After just about every Apple event, it's easy to get wrapped up in complaining about the latest crop of gadgets. In the case of yesterday's iPhone and iPod event, I thought it was a quite satisfying refresh along the line, almost along the lines of the 2010 iPod/iTunes/Apple TV event, but there were a few things the stuck out as a bit odd to me.
I'm all for simplifying the Dock Connector, especially since there are plenty of vestigial pins from the days of FireWire and composite video. Add in the ability to never plug the connector in the wrong way and you have a hit with novices and lazy experienced users alike. Apple will sell two adapters (one a $29 block, and the other a $39 cable) that let you use prior accessories with a new device, so you can keep your car audio integration, speaker dock, or oddball wired accessory. I really hope Apple didn't patent this connector, so we'll see some cheaper third-party options.
The new connector still works with USB ports, so any automaker that employs such an outlet in its vehicles will have no issue. Several automakers, however, have connection ports specifically built for the 30-pin connector. Apple will offer an adaptor for that setup, but that may not be enough.
The new 8-pin connector is fully digital, and is not able to transmit analog signals. Kia. Hyundai and older BMW models feature a connector that sends both USB and eighth-inch analog signals through the 30-pin connector. It appears Apple's adaptor will not work with the connectors provided by these vehicles.
"Apple is testing the patience of its fans," said Tero Kuittinen, an independent analyst and a vice president of Alekstra, a company that helps customers manage cellphone costs.
"A lot of Apple fans have a lot of different accessories and use the old systems, so this is going to be a fairly expensive shift for a lot of them," Mr. Kuittinen said. Makers of iPhone accessories are likely to be ecstatic, he added.
Either way, I'm all for progress and know Apple's history of dumping outdated technology quickly. They at least transitioned the Dock Connector away from being FireWire-based after a few generations of iPods, and FireWire charging after an even longer stretch (that held out through the first-generation iPod touch).
I absolutely love the new iPod touch—I have no need for one, but it seems like what an iPhone would look like if given the "unibody" treatment. The hardware is actually on-par with the iPhone family (kind of between the 4S and 5), and there's some little bits of clever innovation (like the loop). If Apple offered a cellular version, I would almost be comfortable picking one up to replace a cell phone with a voice plan.
What is curious is that Apple is selling the fourth-generation iPod touch (aka the 2010 model) as the point-of-entry. I think a lot of people who are buying an iPod touch for kids or for themselves (if they're not that technical) are going to still buy this $199 one, instead of spending the extra $100 to get a much better product (faster processor, Lightning connector, more RAM, better Wi-Fi, better screen, better camera). That's not good for ensuring that everyone is adopting the latest and greatest technology. If price is a concern, Apple ought to knock the basic iPod touch to 8GB and sell it for around $200. It's a bit different than Apple keeping the prior iPhone or iPad around for a lower price, since the iPod touch is a two-year-old device.
This new pricing scheme also makes it difficult to place a smaller iPad in the lineup. If Apple were to create an iPad with a seven inch display, many expect it would be sold in the $200-$250 price range. I think by selling a small device with an A4 chip and 2010 technology at $200, Apple would not be selling an iPad at that price. This leaves the $250-$300 range—would Apple sell a device with probably similar specifications as the new iPod touch, but with a larger screen for less? I also don't think that's going to happen. If anything, yesterday may swing the pendulum in the direction of Apple not making a smaller iPad yet again.
I guess the iPod nano watchband market is going to dry up quickly, but I think the new iPod nano is a solid product from all the complaints of the prior nano (physical buttons, larger screen, video playback, Bluetooth streaming), but I think Apple really should've included Wi-Fi (they are promoting iTunes Match and AirPlay, right?) and think the interface is a bit weird—the icons are circular and very glossy, almost like something from 2002 Apple, not 2012 Apple. I assumed they'd keep the same design language of the iPhone and prior nano with the interface of the new one.
My knee-jerk reaction for the new iTunes was, "Yuck!" but after looking at it and the new features, I'm really looking forward to the update. Although I never browse my music library by album art (lots of playlists and rows and rows of tiny text), I think the other features and the ability to change the view will make me happy. I know some people were a bit upset when Apple changed the iPad's Music app with iOS 5, and this could be a similar situation, but I think iTunes was needing a refresh.
I'm not talking about an Apple-branded television set, but rather any sort of development of its current TV platform. Although the event took almost exactly two hours, it would've been nice to see some more development on adding content—maybe even a mention of the iTunes Festival, or the much-rumored AirPlay Direct. Still, if Apple has an event for a smaller iPad, we could see an Apple TV announcement then (if you recall, the third-generation iPad was introduced alongside an updated Apple TV).
The leap from iPhone 4S to iPhone 5 is no less significant or impressive than the leap from the original MacBook Pro to the Unibody. In both cases, the end result bore familiarity of form, but was lightyears ahead in terms of process and results.
People who don't get design just don't get it, and perhaps never will. Innovation doesn't mean constantly blowing people's minds with every single thing you do, but that's the definition shallow pundits have helped weave, especially for the nerds. It's a shame, but then, so are many things.
Apple may be playing it safe, but if the worst things I can complain about are icons or a new connector, I think Apple is still in pretty good shape.


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New record set for data-transfer speeds
IBM researchers set milestone, which suggests existing technology for short-range data transmission may be fast enough for years to come
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2014 - Researchers at IBM have set a new record for data transmission over a multimode optical fiber, a type of cable that is typically used to connect nearby computers within a single building or on a campus. The achievement demonstrated that the standard, existing technology for sending data over short distances should be able to meet the growing needs of servers, data centers and supercomputers through the end of this decade, the researchers said.
Sending data at a rate of 64 gigabits per second (Gb/s) over a cable 57 meters long using a type of laser called a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), the researchers achieved a rate that was about 14 percent faster than the previous record and about 2.5 times faster than the capabilities of today's typical commercial technology.
To send the data, the researchers used standard non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulation. "Others have thought that this modulation wouldn't allow for transfer rates much faster than 32 Gb/s," said researcher Dan Kuchta of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Many researchers thought that achieving higher transmission rates would require turning to more complex types of modulation, such as pulse-amplitude modulation-4 (PAM-4).
"What we're showing is that that's not the case at all," Kuchta said. Because he and his colleagues achieved fast speeds even with NRZ modulation, he added, "this technology has at least one or two more generations of product life in it."
Kuchta will describe these results at the 2014 OFC Conference and Exposition being held March 9-13 in San Francisco.
To achieve such high speeds, the researchers used the VCSEL lasers developed at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and custom silicon-germanium chips developed at IBM Research. "The receiver chip is a unique design that simultaneously achieves speeds and sensitivities well beyond today's commercial offerings," Kuchta explained. "The driver chip incorporates transmit equalization, which widens the bandwidth of the optical link. While this method has been widely used in electrical communication, it hasn't yet caught on in optical communication," he said.
