt no call for it and by certain manoeuvres managed to get himself disqualified for riding without himself rejecting the Service, which his family would not have allowed him to do. While in England he had obtained an appointment in the Baroda State Service. He left England in January, 1893, and passed 13 years, from 1893 to 1906, in the Baroda Service. These were years of self-culture, of literary activity, and of preparation for his future work. In England he had received an entirely occidental education without any contact with the culture of India and the East. At Baroda he made up the deficiency, learned Sanskrit and several modern Indian languages, especially Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati. In 1906 Sri Aurobindo quit his job in Baroda to join the political movement.
When Sri Aurobindo entered into Indian Politics the Congress Party was merely a platform for the meek political leaders to request the British government for moderate reforms and that too in an eulogising and polite manner. Sri Aurobindo organized the youth within the party for a more radical action. His idea was to capture the Congress and to make it an instrument for revolutionary action instead of a centre of a timid constitutional agitation which would only talk and pass resolutions and recommendations to the foreign Government. It was he who paved the way for the historic struggle between the Moderates and the Nationalists (called by their opponents Extremists) which led to a split in the Congress in Surat in 1907 and ultimately resulted in the victory of the Nationalists and altogether and decisively changed the course of the freedom struggle in India.
Sri Aurobindo joined hands with Bipin Chandra Pal in the editing of the Bande Mataram, an english daily, in 1906. His first pre-occupation was to declare openly for complete and absolute independence as the aim of political action in India and to insist on this persistently in the pages of the journal; he was the first politician in India who had the courage to do this in public and he was immediately successful. The party took up the word Swaraj to express its own ideal of independence and it soon spread everywhere.
Sri Aurobindo was prosecuted by the British government twice, first in 1907 and again in 1908 when he was detained as an undertrial prisoner for one year. In both cases he had to be acquitted for lack of sufficient evidence. One day in February, 1910, he received a Divine 'Adesh' to go to Chandernagore. After staying there for some time he sailed for Pondicherry in French India in the beginning of April and reached there on April 4,1910. At Pondicherry, his practice of Yoga became more and more absorbing and the magnitude of the spiritual work set before him became more and more clear to him, and he saw that the concentration of all his energies on it was necessary. He also saw that India was destined to be free and his personal intervention in politics would therefore be no longer indispensable.
The part Sri Aurobindo took publicly in Indian politics was of brief duration, for he turned aside from it in 1910 and withdrew to Pondicherry; much of his programme lapsed in his absence, but enough had been done to change the whole face of Indian politics and the whole spirit of the Indian people to make independence its aim and non-cooperation and resistance its method, and even an imperfect application of this policy heightening into sporadic periods of revolt has been sufficient to bring about the victory. The course of subsequent events followed largely the line of Sri Aurobindo's idea. The Congress was finally captured by the Nationalist party, declared independence its aim, organised itself for action, took almost the whole nation minus a majority of the Mohammedans and a minority of the depressed classes into acceptance of its leadership and eventually….. secured from Britain acceptance of independence for India.
After his arrival in Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo concentrated all his energies in the practice of Yoga. At first there were only four or five disciples living with him. Afterwards more and more seekers started coming to him for spiritual guidance. However, it could not yet be called an Ashram. It was only after the final arrival of the Mother in Pondicherry on 24 April, 1920, that the Ashram started taking shape. On 24 November, 1926, Sri Aurobindo had a major realisation in his Yoga, which he called the descent of the Overmind in the physical. After this he retired into seclusion in his room for exclusive concentration on his Yoga of world transformation. Even after the retirement he continued to guide the sadhaks through letters but even this was stopped when it began to take too much of his time. After Sri Aurobindo's retirement the Mother completely took charge of the material development of the Ashram as well as the spiritual guidance of the sadhaks. Sri Aurobindo stayed in seclusion till he left his body on 5 December, 1950.
