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Erdogan's diminishing returns in Syria
Osama Al Sharif
A day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had an opinion piece titled "Trump is right on Syria. Turkey can get the job done" published in the New York Times, he snubbed US National Security Adviser John Bolton by refusing to meet him and describing his statements on a conditional US withdrawal from Syria as a "serious mistake."
Bolton had contradicted Donald Trump's recent announcement that US troops would be returning from Syria quickly and that ISIS has been defeated. Standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bolton warned Turkey not to launch a military operation in northern Syria without coordinating with Washington first. He also said that the US would only pull troops out of Syrian territory once the Pentagon had formalized a contingency plan to shield US allies fighting there — meaning the Syrian Kurdish militias.
The diplomatic row had derailed what appeared to have been an understanding reached between Erdogan and Trump during a telephone call in December, after which the US president announced his decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria within weeks. Erdogan was triumphant: Turkey would take over from the 2,000 US soldiers stationed in northeastern Syria, including a number of bases, and venture unopposed into Syrian Kurdish territory east of the Euphrates. That would have been Erdogan's biggest gain since his troops marched into northern Syria almost two years ago.
But now he finds himself in a tough spot. He watched helplessly as Russian military police last week entered Manbij — a strategic town that US troops had controlled until recently. His plan for a major military offensive across the Euphrates to target the People's Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey regards as the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a designated terrorist organization, is once more on hold.
The temporary thaw in US-Turkish ties that dates back to last October, when an American pastor held by Turkey was released, appears to have ended. US House Democrats voted last week to pass a spending bill that hits Turkey with arms sales bans and sanctions. Ankara's demand that the US extradite exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey accuses of masterminding a failed military coup in 2016, is off the table once more.
Erdogan needed to stretch his muscles in Syria for a number of reasons. The surprise US withdrawal would remove a major hindrance for the Turkish military expansion east of the Euphrates. It would allow Ankara to manage a buffer zone along its borders with Syria; one that would keep Syrian Kurds at bay and prevent them from creating an autonomous entity. And it would give Erdogan the freedom to change the demographic makeup of northern and northeastern Syria.
Furthermore, the Turkish president was hoping to use the US retreat to launch his military offensive against the Kurds in order to boost the chances of his party in key municipal elections that are to be held at the end of March.
But Trump's indecisiveness and the negative reaction toward his decision to pull out of Syria from lawmakers, senior officials and regional allies have toppled Erdogan's designs. Threats made by his top aides that Turkey will not hesitate to wage a military campaign, even with a US presence, cannot be taken seriously. The stakes are high and the possibility of an altercation with American, Russian and regime troops cannot be ignored.
Adding to Erdogan's woes is the fact that Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, formerly the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra group, has defeated most pro-Ankara rebels in Idlib and is now controlling key highways and areas between Turkey and northern Syria. The collapse of these rebel groups, which Turkey had organized under the banner of the National Front for Liberation (NFL), means that Erdogan has lost the capacity to mobilize Syrian fighters to do the job that his military is hesitant to carry out.
Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria has prompted Syria's Kurds to negotiate with Damascus to hand over control of their areas to the Syrian army. In return, the Syrian government has shown willingness to reward them with some form of limited self-rule. This again constitutes a serious setback for Erdogan and his Syria agenda. An attack against Kurdish areas under Syrian government administration would certainly infuriate the Russians and the Iranians, Erdogan's partners in the Astana process.
In fact, following Trump's stunt, the Turkish president finds himself at odds with Washington but also unable to rely on Moscow for help. Turkey entered Syria, uninvited, with the sole aim of containing the Kurds. Now that objective is becoming unfeasible. The most likely option for Ankara now is to content itself with a minor role in the Syrian crisis in the hope of cutting its losses and reserving a place once a political settlement is finally launched.
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Authentic Somerset Maugham Quotes About Life, Love, Writing, Money, And God
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You should check out these authentic Somerset Maugham quotes about life, love, writing, money and God.
All the quotations by William Somerset Maugham published on this page are linked to the original sources (books).
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In fact, I have specially provided two links for each quote, in case one of them is broken.
The late British playwright, novelist and short story writer, William Somerset Maugham is one of my all time favorite author.
I have most of his novels and compilations of short stories.
With the advent of Internet, we can get to read most of his literary works free online.
And not forgetting the many free movies based on his stories, available on YouTube.
Maugham was once an accountant and then he studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital in London.
In 1897, he qualified as Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
And that very same year, his first novel 'Liza of Lambeth' was published.
From then on, he went to Seville in Spain and took up writing full-time.
He produced many great writings, which include" 'The Hero', 'Mrs. Craddock', 'The Merry-Go-Round', 'The Explorer', 'Moon and Sixpence', 'The Trembling Of A Leaf', and 'The Painted Veil'.
Then he went back to London and immersed in play-writing and novels.
Even he was a predominantly gay, he married to Gwendolyn Maude Syrie Barnardo who was the wife of American British pharmaceutical entrepreneur, Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome in 1917.
They had a daughter Elizabeth Mary Maugham "Liza".
In 1928, Maugham move permanently to the French Riviera.
In his later years he wrote many essays, short stories and novels.
Among them are: 'Cakes and Ale', 'The Narrow Corner', 'Don Fernando', 'The Summing Up', 'Up At The Villa', 'The Razor's Edge', 'Then And Now', 'Creatures Of Circumstance' and 'Catalina'.
On 16 December 1965, 91 year-old William Somerset Maugham died in Nice, France.
Somerset Maugham Quotes About Life
Below are a list of fully verified authentic Somerset Maugham quotes about life, love, writing, money, and God.
"Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage By William Somerset Maugham, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1915, III, P. 158)
(The quote is also found in: Of Human Bondage By William Somerset Maugham, 1915, Collier By Special Arrangement With Doubleday, Doran, 1943, III, P. 232)
"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all…" – William Somerset Maugham
(Cakes And Ale Or The Skeleton In The Cupboard By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinmann Ltd., 1930, XI, P. 123)
(The quote is also found in: Cakes And Ale By W. Somerset Maugham, Modern Library, 1950, XI, P. 124)
"Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job." – William Somerset Maugham
(Cakes And Ale Or The Skeleton In The Cupboard By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinmann Ltd., 1930, I, P. 14)
(The quote is also found in: Cakes And Ale By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1935, I, P. 15)
"…when you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right…" – William Somerset Maugham
(Cakes And Ale Or The Skeleton In The Cupboard By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinmann Ltd., 1930, XII, P. 145)
(The quote is also found in: Cakes And Ale By W. Somerset Maugham, Modern Library, 1950, XII, P. 147)
"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With Double day, Doran & Company, 1915, XXIII, P. 97)
(The quote is also found in: Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1936, XXIII, P. 83)
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With Double day, Doran & Company, 1915, XXIX, P. 125)
(The quote is also found in: Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, With Introduction By Robert Calder, Penguin, 1992, XXIX, P. 121)
"Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With Double day, Doran & Company, 1915, LXVI, P. 334)
(The quote is also found in: Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, The Floating Press, 2009, LXVI, P. 705)
"There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With Double day, Doran & Company, 1915, LXXI, P. 366)
(The quote is also found in: Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, With Introduction By Robert Calder, Penguin, 1992, LXXI, P. 346)
"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With Double day, Doran & Company, 1915, CXXII, P. 647)
(The quote is also found in: Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, Random House, 2010, 122, P. 699)
"He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had tried to do without it." – William Somerset Maugham
(The quote is also found in: Of Human Bondage By W. Somerset Maugham, The Floating Press, 2009, CXVI, P. 1294)
"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage By William Somerset Maugham, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1915, L, P. 297)
(The quote is also found in: Of Human Bondage By William Somerset Maugham, 1915, Collier By Special Arrangement With Doubleday, Doran, 1943, L, P. 267)
"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage By William Somerset Maugham, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1915, LI, P. 305)
(The quote is also found in:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics) By W. Somerset Maugham, Diversion Books, 2016, LI)
"Impropriety is the soul of wit." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers By Arrangement With George H. Doran Company, 1919, Ch.IV; P.24)
(This quote is also found in: The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Courier Corporation, 2012, Ch.IV; p.10)
"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With George H. Doran Company, 1919, Ch.XXI; p.116)
(This quote is also found in: The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Courier Corporation, 2012, Ch.XXI; p.59)
"…one of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With George H. Doran Company, 1919, Ch.XXXIII, P. 173)
(The quote is also found in: The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Courier Corporation, 2012, Ch.XXXIII, P. 89)
"We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Moon and Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With George H. Doran Company, 1919, Ch.XXXVIII, P. 189)
(The quote is also found in: The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Courier Corporation, 2012, Ch.XXXVIII, P. 98)
"We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither." – William Somerset Maugham
"We must see the beauty of quietness." – William Somerset Maugham
"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With George H. Doran Company, 1919, Ch.XLI, P. 203)
(The quote is also found in: The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Courier Corporation, 2012, Ch.XLI, P. 105)
"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her…but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account." – William Somerset Maugham
"…self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy…" – William Somerset Maugham
(The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Grosset & Dunlap By Arrangement With George H. Doran Company, 1919, Ch.XLIII, P. 222)
(The quote is also found in: The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Random House, 2008, Ch.XLIII, P. 150)
"…men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel…" – William Somerset Maugham
(The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Modern Library, 1919, Ch.LV, P. 320)
(The quote is also found in: The Moon And Sixpence By W. Somerset Maugham, Random House, 2008, Ch.LV, P. 202)
"A god that can be understood is no God" – William Somerset Maugham
(The Razor's Edge By W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran & Co.,1944, Vi, P. 285)
(The quote is also found in: The Razor's Edge By W. Somerset Maugham, Penguin Books, 1963, Vi, P. 261)
"…things don't get any easier by putting them off." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Razor's Edge By W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran & Co.,1944, Iv, P. 69)
(The quote is also found in: The Razor's Edge By W. Somerset Maugham, Random House, 2008, 1945, 4, P. 69)
"Life is full of improbabilities which fiction does not admit of." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Vagrant Mood: Six Essays By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1922, The Decline And Fall Of The Detective Story, II, P. 99)
(The quote is also found in: The Vagrant Mood By W. Somerset Maugham, Random House, 2011, II, P. 82)
"When you know a man's surroundings you already know something about the man." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Vagrant Mood: Six Essays By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1922, The Decline And Fall Of The Detective Story, IV, P. 121)
(This quote is also found in: The Vagrant Mood By W. Somerset Maugham, Random House, 2011, IV, P. 100)
"The great compensation of old age, …is its freedom of spirit…" – William Somerset Maugham
(The Partial View By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1917, Preface, P. Vii)
"Old age liberates you from envy, hatred and malice." – William Somerset Maugham
"If God exist and he concerns himself with the affairs of humanity, then surely he will take a lenient view, as lenient a view as a sensible man takes, of the weakness of human beings." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Partial View By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1917, Preface, P. Xii)
"The novelist is a natural propagandist. He can't help it however hard he tries. He loads his dice." – William Somerset Maugham
(Of Human Bondage With A Digression On The Art Of Fiction By W. Somerset Maugham, William, April 20, 1946)
