Successful Customer Experience Management (CEM) is data-led, and customer data analysis is its foundational activity.
Without a continuous analytics framework that informs the enterprise as to how customers both navigate and perceive your offering, the opportunity to design a great Customer Experience (CX) will not materialize. Furthermore, when relying solely on data sources that do not directly include the perception of the experience from the customer's point-of-view, there is a risk that design efforts will optimize something other than the customer experience.
Eliminate customer friction and redundancy through the design of more satisfying customer interactions.
Increase renewal, upsell, generate new leads through positive word-of-mouth by creating satisfying customer experiences.
The volume of data available at CX practitioners' disposal has increased dramatically. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data, customer behavioral / web analytics data, transactional data, Voice of the Customer (VoC) data, customer success applications, content marketing, digital marketing - the list of data sources is endless.
This growth has fueled both the opportunity and the complexity surrounding CEM. However, the key to world-class CX design is not just in the collection and storage of data; Solid data integration, interpretation, and application is the necessity and competitive advantage for any enterprise competing in customer experience.
A strong customer data analytics foundation that supports effective customer experience management requires some foundational principles on which to extract the right insights and actions.
Any system or entity that interacts with the customer can generate data, and often, each system purports to offer insights that can manage the customer experience. While this is true, it is important to not rely solely on secondary data, but instead on multiple data sources to confirm a hypothesis or an initiative for customer experience design.
Secondary data is data that is generated from a system for which its main purpose is not necessarily to collect customer data solely for insight.
For example, the main purpose of CRM systems is to manage the sales process, and the characteristics of the data that these systems collect are oriented towards that objective. The values inputted into the CRM system and the categories that are assigned are all, first and foremost, focused on optimizing the sales process, but not necessarily to optimize the customer experience itself.
The same is true for other systems. Content marketing tools, ad tools, customer success tools, support tools - the data that is valuable to CX design is secondary to these systems' primary purpose, and the interpretation of their data must always keep in mind these purposes. However, when the data set is extracted from a system for analysis, the source, and any bias within it, are sometimes forgotten, and the data may be treated as representative and unbiased as a result.
Assumption is the enemy of customer data analytics.
Relying solely on standalone sources of data for your CEM efforts, particularly secondary data that does not account for how the customer perceived their experience, may increase the risk of developing initiatives based only on how you think your customers view their experience. As a result, CX initiatives could drift from their desired effect.
An experience is something that is perceived by a customer during a moment of interaction. As such, when it comes to the analysis and management of the customer experience, the most important customer analytics data a CX practitioner can have is Voice of the Customer (VoC) data.
VoC is primary data – it is collected solely to determine the customers' perception of the experience (along with other customer-led values), as well as to measure and improve the customer experience. It is a moment to check in as the customer engages with the other components of the overall value you deliver through your products and processes.
The feedback collected, whether using customer surveys or direct feedback tools, is as close as it can be to the customer's perception of their experience (they are directly providing you with feedback about their experience). It is also close to the moment of the experience, since it is typically collected during or immediately following the experience.
Your customers' perception of their experience is a perceived state based on how the experience succeeded in meeting their needs. It is shaped by the intent of their interaction, as well as the expectations they have established through previous interactions with your company or others. The perception of the experience affects the next step in the customer journey, and whether that will be positive or negative for the business.
A customer's intent or sentiment can only be confirmed by the customer itself. As such, you cannot manage the Customer Experience without these insights.
In reference to the previous section, each system aims to optimize different desirable outcomes using their respective data sets. However, if these different systems' data sets are leveraged separately from one another, especially without taking customer feedback into account, there is a potential risk of creating a worse overall experience along the customer's journey, especially as they navigate different touchpoints.
Customer data analytics is, by necessity, an integration of multiple data sources. Integrating the primary data from your VoC efforts with the secondary data from your other data sources adds the crucial context needed to better understand your customers' behavior.
Without VoC integrated into your other data sources, there is a risk of building processes that will only optimize business outcomes, instead of optimizing the experience as perceived by the customer.
Imagine you have a web application built to provide your customers with a service as part of your overall offering. You could assume, without much argument from anyone, that frequency of login to your application is a good indicator of your users' engagement and, therefore, satisfaction with your platform. However, leveraging VoC and injecting the actual customer perception with other customer data systems, such as web analytics or session replay, may show that a significant segment demonstrates satisfaction, despite having low login rates.
Deeper analysis may uncover a very satisfied segment that does not log in frequently but is receiving detailed push reports that they rave about. These users could be urged to login to increase engagement scores by limiting the detail in their push reports, but that is unlikely to create increased satisfaction. In fact, CX design may proactively begin to offer push notifications to users who are regularly logging in to view the same thing.
Without integrated VoC data that provides the perception of the experience, the assumption about the positivity of "increased logins" would go unchallenged. Solutions to increase this KPI may start to deteriorate the customer's perception of the experience, while the enterprise celebrates their increased rates of engagement.
Overall, the solution for effective customer data analytics, as it relates to your CEM efforts, is to add an overall layer of customer experience to your data sets, driven by the one KPI all systems should be contributing to improve; the customer perception of the experience.
Modern customer data analytics is increasingly being driven by machine learning approaches that affect the individual experience in real-time. In many cases, these AI-anticipatory algorithms leverage data to train against examples of customer success, continuously optimizing the experience at an individual level.
What is often overlooked is the choices being made as to what is an example of success. Clicks, conversions, scrolls, even purchases optimize on business success, but not necessarily to the benefit of the customer experience. A purchase might not represent the fulfillment of the customer need if they, in fact, wanted multiple items to complete the solution they had in mind.
Success in CX is a well-perceived customer experience that is efficient and leads to the right next step in the customer journey.
That success encompasses all the clicks, calls, scrolls, conversions and purchases that led to that sentiment of satisfaction. These elements, which can often be considered successful outcomes on their own, are in fact attributes to be leveraged to model a successful experience. This is why the integration of VoC data is so fundamental to the appropriate execution of customer data analytics, including machine learning opportunities.
Don't assume what success looks like for your customer. Let the direct VoC data tell you.
Ask your customers, and then build an analysis that explains that success, or the machine learning models that train on that success. Demand that your system algorithms include the perception of the experience to ensure not only business success, but also success in the eyes of your customers.
Customer data analytics has become the key competency for successful CEM design, and when done effectively, it provides the intelligence that translates customer data into strategic direction, effective experience design, and the anticipatory execution that will both scale and individualize successful experiences.
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The more you publish the content, the more are the chances that people will try to steal it. Images are the important parts of your blog posts and you should prevent image hotlinking but allow Google for safety.
Have you noticed anyone using your images in their blog posts? Have you taken any step to prevent image theft?
Well, in this article, you will learn the concept of image hotlinking and how can you stop people to use your images.
Let me tell you that image hotlinking is a very advanced concept about which most of the WordPress users aren't aware.
How would you feel when someone uses your space to showcase their talent and you don't get any credit? Image hotlinking is similar to this.
When someone copies the image you have created for your blog post along with the URL of those images and uses on his/her own blog.
It means the person has hotlinked those images to your blog.
What do you understand by that? It means whenever someone visits to their blog, the images will get uploaded from your server.
It will consume the bandwidth of your web hosting.
Isn't that similar to the situation I have mentioned above? Hell yeah, people are really tricky and most of the WordPress users think it's just the image theft.
They don't even have an idea that it's also the theft of the money they pay for their web hosting. Those images will consume it which can affect your website to a greater extent.
I know it can be scary but don't worry, you can prevent image hotlinking but allow Google to index those images so that you can get the proper benefit of the search engine.
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There is a good new for you. You can stop people for image hotlinking by adding a code in the .htaccess file of your website.
For which, you should know how to edit the .htaccess file.
There are basically two ways. If you're a Yoast SEO plugin user then it can be done from the WordPress admin panel only.
Go to SEO>>Tools and you will "File Editor" option which can be used to edit the robots.txt and the .htaccess files.
Though not everyone is using this SEO plugin so you can do that by using your web hosting account.
Login to your cPanel account and go to files>>file manager>>.htaccess file.
NOTE: Don't forget to check the box to display the hidden files because the dot as the prefix for the .htaccess file signifies that it's a hidden file.
