Russia's economic growth accelerated in the third quarter at its fastest pace in a year, led by investment and consumer spending.
Gross domestic product rose 4.8 per cent in the three months to September compared to the previous year, giving a dose of optimism to Russian economy watchers, who have seen the stock market slide 13 per cent since the start of the year amid predictions of a new global recession and financial turmoil in Europe.
However, the third-quarter rate of growth was less than consensus analyst forecasts, which were for expansion of 5 per cent.
"Economic activity has picked up strength from earlier in the year," said Ivan Tchakarov, chief economist for Renaissance Capital in Moscow.
Economists have grown more pessimistic on Russian growth prospects, given the likelihood of a Europe-wide recession and slow pace of domestic reforms. Earlier this year the World Bank revised its growth forecast for Russia down to 4 per cent, from 4.4 per cent. The consensus forecasts of economists for 2012 has fallen by 100 basis points over the past few months to 3.6 per cent.
Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, who has announced he will seek the presidency again next year, has said Russia must resume the robust growth rates of 6 to 7 per cent seen earlier in the decade, which could turn its economy into one of the five largest in the world by 2020.
The likelihood Russia will join the World Trade Organisation in 2012 added to optimism. Russia this month completed entry negotiations and membership will likely be finalised in December.
However, policymakers are pessimistic that Russia can match the growth rates of the last decade without substantial reforms such as privatisation. Economists say these high growth rates were the result of rapidly growing oil prices as well as spare capacity after the post-communist economic collapse of the 1990s.
Current growth levels are driven primarily by stimulus spending and higher than expected import demand from China, according to the Kremlin.
The third-quarter spurt was driven mainly by a rise in investment and consumption. Fixed-capital investment grew 8.5 per cent from a year earlier in September, while unemployment fell to a more than three-year low. Retail sales jumped 9.2 per cent in the biggest increase since October 2008 after a 7.8 per cent gain in August.
Russia's economy is heavily focused on consumption at the expense of investment, something policy makers are eager to change.
Experts hope plans announced by President Dmitry Medvedev to privatize majority stakes in some large state companies by 2015 will remain in place under Mr Putin, who has shown less enthusiasm for liberal economic reforms.


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Why's The Media Shafting Ron Paul, And Ignoring NDAA & SOPA Dangers?
The American broadcast media's ongoing blackout of NDAA and SOPA -- and their race to marginalize GOP presidential front-runner Ron Paul -- suggests a level of moral bankruptcy in the press that is troubling, to say the least.
Even though President Obama is on vacation in Hawaii, NDAA sits on his desk, and could receive his signature via autopen at any moment -- certain hotly contested provisions within the NDAA would allow for the lifelong imprisonment of American citizens on US soil, by military force, without right to a trial, access to an attorney, and so forth -- yet the media isn't talking about it?
Similarly, SOPA has reached an advanced stage in Congress -- like a metastasizing deadly cancer -- and would allow for totalitarian-style censorship of US Internet content without trial. Even this article would be subject to removal under SOPA provisions. Yet the media isn't talking about it?
Look, you don't have to be a Ron Paul supporter. But you do have to see that the media plays a vicious game where it considers Iowa a major stepping stone in the path to the presidency, UNLESS someone they don't favor is the front-runner there (as is the case with Ron Paul's surging popularity). Now, all of a sudden, the pundits are crawling out from underneath their rocks to tell the American people that Iowa has become "irrelevant."
Something is desperately wrong here.
Yes, you can argue that FOX News is owned by News Corporation -- which also owns the FOX television and movie studio. Yes, you can argue that CNN is owned by Time Warner -- which also owns the Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema movie studios.
Is this the reason why they are silent on SOPA? To protect their respective parent company's box office profits?
It's a tempting line of paranoia, but not convincing enough. Surely at least one or two producers at these networks must have a conscience? Surely they realize that totalitarian censorship, and detainment of Americans without giving them a trial, is fundamentally wrong? It goes beyond political affiliations or economic status: these bills affect every single American.
Someone please wake our media up before it's too late. Merry Christmas, by the way.
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North Korea's Nukes
By Gwynne Dyer ⋅ September 4, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment
The last time when North Korean nuclear weapons might have been headed off by diplomacy was 15-20 years ago, when there was a deal freezing North Korean work on nuclear weapons, and then one stopping the country's work on long-range ballistic missiles.
If they had been negotiated with the same attention to detail that was given to the recent deal that has frozen Iran's nuclear programme for ten years, maybe North Korea's quest for nuclear-tipped ICBMs could have been stopped for good – or maybe not, because North Korea has always wanted an effective deterrent to the permanent US nuclear threat.
At any rate, both the nuclear and the missile deals with North Korea failed after a couple of years. Pyongyang and Washington were equally to blame for the break-downs, resorting to tit-for-tat retaliation for various perceived breaches of the deal by the other side.
But it was the United States that had more to lose, since it faced no nuclear threat from North Korea UNLESS the deals were abandoned and North Korea's weapons research went ahead. What we have seen recently – two ICBM tests in July, another one last month, and now what was almost certainly North Korea's first test of a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) – is the inevitable result of the failure then.
It took a lot of time and effort to get Pyongyang's bomb and missile programmes to this point, and it seems clear that Kim Jong-un's regime decided the safest way to test the new weapons and vehicles was all at once. He's right.
Stringing the tests out over a couple of years might have given the country's enemies time to organise a complete trade embargo against North Korea, or maybe even some form of attack. The safer course was to bunch the tests up, get the outraged reactions over fast, and then hope the whole issue will fade into the background.
That's what both India and Pakistan did in 1998, and it worked for them. Everybody eventually got used to the idea that they were more or less legitimate nuclear weapons powers.
India and Pakistan didn't bother doing all their missile tests at once, because they had enough space to carry them out over their own land and maritime territory. North Korea is much smaller and entirely surrounded by Chinese, Russian and Japanese territory, so any long-range tests are bound to pass over one of those countries. Pyongyang chose Japan, because it is a US ally.
But even its ICBM test on 30 August, when the Japanese government ordered its citizens in parts of Hokkaido into the shelters, did not enter Japanese airspace. The missile crossed Japan at a sub-orbital altitude, and the Japanese authorities knew that it would as soon as the boost phase ended. The pictures of allegedly panic-stricken Japanese civilians in shelters were propaganda meant to serve Prime Minister Abe's project for remilitarising Japan.
There is no good 'military option' available to the United States and its allies in the current crisis, even though President Trump says "We'll see."
A direct US attack on North Korea using only conventional weapons would not get all of North Korea's nukes, which are hidden in hardened underground sites or moved around by night on mobile launchers. It would also call down "fire and fury" on Seoul from ten thousand North Korean artillery pieces and short-range rockets.
A US nuclear attack would probably still not get all of Kim Jong-un's nukes: North Korea is the hardest intelligence target in the world. Pyongyang may already be able to reach the United States with one or two ICBMs carrying thermonuclear warheads, and it can certainly reach all of South Korea and Japan.
The political options for the United States and its Asian allies are equally constrained. Trump's talk of stopping US trade with any country that trades with North Korea is really aimed at China (which already operates selective embargoes on various North Korean exports). But cutting US trade with China would cause immense disruption to the American economy, and it's unlikely that Trump would actually do it.
Normally, when human beings encounter a problem that they cannot eliminate, they find ways of living with it. It often takes a while for them to get there, however, and we are currently in the dangerous phase where people (or at least some people) are convinced that there must be SOMETHING they can do to make the problem go away.