"One isn't always as careful of what one says as one should be." – William Somerset Maugham
(Books And You By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinemann Ltd., 1940, I, P. 3)
"Every man is his own best critic." – William Somerset Maugham
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." – William Somerset Maugham
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good." – William Somerset Maugham
(Don Fernando By Somerset Maugham, 1935, VI)
(The quote is also found in: W. Somerset Maugham: The Critical Heritage Edited By Anthony Curtis, John Whitehead, Routledge, 2013, 102. Terence Holliday, 'The Love Story Of Mr. Maugham And Spain', New York Herald Tribune, 21 July 1935, 7, P. 298)
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories." – William Somerset Maugham
(Points Of View By W. Somerset Maugham, Random House, 2011, The Three Novels Of A Poet, P. 55)
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." – William Somerset Maugham
(Strictly Personal By W. Somerset Maugham, William Heinmann Ltd., 30, P. 154)
(The quote is also found in: Strictly Personal By W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated, 1941, 30, P. 216)
"The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people." – William Somerset Maugham
"Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure." – William Somerset Maugham
(The Trembling Of A Leaf; Little Stories Of The South Sea Islands By W. Somerset Maugham, George H. Doran Company, 1921, III. The Fall Of Edward Barnard, P. 105)
(The quote is also found in: The Trembling Of A Leaf: (Little Stories of the South Sea Islands) By William Somerset Maugham, Mondial, 2008, III. The Fall Of Edward Barnard, P. 45)
"You can do anything in this world if you're prepared to take the consequences…" – William Somerset Maugham
(The Circle: A Comedy In Three Acts By W. Somerset Maugham, George H. Doran Company, 1921, Act III, P. 91)
(The quote is also found in: The Circle: A Comedy In Three Acts By W. Somerset Maugham, George H. Doran Company, 1921, Act III, P. 91)
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This final section engages with one of the most fundamental aspects of critical media literacy – audience participation. In addition to unpacking ways in which audiences increasingly participate in the production and dissemination of media content, as well as their continued role in interpretation and reinterpretation, the discussion and exercises here address diversity and empowerment of audiences and perspectives. In asking questions about the role of audience in interpreting media messages the section focuses on topics of diversity (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability). At the end, following a word association game, examples of online platforms for citizen activism, a critical reading exercise, you will learn how to produce an article outline on your own.
Overall, this section aims for you to:
Understand the role of audiences in media production and dissemination
Discuss how events are shaped in media – events shaping media and media shaping events
Become aware of the relevance of inclusion and diversity in media
Voice of different social groups represented
Media audiences not as just passive recipients
Participation of diverse audiences and presence of varied voices and experiences, and issues of empowerment
Understand how meaning is created/coded and how it is decoded and/or changed
Debate the democratizing potential and polarization of digital media
Media rely on particular understandings held by their audiences in shaping and narrating news, for example, places and events they refer to, people they talk about, etc. For example, when media reports on a religious holiday they assume shared meanings attached to the festivities (baklava for Bayram, a tree for Christmas).
An important issue however pertains to the voices and experiences that might be left out. There is a noticeable tendency for media to assume who holds the authority to speak on behalf a larger group. For example, you may have noticed that when reporting on a waste or water problem in a village in Kosovo almost exclusively media speak to older men in the village.
On the other hand, increased interaction and participation of audiences has had immense effect in shaping and altering media reporting and narration. Audiences do not just passively accept what is provided to them. Although audiences always could remake the meaning of news and events, in today's media landscape there is increased opportunity to shape the reporting itself. For example, www.kallxo.com is a national platform where citizens can report on issues relevant to them, ranging from corruption to illegal dumping. These kinds of platforms investigate stories while relying on citizens' reports on offences and transgressions committed by institutions and citizens. As such they also are a means of empowerment for citizens. Examples such as this point to what is considered the democratizing potential of digital media.
On the other hand, in digital and especially social media we can end up consuming news and participating through platforms that reinforce our existing opinions. This way, audiences (the public) become split and polarized without communicating and exchanging perspectives.


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Q: Automaticaly rename new buffer in term-mode In Emacs, let's create a buffer in term-mode with M-x term. The resulting buffer is named *terminal*. If one wants to create another buffer also in term-mode, one usually does M-x term again. However, this simply gets back to the first buffer.
Therefore, one has to (1) rename the first buffer with M-x rename-uniquely, this buffer now being named *terminal*<2>, and (2) create the second buffer with M-x term, that buffer being named *terminal*.
Would there be a way instead to create another buffer in term-mode without renaming the first ones, so that the new buffer is automatically named *terminal<i+1>* where i is the number of already-existing buffers in term-mode?
ps: I started reading the introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp, in order to write in my .emacs my own function overloading M-x term, but I feel like any help will be much needed!

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Autobiography & Memoir, Death
Jad Adams
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Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
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When she was a child, Carla Valentine used to wonder what it felt like to be a corpse. She would direct her friends to take part in funerals for roadkill they found. While her contemporaries went off to learn languages or travel in Southeast Asia, Valentine spent her gap year assisting an embalmer. As a student she volunteered part-time at the local mortuary, learning the correct etiquette for holding organs removed from a cadaver.
Valentine has worked in hospitals, civic mortuaries and, latterly, as curator of the St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum and as an adviser on films. This book is 'my life in death'. It forms part of a growing trend of books and television programmes about the facts of death, though none, I think, is quite as visceral as this.
Valentine approaches the unzipping of a newly arrived body bag like a child opening a Christmas present. Will it be an anorexic dentist with infected bedsores? Will it be a cross-dressing bruiser in a tight pink lace ensemble? Or will it be a disappointment – just a flood of brown liquid flowing out onto the clean mortuary floor?