"Researchers typically rely on a rule of thumb that says the usable data-transfer rate is about 1.7 times the bandwidth," Kuchta explained. "That means that with the VCSEL laser, which has a bandwidth of about 26 GHz, the rate would be only about 44 Gb/s."
"What we're doing with equalization is we're breaking the historical rule of thumb," Kuchta said.
The fast speeds only worked for a distance of 57 meters, so this technology isn't designed for sending data across continents. Instead, it's most suitable for transmitting data within a building, he said. About 80 percent of the cables at data centers and most, if not all, of the cables used for typical supercomputers are less than 50 meters long.
This new technology, Kuchta added, is ready for commercialization right now.
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London Euston station will be nine times busier than usual on Dec 23, and between 11am and 1pm is the most popular time to catch a train
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Travel at lunchtime over Christmas, a rail chief has urged, despite Government forecast data suggesting this is the busiest time.
Robert Nisbet, director of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, said the "middle of the day or later in the evening" would be an advisable time to catch a train to avoid a stampede of passengers.
However, a Telegraph analysis found that lunchtime is one of the worst times to travel during the festive period.
London Euston station will be nine times busier than usual on Dec 23, and between 11am and 1pm is the most popular time to catch a train, according to data from Zipabout, a technology company that advises the Government on overcrowding.
Mr Nisbet made the remark while discussing how the rail network will cope with increasing numbers of passengers wanting to get home in the run up to Dec 25.
He told the BBC that capacity on trains was much smaller now due to social distancing and you should not "turn up and hope for the best".
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Denver Post jumps to 6.5 million monthly unique users in February
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The Denver Post attracted 6.5 million monthly unique digital users in February, by far drawing the largest total digital audience among local news organizations in the Denver area, according to comScore data released late Wednesday.
The figure marks an 83.4 percent increase over February 2015 and is the second straight month of growth. It's the highest number of unique visitors to The Post since at least October 2014, the oldest available data from comScore, a leading digital analytics company that provides data to publishers and other large companies.
The increase was driven by deep coverage during the Denver Broncos' successful Super Bowl run, along with aggressive breaking news and political reporting. The next closest outlet in the market was TEGNA-owned KUSA 9NEWS, which drew 3.8 million unique visitors during the month.
Of The Post's total digital audience, 1.5 million came on desktop, while nearly 5 million consumed The Post's content on a smartphone or tablet device. 9NEWS drew 2.9 million unique visitors on mobile platforms.
The Post also had 27 million page views for the month, compared to 36 million for KUSA. Both outlets drew 13 million page views on mobile devices.
Nearly 41 percent of The Post's audience was people between the ages of 18-34 years old. People 25-34 years old represented 29.1 percent of the overall audience, and those 35-44 years old were 26 percent — the two highest segments. Both segments far outpaced the total Internet audience for those age groups as measured by comScore.
The Post also continued its steady growth in video behind its DPTV initiative, with 1.3 million views for the month since switching to the Inform video delivery platform, according to internal figures. Across all video platforms — including Facebook, Tout and YouTube — The Post captured 1.5 million views.
The Cannabist, The Post's digital news site devoted to covering marijuana in Colorado and the world, drew 575,000 unique visitors — 415,000 of them on mobile — continuing its aggressive growth. That total audience was an 83.6 percent increase since August 2015, when comScore first began tracking the site. About 64 percent of its audience is between the ages of 18 and 34, and 88 percent of it between 18 and 49.
Daniel Petty is the director of audience development for The Denver Post.
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Comment by LibbyTBell — March 17, 2016 @ 7:51 pm
Comment by Ted Johnson — March 17, 2016 @ 8:22 pm
This is really interesting as the total population of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood DMA is only 2,754,258 as of April 1, 2015 per the US Census Bureau. But the problem is that by counting uniques, you can be double, triple, quadruple counting an individual if they're connecting from more than one device. For example, I have two computers (work + home), two cell phones (work + home) and a tablet. Right there that is 5 uniques for one person as each device as it's own unique identifier (UDID). And you're right, the Broncos probably drove a ton of that with people from out of the DMA logging on as they get links to articles via Google, Bleacher Report, etc. So the number sounds impressive, but when you peel the onion a bit like I just did it puts it into perspective.
Comment by Jeff Pugel — March 18, 2016 @ 10:30 am
Great question, Jeff. We obviously draw a lot of traffic outside of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area, and comScore's own methodology does its best to try to figure who one unique person is – across devices. It's a difficult task, and no doubt the Broncos drove very high interest — as it did for many other local news outlets who covered their championships run.
Comment by Daniel Petty — March 20, 2016 @ 10:42 pm
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Social media platforms and third-party services. In case you sign up for our services or log into your existing account, using your personal profile from a third-party service, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Yandex or Mail.ru, or if you connect your social media profile to our services in any other way, we can collect some personal details from those social media platforms, namely your interests, "likes," email address, and friends list. We use such information only for the sake of creating personalized experiences for you along with improving our communications and services. If you do not want to share any data, mentioned above, you can opt to prohibit access in your social media profile settings. Some of our partners, such as CRM systems or other software, integrated with our products, can also share with us your personal information.
Credit bureaus. Excitel may gain access to your credit data from the relevant third party companies. We do that to prevent any possible financial risks when we onboard new customers.
Demographic, professional data, and information about your interests. We can get your personal details from external companies which capture customer information, such as demographic data or information about your interests. This information may contain your job title, company you currently work for, your business email or phone number. We collect this data to personalize our marketing communications with you and deliver you relevant offers, based on your preferences.
Information about the users of our customers. Excitel may also obtain personal information about our customers' users from both our customers and other third parties, such as message senders, mobile network carriers, databases that contain information, related to the phone numbers you have submitted at our website, etc. This information may consist of, but not limited to phone numbers, device type (e.g., smartphone, landline, etc.), current device availability (e.g., whether it is turn on or not), roaming status, mobile network operator, country of residence, etc.
Information about your interactions on our platform. This data contains such details as time and duration of interactions, source and destination identifiers, completion status, location, IP address, and a number of interactions.
Content, delivered in the process of communication. In order to ensure smooth usage of our services, as well as establishing a connection via our platform, we need to process the content you use in our communication channels, like messaging, calls, voicemails, as well as call recordings.
Further processing and usage of the collected information depend on which of the Excitel services you use, the way you use them, or any additional options you might have specified. On our side, we never use any personal details to your detriment. Below, you can find a list of reasons for capturing your data.
We collect and use your information to enable delivery of the services in full and on time. This relates to connecting you with the end customer, handling your transactions, identifying you during authentication process when you access your account on our platform, providing technical support, and sustaining our products and services.
We also require your personal data to send you information, related to the services provided, such as registration confirmation, email with password update, payment notifications, reminders about package expiration, messages about features updates, security alerts, and other service notifications.
Tracking the performance of our software products.
