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The fans of most football clubs in this country will be hoping that during the January transfer window they will be recruiting new players either to elevate them into the promotion/play -off places or to improve their chances of avoiding relegation.
There is no doubt the best transfer deals are to be done in the summer window when the pool of players available is far greater and January is more about the movement of players who are out of contract in the summer or who are out of favour with their current clubs or where clubs need transfer income to balance the books. January is very much about short term rather than long term planning.
Fans understandably just want to see players that can improve their team. Managers exert pressure on owners to get in new players. Owners feel pressure to avoid criticism from fans as either not being ambitious enough to underpin a promotion challenge or to provide help to the manager to avoid relegation.
In January 2011, we recognised this at Charlton and concentrated on building a new squad to challenge for promotion in the 2011/12 season. But when it became clear that striker Bradley Wright-Phillips was available at Plymouth Argyle in January due to their money problems we moved quickly to secure his signature for £100k, which was a real bargain. Of course, he went on to be our top goalscorer in the title-winning 2011/12 season.
The real work took place between January and May and believe me it was a monumental effort to bring in a completely new squad. It is not just about their ability, as it is important to make sure the right characters come into the club which requires a huge amount of research and discussion with third parties. What you want more than anything is to have the basis of a good squad that you can constantly improve year on year. The team that won the League One Championship went on to finish 9th in the Championship the following season. I believe that with further investment the team would have challenged for promotion to the Premier League, but then financial issues forced a complete change of direction and led to the club being sold to Roland Duchatelet for some £18million. Fans of course hope that every day in January they will wake up to new signings but for those who have relationships with player agents, it is relatively easy to find out what business a club is seeking to do. The reality is often far different to the expectation.
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NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS ON TERRORISM: PANIC, POLITICS, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR HONESTY IN 2016 Anthony H. Cordesman
28 Dec 15. Broken resolutions are one of the key features of every American New Year's celebration, and calling for integrity in an election year may be a particularly good way to ensure that any resolutions that follow will be broken early and often. Ever since the ISIS attacks in Paris, however, politics, the struggle for media visibility, and the business side of "selling" counterterrorism have all combined to turn a real but limited threat from terrorism into a form of panic.
Worse, they have combined to turn some aspects of counterterrorism into prejudice and bigotry against Muslims and Arabs. The end result has been calls for new measures that will actually serve the key objectives that movements like ISIS and Al Qaeda have in launching such attacks on the West. They will divide the West from the Muslim world and key Arab and Muslim partners in the fight against terrorism, and alienate the Muslim minorities in the United States and other Western and secular states.
This kind of opportunism not only mischaracterizes and exaggerates the threat, it aids terrorists and extremists, and this is one case where the United States and other Western states need to take the following four New Year's resolutions seriously:
Stop exaggerating the threat: Terrorism is all too real and no one can deny that it repeatedly ends in tragedy. At the same time, it needs to be kept in proportion. The real world risks of terrorism in the United States fall short of virtually any other common cause of injury, death, and economic loss. To put these risks in perspective, the number of deaths from terrorism in the United States since 9/11 have been so low that Americans may well face a higher cumulative probability of dying from traffic accidents, food poisoning, crime and other causes if they celebrate a single New Year's Eve than they do from terrorism over an entire year.
Americans are far more likely to die of obesity than terrorism over any given year – some estimates of the difference in risk make obesity 5,000 to 20,000 times more lethal during the period from 2012 to 2015. Every major disease is a more serious risk, violent crime is a far more serious risk, and even being struck by lightning is a higher risk.
Worst cases can happen in the future, but most have a low probability and the real worst cases are more likely to be the result of secular attacks on infrastructure – or acts of cyberterrorism — than attacks by Islamist extremists. The threat to Americans overseas has been marginal to negligible except in conflict areas, and minor compared to the number of traveler deaths from traffic accidents and food poisoning.
Stop overreacting by introducing new counterterrorism measures without an analysis of their cost effectiveness. It is one thing to fight terrorism wisely, and on the basis of planning and advice from professionals in government and law enforcement officials. It is quite another to act on the basis of political opportunism and panic, and talk about building walls around the country, banning Muslims, limiting the Internet and civil liberties, and trying to reduce the domestic threat by bombing civilians in other countries.
There is also the matter of cost. Terrorism has led to the kind of panic where no one asks what we are already spending or for any measures of effectiveness that show the result. There certainly have been real benefits from the actions taken since 9/11, but the costs of these measures have been staggering.
OMB reports that the cost of all the various agency efforts in Homeland Defense reached $70.9 billion in FY2015, and the President's request for FY2016 was $68.8 billion. The cost for the Department of Homeland Security alone made up $36 billion in FY2015, and the request was $37.3 billion.
If one looks at the cost of fighting terrorism outside the United States, virtually all of the budget for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) seems to go to fighting violent Islamic extremism in the form of terrorism, insurgencies, related conflicts, or in related aid and humanitarian relief. A study by the Congressional Research Service reports that the OCO request for the State Department was some $5.2 billion in FY2016. The request for the Department of Defense – where costs are also rising – was for $50.9 billion.
If all of these costs are summed up to provide a rough total of the publicly available direct costs of the overall fight against terrorism, they add up to $124.9 billion a year. It is more than a little ironic that same politicians and figures that call for gross overreaction in the form of new measures usually claim to be budget hawks.
Stop saying terrorism can be defeated rather than limited or contained, and stop focusing on ISIS to the exclusion of other threats. Shortly after 9/11, United States military leaders, intelligence officials, and counterterrorism experts warned quite correctly that any struggle against Islamic extremism would be a long war.