The only excuse for radical action now would be a conviction that Kim Jong-un is a crazy man who will use his nuclear weapons to launch an unprovoked attack on the United States, even though it would certainly lead to his own death and that of his entire regime. If you truly believe that, then the right course of action is an all-out nuclear attack on North Korea right now.
Otherwise, start dialing back your rhetoric, because you are eventually going to have to accept that North Korea now has a usable nuclear deterrent. You can live with that, because it's better than fighting a nuclear war.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 8 and 9. ("India…Japan")
Kim Jong-Trump
By Gwynne Dyer ⋅ August 9, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment
"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr President, but I do say not more than ten or twenty million dead, depending on the breaks." So said General 'Buck' Turgidson, urging the US president to carry out a nuclear first strike, in Stanley Kubrick's 1963 film 'Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.'
But nobody in Kubrick's movie talked like Kim Jong-un ("American bastards would be not very happy with this gift sent on the July 4 anniversary," he crowed, celebrating North Korea's first successful test of an ICBM). They didn't talk like Donald Trump either ("North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.")
Kubrick's film came out the year after the Cuban missile crisis, when the world went to the brink of nuclear war after the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles into Cuba to deter an American invasion. It was a terrifying time, but neither US President John F. Kennedy nor the Soviet leaders used violent language. They stayed calm, and carefully backed away from the brink.
So Kubrick's fictional leaders had to stay sane too; only his generals and civilian strategic 'experts' were crazy. Anything else would have been too implausible even for a wild satire like 'Strangelove'. Whereas now we live in different times.
Trump may not understand what his own words mean, but he is threatening to attack North Korea if it makes any more threats to the United States. That's certainly how it will be translated into Korean. And Pyongyang will assume that the US attack will be nuclear, since it would be even crazier to attack a nuclear-armed country like North Korea using only conventional weapons.
Maybe the American and North Korean leaders are just two playground bullies yelling at each other, but even in their more grown-up advisers it sets up the the train of thought best described by strategic theorist Thomas Schelling: "He thinks we think he'll attack; so he thinks we shall; so he will, so we must." This is how people can talk themselves into launching a 'pre-emptive' or 'preventive' nuclear attack.
Is this where the world finds itself at the moment? 'Fraid so. And although a nuclear war with North Korea at this point wouldn't even muss America's hair – the few North Korean ICBMs would probably go astray or be shot down before they reached the US – it could kill many millions of Koreans on both sides of the border.
A million or so Japanese might die as well (that would depend on the fallout), and a few tens of thousands of US soldiers in western Pacific bases (from targeted strikes). Indeed, as the scale of the potential disaster comes home to North Korean strategists, you can see them start to play with the idea of a "limited nuclear war."
North Korean planners have announced that they are "carefully examining" a plan for a missile attack on the big US base on Guam. In that way they could "signal their resolve" in a crisis by only hitting one isolated American military target. Their hope would be that such a limited attack would not unleash an all-out US nuclear counter-attack that would level North Korea.
'Limited' nuclear war typically becomes a favourite topic whenever strategists realise that using their cherished nuclear weapons any other way means unimaginable levels of death and destruction. It has never been credible, because it assumes that people will remain severely rational and unemotional while under attack by nuclear weapons.
Thinking about limited nuclear war, while unrealistic, is evidence that the planners are starting to get really scared about an all-out nuclear war, which is just what you want them to be. Nevertheless, we are entering a particularly dangerous phase of the process, not least because the other two major nuclear powers in the world, China and Russia, both have land borders with North Korea. And neither of them loves or trusts the United States.
What "process" are we talking about here? The process of coming to an accommodation that lets North Korea keep a nuclear deterrent, while reassuring it that it will never have to use those weapons. Because that's what these North Korean missiles and nuclear warheads are about: deterring an American attack aimed at changing the regime.
They couldn't be about anything else. North Korea can never have enough missiles to attack the US or its local allies and survive: it would be national suicide. But it can have enough of them to carry out a "revenge from the grave" and impose unacceptable losses on the US if it attacks North Korea. Deterrence, as usual, is the name of the game.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefly said that the US was not seeking to change the North Korean regime last week, although he was almost immediately contradicted by President Trump. In the long run, however, that is the unpalatable but acceptable way out of this crisis. In fact, there is no other way out.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 6 and 13. ("Maybe…attack"; and "They…game")
"Solving" North Korea
By Gwynne Dyer ⋅ April 3, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment
Never mind the legalities of the situation. Never mind morality either. Just answer the pragmatic question: Is it ever a good idea to start a nuclear war? Because that's the notion that Donald Trump is actually playing with.
He didn't say exactly that, of course. He said that "If China is not going to solve (the nuclear threat from) North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you." But in the context of that interview with the Financial Times, it was clear what he meant.
Trump was saying that if China did not use the tools at its disposal (political influence, trade sanctions, withholding financial aid) to make North Korea give up its nuclear weapons and long-range rockets, then the United States would use the tools at its disposal (the world's most powerful armed forces) to accomplish the same goal.
This does not necessarily mean that the United States would launch a large nuclear attack against North Korea. If you are really serious about carrying out a "disarming strike" that destroys all of North Korea's nukes, you probably should do exactly that. (You never get a second chance to go first.) But maybe the US Air Force would promise that "precision" non-nuclear weapons could accomplish that goal, and maybe some gullible people would believe it.
It would still turn into a nuclear war in the end, unless American "surgical strikes" miraculously eliminated every last one of North Korea's nukes at the same time. Kim Jong-un's regime would find itself in the position known in nuclear strategy as "use them or lose them", and it is hard to believe that it would not launch whatever it had left.
The targets would be in South Korea, of course, but probably also American bases in Japan. Maybe even Japanese cities, if North Korea had enough weapons left. The regime would know it was going under – the United States would not take this huge risk and then leave it in power – so it would take as many of its enemies as possible down with it.
North America would probably not be hit, because Western intelligence services do not believe that Pyongyang has ballistic missiles that can reach that far yet. (But "intelligence" is not the same as knowing for sure, and they could be wrong.) At worst, the victims would be one or two cities in the Pacific north-west of the United States.
This would be a very bad outcome for people living in Seattle or Portland, but it would not actually be a "nuclear holocaust". The kind of war that the super-powers would have fought at the height of the Cold War, with thousands of nuclear weapons used by each side, would have killed hundreds of millions, and might even have triggered a "nuclear winter".
A nuclear war over Korea would be a much smaller catastrophe, perhaps involving a few million deaths – unless China got drawn in. Unfortunately, that is not inconceivable, because China, much as it dislikes and mistrusts the North Korean regime, is determined not to see it destroyed.
Many people are uncomfortable with this kind of analysis, especially when it draws comparisons between "bad" and "less bad" nuclear wars. Herman Kahn, the dean of nuclear strategists in the 1960s and 70s, was frequently the target of this kind of criticism: how could he talk about potential mass death in such a cold-blooded way?
His response was always the same: "Would you prefer a nice, warm mistake?" "Thinking About the Unthinkable", as he put it in one of his books, is absolutely necessary if the Unthinkable is not happen. In this case, that means taking the possibility that China might be drawn into the conflict seriously.
The destruction of the North Korean regime would bring American military power right to China's own border. You might reasonably ask: So what? This is the 21st century, and what matters strategically is the big, lethal long-range weapons (like nukes), not the whereabouts of a few American infantry battalions. Quite right in theory. Not necessarily right in practice.
