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GM Spotlight: E-commerce Aggregator Society Pass Indonesia GM Talks With Benzinga On What It's Looking To Solve And A Growing Footprint In Indonesia
By: News Direct
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Southeast Asian nations are seeing significant e-commerce growth. As per a report by eMarketer, e-commerce sales are projected to increase to around $90 billion this year, up from last year's $16 billion. By 2023, regional e-commerce will be expected to surpass $100 billion.
Southeast Asia may see the most prominent growth—20.6%—compared to other regions, which are predicted to grow only moderately. The report further shows that only four countries in the world will experience the fastest retail e-commerce sales growth, and one of them is Indonesia. The nation's retail e-commerce industry is expected to grow by 23%.
In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Society Pass Inc. (NASDAQ: SOPA) General Manager for Indonesia Patrick Soetanto delved into what the company does, its current and future plans for Indonesia, and many more.
Society Pass And Its Plans For Indonesia
Society Pass (SoPa) says it is creating a unique loyalty and data-focused marketing platform in Southeast Asia that enables businesses to transform how merchants and customers converse cooperatively.
It operates in 6 business verticals: loyalty, lifestyle, food & beverages, telecommunications, digital media, and travel. According to SoPa, more than 3.3 million users and 200,000+ businesses and merchants are using its digital platform.
Soetanto says SoPa is building a next-generation loyalty and native-focused marketing platform focusing on Southeast Asia. Its technology enables companies to synergistically work together to transform how consumers and merchants interact.
As many merchants and consumers register on the company's platform, more data is generated, which creates more opportunities for creating loyalty from consumers and merchants.
According to Soetanto, the company's target market is Indonesia, which has the fourth largest population in the world, with over 277 million people. 74% of the population are internet users, while 69% are social media users.
"We don't have many competitors that provide similar service like us. With decades of regional and international experience in technology, market, operations, and supply chain management, our executives are ready to drive e-commerce into new markets and consumer segments," Soetanto responded when asked about the company's competitors.
SoPa is looking to build partnerships with merchants and solve customer needs by providing relevant products, services, and technologies.
About the leadership team, Soetanto said, "the leadership team is composed of seasoned entrepreneurs and senior executives from leading e-commerce companies, investment banks, and management firms."
SoPa has acquired NusaTrip, Indonesia's first online travel agency, and afterward, it will add Thoughtful Digital Media in Indonesia, says the GM. Thoughtful media is based in Bangkok, and through years of aggregating social influencer data, Soetanto says they have generated over 1 billion authenticated global video views. The company's introduction in Southeast Asia is expected to strengthen SoPa's community ecosystem in the region.
About The GM
Soetanto is an experienced manager with extensive experience working in the logistics and supply chain industry. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree majority in international business from Loyola Marymount University in California, U.S.
He has over 15 years of experience working as a senior leader for several companies in Asia, including PT Erafista Indah and Aretae Pte Ltd.
As a loyalty and data marketing ecosystem, Society Pass operates multiple e-commerce platforms across its key markets in SEA. Its business model focuses on analysing user data through the expected launch of its Society Pass loyalty platform and circulation of its universal loyalty points, which seamlessly connects consumers and merchants across multiple product and service categories to foster organic loyalty. Since its inception, SoPa has amassed over 1.6 million registered consumers and over 5,500 registered merchants/brands on its platform. It has invested 2+ years building proprietary IT architecture with cutting edge components to effectively scale and support its consumers, merchants, and acquisitions.Society Pass provides merchants with #HOTTAB Biz and #HOTTAB POS – a specialized POS technology solution, a comprehensive system for payment, loyal customer management, user profile analytics, and convenient financial support packages for small and medium-sized enterprises.In addition, SoPa operates Leflair.com , Vietnam's leading lifestyle e-commerce platform, Pushkart.ph , a popular grocery delivery company in Philippines, Handycart.vn , a leading online restaurant delivery service based in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Gorilla Networks , a Singapore-based, blockchain/web3-enabled mobile virtual network operator.For more information, please check out: http://thesocietypass.com/ .
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Terin was in an auto accident this Spring, and subsequent medical exams ended up revealing that on top of a bad case of whiplash, she also had an aggressive stage 3 invasive breast cancer, which has already spread to multiple lymph nodes.
She has been trying to keep working through the pain of the whiplash injury and the stress of this diagnosis (& it's battery of tests ), but the physical demands of her job as an organic landscape gardener are proving too strenuous to keep up with, especially now as treatments begin. Terin's cancer is fast growing and has the HER2 positive gene. That makes it an aggressive cancer, but it also serves as a genetic marker that makes it a target for chemotherapy. We are EXTREMELY fortunate that insurance will cover these costly medical treatments, but she won't be able to keep working such a physical job or earn an income while undergoing an intense, year-long course of chemotherapy, invasive surgery and radiation.
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MeQasa renovates Akosombo Roman Catholic primary school
Abu Mubarik
Akosombo Roman Catholic primary school was built under the auspices of the church, led by Father Evans Akohoho, and had never seen a stroke of paint in all its years of existence.
Starting the new year off with a bang, leading online real estate search marketplace meQasa, spent a weekend in Akosombo for a company retreat, during which staff offered their time, muscle and materials to paint a school. Akosombo Roman Catholic primary school was built under the auspices of the church, led by Father Evans Akohoho, and had never seen a stroke of paint in all its years of existence.
Bright and early one Saturday morning in January, fifteen employees pulled up to the school with a few gallons of white wash, 5 buckets of paint, 10 paint brushes, 3 rollers and the relentless will to make a difference; and got to work. Having worked hand in hand with the Asuogyaman district representatives of the Ghana Education Service(GES), meQasa was able to select the Akosombo RC Primary School and coordinate the community service effort with the school's administration, primarily the assistant head mistress, Veronica Agyemang. Over twenty years, the suggestion to paint had been brought up repeatedly in the school's PTA meetings, but to no realisation. With sleeves rolled up, the team jumped right in to painting half a school block consisting of 6 classrooms and five hours later, what seemed like a daunting task on arrival, resulted in a gorgeously painted building ready for 150 unsuspecting school children returning for a new term just a few days after. Problem solved. Some paint was also donated to the school to assist in continuing to paint other buildings.
"It was an important part of our retreat to be able to serve whichever community we would visit in a way that would be meaningful to them. We were delighted by the GES' excitement to help us execute our effort to give back. We did this for some deserving kids", says meQasa CEO, Kelvin Nyame, about the volunteer activity. In December, the startup also offered support to real estate agents with a holiday 'Giving' campaign, allowing the industry professionals to enjoy free branding help. "I was surprised to hear they are not an NGO, but rather a small company," exclaimed Mr. Prosper, GES Asuogyaman Deputy PRO, "and not professional painters, either! We are more than pleased and appreciative of this fantastic project."
