Schooff: So now to kick it off, why would you say process is the answer to today's enterprise?
Sweet: So I see process as absolutely key to a successful organization. It tells us how to work and information flows. It articulates customer requirements. And because we're talking about a process, that's actually how a customer sees how the work goes for them, so a cross-functional process actually describe how the customers see where it starts and where it ends. The customer doesn't really care about the organizational hierarchy. So from a results standpoint, processes increase the quality in the work, they help you make automated decisions, they provide analytics, which can be incorporated and therefore provide a lot more agility and so all those things are really important to the enterprise. But although I'm a process person, I don't see process as the only thing that's important to the enterprise, things like strategic planning, I'd say at best they're an adaptive case management process so that's another area sort of outside of process but the performance of process really informs the strategic plan. Then there are other things also like skills capabilities and company values that I don't see as processes. So I see processes as really important but not the only thing that's important to today's enterprise.
Schooff: Now process improvement, what the key to a successfully process improvement initiative?
Sweet: Well, I like to keep things to threes; I don't think anybody remembers eight or nine things so I'll tell you three important things. Maybe I'll have some more in my book but these are three key ones. One's a project charter. Project charter sets the improvement targets, it provides a vision, it builds a high-level map so there's your beginning process that leads to scope, and it tells you the necessary key resources. And this all gets the leaders working together because they're the ones that are doing the project charter. Then I think the right leaders and right team /right resources are also critical. Well, that's the second item. And I would call four leaders: the executive sponsor, the process owner, the project lead, and the BPM team facilitator. And then there's also a team, which will work with a project lead and the BPM team facilitator but I won't go into that here.
And then the last thing, the third thing is discipline then timebox methodology. Because if your process improvement efforts take too long, the energy just dies, so you really need to have a disciplined and timebox methodology.
Schooff: Definitely. Now, for companies first looking at BPM, how important is it to document the current state of their processes no matter how bad they might be?
Sweet: That's probably more important if they're really bad, but I consider it really important to document the current state. And I know there's a little bit of a tension in doing this or not. A lot of companies think, oh, it just takes too long to do that. But I think it's really important because you must get metric data and you must understand the foundation in your current state in order to know if you improved anything.
But like I mentioned at the beginning, I also don't think you should go on documenting current state diagrams forever, you shouldn't do all your current state diagrams before you do any projects. If you do your current state diagrams and you go back to them a year later, they're going to be all changed. So yeah, I think you should document current states as you're doing projects. And then I also feel that you shouldn't document them and people say to me, we've been documenting the current state for three to four weeks. Uh-uh, and we don't need to take that long documenting the current state. The BPI blueprint shows you how to do it in just two hours.
And I'll also give you an example. I had a high-tech company that I worked with once and they didn't want us. So they were in this case. They didn't want to document the current state. So I being the consultant, I tried to convince them how important it was to document the current state, but I didn't win the argument. And so we went ahead and didn't document the current state and we actually sort of created future states or to-be states. And we were able to do that, but as we've looked at them, and I looked at them with them, the improvements we made were actually pretty small than what I would've called just quick wins. They weren't at all transformational. They weren't really important ones across the whole process. So because they hadn't looked and they hadn't actually seen what worked with [unintelligible] and then really thought about what could be bigger, they got smaller results than they might have, so high on my document the current state process.
Schooff: Very interesting. And now, I think we're all familiar with the idea that what matters for a company is measure. So taking that idea, so what should companies measure in terms of their process of improvement initiative and why is this important in your [unintelligible]?
Sweet: Well, I totally believe in measures. Although I must admit, I've been calling them measures and metrics and sometimes I call them data because I think data is also important. Data may be something you're gathering. Metrics imply we're going to gather them, and gather them, and gather them. So let's start with some of those key metrics. First, one I would say is baseline metrics. And so by baseline metrics, I mean what are the metrics of your current state process, so there goes with your current state process. But they actually go with what I would say the process owner named in the charter but I call improvement targets and I ask the process owner to give two improvement targets, two things he wants to see changed in this process. So let's say the process owner says reduce the time to complete this process. Well, then the team needs to find the metric, the baseline metric for the time in this process, so that's pretty easy. We have to find out well how long does it take to do this process today. So maybe the answer is its four to ten weeks.