We always strive to make our services better, more credible, secure, and easier to use. That is why we monitor data, related to your usage of our products and services in order to see what can be enhanced. For example, we can use information about delivered messages or connection quality for estimation of our routing performance which, in its turn, will allow to guarantee a stable connection, as well as eliminate any possible issues.
Additionally, we can use your personal data to figure out if our services are beneficial to you, how do you like them, whether you find our marketing campaigns interesting and useful. Besides, we can track how you use our website to make sure it is convenient and easy to comprehend. In terms of that, some third parties may access your personal data as well, for instance, Google Analytics.
Some cases of data collection and processing may fall under legislative acts and laws, like mandatory data retention laws, etc.
When your personal data can serve to secure our company's legal rights, as well as legitimate interests of the other people, we may use it during judicial proceedings, to handle legal claims, likewise to comply with applicable regulations, and non-disclosure agreements, related to any of the business operations.
If any regulatory acts require your willful consent, we will always ask you for it. It may relate to the preparation of some marketing materials and making them public. These may include, but not limited to showreels or video production, customer reviews or case studies, among others.
We need it for the services delivery, along with performing basic activities related to all our products and services.
We need it to provide our services within the law and comply with all applicable regulations.
We have a justifiable reason (which does not contradict to your data protection interests), e.g., to improve and promote our services, as well as to protect our legal rights and interests.
We capture and process your sensitive data only upon your consent.
Communications providers. Being the communications provider ourselves, we may share the data we gather from you with other communications providers if it is needed for providing you our services. These may be the telecommunications companies we partner with to guarantee your calls and messages are delivered to the people you want to reach out to.
Contractors. We also work with vendors who provide us with a number of services we cannot do in-house and which can require your data, like hosting, maintenance, external databases, virtual infrastructure, payment systems, analytics, etc. We carefully select each of our contractors and sign a non-disclosure agreement with them, under which they are obliged to protect your data and use it solely for the purposes for which it was shared.
External websites. Some of our services can contain links with a redirection to external websites which have their own confidentiality approach. If you share any personal information with those websites, it falls under their privacy policies. To protect yourself from the unauthorized use of your private information, before accepting any terms and conditions or providing any data to the third party websites, we recommend you to study their privacy policies.
In order to enforce our agreements, policies and service terms.
After we obtained your consent. We may also share your personal data with external websites and other third parties with your consent. For instance, we may publish reviews you leave about our services on our official website in order to confirm that you validly exist. In case you represent a company that uses our services, we may make public your company's name along with your title and phone number.
Issuers and acceptors of communications. In terms of providing you with our services, we may display your name and phone number to the recipients of your calls and messages, as well as to other users who will contact you. The kind of information displayed is determined by the type of service you use—in some cases, you can change privacy settings in the mobile application or your personal account, or by sending a request to our support team.
For credit checks. If you are a new customer, we may audit your credit rating in order to avoid the possible risk of non-payment for our service. In case you have failed to pay in time or have not paid at all, we can share your name and other personal information with the corresponding agencies. In its turn, they can use it to access your credit history and disclose it to other relevant companies.
We have applied administrative, physical, and technical security levels to ensure that personal data we broadcast and handle is protected. Despite this fact, like any other service that operates with public internet on the background, we cannot guarantee you 100% security. Accordingly, you agree that some third party may gain unauthorized access to your account and personal details. For this reason, we recommend to store your password safely and inform us instantly once you think that it was compromised. Mind that you take the responsibility for any communications from your account, even if the other person has accessed it.
Excitel stores, handles, and processes the information you have shared with us on the computers situated in Ukraine.
If you live in the EEA, Excitel may transmit and store your data in other locations outside the European Economic Area. These locations, including Ukraine, may be governed by different from this data protection laws. When you create an account on our platform, or use our services, or send us an inquiry, we transmit your information to Ukraine in order to enable execution of our agreement with you or to respond to your inquiry.
Some of our contractors which provide us with services according to the agreements, are located overseas. The countries they are based in may have different data protection laws, compared to those in the country of your residence. If you are an EEA user and we share your information with those third parties, we comply with data transfer mechanisms that are legally recognized. These mechanisms can include the EU-Ukraine Privacy Shield Frameworks, the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules for transfers to data processors, or other appropriate legal mechanisms to protect data transmissions.
We retain your personal data as long as it is needed to supply you with the services under the agreement, or until we need it for other purposes we collected it for. The data retention time can vary, which is determined by the services you use or the type of such data. When we no longer need your personal information for these purposes, we remove or anonymize it. Otherwise, if it is not possible to delete your data (for instance, if it is backed up in the archives), we will protect its storage and restrict any further usage until the removal is made possible. We can also extend this data retention period for the purpose of making research in order to improve our services delivery. In such case, your data is absolutely anonymized and your identity cannot be associated with this information.
We retain information about your account until you use it, and for a reasonable time after if you decide to regain access to it. Besides, we store some of your personal data that is needed to fulfill our legal obligations, operate under agreements, resolve disputes, maintain business processes, as well as to improve our services personalization and delivery.
If you are using our services, we keep the information about your usage of our communication channels. Usually, such information is produced as a result of your activities on our platform or websites. We store it as long as we need it to provide you with the services under agreement and for a reasonable period after the agreement expiry until it is necessary for fulfilling our legal obligations, disputes resolution, agreements execution, business processes handling, and for improvement of our services.
We keep data retrieved from cookies and other monitoring tools for a reasonable time since it was collected.
As soon as we process your information only after we obtain your official consent, you can recall your consent whenever you want to by sending us a corresponding written inquiry. If you want to request us to cease using your data in any marketing communications or restrict sharing it with any third parties for their marketing purposes, you can also send us an inquiry, even though you might have agreed to it previously.
You may use the above-mentioned rights at any time by directing us a written request. In case you think we have not satisfied your request, you can contact your local data protection authority.
Excitel does not provide any services for children, that is why we do not collect intentionally any data from the people under eighteen. If you feel that a child or teenager has disclosed his or her personal data to us, be sure to inform us at once.
A cookie is a small piece of data, saved on your computer, tablet, or mobile phone in a form of a text file in order to improve your user experience, while you are using our service or browsing our website. Excitel or our contractors can use such cookies and similar tracking tools, such as web beacons, device screen size, fingerprint, etc. on our website and, if needed, in our mailing campaigns.
Cookies also serve us to monitor user activity, do research, help you return to the registration page you have browsed previously, as well as to personalize our marketing materials and enhance our services. For example, we can use web beacons on our websites to set up and access cookies, likewise to follow your user journey in order to define if website navigation is intuitive. Web beacons provide us your IP address, information about your browser, and about a time when you have viewed the web beacon. We can also use them in our mailing campaigns to track open rates and adjust our marketing communications to your personal needs in the future.
Due to cookies and other monitoring tools, we can identify you when you come back to our service. It enables us to handle your session, which, in its turn, facilitates your navigation, simplifies any activities in your account (like viewing call details, accessing your shopping basket, making payments etc.), as well as improves overall user journey.