The community service endeavour is the startup's first with goals of doing more annually. meQasa.com is Ghana's easiest way to rent, buy and sell property, offering a user-friendly online marketplace mutually beneficial to homeowners/landlords, home seekers and real estate agents alike.
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Donate school supplies to schools or kids in need.
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Buy a coffee or even a meal for the car guard.
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Get the family or the neighbours together and clean up the graffiti in the neighbourhood.
When you go for your daily walk, take a plastic bag with you and pick up the rubbish littering the streets.
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Volunteer at or donate to a school or hostel for people with special needs.
Sign up for a Saturday school to help teach underprivileged matriculants.
Buy female hygiene products to take to a women's shelter.
Organise a meet-and-greet with your neighbours, you'll feel safer knowing the people around you.
Take your weed-eater or Q20 to your local park and clean away the rust and weeds.
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Sign up as an organ donor.
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The Future of Journalism: Janine Zacharia
Bianca Al-Shamari, Author
In a time when information is shared more frequently, and with more people than ever before, how is media coverage changing along with our policies. The Paly Voice spoke with Stanford communications lecturer, Janine Zacharia, to discuss the role of journalism, the future of free speech, first amendment rights, and how citizens can navigate the politically charged waters of the projected future.
Zacharia has reported on Israel, the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy for close to two decades, including stints as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, chief diplomatic correspondent for Bloomberg News, Washington bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and the Jerusalem correspondent for Reuters. She appears regularly on cable news shows and radio programs as a Middle East analyst and is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, according to her Stanford profile.
Zacharia and three of her colleagues led a Stanford panel discussion on media ethics following the election, and how journalism will be developing with changes in technology and political discussion.
Zacharia links President Trumps' aggressive but rhetorical attacks on the press to the discrediting of our strongest journalistic institutions in the eyes of his followers. This proves problematic to the future of journalism, and creates a "broad distrust in what are our most trusted, highest quality news sources like the New York Times and the Washington Post," Zacharia said. "He [Trump] has co-opted the term fake news — which refers to stories that are invented by non-journalists — and unleashed it on any story that does not portray him the way he wants to be portrayed.This is all very dangerous for our democracy."
With information sharing at its historical height, the space for manipulative content proves to be a defining challenge to our societal ability to develop education opinions and to differentiate fact from trolling. Zacharia believes communications education should begin early in high school.
"One thing I've been thinking about is how do we educate high school students about journalism fundamentals — what is news, how do journalists find it, how do they work with sources, what goes into reporting a Washington Post or New York Times story. We need to teach the basics so that high school students can be educated consumers of news and also be able to sort through what is good fact-based reporting and what is noise."
On a macro scale, Zacharia believes that major journalistic institutions should collaborate and develop new coverage guidelines
"Major news organizations need to have an emergency summit, " Zacharia said. "They need to come up with some guidelines that they all agree to, especially when it comes to covering press briefings. When the President or the press secretary starts yelling at a reporter that [they are] "dishonest" or "fake" or an enemy of the people, there needs to be some kind of collective response."
Journalism has evolved from print to online, from local to international, and will continue to evolve in ways people may not be prepared for. However, Zacharia believes that journalism at it's core should stand for what it must do – report doggedly."
"Go after what is newsworthy and the public needs to know to be an informed citizenry," Zacharia said. "It is not the press's job to ask "nice" questions. It is the press's job to hold people in power accountable."
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Mononoke Hime
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Synonyms: Mononoke Hime
Japanese: もののけ姫
English: Princess Mononoke
German: Prinzessin Mononoke
Spanish: La Princesa Mononoke
French: Princesse Mononoké
Producers: Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network
Licensors: GKIDS
Studios: Studio Ghibli
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, Award WinningAward Winning, FantasyFantasy
Score: 8.671 (scored by 747897747,897 users)
Popularity: #105
Favorites: 20,003
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Ranked #59Popularity #105Members 1,157,410
MovieStudio Ghibli
Episodes: /1
Trailer English dub version
When an Emishi village is attacked by a fierce demon boar, the young prince Ashitaka puts his life at stake to defend his tribe. With its dying breath, the beast curses the prince's arm, granting him demonic powers while gradually siphoning his life away. Instructed by the village elders to travel westward for a cure, Ashitaka arrives at Tatara, the Iron Town, where he finds himself embroiled in a fierce conflict: Lady Eboshi of Tatara, promoting constant deforestation, stands against Princess San and the sacred spirits of the forest, who are furious at the destruction brought by the humans. As the opposing forces of nature and mankind begin to clash in a desperate struggle for survival, Ashitaka attempts to seek harmony between the two, all the while battling the latent demon inside of him. Princess Mononoke is a tale depicting the connection of technology and nature, while showing the path to harmony that could be achieved by mutual acceptance.
In 1997 the film won Best Japanese Movie, Best Animation and Japanese Movie Fans' Choice awards during the 52nd Mainichi Film Awards. In 1998 the film won the Best Picture award during the 21st Japan Academy Awards.
Adaptation: Mononoke Hime
Ishida, Yuriko
Ashitaka
Matsuda, Youji
Gozen, Eboshi
Tanaka, Yuko
Yakul
Miwa, Akihiro
The Forest Spirit
Shimamoto, Sumi
Jiko, Bou
Kobayashi, Kaoru
Okkoto
Morishige, Hisaya
Suzuki, Toshio
Director, Theme Song Lyrics, Screenplay, Creator
Pannetier, Jean-Marc
Script, ADR Director
"Ashitaka Sekki (アシタカせっき; The Legend of Ashitaka)" by Joe Hisaishi
"Mononoke Hime" by Joe Hisaishi
Phill-z
Let me start by saying that I am not a Miyazaki-disciple. I do not view him as the "grandmaster of everything anime." When I say "yeah...Miyazaki is ok" I say it not out of ignorance (I've almost every one of his films) but because I personally find him to be incredibly overrated. However I find that when he has all of his stuff together, Miyazaki can destroy practically any other director out there, the man is incredibly talented, but his problem is consistency.
When I say that Princess Mononoke is his masterpiece, I mean it. It was the first film where ... he finally got everything together and made a perfect anime film. Some will say that Spirited Away is better, but Mononoke is so much more powerful than that.