By the way, it's unlikely that people are going to know what these baseline metrics are. We don't do a very good job of actually automated ways of measuring metrics. So the team is going to have to go find this out, may have to manually put it together or mash different reports together. So that's the baseline metric and the baseline metric has two parts; it has the category and then it has the value. So the category is what we just chose. We chose time because of what the process owner says. Then we found out the value, which was four to ten weeks after we had chosen the category. Now, once you have the baseline metric, then the process owner give the goal metric. The goal metric is the same category, in this case time. But he knows now that the time currently is four to ten weeks. So now he says what goal do I want to reach so he might say a 50% reduction, he might say I want the two to four weeks, whatever he says is the goal.
So that's what I would call for the beginning ones, the baseline, and then the goal. Then there are others that are important as well. Another piece that's critical is customer data. And customer data is not general data from a survey about the whole company, its specific data around how the customer feels about the process, what does he need, want and require about the process, and how's it doing right now, and what would it look like if it was perfect. So customer data, specifically around the process you're trying to improve.
Then I say there's some other analytical data and that's what I call quantitative data for analysis and that's data that would again relate to your improvement targets. So if you had improvement targets about reducing the cycle time, then you'd want to have this analytical data [unintelligible], why is the time right now four to ten weeks, where's the wait time, where do we have a lot of rework? So this analytical data, which will be different depending on what your improvement targets are, is data that's underneath, its data that's giving you the reasons for these inefficiencies. So we need baseline data and then its partnered goal metrics and I put those words baseline metrics, goal metrics, customer data, analytical data, and then in the future you'll want to have monitoring data as well.
Schooff: So data is key. Now, in our discussion leading up to this podcast, we were going around that about half of the time process improvement fails. In your experience, what are some of the key ways that you've seen enterprises fail with process improvement initiatives?
Sweet: Yeah, I like to use the top three reasons that BPM.com came up with when they were doing a major study of this with their members. And those three reasons were lack of executive sponsorship, scope creep, and resistance by end users and key stakeholders. But I actually agree with those, there may be more but I think those are three big ones. So let me give me so sort of specific examples in each of those categories.
So lack of executive sponsorship, sometimes we have a BPM professional group and they'll say to me, Shelley we are not able to sell our executives on doing BPM or on doing this project and I'd say red flag, red flag, probably you shouldn't go ahead with that project. We shouldn't be selling them, they should actually know reasons why this project is important to them and why it's at the top of their list, maybe it's about a bonus, maybe they see it as something really important to the company and the customer. So another thing about executive sponsorship is as I listed those four leaders, executive sponsor and process owner were key members of those leaders. But sometimes people don't know what an executive sponsor is and what a process owner is so they don't know what their goal is, or maybe you don't get them involved and they don't designate the improvement targets. You're off already on the wrong foot. They should be getting involved early and designating those improvement targets. They're not supposed to be waiting until the end and when this BPI team says, here's what we recommend, then they look. No, they should be engaged the whole time. So those would be reasons about, smaller reasons or smaller example about how you get lack of executive sponsorship.
Now how about scope creep? Well, in the charter, the BPI Charter carefully defines the scope, what's in and what's out. And if you got that defined, then it's not as likely somebody will touch you and say, oh, can you just add this functionality. Well, this would make it really important too. No, we wouldn't be looking at what's in scope and what's not. If we felt this might be important, we'd go back to the process owner and say, do we want to expand the scope. Nobody's just letting it kind of squish out. And the scope also says where the process starts and where the process ends so how big are we making this scope from a process perspective for this project? Is it fully an end-to-end process like order to cache or maybe we look at that and we say, no, we're going just take these four sub-processes and that's all we're going to concentrate on now because maybe order to cache is too big, maybe it's much better to take just those processes.
