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Indonesia: Can Jokowi Recover? The Indonesian president has disappointed his supporters, yet many remain optimistic.
Indonesia: Can Jokowi Recover?
The Indonesian president has disappointed his supporters, yet many remain optimistic.
President Joko Widodo – popularly known as Jokowi – took office last October to extraordinarily high expectations. Jokowi was very different from the Indonesian presidents who came before him. He didn't come into office with a military background, or from the country's political aristocracy. He demonstrated his capacity for the presidency instead, by working doggedly as mayor and governor to solve local problems and respond to constituent concerns. He was a reformist who, on the campaign trail, promised to further empower the country's powerful anti-corruption bureau, and who made clear his commitment to protecting Indonesians right to elections.
When Jokowi won office by narrowly beating a right-wing general with strong ties to the country's recent dictatorship, it seemed that Indonesia's young democracy was finally beginning to produce competent, non-corrupt leaders. Jokowi promised to enact a "Mental Revolution," in which ordinary Indonesians would lose their tolerance for graft, and start demanding more from themselves and from their politicians. He immediately issued bold promises of reform, the boldest of which was that his cabinet would be filled entirely by technocrats, instead of the mediocre and often corrupt political appointees who usually run the country's powerful ministries.
That promise in particular was always going to be a difficult one to keep: The political coalition that backed Jokowi would inevitably demand control of key cabinet posts. Jokowi – a relative political outsider running without a political party of his own – needed to shore up his coalition's support. Understanding this, political observers generally reacted sympathetically when, in October, Jokowi announced his cabinet selections, which included many more political appointees than Jokowi had first suggested.
The reaction was very different a few months later, when Jokowi's January nomination of Budi Gunawan for chief of National Police set off a political firestorm. Gunawan is a client of Megawati, who is the leader of the PDI-P, Jokowi's political party. And Gunawan has a checkered past: He is a former police general who became mysteriously wealthy despite receiving relatively humble pay as a police commissioner throughout his career.
The KPK – the nation's preeminent anti-corruption bureau that has successfully investigated dozens of high-level Indonesia officials for graft – immediately pounced, placing Gunawan under investigation. Instead of withdrawing the nomination of Gunawan and selecting a candidate not suspected of corruption, Jokowi insisted for weeks on staying the course, declaring that he would wait for the investigation to finish before nominating another chief of Police. The president held to this tack despite the huge public outcry – in demonstrations, newspaper editorials, and social media – against the appointment by citizens who thought the nominee for chief of National Police should be above suspicion.
Jokowi defied popular will because he was under intense pressure – private and public – from his coalition's leadership to continue supporting Gunawan, even as he faced a strong public backlash for continuing with the nomination. According to Tobias Basuki a researcher on Indonesian politics at CSIS, a prominent Jakarta think tank, the KPK's independence helped persuade the elites in Jokowi's coalition to pressure the president not to abandon the idea of Gunawan – a reliable establishment client – as chief of National Police. "Because the KPK is outside of the control of the Cartel [informal cross-party network of establishment politicians] it's very important to have a Chief of Police on their side."
The situation got messier when the National Police retaliated against the KPK by reviving long-dead cases against KPK leaders, in what was viewed clearly by the public as an attempt to intimidate leaders of the anti-graft agency and prevent them from pursuing charges against police officials suspected of corruption. The National Police later broadened their attack to include the KPK rank-and-file, accusing 21 members of the KPK of owning illegal firearms. Jokowi, instead of defending the KPK from trumped-up charges, released waffling, vague statements like this one: "As head of state I also asked the national police and KPK not to let friction occur when performing their duties." But the friction was occurring nonetheless and the hashtags #WhereAreYouJokowi and #SavetheKPK spent days dominating Twitter, all without the president coming to the defense of his anti-corruption organization, whose chief commissioner and deputy chief commissioner were ultimately suspended while they focused on their legal defenses. According to Basuki, this refusal to publicly support the embattled KPK, "is consistent with the political predicament Jokowi is in. If he strongly supports the KPK that's actually an outright defiance of [party chairwoman] Megawati."