Story: Miyazaki does not like civilization. He stated once that he would prefer it if we went back to living in the fields, he wants to get rid of all technology. In Mononoke we see the evils of industralization and how humans are killing the earth. Humans can coexist. But many purposefully try to make themselves better and stronger. Miyazaki does an absolutely amazing job of showing that industralization, if handled the wrong way, is an incredible evil, but that it is in the hands of humans..of real people. I didn't really care all too much for the story, but I found his use of spirits to be incredible. I wasn't a huge fan of the story itself, it was a country boy goes to the city vibe...but I was a huge fan of all the political jabbings that Miyazaki was throwing. I will admit that I didn't notice it the first time around, I was told this as I watched it the second or third time, by my friend who is a Miyazaki acolyte. The beauty of the story really comes after you watch it the second or third time, as the whole movie experience is very overwhelming.
Art: I give it a 7. I am not a fan at all of Ghibli. I absolutely cannot stand their use of recycling their characters. I hate how all the women look exactly the same, and the men have the same annoying mustaches and beard combos that obscure almost their entire face. I find it lazy and incredibly detracting. I found that Ashitaka was.....boring, his design was so lacklustre that I have now just googled him to figure out exactly what he looked like. Where the art shines in this is in the spirits (gods), the creatures, and San. The designs of those characters alone redeemed the art for me. Also worth noting that in the beginning all those "snakes" were done digitally, which was, for me, impressive.
Sound: Eh....what can I say. Miyazaki films ALWAYS have great music and soundtracks. I have never found an instance in watching any of his films where I've gone "hey, the music doesn't really feel right." The music in his films are absolutely superb.
Character: I felt that the characters weren't really people so much as symbols. I felt that Ashitaka, in a certain way, was innocence. When his arm is cursed he is given a power that he cannot wield and he struggles to find a way to cure it, to get rid of the curse that now stains his arm and will kill him. Eboshi was industralization, but she was also compassion. I felt that she was the most human of all the characters, even though many people view her as an antagonist or slap her with the label of "oh..she's the evil lady." The thing I appreciate about this film is that there are only a handful of truly bad people. Everyone else is human. San is humans living with nature, but at the same time she is a beast herself. She lives in harmony with nature and has absolutely no qualms about killing to defend her land. Every character is multifaced, however if you only view the movie once you might not see the different characteristics of each character.
Enjoyment: The perfect Miyazaki film. It is deep for people who are looking at it closely, but it is also just a fun film for people who are only looking for something fun to watch. The first time I watched this (the first Miyazaki film I'd ever seen) I wasn't impressed at all. Mind you, I was probably 10 at the time, this was the first exposure to REAL anime I'd ever had. But as I watched it again recently I realized just how great of a film it really is.
However it really is accessible. You talk to almost anyone about anime and they'll probably (99% likely) know about Princess Mononoke. I know that this turns a lot of people off. Personally when someone comes up to me and says "hey, I saw Samurai Champloo and it was great, can you recommend me anything else kind of like it?" It makes my skin crawl a little bit. However, Mononoke is a staple, and is really something that you should watch, if you haven't watched it, I would definitely put it at the top of your to-watch list.
Reviewer's Rating: 10
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First of all I'd like to say this is my favorite Miyazaki Film. Why you might ask? Its the most powerful and thought provoking of all his films. It also communicates a message very differently since it has much darker overtones than his other lighthearted films. While they may be enjoyable and powerful in their own way they can never be compared to the stature of this film. I hold this one higher than the quality of Spirited Away. Which in my opinion is then most overrated Miyazaki/anime film. This is the one film that Miyazaki completed perfectly because it gave you that feeling that ... it couldn't get any better. The film has themes that even an adult could enjoy immensely.
The story is basically can be summed up as Man's conflict against the natural world. While this may be a good summarization it also could be misleading because with Mononoke we don't get a classic good vs evil plot. The fascination I have with this film stems from the many groups that are at conflict with one another and how no one is truly the evildoer. We have nature battling with human civilization while within itself there are humans trying to topple each other. The story revolves around how self-destructive we are as human beings and how we haven't realized we are innate in nature. The movie gives us parallels of the battles that the humans face with each other while still all congregating together for that one perceived enemy in the film, nature. All in all the film tries to communicate a deep message through the story and it leaves the viewer with a lasting impression.
The characters in this film are fascinating. Particularly Ashitaka and Princess Mononoke. We follow the story through Ashitaka's experiences with the different warring groups in the story. He always is the rational character in the movie and he openly tries to correct the irrationalities the other characters have. he serves as the medium which communicates the overall story and how meaningless the conflict can be found to be. He is extremely brave and he usually gets himself in dangerous situations in order to show the others their incorrect ways. Princess Mononoke is another intricately created character which is full of mystery. She seems to detest fellow humans for their selfish egotism and hostility towards earth and its inhabitants. Lady Eboshi is the a character some may mistakenly confuse for the villain of the movie. I think this would be more prevalent with western viewers like myself. The reason for this is they might seem to mistake her as another modern day oil baron except she is much more than that. Her main goal is to protect her people, particularly the other women who live in the city. She feels in order to do this She has to pursue the industrialization of her city in order to protect her people from the samurais and beasts of nature.
In the animation department this is a Studio Ghibli film so you obviously will get an amazing experience visually at least. With this film though I feel the animation captures the essence of nature. It does this with the various beasts and mystical characters Miyazaki created. There are even gods in this movie which helps bring about the feeling that nature is alive. You will enjoy the action sequences in this movie. Especially the battles between Lady Eboshi and Princess Mononoke. I also think the use of CGI in this film was done well and this is coming from someone who despises CGI.
The music in this movie is beautiful. Its the kind that can put you in a trance that you wouldn't want to ever wake up from. Especially the main theme song. A lot of the music puts you in the right mood for the film. Especially the more darker music which is used during scenes with the beasts of nature. The battle scenes also have plesant sounds and the sword fights don't contain the same sword clashing sound *cough Nausicaa cough*.
Anyways, I recommend this film because its Miyazaki's Masterpiece.
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For each new Studio Ghibli film I watch, I just get more and more convinced that they are the best animation movie studio out there. Princess Mononoke is by no means an exception.
Ashitaka, the last prince of a people called the Enishi, gets cursed while fighting a demon, and sets out on a journey to get rid of the curse, which can be lethal. He soon hears rumors of a forest spirit that can give and take away life, and sets out to find it. However, he soon finds himself in the middle of a fight between humans and animals, and he soon gets to ... know of a girl called Princess Mononoke, who has sided with the animals.