To manage website tags through a user-friendly interface instead of lines of code, we use a third-party service, named Google Tag Manager. Tags help us to monitor website traffic, estimate the efficiency of our marketing activities and advertising campaigns, adjust our remarketing and make targeting even more precise, as well as to optimize our website and services.
The cookies, along with other tracking tools, capture data about your activity on our websites, which is helpful to make our services personalized and relevant. With the help of cookies, we can monitor unique visitors and differentiate what site page they came from. This allows for identifying the demand and leads origin and, as a result, enables to optimize our websites for you to easily find the necessary information, depending on your previous preferences.
To optimize our websites, based on your data, we use Google Analytics that is a third-party service provider. Google Analytics applies cookies in order to better understand your behavior on the website. The data it collects via cookies (with your IP address included), is transferred to and stored on the Google servers in the USA. Google retains such data to estimate how you use the website, to generate reports for website owners about their website performance, likewise to offer website owners other relevant services, associated with their website and online activities. In case you want to cease storage and processing of such data by Google, you can download and install the browser plug-in.
The cookies we collect, along with other alike tracking tools, keep information about the preferred language or types of communication channels you choose. They also enable auto-filling of the forms on our websites, as well as tailoring of the web pages content.
The cookies and other tracking tools monitor and record your sessions on our websites, pages you have browsed, and links you have followed. We use this information according to your preferences in order to tailor our website to your needs. We can also transfer this information to the third parties for the similar purposes. These third parties may use such data in the long run, namely information about your activities on our websites or services, and location, based on your IP address, likewise other personal information of yours, which helps to display you advertisements about our products and services, depending on your interests.
If you want to remove or control cookies, you can follow the guide from AboutCookies.org. The service allows for deleting cookies, which are stored on your computer and helps to adjust your browser settings in order to prohibit the creation of cookie files. This may result in the necessity to adjust your permissions each time you browse the same website, as well as lead to poor functioning of some services. Note that you cannot opt out of cookies which are crucial for providing some services. If you do not specify your preferences, we can also remind you additionally about cookies on our website.


By default, Turing House School adopts the policies of the Russell Education Trust. Some of these are mandatory and apply across all schools in the Trust; for example employment related policies and financial management policies.
Local Governing Bodies of schools in the Trust are able to tailor many of the curriculum policies to reflect the ethos and values of their own school. Some of the key policies relating to students and the curriculum as well as statutory policies are detailed below.


Anitour was awarded Gold Medal by the Ministry of Economy.
On the 1st of October a great ceremony was held by the Ministry of Economy on the occasion of The International Day of Tourism. The Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan congratulated all the participants and encouraged them to develop tourism in Armenia. After congratulation the ceremony of awarding the prizes took place.
After 16 years' of patriotic devoted work and for the high-level service and for his great contribution to the development of tourism the president of Anitour Volodya Arushanyan was rewarded Gold Medal.
We congratulate Anitour and wish longevity and success!
Armenian travel agency Anitour was awarded "International Quality Summit award" of Gold Category.
The ceremony took place in New York.


Today I'm going to show you Forever Yummy by Essie.
Forever Yummy is a red creme. It's very shiny and darker than bright red, more leaning towards blood. But you can still easily tell that it's a red, it's not dark enough to look blackened. It's rather blue-toned.
Application was really nice, it was very squishy, which also makes for a great amount of shine. I did three coats for the result shown in the pictures, but you could get away with two thicker ones.
Forever Yummy really is a classy shade of red, it's not too bright but also not dark. I really love the way it looks, although it's most definitely a rather basic shade and more than easily dupeable. If you'd like to see a comparison to similar reds, please let me know!
It looks very pretty, I love reds!


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NSA Head: Trump Has Not Directed Him to Counter Russian Election Meddling
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The outgoing head of the NSA, Michael Rogers, says the Trump administration has not directed him to try to counter Russian election meddling. This is Rogers answering questions by Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed.
Sen. Jack Reed: "The mission teams, particularly at the origin of these attacks, have the authority to do so."
Adm. Michael Rogers: "If granted the authority, and I don't have the day-to-day authority to do that. If granted the authority."
Sen. Jack Reed: "So you would need, basically, to be directed by the president through the secretary of defense."
Adm. Michael Rogers: "Yes, sir, as I—in fact, I mentioned that in my statement."
Sen. Jack Reed: "Have you been directed to do so, given the strategic threat that faces the United States and the significant consequences you recognize already?"
Adm. Michael Rogers: "No, I have not."
That was NSA head Michael Rogers, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to questions about NSA head Michael Rogers' statement.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "I disagree with the premise of your question. It's not just one individual. It's looking at a number of different ways."
Jonathan Karl: "But why not give him the authority, though? He's in charge of Cyber Command. Why not give him the authority?"
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "Nobody is denying him the authority. We're looking at a number of different ways."


With his spotty education, it is amazing that Charles Dickens (1812 –1870) became a huge hit writer in his own lifetime and that his popularity as an author still endures. His dad was such a spendthrift that when Charles was 10, he was sent to live with an impoverished family friend while his parents went to a London debtors' prison. To pay his board, Charles had to forgo his schooling and work in a boot blacking factory pasting labels for ten hours a day. In his twenties, he began his career as a writer and editor, pioneering serialized novels that became the soap operas of his day. He published 15 novels, and numerous short stories and essays. He also supported lots of campaigns for social improvement, not the least the end of child labor.
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Tom Tiddler's Ground is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Charles Dickens is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Charles Dickens then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
Charles Dickens is one of the most famous writers to have ever lived. Whether it be his timeless Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol, or a famous novel such as Great Expectations, most people are familiar with Dickens' writing. This edition of Dickens' Mugby Junction includes a table of contents.
Bleak House was published in 1852-1853 and is widely considered to be one of Dickens' finest novels. This edition includes 10 illustrations.
•This e-book publication is unique which include Illustrations and detailed Biography. •A new table of contents has been included by the publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.
A Christmas Carol is a classic by Charles Dickens, which is a must read for any lover of literature. This edition includes 10 illustrations.
A beautifully written novella by the immortal master, Charles Dickens. The Battle of Life is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", and is presented here with original illustrations.
•This e-book publication is unique which include Illustrations and Biography. •A new table of contents has been included by the publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.
Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Charles Dickens' first novel.
• The book includes 10 unique illustrations that are relevant to its content. The novel centers on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. His Uncle Ralph, who thinks Nicholas will never amount to anything, plays the role of principal antagonist.
The story of an inheritance, this novel relates the contrasting destinies of two descendants of the brothers Chuzzlewit, both born and bred to the same heritage of selfishness, showing how one, Martin, by good fortune escapes and how the other, Jonas, does not.
A reprinting of the 1843 first edition, complete with the original illustrations, is supplemented by over eighty related sketches and annotations on and analyses of the text and historical notes on the writing of "The Christmas Carol."
Read this timeless masterpiece, specially formatted for your Kindle. This special e-book comes with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, which appeared in the first 1915 edition.