Now my last one, resistance by end users and key stakeholders, you need to engage the end users and the key stakeholders early and often. Don't start thinking about change management when you're BPI project has come up with all its recommendations and its implementation plan, that's much too late. And so there's two things in the BPI improvement which really help in that regard and the first is the team resources. The team resources represent the end-users and key stakeholders so they help understand the process, model it, analyze it, redesign it. They're totally engaged and part of that is that they're also talking to their colleagues so they're getting ideas and they're vetting what they're thinking about. And then there should be a specific engagement plan. I actually use the term engagement plan versus communication because to me, engagement plan is more distinct about saying I'm not just going to send you an email about this, I'm not just going to blast at you. I'm going to talk to you, I'm going to hear what you say, you're going to hear what I'm thinking. And that engagement plan starts right at the beginning and it's at a variety of levels with different stakeholders and different reasons that they would want to hear it. So that really helps in that regard too.
Schooff: Fantastic. Now, I think we're facing a future where IT is becoming one of the drivers of business success, so one of the problems that comes up with this is the divide between business and IT. In your opinion, what are some of the ways that BPM can help with the IT business gap?
Sweet: So I want to start just a little bit by giving you just two reasons, there may be many more why I think this divide begins. Heck, I have another article called The Business and IT Collude To Reduce ROI because I think both sides are kind of creating this divide whether they want to admit it or not. And so I see that the business sometimes asks the IT to fix the problem. And they might even given them a solution. But IT in the business don't talk about the process in a larger context. And so, IT goes off and creates what the business asks for and then the business isn't happy about it because guess what, the business didn't say it so IT understood or we haven't really looked at it fully so maybe we should've optimized the results. So they don't really talk fully, they make a request and they're the ones [unintelligible] fills the request but hasn't totally understood.
And then I also think that sometimes IT purchases software and they implement and install it and the business doesn't use it. Well obviously, the business is talking with its feet. It didn't meet their needs, or they don't understand it, or its too complicated. So those are like two underneath reasons that I think that there is this divide. And the ways to bridge the gap are the business and IT; they need to be working together from the beginning. So let me just say it like the organizational level, and the business and IT should be looking at what is our strategic plan for the enterprise as a whole and how should business and IT be focusing on processes that would really help the business as a whole, would it really support our strategic plan? So they should be deciding which are the important processes, prioritize them and they should be putting resources to those processes.
Sometimes you might even have business and IT being co-process owners if they were both heavily involved in a process so that's kind of at the organizational level. And I think you go down to this sort of process level and so therefore a single process, a single project improvement project, the business owner and executive sponsor need to understand the IT component of the as-is state, the current state and the possibilities for the future state, just even at the beginning when they're doing their charter. And the executive sponsor and the process owner better make sure that IT is ready to help them when they want to implement their improvements, no need to even start on a project if IT says, oh, we won't be able to work on that for three years, we'll just be hopeless.
Then additionally, the members of the team resources should include both business subject matter experts and IT subject matter experts. I'm not necessarily talking about developers; I'm talking about people who understand the current IT processes and IT systems, IT software involved in the current process and also have ideas about the future process. And what I've found is when they work together on the team resource component, they both understand one another much better. The language barrier goes away a little bit, we have some laughs together, IT sees the whole process so they just seen that context talk about. The business is not be fooled by IT, oh, that'll take forever, or IT begins to say to them, oh, we can do that today, we've just never even turned on that functionality, or oh, this this would be a really good automation for you, or oh, adding some business rules here would really help us automate so all kinds of things that they can do together to help one another and that's where the synergy also begins.
So I'm giving you some at the high-level, the organizational level, some at the sort of project level process owner, and executive sponsor and IT and then some down at the team resources, those would be all ways to bridge the gap.