The way the story is presented makes it really enjoyable, as we get to see how various humans and animals view the ongoing fight. Different humans have different viewpoints, different animals have different viewpoints, and it makes it so that part of what they think is right, but they're also wrong about things. In the middle we have Ashitaka, who is the only one looking for a peaceful resolution to this struggle. It's mainly the theme of destroying nature that's mainly being touched upon, a theme I feel is something everyone should think about.
The small love story you that's presented is what some would call forced. At least I do. I didn't quite like the way in which it was presented, but different persons have different opinions. It was okay enough though, but nothing that really placed itself in my heart. Maybe they just didn't do enough with it. But it's okay, since the focus of this movie is other things than love.
As expected of Studio Ghibli, the visuals are stunning, especially when you think about the movie's age (8 years). With its massive budget of 2,4 billion yen, what else is there to expect anyway? The environments are drawn extremely beautifully, be it mountains, lakes, villages, trees or underbrush. Sometimes I just forgot the movie because of the stunning environments. Thank heavens for rewinding! The character motions are extremely fluid and lifelike, and with a total of 144 000 cels during the movie, you couldn't expect anything less (I even heard that Miyazaki re-drew quite a lot of them himself). I got quite surprised when I learned that they used CGI in the movie; I couldn't spot it at all. That again serves to prove the quality of it. The character designs are typical Studio Ghibli-ish, so you'll know what to expect in that department if you've watched a Studio Ghibli film.
The music is perfectly in tune with the movie, giving that calm, mysterious kind of feeling that you'll expect when in a forest where magical creatures are as normal as insects. But ti doesn't do anything more than that, really.
Overall, Princess Mononoke is a film that you might enjoy the most for its stunning natural environments; they almost overshadow the plot. But all the different factions, the different viewpoints in the fight, and last but definitely not least, the theme of destroying nature are all something that everyone should give a thought. Especially the latter.
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Is there a way for Hive to make use of those "1_0_0.parquet", etc files? Maybe create a table and load the data from parquet files or create a table and somehow place those parquet files inside hdfs so that Hive reads it?

A: I have faced this problem, if you are using a Cloudera distribution, you can create the tables using impala (Impala and Hive share the metastore), it allows create tables from a parquet file. Unfortunately Hive doesn't allow this
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In effect astronomy is returning to its roots, since the early great discoveries were made by the likes of Galileo for whom theory and observation were two sides of the same coin. The field subsequently split into two, with theorists and observers becoming divorced and ceasing to communicate effectively with each other. Now though the emergence of highly sophisticated observing platforms, capable of making different types of measurement depending on theoretical considerations, means that the two are once again becoming closely entwined.
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Unlike other sports, baseball is not limited to a certain amount of time. Instead, a match of baseball is divided into innings that represent the unit of play. An inning is subdivided into halves referred as the "top" and the "bottom". In each half, one team bats while the other team throws the ball and defends the field. There are nine innings in a game of baseball. Extra innings can be added in case of a tie.
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Just like many other sports, baseball has additional rules for various situations. Likewise, baseball players can use a broad range of strategies to gain an advantage over their opponents.
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There's magic in mess: Why you should embrace a disorderly desk
In 1726, during a long voyage from London to Philadelphia, a young printer hatched the idea of using a notebook to systematically chart his efforts to become a better man. He set out 13 virtues — including industry, justice, tranquillity and temperance — and his plan was to focus on each in turn in an endless quest for self-improvement, recording failures with a black spot in his journal. The virtue journal worked, and the black marks became scarcer and scarcer.
Benjamin Franklin kept up this practice for his entire life. What a life it was: Franklin invented bifocals and a clean-burning stove; he proved that lightning was a form of electricity and then tamed it with the lightning conductor; he charted the Gulf Stream. He organised a lending library, a fire brigade and a college. He was America's first postmaster-general, its ambassador to France, even the president of Pennsylvania.
And yet the great man had a weakness — or so he thought. His third virtue was Order. "Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time," he wrote. While all the other virtues were mastered, one by one, Franklin never quite managed to get his desk or his diary tidy.
"My scheme of Order gave me the most trouble," he reflected six decades later. "My faults in it vexed me so much, and I made so little progress in amendment, and had such frequent relapses, that I was almost ready to give up the attempt." Observers agreed. One described how callers on Franklin "were amazed to behold papers of the greatest importance scattered in the most careless way over the table and floor".
Franklin was a messy fellow his entire life, despite 60 years of trying to reform himself, and remained convinced that if only he could learn to tidy up, he would become a more successful and productive person. But any outsider can see that it is absurd to think such a rich life could have been yet further enriched by assiduous use of a filing cabinet. Franklin was deluding himself. But his error is commonplace; we're all tidy-minded people, admiring ourselves when we keep a clean desk and uneasy when we do not. Tidiness can be useful but it's not always a virtue. Even though Franklin never let himself admit it, there can be a kind of magic in mess.
Why is it so difficult to keep things tidy? A clue comes in Franklin's motto, "Let all your things have their places … " That seems to make sense. Humans tend to have an excellent spatial memory. The trouble is that modern office life presents us with a continuous stream of disparate documents arriving not only by post but via email and social media. What are the "places", both physical and digital, for this torrent of miscellanea?
Categorising documents of any kind is harder than it seems. The writer and philosopher Jorge Luis Borges once told of a fabled Chinese encyclopaedia, the "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge", which organised animals into categories such as: a) belonging to the emperor, c) tame, d) sucking pigs, f) fabulous, h) included in the present classification, and m) having just broken the water pitcher.
Borges's joke has a point: categories are difficult. Distinctions that seem practically useful — who owns what, who did what, what might make a tasty supper — are utterly unusable when taken as a whole. The problem is harder still when we must file many incoming emails an hour, building folder structures that need to make sense months or years down the line. Borgesian email folders might include: a) coming from the boss, b) tedious, c) containing appointments, d) sent to the entire company, e) urgent, f) sexually explicit, g) complaints, h) personal, i) pertaining to the year-end review, and j) about to exceed the memory allocation on the server.
Regrettably, many of these emails fit into more than one category and while each grouping itself is perfectly meaningful, they do not fit together. Some emails clearly fit into a pattern, but many do not. One may be the start of a major project or the start of nothing at all, and it will rarely be clear which is which at the moment that email arrives in your inbox. Giving documents — whether physical or digital — a proper place, as Franklin's motto recommends, requires clairvoyance. Failing that, we muddle through the miscellany, hurriedly imposing some kind of practical organising principle on what is a rapid and fundamentally messy flow of information.