Thus a situation that began with one bad appointment has concluded with the destabilization of the country's vaunted anti-corruption organization. According to Sandra Hamid, The Asia Foundation's Country Representative in Indonesia, "His [Jokowi's] decisions have not been seen as helpful in supporting KPK. So it's not that I'm worried the KPK will be weakened under Jokowi's watch; the KPK has already been weakened under Jokowi's watch."
The drama only began to unwind in the middle of February, when Jokowi finally withdrew the nomination of Budi Gunawan and nominated a new candidate instead, albeit one whose bank account has also raised suspicions. Jokowi's credibility as a reformer is greatly damaged, and even some of his earliest supporters – like the editors of The Jakarta Post – are running hard-hitting articles that highlight Jokowi's lack of boldness. Hamid told me about a friend of hers who left her job as a consultant to volunteer for Jokowi's campaign. Now her friend was losing hope and told Hamid, "I quit work for four months to volunteer for Jokowi, and now I question, 'Does he have what it takes to be president?'"
Perhaps most surprising, given the sordidness of these scandals, is that commentators maintain some level of optimism about Jokowi. "He can salvage things. It's not too late by any means," said Kevin O'Rourke, a political analyst and author of Reformasi, a newsletter. One reason is that, throughout this drama, the leaders of Indonesia's political parties have demonstrated such an extraordinarily high level of nepotism that Jokowi's lack of forcefulness appears only a minor crime by comparison. As a recent editorial in the Jakarta Globe put it, "The weakening of the KPK is a result of various factors, including Joko's indecisiveness, but in stark contrast, all of the agency's enemies, especially politicians in the House of Representatives, have been united." At least with Jokowi, Basuki told me, "I'm still optimistic that his heart is in the right place."
There is a strong desire for Jokowi to cut his ties with his party's elite and act as decisively as he did as mayor. "He's being inept at the moment. But one thing that's been clear throughout his career is he's a fast learner and he's able to recognize his mistakes and change his approach," said O'Rourke, citing changes to his party platform he made when running for governor of Jakarta. And according to O'Rourke, it isn't too late to reclaim the public's support. "He would be able to revive and restore public support – he'd have to use the press more and be frank about the political problems he's facing. If he were to do that it would help – a cabinet reshuffle is a first step, promote institutional changes, a press strategy that involves real candid discussions with the public – that's the way to outmaneuver the vested interests."
Many questions remain, including whether Jokowi can maintain the public trust while he learns to wield power effectively in Jakarta. But despite the obstacles, some political watchers have a hard time imagining Jokowi being down for too long. "At this point," Basuki said, "I'm still optimistic about Jokowi."
Jon Emont is a Fulbright Researcher based in Yogyakarta. His writing from Indonesia and the Middle East has previously been published in Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Slate, and many other publications.
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Earlier this month, locals around Putnam Triangle Plaza were treated to a wonderful outdoor performance from Patsy Grant and her jazz band. It was a perfect mild early-summer evening, with many people casually ambling about. The band began with an instrumental set sans-Patty, and then she joined them for a set of jazz tunes, as well as pop favorites like "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" and "Moondance". By mid performance, people were rising from their chairs and shaking a leg on the makeshift dance floor alongside Fulton Street. Revelers ranged in age from the very young to venerable seniors, but the spark of youth was in the hearts of all. With our Grand Avenue office around the corner, we wanted to represent Realty Collective and do our part to add to the merriment by means of snacks and conversation.
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Q: Multiple users and concurrent transactions I have a client who wants us to build a custom auto-number function that applies only to a certain type of campaign record.  They want to append the number to a text field for that specific campaign type, but because they will have many campaigns for other purposes, they don't want a very long number that would result from using the standard auto-number.
I'm thinking to store the counter as a Custom Setting (not custom metadata) and use Apex to append to the campaign and increment the counter as needed.
However, I'm concerned about concurrent inserts from multiple users.  What happens if User A inserts 400 campaigns with data loader (Batch API), while User B manually creates a campaign at the same time?  Does B's transaction begin while A is still running?  And if so, can A's transaction finish before B?
The obvious problems here would be 1) A & B would start from the same counter value, and 2) B would update an incorrect value into the custom setting if it finished after A.
I've searched around but can find any info on multiple user concurrency.  Does anyone know how it works, or can you point me to documentation?