Can't find the .htaccess file? Create a new one.
Open this file to edit and add this code.
NOTE: Don't forget to change "example.com" with your domain name.
Save the file and you have successfully blocked people for image hotlinking.
If someone tries to steal your image along with the original source, the images wouldn't appear. Everyone will see 403 forbidden error.
It's because no one else has the permissions to use the images of your blog.
If you're not comfortable then you can use All in one security plugin by enabling a simple option. The plugin has a built-in feature to disable right-click for the content of your website including images.
With the growing blogging network, you have to take care of such things. People are looking for some vulnerabilities and this is the one.
Image hotlinking can make your website slow and you wouldn't even know about it. That's why it's recommended to keep enabling trackbacks and pings so that you can come to know when someone links to your blog.
To prevent image hotlinking but allow Google, you just have to use the above-mentioned code and you're done. If you have any doubt, feel free to clear it.
Ravi, I love this one. What a great idea. Do the people who do that get punished by Google for duplicate content at all?
Sometimes it can be hard to tell what is real or not with images. I sometimes take a lot of photos to use in blog posts to avoid that one.
Thanks for sharing this one with us today!
Google is smart but sometimes it doesn't come to know about the duplicate content until the author file a complaint. And stealing images is so common but image hotlinking is the worst.
It's always good to create your own images and add a copyright tag.
Thanks for sharing this and for showing us how to prevent image hotlinking. This is a scary thought.
Thankfully, I haven't had this happen to me but it's always better to be safe than sorry.
Hotlinking is a serious threat to websites using shared web hosting as we have limited resources available.
On the flip side, if you're on a cloud host, it'll have little to no impact given that someone's not willingly doing it to harm your site.


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The most thoroughly studied mechanism for vitex is its interaction with dopamine receptors in the anterior pituitary. Several studies have indicated that vitex acts on dopamine D2 receptors and decreases prolactin levels (Berger et al 2000, Halaska et al 1998, Jarry et al 1994, Meier & Hoberg 1999, Meier et al 2000, Milewicz et al 1993, Sliutz et al 1993, Wuttke et al 2003). It is likely that this mechanism is responsible for the symptom-relieving effects seen with vitex in mastodynia and hyperprolactinaemia chaste tree 217
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A study using the vitex extract BNO 1095 (70% ethanol, 30% H20 extract, Bionorica, Neumarkt, Germany) identified that the major dopaminergic compounds are the clerodadienols, which act as potent inhibitors of prolactin release; however, other active compounds of lesser activity were also identified (Wuttke et al 2003).
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Melanogenesis and antityrosinase activity of selected South african plants.
Mapunya MB1, Nikolova RV, Lall N.
Department of Biodiversity, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, University of Limpopo (UL), Private Bag X1106, Sovenga 0727, South Africa.
Melanin is the pigment that is responsible for the colour of eyes, hair, and skin in humans. Tyrosinase is known to be the key enzyme in melanin biosynthesis. Overactivity of this enzyme leads to dermatological disorders such as age spots, melanoma and sites of actinic damage. Ten plants belonging to four families (Asphodelaceae, Anacardiaceae, Oleaceae, and Rutaceae) were investigated for their effect on tyrosinase using both L-tyrosine and L-DOPA as substrates. Ethanol leaf extracts (500 μg/mL) of Aloe ferox, Aloe aculeata, Aloe pretoriensis, and Aloe sessiliflora showed 60%, 31%, 17%, and 13% inhibition of tyrosinase activity respectively, when L-tyrosine was used as a substrate. Harpephyllum caffrum (leaves) at a concentration of 500 μg/mL had an inhibitory effect of 70% on tyrosinase when L-DOPA was used as a substrate. The IC(50) of Harpephyllum caffrum (leaves and bark) were found to be 51 ± 0.002 and 40 ± 0.035 μg/mL, respectively. Following the results obtained from the tyrosinase assay, extracts from Harpephyllum caffrum were selected for further testing on their effect on melanin production and their cytotoxicity on melanocytes in vitro. The IC(50) of both extracts was found to be 6.25 μg/mL for melanocyte cells. Bark extract of Harpephyllum caffrum showed 26% reduction in melanin content of melanocyte cells at a concentration of 6.25 μg/mL. The leaf extract of this plant showed some toxicity on melanocyte cells. Therefore, the bark extract of Harpephyllum caffrum could be considered as an antityrosinase agent for dermatological disorders such as age spots and melasoma.
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The effect of samples on cell viability/proliferation and melanin production by melanocyte cells, H. caffrum bark (a), leaves (b), A. arborescence leaves (c), and Kojic acid (d).
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ArcheAge is an open-ended MMORPG from XLGames and Trion Worlds that seeks to free the player from the predefined paths and progression that has become a staple to the RPG genre. Described as a "Sandpark MMORPG," the game lies firmly between the sandbox and themepark genres.
Players will play as one of four available races, divided between two continents. The Nuians and Elves dominate the western continent, while the Firran and Harani stake claims in the east. More than 100 unique classes can be created through the combination of up to three Skillsets, ranging from Battlerage, to Sorcery, to Shadowplay and more. Skillsets can be swapped at any time allowing the player to tailor their character to any preference or situation.
ArcheAge features a world driven by the player. You can become who you want, perfect the skills and crafts that you love and exploit them to make a living through the game's player-driven economy. Farming and collecting resources will give you the necessities you need to create your own home, castle or even city through the use of city stones. But be wary, your creations are always at the risk of PvP attack. Constructed siege weapons and rallied armies can deal a devastating blow to even the greatest of powers.
The ocean promises to play a key role in ArcheAge's player-driven economy. Build and equip ships, assemble crews and secure trade routes to work the seas to your good fortune. Or, take a completely different approach and pirate unsuspecting ships, taking advantage of those trying to make a decent living.
One of the more unique systems to be implemented in the ArcheAge is the judicial system. Commit an in-game crime? You could be subject to punishment by authority of the player run courts. Serving prison time and working off your debt — or attempting escape — is all part of this living, breathing world.
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Move files in a tapeless workflow.
Glenn Hall
Tapeless workflows have arrived. But are your files in the right place? Do you need to get them elsewhere? Reliably? Quickly? The list of potential requirements is very long.
We are so used to the reliability designed into technical broadcast systems, because, simply, they work, they're in real time, and they're reliable. Of course, that perceived reliability is the result of carefully established routes, relationships with telecom and satellite services suppliers, and multipath and failover design — all values deeply embedded into the very heart of current broadcast systems. Then file-based workflows came along, moving files via computers, from site to site, to and from remote sites, uploading and downloading — all usually done using some form of FTP.
Established and standardized through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its predecessors, originally as RFC 114 in April 1971, the much-updated FTP today provides a simple transfer, with multiple clients, and many forms of added value. Such values are in security, authorization, efficient transfer, embedded encryption and notification.
On UNIX-like systems, a daemon runs and provides a service. There are thousands of variants, some tied to particular UNIX-like systems, some providing additional functions. Most, but not all, interoperate via the standardized protocol. Private versions abound, affording utility and even security through obscurity, though requiring root access to both ends for installation.
Today, there are many forms of IP-based transfer: FTP, managed FTP, transfer over HTTP, direct link technologies with security such as Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), and more recently peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, such as BitTorrent and Skype. (Skype has efficient file transfer built in and good firewall traversal.)
So what is happening in the file transfer market that is of interest to broadcasters? The answer is a great deal. Software technologies, services and DIY options exist, using cheap or open source forms of accelerated FTP. It's clear that there are several highly developed products and integrated services that lift the base level capability to the point of becoming a delivery system that achieves the levels of reliability required by broadcasters.
Myths about file delivery
First, let us nail down a few myths about file delivery systems:
Myth: FTP is not secure and loses packets. The reality: It all depends on what type of FTP you use.
Myth: User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is faster than FTP. The reality: Sometimes it is, but is has other issues.
Myth: FTP is used to load content to video servers. The reality: Those that are mostly used to load content to video servers are often private FTPs.
Myth: Video networks offer fast FTP services but don't integrate easily. The reality: That's a big myth; many providers offer APIs to their services today.