When it comes to actual paper, there's always the following beautiful approach. Invented in the early 1990s by Yukio Noguchi, an emeritus professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and author of books such as Super Organised Method, Noguchi doesn't try to categorise anything. Instead, he places each incoming document in a large envelope. He writes the envelope's contents neatly on its edge, and lines them up on a bookshelf, their contents visible like the spines of books. Now the moment of genius: each time he uses an envelope, Noguchi places it back on the left of the shelf. Over time, recently used documents will shuffle themselves towards the left, and never-used documents will accumulate on the right. Archiving is easy: every now and again, Noguchi removes the documents on the right. To find any document in this system, he simply asks himself how recently he has seen it. It is a filing system that all but organises itself.
But wait a moment. Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, authors of A Perfect Mess, offer the following suggestion: "Turn the row of envelopes so that the envelopes are stacked vertically instead of horizontally, place the stack on your desktop, and get rid of the envelopes." Those instructions transform the shelf described in Super Organised Method into an old-fashioned pile of papers on a messy desk. Every time a document arrives or is consulted, it goes back on the top of the pile. Unused documents gradually settle at the bottom. Less elegant, perhaps, but basically the same system.
Computer scientists may recognise something rather familiar about this arrangement: it mirrors the way that computers handle their memory systems. Computers use memory "caches", which are small but swift to access. A critical issue is which data should be prioritised and put in the fastest cache. This cache management problem is analogous to asking which paper you should keep on your desk, which should be in your desk drawer, and which should be in offsite storage in New Jersey. Getting the decision right makes computers a lot faster — and it can make you faster too.
Fifty years ago, computer scientist Laszlo Belady proved that one of the fastest and most effective simple algorithms is to wait until the cache is full, then start ejecting the data that haven't been used recently. This rule is called "Least Recently Used" or LRU — and it works because in computing, as in life, the fact that you've recently needed to use something is a good indication that you will need it again soon.
As Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths observe in their recent book Algorithms to Live By, while a computer might use LRU to manage a memory cache, Noguchi's Super Organised Method uses the same rule to manage paper: recently used stuff on the left, stuff that you haven't looked at for ages on the right. A pile of documents also implements LRU: recently touched stuff on the top, everything else sinks to the bottom.
This isn't to say that a pile of paper is always the very best organisational system. That depends on what is being filed, and whether several people have to make sense of the same filing system or not. But the pile of papers is not random. It has its own pragmatic structure based simply on the fact that whatever you're using tends to stay visible and accessible. Obsolete stuff sinks out of sight. Your desk may look messy to other people but you know that, thanks to the LRU rule, it's really an efficient self-organising rapid-access cache.
If all this sounds to you like self-justifying blather from untidy colleagues, you might just be a "filer" rather than a "piler". The distinction between the two was first made in the 1980s by Thomas Malone, a management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Filers like to establish a formal organisational structure for their paper documents. Pilers, by contrast, let pieces of paper build up around their desks or, as we have now learnt to say, implement an LRU-cache.
To most of us, it may seem obvious that piling is dysfunctional while filing is the act of a serious professional. Yet when researchers from the office design company Herman Miller looked at high-performing office workers, they found that they tended to be pilers. They let documents accumulate on their desks, used their physical presence as a reminder to do work, and relied on subtle cues — physical alignment, dog-ears, or a stray Post-it note — to orient themselves.
In 2001, Steve Whittaker and Julia Hirschberg, researchers at AT&T Labs, studied filers and pilers in a real office environment, and discovered why the messy approach works better than it seemingly has any right to. They tracked the behaviour of the filers and pilers over time. Who accumulated the biggest volume of documents? Whose archives worked best? And who struggled most when an office relocation forced everyone to throw paperwork away?
One might expect that disciplined filers would have produced small, useful filing systems. But Whittaker and Hirschberg found, instead, that they were sagging under the weight of bloated, useless archives. The problem was a bad case of premature filing. Paperwork would arrive, and then the filer would have to decide what to do with it. It couldn't be left on the desk — that would be untidy. So it had to be filed somewhere. But most documents have no long-term value, so in an effort to keep their desks clear, the filers were using filing cabinets as highly structured waste-paper baskets. Useful material was hemmed in by well-organised dross.
"You can't know your own information future," says Whittaker, who is now a professor of psychology at University of California Santa Cruz, and co-author of The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff. People would create folder structures that made sense at the time but that would simply be baffling to their own creators months or years later. Organisational categories multiplied. One person told Whittaker and Hirschberg: "I had so much stuff filed. I didn't know where everything was, and I'd found that I had created second files for something in what seemed like a logical place, but not the only logical place … I ended up having the same thing in two places or I had the same business unit stuff in five different places."
As for the office move, it was torture for the filers. They had too much material and had invested too much time in organising it. One commented that it was "gruesome … you're casting off your first-born". Whittaker reminds me that these people were not discarding their children. They weren't even discarding family photographs and keepsakes. They were throwing away office memos and dog-eared corporate reports. "It's very visceral," Whittaker says. "People's identity is wrapped up in their jobs, and in the information professions your identity is wrapped up with your information." And yet the happy-go-lucky pilers, in their messy way, coped far better. They used their desks as temporary caches for documents. The good stuff would remain close at hand, easy to use and to throw away when finished. Occasionally, the pilers would grab a pile, riffle through it and throw most of it away. And when they did file material, they did so in archives that were small, practical and actively used.
Whittaker points out that the filers struggled because the categories they created turned out not to work well as times changed. This suggests that tidiness can work, but only when documents or emails arrive with an obvious structure. My own desk is messy but my financial records are neat — not because they're more important but because the record-keeping required for accountancy is predictable.
One might object that whatever researchers have concluded about paper documents is obsolete, as most documents are now digital. Surely the obvious point of stress is now the email inbox? But Whittaker's interest in premature filing actually started in 1996 with an early study of email overload. "The thing we observed was failed folders," he says. "Tiny email folders with one or two items."
It turns out that the fundamental problem with email is the same as the problem with paper on the desk: people try to clear their inbox by sorting the email into folders but end up prematurely filing in folder structures that turn out not to work well. In 2011, Whittaker and colleagues published a research paper with the title "Am I Wasting My Time Organizing Email?". The answer is: yes, you are. People who use the search function find their email more quickly than those who click through carefully constructed systems of folders. The folder system feels better organised but, unless the information arrives with a predictable structure, creating folders is laborious and worse than useless.