During the Korean War, when American troops were operating very close to the Chinese frontier in late 1950, the Chinese regime sent troops in to save the North Korean regime – and succeeded. The scenario this time, with nuclear weapons already being used on both sides of the North Korea-South Korea frontier, would be different, but it could be even more dangerous. China has lots of nuclear weapons, and delivery vehicles too.
Donald Trump is the fourth American president to be faced with the challenge of North Korean nuclear weapons, and none of them has found a safe and effective way of dealing with it. But all the others avoided making open threats of violence, because that would probably just make matters worse.
Of course, Trump may just be bluffing. In fact, he almost certainly is. But if your bluff is called, you have to go through with your threat or accept being humiliated. The Donald doesn't do humiliation.
To shrten to 725 words, omit paragraphs10 and 11. ("Many…seriously")
Korean Crisis Control
By Gwynne Dyer ⋅ August 25, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment
Having just been on holiday with two very strong-willed little boys aged 8 and 9, I feel particularly well qualified to explain why the two Koreas went to the brink of war over some loudspeakers, but didn't go over the edge. George and James could explain the process even better themselves, but child labour laws prevent them from writing for newspapers, so I'll do it for them.
It began with a land-mine explosion in the Demilitarised Zone between the two countries that severely wounded two South Korean army sergeants. The mine was of an old Soviet design, so Seoul said it must have been put there by North Korea and demanded an apology from Pyongyang.
The North Korean denied it, of course, but Pyongyang gets very upset every year around this time, when South Korea and the United States hold their annual joint military exercises.
So to punish North Korea, South Korea re-activated the loudspeakers that used to broadcast anti-North Korean propaganda across the DMZ until they were turned off eleven years ago. Nobody could hear the propaganda except North Korean soldiers on the other side of the DMZ, so it's hard to see what actual harm it was doing, but North Korea rose to the bait with alacrity.
Last Thursday afternoon, North Korean troops fired a rocket and several artillery shells at the loudspeakers, though none seem to have hit them. South Korea responded with a barrage of dozens of 155mm artillery rounds, which led North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (the pudgy one with the very bad haircut) to declare a "semi-state of war" and set a 48-hour deadline for the loudspeakers to be turned off.
Otherwise, Kim said, his troops would carry out "indiscriminate strikes" against the South. This would have been a grave threat if he actually meant it, since most of Seoul, a city of 25 million people, is within artillery range of the DMZ, but the Saturday deadline passed without further shooting.
Instead, urgent talks began on Saturday in the "truce" village of Panmunjom, in the middle of the DMZ, between Hwang Pyong-so, the political director of the North Korean armed forces, and Kim Kwan-jin, national security adviser to the South Korean president.
The talks lasted more than three days, with the South Korean loudspeakers still blaring out and North Korean artillery, landing craft and submarines moving towards the frontiers. "If nothing is agreed, we have to continue the broadcasting," said the South Korean representative at the talks. "We are tired of speaking the language of escalation."
That last sentence didn't even make sense. Were Kim Kwan-jin and his North Korean counterpart really flirting with the idea of a war that would certainly kill hundreds of thousands of people, and might even turn nuclear, over some loudspeakers? Maybe, but there was a distinct lack of panic in other capitals, and in the end they made a deal.
That brings us back to the two litle boys. Siblings who are close in age, even if they are friends, are also rivals, and they generally squabble a lot. They often get locked into quarrels over matters of little or no importance and seem unable to walk away from them.
What keeps these struggles from ending in real violence, and usually restores order in the end, is adult intervention. Even if they resent it, the kids also secretly welcome it, because it frees them from the trap of their own emotions.
The adults, in this case, are the great-power allies of the two Koreas: China for the North, and the United States for the South. It's not that Americans and Chinese are really more grown-up than Koreans, but being farther away, they could see how petty the confrontation really is, and they had no intention of being dragged into a war over it.
So in the end North Korea expressed "regret" about the land-mine, and South Korea turned off the loudspeakers, and everybody lived grumpily ever after. Or something like that.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie
Narrator: Gerard Doyle
Series: Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James #18
Published by HarperAudio on October 8, 2019
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Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his wife, Detective Inspector Gemma James, have been invited for a relaxing weekend in the tranquil Cotswolds, one of Britain's most beautiful and historic regions, famous for its rolling hills, sheep-strewn green meadows, golden cottages, and timeless villages that retain the spirit of old England.
Duncan, Gemma, and their children are guests at Beck House, the country estate belonging to the family of Melody Talbot, Gemma's trusted detective sergeant. No ordinary farmers, the Talbots are wealthy and prominent with ties to Britain's most powerful and influential. A centerpiece of this glorious fall getaway is a posh charity luncheon catered by up-and-coming chef Viv Holland. After more than a decade in London, Viv has returned to her native Glouscestershire, making a name for herself with her innovative, mouthwatering use of the local bounty. Attended by several dozen of the area's well-to-do, as well as national food bloggers and restaurant critics, the event could make Viv a star.
But a tragic car accident followed by a series of mysterious deaths could ruin her ascent. Each piece of information that surfaces makes it clear that the killer had a connection with Viv's pub—and perhaps with Beck House itself.
Does the truth lie in the past? Or is it more immediate, woven into the tangled relationships and bitter resentments swirling among the staff at Beck House and at Viv's pub? Or is it even more personal, entwined with secrets hidden by Viv, her business partner Bea Abbot, and Viv's eleven-year-old daughter Grace?
Further revelations rock the Talbots' estate and pull Duncan and Gemma and their colleagues into the investigation. With so much at stake both personally and professionally, especially for Melody Talbot, finding the killer becomes one of the team's most crucial cases.
I've enjoyed every book in the Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James series. I've only recently starting listening to them on audio and that is such a pleasure. I love mysteries set in England. Even though there are now 18 books, I do believe it is important to read them all and in order. There is a huge amount of character development in the main characters, their families, friends, and co-workers.
The previous book Garden of Lamentations had each of the main characters involved in a variety of cases. So they did not have much interaction or time with personal developments, with little time with family and friends. A Bitter Feast is just the opposite with lots of time with family and friends as they are on a family weekend at a co-workers' home. Their co-workers are some of their best friends.
The trip starts with Duncan in a car crash where the other cars' participants die. He and Gemma become involved in figuring out who the people are and why they died since something is off about it. As more deaths occur, they work to find the truth. In addition to the facts, they consider the people involved and their feelings, working with compassion. Duncan and Gemma do such a masterful job both professionally, and personally pitching in with a charity event. Kit gets involved with helping at the event and is so responsible and considerate in his work.
I love everything about these stories from the excellent world building, the well developed multitude of characters, the police aspects of gathering information, the close circle of friends and the family growth. There is so much detail on their emotional journeys with worries about Duncan's injuries and Melody's boyfriend troubles. I look forward to each new one eagerly.
I enjoyed Viv, a new character, who is a chef and single parent, with a difficult past. The food descriptions were fantastic. The incredible descriptions and characters in this small town they visited were excellent and Crombie really brought these characters to life.
Gerard Doyle handles this series well and I have enjoyed him with each listen. I loved the English accents, although I don't know if they were accurate. The characters had distinct voices, male, female and the children which felt authentic. I was able to listen at my normal 1.5x speed.