Myth: The software only works on Windows and is proprietary. The reality: Most vendors offer software on several platforms.
If you already have encryption, can you continue to use it? The answer is that transferred files are agnostic to their content; they're just bits. However, encryption in transit is a control on efficiency of transfer. Thus, reliable transfer with integrated manageability of encryption overhead is a high value.
File transfer acceleration
A need to back up large amounts of corporate data over various file links has emerged. Typically, a large organization, such as a networking equipment company Cisco, has a high value core of its own software that is in constant development, producing close to 1TB of daily changing data. Cisco's well-known router code is held and backed up on multiple sites, transferred frequently and securely by a Signiant system originally created by Nortel. The problem space addressed was simple to manage, allowing Cisco to reliably transfer its internal files across multiple sites, building in high efficiency, manageability and security, with tolerance of poor-quality networks.
To do this, Nortel turned to the team that had developed its own IP stack — the same stack that runs a large part of many international telecom networks today. This is serious, hard stuff and not the domain of small software companies. The requirements began in the corporate WAN backup area, attracted high investment and gained maturity. This is good news for broadcasters as these systems are now tuned for large file (video) delivery.
A needs analysis showed that files must be managed as they're transferred, and that a job ticket could be created that afforded manageability of the in-transfer session. Imagine initiating a terabyte transfer from home, or even at your station. It's likely you'd need some help!
Thus an important concept is introduced — initiating a transfer and then managing it all the way through to a final destination, which may be a video server.
Today in broadcasting, there are several companies offering services and technology that are built on these key values of reliability, manageability, security and acceleration, and in some cases with integrated workflows.
Technically, the majority of the acceleration component is achieved through a combination of repacketization, adjusting the delivery datagrams, taking into account the latency of the network connection in use and transferring the transport from the high overhead FTP to a lower overhead UDP.
Additionally, most of the software players have their own secret sauce, a patented code used in combining the compression algorithms with the packetization algorithms, thus providing a type of load shaping that moves faster. The math behind this is complex but is partly aided by the fact that cryptography and packetization both use similar mathematical approaches. In certain circumstances, they can be combined to provide an efficient transport.
Management is then the key, and this leads us to the nature of integration of such services, either through Web services over Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or using a deeper API. This capability, which most providers offer to some extent, is the key to efficient transport integration, and to success in file-based transfer. In evaluating the integration of any such system, consider the integration of these services into your workflows. Deep APIs are attractive for complex integration. Most vendors offer a simplified product based on the core enterprise product with a straightforward start-up. Then they bring these systems into business use in short order.
Urgent delivery
Many of these software products originate from the complex world of telecom software and were developed originally for UNIX platforms. (UNIX began as a telephone operating system.) Today, companies offer fully compiled versions for the major UNIX-like systems — HP UX, IBM AIX and Sun Solaris — and for many Linux distributions, as well as a full compile for Windows servers. Core UNIX-like systems offer the advantage of efficiency right at the heart of the IP stack.
Some systems operate with node servers — which can act as an industrial P2P node, affording internode transfer as an additional function — with a management server, usually doubled-up for reliability. Thus a server is established at each major site and can send or receive, as well as initiate, local connectivity through a LAN. The management server communicates with the remote nodes and, by using network probes, adjusts the transfer as is required to be the most efficient, have the least cost or be the fastest.
These servers are scaled to the duty required and typically have strong connections to a storage architecture close by. The file transfers are usually below real time. They can be above real time depending on the nature of the files being moved and the compression and encryption being used. The better systems offer operating control on the trade-off of encryption versus cost of network connections, affording a valuable capability to cost-control transfers and set up routes that are business-effective.
An example network in full deployment is at NBC Universal (NBCU), where multiple nodes (50 at the last count) on multiple sites provide all file-based transfers within the company, including video files, scripts, corporate documents and multimedia. NBCU effectively uses its gigabit connectivity across its major sites and can integrate content other than video and audio files with ease.
The real value of all of these systems is in delivering your content reliably and securely — with proof of delivery — and at high speed, even over poor-quality networks.
So what happens when a news story already in transit needs to be delivered more urgently? In a simple FTP system, there is no option to speed the process. However, with today's managed systems, this can be done, as can rerouting to another site during transfer. From the management server, the real-time overview of a particular transfer can intercede part way through and command a different route, transfer rate or even a new target site.
Another scenario is the journalist in the field, operating across the public Internet. With integrated automation, the newsroom can be alerted to inbound content, and the state of the transfer can be monitored, even accelerated.
Publicly generated materials and user-generated content presents a new set of problems to the news desk. Lightweight forms of the software can be supplied over the public Internet through standard Web browsers that initiate and manage such transfers, aiding the reliability of submission. Authority and job tickets can be issued over the telephone. Thereafter, the inbound content is managed by the station, and the content is routed directly to the right desk, taking advantage of deals on bandwidth costs.
It is time to carefully review such software — not to be confused with simple point-to-point file acceleration — and to remember that adding encryption afterward usually slows things down if not integral to the software design. Costs can be controlled through efficient use of IP-based connectivity, and the load can be partitioned and scheduled to business advantage. Broadcasters can take advantage of multimillion-dollar developments in telco and corporate WAN to add file-based transfers at reasonable costs.
Glenn Hall is a senior associate at the Bakewell House Consultancy.
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The needs of a broadcaster are diverse. The list of must-haves includes voice and data circuits between different sites and to the public switched network,
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Let me start by saying that the ladies were READY for LYFE JENNINGS!!
There was so much chatter in the air and the ladies were SOOOO….EXCITED!
Comedy with Eddie Bryant and Lyfe Jennings all in one night! What more could an audience ask for? This show was definitely more than I expected or could have imagined.
If there's any comedian that can hold a crowd before Lyfe Jennings, it's Comedian Eddie Bryant. There are not many comedians who can give you real life situations while making you seriously take a look at yourself and laughing all at the same time. That's Eddie!!
After laughing so hard I had to get tissue, the audience was told that anyone can come up on stage and perform any songs or poetry and possibly win a chance to see Lyfe Jennings for life in any state or venue. WOW!! Surprisingly not one person competed!! Eddie literally begged the crowd to come up but of course, no one did.
When Lyfe took to the stage, it was immediate sparks. He worked that stage like nobody's business…. That's exactly what he did. His stage presence commands immediate attention and he engages the audience from beginning to end. He shared his life story and sang every favorite song from "MUST BE NICE" to "S.E.X." which seemed to be a favorite of so many that night. What I really loved about his show is that he connects to audience. He shares so much about himself and relationships. I so loved him and his transparency.
Thank you Lyfe for a night we'll remember for a VERYYYY LONGGG TIMEEE!!!


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You might be four beers deep and realize you're in Aruba, stuck walking around with a coat and hat while Rick laughs. But when he's been drinking blender drinks, you might just wake up in the Alps or the North Pole. Better safe than sorry I always say. This black Rick and Morty beanie will do a nice job keeping your ears on when you find yourself somewhere cold.


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Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Lily Hay Newman
From surveillance to arrests, governments are using the novel coronavirus as cover for a crackdown on digital liberty.
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Almost 40 million people around the world have contracted Covid-19, and more than 1 million have died from the virus. The devastation has rippled even further, thanks to a global recession and rising political unrest. And as all of this unfolds, new research indicates that the governments around the world have exploited the pandemic to expand their domestic surveillance capabilities and curtail internet freedom and speech.
The human and digital rights watchdog Freedom House today published its annual Freedom on the Net report, which tracks the ebb and flow of censorship laws, net neutrality protections, internet shutdowns, and more around the world. This year's report, which covers the period from June 2019 through May 2020, encompasses not only the Covid-19 pandemic but also the trade war between the US and China, which has resulted in a dramatic acceleration of the cyber sovereignty movement. Combined with numerous other geopolitical clashes that have impacted digital rights, global internet freedom has been broadly curtailed in 2020.