She shows great sympathy for the dead: dressing the wounds, cutting the nails and combing the hair of a corpse no relatives will ever come to see. She feels that both sex and death are 'horizontal' mysteries. Consequently, tales from her own lovelife intersperse the story of her career, which saw her rise to the rank of senior anatomical pathology technologist. As she was on the Forensic Response Team emergency alerts list for multiple deaths, on the day of the terrorist bombings in London in July 2005 she was summoned to work in the temporary mortuary that had been set up. For Valentine, becoming involved in a mass fatality investigation was 'something akin to being called into a religious order'. She had attended courses on disaster response and now she was doing the real thing, conducting a forensic postmortem on each victim, recovering shrapnel and pieces of the bomb that could be valuable to that investigation from the corpses, and collecting tiny fragments of bodies in bags.
One reason for writing this book was to break the silence surrounding the mortuary fostered by technicians who create their own 'taboo on the dead' by keeping the profession 'shrouded in secrecy', but being open about death has brought its own challenges. When Valentine appeared on a television programme, family and friends gathered round to see what she did at work. There she was on the small screen: 'me, tiny and blonde with a huge pair of silver rib shears, cracking my way through a man's rib cage, the tough bones making the most awful noises in the echoey post-mortem suite.' Her friends were aghast: 'I thought you put make-up on them,' one said.
There is a good scattering of ancient lore in the book, about such things as Egyptian embalming and about her hero, the anatomist Andreas Vesalius. Even the theatre gets a look-in, as Valentine criticises the speech by Salome to the head of John the Baptist in Oscar Wilde's play. A young woman would not have had the upper body strength to keep holding a human head in front of her face long enough to have a lengthy conversation with it, says Valentine, who has indeed held a decapitated head. Not a lot of literary critics have done that.
Past Mortems is breezily written in a conversational style, full of the history of dissection and forensic anecdotes and with plentiful figures of speech involving food. Valentine describes, for instance, how the skin of the deceased flakes off like the pastry of a croissant, and how dropped maggots pop like Rice Krispies under her feet. Sometimes real life intrudes too closely for comfort: the chapter on dead babies starts with picking the right size of cardboard coffin for a pauper funeral and culminates in Valentine's own miscarriage. By and large, this book is written with cheery humour and pathos, but every so often it draws us up with a shock. A bit like death, really.
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The Grounding of Boeing's MAX Costs American Millions
April 27, 2019 Daniel Morley News
An American 737 MAX at New York's LaGuardia Airport (Photo: AirlineGeeks | William Derrickson)
The grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX by the Federal Aviation Administration will come at an estimated cost of $350 million to American Airlines, as reported by the airline during an updated profit forecast for the year. The airline has canceled flights through August while waiting for Boeing to release a fix to allow the aircraft to start flying again. So far, American has canceled over 15,000 flights since the grounding of the MAX following the crash of Ethiopian flight 302.
Rising oil prices have also increased the airline's projected fuel expense by $650 million from previous estimates, further contributing to a decrease in expected profits. Before the grounding of the MAX, the American's first quarter net profits rose by nearly $25 million.
The FAA believes that the grounding of the 737 MAX may be soon over as the aircraft could be cleared to fly in the next month as Boeing has been developing a software fix to counter the issues that pilots have encountered since the crash of Lion Air flight 610 last October. In addition to the updated software, Boeing will be giving additional training to the aircraft's pilots. Even if the aircraft is approved by the FAA in the next months, the additional training and updates to the aircraft will keep them on the ground until August at the earliest.
American has not been the only airline affected by the grounding. With the aircraft grounded worldwide, some carriers are left to arrange other means to cover their schedule. While many airlines have resorted to canceling flights, some have resorted to wet-leasing aircraft in order to cover their schedules. Cayman Airways has occasionally wet-leased a Boeing 767 from Eastern Airlines to cover its Grand Cayman to Denver route, originally launched with the Boeing 737 MAX, and Air Canada is reportedly turning to Qatar Airways for aircraft to wet-lease.
For American Airlines, the grounding of the MAX aircraft has come at a great financial cost and some disruption to the schedule. However, the return of the MAX to service may not be the end of the airline's problems. History has shown that a series of accidents can tarnish the public reputation of an aircraft. Although the MAX may be back in service soon, only time will tell if the public will trust the aircraft again.
The airline hopes to have the aircraft flying again by August.
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Ewa Eidsgaard of Eidsgaard Design said that a significant female presence was "the one change that has not been very present in the industry yet".
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Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 182.


I am so thrilled at how close The Needle and Thread Network is to having one hundred followers! My plan was to begin "Feature Friday" posts every second week. In these posts, one of our Canadian Bloggers will be interviewed, and his/her photos of wonderful works will be shown, along with any links to online shops, flickr photos, blogs, facebook... It's up to the Featured Artisan to decide what they want to show & tell. Think of it as free advertising. You could do giveaways at the same time... anything goes.
- I will put the post together in the end and publish it here since logging into edit this site requires my passwords, etc. (I wasn't thinking of that when I started this blog).
Anyone interested can leave their name & email here in the comments, or email me directly at mysweetprairie@gmail.com I don't need a resume, but maybe a link to your blog if you have one, and a description that would reflect your interest and commitment.
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Kevin Laughlin joined the Firm in April 2008 and is now a Partner. He served from October 1989 to March 1996 with the City of Midland, the last four years as First Assistant City Attorney. Following his tenure in Midland, Mr. Laughlin served from March 1996 to May 2002 as the full-time, in-house City Attorney for the City of Kerrville, Texas. During his 12+ years with the cities of Midland and Kerrville, Mr. Laughlin performed legal services in every area of municipal government, including, but not limited to, airport development, leasing, and operations at both commercial and general aviation airports (i.e. Midland International Airport, Midland Airpark, and Kerrville/Kerr County Municipal Airport), land use and development, public safety, and law enforcement, open government, community development, and grant administration, public utilities, and other public services, tort claims, water law, eminent domain, interlocal agreements, human resources, public contracting and procurement, and parks and recreation.