Sri Aurobindo called his Yoga the 'Integral Yoga'. It takes up the essence and many processes of the old Yogas but is new in its aim, standpoint and the totality of its method. According to Sri Aurobindo the created world is not a mistake or a vanity and illusion to be cast aside by the soul returning to heaven or Nirvana, but the scene of a spiritual evolution by which out of this material Inconscience is to be manifested progressively the Divine Consciousness in things. Mind is the highest term yet reached in the evolution, but it is not the highest of which it is capable. There is above it a Supermind or eternal Truth-consciousness which is in its nature the self-aware and self-determining light and power of a Divine Knowledge. Mind is an ignorance seeking after Truth, but this is a self-existent Knowledge harmoniously manifesting the play of its forms and forces. It is only by the descent of this supermind that the perfection dreamed of by all that is highest in humanity can come. It is possible by opening to a greater divine consciousness to rise to this power of light and bliss, discover one's true self, remain in constant union with the Divine and bring down the supramental Force for the transformation of mind and life and body. To realise this possibility has been the dynamic aim of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga.
All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object. The Supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter.
Sri Aurobindo gave all his time in preparing the physical nature for the descent of the Supermind. It may be noted here that the descent of the Supermind was brought about by the Mother on February 29, 1956, with an active collaboration from Sri Aurobindo from his abode in the subtle physical plane.
Sri Aurobindo was essentially a poet, an intellectual and a writer before he took to Yoga. These mental faculties achieved perfection and became vehicles of inspired and revelatory speech in the course of his Yogic life. In his hands the English language itself acquired new powers. To the wealth of his early poetry, plays, essays and translations he added in Pondicherry his great works, The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, translations and interpretations of the Vedas and Upanishads, The Essays on the Gita, The Foundations of Indian Culture, The Psychology of Social Development (The Human Cycle), The Ideal of Human Unity, and The Future Poetry. These works first appeared serially in the Arya, a philosophical monthly he edited from 1914 to 1920. Most of these writings were later revised and issued in book-form and comprise the core of his teaching and his global view of things. Apart from these, he wrote a large number of letters to his disciples guiding them in their spiritual life. These have been compiled and now form an important part of his message. However, the latest and the most perfect expression of his vision and message is to be found in his poetry. In Pondicherry he wrote a considerable number of short poems and revised and completed his supreme creation – the epic poem Savitri over which he had worked for more than forty years. In this creation of nearly 24,000 lines in blank verse, he gives us the full spectrum of his spiritual vision and experience, his world view in this poem Mantric and revelatory. This is the longest poem ever written in English and, according to an American critic, "It is probably the greatest epic in the English language….a perfect cosmic poem".
Note:The above text has been prepared with the help of some autobiographical notes by Sri Aurobindo.
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Also known as: Weisser Riesling, Rheinriesling, Riesling Renano, Johannisberger and Johannisberg Riesling. Wines labeled Gray Riesling & Emerald Riesling are not made with the Riesling varietal.
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Does My Fledgling Retailer Need an Online Marketplace to Survive?
The online marketplace has revolutionised how we shop online. They give people a single destination from which they have access to a myriad of brands and products – the concept is as old as time, of course, but instead of Harrods, Westfield and Walmart we're talking about Amazon, Etsy, and eBay.
The benefits of this all-in-one convenience are obvious for the customer but what of the retailers – especially those less established brands in the earlier stages of development?
I certainly appreciate that for retailers in the midst of growth, marketplaces do have an appetising appeal. The online marketplace has the reach to attract new prospects and the logistical heft to handle transactions, leaving the vendor to supply the goods and manage distribution.
This has certainly caught the eye of many online retailers with a slew of new research showing that many are rethinking their eCommerce strategies in response to the growing presence of an online marketplace.
And with 39% of the eCommerce market expected to be dominated by online marketplaces by 2020, this change of tact certainly looks a prudent move.
Much like the TripAdvisor or Expedia dynamic in travel, the immediate opportunities to acquire, engage and convert customers online that these marketplaces can offer would be almost impossible for an aspirational brand to replicate. However, this access comes with a catch.
While there is the immediate (and fully reasonable) financial cost to these things, there is a bigger consequence to consider in the long run.
A boost in immediate sales figures are always welcome, but building a brand that people recognise and will seek out time and time again, together with control on your margins is the key to longevity. Building a brand is dependent, especially in the early stages, on creating a memorable connection, something which is jeopardised by an over-reliance of online marketplaces.
In terms of evoking sensations, cognitions and behavioural responses from customers towards your brand, online marketplaces dilute the experience, which is a reality that smaller retailers with big brand ambitions should be wary of.