"Political leaders used the pandemic as a pretext to crack down on free expression and limit access to information," Freedom House director for democracy and technology Adrian Shahbaz told reporters ahead of the report's release. "We traced three commonly used tactics. First, in at least 45 countries, activists, journalists, and other members of the public were arrested or charged with criminal offenses for online speech related to the pandemic. Second, in at least 20 countries, governments cited the pandemic emergency to impose vague or overly broad speech restrictions. Third, governments in at least 28 countries censored websites and social media posts to censor unfavorable health statistics, corruption allegations, and other Covid-19-related content."
"We're sleepwalking into a world where our most sensitive personal and biometric data will soon be at the mercy of private companies, security agencies, and even cybercriminals."
Adrian Shahbaz, Freedom House
The research looks at 65 countries that, according to Freedom House, represent about 87 percent of the world's internet users. Some of the examples fit into government initiatives that were already in motion before the pandemic. In China, surveillance technology developed in the Xinjiang region—like handheld devices for pulling data off of citizens' phones—is now proliferating in other parts of the country. Freedom House researchers say that individuals around China have also reported pandemic-related intrusions, like being told to put webcams inside their houses and outside their doors for alleged quarantine enforcement. During the year covered by the report, the Communist Party also continued to imprison journalists, activists, and other citizens for exposing government corruption, being critical of General Secretary Xi Jinping, supporting Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, operating human rights websites, taking anti-censorship stances, and simply being members of ethnic and religious minority groups. China ranked last in the Freedom on the Net report for the sixth consecutive year.
"What we're seeing right now is the normalization of the sort of digital authoritarianism that the Chinese government has long sought to mainstream," Shahbaz says.
The pandemic has also spurred the development of new surveillance mechanisms. Contact tracing apps can be designed securely and privately if they don't collect geolocation data, store personal information only locally on a user's devices, and ideally are open source. But many of the 54 countries Freedom House studied that have implemented digital contact tracing have departed drastically from these best practices. In Russia, for example, the state's social monitoring app can access not just GPS data, but also call records and other user information. The app even periodically requests that users submit selfies when quarantine orders are in effect. In practice, the app has resulted in arbitrary and excessive fines for users, sometimes mistaking identical twins for each other or imposing a penalty when a user accidentally sleeps through a compliance call. Meanwhile, in India, the most popular contract tracing app, Aarogya Setu, has 50 million users and sends their information, including GPS data, to government servers.
The overreaches go beyond contact tracing and health status apps as well. Freedom House found that the governments of at least 30 countries are taking advantage of the pandemic to specifically expand other mass surveillance capabilities, typically with the help of telecoms and tech companies. For example, Ecuador has developed an entire public health platform that combines personal data from a Covid-19 app and surveillance footage with other location data from satellites and citizens' phones. Yet even with this massive trove of information, little is known about how Ecuadorean authorities store the data and who can access it. Similarly, Pakistan's intelligence agency has turned one of its anti-terrorism systems into a virus-tracking platform. Freedom House says there are reports of intelligence agents going so far as to tap hospital phone lines to listen in on Covid-19 patients' calls and see whether their family and friends admit to having virus symptoms themselves.
Throughout the pandemic, people living in at least 13 countries around the world also had to contend with government-imposed internet shutdowns. At the same time, the report warns that the pandemic has accelerated adoption of biometric surveillance like facial recognition and algorithmic decisionmaking across a number of sectors, including health care, policing, education, finance, immigration, and commerce. And crucially, the research found that many of the Covid-19 contract apps, monitoring tools, and government platforms created in the name of public health during the pandemic haven't actually been proven to help limit transmission or keep people safe.
"Authorities cited the pandemic to justify expanded surveillance powers and the deployment of new technologies that were once seen as too intrusive," Shabaz says. "But the rapid and unchecked rollout of these tools presents an immense risk to privacy, transparency, and broader human rights. And these surveillance systems would be remarkably difficult, if not impossible, to decommission. We're sleepwalking into a world where our most sensitive personal and biometric data will soon be at the mercy of private companies, security agencies, and even cybercriminals."
While there was a lot of worrying and problematic news in the report, it also contains some hopeful signs about the future of internet freedom. Twenty-six countries declined in their ratings compared to last year, but 22 improved. Freedom on the Net project leader Allie Funk notes that there were some crucial judicial victories around the world during the period the report examined. For example, litigation in Pakistan resulted in a court denouncing arbitrary website blocking as a violation of due process, and judges in Germany, South Africa, and Brazil all took steps to curtail state surveillance powers. Last summer, a Sudanese court even ordered an end to the country's weeks-long internet shutdown. And the report points out that local and state-level activism in the United States has resulted in various limits and bans on the use of facial recognition technology.
"All of these positive examples really can lay out a playbook of how to protect internet freedom as we move forward within the pandemic, and also once this pandemic wraps up," Funk says.
As state surveillance regimes and censorship mechanisms proliferate around the world, though, there's a pressing need for more countries to actually start running those plays instead of using the pandemic as cover to push the boundaries of personal privacy rights more and more.
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Age Grouper of the Week: Ed Hawkins sent through this weeks Age Grouper, Brian Murphy. Here's what Ed wrote: I've got an age grouper of the week too from this race, Brian Murphy my pal from the big apple New york City. He has raced 11 ironman race in the US and around the world previously to the ironman NYC chasing that kona slot. He has been soooooo close a number of times, missing it by one place etc. On Saturday he put together a 9.52 to finish 4th in his age group and book his slot to the big island. It always amazes me that I hear so many stories of athletes chasing slots around the world only for a race to open in their back yard there they go and qualify, brilliant - well done Brian you deserve that slot and enjoy the big island mate.
Interview: Andrew Hassard recently completed a Decaman. In this weeks show we hear about his amazing experience. Andrew is a bit of a charater who has some good stories to share about his Deca journey. Here's a clip of Andrew. If you want to support Andrews fundraising contact Paul O'Gara at: paulogara@cancerfocusni.org.
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Or the Indian conglomerate Adani that wants to develop the giant Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee basin of Queensland and hires Labor and Liberal staffers to make its case. Development of the Galilee basin coalfields by Adani and other Coal barons will enhance climate change and help drive destruction of World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef.
The folly of these new ventures is that with a structural decline in thermal coal prices according to IEEFA and CitiBank, they are no longer economic without substantial government subsidies, as well as contributing substantial greenhouse gases to the atmosphere during mining, and especially when burnt as a fuel. A study published in Nature in January 2015 found that 95 per cent of coal in the OECD Pacific region (mostly Australia) unless captured and stored with CCS technology, needs to remain unburned to limit global warming to a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius.
Tom Arup, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, reported that the "IMF projected Australia would subsidise coal, petroleum and gas consumption by $41 billion in 2015. That is almost two per cent of our gross domestic product."
Phase one could connect the solar array generation to the Darwin - Katherine Interconnected System to replace the Natural Gas and backup diesel power stations in the Northern Territory.
"A very rough estimate for an Australia-Asia Interconnector and associated renewable energy generation was considered to be $8-10 billion, including 2000 km of HVDC subsea cable ($1-2 million per km), 1000Megawatt of solar PV and solar thermal ($2-3 million per MW), $18 million for Indonesian geothermal, and $18 million to upgrade or duplicate existing land AC transmission networks and $18 million for AC-DC converters and contingencies." the workshop report stated.
Reduced fossil fuels subsidies and introduction of price on carbon in the region would be very important to enable such a project to proceed, and government support and subsidy would be essential to get the project off the ground. The absence of this possible project being even mentioned in the recent Federal Government white paper: Developing Northern Australia: Our North, Our Future - is all the more glaring.
future plan in the region on electrification including utilizing renewable energy." said Mr. Ade Padmo Sarwono, Consul of the Republic of Indonesia in Darwin in his opening address to the workshop.
"The NT already exports energy as LNG, oil and uranium to Asia, so why not solar-powered electricity too? As the price of fossil fuels slowly ramp up in Asian nations and as technology and falling costs make grid connection between Australia and Asia a real prospect to catalyse regional renewable energy, there will be increasing interest – and investment – in the proposal." said Hon Peter Chandler MLA, Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment, in the Northern Territory Government in his opening address to the workshop.
Increasingly power grids are becoming interconnected with the addition and incorporation of renewables to transform our electricity infrastructure. Norway is using it's enormous hydro power facilities to become the pumped hydro energy storage for Europe through increased grid interconnection. In February 2015 Pradhnya Tajne wrote in altenergymag.com about the development of Large-scale Super power Grid Projects that would incorporate renewable energy supply.