This was before the political upheavals in the Arab world, and the rise of extremist violence in Central and South Asia, civil wars in Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. It is also important to realize that while ISIS has emerged as the most serious movement causing such violence, but it accounts for about a third of attacks and casualties caused by Islamist extremism, and the vast majority of attacks from all extremist sources are attacks on other Muslims.
No amount of force, and no amount of success against ISIS alone, has any prospect of ending the threat of violent Islamist extremism. It is the result of a massive array of pressures that include a global ideological struggle for the future of Islam, the impact of massive population pressure and growth, failed and corrupt governance, repression and a failed rule of law, crony capitalism, gross inequality in income distribution coupled to failed development, ethnic and tribal tensions, massive youth unemployment and alienation, and a host of other causes.
Long before the so-called Arab spring, the UN's Arab development reports warned that this mix of forces could explode in terms of failed states, and would take a decade or more of effective leadership and reform to correct. The situation is now far worse in many states today, and it is totally unrealistic to assume that these forces will not lead to new forms of extremism regardless of what happens to ISIS and Al Qaeda. It also affects states that are the world's major sources of energy exports and that are vital to the global economy and U.S. strategic interests.
The terrorism and fighting that results from these forces in the future will continue to be largely a clash within the Islamic world, rather than a clash between civilizations. However, Islamist extremists want to effectively end the ties between the Muslim states they want to transform into their view of religious rule and the West, to turn Muslims in the West into allies that will give them funds and volunteers, and isolate Islam from its roots in tolerance. They will not focus on the United States or the West but they will keep up terrorist attacks and ideological pressure indefinitely into the future.
We may degrade ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, or even break them up, but successors are certain to follow. The United States and both its Western and Arab allies will face a continuing threat for at least the next decade and possibly the next quarter century. Some attacks will succeed every year during that time, and more Americans and others outside the Muslim world will die – as well as thousands more within it. This is a risk we will have to live with, as we do with so many other risks on a day-to-day basis.
Clearly acknowledge the reality that we can only contain this threat – and eventually end it – by working with Muslim and Arab allies. It is, however, a threat we can sharply limit and contain – as long as we have strong Arab and Muslim partners, and no movement like ISIS, al Qaeda, or the Taliban can seize a stable base and become a real state.
There is no single act that can do more to empower Islamist extremists, and lead to more attacks on the United States and the West than to alienate the Muslims and allies in largely Muslim states that are critical to defeating Islamist extremists and preserving and asserting the real values of Islam. The case against bigotry and prejudice is not simply one of basic American values; it is a matter of necessity.
No one can silence extremism, or end it, except by countering its ideological base and dealing with its other causes. This has to come from with the Muslim and Arab world, and through working with Muslims in the West and with Muslim countries and governments.
Rejecting and alienating Muslims in the United States and the rest of the West, simply ends in aiding terrorism. Alienating the many Muslim countries that are our partners in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, campaigning on a ticket based on panic and fear, feeding religious prejudice and hatred, creates enemies, denies us allies, and deprives us of the influence needed to encourage reform. It is a form of political and personal opportunism that can make things far worse in 2016 and the years that follow.
Some New Year's resolutions not only need to be made, they need to be kept. The United States does face a real threat from terrorist attacks both on U.S. soil and abroad, but it cannot meet this threat through partisanship, panic, and prejudice.
Anthony H. Cordesman holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.
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Loyalty should start long before the employee steps into the office for the first time. (Photo: 123RF)
When the Jean Coutu Group asked the 420 pharmacist-owners in its network what it could do to help them fight the labor shortage, its senior director of human resources noted "a crying need to attract talents", recalls Annie Brisson in an interview with "Les Affaires".
The owner pharmacists, however, did not sit idly by. "What was missing was this consistency, this employer positioning," says the certified human resources advisor (CRHA). In other words, the group had to establish its HR marketing strategy.
"We know good human resources practices. Now, we have to make sure that they are aligned with the employer's promise, and that everyone is working in the same direction," explains consultant and speaker, Emilie Pelletier.
For 16 years, the firm HRM Groupe, which Ms. Pelletier founded in 2006 with Didier Dubois, has been raising awareness first in HR departments and then, more and more, in marketing on the importance of combining these two disciplines to attract and retain the workforce.
The rise in popularity of this practice, however, causes the appearance of shortcuts.
"Very often, what some people call HR marketing is really just recruitment campaigns. But it goes much deeper. We have to start by determining what our 'employer promise' is," she adds.
A cornerstone of HR marketing, this employer promise dictates the kind of experience the worker will have on a daily basis. Without this "serious" reflection done beforehand, the chances are high that a recruit will leave the organization shortly after being hired. Disappointed at not having taken advantage of what was promised to her, she will spread her disillusion on the job market, warns the CRHA.
"We will not hide it, we shoe the horse at a gallop. There are things that we must apply quickly to meet our needs, but at least it allows us to be coherent and aligned. »
Long-term approach
Done well, this process takes several months. During the first three to four months, the company must start with "an internal survey, a comparison with what is done elsewhere, focus groups", in order to determine what its employer brand is, according to the expert.
Then, the company must work on its attraction and retention plan — what we call external HR marketing and internal HR marketing, respectively — over the following two months at most.
Finally, "the attraction plan will be carried out in one year, while the loyalty plan will be carried out over three to five years. [Certes]we will readjust it as we go, but at least it gives an idea of what we are getting into", specifies Emilie Pelletier.
For its part, the Jean Coutu Group began its process in September 2021 by conducting a first survey of its employees. At the time these lines were written, the company was about to know the results of its first offensive to seduce potential candidates, through an advertising campaign. "Now it will be to see what the conversion rate of these clicks is," says Annie Brisson, who called on the services of HRM Groupe.