A: IMHO use of a custom settings is a bad idea; these are intended (like custom metadata type records) to be quite static. Continually updating the value is detrimental to performance.
SOQL includes FOR UPDATE for normal SObject records to ensure locking is applied; this stalls all transactions don't have the lock until the lock is released (which happens when the locking transaction completes). However, all transactions that are blocked for 10 seconds or more receive a QueryException. Remember too that Salesforce only allows a small number of long-running transactions. This implies that it would be a bad thing to try to do this synchronously, on insert of your campaign records, since you can get the situation where one or more concurrent creation is effectively forced to abort due to exceeding limits.
If you can have this auto-number allocated soon after the record is created (rather than immediate) you could effectively have a single, scheduled/background job that deals with providing these values. There are lots of different ways to implement such an arrangement, though you need to consider the burden on async executions and just how long a delay you can have before populating the value.
An alternative is to take the approach suggested by @identigral in the comment against your question: use a regular auto-number and a formula that derives a value from the auto-number; perhaps from the creation date/time and the last 5 digits of the auto-number, for example.

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The smart security camera market has come a long way in a few years, and there are many solid offerings available now in the same general price range. Features still tend to vary, with different levels of smarts, design choices, and service features. This lends different devices to different use cases, and there are some distinct variations which should be considered when selecting a camera option for your home.
Given the changing landscape my consideration of a camera for monitoring our outdoor entertaining area led me to thinking about these additional considerations, and subsequently to taking another look at the baby of the Canary family, the Flex outdoor security camera.
To start, it's worth looking at a few high level criteria; Are you conscious of device security? How privacy focused are you? Are you willing to pay for a subscription service? Indoor or Outdoor? With these answred you can quickly whittle down the field. Assuming the answer to the first question is a resounding Yes, then Canary or Ring are clear standouts. NetGear's Arlo range is also reasonable, but there are lingering worries about the apparent use of WPS in the initial camera setup (the very fact WPS is active on the hub is a security hole).
The other questions lead me down the Canary Flex path, but before we get into the reasons why, let's review the device hardware itself.
The design of the flex is vary compact, and Canary opted for an upright orientation versus a more conventional barrel camera shape. The uniform 'giant pill' form of the Flex is actually part of the design, as it's symmetry allows for a huge range of mounting and positioning options.
The front and back have a flattened surface, which provides for mounting the various external features. The front face holds the camera (obviously), a motion sensor, speaker and microphone (which allows for two-way talk). The rear has the pairing button and a weather proof magnetic power connector. This connector is very similar to the old MacBook MagSafe power sockets, and the provided cable snaps into place satisfyingly firmly. You can use this to optionally have the camera mains powered, but the real benefit of the canary (and common to these other smart camera offerings) is it's battery powered flexibility. With WiFi and battery, the Flex can be placed pretty much anywhere in range of your Wifi network, which makes installation where you most need it a breeze.
In terms of installation, there are a number of mounting options. The Flex comes with a magnetic base, and that sucker stays put. The surprisingly strong magnets hold the case of the camera onto the base at literally any angle you wish to set it at. The non-gloss surface ensures it doesn't slip around, and there's no chance of it falling off in even the strongest winds. The base can be wall mounted with a single screw (provided), which is very convenient.
Canary offers a few alternative mounting options. If you're worried about the camera itself being stolen you can opt for the secure mount base, which additionally screws into the base of the camera unit. For more unconventional mounting options, you could also consider the flex mount (which uses a flexible rod attached to a silicon wrap-around case), or the stake mount (which allows for convert garden placement).
The camera itself is a 1080HD night vision unit, with 118 degree field of view, and is coupled with an ambient light sensor and a PIR (Passive Infra-Red motion sensor). The field of view is good for a variety of installation cases, although not as wide as some of the competition. Being slightly over 90 degrees makes it perfect for providing good coverage in corner installations, which is typically where I'd look to place a camera. The quality looks comparable to other cameras in this class, but will obviously vary with your signal strength and connection quality at the time of recording.
Running the Flex on just battery power has yielded reasonable results. The camera shuts down to preserver battery life when not in use, but activates (presumably by using the PIR) when required. I have a test unit installed in line of sight of my router, so it has excellent signal strength. SO far it's used about 19% of the battery in 20 days. Based on that rate of drain, it should be good for about 3 months, that's notably lower than something like a Ring Stick Up Cam, which in my experience will give you closer to 6 with the same amount of activity. Obviously you're mileage will vary based on how active the camera is, and how good your WiFi signal at that location.
Using the magnetic base, charging simply involves pulling the camera off the base, and attaching the charge cable. Once charged, snap it back onto the base. The only downside to this approach is getting the camera back in the exact same position again. You can get it close by eye balling it, but to fine tune it you'll need to use the Live View feature each time.
The app is one of the more modern looking designs of the smart camera vendors. Each cameras is on a sliding full screen page which shows a blurred background view from the camera itself. The available data point and actions for the camera are front and center on the screen, with mode and presence icons at the bottom. Sliding up from any of the camera pages will provide the timeline view, which shows all events in the home, whether motion events, presence events, or device events (offline/online, firmware updates and so forth).
All canary devices offer both saved video recordings and a Live view feature. This is pretty standard stuff, but Canary did have streaming issues with some customers a year or two back. Having experienced these issues first hand, it would almost be a deal-breaker as Live view was basically unusable. Canary has since switched to AWS for their service hosting, and things have improved greatly. There's no notable difference in playback delay or live stream start times from other comparable products.