A distant mountain across the desert in Mauritania. Claire Harris photos.
We were warned in Timbuktu . "Don't go through the desert back to Mauritania , you must be crazy!" They told us. "If Al Qaeda don't get you, the bandits will. And some of the bandits ARE Al Qaeda," they whispered in hushed voices throwing suspicious glances as though one might be hiding just around the corner.
But lacking the week required for the leisurely boat journey down the Niger River and bus ride from Bamako to Nouakchott , we didn't have much choice. Besides, the truck drivers assured us there hadn't been a kidnapping for years on The Road of Hope that runs right across Mauritania from its eastern border with Mali to the western coastline. Well, at least not for four months when two Italians disappeared from somewhere near this very border.
Tuareg host hummed and hah'd when we told him who we were planning to ride with and said, "My friends, I don't know this man. He may be Al Qaeda. Better to wait until tomorrow or next week, God willing."
No matter what plans God had in store for us, my partner and I decided to seize our fate with both hands, so we bundled ourselves into Mohamed's truck and prayed for his mercy. The pickup lurched forward and clattered over the bumpy track leading out of Timbuktu.
The clay houses and fences lashed together from twigs dwindled into smooth desert and the road soon petered into nothingness. Mohamed didn't let up his speed, rattling into ditches and bouncing over the sand. The sun set behind the dunes.
The moon rose in the star-struck sky. Mohamed never strayed from his course, an ill-defined line through the Sahara visible to him alone. Some time shortly after midnight , he veered suddenly to the left and screeched to a halt.
Tuareg huts in the stark desert landscape.
The two snoozing on the back sprang to life as Mohamed hitched up his robe and pushed back a cover from the dashboard. He pulled a shotgun from behind the steering wheel and raised it to one shoulder.
I glanced meaningfully as my partner dozing on my shoulder in the front seat. "And now they kill us," I whispered.
But Mohamed had other prey in mind. With one finger he switched the headlights up to highbeam and a little rabbit froze before us in the glare. Mohamed turned to us and his lip raised gleefully at one corner. "Breakfast," he said and leaned out the window.
Crack. The rabbit fell to the ground.
"We sleep here three hours,"' he said gruffly. We lay between tufts of grass arising from desert sand and no sooner had we fallen asleep then we awoke to the smell of burning flesh. The two old men were bent over the fire and they shoved a metal bowl with a few morsels of tough meat before us.
The elder of the pair with a snowy white beard looked tired, so we ushered him into the front seat and took his place on the back. We clung to the net that held our baggage precariously onto the truck and swung from side to side as our driver veered wildly over bumps.
We passed through a ramshackle cluster of tents and clay buildings stranded in the midst of vast sandy fields. On the tracks that passed between the houses, women wrapped in long brightly-coloured veils carried baskets on their heads. Boys kicked a ball around in the dust or squatted, drawing lines in the dust with one finger to mark out a game.
We clambered down and he held up a flap for us to duck under. The tent was remarkably spacious on the inside, with carpets and cushions laid on the floor and in one corner an elderly woman was bent over a tiny gas stove.
She sat cross-legged on the floor and passed us glasses of goat's milk. Her shrunken body was engulfed in layers of dark veils. "Drink, drink!" she beckoned us.
Mohamed's wife was nowhere in sight, presumably relegated to the one of the smaller tents. Their family had fled Mali during the Tuareg revolt of the 90s but by the time things had settled down his mother was adamant they would not return. She was tired of running.
Our respite from the journey was only brief, Mohamed was eager to press on. So we jumped back on the truck, trying to cover our faces from the onslaught of dust and the intense midday heat. The sun beat down relentlessly and in each town we passed through, the entire population lay sprawled on mats under makeshift tents lining the roads.
Whole towns lay horizontal for hours of the day, a carpet of bodies with sweat pouring from faces and down chests, men, families, children spread out together, and in the corner of each tent an older woman cooking up tea.
We reached Nema and the Road of Hope still stretched out through the desert before us, inviting us to three more days and nights of bumpy riding on the back of a truck. But Mohamed was returning to his village.
We offloaded our bags and wrapped scarves around our grubby faces. Sand had mixed with sweat and clung to our cheeks and hid under our fingernails. Under the layer of filth my skin was burnt bright red.
Mohamed shook our hands and got back in his truck. "Hey! We didn't pay you!" we shouted out as he began to drive off. He stopped the truck and stuck his head out the window. "I know," he said and smiled for the first time.
We struggled through the heat haze to where the next lot of trucks were loading up. "Last places!" one driver cried and pointed at the back. The luggage was piled high, a goat was strapped and bleated in panic as it dangled dangerously over one tyre, in the centre a woman clutched her screaming baby and twelve other people perched on top of the mountain of bags held onto each other and dug their nails into the net below them to avoid flying over the edge.
The driver hoisted us up and I fell sideways into the mess of baby, basket, beast and bag. The engine whirred and the truck jumped into action, sending us tumbling into each other. I grasped wildly onto someone's head. The goat cried, the baby bleated.
Claire Harris is a writer in exile who has spent the last decade travelling, working and writing around the world. This is not nearly as glamorous as it sounds and usually involves scraping by on a diet of muesli and cheap wine. Occasionally together.


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Published: March 17, 2015 at 03:17 p.m.
Updated: March 17, 2015 at 11:44 p.m.
The Seattle future of Seahawks pass rusher Michael Bennett came into question on Tuesday.
Although one report suggested Bennett was angling for a new contract and a trade to Atlanta, a Seahawks source confirmed to NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport that the pass rusher has not asked to be dealt.
Bennett has praised former Seattle defensive coordinator and new Falcons coach Dan Quinn as one of the main reasons he has improved as a player.
Atlanta would be an obvious match if there is an issue simmering below the surface with Bennett and the Seahawks.
It's quite possible that Bennett believes he has earned a raise after signing a four-year, $28.5 million contract just last March.
Bennett, 29, garnered All-Pro consideration in a career year. Through three-and-a-half quarters, he was among the MVP favorites of Super Bowl XLIX.
He might have been the rare star to outplay his contract in back-to-back seasons.
To this point, however, there appears to be more smoke than fire regarding Bennett's displeasure with the NFC champions.


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Ann Tashi Slater
Mountains, Monasteries, and Myths: What I Discovered While Living in My Darjeeling Family Home
Walking Paths to Self and Family in Darjeeling
Tibetan Death Horoscopes, Mothers and Daughters, and Legacy-Breaking
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How a Tibetan Turquoise Pendant Keeps Me Close to Home
In giving me her pendant, was my mother not only wishing me well on my journey but handing over our family's story?
On a hot summer afternoon in California, bees buzzing in the lavender and the air fragrant with the scent of eucalyptus trees, my mother presented me with a turquoise pendant. A delicate sky-blue stone on a gold chain, the necklace had been a gift from her father when she left Darjeeling for medical school in New York; now, as I prepared to leave for college, she wanted me to have it.
Over the many years since that day, I've imagined the story of the pendant: my grandfather stopping at a jewelry store in the Darjeeling bazaar as dusk fell, on the way home from his work at the district court as a magistrate. A meticulous, thoughtful man, he would have studied the selection of necklaces at length, intent on choosing just the right one for his daughter, the first in the family to go to college and the first to leave home. I see him giving the pendant to my mother late on a December evening, hours before her departure for America.
I've wondered where the turquoise in my mother's pendant originated. Maybe the Gangchen Mountains in western Tibet or, I like to think, the mountains in Kham, eastern Tibet, home of my Tibetan ancestors. In old family photos of Losar New Year celebrations, the grannies are seated in the altar room wearing heavy silver earrings inlaid with turquoise, and turquoise-and-gold ga'u charm-box necklaces. Turquoise is believed to possess special power, changing color according to the owner's physical, emotional, and spiritual state; it lends protection on a journey, whether from one country to another or from birth to death.