Schooff: Sounds a lot like agility so excellent examples Shelley. This is BPM.com's Peter Schooff speaking with Shelley Sweet of I4 Process. And those listening make sure you check out Shelley's book, The BPI Blueprint. Shelley, thank you so much for the podcast.
Sweet: Thanks for having me Peter.


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Q: Where does the generic triangle live? This is a reformulation of my question Characterizing triangles unembeddedly.
Motivation 1:  There is such a thing as a generic group.  In category theory this is done by constructing "theory" of the group, which is a category in a certain doctrine.  Functors (in that doctrine) to Set, or more generally to any topos, are groups.  The barest such theory (as usually seen) is the Lawverean algebraic theory of groups.  This theory is a category containing an object and operations making it a group object in that category, and the theory is the smallest such category that contains all finite limits.  There are fancier ones; the fanciest is the classifying topos for groups, which is in some sense the initial topos-with-group object.  Since in a topos, you have full-scale first order intuitionistic logic, the classifying topos for groups allows you to reason about the generic group inside the classifying topos and the theorems you prove will be true for all groups.  (This is only an approximation of the actual situation.)  In particular you can't prove it is abelian and you can't prove it isn't; the logic clearly does not have excluded middle.
Motivation 2: You can prove that a triangle that has two angles that are equal must be isosceles (has two sides that are equal).  You can do this with Pappus' proof:  Look at the triangle, flip it over the perpendicular from the odd angle to the other side, look at it again, and the side-angle-side theorem shows you that the "two" triangles are congruent, so two sides much be equal.  This appears to me to be true without requiring the parallel postulate.  So the theorem and the proof must be true not only in Euclidean 2-space but in any surface of constant curvature.  (Here I am getting into territory I know very little about, so this particular motivation may be totally misguided.)
So what I want is a classifying space of some sort that contains the generic triangle in such a way that maps of the correct sort to any surface of constant curvature are triangles, and so that Pappus' proof can be carried out in the classifying space.  The space doesn't have to be a topos or a category at all.  I have no clue as to what sort of structure it would be.
Note 1:  Even the Lawvere theory of groups has its own internal logic -- in this case equational logic.  You certainly cannot prove the generic group is or is not abelian with equational logic.
Note 2:  It does not seem reasonable to me that Pappus' proof would work in a surface with variable curvature.  But maybe there is some trick to define "angle mod curvature" that would make it true.
Note 3 added 3 Dec 2009:  One way of reformulating my question is:  How do you give a suitably general definition of "triangle that allows Pappus' proof".  Commenters who asked "which definition of triangle are you using" missed the point:  I am asking for a definition.  Mathematical research commonly consists of trying to find the right definition to make your intuitive proof work.  Questions like that belong in MathOverflow and should not be criticized for not being "well formulated".  (Of course many questions of this sort could have been solved by looking in Wikipedia or thinking for five minutes, and they deserve to be criticized.)

A: There's some confusion about the question, so let me try answering a similar question that I think is strictly analogous to yours but easier.  If you can confirm that the question I'm addressing really is analogous to yours, and that the answer is the kind of answer you're looking for, then maybe that will help prepare the ground for someone to answer your actual question.
So, let's pretend that you were interested in a much more rigid kind of geometry, so that a triangle consists of three joined-up straight line segments.  There will be no curvature involved.
Formally, we might work with affine spaces, and define a triangle in an affine space $A$ to be an ordered triple of points in $A$.  Of course, we imagine the three points joined up, but that won't be part of the formalism.
A generic triangle is an affine space $P$ equipped with a triangle $(p_1, p_2, p_3)$, with the property that for any affine space $A$ and triangle $(a_1, a_2, a_3)$ in $A$, there is a unique affine map $f: P \to A$ such that
$$
(f(p_1), f(p_2), f(p_3)) = (a_1, a_2, a_3).
$$
The affine space $P$ is what you call the classifying space in your question.