•This e-book publication is unique which includes exclusive Introduction, Historical work and literary critiques. •This edition also includes detailed Biography. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.
In a world where injustice and oppression rule, a man named Charles Darnay is sentenced to death. However, another person is willing to take the sacrifice—in the name of honour ?and love.
Part of a classic collection of Christmas Stories written by Charles Dickens. For the full collection, look for our version of `Christmas Stories` by Charles Dickens.
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is a short novel by Charles Dickens with illustrations by George Alfred Williams.
Published by T.P. James in 1874, James attempts to bring closure to Charles Dickens' unfinished work.


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Whites Are Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines At Significant Higher Rates Than Blacks
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According to a KHN analysis, Black Americans are getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans in the first phase of the vaccine rollout. Only 3% of Americans have received their first round of the vaccine thus far. Data collected from 16 states revealed that white residents are receiving their …
Melania Trump Hasn't Contacted Jill Biden For Traditional "Tea And Tour"
Less than a week before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, Melania Trump has not reached out to incoming First Lady Jill Biden on the traditional "Tea and Tour." According to CNN, the Trumps are planning to leave Washington D.C. for Florida before Biden's inauguration on Wednesday. The "Tea and Tour" …
Former Saved By The Bell Cast Members React To Dustin "Screech" Diamond's Cancer Diagnosis
If you're from the 90s, you more than likely binged watched the hit teen show "Saved By The Bell." Earlier this week, news broke that Screech, formally known as Dustin Diamond, is battling stage four cancer. Some of his former co-stars are now pouring out their support for his recovery. …
Armed Man Arrested At Capitol Checkpoint Insisted His ID Was Real, Claims He Forgot To Remove Gun From Car
Wesley Allen Beeler, 31, from Front Royal, Virginia, was arrested on Friday at a U.S. Capitol checkpoint for carrying 500 Ammunition rounds and an invalid Biden inauguration ID. He has since been released and claims that his ID was real, and he forgot to remove the guns and ammo from …
Pro-Trump Rioters Were "About One Minute" From Getting To VP Mike Pence
The details of last week's Capitol riot are still unfolding. A new article reveals that Trump supporters were "about one minute" from crossing paths with Mike Pence. According to a Washington Post report, Pence was escorted to a safe place about 60 seconds before the mob entered the landing in …
GA Officials Brace For Armed Protests At State Capitol
Last week's U.S. capitol riot may not be the last of the riots. Authorities in Atlanta and others across the country are preparing for the possibility of more unrest ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, one Georgia-based militia told the outlet that it would protest …
Sweet'N Low Magnate Commits Suicide By Jumping From NY Park Avenue Apartment
The wealthy Sweet'N Low creator, Donald Tober, committed suicide by jumping from his Park Avenue apartment, Fox Business reports. Tober, 89, had Parkinson's disease. Around 5 am Friday, he leaped to his death and was found in the courtyard in the luxury Upper East Side building. Tober was the CEO …
Video of Texas Police Officer Fatally Shooting An "Emotionally Distressed" Unarmed Black Man Surfaces
Civil Rights attorney Lee Merritt released video footage showing the moments before a Texas police officer fatally shooting a man who was "emotionally distressed." The video was released on Wednesday and included the audio of a resident repeatedly saying, "I told you, don't use a gun," ABC 7 reported. Authorities …
Yeezy Intern Sued By Company For Violating Non-Disclosure Agreement
A summer intern has been hit with a hefty lawsuit by Kanye West's fashion empire, Yeezy. Ryan Inwards is accused of posting unauthorized social media posts. The lawsuit—filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday—says Inward's postings of confidential photos on his Instagram account go against the non-disclosure agreement he …
IRS Delays Start Of Tax Filing Season To February 12
Usually, the tax filing start date is at the end of January, but the IRS says it will start on February 12. The 12th is when the agency will start to accept 2020 tax returns, CNBC News reports. The delay is due to the coronavirus pandemic since the agency needs …
NRA Files For Bankruptcy, Plans To Reincorporate In Texas
The National Rifle Association has remained a primary focus in some of the country's most heated debates regarding weapons rights and has now filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to USA Today, the powerful gun lobby filed in Texas following New York attorney general Letitia James' lawsuit seeking to dissolve the …
Parler's Data Reveals Users May Have Posted From Military Bases and Facilities
This may come as a surprise, or maybe it won't, according to a Motherboard analysis of GPS locations scraped by the right-wing social media platform Parler, some of its users posted from military bases and facilities. According to Vice, this doesn't necessarily mean that military members are Parler users since …
Dr. Dre Discharged From Hospital, Will Receive 24/7 Care After Suffering Brain Aneurysm
Dr. Dre has been released from the hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm on January 4. According to TMZ, the hip-hop legend was released on Friday but will be closely monitored by doctors while at home. Sources close to Dre tell the news outlet that he's on the path to …
Trump Administration Lied About "Reserve" 2nd Vaccine Doses
The Trump administration promised a reserved amount of second vaccine doses, but as COVID-19 cases continue to spike, those anticipated doses have evaporated. According to CNN, second-round shipments—under the new policy—have already been distributed. A senior administration close to the situation told the outlet that the Trump administration said it …
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Zello confirmed that its app was used during last week's Capitol siege and vows to "ban all militia-related channels" from now on. The popular walkie-talkie app released a statement saying, "It is with deep sadness and anger that we have discovered evidence of Zello being misused by some individuals while …
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THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER! | .WE.ARE.GNOMADS.
Thank goodness we like oysters!
Now, after all these years, "My/Our Own Little World" has moved out!
And this "World" is really little…only 3′ X 5″…but it is mine!
I am renting space in a local antique store selling my wares, whether it is something I made, an antique or something vintage that I put my twist on, it is for sale there!
Laura's Emporium on US 1 in Fort Pierce, Florida is where my "World" is right now.
I love old books, and I love them even more all prettied up!
Crafts and antiques are a huge part my "world" and this photo says that perfectly!
Rust and leather is always a great mix for a funky centerpiece!
And my "world" always has a bit of pretty in it!
PS…Jim is making plans to retire and live off my new earnings! Ha! Yeah, right!
Now…here are a couple of FUN videos of our past adventures!
~ by HenderBalz on May 30, 2012.


There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God's creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely through Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is the glorious display of God's sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. It excludes boasting and promotes humility.
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. In such a congregation each member is ultimately responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are elders and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of elder is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever with the Lord in the new Jerusalem, heaven come to earth.
God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and all we owe to Him. Christians have a holy trusteeship in the gospel, and a binding stewardship in their possessions. They are therefore under obligation to serve Him with their time, talents, and material possessions; and should recognize all these as entrusted to them to use for the glory of God and for helping others. According to the Scriptures, Christians should contribute of their means cheerfully, regularly, systematically, proportionately, and liberally for the advancement of the Redeemer's cause on earth.