The blue of the pendant my mother gave me brings to mind Namtso ("Sky Lake"), a saltwater lake northwest of Lhasa, Tibet that lies at an elevation of 15,000 feet. A pilgrim destination for centuries, the lake has meditation caves, a monastery, and islands used for spiritual retreat. Stories about Namtso have been handed down over the generations in my family. "One monk we knew," my grandmother recalled, "he sat by the water for meditation and all sorts of animals he saw swimming. Seahorses, seayaks, seasheep. It was their dwelling place." In the 1800s, my great-grandmother traveled to Namtso and saw deities and spirits. Sometimes at sunrise, the handprint of Guru Rinpoche—the eighth-century Indian saint who brought Buddhism to Tibet—appeared on the water and the sacred syllable Om could be seen written on the surface that mirrored the vast sky, the brightly colored prayer flags strung along the shore. These stories of the lake as a site of revelation are the ones that come to me when I look at the pendant.
I went to Darjeeling after college to stay with my recently widowed grandmother, and that's when I first began hearing our family lore. Indifferent to my Tibetan heritage as a girl, I found a connection to that part of me in my mother's hometown, after years of feeling like I didn't belong in the predominantly white American suburbs where I grew up. I've now spent over three decades exploring and writing about my family history.
A delicate sky-blue stone on a gold chain, the necklace had been a gift from her father when she left Darjeeling.
In giving me her pendant, was my mother not only wishing me well on my journey but handing over her story, our family's story? I was a "troublemaker" as a child—inclined to what she called "American backtalk" and a belief in autonomy—yet she sensed I would care. It could be the pendant was a way of giving me a story she herself hadn't wanted to hold on to, impatient to leave behind the old world and plunge into her new life in America. Also, as a divorced mother of four and the sole provider, she had little time to think about the past.
My mother's face-forward perspective allowed her to not only survive but prosper. Still, she wanted her story to be remembered and told. She saved the hundreds of letters her father wrote to her and the letters she sent him from America, as well as the letters I wrote to her after leaving home. She's preserved photos, with place, date, and people's names recorded on the back in her neat handwriting. And she was the one who encouraged me to go to Darjeeling after college.
The pendant my mother gave me is tear-shaped. A long time after that summer afternoon in California, she told me how hard it had been for her when I left. Somewhere inside I'd known this, even though there had been no weepy goodbyes (she always said that because of her Asian cultural background, she didn't go in for "demonstrative" behavior). I also knew that, wanting me to set forth into the world as she had, she wouldn't have dreamed of trying to hold me back. The morning of my departure, fog cloaking the eucalyptus trees, she helped me load my luggage into the trunk of her VW Rabbit and drove me to the San Francisco airport, just as thirty years earlier, her parents had taken her to the airport in the misty dawn for her journey to America.
A few days after my mother left, my grandfather wrote to her: You must have been upset to see us all in tears at the airport—that we could not help and as for me I lost all interest in food and everything. I have started feeling normal again after consoling myself that we have sent you for a good cause and for your own good.
Expecting my mother to return after medical school, my grandparents never dreamed they wouldn't see her again for twelve long years, and only then when she came for a visit with her American husband and two little girls.
My mother settled in the US, her siblings in Canada, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and England. Wanting the best for their children, my grandparents didn't realize the risk of letting them go: They might not come back. My grandfather especially found it hard that none of the children returned. "It's their life they've got to live," my grandmother would tell him, worried he was ruining his health with his sorrow. "We're not going to live for them and we're not going to live forever!"
Still, he grieved. In a letter to my mother, sent not long before he passed away, he wrote: We have missed you much amidst us over the years , but we have done everything for you: we offer a khada scarf on your photograph, keep tea and food on your table and usual place in the altar room and pray very hard for you .
In 1980, he suffered a heart attack and died a few days later. My grandmother said, "The sadness overcame him in his old age."
In Paris last spring to teach a writing workshop, I overheard a conversation on the bus. A Spanish-speaking couple seated next to me was chatting when the man's mobile rang. With a rueful smile, he held out the phone so his wife could also hear as an elderly man began speaking.
– ¿Dónde estás, mi hijo? ( Where are you, my son? ) – En París. – ¿París? ¿Cuándo regresas a Lima? ( When are you returning to Lima? ) – Ya estoy diez años a París. ( I've been in Paris ten years now .) – Okay. Bye. – Bye.
This exchange made me think about what Hawthorne wrote: "Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil." My mother went from studying by candlelight in Darjeeling to soaking in her hot tub in California, from saying things like Thank you ever so much to Don't lay your trip on me . I was born in Spain, my children in Japan, where I've lived for a long time now. Where will my children's children be born? And their children? We don't have to worry about worn-out soil, but is there a reverse effect, an exile caused by constant planting in new ground?
Turquoise lends protection on a journey, whether from one country to another or from birth to death.
Maybe unease about this is what led me to travel south to Andalusia while working in Paris the year after high school. I wanted to go back to where I'd been born, to see and feel the place that had been my first home. I searched for the villa in Jerez de la Frontera where we lived when my father was stationed at a nearby naval base; my parents had told me about the jasmine-wreathed patio, the wrought-iron balconies looking out over an orange grove and vineyard. But the house had vanished, swallowed up by roads and housing developments. Or anyway, I couldn't find it.
In my thirties, I went to the house in New Jersey where we'd last lived as a family, before my parents divorced. Again I saw the simple two-story structure with yellow shingles, the birch trees my brother and sisters and I had climbed and fallen from, the front walk where we played "Mother, May I" in the long summer twilights. But even though I was standing right in front, and the owners let me come inside and look around, I couldn't find what I was looking for.
On a visit to Darjeeling in 2008, my mother and I lit incense in the family altar room for my grandmother, who'd passed away a few years earlier. My mother swirled her joss stick in front of the golden statues of Gautama, the historical Buddha, and Maitreya, the future Buddha. In that room, my grandmother had prayed for her mother; my mother now was lighting incense for her mother; when my mother was gone, somewhere, in some way, I would do the same for her; and when I was gone, my children for me. This, I realized, was the continuity I'd been searching for, the place where home lies.
The turquoise of the pendant my mother gave me is the deep blue of the sky arcing over the Tibetan plateau, over Darjeeling, over California. The blue of the late-summer sky on the afternoon I dropped my daughter off at college in the US and, not long after, my son. I look at the turquoise pendant, feel its weight in my palm; like a talisman, it reassures me of the constancy I felt that day in the altar room with my mother, of the thread that connects the generations no matter where our journeys take us.
A longtime resident of Tokyo, Ann Tashi Slater teaches at a Japanese university. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, AGNI, Granta, and the Huffington Post, among others. www.anntashislater.com
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Here's the return of an emperor... of pizzas that is. The third largest pizza chain in the United States, Little Caesars Pizza is making a comeback to the Philippines!
Take this, Little Caesars Pizza has prepared a generous treat for the whole family in its Grand Opening on January 26 in their new spot at the Metrosquare Building, Manila. Prepare for an afternoon filled with free pizzas, merchandise giveaways, music and dance performances, and more from 12PM to 4PM!
The pizza house from Detroit had been iconic to 90s kids here in the Philippines for their Buy 1 Take 1 square pizza. Their return offers many possibilities, along with plans of opening several more branches in the country before this year closes.
"We are so excited to be able to come back to the Philippines," says Ms. Paula Vissing, Senior Vice President International of Little Caesars Pizza. "It's so much fun to hear people tell us that they remember that Little Caesars was here before."
Ms. Vissing also hinted that more flavors of pizza will eventually land on their menu, including pizzas uniquely crafted just for their Filipino customers. But before we get too excited for their upcoming deals, here's a peek of Little Caesars' in the now!
Little Caesar's line of 12'' Hot-N-Ready (P249) pizzas require no waiting time! Fresh out of the oven, you can choose between the Large Pepperoni Pizza and the Large Cheese Pizza which are ready in less than a minute! The Large Pepperoni Pizza offers a plethora of meaty round pepperonis that will leave you craving for another round of this classic nummy pie.
For those willing to spare a few minutes to taste a richer variety of toppings, also available are Little Caesars Specialty Pizzas (P370) that include 3 Meat Treat Pizza, Hula Hawaiian Pizza, Veggie Pizza, and Ultimate Supreme Pizza.