About Deborah Crombie
Deborah Crombie was born in Dallas and grew up in Richardson, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas, second child of Charlie and Mary Darden. Her maternal grandmother, Lillian Dozier, a retired teacher, taught her to read at the tender age of four. After a rather checkered educational career, which included dropping out of high school at sixteen, she graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, with a degree in biology.
She then worked in advertising and newspapers, and attended the Rice University Publishing Program. A post-university trip to England, however, cemented a life-long passion for Britain, and she later immigrated to the UK with her first husband, Peter Crombie, a Scot, living first in Edinburgh, Scotland, and then in Chester, England.
After returning to live in Dallas, a trip to Yorkshire inspired her first Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid/Sergeant Gemma James novel. A Share in Death [Scribner, 1993], was subsequently given Agatha and Macavity nominations for Best First Novel of 1993. The fifth novel, Dreaming of the Bones (Scribner 1997), a New York Times Notable Book for 1997, was short-listed by Mystery Writers of America for the 1997 Edgar Award for Best Novel, won the Macavity award for Best Novel, and was voted by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as one of the hundred best mysteries of the century. Her subsequent novels have been received with critical acclaim and are widely read internationally, particularly in Germany. In 2009, Where Memories Lie won the Macacity Award for Best Novel. In 2010, Necessary as Blood received a Macavity nomination for Best Novel.
Crombie's novels are published in North America, Japan, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Romania, Greece, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and numerous other countries.
Although she travels to England several times a year, Crombie lives in McKinney, Texas, an historic town north of Dallas, sharing a circa 1905 Texas Craftsman bungalow with her husband, Rick Wilson, two German shepherds (Dax and Jasmine), and three cats. She is an afficionado of tea and cocktails, enjoys cooking and admiring her garden, reading, birdwatching, and playing with her dogs.
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Ooh! A new British series to try!! Excellent review, Anne💜 Just what I needed…another series😏 But this sounds really good and I like Gerard Doyle as a narrator.
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It's an amazing series! I envy you being able to start it fresh and having 18 wonderful books for listening. I hope you love it too.
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I would love to try this series, Anne. I'm reading couple of long series and I enjoy how the characters grow. I'll add this to my list!
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I think it's a really good choice. I like this genre and it's one of my favorites. It's very character driven with a lovely British feel.
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i am curious…
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I hope you will get a chance to try this series.
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A loan officer with experience is great. But more specifically, you want someone who offers products that you work with. If you encourage a lot of your clients to pursue 15-year mortgages, find a loan officer that makes that happen. Finding someone with a lot of jumbo loan experience may not usually be very much help to you, even though they're great at what they do.
Not every loan officer can produce every kind of mortgage. Cultivate an atmosphere of honesty and transparency so that you don't waste your time waiting on something that isn't going to come through. You can have a really good loan officer who just isn't a good fit for every kind of client.
It should be obvious, but a loan originator can't read your mind. Be clear about the deadlines and expectations you have set. Encourage open dialogue so there is no disappointment down the road.
A lot of loan officers take the approach of flattery to win over agents' business. They try to sell themselves to you. What they don't realize is that you're in the business of personal branding and customer service. You can't simply be won over! You should look for information and presentation. The most knowledgeable officers trump the most personable.
You may always need originators, but you don't have to pine after their business desperately. Their constant attempts to reach out to you may get old fast, but it should also serve as a reminder that you always have options. There's never a reason to bend over backwards for a loan officer who is ill-prepared, untimely, or generally unprofessional.
There are some agents that work exclusively with a loan officer they know they can trust. That's fine if you have the pipeline and experience to make that work. But remember, it's nothing personal if an agent doesn't want to work with your loan officer. Let the buyer know the benefits of your network, but know that you get your commission check regardless. Plus, now you know exactly how to screen the other officers right off the bat!


Today I'd like to share with you a super simple productivity framework that I use. I get asked a ton of questions about, design, career advice, freelance and how to get things done in general. So how can we get the most of "what we do" to achieve the goals that we want. This is how I approach my work most of the time.
It's simple do the most important tasks first, but more specifically do the thing that will give us the most amount of impact. It's about the output of high value activities vs. time. And then try to do that everyday and track it.
Once you've done the high impact activities – the ones where if you did nothing else that day, but just that 1 activity it would still count as a highly productive day. Then you can move on to the secondary tasks that come our way. Answering emails etc. Don't get distracted by the secondary tasks first.
Our capacity to operate at an efficient and optimal level everyday is arguably only a few hours.
Think back to your day, how long was your most productive AND creative stretch? That's the window that you want to maximise.
So you have to prioritise and use that peak mental energy effectively.
Everyday, month, and year we are bombarded with a ton things that we have to do. Tasks and activities we perform that zap our mental energy. It takes up most of our time, yet it's output doesn't necessarily add any extensive value to what we want achieve.
It's this vicious cycle of meetings.
Checking and consuming social media.
Working on tweaking our logo rather than going out there and doing the HARD thing like generating revenue.
You get the drift, it's the law of diminishing returns.
The goal is to reserve that peak mental energy of a few hours everyday and use it for high impact activities. Prioritising like mad.
20% of the input creates 80% of the results.
So you don't have to work yourself to the ground to get results. The hard part is being honest with yourself, what is the most important thing I can do to achieve the outcome I want. What can I today? This month? This year. It won't always be the easiest tasks, but it'll be the most important thing you can do to leverage high volume output.
Once you identify the outcome you can brainstorm different ideas for getting stuff done.
3. Creative ways I can get the attention of my ideal clients. Creating a roadmap and strategy that I could execute against.
4. How to generate value and build relationships with prospective clients.
5. How to turn prospective clients into leads by building trust and that upfront value.
6. How to turn leads into paying clients.
7. How to turn clients into repeat clients and brand advocates.
You need to prioritise and focus most of your energy on this. Everyday I would pick a cross section of this and work on it.
80% of everything else that you do won't matter.
Revenue is the lifeblood of a business. Your optimal time should be used to work on high impact activities as a priority. The reason we avoid these activities is sometimes we don't face the music. It's feels more satisfying ticking our random to do list off, even though it's not really doing anything that is generating much value, but it's easy to do and it feels like we are doing a lot.
Continuing on from the above example.
Don't spend 6 months working on a folio in isolation.
Instead get in front of your ideal clients. Try cold emailing (it's a lot of rejections and it's hard, but done right it can yield results), creating content, providing value, connecting, and building awareness with that audience. Those are the hard things that you should be doing.
Hard work is always part of the equation, but working yourself to the bone won't necessarily garner better results, if the person who is productive leverages their time better AND works hard. Their results will be worlds apart from the person who just works hard. Focus your energy on that 20% that generates most of the results and prioritise it. The more focused you are the more it keeps leveraging on itself, creating a compounding effect.
When I'm at my best that's how I operate. I have a clear overview for 1 month, what I hope to complete in that time, my hypothesis for what those activities will yield results wise. (Which I measure at the end) And then every week I track what I will be doing. Each day I have 1 key thing that I hope to complete. And usually 5 secondary things that are optional that I can do if I have time.
1.So to be at your productive best. Leverage your best mental energy (which is usually in the morning, but you can define when that time is best for you) and focus on doing the hard tasks that output the highest amount of results and leverage first.
2. Focus on delivering on that 20% that delivers the most results.
3. Focus and try to accomplish 1 key thing a day.
4. Track your month. What were the results? How much was useful and optimal work?
5. Track your year and then repeat the framework.
Guiding principles. Why do you do what you do?