So we know that carefully filing paper documents is often counterproductive. Email should be dumped in a few broad folders — or one big archive — rather than a careful folder hierarchy. What then should we do with our calendars? There are two broad approaches. One — analogous to the "filer" approach — is to organise one's time tightly, scheduling each task in advance and using the calendar as a to-do list. As Benjamin Franklin expressed it: "Let each part of your business have its time." The alternative avoids the calendar as much as possible, noting only fixed appointments. Intuitively, both approaches have something going for them, so which works best?
Fortunately we don't need to guess, because three psychologists, Daniel Kirschenbaum, Laura Humphrey and Sheldon Malett, have already run the experiment. Thirty-five years ago, Kirschenbaum and his colleagues recruited a group of undergraduates for a short course designed to improve their study skills. The students were randomly assigned one of three possible pieces of coaching. There was a control group, which was given simple time-management advice such as, "Take breaks of five to 10 minutes after every ½-1½ hour study session." The other two groups got those tips but they were also given much more specific advice as to how to use their calendars. The "monthly plan" group were instructed to set goals and organise study activities across the space of a month; in contrast, the "daily plan" group were told to micromanage their time, planning activities and setting goals within the span of a single day.
The researchers assumed that the planners who set quantifiable daily goals would do better than those with vaguer monthly plans. In fact, the daily planners started brightly but quickly became hopelessly demotivated, with their study effort collapsing to eight hours a week — even worse than the 10 hours for those with no plan at all. But the students on the monthly plans maintained a consistent study habit of 25 hours a week throughout the course. The students' grades, unsurprisingly, reflected their work effort.
The problem is that the daily plans get derailed. Life is unpredictable. A missed alarm, a broken washing machine, a dental appointment, a friend calling by for a coffee — or even the simple everyday fact that everything takes longer than you expect — all these obstacles proved crushing for people who had used their calendar as a to-do list.
Like the document pilers, the monthly planners adopted a loose, imperfect and changeable system that happens to work just fine in a loose, imperfect and changeable world. The daily planners, like the filers, imposed a tight, tidy-minded system that shattered on contact with a messy world.
Some people manage to take this lesson to extremes. Marc Andreessen — billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist — decided a decade ago to stop writing anything in his calendar. If something was worth doing, he figured, it was worth doing immediately. "I've been trying this tactic as an experiment," he wrote in 2007. "And I am so much happier, I can't even tell you."
Arnold Schwarzenegger has adopted much the same approach. He insisted on keeping his diary clear when he was a film star. He even tried the same policy when governor of California. "Appointments are always a no-no. Planning ahead is a no-no," he told The New York Times. Politicians, lobbyists and activists had to treat him like a popular walk-up restaurant: they showed up and hoped to get a slot. Of course, this was in part a pure status play. But it was more than that. Schwarzenegger knew that an overstuffed diary allows no room to adapt to circumstances.
Naturally, Schwarzenegger and Andreessen can make the world wait to meet them. You and I can't. But we probably could take a few steps in the same direction, making fewer firm commitments to others and to ourselves, leaving us the flexibility to respond to what life throws at us. A plan that is too finely woven will soon lie in tatters. Daily plans are tidy but life is messy.
The truth is that getting organised is often a matter of soothing our anxieties — or the anxieties of tidy-minded colleagues. It can simply be an artful way of feeling busy while doing nothing terribly useful. Productivity guru Merlin Mann, host of a podcast called Back To Work, has a telling metaphor. Imagine making sandwiches in a deli, says Mann. In comes the first sandwich order. You're about to reach for the mayonnaise and a couple of slices of sourdough. But then more orders start coming in.
Mann knows all too well how we tend to react. Instead of making the first sandwich, we start to ponder organisational systems. Separate the vegetarian and the meat? Should toasted sandwiches take priority?
There are two problems here. First, there is no perfect way to organise a fast-moving sandwich queue. Second, the time we spend trying to get organised is time we don't spend getting things done. Just make the first sandwich. If we just got more things done, decisively, we might find we had less need to get organised.
Of course, sometimes we need a careful checklist (if, say, we're building a house) or a sophisticated reference system (if we're maintaining a library, for example). But most office workers are neither construction managers nor librarians. Yet we share Benjamin Franklin's mistaken belief that if only we were more neatly organised, then we would live more productive and more admirable lives. Franklin was too busy inventing bifocals and catching lightning to get around to tidying up his life. If he had been working in a deli, you can bet he wouldn't have been organising sandwich orders. He would have been making sandwiches.
Image by Benjamin Swanson. This article was first published in the Financial Times magazine and is inspired by ideas from my new book, "Messy". (US) (UK)
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Tim Harford is an author, columnist for the Financial Times and presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less".
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Several readers of last week's column asked why I called Islam "incredibly beautiful." Based on decades of study, world travel and long friendships with Muslims, I answer with three hints.
Our indebtedness to Muslim culture is extraordinary. Try doing your finances using Roman instead of Arabic numerals, and you'll get the idea.
Have you had your coffee? The attempt 400 years ago to prohibit Christians from drinking coffee because it was a Muslim drink obviously has failed.
Thomas Aquinas, for centuries the pre-eminent Christian theologian, was influenced by Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Renaissance art, music and poetry, out of which today's world developed, were stimulated by encounters with Muslim thinkers.
Who can see the Alhambra or the Taj Mahal or the great mosques throughout the world without awe? One image often used to identify Kansas City is Giralda Tower on the Country Club Plaza, a smaller version of what was once the minaret of a mosque in Seville.
The five "pillars" of Islam present a spiritual path rousing admiration, if not imitation.
The first pillar is the profession of faith, that there is but one God, and Muhammad is his messenger. This simple statement serves to center and unify every aspect of how one lives one's life.
Second, prayer five times daily is a renewal of one's commitment to submit to God's will.
Third, giving to the needy is a religious obligation.
Fourth, in the words of Bill Graves, then Kansas governor, Muslims fast during the month of Ramadan "to remind themselves that others hunger and to relieve the hunger of others, to practice discipline through self-denial, to nurture family relationships and to strengthen commitment to God" and to recall the first revelations of the Qur'an.
I have repeatedly observed these four pillars, and from them I have taken inspiration.
The fifth pillar is the pilgrimage to Mecca. While this is not possible for me since I am not a Muslim, I have witnessed how this ritual has deepened the faith of Muslim friends.
Speaking of Kansas City Muslim friends — they may be business people, doctors, professors, chaplains, public officials, scientists or soldiers. They may fight fires, teach martial arts, report the news or manage a library.
They are honest and generous, working to make America and the world better. They never seek to convert me. Their faith is beautiful.