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Share this Story: Year One wasn't so bad, psychedelics are next, and other interesting insights from Bruce Linton
Year One wasn't so bad, psychedelics are next, and other interesting insights from Bruce Linton
Five interesting things the former CEO of Canopy Growth had to say in his Down to Business podcast
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Former Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton Photo by Galit Rodan/Bloomberg
With the one-year anniversary of legalization days away, Bruce Linton, the former CEO of Canopy Growth, Canada's largest cannabis company, sat down with Emily Jackson and FP's Down to Business podcast to take a look at the cannabis industry and where he's headed next.
Bruce Linton will still be involved in cannabis, just not in Canada
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Year One wasn't so bad, psychedelics are next, and other interesting insights from Bruce Linton Back to video
Here are five of the most interesting things he had to say:
Year One of legalization wasn't so bad
"Kind of weird, but better than I expected, even though, I think, not to the expectations of the people who were standing on the sidelines and said, 'Well, in one year, I suspect the illicit market will disappear, like all $8 billion, there'll be stores everywhere and the products will be amazing.'… The goal was to get out of the gates with the simple products that allow the provinces to get their feet under them."
Canadians will eventually break up with their dealers
"Right now, particularly in Eastern Canada, if somebody has cannabis, somebody goes, 'Right on, you have weed!' If you're in California, they start asking a bunch of questions like, 'What is it? Where's it from? Do we know for sure?'" It's about getting more sophisticated, says Linton, but also about getting better access. "There's a lot of our province, let alone a lot of the country, where access is still the primary constraint. And the principal advantage that the illicit market has is they're both available and they have differentiated products."
Being fired isn't always so bad
"If you begin a company and run it for about five and a half, almost six years, and someone wants to come and give you $5 billion for about 17 per cent of that company, but it might result in you being terminated because, you know, when board control changes, that means that if somebody wants to vote in favour of something you don't want to do, that has to happen. But if they make that deal for you, you should always take it. Because, that's a lot of money."
Cannabis creates a lot of jobs in 'blue' ridings
The risk of a change of government putting the brakes on cannabis is "very, very, very, very small," Linton says, and the reason for that is the cannabis industry creates jobs in rural and industrial areas needing the economic juice — often blue ridings. "My former company, Canopy, in the year or two prior to me departing in July, created more jobs in Canada than, I believe, Google, Amazon and McCain Food combined… If you went to Smiths Falls (Canopy's headquarters), which is a very Tory riding – in fact, I'm not even sure they have elections anymore, it's just a Tory person wins – and said I'm not in favour of cannabis, I would suggest you have a high risk of getting killed."
Psychedelic drugs could be the next big thing
One of Linton's next ventures is in the psychedelic drug space, looking at LSD, psilocybin from mushrooms, from a therapeutic perspective. "I'm not asking for anybody to enable this for partying. These are purely therapeutic thoughts. But why not enable the proper analysis and getting into it? Because if someone's ever had a family member or a friend that had PTSD, got into a severe depressive state, was dealing with some really nasty side effects for ADHD medicines, I bet they're not opposed to us trying to find something better."


From : The Sender's Name, Door Number and Street's Name, Area Name, City. This is the first time the rent has been delayed. This is the first time the rent has been delayed. Once again sorry for the inconvenience caused. I have a video message to share with you about this industry leading action. As you know, I have always been current on my rent and this is not something that will be a regular occurrence. What the letter does need to be is open and honest.
I need your cooperation regarding this matter. McLandlord, I am very sorry that l am late for my July rent payment. That would help free up some money to help pay your rent. Because of our good rental history with you and that fact that we take such impeccable care of the home, we hope that you will allow this one time extension to us. We hope the attached information about our financial profile at the time of writing this letter will help in convincing you to approve our forbearance plan application. If a major breakdown takes every dime you have, including rent money, you may need to write an apology letter to landlord and ask for an extension on the rent.
When writing a hardship letter, use a polite and professional tone, and ask for understanding and time to remedy the situation. Legally, most people can start the eviction proceedings when a tenant is 30 days late on the rent. But most already knew their rights. Following the severe winter ice storm in the Northeast, we subjected our customers to unacceptable delays, flight cancellations, lost baggage, and other major inconveniences. They 'humbly' give the customer back all the power. Again, I am truly sorry for the inconvenience and hope to hear from you soon.
I am sorry for the damage we did to your fruit tree. Analysis Letter of Apology Sample Salutation Dear JetBlue Customers, This short statement at the top of the page expresses humility and remorse. Do not forget to apologize for the delayed payment. You can be sure that I will be more careful in the future. If the fabric is damaged to the point where professional cleaning won't help, I will be only too pleased to replace the dress. State that you are proactive in seeking a solution and that you sincerely want to fix the problem. There have been lay offs.
For example, one says there could only be one person living in a studio, even though a person has the right to marry and bring his or her spouse along. The municipality is providing six emergency water supply tanks to every residential complex in twenty four hours time. I am expecting to receive my salary in this week. I hope to be able to pay you no later. Apologize once more at the end of the email and let the other party know how much you value their relationship with you.
However, also have the pay day loan, no cosigner personal loans and no credit personal loans in your mind as a valid last option. After addressing the matter and any stating any reasons, mention how you plan to rectify the situation. This paragraph details their commitment to change and shows customers the preventive measures being taken to ensure that this type of situation won't happen again. You were so gracious last night when I spilled coffee on your dress, but it really was my own fault and I'm sorry for my carelessness. Acting quickly can literally mean the difference between maintaining or ending a key relationship.
Jane said that your home owner's insurance policy may cover the damage, so she told me to wait until she had called the company. Our friendship is too important to not make this right. I do realize this creates a inconvenience for you. And the buzzer has not worked in a year. The attorney says her office has been busier this year than ever before. I would highly appreciate if you understand our problems and accept the delayed rent payment. My children were playing in the tree when the limb broke.
Please accept my sincere apology for the damage I did to your car yesterday. The reason I am late is because my car broke down and needed a new water pump. Neither of us really inherited anything more than love, dignity and a good work ethic from our respective families. I know and respect that you need the rent on or before the due day to keep your operation running smoothly and for my tardiness, I am truly sorry. I trust that this is sufficient notice for you to make future arrangements. Since I need the vehicle to get to work, I had to pay the car repair bills first.
Unfortunately, the noise levels went a bit too high that your neighbours complained to your landlord. Ravenscroft said the letter didn't surprise her, since the rental market is so hot right now. Please let me know what a fair sum would be to pay for the tree surgeon and to cover the cost of the lost fruit. Sample apology letter Semi-formal letters Reference Desk Interactive Pages Sample apology letter 2 Posted by Filed in Some letters are neither nor. I realize that I am three days late and still I have no money to pay you. Make your intent crystal clear. Please accept my humble apologies for my tardiness.