This colossal and costly work — an SME with fifty employees should expect to spend between $20,000 and $30,000 — will be a good mobilization tool for the team, assures Emilie Pelletier, since all the members of organization are called upon to contribute directly or indirectly to this common vision of the employer. "It's much more than an advertising campaign," she says.
The importance of manager training
For this promise to be kept, a company will have to train its managers. "They are the ones who bring the employee experience that we sell to candidates to life on a daily basis. »
This is why she recommends creating a guide, to ensure that there is "uniformity of practices and behaviors adopted" and that they meet the expectations of the organization.
This is what the Jean Coutu Group did when it deployed its first employer positioning in its branches in May 2022. "We informed them, educated them, we sent them a toolbox, but the big work is ahead, to bring these initiatives to life" over the next two years in order to retain their employees, she warns.
Retention must now begin long before the employee sets foot in the office for the first time. "As soon as the contract is signed […], we begin to create an affiliate link with him. We wouldn't want another company to make him a more attractive offer in the meantime and he wouldn't show up on day 1," the consultant points out.
Emilie Pelletier also suggests producing "surprise reports" three to four weeks after the recruit's entry into the position, in order to carry out quality control of the integration process and to make corrections if necessary. The very close monitoring of his satisfaction must now last a year.
After the candidate experience and the employee experience, the speaker now notes the appearance of the "post-employment" experience. By leaving his boss on good terms and keeping a certain link with the organization, the former colleague could recommend to other workers to join the team, or even to set foot in the company himself.
After all, his honeymoon with his new duties will also last three months: "It's not bad to give them a call to see if they still like it. »
When the Jean Coutu Group asked the 420 pharmacist-owners in its network what it could do to help them fight the labor shortage, its senior director of human resources noted "a crying need to attract talents," recalls Annie Brisson in an interview with Deals.
For 16 years, the firm HRM Groupe, which Émilie Pelletier founded in 2006 with Didier Dubois, has been raising awareness first in HR departments and then, more and more, in marketing on the importance of combining these two disciplines to attract and retain the workforce.
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This past month or two has been the time of shuffling, rearranging, false starts, and new beginnings for our family. It's been sort of nuts and I'm feeling pulled in way too many directions. Nevermind being a mama to two small children and domestic partner, we are also trying to sell our beautiful blue house and looking for a new home, and life, a whole province over. It's unsettling and exciting and exhausting.
Okay, I'll give it to you plain: I have more blogs than I have children and keeping them separate is tearing me apart. And, weirdly enough, I still do not have a space to just chit chat about what crafty/creative/silly thing I am playing with. It's time for me to blend the blogs into one holistic endeavor and this is the space to do it. Don't worry, this blog will still be primarily concerned with the creative, the sewing, and the general know-it-all-ness, but it will no longer be 'Just Tutes'.
You can comment your disapproval. I've already heard it from The Man, who believes my creative life to be somehow separate from my family life, which is, well, the way men are taught to think, yes? In compartments? It's not how I work, anyway. Children, creativity, working, home, walking, learning, loving, reading, arguing, gratitude, and just living is all mish mashed together in my head and body and impossible to pull apart without a big mess. These hands do a whole lot of different things, but they are still just one pair.
So, off with the separate hats for tutorials, show and tell, and family life. It all gets put here now. But, I will keep on with the tutorials, of course. I live to tell people what to do! Mwwaahhahaha! Tell you what, though. I will make it easy for you who do not want to read me blathering on in non-tutorial formats. I will post a tutorial every tuesday. I will not call it 'Tute Tuesday', but you can privately call it that if it helps you remember to come back here on tuesdays for a fresh and happy idea. Not saying I won't tute on other days (everybody has to tute every now and then, and it's nothing to be ashamed about :), but I will definitely tute on tuesdays. Ahem.
I'm looking forward to the blending of your blogs! I guess I don't have your other blogs on my reader and now I'm wondering why not.
I cannot tell you how seriously refreshing it is to see a blogger consolidating instead of expanding or burning out and shuttering up entirely.
I for one, will be happy to read all the Vegbee goodness, whenever you want to post it at a single site.
Good luck with the chaos; I'm sending good thoughts your way. I wish you were moving to my neighborhood.
I think it's wonderful that you are going to consolidate all aspects of your life into one space.I would love to read about all your endeavors and I absolutely love your tutorials!! As for as names, maybe ALL IN ONE, ALL AT ONCE, ALL TOGETHER NOW, SIMPLY ME. Probably crazy I know, just off the top of my head. No one wants to know what's going on in there!! Any way LOVE your blog. Will read it no matter what you name it!
Yeah - I will be excited to have just one stop to read all your goodness.
Tu(t)esday... Yes! It's all good! I wouldn't blame you for putting it all in one blog. Especially if you have linkage on the sidebar to make finding the tutes all the more easy.
I love the pictures on Peripheral Vision, but I'm the type who's always looking for the captions. And though I am not a vegan, my kid is allergic to dairy, eggs, and a bunch of other stuff. So essentially, we are meat-eating vegans. So I will be more than happy to hear about that stuff, too. But mostly, I just think you must be very interesting, so I will be glad to read more about you.
And PS: I have not forgotten what I said I would mail.
How about "Not Just Tutes"?
I didn't know you had more than one blog, but I'm down with the compilation thing! A mama's life has so many aspects, and I love seeing how other mama's take care of their homes and their kids. Best of luck to you!
As someone with 3 blogs, I agree--but, more important to me is this: will your old tutorials still be here?
I love this blog, and I'm sure I will love your other ones when you've consolidated the whole lot. :) I can't wait!
I do like "Not Just Tutes". How about Life and Tutes? Good Luck with the moving, we are trying to sell our house as well. I understand.