Each motion event has a large thumbnail, and motion events can be filtered by Away events, or saved favorite events. Videos can be flagged to be kept (with limits), shared, or downloaded. The thumbnails are also augmented with a simply yellow rectangle around whatever triggered the event. This simple addition is tremendously useful, as it negates the need to look at the video to see if you need to know what's going on. This is great for vetting false positives, but there are a couple of features that Canary provides to all their camera products that are a real boon to controlling these.
The first is the automatic arming feature. This has always existed in the Canary App, and is a key reason for choosing Canary for those of us with privacy concerns. The app uses geo-fencing to identify household members (which can be added to the home by the 'owner'). Each household member needs their own Canary account, and to have the app installed. Once they are securely added to the home, the add will detect their arrival and departure very reliably and trigger the appropriate action.
The actions are configurable depending on your privacy sensitivity. There are three modes; Away, Home and Night. Away mode records motion events and send notifications to the household members automatically. Home mode gets more interesting as you can elect to have video recording enabled or disabled, and specify whether the Watch Live feature is available. Night mode is similar but adds the ability to receive notifications as well.
Night Mode is optional and activated on a schedule. The ability be alerted if there is motion in the house even when everyone is home can provide some peace of mind. You might not want this where house members come out during the night (snacks or toilets for example), but as it's configurable per camera, you can have it on the outside camera, or the front door, or something similar where intruders could be detected early.
This ability to auto arm and disarm combined with the ability to have the camera physically turned off when people are at home is a big deal for privacy conscious users. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, Canary is the only smart camera maker that's offers this level of control. Other products have various means to control notifications and triggering events (Lighthouse, for example allows for true facial recognition to drive notification behaviors), but none appear to provide the ability to 'disarm' the device and stop recording completely. For an indoor camera this is invaluable, even in outdoor deployments where you are watching an entertaining or kids play area this is should be a major consideration when choosing a camera solution.
Over the top of these privacy controls are the motion sensitivity settings. Most smart cameras will have some method of controlling sensitivity, and Canary offers a simple slider which determines the magnitude of the motion required to trigger recording. More importantly though, Canary has recently added Person Detection to all their devices. While this is not facial recognition, what it does do is provide addition sensitivity control by allowing you to only be notified if the camera identifies the motion source as a person. Unless you want to be recording general activity around the house, this is a great addition for focusing the alerts on just the things you want to be alerted to (ie: intruders).
The Canary app also provides fine grained control over specific notifications, and you can determine on a per camera basis if you want notifications for connection status changes, power source and charging, and presence events (who is coming and going in the household). These are useful for reducing notification spam, although it should be noted that it's not a per user thing. The settings for each camera apply to all household members. This is a bit of a shame, as some members (kids for example) may not need to know about power status and presence changes.
As with all cloud-based camera products, there is a free option and a paid subscription model. It's easy to balk at the subscription, but it's reasonable to expect to pay for continuous cloud storage services. Canary does push this harder than some other vendors, but the service is likely sustainable only if there is enough paid uptake. However, Canary offers a functional free plan which is quite reasonable.
For no cost, you get 24 hours of notification timeline, including video recording. The clips are limited to 10 seconds under this model, but that's actually enough to see what's happening at home if you get a motion alert. You can still save a handful of clips for later reference, and get all the other benefits of the device (up to 4 cameras) except 2-way talk. For many people, this is actually fine for a security solution if you're not really interested in recording videos for keeps.
For US$99 a year, you get unlimited saved videos, 30 days of timeline history with full length videos, desktop streaming access, and 2-way talk. Additionally, the warranty on subscribed devices is extended to 2 years.
The Flex itself is competitively priced against competitors like the Netgear Arlo Pro 2 and the Ring Stick-Up Cam. It's available in limited countries from Canary directly, or more widely through Amazon and select regional distributors in various combo pack options, and two colors.
Canary has always stated that security is a top priority. There specifications suggest all the right things, with AES 256 encryption (handled by dedicated hardware encryption) and secure communication with the clients and the cloud service via TLS.
App and Firmware updates occur regularly, which is good news as issues can be patched over the air without user intervention. Further, Canary was the first IoT device maker to be granted ICSA Labs IoT Security Certification. While the assessment was conducted on the All-In-One, the assessment covers the cloud service and the app, which are fully applicable to the Flex as well.
The Flex may not be new, but in terms of features and functionality still holds it's own. If you're privacy conscious, Canary still offers an above-average service which gives far more control over what gets recorded, and takes care of those behaviors automatically based on your preferences.
The inclusion of person detection, while not full facial recognition, still adds a level of notification control that some competitors lack. The flexibility of placement, both due to it's weather proof battery powered operation and it's well designed magnetic mount, also give a level of versatility and ease of installation that is at the top of the heap. The lack of a solar power option is a downside given this feature is now available on both Ring and Netgear devices. Nonetheless, the ease of removal for charging, and the decent battery life make this a minor issue.
While some newer devices feature smarter recognition features, the Canary Flex still offers competitive smarts, and bests the pack for privacy controls and security. At a competitive price point, a very usable free service tier, and with flexibility of a completely wireless operating mode, it's definitely worth a look.