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Close Look: Stacking
By Aerothorn|2017-09-08T21:19:12+00:00June 20th, 2011|Categories: Close Looks, Video Games|0 Comments
When Double Fine announced that they'd cease producing AAA titles in favor of shorter games, I was thrilled. First, it meant I'd get a semi-annual dose of their products rather than having to wait for years. But mostly I was happy on their behalf: it was a way for them to keep experimenting without the financial collapse brought about if they had their third commercial failure in a row.
What I didn't fully anticipate was the way this would change their game design. Double Fine was very much Tim Schafer's studio, and while an array of talented individuals created these games, each bore the distinct touch of Schafer, given that he was both creative lead and a principal writer for Psychonauts and Brutal Legend. With the new system, these previously unknown team members were thrust into the role of project leads, with Schafer serving as advisor and producer.
Stacking is the pet project of Lee Petty, the art director from Brutal Legend, and it shows. This is a game about play, about languishing the the frivolous aesthetic of the game's distinct setting. Even the plot is visually focused, with as much effort spent in channeling the feel of a silent movie as on the dialog itself. It's only in the incidental commentary in the game proper that you get the Schafer-inspired silly dialog, the highlight being a summit debating the merits of child labor.
Petty reportedly came up with the matryoshka design as a way to make a traditional adventure game without using a point-and-click interface, and it's a brilliant workaround. It's a bit simplistic, but this is a simple game. One of its key features is that any puzzle can be solved in three to five different ways, which usually means it doesn't take a lot of effort to do so; careful observation and experimentation will inevitably see the player through. But that's okay. Like Lego Star Wars, this is a children-family guy that should be enjoyable by all ages (the difference from the Lego series being that reading ability is required to navigate Stacking).
But more than anything it exemplifies the short-form game. Frankly, Stacking's conceit isn't deep enough to see it through a full-length adventure; I would have tired of it had it gone on for 20 hours. But it doesn't. The main plot is relatively short, and if you want to do more there's plenty of secrets to find and alternate challenges to complete. In 2007, Portal took the gaming world by storm, and a big part of its tight design was in the way it fully explored its concept in a relatively short time span. Yet there haven't been many commercial short games since, just titles limited to Xbox Live Arcade, iPhones, and PC indie games. As far as I'm concerned, the industry is missing the boat. Most games are simply too long, and for the working person in particular it's important to have every hour be fulfilling, not just filling. Stacking is another successful implementation of that concept, and is, all-in-all, one of the more relaxing and heart-warming games I've played in the last few years. Goes good with an Arnold Palmer and a bean-bag chair.
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Amazon now a front-runner to $1trn market value amid stellar profits
23rd August 2018 27th July 2018 by Gareth van Zyl
JOHANNESBURG — Tech giant Amazon is probably (after Apple) the world's most incredible business right now. The company's first-half net income has topped just over $4bn. A key factor to Amazon's success has been its focus on its cloud infrastructure offering Amazon Web Services (AWS), which generates about 50% of the group's operating income. I was fortunate enough to attend the AWS Cape Town Summit a few weeks ago and was blown away by the attendance as well as the sheer extent of big-name local clients AWS has on its books (Pick n Pay, Mix Telematics – just to name a few). Also, AWS has a big presence in Cape Town and even Johannesburg, with thousands of staff in South Africa. – Gareth van Zyl
By Spencer Soper
(Bloomberg) – Amazon.com Inc. investors have traditionally given it a pass on money-losing quarters and narrow profit margins so long as revenue growth kept surpassing expectations. That dynamic flipped on Thursday, propelling the 24-year-old company into a potentially steadier phase.
Amazon reported a record second-quarter profit of $2.53 billion, or $5.07 per share. The Seattle-based company has generated net income of $4.16 billion in the first half of this year, more than the previous seven quarters combined, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In 2014, Amazon lost $131 million.
Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon.com Inc. Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg
The results demonstrated that Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos and his management team can finesse a massive global enterprise with about $200 billion in annual sales and more than half a million employees.
Even though second-quarter sales of $52.9 billion came in slightly below estimates of $53.4 billion, investors remain enthused, focusing instead on soaring profit that came in at more than double analysts' projections.
"We want to see that when there's a slight slowdown in sales, those profits expand," said Josh Olson, analyst at Edward Jones & Co. "That's the strength of this management team. They know when to step up spending and when to pull back. That gives us faith in the long-term story because eventually all of Amazon's growth opportunities will come to an end."
Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said growth of the Amazon Web Services cloud computing division and advertising sales propelled profit. Both businesses are more profitable than Amazon's main e-commerce operation.
The retail business is also becoming more profitable thanks to job cuts earlier this year and a reorganisation enabled by automation of tasks once handled by people. Amazon uses robots rather than people to shuffle inventory around its warehouses, and algorithms to power inventory decisions once made by white collar workers.
Those changes let Amazon staff up growing departments without hiring lots of new people since it can transfer existing workers from other functions where they're no longer needed. Amazon even trimmed losses in its international business while funding expansions in India, Australia, the Middle East and Brazil.
For most of Amazon's existence, Bezos preached almost constant investment in new businesses at the expense of near-term profit. The company got low on cash during its early years and was often the subject of heated debate among investors over whether it would ever generate sustained earnings. Supporters regularly cited the company's sales growth and said Amazon's huge scale would eventually pay off.
Amazon's size certainly helps these days. When the company delivers a package to a customer, it's likely to pass many other customers' homes nearby, spreading shipping costs across a larger revenue base. But new businesses have helped too. AWS began to take off about a decade ago and now generates more than half of Amazon's operating income. Advertising is a newer business, but promises similar benefits.
That all means investors no longer shudder when sales growth falters. In the second quarter, worldwide paid units growth, a key metric of e-commerce momentum, was 17 percent, slowing for the fourth consecutive quarter. Amazon shares rose 3.2 percent in extended trading anyway.
Olsavsky attributed the slowdown to a difficult comparable period a year ago when Amazon lowered the price threshold for free shipping, responding to competitive pressure from Walmart Inc.
One factor that reduces Amazon growth while boosting profit is rising sales from independent merchants posting their own inventory on Amazon's marketplace. Those sales are more profitable for Amazon since it takes a commission along with fees for warehouse storing, packing and delivery – without the risk of buying inventory.
"We're seeing a lot more third-party transactions, which is why the revenue missed but the profits are so good," said RJ Hottovy, an equity analyst at Morningstar Inc.
Amazon's stock has more than tripled in the past three years, making Bezos the richest person on the planet. It's the world's second-most valuable public company now behind Apple Inc., making it one of the front-runners in the race to reach $1 trillion in market value.
Investors have placed tremendous faith in Amazon's ability to find new customers and squeeze more money from existing users by offering them new products and services. It purchased online pharmacy PillPack last month, which followed its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods last year to jump start its struggling grocery business. Olsavsky said marketing in Whole Foods is creating new members for Amazon's Prime subscription. "It's the fastest we've ever seen," he added.