It's easy to see that there does exist a generic triangle (and by the universal property, it's unique up to isomorphism).  Indeed, we can take $P$ to be any two-dimensional affine space and $p_1, p_2, p_3$ to be any three affinely independent points of $P$.
Of course you know all this, Six Winged Seraph.  But the point of saying it is to ask: is this the type of answer you want, in the more advanced setting that you describe?

A: The generic triangle lives in a subset of this function space $Axioms^{Languages}$.
What do I mean? First, let's us what is generic addition? Immediately, you would ask me, addition on which number system? The natural numbers, integers or what? Properly then, one can only say that for each (semi)ring $R$, addition is specified as some subset of $R^{R\times R}$.
Now I invoke this duality principle: Operations in number theory are analogous to objects in geometry. Objects in number theory are analogous to operations in geometry.
One of the reasons why this question by Six Winged Seraph is so difficult (and so interesting) is that we should think of the object "triangle" in geometry as analogous to the operation "addition" in number theory. We should not think of the "triangle" as analogous to the number "$n$". It is easy to say where the generic number "$n$" lives in: namely the set of natural numbers ${\mathbb{N}}$! (or whatever number system you might be considering) This is an easy question just as where does the generic rotations, dilations and reflections live in: namely the Lie group $Isom({\mathbb{R}}^2)$? (or ${\mathbb{H}}^2$ or ${\mathbb{S}}^2$ depending on which constant curvature space you are considering.)
The "triangle" question is hard because what you can pin down about a generic triangle is not what it is, but what you can do with it. That is, axioms. Using the duality principle again, we pin down what addition is by the axioms, not just axioms for addition, but also how multiplication interacts with it. Are you interested in statements like $23+34=57$, $n+n=2n$ etc? Only to the extent that these statements form part of the completed infinity of theorems from which can be generated by the axioms.
In a similar way, for each constant curvature plane, axioms that govern reflection, axioms that provide congruence criteria, Pappus' proof is generated from these axioms.
As a final refinement, one might also consider triangles in other non-constant curvature spaces. Just as addition can be considered for vector spaces or groups, not just rings. In this case, the full answer is that for any language in which triangles can be talked about, there is a corresponding axiomatization of what can be done with triangles.
Eg, the Pappus proof is for the first-order axiomatization of (non)-Euclidean geometry. There are different proofs for the plane as a Riemannian manifold (via integration) etc. For each of these axiomatizations, we have a different notion of triangle.

A: As it happens, the klein hyperbolic models, the usual euclidean plane, and central projection for projective space all have geodesics that look like straight lines; on the other hand, these maps can't be conformal, so it's tricky talking about how they treat angles.
More generally, you can specify a map between two (small enough) geodesic triangles by requiring that it preserve two transverse geodesic partitions; but then what it does to any other geodesics is anyone's guess.
I rather suspect this isn't addressing your actual question, though.

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We're less than three weeks away from Tiger Woods' latest comeback attempt, and if his agent is to be believed, Woods will actually tee it up on Dec. 2 in the Bahamas at the Hero World Challenge.
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Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, told ESPN on Tuesday that Woods is "getting after it a bit more, continuing to work toward that goal and excited to get back out there and compete, see the guys and be in the locker room instead of being an assistant captain," as the golfer was during the U.S. Ryder Cup victory.
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"The determination is still there," Steinberg told ESPN. "We've still got two weeks to go, but he is doing the things necessary to get himself as ready as he can be, but it's going to be 15 months since the last time he played competitively."
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The Hero World Challenge, an event Tiger hosts and one that benefits his foundation, will take place at Albany Golf Course featuring an 18-man field that includes the likes of Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Henrik Stenson, Bubba Watson, Hideki Matsuyama, Patrick Reed, Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose and other top-tier players.