Your pizza is also perfect with the Crazy Combo (P80) on the side, which features the tasty team-up of Little Caesar's Crazy Bread and Crazy Sauce. Eight sticks of freshly-baked bread drizzled with flavors of butter and garlic, and topped with Parmesan cheese are paired with a dipping sauce made from Little Caesar's exclusive tomato sauce recipe, blended with the right fusion of herbs and spices. The Crazy Combo is also Hot-N-Ready so you can grab at it anytime!
The pizza house also serves scrumptious chicken wings that come in four variations. The Caesar Wings (P220/4pcs) can be the traditional lightly seasoned Oven Roasted wings. Aside from this, you can also pick from Buffalo, BBQ, and Spicy BBQ.
Little Caesar's Pizza is located at Unit 4 Ground flr., Metrosquare Building, Alhambra Street in Ermita, Manila. For more information, check their website at https://philippines.littlecaesars.com.


Is post me janege computer me hardware aur software kya hota hai, iski defination kya hai. What is hardware and software in Hindi me jankari.
Computer 2 chizo se mil kar bana hai, ek hai hardware or ek hai software. Agar in short kahu toh hardware ko kisi insan ki body aur software ko insan ki aatma kehna kuch galat nahi hoga. Toh jaaniye Hardware aur Software kya hain?
Hardware computer ke un parts ko kehte hai jinhe hum apni aankho se dekh sakte hain. Aur unhe touch kar sakte hai. Hardware computer ke wo parts hai. Jinhe hum real me touch karke experience kar sakte hai. Hardware ko hum 8 parts me baant sakte hain.
Input Device – Mouse, Keyboard, Joystick, Bar Code Reader, Modem, Track Ball, Touchpad, Pen Input, Scanner aur Webcam.
Output Device – Monitor, LCD, LED, Projector, Plotter, Speaker, Head phone aur Printer.
Motherboard – RAM, ROM, Processor, IDE Cables, BIOS Chip, Heat Sink aur Cooling Fan.
Storage Device – Hard Disk, Pen Drive, Floppy aur CD / DVD.
Software computer ke wo parts hote hai jise hum apni aankho se nahi dekh sakte hai, na hi unhe touch kar sakte hai. In short, Software Hardware ka bilkul ulta hi hota hain. Inka kam bs computer ko order dene ka hota hain. Aur inhi ke order par computer ka hardware kam karta hain. Software 2 types(Prakar) ke hote hain.
#1. System Software– System Software computer ke vo software hote hai, jo Hardware ko sahi se kaam karvane aur unhe command dene ke kaam aate hai, jisse Computer ko kya karna hai vo pta kar pata hai.
System Software ko Operating System Software bhi kaha ja sakta hai. Kuch popular Operating system hai- XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8 aur Windows 10.
#2. Application Software– Application Software computer ke vo software hote hai jise hum office me office work ke liye, bank me calculation ke liye, school collage me data rakhne ke liye use me lete hai.
Computer me sabhi alag alag kamo ke liye software market me moujud hain. Kuch popular Application Softwares hai- VLC media player, MS Office, Anti-Virus, Windows Movie Maker etc.
Computer me hindi typing kaise kare?


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Dr. craig wright satoshi nakamoto
Craig Wright shot to fame after several tech media outlets supposedly found proof that he could be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Wright was instrumental in the Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV forks. Many experts have contested the evidence provided by Wright despite his success in convincing two well-respected Bitcoiners that he's
As we know, Satoshi Nakamoto emerged with a White Paper on cryptography mailing list http: Related articles Bitcoin no se convertirá en un medio de intercambio world wide, dice Charlie Munger febrero 25, 2021 13,000 BTC son retirados de Coinbase Pro reflejando optimismo institucional febrero 25, 2021 Craig Wright, el individuo que dice ser Satoshi Nakamoto, parece estar planeando iniciar acciones legales contra varios desarrolladores de blockchain de código franco. […] Dr. Craig S. Wright, the chief scientist for nChain and the man better known as Satoshi Nakamoto, was in U.S. federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he's involved in a lawsuit stemming from the time he worked with Dave Kleiman on what would ultimately become Bitcoin. The lawsuit was filed by Ira Kleiman on behalf of the estate of Dave Kleiman. 16/2/2021 Dr Craig S Wright is an Australian/Antiguan computer scientist, businessman, and inventor, who challenges the world with visionary ideas. He is the creator of Bitcoin and author of the Bitcoin white paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
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The vision for what Bitcoin is, and supposed to be, was outlined by its inventor Dr. Craig S. Wright, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, in the white paper entitled "Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System" (posted online on October 31st, 2008). The Economist, BBC and GQ broke May 2 that Craig Steven Wright, whose political views Julian Assange called "amaeteur" in a 1996 e-mail, has provided proof he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. Experts doubted this claim based on the 'proof,' but Wright promised further "extraordinary evidence" to back his assertions. Jan 28, 2019 · In conclusion, Craig Wright's continual research and involvement in Bitcoin, his academic history, leadership at nChain, his wealth, and his self-admittance of being Satoshi make Dr Craig S. Wright It appears that Dr. Craig Wright wanted to be Satoshi Nakamoto only for a few days. After creating a frenzy among the mainstream media outlets after declaring himself the Bitcoin creator, the 44-year old techie seems to have got cold feet when it comes to providing evidence. Craig Wright as Satoshi Perhaps the biggest clue into the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is the supposed role of Craig Wright, who was exposed to be the potential creator of Bitcoin back in 2015. A hacker had cracked into the personal email accounts of Craig Steven Wright, an academic professional in Australia.
22 Jan 2021 over the identity of Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, than not that Satoshi is not the person named Craig Steven Wright.
"I believe Craig Steven Wright is the person who invented Bitcoin," he stated in a blog post. Pretty Certain Dr. Craig Steven Wright is Not Satoshi Dave Kleinman's background does not indicate anything that would point to being involved with bitcoin in any way. His background comes across as Local to regional IT expert.
In January 2020, Satoshi Nakamoto (Dr. Craig S Wright) allegedly regained access to billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin. As news broke that the controversial
Creator of Bitcoin – Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi and the Sophists. By Craig Wright By Craig Wright | 25 Jan 2021 Craig Wright, the Chief Scientist of nChain, is being sued for a whopping billion.
In December 2015, both Wired and Gizmodo published separate investigative reports alleging that Wright could, indeed, be the elusive Nakamoto. However, inconsistencies with Wright's claims suggested the probability of an "elaborate, long-planned hoax". It is widely known that Satoshi Nakamoto should be the rightful owner of a huge amount of Bitcoin. Ira Kleiman certainly believes so—it is these assets which he is currently suing Dr. Wright over, claiming that Wright developed and mined Bitcoin with his brother, Dave Kleiman. Satoshi Nakamoto Born (1975-04-05) 5 April 1975 (age 45) (claimed) Japan (claimed) Nationality Japanese (claimed) Known for Inventing bitcoin, implementing the first blockchain, deploying the first decentralized digital currency Scientific career Fields Digital currencies, computer science, cryptography Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who Aug 26, 2019 · A great read and insight into Bitcoin its beginnings and the man who created it Dr Craig S Wright aka Satoshi Nakamoto. He discusses many of the events and people that led to and helped realize this creation that survives today as BSV aka Bitcoin as it was designed.
In the process, Nakamoto was the first to solve the double-spending problem for digital currency using a Se comenzó a popularizar los hashtags #CraigWrightisafraud como reacción frente a la declaración de Craig Wright de ser Satoshi Nakamoto In January, Dr. Craig Wright sent out a series of copyright infringement notices to companies hosting the Bitcoin White Paper, demanding that the hosting . Skip to content. February 25, 2021 . Cryptheory. 24/7 crypto news, cryptocurrency meaning, guides, learning, #cryptohelpschildren. Quotes by TradingView WikiLeaks has also claimed that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto; Craig Wright was once Referenced as Satoshi in a Chinese University Textbook; Michael Hudson also once said he knows Dr Craig Wright is Satoshi.