I agree that I am wondering why I haven't been following your other blogs as well and am looking forward to seeing the consolidation of them all! Good luck!
I have just found your blogs and think they are all great. Who cares what format they come in as long as you keep writing hunnie!
i am relieved. keep up the good work. Thanks!!!!
Yeah, potty humour is running rampant right now. Sorry. You started it!
I think that's awesome. It should make it all a little easier for you. and that's the goal, right?


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2015 Necker Cup tennis greats raise money for charity
November 13, 2015 By TSF Staff Leave a Comment
The 4th Annual Necker Cup Pro-Am is set for November 28th through December 3rd, on Necker Island, Sir Richard Branson's private island in the British Virgin Islands. Dubbed "The World's Most Exclusive Tennis Pro-Am," the 6-day event pairs 16 ATP/WTA Tour Players/Legends with 16 amateur teams in an effort to raise money for worthy causes. Organized by Premier Tennis Group, a leader in luxury tennis travel and event management, the event has raised more than $2.5 million for various charities in its three years in existence.
2015 Necker Cup field tennis greats
This year, confirmed pros at the Necker Cup include Boris Becker, Marion Bartoli, Tracy Austin, Chris Evert, Brad Gilbert, Johan Kriek, David Nalbandian, Martina Navratilova, John Peers, Victor Troicki and Donald Young. Adding to the star power off the court is actress and model Charlotte McKinney, who will be on hand to conduct on-site interviews. Legendary actor and comedian Chevy Chase will participate as celebrity tennis pro and auctioneer. Jewel, the Grammy award-winning singer, will perform during an intimate back beach dinner for guests.
Spaces are still available for amateurs of all levels to join the star-studded 5-night/6-day tournament. Besides getting to play tennis next to some of the best in the game, the all-inclusive package starts at $110,000 per couple and includes intimate cocktail and dinner parties, ample hours to explore the beauty and adventure of Necker Island, and time spent with top players and Sir Richard Branson himself.
Necker Cup draw in high profiled sponsors
The Necker Cup culminates on December 2nd, when guests will be treated to a world-class tennis exhibition, dinner and live charity auction, followed by what's been dubbed the "End of the World Party" with DJ Mehow and a performance from Grammy-winning artist Sean Paul.
An array of luxury sponsors have come on board in support of the Necker Cup and will have a presence at the event including Rolls Royce, Buckitdream, Dom Perignon, Ernst Benz,VP Bank, Head, Russie Blanche, The British Virgin Islands, Inglot and Venegas International Group.
Charity at the core of Necker Cup
With charity at the core of the event, the Necker Cup directly benefits several non-profits including Virgin Unite, the National Tennis Foundation and several player charities. The silent auction is already online and open for bidding at https://www.charitybuzz.com/support/NationalTennisFoundation, with new experiences being added weekly through November. Bidders worldwide can choose from a selection of luxurious experiences including one week in The Presidential Box at the French Open, a trip to Kasbah Tamadot, a week-long cruise aboard Saboré Catamaran in the BVIs replete with private chef, amazing experiences from Rolls Royce and Moët, tennis experiences from the pros and remote location destination trips.
Meet Sir Richard Branson at the Necker Cup
Running simultaneously, another opportunity for tennis enthusiasts and supporters of the cause to visit Necker Island and meet Sir Richard Branson is via the Legends Tennis Camp, November 29th through December 3rd. Premier Tennis is excited to have world-renowned coaches, Wayne Bryan, father and former coach of the World #1 Doubles Champions Mike & Bob Bryan, and Murphy Jensen, former French Open doubles champion, leading the camp for the fourth consecutive year. Set at Necker Island's neighboring resort, Little Dix Bay, this 4-night/5-day all-inclusive package allows participants three day of on-court instruction and competition, with the final evening spent on Necker Island at the "End of the World Party" with those participating in the Necker Cup. Prices start at $13,000 a couple.
For more information on attending, sponsoring or donating to the Necker Cup or WTT Legends Camp call 800.376.0975 or visit the website at:www.neckercup.com. Check the following sites for more information on Premier Tennis Group (www.premiertennis.com) or Necker Island (www.neckerisland.com).
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Plants vs. Zombies, the hit video game, comes to comics! Young adventurers Patrice Blazing and Nate Timely fend off a "fun-dead" neighborhood invasion in Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon!
Also now available: The Art of Plants vs. Zombies! And stay tuned for more Plants vs. Zombies comics this summer!
PopCap's immensely popular Plants vs. Zombies video game finally gets the plant-filled, zombie-zapping comics treatment it deserves! Winner of over 30 Game of the Year awards, Plants vs. Zombies is now determined to shuffle into the realm of comics to tickle funny bones and thrill . . . brains.Paul Tobin (Marvel Adventures, Falling Skies) and Ron Chan (The Guild, Husbands) join forces to deliver a hilarious, all-ages, action-packed zombie romp to your neighborhood!
This app contains the first issue and allows users to download future issues as they become available. Users can also create or sign in with their Dark Horse Digital account info to add Plants vs. Zombies comics to their collections within the Dark Horse Comics iOS App.


Due to a solid amount of procrastination, combined with the false assumption that I had already written this post, I'm about to talk about something a little bit dated. Nevertheless, it is still relevant and highly meaningful to me. Bear with me.
What you're looking at is a simple little piece of stretchable fabric, but stitched on in green and red is my brigade symbol, battalion symbol, and finally, my induction class date. This fabric is a watch cover. Its purpose is to hide any glinting from the sun while in the field, while in any type of situation necessitating secrecy. You put it around the band, and then when needed you pull it over the watch face. Very simple. Nothing to it.