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Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington on playing live
Niall O'Keeffe , April 29th, 2008 00:00
From thumping the disabled to intimidating bouncers and props that go terribly wrong, Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington tells Niall O'Keeffe the ten things he has learned about playing live.
One of our goals was to be accepted at large as a non-professional band," drawls Tim Harrington down a telephone line from New York City and, casting my mind back a couple of months, I can see where he's coming from. When Les Savy Fav headlined a sold-out show at the Astoria in February, it quickly became clear that the move to bigger spaces was not going to stifle Harrington's freeform exhibitionism. When the bearded, balding frontman first loomed into view, he was wearing a Phantom of the Opera mask cut from a paper plate, a cape, jodhpurs and riding boots. By the end of curtain raiser 'What Would Wolves Do?', he had shed the overcoat to reveal a hideous tie-dye T-shirt, replaced the boots with a pair of brown shoes flung onstage by a punter and repeatedly invaded the audience to trade wolf howls with the diehards. The tone was set for a crazed performance that both reiterated Les Savy Fav's refusal to play the game and celebrated their sudden, improbable ascent.
Last year's Let's Stay Friends album, their fourth, followed a lengthy hiatus in which many assumed that Les Savy Fav were no more. They certainly had plenty else on their plates: Harrington, for example, was busy becoming a father, designing TV graphics for VH-1 and launching a textiles company called Deadly Squire with his wife. Guitarist Seth Jabour apparently worked as an art director at a fragrance company. However the delay also had something to do with a reimagining of the band's sound. On Let's Stay Friends the brand of art-punk sounded tauter and more precise than ever before, providing a solid foundation for Harrington's obtuse lyrical flights of fancy.
Yet it's as a live band that the indie punks are most revered, a reality acknowledged by the release of a new live album, 'After The Balls Drop', on April 29. On the eve of its release, Harrington took a call from The Quietus to ruminate on Les Savy Fav's newfound popularity in his unusual speaking style (languid pondering one moment; a rapid-fire anecdote the next). "There's a compulsion to grow bands," he observed, "and losing interest in that happened to make us get bigger."
Then Harrington set out 10 lessons he'd learned across a decade of acting like "a funny ape in a cage"| 1. Don't assume that the fan with the cane is a poseur.
"At a show in LA a couple of years ago| we're playing, everything's cool, and there's a kid up front who has a cane. I'm like, 'That's a cool affectation. I'm going to borrow his cane and do a soft-shoe dance routine.' I went to pull the cane, and he thought that I wanted to let him use the cane to climb up onto the stage. He wouldn't let got of it, so I pulled him and the cane up. I was trying to gesture to him to swing the cane around and do a dance routine, but he thought what I meant was to start hitting me with the cane. And he was doing it quite mockingly, it wasn't that big a deal, and I was like, 'Oh, this is funny' and singing still, but crumpled down on all fours, and I'm looking up at him with little-kid-getting-beat-up eyes.
"Then he starts hitting me harder " kind of whaling on me with his cane. And I'm tough, I can take it; I don't want anything hostile. It's hurting a little bit but it's funny. But then all of a sudden I look over and he's drawn the cane way back behind his head, and I just kind of sensed I was about to get a death blow. I'm super-non-violent and super-pacifistic, but I just turned and punched him completely in the middle of the face. Not like super-hard, but really squarely. He goes reeling back and everyone's gone from smiling to going, 'God, I never really thought about the fact that the singer of that band could probably kick someone's ass if it had to happen.' I'm definitely big enough that technically I could. Suddenly it's like: 'God, I just realised that that bear that's been tap-dancing is a real bear. I forgot!'
"It turns out he's got a twisted ankle " it wasn't an affectation. I look out and I see the audience looking all aghast " 'Oh man, there's a fight between the singer and a handicapped guy. And the singer's winning.' [But] one thing led to another and about eight seconds after hitting him we were French-kissing."
2. Don't plan.
"If we have any kind of manifesto it's a live one, and it's about spontaneity| The performance is so pulled out of the ass and the music is so obviously considered that seeing that at the same time is an interesting double vision."
3. Remember that you can get away with anything.
"I remember a show in Boise, Idaho, where no-one was watching us play. three drunks were playing pool, and I remember very specifically this moment of walking over to the pool table and just hoisting the entire thing up and all the balls just rolling down to the one far-corner pocket, and the people, with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths and pool cues idling in mid-air, being like, 'What the fuck?' You can do almost anything to people if you're holding a microphone." 4. Don't hang out backstage. "Sitting in the backstage area where you can't even hear the other bands and you're like, 'I'm going to check my e-mail on their wireless connection'| that's not conducive to having a fun night."
5. Don't be macho.
"The music's pretty aggressive and there's a lot of energy, but it's not ever hostile or a jock energy. I think I come across as sort of a funny ape in a cage as opposed to an enraged ape in a cage."
Entertain your own band.
"My highest aspiration is for those guys to say, 'Tim that was awesome| I could barely concentrate.'" 7. Aspire to owning a buckskin suit.
"I have this dream costume: a full buckskin suit, kind of a Davy Crockett outfit but based on this amazing photo of Charles Manson wearing one that's always just completely blown my mind. Buckskin and a beard? It's a good look."
8. Play only really obvious covers.
"For the live album that's coming out we played a show on New Year's Day " a 3am show " in New York, and we were like, 'We want this to not be a concert " more a party' and to that effect we played six or eight of our own songs and then eight cover songs " 'cheap shots'; songs that no music connoisseur would be like, 'Wow, I can't believe they know that one.' We didn't put it on the album because AC/DC wasn't into it, but we covered 'TNT'. And everyone goes 'T-N-T' and sings along with that part, and I did get a total insight into why AC/DC write music they way they do because it's completely awesome. I was like, 'Why haven't we written songs where everyone spells letters that they know?' Like, if we could get half the response that we got when we covered 'TNT' with any of our songs| God, I could retire."
9. Pick on one bouncer to win the favour of his rivals.
"If you point one bouncer out in a way that embarrasses them, you win all the other bouncers. The other guys are like, 'Oh, this guy's hilarious! Look what he did! He rubbed Mikey's head!'"
Pick your props carefully, lest you wind up with mandarin-sized blisters.
"Last year we were playing in New York and a friend of mine had bought a rug and she couldn't get it around the corner of the stairway so I convinced her to go to the hardware store and buy rope and we'd hoist it up two floors and in through the window, so we did that, and then I had this big giant length of rope that I got to keep, and I was like, 'I'm going to bring the rope to the show.' There was a balcony, and I was going to make a lasso and throw it up there and then loop the rope around my foot and then I'd get dramatically hoisted on this rope by the audience.
"But I threw the rope up and someone didn't understand me and they tied it off, like I was going to climb up myself, which I'm physically not capable of doing... I slid down this entire rope and my hand immediately exploded into blisters the size of mandarin oranges. But it was funny. I spent the rest of the show with my hands stuck in a cooler full of ice. Actually, that was better than the rope: 'He played the entire set on all fours with his hands in a bucket of ice water!'"
Tim Harrington brings his unique brand of menacing playfulness back to the UK when Les Savy Fav play the ATP vs Pitchfork Festival at Camber Sands on May 10.
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Domain Name Registrants are individuals or organizations that want to apply for one or more domain names with a registry. Some domain name registrants are trademark holders.