Amazon's momentum has been strong enough to sustain Twitter broadsides from US President Donald Trump, who has accused Amazon of freeloading off the US Postal Service and using the Washington Post as a lobbying tool against antitrust criticism. Bezos owns the Washington Post, which frequently publishes hard-hitting investigative pieces about Trump and his administration.
Revenue from Amazon Web Services, its profitable cloud-computing division, jumped 49 percent to $6.1 billion. Growth, which Amazon reports without the impact of currency changes, was 48 percent in the first quarter.
Sales from other businesses – mostly advertising – surged 129 percent to $2.2 billion, just below the growth rate from the first quarter.
Amazon has more than 100 million Prime subscribers who pay yearly or monthly fees in exchange for fast shipping, video and music streaming and digital photo storage. Members spend more than non-members. Subscription services revenue, which is mostly from Prime, soared 55 percent to $3.4 billion. First-quarter growth was 56 percent.
Amazon will capture nearly half of all online spending in the US this year, according to EMarketer Inc. Bezos is trying to convince investors that he can replicate that US dominance overseas. That still takes a lot of spending upfront: Second-quarter operating expenses rose 34 percent to $49.9 billion. That was just below Amazon's revenue growth rate.


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Nepal four months on: planning the rebuild
Two WYG engineers – principal project manager Glyn Utting and senior geoenvironmentalist Simon Eden - have recently returned from earthquake hit Nepal, where they spent two weeks visiting rural communities alongside representatives from Community Action Nepal (CAN) and Article 25.
Together they assisted with damage assessments, both structural and geological, to CAN's portfolio of projects that have been affected by the earthquakes in May.
CAN is a UK based charity whose aim is to help the mountain people of Nepal. They work in partnership with rural villages and communities to provide local health care, education, income generation, cultural and mountain porter welfare facilities.
"When the buildings fail, the social and economic life they support also fail.We can't prevent earthquakes, but we can mitigate their impact" - Robin Cross, Article 25
"We are honoured to be supporting CAN," Utting said, "and working directly with the people of Nepal with the hope of making a difference to help those who have been left devastated by this natural disaster. We are able to use our skills and expertise to plan for future projects that will help rebuild damaged and destroyed schools and health posts in the most rural affected communities of Nepal."
During their visit, Utting and Eden were completely overwhelmed by the attitudes shown by the locals who, even though they have lost entire villages, were going about their daily chores. Some have attempted to fix their own homes and schools with the hope they will withstand the current monsoon season.
CAN predominantly sponsors and funds schools, health posts and porter shelters across rural Nepal and as a result of the recent WYG visit, three key project opportunities have been identified:
Milamchiguan School and Health Post - This is CAN's flagship school and one of their earlier projects which had grown into the most successful rural school in the whole of Nepal with 400 pupils (200 pupils boarding from the surrounding districts). Most of the village has been destroyed including the school, boarding accommodation and health post. The current location is good so it would require a new build solution within existing footprint.
Rebuild Langtang Village - The entire village was destroyed by an enormous landslide including 116 homes, a school and health post. In discussions with the surviving villagers the priority is to rebuild their homes and the school / health post can be later projects.
Bharabesi School for the Deaf - This is another personal CAN project. It is the only deaf school in all of Nepal and hence has boarding accommodation. The school and accommodation is damaged beyond repair. The location is good so it would need rebuilding within the existing footprint.
"The devastating impact of the earthquakes in Nepal is a sad reminder of the crucial importance of safe and resilient buildings. When the buildings fail, the social and economic life they support also fail," said managing director of Article 25 Robin Cross. "We can't prevent earthquakes, but we can mitigate their impact. Well-constructed buildings can make the difference between many thousands of deaths and zero deaths."
Over the coming weeks WYG will be working with CAN and Article 25 to scope out the design phase and construction programme following the monsoon season.
See also: Nepal: Building back better – RedR's report on its work in the country.
Career story: Leonie Grover, Turner & Townsend on Nepal's hospitals
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2008 BU £1 Coin - The Royal Arms - Presentation Pack
As a powerful symbol of royal authority the Royal Arms, in various forms, have featured on the coinage of almost every monarch since the reign of Edward III (1327-77). In 2008, for the first time the Royal Mint released a very special Limited Issue Brilliant Uncirculated Royal Shield £1 One Pound Coin commemorating the new Royal Shield of Arms designed by Matthew Dent.
As heraldry itself started to grow as a symbol of royal identity it was a natural progression for the Royal Arms to appear on the coinage. It is not surprising then that Matthew Dent, the winning designer, chose the Royal Arms, and in particular the shield of the Royal Arms, as the theme for his innovative range of new designs, with all four quarters spread over the six coins from the 1p to the 50p.
Completing the new range of coins is the £1 One Pound Coin featuring the shield of the Royal Arms in its entirety, uniting the six fragmented elements into one design.
The obverse is the stunning portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank Broadley.
The one pound coin is in a presentation folder and is of uncirculated quality and has been carefully handled to avoid damage.
Diameter – 22.5mm
Weight – 9.5g
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Goldman Sachs Elevator Has Lost His Book Deal
By Linette Lopez
A man walks out of the Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City.
Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images
This post originally appeared in Business Insider.
To everyone eagerly awaiting the Goldman Sachs elevator book, Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance and Excess in the World of Investment Banking, our sincerest apologies.
Simon and Schuster has canceled its deal with former Citi banker John LeFevre. He was notified today via email.
"It's just a comical mystery to me," LeFevre told Business Insider. "As of Friday afternoon, after all of the noise—during which Simon & Schuster prohibited me from responding and defending myself—they have continued to support me and stand by our project. Well, until today apparently."
A statement from Simon and Schuster given to Business Insider says: "In light of information that has recently come to our attention since acquiring John Lefevre's STRAIGHT TO HELL, Touchstone has decided to cancel its publication of this work."
Since LeFevre's identity was reported by Dealbook's Andrew Ross Sorkin, publications from Gawker to New York magazine have questioned his credibility. New York magazine played with the idea that LeFevre was not acting alone while Gawker accused him of out and out plagiarism.
So Lefevre took to the internet to defend himself.
"We always counted on my identity being revealed and we were confident that it would lend credibility and support to my story and vantage point. And my publisher had been vocal in supporting me after I was outed. So today it's quite surprising to see them walk away from a contractual obligation."
LeFevre is confident that the show will go on and that new opportunities await.
"This doesn't change anything for me," LeFevre continued. "In the immortal words of Carl Fox, 'money is only something you need if you don't die tomorrow.' Since I have been able to respond, my credibility has only increased. I have been asked to write a regular column for two of the most prestigious capital markets publications, in addition to being an on-record source regarding the new investigation into fixed income allocation practices at Goldman Sachs and other firms."
So this isn't the end of the tweeting, the storytelling, or the satire. That will remain the same. What's new is that there's a guy walking the earth that signed contracts with both Goldman Sachs and Simon and Schuster … and lost money on them both (for now).
See also: Reporter: Here's How I Found the Creator of Bitcoin
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