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The Guardian view on Jeremy Corbyn's conference speech: he won a hearing, not the argument
The Labour leader's address achieved its main purposes, but tougher tests lie ahead
Tue 29 Sep 2015 14.31 EDT Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 05.11 EST
'The twin purposes of Mr Corbyn's speech were to strike a new tone and to win the right to be listened to by his party. The speech achieved both these things.' Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
In a few short weeks Jeremy Corbyn has emerged out of the rolling foothills of British politics into the unfamiliar thinner air of the summit ridge. The summit itself still remains far off. All the same, it has been the most unexpected rise in British politics of the democratic era, and many in his party, including passionate supporters and detractors alike, are still amazed and breathless at the ascent he has already made and the prospect that is now spread out before them. That mood has been ever present across the party throughout Labour's fascinating conference week in Brighton. It was palpable when Mr Corbyn made his first speech as leader to his party today.
The Labour party – left, right and centre – must unite behind Jeremy Corbyn | Letters
With his overwhelming support from party members, Mr Corbyn has earned the right to do things differently and in his own way. Today he did both. His speech trashed almost the entire playbook of modern media-savvy political orthodoxy, with no conventional clap lines, few soundbites, and in all likelihood not a single focus-group-tested theme. It jumped from issue to issue, sometimes returning to a subject more than once, as in the case of housing, sometimes ignoring a subject altogether – irresponsibly so where Labour's utterly unacknowledged general election defeat less than five months ago is concerned. With the important exception of the renationalised railways, substantive commitments were few and far between. There was little or no policy detail to flesh out the broad themes. Yet all the same, the speech did the job it was principally intended to do.
The twin purposes of Mr Corbyn's speech were to strike a new tone and to win the right to be listened to by his party. The speech achieved both these things. That's no small achievement. In spite of its idiosyncrasies, it was a consistent piece of work. It was an attempt to say to the party – and to some extent to the country – that Mr Corbyn is a sensible and reasonable man, with strong traditional Labour values, who has serious things to say. True, the speech's apparent lack of artifice was itself a form of artifice, and its claims to embody a new unspun authenticity were corroded by a controversy about parts of the text that were written some years ago. But it was nevertheless a conscious attempt to articulate a more inclusive and reasoned approach to political speech-making and public debate. The Labour leader clearly believes this is the right way to do things. This newspaper strongly agrees with that. With a fair wind, this approach may influence the whole of British politics for the better. Yet Mr Corbyn also has little alternative if he is to manage the formidable disagreements that he will face in his party for a long time to come.
Mr Corbyn did not come into politics or become Labour leader merely to raise the tone of British public life, however. He did these things because he has a leftwing agenda – on issues stretching from economic policy and union rights to the use of military force and Britain's place in the world – that caught the mood of many Labour supporters this summer. This speech had plenty of strong words on some of these issues. There was a powerful call at the start for Britain to intervene on behalf of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, a young Saudi pro-democracy protester sentenced to death by beheading and crucifixion. And towards the end of a sometimes rambling speech there was the attempt to reanimate one of Labour's big themes this week, that other ways of doing politics exist and are achievable, culminating in the words "you don't have to take what you are given", which brought the hall to its feet.
Highlights of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's keynote speech to delegates at the party conference in Brighton on Tuesday.
Yet there were few details of the alternatives, and this was not a speech aimed beyond the Labour tent. That's fair enough at one level, because there are four and a half years until the next general election, and Mr Corbyn has four more conference speeches in which to get sorted and specific. Yet issues like Syria are coming to a head in days, not years. A vote on the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system is only months away at most. And Labour has hardly asked itself this week why the public so lacked confidence in its economic policies in May. Mr Corbyn faces internal opposition to his own views on these and other questions. They cannot all be finessed as some have been this week, least of all under a leader who wants to put honesty and authenticity back into politics. Mr Corbyn and his party have coped well with the demands of the kind of Labour conference that few of them ever expected. But tougher and more uncompromising tests are just around the corner.
Jeremy Corbyn tells Labour: don't accept injustice, stand up to prejudice
Labour leader urges party to 'build a more caring society', restates his opposition to Trident and vows to put free schools and academies under local control
Labour MPs should have a free vote on Syria, says John McDonnell
Shadow chancellor describes Ed Miliband as a 'well-intentioned socialist' and praises Jeremy Corbyn as someone with the character to bring Labour together
Jeremy Corbyn defiant on Trident and urges opposition to austerity
Labour leader addresses party conference for first time and urges voters not to 'take what they are given' in hour-long speech
Jeremy Corbyn's speech included passages rejected by previous leaders
Passages in conference address taken from speech written by Richard Heller – who sent them in to Labour HQ himself and is happy they were used
Northern English Labour MPs criticise Corbyn for 'London-focused' speech
Corbyn's conference speech helps Labour forget horror of election defeat
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What's in a guitar pick? Well, apparently a lot. I have been thinking about how I found the guitar pick that I have been using for the last 15 years – the amazing Dunlop H3 Tortex. I have been using and experimenting with different picks for a long time and when I found the Dunlop Jazz III I thought I had it. But, as it turned turned out the smoother side of the Tortex pick worked out even better for me.
When choosing a pick pay attention to how it effects your sound. Do you get a lot of swoosh, flap or noise when you play? It could very well (and, probably is) be your guitar pick.
Most metal players use a pick that is at least medium in heaviness. If the guitar pick gives too much because it is too thin – you get a significant amount of noise in your playing.
I like the H3 which is a small pick and it took me a while to develop the exact technique that I can use it effectively in playing rhythm and lead. Many guitarists find that they find a pick that works good for leads, but not so much for rhythm. There is a little give and take. With some work, I found out my H3 to be great for both. There were times in the studio when I had a different pick for different sounds that I wanted to get out of the guitar, but I later scrapped that idea in favor of using one pick and learning how to get the most out of it.
Ultimately, you'll have to find a pick that you can use equally well for both rhythm and lead. Of course, this is essential when playing live as there is no time to switch picks between lead licks and riffs.
As you know, picks are made from different materials and they all affect your guitar sound. Some players might prefer a nylon pick, while you might find Tortex to work best for your tone. This is important to keep in mind.
Usually a pick with some sort of an edge at the tip is better for leads. Smaller picks are tougher to use when you play heavy rhythms as you have less plastic to hit the string with and your hand can get tired sooner. (This is also a technique you need to master.) You adjust and see what you can improve. Light Fender type rounded picks are better for acoustic playing and when I see a student use them while wanting to play metal we quickly make the adjustment to something slightly heavier in order to gain better tone, clarity and precision.