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Yankee Stadium, Sunday October 16, 1960
"The Violent World of Sam Huff"
Two more rare broadcast treasures have been released from our vault of vintage film not seen in over 50 years by the general public! The oldest known kinescope of an NFL game, the Redskins-Giants game of October 16, 1960 is not a full-game broadcast, but rather one in a series of kinescopes made for the NFL's "The Best of Pro Football" TV show, and was to be aired on CBS at a later date that season. Narrated by Jack Brickhouse, this game is the only show of the series which is known to exist! The game film runs 51 minutes and covers almost the entire game from the opening coin toss to the end. Coach Mike Nixon's Redskins would win only one game all season (two ties), while the Giants of coach Jim Lee Howell are the defending Eastern Conference Champions! The Giants build a 24-10 lead by late in the final quarter, but Washington battles back to make this one of the most thrilling games of the season (of course this is why this game was selected to be re-shown)! Here are the players who start the game for each club – Washington offense: Ralph Guglielmi, Dick James, Jim Podoley, Don Bosseler, Bill Anderson, Joe Walton, Fran O'Brien, Ray Lemek, Red Stephens, Vince Promuto and Jim Schrader.
New York defense: Jim Katcavage, Rosey Grier, Dick Modzelewski, Harland Svare, Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Jim Patton, Dick Lynch, Lindon Crow, Cliff Livingston and Dick Nolan. Other Giants you'll see during the game are Jim Leo, Pat Summerall, Lee Riley, QB's Charley Conerly and George Shaw, Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote, Phil King, Joe Morrison, Bob Schnelker, Ray Wietecha, Roosevelt Brown, Darrell Dess, Jack Stroud, Don Boll, Proverb Jacobs, Mel Triplett and Ed Sutton. Other Redskins you'll see in action include Bob Khayat, Sam Horner, Eagle Day, Ben Scotti, Jim Crotty, Dick Haley, John Paluck, Don Stallings, Ray Krouse, Andy Stynchula, Dick Lasse, Bill Roehnelt, Ralph Felton, Johnny Olszewski, and Tom Osborne.
Also included as part of this DVD is "The Violent World of Sam Huff", a landmark 1960 TV show still remembered by those who saw it more than 50 years ago on Prudential's "The Twentieth Century" with Walter Cronkite. This was one of the earliest behind-the-scenes TV sports documentaries which greatly popularized the NFL in the early 1960's and helped make the name Sam Huff synonymous with tough pro football defense. For the first time an NFL player (Sam Huff) is miked for sound during an NFL game and the viewer can see AND hear what Huff himself hears and says on the field! Following an introduction of Huff, Sam and his wife Mary comment about his early football life in West Virginia. You'll see and hear the sounds of Giants training camp, with the voices of Head Coach Jim Lee Howell, Huff, Dick Modzelewski, Andy Robustelli, Cliff Livingston, Harland Svare, Jimmy Patton and assistant coaches Allie Sherman and Ed Kolman. The show culminates with the first pre-season game of 1960 – the Giants vs the Chicago Bears at Toronto, in which Huff is wired for sound during the game.
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Ku-ring-gai Council is a local government area in the Upper North Shore region of Sydney. The region is named after the Ku-ring-gai tribe who once inhabited the area. Ku-ring-gai Council first adopted Conserve in May 2010 and currently have more than 120 individual contractor businesses ac credited within the online contractor management system.
Ku-ring-gai Council was looking to adopt a uniform process across the organisation to ensure contractor compliance with their WHS requirements. Prior to the uptake of Conserve, they used a manual process to ensure the councils legal and WHS criteria were met, however this proved difficult to manage and was highly resource intensive as different groups would often use different processes.
Conserve was adopted by the council as their contractor management system. It is hosted and accessed completely online, providing a consistent process for prequalification of contractors as well as the tracking and reporting of contractor compliance with council's WHS requirements.
They currently have 127 contractor businesses accredited and approved in Conserve.
They have a pool of compliant prequalified contractors that they can engage as needed.


What time GAYA - KIUL PASS depart from GAYA JN Railway Station?
GAYA - KIUL PASS (53626) departs from GAYA JN Railway Station at 07:20.
How much time GAYA - KIUL PASS take to reach KIUL JN Railway Station?
GAYA - KIUL PASS reach on day 1 to KIUL JN Railway Station. The arrival time of GAYA - KIUL PASS at KIUL JN Railway Station is 12:20.
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Luray Cavern Review, Admission Coupons, and a Stalagpipe Video!
An Experience Like No Other...for Less!
We've been to Luray Cavern twice. The first time was almost our last.
But first...want discount tickets? Keep reading and I'll tell you how...plus I'll show you a spectacular, narrated YouTube video that will show you exactly what you'll see in the cavern.
Okay, back to our first visit. Alex, our then 3-year-old, was scared of the dark. So as we descended down the stone steps into the cave he started murmuring, "I don't like this. Can we go now?"
Luckily, once he saw that the cave was indeed lit (and after numerous hugs and reassurances) he reluctantly started the tour (in my arms...all 30 pounds of him). But from time to time, he would whisper, "It's dark. Can we go now?"
We'd gotten about 15 minutes into the informative Luray Cavern tour when...snap! Our section of the mile-long trail was plunged into darkness, save for the lights of a lower section.
If he could've figured out where to go, poor Alex would've skedaddled out of that section. Luckily, our plucky (and knowledgeable) guide calmly said, "Someone just flicked a switch they shouldn't have. The lights'll be back on in just a sec'." She was right; they were, and we managed to coax Alex into continuing the tour.
This shield formation at Grand Caverns is similar to what you'll see at Luray Cavern.
When we came back nine months later, Alex was pre-t-t-y reluctant to take the tour. No worries. As the only boy among six cousins visiting that day, he quickly overcame his reluctance and took it like the "man" he was. And had a great time!
So why don't I have any pictures of Luray Cavern? Because (silly me!) on my first visit I assumed that you couldn't take photos in the cavern (not true, you can). On my second trip? I forgot my camera...so the photo above is of Virginia's Grand Cavern.
Luray Cavern is the largest and most popular cavern in the eastern United States. With 1.23 miles of cave to tour, it's big enough to give you a full appreciation of its magnificent stalagtites and stalagmites, but not so big that or hilly to be strenuous. You can easily lift a light stroller up or down the 70 steps on the tour (wheelchairs may be another story).
It's also a nice retreat from a either a hot summer day or a cold winter's morning, having a constant temp of 54 degrees Fahrenheit year round.
To me, that meant that, despite the heat outside, I changed into long pants, a sweatshirt and a leather jacket to enter the caven. I needn't have bothered. It felt much warmer (perhaps due to the relatively high humidity in the cave) and I shed my jacket within 15 minutes. It's really a comfortable temperature.
Is the Luray Cavern tour worth the high price? If you love caves, ABSOLUTELY! The tour guides are awesome, funny, and very knowledgeable. The cave itself is amazing...knowing you're deep inside the earth, stalagtites (or is it stalagmites?) dripping with water, fantastically odd formations all around you...it's an experience like none other on (or below) earth.
Looking at the formations is kind of like a rock version of cloud watching--they've named some formations (like the White Ghost and the Fried Eggs) but you can use your own imagination. Near the end of every tour, they come to the Ballroom, where you can hear the only stalagpipe organ in the world play the old hymn, "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."