One other thing to be careful of is how valuable you really are to the marketplace. If Amazon's Basics range can recreate your product once they see it is successful, where will you be then? The marketplace has full visibility into what is working on the market and has strength as a result.
"Building a brand that people recognise and will seek out time and time again, together with control on your margins is the key to longevity."
To generate greater loyalty and brand recall from customers, it's essential that retailers focus on driving direct sales as well as those gained through online marketplaces. This is achieved by first creating a premium brand experience i.e. attracting new and maintaining existing shoppers through highly-relevant marketing.
The basis of which is built on knowing how your customer currently behaves and wants to behave on your site.
Yet, from what I've seen, marketplaces offer little for those SME retailers looking to build a total brand experience, as they lack opportunities for these businesses to capture things like first-party data and act accordingly on it.
First-party data is what you, as a business, collect from your own visitors and customers and is undoubtedly the most valuable because of its quality and the fact it comes at no extra cost. The data, which might include things like customers' purchase or browsing history, provides key insights into the behaviours, interests, and actions demonstrated across a website.
Leveraging this data deepens your understanding of existing customers, enabling you to serve them with personalised user experiences, content, recommendations, and services based on interests, locations and intent. In other words, it gives you the ability to create a unique experience for your e-commerce services, across websites, mobile, and social media channels.
How can an ambitious retailer build a long-term relationship with a customer if they do not understand the journey they've taken, or indeed the touch-points where customers would like brands to engage them?
If you know whether your customer likes a promo-code each purchase, or is more interested in getting the expensive product to their door as easily as possible you can offer a honed experience for them. An online marketplace might help drive sales in the short term, but won't help you get the data you need.
"Marketplaces offer little for those SME retailers looking to build a total brand experience."
A good example of what happens when a business collects and activates their data effectively is our client, HP.
The technology company wanted to reduce cart abandonment and improve the user experience. How did they do this? Through harnessing first-party data from their website, that fuelled an intelligent and personalised remarketing strategy. This led to a revenue increase of 10%.
I certainly acknowledge that the impact online marketplaces have had on aspirational retailers is palpable. Greater efforts and pledges from the bigger players in eCommerce to up-skill and improve the digital literacy of the UK's SMEs are also readily welcomed. The key here is balance.
While there are certainly many upsides to the emergence of increasingly influential online marketplaces, for retailers with an eye on long-term success, they must have the confidence to retain a data-driven approach to direct sales.
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Could Country Be Headed Toward Mideast-Like Civil War?
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Is it really all over?
After a wild week of waiting, President-elect Joe Biden delivered his victory speech last night in Wilmington, Delaware.
"I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify," he said. "We have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They're Americans.
"This is the time to heal in America."
President Donald Trump has not called to congratulate Biden. He has not conceded defeat. He continues to cry foul. "But ultimately, I have a feeling judges are going to have to rule," Mr. Trump said Thursday during the counting of ballots in key swing states.
What we don't know is whether a litigious president unwilling to go down without a fight will get his ultimate wish: a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.
What we do know is what we saw for ourselves: The candidates framing the stakes in this election as the most important of our lifetimes, if not the history of our country.
Never mind the threat of coronavirus; we saw long lines at polling places, ballots cast in numbers demonstrating how intensely Republicans and Democrats both believed that the course of our democracy was indeed on the line. Voter participation was the highest in more than a century.
Supporters of President-elect Joe Biden gather to celebrate victory in front of the White House in Washington, November 7, 2020.
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And the outcome?
Journalist Fareed Zakaria said, "What's extraordinary about this election is, despite a pandemic, Great Depression levels of unemployment, huge turmoil, an impeachment before that, you have ended up seeing the partisan divide as deep, as rooted, as ever."
Zakaria is the author of "Ten Lessons For a Post-Pandemic World. "In some ways the pandemic has been a great revealer, in others it's been an accelerator," he told correspondent Martha Teichner. "What the pandemic has revealed, perhaps more than anything else, is that we're really two countries."
So, no real movement across the ideological divide. Think World War I trench warfare – advances and retreats measured in feet. Stalemate, but a war just the same. New York's Times Square boarded up, an unscalable wall around President Trump's White House, armed protestors
Describe an emotion you've felt this past week: anxiety? Fear of what might happen?