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The small town of Bua has a grocery store, a bank, a doctor's surgery, and a restaurant. By the harbour, you will find a lovely sandy beach . The town of Varberg, 25 kilometres away, is an excellent place to visit. Varberg is a very popular summer resort with plenty of restaurants, bars, and shops. The town has a fortress, Varbergs fästning, that dates back to the 13th century. There are guided tours for those who are interested. If you enjoy birdwatching, you mustn't miss the island of Getterön which is close to Varberg. Getterön also has a lovely beach, exhibits, a shop, and a café.
There is a golf course about 17 kilometres away, Sjögärde GK. Another great destination is the beautiful beech forest in Åkulla. Falkenberg is another nearby town. Falkenberg offers plenty of beautiful walking paths and excellent fishing opportunities. There are also tennis- and riding possibilities.


Northumberland County Council serves a rural County in the far north of England, rich in heritage and environmental assets. The Council delivers services encompassing schools, social services for adults and children, waste and highways management plus regulatory activities such as planning and consumer protection. We have 67 elected councillors and over 12,000 staff serving a population of 312,000 at a density of 62 people per km2 .
Over half of the population lives in 3% of the land to the south bordering Newcastle and many people travel there to work. For the remainder of the county job prospects are more limited and economic development has focused on the market towns where most services are delivered. Our economic aims at present are to develop low carbon economic growth which is sustainable in the long term and includes more employment in key sectors such as tourism, advanced manufacturing, renewable energy and pharmaceuticals.
We also need to tackle unemployment in rural and former coalfield areas, improve access to training and skills services, especially for our graduates who are not returning after higher education. Finally we are focussed upon developing a more enterprising culture amongst our population.


PARK CITY, UT — (January 20,2008) – The Creative Coalition salutes the extraordinary mentors who have played a key role in the success of independent film projects.
Over two days of sessions at the Film Festival in Park City, The Creative Coalition will highlight both executive and artistic mentoring and the vital importance each play in creating a healthy and vibrant independent film industry.
On Sunday, January 20,2008 at 10:30am at the Wall Street Journal Café, The Creative Coalition presents, The Suits that Make it Happen, discussion and brunch. This discussion celebrates the extraordinary contribution of industry business and finance executives who have mentored independent filmmakers and nurtured their projects.
This years panelists for The Suits that Make it Happen include President of Screen Media Films Robert Baruc, Vice President of Goldman Sachs Jesse Jacobs, Partner of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols and Adler, Inc. Michael Adler, Senior VP/Publishing of the Hollywood Reporter Erik Mika, Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classic Tom Bernard, and Senior Executive VP of Picturehouse Vicki Cherkas.
On Monday January 21, 2008 from 12pm – 2pm at the Hollywood Life House, The Creative Coalition will award the annual Moviemaker Mentor Distinguished Service Awards. Moviemaker Mentors are already established filmmakers who have been able to teach and inspire undiscovered artists to focus their talents towards the making of independent films.
This year's Distinguished Mentor awardees and panelists include Method Man, Dennis Hopper, Colin Firth, Morgan Spurlock, Boaz Yakin, Lukas Haas, Livia Firth, Marc Evans and William Francome."The Creative Coalition is always looking to support independent filmmakers in their mission to create meaningful art. The Suits that make it Happen and the Moviemaker Mentor Award are our way of thanking those individuals who give back to their community by fostering emerging talent," said Robin Bronk, Executive Director of The Creative Coalition. As an established leader in promoting the ongoing efforts of the entertainment industry, The Creative Coalition looks to encourage new filmmakers by providing them with experienced mentors to support their undiscovered talents. Past recipients of Distinguished Mentor Awards who have participated in the program include actor/directors Tony Goldwyn,Chazz Palminteri, Bob Balaban and Fisher Stevens; directors Carlos Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro and actors Kerry Washington, Joe Pantoliano, Marlee Matlin, Harry Shearer, Lili Taylor and Ione Skye.
To RSVP to this event, please contact Barbara Horvath at bhorvath@thecreativecoalition.org or 212-512-5487.


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Charuvi Design Labs (CDL) is an animation studio and design lab based in New Delhi, India. CDL was founded in 2009 by artist Charuvi Agrawal.

CDL designs, animates, directs, and produces digital art works, including pre-visualization and conceptual artwork, 3D and 2D animation, digital media, Television Commercial, application and game designs, interactive physical media installations, augmented reality, and IP creation.

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CDL produced the 3D animated short film Shri Hanuman Chalisa in 2013. and made a  sculpture of Hanuman, made of 26,500 bells and installed in a mall in Delhi's Select CityWalk. In front of the installation were kept a pair of Khadau (traditional Indian footwear), touching which would make all the 26,500 bells ring simultaneously. CDL also known for its artwork Kaavad (16-feet story book), Figurines of Lord Hanuman and Asuras.