Mr. Laughlin has extensive experience in contract negotiation and preparation as well as the preparation of ordinances and resolutions covering a wide range of matters. In the six years immediately prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Laughlin was in private practice with a law firm in Odessa where his practice focused extensively on real estate transactions, including all aspects of title examination, preparation of real estate sales contracts, and closing documents, title curative matters, and lien foreclosures. Mr. Laughlin has and continues to provide legal services for Type A and Type B economic development corporations, and often teams with Mr. Smith on various economic development projects for the Firm's clients, particularly those that involve some type of real estate component. Mr. Laughlin is presently serving as general counsel for the North Texas Emergency Communications Center, Inc. (NTECC), the local government corporation created by the Town of Addison and Cities of Carrollton, Coppell, and Farmers Branch to operate a consolidated public safety dispatch center on behalf of the four cities. Mr. Laughlin is also serving as lead counsel on the joint radio project in which the same four cities are participating.
Mr. Laughlin has served on the board of directors of the Texas City Attorneys Association, serving as its president in 2002-2003 and more recently as the TCAA representative on the Texas Municipal League Board of Directors. Mr. Laughlin has also been an occasional speaker at TCAA conferences and seminars, speaking on matters such as federal and state cases affecting cities and counties and real estate issues. Mr. Laughlin is serving as the City Attorney for the cities of Highland Village and Lake Dallas, is an assistant attorney for the Cities of Allen, Richardson, and Farmers Branch, and a number of other cities, and is the primary real estate attorney for the majority of the Firm's clients.
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Q: Reading "runtime" section from external file in .NET configuration I've read this article, and it seems that while runtime section of .NET configuration can be given an external file via configSource attribute, but it doesn't read the external configuration and ignores it.
http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Magnus-Rahl/Dates/2011/6/Todays-gotcha-configSource-on-the-runtime-section-element/
I'm stuck in a situation that I need to redirect binding of a lot of assmblies in a lot of projects, which is not hard per se, but really dirty from the point of maintenance.
How can I reuse binding redirects across multiple projects in .NET configuration?


Morgan Harbour is constructing a new 14,000 square foot core and shell, mixed-use medical office building at 751-755 N. York Road in Elmhurst, Illinois on behalf of the developer MedProperties Group. The structural steel and masonry building sits on a one-acre site and is designated as an Edward-Elmhurst Health location. The MHC construction team is led by Greg Lennartz as project manager and Jim Ritchey as project superintendent. Ware Malcomb is providing the architectural services. Founded in 1994, MedProperties Group is an established medical real estate investment, development and operating platform based in Chicago. Their team is comprised of senior real estate professionals with institutional backgrounds and health care provider experience.


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A tanker truck caught on fire in B.C.'s Peace region Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. (Government of B.C.)
Cleanup in the works after tanker truck fire leads to oil spill in B.C.'s Peace region
The province said the majority of the spilled oil likely burned away in the fire.
Nov. 17, 2019 12:45 p.m.
Cleanup is underway in B.C.'s Peace region Sunday after a tanker truck caught fire and 40,000 litres of oil in the region.
According to the province, the b-train tanker truck was carrying petroleum crude oil when it was involved in an accident while crossing the Pouce Coupe bridge on Highway 49 at around 1:40 p.m. Saturday. The driver was taken to the hospital.
The accident, which happened five kilometres east of Dawson Creek, closed the bridge. The province said there was some "sheening" on the Pouce Coupe River right below the accident, and as of Sunday, a boom has been put in. The truck has been removed from the bridge and an environmental contractor has taken background, source and downstream water samples and installed wildlife deterrents to keep wildfire away from the area.
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RCMP say two injured in shooting inside Surrey warming centre
B.C. woman seeks return of jewelry box containing father's cremated remains
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Microgen Plc secures £20m in funding from RBS in conclusion of its Strategic Review
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Microgen Plc, the specialist provider of software and services to the global financial services, digital media and commercial sectors, has secured £20m in funding from RBS for their Financial Systems Division, to support the business in the wake of the conclusion of their strategic review process.
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Microgen established in 1974 and listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1983, has two divisions: The Microgen Aptitude Solutions Division, providing software to automate complex business processes and the Financial Systems Division, providing back office processing software predominantly for the banking and wealth management sectors.
Microgen's strategy has been to develop the business through organic growth and earlier this year completed a Shareholder Realisation Programme, returning 100% of the market capitalisation (as at October 2008) via dividends, special dividends, tender offers and share buy-backs.
In May 2013 Microgen announced that it was undertaking a strategic review. The scope of the strategic review was wide-ranging and included evaluating the possibility of disposals as well as acquisitions to increase the scale of the group.
With support from RBS, Microgen concluded their review by raising £20m of Term Debt with RBS. RBS acted as sole Hedge Counterparty and Arranger delivering an innovative bilateral structure secured against one of Microgen's divisions: Financial Systems Division. The facility has delivered funds to the business combined with ability for both of Microgen's divisions to operate autonomously with regard to bolt-on or transformative acquisitions and disposals.
Philip Wood, Group Finance Director, Microgen plc said: "RBS has shown a proactive and positive appetite to support Microgen through its Strategic Review. This innovative borrowing structure provides great flexibility for Microgen and the wider Group to pursue our strategy. The close relationship we have with RBS has been instrumental in delivering this innovative financing package and we look forward to continuing our relationship with RBS in the future".
Jon Mosscrop, Relationship Director, Corporate Coverage Media & Technology, RBS CIB, said: "RBS has developed a strong relationship with Microgen over a number of years. We are pleased to be able to play a pivotal role in supporting the business and provide them with the flexibility to build on the conclusions of their strategic review."