Just outside Luray Cavern are several other attractions. The Car and Carriage Caravan Museum (included in the general admission fee) is a treat for car lovers, featuring a variety of models from 150-year-0ld carriages, to Model T's, to souped up roadsters. Some young kids will breeze through it (ours did), but it opens into the gift shop, which may buy you a little more time to enjoy the exhibit.
Our kids LOVED the Garden Maze, an acre-sized maze featuring 1,500 sky-high (okay, 8 feet) Arborvitae, and cool clues to solve to help you find your way through. As they describe it "The twisting pathways lead past fountains and into a cave. At 40 points, the challenger must choose a direction to solve the riddle and emerge from the maze. An elevated platform provides relief for those hopelessly lost" (with six kids guiding us, we managed to not have to use it!).
They also offer a few new attractions, including a Ropes Course Adventure, a Vineyard, a Gem Sluice and more. For details on these attractions, and what they cost, click the link in the "Discounts" section below.
So how much will a tour of Luray Cavern cost you? It's not cheap, but there are some discounts.
Click here for hours, admission, the ONLY ticket discounts available, and information on other sights at Luray. You'll also find information on lodging options and places to eat during your visit. And for info on the local town of Luray, click here.


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Le terme homme à tout faire ou femme à tout faire désigne un ouvrier compétent dans le domaine de l'habitation : le bricolage, la décoration et le travail de maintenance. C'est donc un synonyme de factotum ou de Michel Morin.

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Le terme désigne souvent quelqu'un qui est payé pour rendre des services divers chez un particulier. Les tâches pour lesquelles un homme à tout faire est employé peuvent être aussi simples qu'une réparation d'évier, ou aussi complexes que la remodélisation d'une salle de bains. Quelques-uns sont plus habiles que d'autres et exécutent plus que des réparations juste générales. Un bon homme à tout faire est habile, adroit, a le sens pratique et est compétent. Quelques bricoleurs sont déclarés et assurés. Certains ne le sont pas. Il y a différentes lois pour des juridictions différentes et l'assurance n'est pas toujours exigée (aux États-Unis). Pour des raisons de sécurité, la plupart des juridictions refusent aux bricoleurs de travailler sur la plomberie, (ils peuvent entreprendre des travaux mineurs comme le remplacement de robinets, l'installation de nouveaux lavabos ou machines à laver, etc.) la télégraphie électrique ou la manipulation d'appareils à gaz sans avoir obtenu une licence dans le commerce applicable. Tandis que beaucoup d'hommes à tout faire peuvent être trouvés par les méthodes traditionnelles (une référence, un moteur de recherche, l'annuaire du téléphone, le journal, etc.), certains sont loués pour un travail à la journée sur les stationnements (parkings) de quincailleries locales (aux États-Unis). Puisque l'on donne souvent accès aux bricoleurs à l'intérieur, la fiabilité de l'ouvrier est un sujet de crainte pour les entreprises qui les embauchent.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 L'homme à tout faire, roman de Robert Walser (Présentation).

Bricolage
Métier des services
Métier manuel
Métier sans qualification

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Shortcovers E-Reader: An Unfinished Story
By Walaika Haskins
March 25, 2009 4:00 AM PT
Over the past year or so, e-readers have suddenly become a must-have gadget. Amazon's Kindle e-reader was even named one of talk show host Oprah Winfrey's favorite things in 2008. With the recent release of the second iteration of the Kindle, electronic books and their accompanying devices are back in the news.
However, in these tough economic times, not everyone has the wherewithal to pony up US$350 for the Kindle or any other similarly priced e-reader. That's where the newly launched Shortcovers comes in.
Combining aspects of a social networking site with content ranging from newspaper and magazine articles to blogs, op-eds and first chapters and excerpts of novels, Shortcovers is designed to bring e-books to smartphones, including BlackBerry devices and Apple's iPhone.
Is the Screen Mightier Than the Page?
As an avid reader, I've always pined for a device that would allow me to cart around a slew of books without having to actually lug big, heavy volumes with me. Devices such as the Kindle seem like the perfect solution, but the $350 price tag is definitely more than I'd want to spend on any e-reader, especially when I could pick up a netbook that offers more functionality for roughly the same amount.
So, with my trusty BlackBerry Storm in hand, I headed over to the Shortcovers site. After registering, a quick download of the Shortcovers mobile application was all it took for me to be able to begin browsing through the thousands of books and lists stocking Shortcovers virtual shelves.
The first thing I noticed was that the application did not switch to landscape mode when I turned the handset on its side. That's a drag because that means all typing is done on the Storm's two-letter per key short keyboard. Annoying as it may be, it's not up to the level of a deal-breaker for me.
Navigating through the site on the mobile application is accomplished by clicking on different categories that let users browse through the Shortcovers' featured or most popular content, search the library, or change the settings. Though I found this somewhat limiting and wished that I could browse by topic or refine an author name search using links or some other method, it was not a major annoyance.
Skimming through the hundreds of excerpts, novel chapters and entire books on offer, it was easy to find well-known and popular titles. Authors on the site include John Grisham, Stephen King, and Stephanie Meyer, creator of the Twilight series. There are books on politics, do-it-yourself topics, finance and historical texts.
A search for newspaper articles and blogs yielded no results. There are, however, many lists of books created by other users. There are also many excerpts and chapters that have been submitted by unpublished writers as well as from those whose works have been self-published or printed by smaller publishing houses.
One thing I really enjoyed was the recommendations and ranking system. Select a book and you can see other books and materials the site believes are related. It also allows users to rank their reads with stars. Users can also see how many times a book has been viewed, bookmarked and shared as well as what source submitted the content.
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I was a bit disappointed with several aspects of the Shortcovers site's offerings. Although some of the books available on Shortcovers are downloadable in their e-book form, it seemed like an equal or greater number were not. So while I could read an excerpt or first chapter, if I wanted to read the rest of the book, the only option was to buy it — in hardback, paperback or on CD — via the Barnes & Noble link and wait for the book to be shipped to me.
This seems to defeat the purpose of the site and mobile application to a certain extent.
However, being able to access a Web site online with my laptop or using my smartphone is a big plus. So despite its shortcomings, I was still pleased with the overall offerings from Shortcovers. As the site did not quite live up to my expectations, though, I contacted Michael Serbinis, executive vice president of Shortcovers and chief information officer at Indigo Books & Music with a few questions.
Blogs, newspaper articles, etc. will be gradually added to the site, according to Serbinis.
"We're ramping up to blogs. We basically focused the launch on including as many books as possible from our top publishers. That was really the focus, to get as many books in on day one and then to layer in blogs, magazines and newspaper articles in the coming months," he told TechNewsWorld.
The site hosts about 200,000 books currently, and among those, 50,000 are available as e-books — 20,000 are free and 30,000 are available for purchase. There are also free first chapters. Pricing on the site starts at $0.99 for chapters and from about $5.99 for books.
"The idea is that as we roll out our next wave of publishers that we'll offer the digital version as well," Serbinis explained.
Shortcovers also plans to improve the functionality and features for its mobile application. The company plans to eventually support more devices; currently the site supports the iPhone and various BlackBerry models (the Storm, the Bold, the Curve, the Javelin, and the 8000 Series). There is also a beta application for the G1 Android handset.
"On the iPhone it does landscape, but on the Blackberry Storm it does not, and that will be in there next week or so. We're working on a ton of new functionality. We have a roadmap planned for the next six months to a year as we roll out exciting new devices like the Palm Pre, the Symbian platform that includes a lot of Nokia devices and Windows Mobile platform, which supports a ton of devices," he pointed out.