But, what you can't even begin to understand unless you've gone through this stuff, is that finally I've received something to be worn at all times that declares that I am a member of Golani. Though I didn't write about it, I received the Golani shoulder tag a couple months ago (I can't believe that I never wrote about something so important to me). Even though the shoulder tag is the second most important part of the dress uniform, maybe the most important, the watch cover is the only thing you wear even in civilian clothes that shows your units.
Golani is known for a few things: disobedience, a Sephardi makeup, a lack of discipline, and most importantly, esprit de corps. So when you work for two months, as we did, with nothing to show for it, you start aching for some recognition.
You see, all the combat units, and probably many non-combat units, are decked out with their symbols. From watch covers to dogtag covers, to gun straps and t-shirts and sweatshirts, an IDF soldier is typically the proudest representative of any battalion and brigade known to man. Even if you're in artillery, an integral part of the army, it doesn't matter that everyone laughs at and disparages that branch of the service. You're still flying your colors for all to see.
That's what's important in the army, if you ask one of us. It doesn't matter if we've just been drafted four months previously, seen no combat, or even have the beret for the brigade (end of advanced training). Our elitist perception isn't even dependent on whether or not we have a single piece of our uniform proving that we're in Golani! The exclusive esprit de corps of my brigade begins on draft day, because if you're lucky enough to be selected (3 out of 4 guys going into infantry request Golani), you are granted instant pride. The very first day it is drilled into us over and over again that there is nothing but Golani. It's like being in Harvard, only important.
Everyone else is just holding us back. Can you see why it's so crucial, so meaningful to us when we finally earn something from our commanders, decided by the company commander himself? Despite all the ignobility of basic training, despite them telling us how we haven't done anything yet, how we aren't worthy, after all of that, they have deemed us worthy of displaying the symbols of our brigade. During basic they have to say things that aren't so pleasant. They can't really go around complimenting us.
But the biggest compliment they could ever possibly give, through words or actions, is to allow us to wear these parts of the uniform. After all, they too are in the same brigade and battalion, so when we are finally given a simple watch cover, it's as if we are being accepted into their family. Our family. And the most important part of the watch cover, or the dogtag cover, or whatever bit it happens to be, is your induction date. November '08, it says. "We've Made It," we read.
If you think I'm exaggerating or being overly dramatic, just go ahead and ask another Golanchik what he thinks. Pick any combat Golanchik off the street and say this to him: "The Paratroopers are better than Golani."
I hope you have your teeth afterwards!
"6) Whatever the fighter jet unit in the air force is called"
12 + 13 don't add up to 51! 51 rocks!
Can you talk about the perception of the other infantry brigades?
haha my sister's boy friend was in Golani Brigade 13, he sung me the Golani theme song, boy do Golani soldiers hate sanchanim!
I was a combat engineer in the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, US Army. The unit I served with traces its history back to the mounted soldiers who fought the Indians on the American plains. Consequently, a big tradition is to wear a Stetson hat and spurs on your boots. This is earned through a spur ride in peace time (much like your marches for earning things), or by going to combat with the unit. I earned mine by going to Iraq. Each unit has its own traditions that are held very dearly. Also, in the 3d ACR when an enlistedman salutes an officer he is supposed to say 'Brave Rifles!' and the officers is supposed to return the salute and says 'Veterans!' You know who are the new privates and the new second lieutenants in the unit when either fail to say or return this greeting. There are more things I am forgetting but I just want you to know that the US Army does indeed have traditions. The Marine Corps, on the other hand, places more emphasis on the fact that every Marine is a Marine is Marine, which is why they do not wear shoulder unit patches while the Army does.
I served in the Marine Corps Infantry from 1987-91, including Desert Storm. Marines definitely feel superior to other armed forces (Army) and grunts are of course superior to other Marines, except Recon.
Cpl Peterson - Thanks for your comment. I wonder if you watched the show Generation Kill? I didn't read the book, but the show was pretty awesome. Definitely gave me a newfound respect for Marine Recon!


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This is the second article in a five-part series on how a company or organization can develop, implement, and sustain successful public-private partnerships (PPP) that achieve large-scale impact. Click here to read part one on determining who to work with, and stay tuned for next week's post on how to execute successful PPPs.
How does a company or organization develop and sustain successful public-private partnerships to achieve large-scale impact?
Determine when, and how long, to engage: Successful public-private partnership programs are strategic multi-year, multi-phased engagements, not single transactions. It's important to provide flexibility in the level and length of engagement. But, to have large-scale impact, a core set of partners should be committed for the long-term.
While Cisco Networking Academy was well established in Africa in the early 2000s, we determined further investments were necessary to help improve standards of living through the transformative power of information and communications technology (ICT). In 2007, Cisco made a US$10 million, four-year Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment to support ICT-driven development strategies in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.
This strategic commitment to connect underserved populations was closely aligned with CGI's focus on poverty alleviation, education, and global health, and was realized primarily through the establishment of locally managed and self-sustaining Community Knowledge Centers (CKCs). While each CKC is designed to be adaptive to specific community needs, all CKCs are technology hubs in rural communities that provide access to the Internet, education, and training classes.
For Nyangwete, a tiny village on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, a CKC started in 2009 has created an opportunity for villagers to overcome enormous challenges. The remote fishing village was isolated by location and lack of power before the CKC opened and extreme poverty forced more than 12,000 children into the care of the state because parents could not provide for them.
Judith Yucabeth Otieno, pictured above, was a former primary school teacher who now sells sorghum, maize, millet, and fish at the daily afternoon market outside the CKC. A basic IT skills class opened a new world of information to her.