2015 LS owner here. I was wondering if I were to install a system from amazon or the like, would I be able to control it via the steering wheel and/or the control panel below the current radio installed?
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May I ask what unit?
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Did you get it installed CASPA?
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https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/State-proposed-for-airport-Congress-St-13442260.php
State $$$ proposed for airport, Congress St. Bridge
By Brian Lockhart
Updated 3:14 pm EST, Tuesday, December 4, 2018
An aerial photograph of Sikorsky Airport in Stratford, Conn. on Wednesday, August 29, 2018.
Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT — As he exits the governor's office, Dannel Malloy and his administration are giving $14.6 million worth of parting gifts to the city that helped elect him twice and recently ensured another Democrat — Ned Lamont — will take over as Connecticut's chief executive.
The state bond commission, which is chaired by the retiring Malloy and borrows money for infrastructure and other needs all over Connecticut, will have its final meeting of the Malloy era Dec. 11.
And the agenda, published online Tuesday, includes some big dollar amounts for a handful of high-profile Bridgeport projects sought by Mayor Joe Ganim's administration and the city's legislative delegation. Ganim and Bridgeport's legislators are all, like Malloy and Lamont, Democrats.
The largest figure — $7 million — is for, as previously reported in November, improvements to Sikorsky Memorial Airport that will help Bridgeport attract a private company to return commercial passenger service to the Stratford-based facility. Those improvements would include construction of a new airport terminal.
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Bridgeport set to take on Remington Arms site
While the Ganim administration has been tight-lipped on behind-the-scenes efforts to woo an airline, Daniel Roach, a mayoral aide, over the summer said that "two different groups in the aviation business" were interested in a long-term lease at Sikorsky.
And the bond commission agenda emphasizes that the money will not be spent until "all necessary financial commitments and assurances" from Bridgeport's unnamed private partner are in place.
The Dec. 11 agenda also includes $3.7 million to help Ganim keep a 2015 campaign promise to replace the long-closed Congress Street Bridge over the Pequonnock River and reconnect the East Side to downtown. The old Congress Street span — a drawbridge — got stuck in the open position in 1997. The city has successfully pursued the more affordable replacement alternative of having that section of the river designated as non-navigable so a cheaper fixed bridge can be built.
Fire officials have also wanted the bridge replaced to improve emergency response times to the East Side.
An additional $2.273 million is before the bond commission to help Bridgeport continue efforts to fortify its shoreline, and particularly the South End, against coastal flooding. The so-called Resilient Bridgeport project has been in the works since Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and has already received $42 million in federal aid.
Flooding has not only been a problem for South End residents, but hindered efforts to redevelop dormant and blighted properties.
The last six-figure contribution to Bridgeport on the Dec. 11 bond commission agenda is $1 million toward the continued cleanup of the long-vacant Remington Arms factory complex on the East Side.
Bridgeport has a bit of a leg up on the 168 other cities and towns competing for state dollars thanks to state Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport. Moore in May was named by Senate leadership as that body's Democratic co-chair of the bonding subcommittee, giving her a say over the funds that get dispersed.
And so it was Moore, a potential primary opponent for Ganim as he seeks re-election in 2019, who beat City Hall and her legislative colleagues to the punch and trumpeted the Dec. 11 bond commission agenda Wednesday.
"As we envision a future for Bridgeport full of economic growth and job opportunities, these projects will be part of how we achieve that," Moore said in a press release. "I'm especially excited about the work being done to finally restore the Congress Street Bridge ... and about improvements to Sikorsky Memorial Airport. These transportation infrastructure projects will support future initiatives (and) will attract other businesses to our city."
Over an hour later Ganim and the rest of the city's state lawmakers issued their own joint statement. Ganim said, "I want to praise the administration of Governor Malloy for working with the city of Bridgeport to place these critical items on the bond commission agenda, sharing our vision for much needed economic progress that will benefit our entire region for years."


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The first trail of the year looked like it would be a snowy one. We aired down on the side of the road at a small pull out. It was pretty cold at that point, but got warmer as the day went on. After airing down, we were soon on our way to start Missouri Gulch.
The start of Missouri Gulch had seen some traffic and had tracks going down the trail. But the tracks ended about a quarter of the way down the trail. Then it was just us in fresh snow.
The snow at that time did not look too deep, but that would soon change. As we made our way down Missouri Gulch, the snow got deeper and deeper. Soon Matt, the leader, was pushing snow with his front bumper and only moving a few inches every ten minutes or so.
We were about halfway into Missouri Gulch at that point, and we all thought it would be a good idea to turn around and go to Illinois Gulch instead, to see what that trail looked like. It took a bit of time to get everyone turned around in the deep snow, but then we all made it back to the starting point of Missouri Gulch. We did have fun playing in the snow, but it was getting too deep for the Jeeps. Still, there is always more to explore in Rampart Range.
Use the arrows or dots to flip through the previews of the other reports for Missouri Gulch. Click one of them to read more and see all of the photos from that day.


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Astak EZ Reader PocketPro E-Book Reader
The Astak EZReader PocketPro has lots of great features for its price, but they don't make up for subpar usability
Yardena Arar (PC World (US online)) 03 November, 2009 03:47
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The Astak EZ Reader PocketPro is about the same size as the Sony Reader Pocket Edition. Both have 5-inch, 8-grayscale E Ink screens and cost $US199, putting at the small (and inexpensive) end of the e-book reader continuum. But some significant differences - pro and con - distinguish the two; and for all its extra features, the Astak's limited and rather strange font size options are a serious drawback.