Hrair Balian, who heads the conflict resolution program at the Carter Center in Atlanta (which has monitored more than 100 elections worldwide), told Teichner, "You know, 50 years ago, when I moved to the U.S. from Lebanon, I never thought I would be concerned about violence, conflict, even bloodshed in this country.
"Look, what I've seen around the world is far, far more violent, bloody and destructive. Conflict and civil war? We're not there. But nonetheless, that is not to say we should not be concerned. I think Americans should be worried about the fabric of our society really fracturing. We haven't crossed that line, it hasn't fractured yet. But we're not too far from that line, either."
Teichner asked, "This is the United States. That can't happen here, could it?"
"Hypothetically, yes," Balian replied.
Yesterday morning at 10:36 Washington time, President Trump, en route from the White House to his Virginia golf course, tweeted this:
Within an hour, news organizations, including CBS, called the election for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. A national street party erupted across the United States.
Not celebrating: the roughly 70 million Americans who voted for President Trump.
How many of them no longer trust the legitimacy of the process, such as this man in Georgia echoing the president's words: "It almost seemed like they were waiting to see how many votes Trump had and then they would count the rest to make sure Biden had just enough."
What is the long-term cost to our democracy of widespread doubt?
Biden said on Saturday, "I'll work as hard for those who didn't vote for me as those who did. Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now."
How likely is it that Biden will convince nearly half the electorate that he is their president, too?
"Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses," he said. "Now what presidents say in this battle matters. It is time for our better angels to prevail."
Longtime political commentator Joe Klein said, "I'm not gonna be a Pollyanna here. This is gonna be really hard. It's gonna be one of the hardest things we've had to do as a republic, which is to tone things down.
"Job number one, probably for Joe Biden it looks like, but also for the Congress and the courts and for us as citizens, is to figure out ways to reach out to each other and start conversations."
And what are the chances of that happening? Or of the issues Biden campaigned on – a minimum wage of $15, higher taxes on corporation and the wealthy – actually getting passed?
Unless the Democrats can flip the Senate (likely only if they win both Georgia's runoff votes in January), President-elect Biden's agenda will hit a formidable red wall there, by the name of Mitch McConnell, the same Mitch McConnell who set out to make Barack Obama a one-term president, the same Mitch McConnell who sabotaged Mr. Obama's Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland.
For the moment, the GOP still sounds like the party of Trump.
"Philadelphia elections are crooked as a snake," said Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Sen. Ted Cruz said, "[Democrats] are setting the stage to potentially steal an election."
But according to Joe Klein, "I don't think you can underestimate the incredible power that a president has in setting style for the country. Just look what Donald Trump has done. I think that if you have a different president setting the tone, there are things that are gonna change."
The dozens and dozens of executive orders and regulatory roll-backs President Trump signed into effect, with the stroke of his pen, Joe Biden plans to start undoing them on Day One, January 20.
He is expected to re-engage with the world (albeit a warier world)
Fareed Zakaria said, "The world has seen that there is this backlash in America to its engagement in the world, and so it won't be able to forget it. You know, Joe Biden can demonstrate that there are two Americas, and one does want to be engaged. He can move aggressively and intelligently. But it won't change the fact that people have seen that other America, and they know it's lying there, maybe dormant for now, but it could rear its head again.'
The whole world is watching America, trying to read Joe Biden and Kamala Harris after their historic victory.
Biden said, "We lead not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example."
Biden won with more votes – 74 million and counting – than any American president ever. Harris will be the first woman; the first person of African-American and Asian descent; and the first child of immigrants to be elected vice president.
"Every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities," Harris said Saturday.
During his victory speech, Biden told his audience, "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again, and to make progress."
What's the takeaway from this messy, sometimes ugly election? Good news, according to noted Harvard University historian Danielle Allen, author of an award-winning book about the Declaration of Independence.
"It's really healthy for us to see who we are and where we are," she told Teichner. "It's surely an expression of disagreement with the other side and a vote against the other side, but it's a vote, not a pitchfork. That's the important part. It's the choice to use a vote to express that disagreement, which is the commitment, the pledge card to a peaceful resolution of conflict. And that's a beautiful thing."
But, a lot can happen between now and Inauguration Day.
"Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World" by Fareed Zakaria (WW Norton), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
Hrair Balian, The Carter Center
Danielle Allen, director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Story produced by Mark Hudspeth. Editor: Joe Frandino.
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The Polish authorities continue working on building the 186-kilometre-long barrier at the border with Belarus despite the country opening its doors for Ukrainians fleeing the war.
The construction of the wall along the Polish-Belarusian border, which aims to stop the illegal movement of migrants, started in early 2022, and it is expected to be completed in June, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
Human rights officials and activists are not happy about the decision to build such a barrier, as, according to them, Poland is treating migrants from third countries as undeserving of protection in Europe.
They have highly condemned the actions of Poland and other EU countries that push back and do not permit entry to migrants and who, on the other hand, have created all the necessary conditions and opportunities for nationals of Ukraine.
Nonetheless, the Polish authorities have denied the accusations of them pushing asylum seekers back. They have emphasised that most migrants do not apply for protection once in the country since they are required to stay and not leave for another Member State.
Apart from condemning the differentiations that are being made, environment activists and volunteers have also criticized the decision for the wall to be built through a protected forest and UNESCO world heritage site.
The number of migrants trying to reach Poland through Belarus has been increasing continuously. The Polish authorities revealed earlier in March that only during one day, a total of 134 persons attempted to cross the border between the two countries. This means that thousands of migrants attempted to cross the border in one month.
The Polish Border Guard revealed that those two who attempted to enter the country were mainly nationals of Iraq, Yemen, Cuba, Sudan, Nigeria, Syria, Afghanistan, India, and Turkey.
"Attempts to get to the territory of Poland took place in sections of the official responsibility of Border Guard Posts: in Kuźnica, Płaska, Leipzig, Krynki, Dubicze Cerkiewne, Michałów, Mielnik, Nowy Dwór and Narewka. The detainees are citizens of Iraq, Yemen, Cuba, Sudan, Nigeria, Syria, Afghanistan, India, and Turkey," the Border Guard wrote in March.
While the Polish authorities claimed that they were preventing illegal movement, the Polish humanitarian group said that the migrants were brutally pushed back to Belarus.
In a more recent press release that has issued on April 15, the Polish Border Guard announced that on April 14, a total of 43 foreigners tried to illegally cross the Polish-Belarusian border. They were all detained. Among the foreigners who tried to reach the border were 18 Iraqi nationals, five Syrian nationals, four Yemen nationals, two Nigerian nationals, and a Turkish national.
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William Samuel Verplanck Junior (Plainfield, Nueva Jersey, 16 de enero de 1916 - Knoxville, Tennessee, 30 de septiembre de 2002) fue un psicólogo estadounidense. Él condujo una serie de experimentos significativos en los campos de la etología, la psicología experimental, y especialmente en el campo de la conductismo radical.

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Verplanck, W.S. (1942) The development of discrimination in a simple locomotor habit. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 31, 441-464.
Berry, R.N., Verplanck, W.S., and Graham, C.H. (1943) The reversal of discrimination in a simple running habit. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32, 325-334.
Verplanck, W.S. (1946) The effects of paredrine on night vision test performance. (Bur. Med. Surg., 1944; Publ. Bd., N. 23049) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. Commerce, 14.
Verplanck, W.S. (1946) Comparative study of adaptometers. (Bur. Med. Surg., 1942, Publ. Bd. No. 23050) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. Commerce, 34.
Verplanck, W.S. (1946) Night vision testing on members of crew of the U.S.S. New Jersey (Bur. Med. Surg., 1943; Publ. Bd. No. 23072) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. Commerce, 9.

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Ilias Marmaras was born in Greece. He is a new media artist and the initiator and co-fonder of Personal Cinema group.
His work mostly focuses on alternative video games and online 3D virtual environments. He was the initiator of the new media cultural/political project: "the making of Balkan Wars: The game" and its core video game project: ''the Balkan Mall''.
He has written and published various papers regarding critics on aesthetics, politics and New Media, in European magazines, newspapers and web sites.
His recent work includes educational video-games as "Resist", a game that focuses on drug abuse prevention for adolescents.
In the past, he has also exhibited worldwide as a painter and he has also worked as art director or associated producer in numerous documentary films for world wide production companies as PBS, NBC, BBC WORLD, ARTE, and WLIW.


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