Charuvi Design Labs also contributed 20 minutes of visual effects for the live action feature film Jaanisaar in 2015, a film directed by Muzaffar Ali.

Charuvi Design Labs worked with Turner (Cartoon Network), International Committee of Red Cross, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), National Film Board of Canada, DDB Mudra, Godrej, Select Citywalk, Liberty, Nestle, Riva Digital, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Asian Paints and private museums.

The Legend of Hanuman - Animated Web Series

An Animated Series "The Legend of Hanuman" produced by Graphic India and created by Sharad Devarajan, Charuvi Agrawal and Jeevan J. Kang. The series is a combined effort of artists from Graphic India, Charuvi Agrawal (CDL) and Redefine. The series is scheduled to premiere on Disney+ Hotstar globally on January 29, 2021 in seven Indian languages. The animated web series will feature Lord Hanuman's extraordinary journey of self-discovery. It is Narrated by Sharad Kelkar.

The trailer of this animated web series is out on Disney Hotstar in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Language.

The series follows Hanuman and his transformation from a mighty warrior to a god and how Hanuman became the beacon of hope amidst the harrowing darkness.

All 13 episodes of the show are available in 7 languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam, and Kannada; and were exclusively released on Disney+ Hotstar VIP. At the time, the show was the most watched animated show on any OTT platform. Source Cartoon Brew.

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In the last post, I focused on a passage from Rav Shagar entitled "Not Yet," wherein Rav Shagar said that Religious Zionism has to shift its focus from the state to the community. While not rejecting statist Zionism in toto, Shagar withdraws all Religious value from the state and relocates it within the classical body politic of the Jewish Diaspora, the community.
The Jews are always at home, because they are never in a home; their home is their blood. As Rosenzweig lays it out, the critical distinction between the Jewish people and other peoples is that the Jewish people don't have a state, or all the laws, customs, and institutions that come with it. Rav Shagar argues that the Religious Zionist community should adopt this sort of posture within the state of Israel. The state should be a geo-political space in which they live but with which they do not identify.
This is the same sort of existence Rav Shagar attributes to Haredism (if not to contemporary Haredi communities, which fail to live up to his idealized "authentic" or "rectified" Haredism). They live in the state but do not attribute religious value to it. Their religious lives are entirely separate from the state, and they follow its laws, speak its language, and participate in its institutions only incidentally. (Notably, Rav Shagar also attributes to them an understanding of holiness as bound up in the past, which he finds philosophically formulated in [Stephane Moses's] Walter Benjamin).
Similarly, Religious Zionism needs to reorient itself around the community as the locus of religious life, following the laws of the Torah community, bound up in "the infinite Torah" (seemingly the primordial Torah of the Kabbalah). They need to become, and embrace being, a minority within the state of Israel, defined more by their Jewishness than by their Israeliness. To the degree that they do identify with the state of Israel, this will be in contrast with and perhaps even in contradiction to their religious identities. As Rav Shagar says, being a Religious Zionist means living in multiple worlds, having a split, "schizophrenic" identity, and affirming contradictory values.


A group of four three-storey brick warehouses in extremely original and intact condition. Designed by G. De Lacy Evans and built by Daniel Sinclair for Mrs. M. Marks in 1887. The high Dutch gabled facade incorporates American barrel hoists which are still in operation.


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Danone ups guidance for 2011 but warns of commodity price hike
By Guy Montague-Jones
15-Feb-2011 - Last updated on 16-Feb-2011 at 12:00 GMT
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Danone has upped its sales revenue guidance for 2011, encouraged by a positive pricing performance in the last quarter. But the French dairy giant warned of a 6-9 per cent hike in raw material costs.
For the final quarter of 2010, Danone said like-for-like sales were up 6.9 per cent to €4,299m. Strong pricing drove the increase as volume growth came in slightly below analyst expectations.
Encouraged by the pricing performance and buoyed by the acquisition of Unimilk, which grew 27.1 per cent in December, Danone increased its guidance for 2011.
Higher than expected guidance
Instead of the previous medium term target of at least 5 per cent growth, the company is predicting 6 to 8 per cent growth for the coming year.
Commenting on the guidance, Bernstein analyst Andrew Wood said: "We are surprised by management's confidence so early in the year, but the level of pricing plus including Unimilk certainly helps."
Wood added that there is still some uncertainty about the market strength of the dairy division. "The jury is still out on the Fresh Dairy boom-bust because volumes did come in below expectations, but pricing was much stronger than we expected driving like-for-like growth higher."
Commodity price warning
And looking forward to 2011, there is the added concern of higher commodity costs and their impact on profits.
In its earnings release, Danone said: "In view of developments since the beginning of 2011, the group expects total raw material and packaging costs to increase by 6 to 9 per cent on average over the year." A steeper increase compared to 2010 figures is expected in the first half of the year.
Despite the anticipated commodity spike, management is targeting a 0.2 percentage point increase in like-for-like operating margin. The bulk of this improvement is expected to be fueled by Unimilk and synergies from its integration that are expected to take shape on the income sheet in the second half of the year.
The joint venture uniting Danone and Unimilk in December last year makes Russia the largest single national market for Danone with France,
Commenting on the strategy for the coming year, Danone chairman Franck Riboud said: "We anticipate no major change in consumer demand and in this context, also marked by persistently steep increases in raw material prices, we are placing the emphasis on lasting development of our brands."
Related topics: Commodities, Danone, Pricing Pressures
Danone leads yoghurt packaging towards bioplastics
Dannon on FTC settlement: "Our claims remain intact"
Russian dairy market takes on multinational flavour
Danone: EFSA Actimel diarrhoea claim rejection is "incomprehensible"