First, the Astak's pluses: It weighs 6 ounces (versus the Sony's surprisingly hefty 7.75 ounces), a nice match for its 6.0-by 4.1-by-0.4-inch dimensions. Available in six colors (black, navy, white, red, pink, and purple), it comes cradled inside a handsome, sturdy flip-open leatherlike cover with clear plastic tabs that keep the device securely in place during use. Also included are a small screwdriver and spare screws for the removable battery, and a hand strap that attaches through holes in the bottom left corner of the device.
Another selling point: The PocketPro's built-in MP3 player lets you play music while you read (the Sony Pocket Edition lacks an MP3 player). Audio quality through the bundled (unpadded) earbuds plugged into the standard headphone jack was acceptable, though even at full volume it's not very loud.
Astak doesn't provide a built-in dictionary. On the other hand, it touts the PocketPro's support for more than 20 file formats, including several for images (the E Ink screen supports 8 levels of grayscale), along with Word, PowerPoint, HTML, and text documents. But for commercial books, you'll probably use one of the Adobe formats: PDF or ePub (the e-book format that supports digital rights management and can accommodate different fonts and type sizes). Since the PocketPro supports Adobe's DRM technology--Adobe Content Server 4--ou have access to a fair amount of commercial content through various online vendors.
I bought a copy of Philippa Gregory's The White Queen, a current best-seller, from EBooks.com, and downloaded the title to the required Adobe Digital Editions PC software for managing ePub content. Then I connected the PocketPro to my PC with the included USB cable (which you can also use to charge the device's battery, either through a PC or through the included AC adapter); a few seconds later, the software had authorized the PocketPro on my account. Transferring The White Queen to the Pocket Pro was then a simple drag-and-drop operation. Though the device has only 512MB of internal memory, you can augment that with a high-capacity (up to 16MB) SD Card. The device doesn't support wireless transfers.
The PocketPro's shortcomings begin with its navigation controls, which aren't particularly intuitive. There's no cursor for scrolling through lists of options, so you have to use the numeric keypad underneath the display to make all menu selections.
To turn pages forward or backward, you may either press the left/right buttons on the front left bezel or slide a jog-wheel lever on the right edge up or down. Nothing wrong with that--but a large, round two-part button on the bottom right, which I thought would turn pages, either brings up a menu for various navigation options and settings, or serves as an 'OK' button--and it's not always clear which function is active. (The small, left side of the button is a 'back' control that works pretty much as I expected it to.)
There's no status bar on the page to indicate progress through the book, and page numbers seem to be drawn from their position in print, meaning that you can turn several digital pages before seeing a page number. The built-in text-to-speech feature for PDF content is poor: I could barely follow along as the computerized female voice read from the included PDF manual, breaking sentences strangely and completely mangling some words.
Even more annoying, however, were the font-size options. You access the five choices (ranging from Extra-small to Extra-large) via the pop-up menu's Zoom control. The Extra-small font reminded me of the smallest size on my optician's reading-glasses test; and at the opposite extreme, Extra-large permitted only a few letters of the first word on the page to appear. In fact, the three largest fonts (Extra-large, Large, and Medium) were all quite big, and even Medium displayed only five or six sentences on screen at a time. I finally settled on Small as the only comfortably readable font--a far cry from the more evenly graduated font sizes on most other readers. When I tried to change the font size on the included PDF manual, I experienced the same results.
Access to diverse and useful font sizes is a major selling point for e-book readers; and for me the lack of good choices is a dealbreaker on the PocketPro, which otherwise has a lot to recommend it.
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THE EBOLA CATASTROPHE in West Africa is over. The World Health Organization declared an official end to the crisis back on March 31st.
I visited the region several times during the height of the crisis. I was there in August, 2014, as the last known supply of ZMapp, an experimental Ebola drug, was brought into Roberts Field in Liberia. Below are some photographs from that day, as well as some earlier shots taken in some small villages near the airport.
Formally known as Roberts International Airport (ROB), the field was built by the United States government during World War Two. Later it was managed by Pan Am, which operated something of a mini-hub there, with flights from New York continuing on to Accra, Lagos, Johannesburg and Nairobi, among other places. Pan Am crews would layover at a hotel directly across the street from the terminal. Pan Am left Africa in 1991, and both the hotel and the terminal were destroyed during Liberia's brutal civil war, which ended only recently. The Chinese are building a new hotel in the same spot, though construction was halted when Ebola hit.
There's limited scheduled traffic at ROB. Brussels Airlines, British Airways, Kenya Airways and Nigeria's Arik Air have been the most prominent carriers there. The airport is cluttered with United Nations helicopters, and a Russian-crewed 737 shuttles regularly between ROB and Accra, Ghana, carrying soldiers, staff and Liberian citizens returning home. At the moment most of the U.N. personnel stationed at ROB are from Ukraine and Algeria.
YAK HUNTING IN LIBERIA. THE STRANGE ALLURE OF A DERELICT PLANE.
Thank you for sharing! These pictures are stunning and they say a lot about Liberia!
My dad was stationed at Roberts Field in the early 80's, he worked for Pan Am. We lived right across the road from the Airport. I have very fond memories of Liberia, amazing beaches and insane amounts of sugar cane.. what kid wouldn't love that.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Great photos! Thank you for sharing.
Stunning photos, thank you for sharing!
Patrick, did you have much opportunity to talk with the locals about the current situation?
Thanks for showing a bit of the real world for so many…..
Are there still any scheduled commercial flights to Monrovia?


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Historic Islands Bill is Passed
The historic Islands Bill which started its life in Orkney as 'Our Islands Our Future' has now been passed in the Scottish Parliament.
Orkney Islands Council was delighted that the measures it had proposed to strengthen the legislation were accepted.
The amendments agreed from OIC would:
Provide opportunities for the further devolution of powers to island communities.