Learning about business in other countries has inspired her to improve her fishing techniques and enabled her to fix her boat. Judith also stays connected to family, visiting the CKC regularly to email and video with her children and grandchildren who have moved away from the village.
Entrepreneurs, many of whom took IT classes at the CKC, have opened small businesses around the thriving CKC, and the standard of living in the village has increased dramatically. As villagers prosper, more parents are able to care for their own children. The number of children who depend on the state has dropped from 12,000 to 6000, creating a brighter future for all of Nyangwete.
The CKC model is now a scalable model for sustainable, community-led development and has advanced the concept of connected communities as a long-term, IT-based poverty alleviation strategy. Cisco, together with local governments and several NGOs, established a holistic and collaborative strategy that leveraged every partner's strengths to improve access to digital knowledge, skills, and opportunities for economic participation.
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After six years of significant impact, Cisco successfully transferred the ownership of this program to local government and NGO partners in 2013. At that point, through public-private partnerships we had supported 114 centers, 24 of which were started from the ground-up by Cisco. To date, our local government and NGO partners continue to use the CKC model and have expanded CKCs into additional NGOs in South Africa and Ghana.
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I think I got this on a disk with other SCA releases & that's why. I did not set the year to 1989, can't find any info about the year in the demo but notice the tune was released in 1988. Changed releasers to Spy & Pseudo instead.
Why is the Swedish Cracking Association attached to this demo. as far as i know SCA died around 1987... and there is no mention of sca in this demo.


I posted a lattice version of a sliceform apple years ago, but somehow missed putting up the solid version!
Recently I was messing around with map pages making paper roses, and came across the page for the Netherlands, a beautiful green. So, with a wink, I call this the Dutch Apple sliceform papercraft.
Open in your software. Size should be 9.7" x 11.5".
Assemble from the center out.
Start with pieces 1 and 2, sliding the center slots together.
Add the two number 3 slices, sliding the center slot of 3 into the next empty (bottom) slot of piece number 1.
The two pieces 3, one added to the front and one to the back. Dotted lines show where they slide together with piece 1. Each piece 3 is parallel to piece 2.
In a similar manner, add the two number 4 slices, sliding the center slot of 4 into the next empty slot of piece 2, AND attaching to the number 3 slices.
Add the number 5 slices all around: center slot of piece 5 on the outermost slot of piece 1 or piece 2, THEN outer slots of piece 5 joined to outer slot of piece 3 or 4.
Add the stem. Glue stem pieces back to back, to piece 1, nestling the stem slots on either side of piece 2.
See the pumpkin sliceform here for more pictures of a similar assembly process.


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Siri tips and tricks: the best commands you need to know
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Siri is an old favorite in a now-crowded AI assistant market. Owners of the iPhone and other Apple devices are no doubt familiar with Siri already, but there's a lot it can do for you that you may not have heard about yet since new features are added all the time. In this article, we've gathered all the most useful Siri commands, from the basics to more advanced features.
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There are several ways to get the attention of your assistant. On your iPhone, once you have the option enabled, you can ask it questions and give her commands by starting off with, "Hey Siri." You can also press and hold the center button on Apple Earpods or double-tap on one of your AirPods to activate Siri without having to say "Hey Siri." On a Mac computer, you can also click the Siri icon in the menu bar. It's always with you, even on Apple Watch, iPad and Apple TV. To turn on Siri, go to Settings > Siri > Hey Siri > On.
Figuring out Siri isn't so hard if you have a guide. Let's get started / © NextPit
You can tell Siri to turn the following on or off: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, wireless data, airplane mode, do not disturb mode and night shift. You can also make adjustments to the screen brightness or audio volume, by saying "turn volume/brightness up/down". You can even change the language and gender of Siri's voice.
It's also nice to configure Siri to be able to pronounce your name and understand your relationships with people. To teach it how to say your name, just say "Learn to pronounce...". To teach it who your mother, brother and other important people in your life are, just say "My mom is Kathy Smith," and it will associate it with the existing contact.
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Siri works with native and some third-party apps. Just tell Siri to "Open..." then say the name of the app. With Siri, you can take a regular photo or selfie and then view the photos in the app of your choice, all without having to touch the screen or buttons. You can ask it to call you an Uber or Lyft, make payments to friends with Paypal and even search for design trends on Pinterest. Some of the features you'll use most, though, more likely involve messaging and calls, which we'll get to in the next section.
Take a photo hands-free / © NextPit
Sending calls and texts using Siri is easy, no matter which apps you prefer to use for it. To send a message via your preferred app, just say "Message John on WhatsApp 'See you later'," but swap out WhatsApp for Facebook Messenger, Skype, WeChat or others as you please. You can also "Call mom," or "Call mom on WhatsApp," or "Facetime Mom".
You can also use Siri to tweet, check and send emails and check voicemail messages. Just use the following commands:
"Tweet 'My vacation is going well because New York is the best city'."
"Send email to Dennis about paying the bill and say 'Have you paid the water bill this month?'."
"Check email."
"Read new messages."
"Read new WhatsApp messages."
"Do I have new voice mail?"
"Play the voice mail from Scott."
"Hey Siri...call mom on WhatsApp." / © NextPit
Siri can help you keep on top of your daily tasks, reminders and meetings. You can tell it to remind you of things at specific times or when you arrive at a particular place, for example, "Remind me to feed the cat when I get home at 7 PM". If a reminder isn't what you need, you can also set a timer to jolt you in 15 minutes to check the food in the oven. You can also have Siri add things to an existing list in the Reminders app, by saying something like "Add lettuce to my grocery list".