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Dip at Holy Prayagraj Sangam, 'Charan Vandana' of sanitation workers – Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins hearts
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, became the first PM of India to take a dip in holy waters of Prayagraj Sangam during Maha Kumbh. After the dip he performed "Charan Vandana" of a few select sanitation workers as a mark of respect to their efforts in ensuring a clean Kumbh.
Narendra Modi presenting Swachh Kumbh Swachh Aabhar Awards at Prayagraj
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, became the first PM of India to take a dip in holy waters of Prayagraj Sangam during Maha Kumbh. After the dip he performed "Charan Vandana" of a few select sanitation workers as a mark of respect to their efforts in ensuring a clean Kumbh.
This was a bold and heart-warming statement from Modi to reaffirm his commitment towards Swachh Bharat mission.
Narendra Modi taking a dip in the Holy Sangam at Prayagraj
Modi later addressing the Swachh Kumbh, Swachh Aabhaar event in Prayagraj said that all those, who have been involved in ensuring the best of arrangements for the devotees gathering at Prayagraj for the Kumbh, as "Karm-Yogis". In this context, he mentioned the NDRF, the boatmen, the local population and the sanitation workers as well.
Mentioning that over 21 crore people have visited the Kumbh over the last few weeks, he said the sanitation workers have shown that nothing is impossible.
He said that they are most deserving, for all the appreciation that the Kumbh has got this year. He said the moments when he offered Charan Vandana to some sanitation workers, would always remain etched in his memory.
Narendra Modi performing 'Charan Vandana' of sanitation workers
The Prime Minister said that the Swachh Seva Samman Kosh, announced today would help the sanitation workers and their families, in times of need.
Modi said that Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is progressing rapidly and the country is moving towards becoming Open Defecation Free before the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, on October 2nd this year.
Shri Narendra Modi said that the cleanliness of the River Ganga has also been the subject of much discussion this year and he has witnessed it first-hand today. He expressed that this is also a result of the efforts of Namaami Gange, and the Union Government. He said drains falling into the river are being blocked, and sewage treatment plants being built.
The PM said that a few days ago, he received the Seoul Peace Prize, which included an amount of about Rs. 1.30crore which he has donated towards the Namaami Gange Mission. He said the gifts and mementoes he has received as Prime Minister have also been auctioned, and their proceeds have gone towards Namaami Gange.
The Prime Minister had a special word of appreciation for the boatmen (Naviks) involved in Kumbh as well. He also noted that for the first time since independence, pilgrims arriving for Kumbh had a chance to visit the Akshay Vat.
The Prime Minister thanked everyone present in the gathering for fulfilling his vision of a Kumbh that was a blend of spirituality, faith and modernity. He also appreciated the role played by the Uttar Pradesh Police in this regard.
The Prime Minister said that the arrangements made for Kumbh this year, have included development of vital infrastructure, which will continue to serve the city, even after the Kumbh Mela is over.
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Cleary Gottlieb Hosts Women's History Month Celebration With Reshma Saujani
On Thursday, March 14, Cleary Gottlieb hosted its Women's History Month Celebration: Decoding Bravery, with Reshma Saujani, founder & CEO of Girls Who Code.
Over 250 guests attended the event, held at Cleary's New York office, which included legal and professional staff, clients, law students, alumni, and minority bar organization members.
Reshma discussed her remarkable career and the insights she gained along the way, from her days as an attorney and activist, to her foray into the political scene in 2010 as the first Indian American woman to run for a seat in the U.S. Congress. During the race, she visited local schools and saw the gender gap in computing classes firsthand, which led her to start Girls Who Code—a national nonprofit organization leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities. She also served as Deputy Public Advocate for New York City and ran a spirited campaign for Public Advocate in 2013.
Reshma's TED talk, "Teach Girls, Bravery Not Perfection," has more than four million views and has sparked a national conversation about raising girls. She is the author of three books, including Brave, Not Perfect, the New York Times bestseller Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, and Women Who Don't Wait in Line, in which she advocates for a new model of female leadership focused on embracing risk and failure, promoting mentorship and sponsorship, and boldly charting your own course, personally and professionally.
Reshma has been named one of Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders, Fortune's 40 Under 40, a WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year, a Future Lion of New York by The New York Times, a Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education winner, one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York by the New York Daily News, CNBC's Next List, Forbes's Most Powerful Women Changing the World, Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People, Crain's New York's 40 Under 40, Ad Age's Creativity 50, Business Insider's 50 Women Who Are Changing the World, City & State's Rising Stars, and an AOL/PBS Next MAKER.
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