Allow 'island proofing' of existing as well as future policies and legislation, to ensure these take into account the special circumstances of island communities – and do not disadvantage people living and working in the islands.
Enable the Council to have a far greater say in marine planning matters affecting the waters around Orkney.
James Stockan, Leader of Orkney Islands Council said:
"I am delighted that the Scottish Government and MSPs from other parties have listened to our case and have ensured that this will be fit-for-purpose legislation that delivers transformational support for island communities for many years to come.
"We have worked hard to achieve this. We have lobbied the Government and MSPs from across the political spectrum at Holyrood. This is an historic and momentous achievement for all involved."
Local MSP, Maree Todd, SNP said:
"This is a truly historic day for our Island communities.
"I was delighted to witness this landmark bill come to the end of its legislative journey today.
"As a representative of the area covering Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles – who all linked so successfully for the award-winning Our Islands Our Future campaign – I know how much this will mean to folk.
"This is the first piece of legislation in the Scottish Parliament to recognise the unique needs of our Island communities.
"I am confident that that the bill will have a real and lasting impact and will unlock the economic and social potential of Scotland's Islands.
"It is central to the SNP government's aim to empower island communities and I know very well what a tangible difference it will make."
The Islands Bill includes proposals to form a National Islands Plan. This is the most significant part of the Islands Bill.
Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles are bringing forward proposals for an ambitious Islands Deal that claim will be transformational for the economies and communities of the islands.
James Stockan said:
"Securing investment through an Islands Deal is the focus for the next phase of collaboration between our three island authorities and we look forward to the strong support of the Scottish and UK Governments in that process."
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I have been a regular Tapatalk user for the several forums including canreef.
For the past few days, I can't access canreef using tapatalk. I think it's not tapatalk problem because I can access the other forums.
Is it just me? anyone else has the same problem?
Ill let the boss know and see if its an issue on our end.
Just tried it and its working fine for me.
Using Tapatalk right now. I don't see any issues.
it works fine now after I deleted it and reinstalled the app. thanks!
Sorry for the late reply. If you encounter issues still please post back again.
I'm having the same issue. I uninstalled and reinstalled but same issue. My subscribed Canreef threads don't show up in my notifications but other forums do.
I can log in fine on Canreef and it also shows what's trending...but no notifications from subscribed threads.


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There are many ways you can become more efficient in work and life. Some may take time to implement, others cost a few dollars to use. If you want to become more productive and get more done quickly, you need to be efficient.
Here are 10 easy to follow efficiency tips to implement.
Stream line your work and home space. Take a few minutes at the beginning of each day to organise and de-clutter. Clean and organise areas such as your office, desk, the kitchen counter and your bedroom. Put things where they are most logically used. Throw out damaged items or old papers.
Do your most dreaded tasks early in the day. We all have at least one task on our to-do list that we keep putting off. The thought of doing it seems awful. Do that task first. Get it off your plate first and all other tasks will seem less daunting. And a bonus, you'll be less stressed once the task is finished.
Turn off email and social media notifications. We live in a world of being constantly connected. This can break our focus, especially if you are checking email and social media every few minutes. Instead turn off notifications and have a set time, say a couple of times a day, to check and reply to notifications.
Prioritise and delegate tasks. Think about everything that you do. Prioritise what is essential, trivial and urgent. Set aside low priority tasks or delegate them out to someone else to do. This gives you permission to focus time on the things that are important and high-priority.
Take breaks. Set aside a few minutes every hour, or after finishing a task to take a short break. This can be a walk around the block, running to the local coffee shop, reading a magazine or visiting with friends for a few minutes. Also work in short blocks of time on projects to keep your mind sharp and focused.
Write down daily goals with a to-do list. Keep track of everything you need to do each day by writing down your goals for the day each morning. You can refer to it when you find yourself procrastinating or need a reminder of what you should be working on.
Give up multitasking. Doing more than one thing at a time seems productive. In reality it hurts your productivity because you waste time on refocusing.
Be well stocked. Keep your workplace well-stocked of the supplies you need. Keep your kitchen stocked for quick meals.
Get plenty of rest. Being tired often interferes with how well you focus and do your job. It can be distraction or cause safety problems if severe. Get at least 7 to 8 hours of restful sleep each night.
Lastly, I'd say this is the most important, stay motivated with a positive attitude. Allow yourself to be happy. Do small things to enjoy yourself and think of why you are doing a certain task and how you'll feel when it's completed.


Update: I'm approximately 90% done with the revision of THE IGNORED PROPHECY. The good news is that I've found almost enough material to cut in the last few chapters to offset the added material. I won't need as big a pair of scissors on the next go through. After this, it will still need one more pass for consistency and to look for places to increase the tension still more. Then it'll be ready for more readers.
Today's topic: Point of View. Up to now, I have always written in third person. I try to get into close third person, meaning I'm in the head of one of the characters, as often as I can. Some scenes don't lend themselves to that, for me. Some do.
The new short story that I'm sort of working on during revisions to the novel is different. Early this morning (you don't want to know how early), I went through and changed the thousand or so words I've written to first person. I'm going to try that for this one. A good bit of the story involves the main character not understanding the world she finds herself in and not knowing what's going on. Her confusion may work best in first person. If it doesn't, I can always revise it and change it back.
That creates a problem, though. Since the main character doesn't always know what's going on, I've got a few scenes in third person omniscient to allow the reader to see, and understand, what's going on. I'm not sure whether I can pull that off.
This will be a new experience for me and a bit outside my comfort zone, but if you never try anything new . . .
I'm considering telling the story of how Zerieth went from the Red Road to the White in first person, for much the same reasons.
I think if you have some omniscient bits as totally seperate scenes, it would probably work fine. Just have to watch the flow.