To keep you waking up on time for your busy day ahead, say "Wake me up at 5 AM," then tell it to "Turn off all alarms," once you're awake. To get an overview of your schedule for the day, ask "What appointments do I have today?". Schedule meetings efficiently by saying "Schedule a meeting with Jennifer at 4 PM today," and then cancel by saying "Cancel my 4 PM appointment".
You can ask Siri to search for things both online and on your phone. Here are some commands and questions you can use to find out what you want to know:
"Do I need an umbrella today?"
"What is the weather like today?"
"Show me photos from yesterday."
"Find photos of Chicago."
"What time is it in London, UK?"
"What is Apple's stock price?"
"How many ounces are in a pound?"
"What is 18 percent of $40?"
"What is the definition of elucubrate?"
"What is trending on Twitter?"
You can use Siri to control music with your voice. Basic commands like play, pause, skip, next, stop and play the previous song all work as you'd expect. To play a specific song, simply say "Play 'Can't Buy Me Love' by the Beatles" or try a broader selection with "Play top songs from 1964" or "Shuffle my Sixties playlist". To specify the next song to play, just say "After this, play 'A Hard Day's Night'," or "Play more like this," for similar. If you like what you're hearing, ask "What song is this?" to find out via Shazam, or tell Siri to buy it for you.
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Siri can also help you with picking out a movie, too. Ask her "What is the synopsis of 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'?" and then if you like the sound of it, ask if it is playing at a theater near you. Siri can fill you in on locations and upcoming showing times in your area.
With Siri, sports trivia and scores are always just a question away. Keep on top of the news for your favorite team or league with the following Siri sports commands:
"Did the Yankees win?"
"How did the Red Sox do last night?"
"What was the score the last time the Yankees played the Boston Red Sox?"
"What baseball games are on today?"
"What are the college football rankings?"
Are you bored? Try these fun commands:
"Tell me a joke."
"Knock knock."
"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"What does the fox say?"
"What is zero divided by zero?"
"What planes flying are above me?"
Be careful with any Siri tricks you hear about that involve a string of three numbers. Pranksters have been posting false tips on social media, suggesting that certain combinations of numbers will trigger cool features. But, actually, these numbers are commanding the phone to dial emergency services. Don't tell Siri to dial 911 or any of these other numbers which you may not know are emergency codes in other areas: 000, 108, 999, 110 or 112.
Tell Siri to find pictures of killer whales or kittens when you're bored / © NextPit
Siri can help you get exactly where you want to go without you having to lift a finger to navigate. Get directions to work by bike or public transport, find out how bad traffic will be on the way home by car and figure out your ETA in a snap. Just say "Find transit/driving/walking directions to work/other destination", "How do I get to In-N-Out Burger by bike?" or ask "What is my ETA?". When you're traveling long distances, you can also tell it to "Check the flight status of US Airways Flight 1234".
When you're on the go, Siri can help you find things to do in your area. It can find gas stations that are open in the middle of the night, the nearest pharmacy or art museum, the best place to get a burger in Manhattan and even reserve a table for you.
With Siri and HomeKit, you can control your smart home without lifting a finger - and isn't that type of convenience why you bought all those gadgets for in the first place? Set the mood by programming phrases like "Dinner party", "Party time", "I'm home" or "Movie night" to activate settings on multiple devices at once, like turning the lights up or down, turning the TV or disco ball on, changing the temperature in a certain room, turning on the radio and similar tasks.
You can talk to Siri on your Apple TV / © Apple
There's a lot you can do with Siri to make your life easier if you try these tips and tricks. If you're having a hard time remembering commands, you can ask Siri "What can you help me with?" or just wing it - the assistant is usually intelligent to understand simple commands.
What are your favorite Siri tricks? Let us know in the comments.
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nick jones Apr 29, 2017 Link to comment
Apple will be always best. Apple should launch their own accessories
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i know a lot more folks who use iPhone instead of Android and one defining aspect of both parties is none of em really use Voice commands or "assistants".. yet.
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I use both Siri and Google Now, but truth be told they are just glorified egg timers and weather updates for me. The biggest issue for me is that the only time I really use a voice command is if my hands arent free. Otherwise its quicker for me to open up an app manually or swipe through whatever widget that contains the information that I need.
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yes that sums up my ux of Google at the moment nicely,
I've found Moto voice a very useful option especially for driving when it works..
sometimes "OK Google" can be really cool like define or spell supercalifragilisticexpyalidocious
which is a whole lot easier to say than spell or type correctly..
Shankar Prasad Nandi Apr 27, 2017 Link to comment
Yes, at the present level of sophistication of assistants, it's not conceivable that they'll be used a lot. But it's going to change. I predict that in the course of the next decade, assistants will be integrated into the app ecosystem in a way that we'll have to just interact with digital assistants and they'll then interact with the apps and give us what we want. Maybe there'll be options to set apps in such a way that the digital assistants know which to use and in what manner.
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I thought this site was called ANDROIDpit, not applepit.
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The objective of this article is not to make the site "applepit", but to give an idea of the capabilities of Siri, so that we may compare it to AI assistants available on Android, like Google Assistant and Bixby.
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China's social media companies employ thousands to censor content that falls afoul of the country's stringent regulations governing the internet.
While AI is used to remove banned content, many decisions are taken by humans, especially if they involve context.
When are bikinis allowed on China's live-streaming apps, and when are they not?
As content moderators at Inke, one of China's largest live-streaming companies with 25 million users, Zhi Heng and his brigade of 1,200 mostly fresh-faced college graduates have seconds to decide whether the two-piece swimwear on their screens breaches rules governing use of the platform.
Here on the front lines of China's war to police the internet, companies employ armies of censors to adjudicate the sea of content produced each day for and by the world's biggest online population.