The new management of the Hotel is paying particular attention to rediscover the culinary traditions of its own region, respecting the pure and simple flavors that characterize the Ligurian cuisine.
The love for local products allows us to offer our guests quality home cooking with traditional Ligurian dishes.
Our restaurant is open for lunch and dinner.


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You guys are too sweet! Loved having you check in with me through multiple social media outlets asking how teaching went- so great! I always cherish the time I have at the school I used to teach at. It was lovely seeing familiar little faces and catching up with teacher friends.
Today I'm off to a women's retreat for my church! This will be the first time that I will be away from Gabriel for over 24 hours! Ironically the theme of the weekend is identity... I imagine there will most certainly be some identity issues while being separated from my baby for the first time ever! I'm pretty excited though to be in community with many other fabulous women.
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Lena September 27, 2013 at 7:57 AM
Enjoy the retreat, Lena :)
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Lena September 27, 2013 at 10:05 AM
Sorry to be missing the retreat! Enjoy your time! I love that printable!
Lena September 28, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Hahaha love that last one! And yes, I want to bundle up with that scarf and eat those cookies at the same time!
Oh those cookies look yummy and that scarf looks so comfy!! Now, if I were sitting at a football game, wearing that scarf, eating those cookies, I'd be doing good. :)
Hope you have a fantastic time at your retreat!
Lena September 30, 2013 at 1:30 PM
How was your first 24 hours without the babe? I kind of have anxiety thinking about leaving my baby over night. Maybe it won't be as stressful to think about once I'm done nursing? Hopefully?
Those pumpkin sugar cookies look AMAZING!
Lena October 1, 2013 at 5:44 PM
oo how did the retreat go? I have spent one night without Hazel so far, but I dont even know if it counted since I put her down and then was back shortly after she got up... so yeah, probably doesnt count! haha! Though I still really love nursing, I'm actually looking forward to spending a night away at some point!
I love reading your comments so please don't be shy! I'll usually even invite myself over after you've dropped a note to see what you're up to!
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This explains how social media can both weaken — and strengthen — democracy.
The past year has seen a flood of concern about how social media can undermine democracy. And yet not too long ago, after the Arab Spring, social media was being hailed as a "liberation technology" that would help spread democracy. How can this be?
In a recent ungated article in the Journal of Democracy, we answer this question with two observations. First, social media is a tool for giving voice to those excluded from access to the mainstream media. Second, despite the fact that social-media democratizes access to information, those using it can simultaneously censor and manipulate information to try to silence others' voices. Some of these forms of censorship — such as hindering access to information or threatening would-be opposition figures — are centuries old. Others — such as employing bots and trolls to change the online conversation — are particular to the digital age.
Taken together, these two factors — using online tools both to expand opportunities to speak up, and to expand opportunities to silence — can illuminate the complex relationship between social media and democracy. We conclude that social media itself is neither inherently democratic or nondemocratic, but yet another arena in which political actors contest for power.
Let's look first at autocratic societies. Who is excluded from the mainstream media in such countries? While it is important to remember that many forces may be excluded (including plenty that may be anti-regime but still illiberal themselves), this category undoubtedly includes pro-democratic forces.
Social media can help those opposition actors figure out how to work together, solving what political scientists call "collective action problems." Would-be democrats can find one another, find hidden support for democracy, connect with like-minded citizens, coordinate political planning and organize direct political action such as protests — all without help from state-owned media, and at times without being detected by state surveillance.
But if pro-democracy forces can figure this out, so can the regimes they are targeting.
When faced with online opposition, autocratic regimes have various options for countering these threats.
One way to characterize these different options is by thinking about how the social-media user experiences them. The regime can undertake offline responses, such as intimidating or arresting opposition activists, changing the ownership structure of media companies, or adjusting liability laws, which the user of social media may never see directly. The regime can also launch online responses: restricting access to content, which the user may or may not directly notice; or engaging with online content in an effort to shape the online conservation, which the user will definitely experience.
One of us (Roberts) categorizes these strategic options in her forthcoming book, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall," as the "three Fs" of digital-era censorship. Fear is censorship through intimidation, which can include imprisonment, physical harm, loss of livelihood and so on. Friction is censorship that makes it harder to find information by removing content or slowing down access, including removing social-media posts, reordering search results or slowing down Web pages. Flooding censors opposing views by loading up the online space with pro-regime messages, or simply by adding spam or noise, thus making it harder to find the opposition's message.
Crucially, this "flooding" — or trying to shape the online conversation — comes from new digital tools. One of these is fully automated online accounts that are controlled by algorithms, otherwise known as "bots." Another involves humans — known as "trolls" — who either out of conviction or for pay spend a lot of time online to divert attention from regime opponents as part of astroturfing campaigns or in an attempt to create the image of widespread support for particular ideas, policies, regimes and so on. And while these tools have been skillfully used by autocratic regimes, they also can be used in — and against — democracies.
Now let's consider how social media can work in democracies. There, who is likely to be excluded from access to mainstream media? This might include progressive forces pushing messages generally ignored by the mainstream media, such as Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter.
However, it can also include fundamentally illiberal groups opposed to fundamental tenets of liberal democracy. These groups — be they white nationalists, neo-Nazis or what is loosely known as the "alt-right" — can take advantage of the same features of social media that pro-democracy forces in autocratic regimes do. They too have the ability to find like-minded people who may not be geographically proximate and can collaborate on collective political action.
Moreover, these illiberal forces can also take advantage of the very tools developed by autocratic regimes: fear and flooding aided by trolls and bots. But while autocrats apply these tools to counter online opposition to the regime, in democratic societies, illiberal actors can harness these tools to attack political opponents, supporters of democracy, and even democratic values and norms. Thus, the very openness of the Internet can be used to amplify these illiberal voices, both by making their proponents online seem more numerous than they may actually be, by driving mainstream media coverage and by driving opponents offline.
The law awakens: restricting technology?
So what comes next? One important question is whether and how democratic societies will use legal regulation to limit this emerging threat. As this debate continues to unfold, an understanding of how exactly it is that social media threatens — and supports — democracy will be crucial making sure policy changes have their desired effect. Democracies must be aware that any attempt to regulate the Internet may veer dangerously close to the censorship they deride in autocracies. For example, it is probably no accident that Russia was among the first to copy Germany's new law threatening fines for social-media companies that fail to adequately restrict online hate speech online.
Yannis Theocharis is an assistant professor in the Center for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen.
Margaret E. Roberts is assistant professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego.
Pablo Barberá is assistant professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California.