Shortcovers will also add features to allow users to browse by favorite author, topic or genre in the coming months.
All that means that I have to hold off on giving Shortcovers a thumbs up or down until they have been around a little longer and rolled out their enhancements. Until, then, I'll keep on reading.
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Getting that perfect shot is hard, and raking in the likes on social media often requires some editing. We've already seen what smartphones can do in place of digital cameras. Now there's an app to help make all the necessary changes to get your photo trending.
"Storyluxe" is a photo and video editing app that allows users to edit posts for all of their social media platforms. Users can select media, filters, background textures and colors to help make their photos pop. Once the look is set, photos can be saved and uploaded to Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and more.
A subscription can be purchased to upgrade template, backdrop and filter libraries. The cost is $2.99 a month, which is worth it if you are truly dedicated to the cause. Without the subscription, the app could lose its luster as the available options are limited.
If you're a social media junkie, this app could be useful. Otherwise, save the storage space and stick to the editing features within Insta and Snap.


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Emergency rules not renewed in Israel's south following ceasefire
(JTA) – Following a brief calm in exchanges of fire between Israel and Gaza militants, towns near the border with the Palestinian enclave resumed normal services.
The municipalities of Netivot, Sderot and smaller towns near the Gaza Strip on Friday did not renew emergency regulations that had been in place for most the past week. The regulations prevented holding any gatherings outside sheltered areas, including summer camp activities, as well as public transportation.
The resumption of activity – including by the Ashkelon-Sderot line of the Israel Railways – followed the coming into effect of a de-facto ceasefire on Thursday night, the Israel Broadcasting Corp. reported.
More than 150 rockets have hit southern Israel over the past week, in one of the most violent exchanges with Hamas militants since Israel launched a massive military operation in 2014 against the terrorist group over its firing of rockets into Israeli towns.
The Israel Air Force has struck more than 150 targets across the Gaza Strip, including military training camps, weapons caches and terrorists. Several people have died in the strikes, according to Hamas. On the Israeli side, several people were injured, sustaining light to moderate injuries.
The ceasefire with Hamas was reached with Egyptian mediation, according to the Al Jazeera. An Israeli official denied that Israel had engaged in any talks on a ceasefire, telling the Broadcasting Corp. that Israel has a longstanding policy of striking in Gaza only in retaliation to strikes on Israel.


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Inside Our Earth (NCERT Class 7 Geography Chapter 2 Notes)
Interior of Earth
Earth is a dynamic planet and undergoes constant changes both inside and outside its surface. It is made up of several concentric layers with one over another.
Three Major Layers of Earth
There are three major layers of Earth, namely, 1. Crust, 2. Mantle and 3. Core.
The uppermost layer of earth is known as the crust. It is the thinnest layer of the earth, measuring 35 km in depth on continental masses and 5 km on the ocean floor.
The main mineral constituents of continental crust are silica and alumina. Thus, it is known by the name of Sial (si-silica and al-alumina).
The main mineral constituents of oceanic crust are silica and magnesium. Thus, it is known by the name of Sima (si-silica and ma-magnesium).
It only forms one per cent of the total earth volume.
The mantle is the intermediate layer after crust. It extends to the depth of 2900 km.
It is the largest and most massive layer of the Earth.
It makes up 84 per cent of the earth volume.
The core is the innermost layer of the earth. It is of radius 3500 km.
It is mainly made up of nickel and iron. Thus, it is known by the name of Nife (ni-nickel and fe-iron).
It has very pressure and temperature.
It forms 15 per cent of the earth volume.
The earth crust is made up of a variety of rocks. Any natural mass of minerals which makes up earth crust is known as rock. It can be of various colour, shape and size.
Minerals have great importance to humankind. Some are used as fuels such as coal and some are used in industry such as iron and aluminium.
There are three major types of rocks, namely, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks.
When molten magma cools, it solidifies to become igneous rock. These are also known as primary rocks. There are two types of igneous rocks: intrusive igneous rocks and extrusive igneous rocks.
When molten lava comes out on the earth surface and quickly cools down to become rock. Such igneous rocks are known as extrusive igneous rocks. These have a very fine grain structure. Basalt is the example of extrusive igneous rocks. Basalt is commonly found in Deccan Plateau.
When molten lava does not come out and slowly cools down under earth surface to form rock. Such igneous rocks are known as intrusive igneous rocks. They have large grains. Granite is an example of intrusive igneous rocks.
The rocks can wear and tear with time and broken into smaller particles known as sediments. These sediments are transported and deposited by wind or water on a spot. When these sediments are exposed to external pressure, they harden to form sedimentary rocks.
Sandstone is an example of sedimentary rocks. It is made from grains of sand.
The sedimentary rocks are known for fossil deposits.
Igneous and sedimentary rocks when exposed to heat and pressure, transform into metamorphic rocks.
Slate and Marble are examples of metamorphic rocks. Slate is the result of clay metamorphic and Marble is the result of limestone metamorphosis.
Under certain conditions, one type of rock changes into another type of rock in a cyclic manner. This phenomenon is known as the rock cycle.
The molten magma upon cooling becomes igneous rock. The wear and tear of igneous rock lead to the formation of sediments. These sediments on pressure become sedimentary rocks. When igneous and sedimentary rocks are exposed to heat and pressure. They become metamorphic rocks. On further heat and pressure, metamorphic rocks can convert into molten magma. This molten magma again cools down to become igneous rock.
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More than 1,000 migrant children in US government custody have tested positive for Covid-19
CNN 12/4/2020 By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
© Samuel Corum/Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 28: The Department of Health and Human Services will be holding a press conference today on their coordinated public health response to the 2019 coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on January 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. The virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has infected 4,500 people and killed at least 109, mostly in China. Currently 110 people are being evaluated in the United States for infection, with five confirmed cases. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
More than 1,000 migrant children in US government custody have tested positive for coronavirus since March, according to the federal agency charged with their care.
In total, there have been 1,061 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases among unaccompanied migrant children in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a federal agency run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Of the 1,061 cases, 943 children have recovered and been moved from medical isolation, according to the agency.
Currently, 118 children have tested positive and remain in medical isolation, though none of the children have required hospitalization.
The latest figures are an increase from earlier this year as the pandemic gripped the United States. The spread of coronavirus early on prompted the Office of Refugee Resettlement to temporarily stop placements of children in states experiencing a high number of Covid-19 cases.
In a November court declaration, the acting ORR director, Nicole Cubbage, suggested that children are becoming infected prior to entering custody. Initial medical examinations, given within 48 hours of a minor entering care, have shown positive tests have "increased significantly in recent weeks," Cubbage said in her declaration.
The Trump administration has argued that children should be swiftly removed from the United States after being apprehended from the southern border -- a change from prior practice which required children be turned over to HHS after being taken into custody by the Department of Homeland Security.
Last month, a federal judge blocked the administration from turning back unaccompanied migrant children at the US-Mexico border under a public health order implemented in March. The administration has since appealed the ruling.
HHS funds a network of more than 100 shelters where migrant children who arrived in the United States without parents or guardians are provided care until they're released to sponsors. Children who have had coronavirus while in care were in shelters in New York, Oregon, Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Virginia, California and Florida.
There are approximately 3,150 children currently in ORR care.
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