Is he? Evaluating his claim will involve a multi-step paternity test. Briefing 25 Jul 2017 Craig Wright, who some believe is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin, to hear his talk on the world's leading cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is the Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto is…… Australian scientist Dr Craig Wright! May 2, 2016 8:46 am UTC, Andrew Saks. After eight years of anonymity, the 28 Aug 2019 Australian Craig Wright claims to have invented bitcoin. and I do not decide, whether Dr Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto," Judge Reinhart said.
By Craig Wright By Craig Wright | 25 Jan 2021 Craig Wright, the Chief Scientist of nChain, is being sued for a whopping billion. Wright, an Australian computer scientist, academic, and businessman, is best-known for proclaiming himself as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2016. Wright later retracted the claim after being unable to definitely prove his connection to Satoshi's private keys. Now, Wright is being sued […] Bitcoin creator Dr. Craig Wright is overwhelmed by the welcome from the Council of Bogota, who presented the nChain chief scientist with an official proclama Feb 25, 2021 · Craig Wright, the individual that claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, seems to be planning to initiate legal action against a number of open-source blockchain developers.
These claims are regarded as false by much of the media and the cryptocurrency community. Feb 24, 2021 · Craig Wright showing Modern Consensus writer Brendan Sullivan the 'origin of Satoshi Nakamoto's name.' In fact, the JSTOR academic paper Wright showed the camera has a date that reads May 1, 2008, at approximately 11:17 am. "Satoshi, the actual meaning is 'intelligent learning.' Dr Craig S Wright is an Australian/Antiguan computer scientist, businessman, and inventor, who challenges the world with visionary ideas. He is the creator of Bitcoin and author of the Bitcoin white paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright, an Australian computer scientist and businessman, has already confirmed his part in creating Bitcoin, and identified himself as Satoshi Nakamoto —the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology. May 03, 2016 · The Australian computer scientist Craig Wright's claim to be the bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been called into doubt by the discovery of a discrepancy in a central piece of his evidence. Jun 29, 2019 · Dr. Craig S. Wright, the chief scientist for nChain and the man better known as Satoshi Nakamoto, was in U.S. federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he's involved in a lawsuit stemming from the time he worked with Dave Kleiman on what would ultimately become Bitcoin.
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I was researching this topic for my blog and I have some clues who is the person behind the mystery. It is not Craig Wright. I'll tell you what I found out. As we know, Satoshi Nakamoto emerged with a White Paper on cryptography mailing list http:
I'll tell you what I found out. As we know, Satoshi Nakamoto emerged with a White Paper on cryptography mailing list http: Related articles Bitcoin no se convertirá en un medio de intercambio world wide, dice Charlie Munger febrero 25, 2021 13,000 BTC son retirados de Coinbase Pro reflejando optimismo institucional febrero 25, 2021 Craig Wright, el individuo que dice ser Satoshi Nakamoto, parece estar planeando iniciar acciones legales contra varios desarrolladores de blockchain de código franco. […] Dr. Craig S. Wright, the chief scientist for nChain and the man better known as Satoshi Nakamoto, was in U.S. federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he's involved in a lawsuit stemming from the time he worked with Dave Kleiman on what would ultimately become Bitcoin.
Dr Craig S Wright is an Australian/Antiguan computer scientist, businessman, and inventor, who challenges the world with visionary ideas. He is the creator of Bitcoin and author of the Bitcoin white paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr. Craig Wright, reportedly already has access to the encrypted file that reportedly has the private keys to over 820,000 BTC, according to Ira Kleiman's legal team. For years, Craig Wright has been claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto. In December 2015, both Wired and Gizmodo published separate investigative reports alleging that Wright could, indeed, be the elusive Nakamoto. However, inconsistencies with Wright's claims suggested the probability of an "elaborate, long-planned hoax". It is widely known that Satoshi Nakamoto should be the rightful owner of a huge amount of Bitcoin. Ira Kleiman certainly believes so—it is these assets which he is currently suing Dr. Wright over, claiming that Wright developed and mined Bitcoin with his brother, Dave Kleiman.
He has publicly claimed to be the main part of the team that created bitcoin, and the identity behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. These claims are regarded as false by much of the media and the cryptocurrency community.


Corny and callus lesions are both simply an excessive accumulation of dead skin. They generally occur on parts of the skin subjected to excessive pressure or irritation. Consequently, they may be seen with poor fitting footwear (narrow or tight shoes).
Callosities may also be seen between toes and on the top of toes, especially when hammer toe deformities exist. Callus can also form beneath the soles of the feet as a result of poor alignment of the bones of the feet.
The primary cause is generally excessive pressure/or irritation.
WARNING: Corn pads, solutions, plasters or paints containing acid can be dangerous especially if you suffer with diabetes or circulation disorders. For this reason corn removal pads or paints are not recommended.
Corns/calluses should be removed professionally by a podiatrist.
(NB: never attempt "at home" surgery as cutting deeply or gouging at the centre of a corn can damage healthy tissue, nerves and/or blood vessels. The end result may be infection or scarring).
Corns and calluses are treated very successfully and can resolve, if you address both the SYMPTOM (the corn) and the CAUSE (the pressure/irritation).


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What drives innovativeness in industrial clusters? Transcending the debate
M.C.J. Caniëls, H.A. Romijn
Innovation Sciences
The paper throws new light on the debate about the role played by local knowledge spillovers (LKS) as a driver of regional innovative activity. It transcends the regional level of analysis that has been commonly adopted in the literature so far, using insights from the evolutionary theory of the firm. This makes it possible to derive a typology of mechanisms through which regional agglomeration may stimulate learning and innovation at the firm level. When this typology is brought to bear on the extant approaches in the debate, the contrasting viewpoints can be reconciled to some extent. The main conclusion is that little theoretical ground for the LKS debate remains.
Cambridge Journal of Economics
https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bei018
10.1093/cje/bei018
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Caniëls, M. C. J., & Romijn, H. A. (2005). What drives innovativeness in industrial clusters? Transcending the debate. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29(4), 497-515. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bei018
Caniëls, M.C.J. ; Romijn, H.A. / What drives innovativeness in industrial clusters? Transcending the debate. In: Cambridge Journal of Economics. 2005 ; Vol. 29, Nr. 4. blz. 497-515.
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When it comes to superyachts there's no replacement for displacement – whether it's about simply having more comfort for the owners and guests, greater range for adventuring, or offering a greater passenger capacity for the charter market.
Naturally, the downside is that the costs of purchase, operation and maintenance increase with every additional foot.
Australian Superyachts (ASY) believes it offers the solution with a unique-to-Australia program of co-ownership. As agents for the Gulf Craft range of Majesty superyachts, ASY applies the program to its Majesty craft from 100 feet and upwards.
The Private Syndicate co-ownership model allows for up to four co-owners to share the costs, and a total of 36 weeks' use of the yacht and its permanent crew each year (equating to nine weeks' use for each of four shareholders).
The benefits further include the ability to put the yacht out to the charter market, with all co-owners sharing in charter fees of typically $110,000 per week on a Majesty 100.
Alongside the Private Syndicate model, ASY offers a Charter Syndicate model, wherein on behalf of up to four co-owners the Syndicate commercially charters the yacht with income contributing to its running costs and being deducted from the co-owners' annual contributions. The yacht is privately available to the four shareholders for a total of 24 weeks per year.
For a Private Syndicate member, a quarter share ownership of a Majesty 100 equates to $2.75m – versus the $11m required to buy one outright. The quarter-share price on a Majesty 140 is $6.25m. The yachts are permanently crewed and are sold at the end of a five-year period.
According to Josh Cleaver of ASY, the ownership experience is carefully cultivated to be no less authentic.
"You're not just owning a share of the yacht, you're getting a crew for the Mediterranean, or wherever you want to be," he says. "We ensure that you feel like you're the only owner … The yacht will be stocked with your favourite wines and nibbles.
"We are targeting the typical owner-operator pf a 60-foot yacht, who has a great sail with family and friends and then ends up doing all the work. For the same price as owning a 60-foot cruiser, you have a 100-foot superyacht and do none of the work.
Owners wishing to travel even farther afield can opt to own a share of a yacht stationed in the Mediterranean, the Bahamas or elsewhere in the northern hemisphere. There is currently a 1/8th share being offered in a new Majesty 100 under construction, to be based in Antibes.