Five short, but really interesting stories from the news today.
1) Mayor Bloomberg Drinks His Beer How?: New York City's super-rich mayor visited the Brookyln Brewery yesterday. Nothing abnormal there. Another interesting photo op. Then, he was asked how he likes to drink his beer. His answer stunned the world (well, hard-core beer drinkers). "I actually put ice in my beer. Most people don't," the New York Post reported. Yes, Mr. Mayor, most people don't. That's an understatement.
2) Moving Video in Support of Gay Marriage: Following the moving speech of 19-year-old Zach Wahls before the Iowa House, 80-year-old Jean made the following video. It's moving and you should watch it. Hers is the experience of so many other Americans.
3) Who Told You This Was a Good Idea?: Apparently, someone on the New Zealand police force did. I think, they were wrong. Dead wrong. The ad has been pulled, but not before the damage was done.
4) Just a Bad Idea: I'll let you judge for yourself.
5) And Finally: Don't underestimate the power of the alpaca.


It was back in 2002 that Jamie Oliver created his apprentice scheme for young people to train as chefs. He mortgaged his house to raise the funds for an idea that many thought was crazy. He recruited from unemployed or those who need a break in life. None were used to getting up early in the morning nor did they have any concept of routine. The first fifteen were a challenge.
There are now three Fifteen Restaurants, London, Cornwall and Amsterdam. Every year each Fifteen restaurant recruits 18 apprentices between the ages of 18-25 every year for a 12 month tough chef training program. The restaurant puts all its profits back into the charity but that doesn't cover all the costs. Some of the aspiring new young chefs were displaying their skills at Borough Market yesterday to help with the fund raising efforts.
I thought this was such a great idea when I first heard about it. I'm glad to hear that it's still going. I own two Jamie Oliver cookbooks and I did eat at his pizza place at Covent Garden when I was there last. That place he partnered with a chef from here in Phoenix.
A brilliant idea! I have 5 of his cookbooks!
Good for them - and for Jamie. Lets hope the idea spreads to other employers.


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Enhancing vendor stress is preventing NEO from discovering support causing the prices to go down below the regional support level at $16.50. The 100 EMA line exhibiting a downtrend is trading at $18.01. The costs are intending to burst out from the last support level located at $14.29. The rates have fallen over 11% from the intraday high at $18.95. The present resistance degree can be mapped at $20. The MACD remains in the bearish zone. The rates are currently trading at $16.75 as well as are losing against USD by 6.13%.
Currently, one NEO amounts to 0.0026 BTC and also is shedding against the coin by 3.59%.
According to Smartereum, NEO costs are anticipated to touch $335 by the end of the present year. Longforecast forecasts a fall in the coin rate, says it will certainly shut trading for the year at $13. However, the 2020 forecast is confident as the coin rates are predicted to stand around $46. Inning accordance with Cryptoupdates, NEO can touch $900 or even more by 2020.
O3 Labs, a mobile gateway to the NEO Smart Economy, has actually lately introduced the O3 Alliance, a new structure that will aid in enhancing the reach of dApps in the NEO ecosystem. With the O3 Alliance framework, the firm intends to remove the customers' should be application-reliant or depend on any kind of external solutions with their exclusive tricks. The O3 Partnership adheres to the business's integration with the Switcheo Exchange that is created to help with an easier trading experience for electronic possessions on NEO.


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The new 60 bed Bethesda Personal Care Home, attached to Bethesda Hospital, replaces the existing multi-storey personal care home. The facility includes four self-contained 15 bed clusters, each with its own design theme, capable of responding to specialized programming requirements. Each pair of clusters shares a nursing station, bathing suite and support areas. Special attention is given to linking interior and exterior spaces with clerestory windows and direct access to a variety of outdoor courtyards. The "downtown" area includes hair care, resident laundry, coffee shop, solarium and multi-purpose room with a feature fireplace. Local artists are able to display their work in specially designated areas.


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Lucian Freud's Unseen Drawings Arrive At Acquavella Galleries (PHOTOS)
Lucian Freud is one of the most formative artists in figurative painting. Before his death last year, he created unsettling portraits of mottled, swampy naked flesh. Stripping off the previous conventions of portraiture, Freud portrayed friends and models splayed out bare for all to see, simultaneously confrontational and vulnerable. When we heard that Acquavella Galleries was holding an exhibition of Freud's drawings, we were especially intrigued. What would one of the richest artist's work be without its signature ingredient, paint?
"Dark Haired Neighbour," © The Lucian Freud Archive
The exhibition, curated by William Feaver, features over 80 works from 1940 to present day. The drawings provide a fascinating minor key to Freud's major painted oeuvre. The two create a harmonic understanding of not just an artistic style, but a life view. In a new book accompanying the exhibition, Feaver writes about Freud's need for "drawing speaking to painting," where the "charcoal strokes" helped determine where to start and end the picture. Freud's works, whether painted or drawn, express a constant anxiety, like something is swarming in the background, drawing connections between his grandfather, Sigmund Freud, and the existential angst of Friedrich Nietzsche. He did with paint what Diane Arbus did with a camera, which simultaneously attracted and repulsed us through their unique take on the eccentricities of the human form.
While Freud's paintings drown in the ugliness of his painted world, the drawings present a more fine tuned investigation of the smaller details; his inner philosophies are projected onto his models' overflowing exteriors, while their interior states are never addressed or even seen. The drawings have a far broader style in which real-life materials are explored and given weight. Dry hair looks different than greasy hair which looks different than cloth which looks different than skin.
While in his paintings everything sort of bleeds together through the globs of paint, the drawings remain differentiated. This, of course, has much to do with the wide time frame represented in the exhibition as well as the broad subject matter, ranging from mythical animals to Freud's own father on his death bed. The styles too diverge greatly, some works shade flesh obsessively as if charcoal were a substitute for paint. Others build solely on line, looking like an early Picasso or even El Greco. In the book accompanying the exhibition, Feaver calls the show "a choice build-up of arrested potential." The works all present an urgent need to push forward, to push past comfort and knowledge into wobbly territory. The exhibition gives Freud fans an opportunity to shade in the gaps between the lines of Freud's known paintings. If you think you know his style you will be challenged. As always, Freud pushes further.
Freud's drawings will show at Acquavella Galleries in New York until June 9.
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Lucian Freud Startled Man: Self-Portrait, 1948 Pencil on paper, 9 x 5 5/8 in. (22.9 x 14.3 cm) Private Collection © The Lucian Freud Archive Photo © The Lucian Freud Archive