As of the end of last year, almost 400 million people in China had done the equivalent of a Facebook Live and live-streamed their activities on the internet. Most of it is innocuous: showing relatives and friends back home the sights of Paris or showing nobody in particular what they are having for lunch or dinner.There are also professional "live-streamers" who broadcast for a living, much like YouTubers do on the Google-owned platform. Many of these pro streamers use the app to sell merchandise, others sing sappy love songs in return for virtual rewards. If one were to count short-form videos, messaging apps, online forums and other formats, the amount of content being produced each day would be impossible to censor without the help of technology.
Inke agreed to show the Post how its content moderation operations work, the first time that the Hong Kong-listed company has given an interview about a topic that is usually regarded as sensitive by companies and regulators.
Headquartered in Beijing with a second base in Changsha, Inke employs artificial intelligence algorithms and recognition software help human moderators do their jobs.
AI is employed to handle the grunt work of labelling, rating and sorting content into different risk categories. This classification system then allows the company to devote resources in ascending order of risk. A single reviewer can monitor more low-risk content at one time, say cooking shows, while high-risk content is flagged for closer scrutiny.
Which brings us back to the bikini question. The answer to that, it turns out, is something AI is not yet very good at: context.
To an algorithm, a bikini is a bikini. But to a human, a bikini in different settings can mean very different things. So, a bikini at a swimming pool with children running about? Fine. Skimpy two-piece in a bedroom with soft, romantic background music? Probably not.The most-censored activity on Inke's live-streaming platform, though, is smoking, which is not allowed because the authorities see it as promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. Showing excessive tattoos is also a no-no.
China closely patrols online activity and censors content critical of the ruling Communist Party and politically sensitive terms such as the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen crackdown and Falun Gong. Beijing justifies the "Great Firewall", as the system of censorship and access control is dubbed, as the right of every country to control its domestic internet space – a concept it calls "cyber sovereignty".
Former US president Bill Clinton was wrong when he likened China's attempts to control its domestic internet to nailing Jello to the wall, as it has created tools of social control that "our parents couldn't have dreamed of," according to Kyle Langvardt, an associate law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy whose research focuses on the First Amendment to the US Constitution and related issues.
Globally, governments are increasingly defining the boundaries of acceptable online discourse in order to curb the ability of hate groups, conspiracy theorists and propagandists to use social media and other internet platforms to spread lies and incite violence.
Facebook was again heavily criticised last month after a gunman streamed his attacks on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, that left 50 people dead. Though the account was quickly shut down, a video of the massacre circulated widely online.
Australia swiftly passed legislation threatening huge fines and prison time for executives of social media companies that fail to quickly remove violent posts. Singapore is debating legislation to tackle " fake news". The UK on Monday proposed new rules to hold senior managers of technology companies personally liable for failing to address online harm.On March 31, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg published an open letter inviting governments and regulators to play "a more active role" in deciding what is harmful content, to help ensure election integrity, privacy and data portability.
Back in Changsha at the offices of Inke, the content safety team is mid-way through the day shift. It is very quiet on the spacious floor, with most of the reviewers wearing headphones and staring at their screens.
The team is the biggest in Inke, accounting for about 60 per cent of its workforce. The content moderators work to detailed regulations on what is allowed and what has to be removed. Based on guidelines published by the China Association of Performing Arts, the training manual is updated weekly to take in the latest cases, making it a living document of what China deems objectionable content. The company also works with experts to advise it on where the legal boundaries are on tricky subjects.
Inke declined to show the training manual to the Post, but agreed to explain the principles behind how the content is handled.
The highest-risk content includes politically sensitive speech, sexual acts, violence, terrorism and self-harm, according to Zhi Heng. Depending on the severity of the infraction, the content moderators can issue a warning, block or blacklist the account.
Moderators are helped by the fact that live streams are not, in reality, truly "live", but come with a built-in 10- to 15-second lag. It is in this narrow window that the moderator has to decide whether to allow questionable content to be broadcast.
Zhi Heng, who worked in quality control at a power plant before his present job, has other tools at his disposal.
When residents began gathering to protest a local government plan to build a refuse incineration plant, Inke pinpointed the site and using positioning software to block all streaming within a 10-kilometre radius.
Penalties can be swift and severe for non-compliance by the platforms.
Bytedance chief executive Zhang Yiming had to issue a public apology in April 2018 after the company was ordered by the central government to close its popular Neihan Duanzi app for "vulgar content". The company's Jinri Toutiao news aggregation app was also ordered to be taken down from various app stores for three weeks.Bytedance pledged to expand its content vetting team from 6,000 to 10,000 staff, and permanently ban creators whose content was "against community values".
Despite the boom in demand for content moderators, the job itself is mind-numbing and does not pay very well. It is characterised by long hours of enduring bad singing, bad jokes and boring monologues.
Of the 1,200 staff members in Zhi Heng's department, about 200 are full-time employees while the rest are on contract. Starting pay is 3,000 yuan per month, or US$3 per hour, compared with the US$15 minimum wage in New York.
Many new hires quit before completing the mandatory one-month boot camp for recruits. Many more leave within six months. The turnover rate for the content moderator team stood at 10 per cent last year, according to Zhi Heng. That still compares favourably with a 20 per cent overall rate for China's labour market, according to a survey by online recruitment platform 51job.com.
Inke listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in July 2018. The company made a profit of 1.1 billion yuan (US$164 million) last year.
Some applicants boast at the job interview that they can handle the graveyard shift from midnight to 8am because they often pull all-nighters playing video games. They soon find out that the job is not at all like that.
Asked what the job meant to him, Zhi Heng pondered the question for a long while before replying wistfully that he had asked himself that many times.


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