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Jerome Shea November 25, 2011 Weekend Wonk
Many years ago—so many that the card catalogue was physically a card catalogue—I was trolling through it idly and came upon the intriguing title—Gravity and Levity—of a book by a psychiatrist named Alan McGlashan. It is an interesting little collection of essays that roam the borderland between medicine and mysticism. What mystified me was that it was shelved not in our main UNM library but over in our Science and Engineering library, and then I realized that someone had taken the title literally, as in the force that large bodies exert, and its opposite, as in lighter-than-air gases. We literary types have taken those terms as metaphors for so long that it is good to be reminded where they spring from. Hugh Glass (fur trapper, mountain man) specified his standard breakfast as "Whiskey to lift me up and pancakes to weight me down," neatly expressing both the literal and the figurative in the same phrase. Gravity and levity. This week we'll see how they balance, or tip, the scales.
In a recent wonk, "Tears, Idle Tears," I tried to distinguish between sadness, the melancholia that I was trying to ring changes on, and clinical depression, which I wanted nothing to do with. I called it "a thirsty leech on the soul," and I will stand by that. But a friend took issue with that, and when Joe takes issue with something, I listen up. It's a tricky point, but I think he was saying that clinical depression, while not something that you would wish upon anyone, is often part and parcel of genius, and in that grotesque sense it may be worth the pain. I am not won over, but I know what he means: there is a long tradition of the brooding genius who, at an awful price, transmutes his (or her) pain into great art. This was almost the defining philosophy of the Romantic period and after, and across all the arts. And it isn't restricted to that flamboyant era. If a telltale risk for a depressive is suicide, I can think of at least three more recent writers who did themselves in—Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath, and, just three years ago, David Foster Wallace, an enormous talent who, according to reports, deliberately went off his meds and gave up.
E.A. Robinson makes a nice distinction, I think: Eben Flood, sad, will nonetheless keep on drinking; Richard Cory, clinically depressed, puts a bullet through his head.
Despite a generally happy life, I was clinically depressed at least once. It had an external cause, something to do with my job, but I was most emphatically not just blue or sad or angry. Instead, it was like swimming in molasses or trying to sail a little boat on a becalmed pond. I could not concentrate, could not focus. I had a big job to prepare for, but my imagination and my drive were absolutely shot. Desperate, I would spend a whole day in my office or in the library, but mostly just wandering aimlessly through the stacks. I would scribble out a few sentences of an idea on a note card and then tear it up and throw it away. Again and again I did that. My doctor put me on Paxil, which just made me spacey as well as depressed. And sleep most certainly did not knit up that damned raveled sleeve. As summer became fall and things got busier, the depression slowly broke up like morning fog. But what I experienced for those four or five months I would not wish on my worst enemy.
A couple of observations. I have never been accused of genius. (My IQ is respectable, but hardly off the charts.) I am just an amiable old party who likes to string words together and, on a good day, maybe channel E.B. White. I talked the other day with a friend who lived through a rock bottom year in college, the symptoms the same as mine. But like mine, it was an isolated episode. He's been fine for years and will probably stay so. The second observation is that there is depression like mine and his—one-shot episodes with obvious causes—and then there is life-long recurring depression, something which does not so much afflict a person as be a part of that person, springing from early trauma, chemical imbalance, heredity, or whatever. Virginia Woolf . David Foster Wallace. Ernest Hemingway. Vincent Van Gogh. Between Shea and Van Gogh the difference both in suffering and in art is incalculable.
But did Van Gogh's madness make for his great art? In other words, what about that hypothetical connection that we raised a few paragraphs back? A quick survey of the psychiatric literature suggests that the jury is still out. There have been artists who have led serene and happy lives, though they seem to be the exception rather than the rule, so there may be something to the connection. On the other hand, there is a nagging suspicion that artists—or we, their acolytes—are only too happy to propagate this myth of the tortured genius. By what perverse logic should depression, madness, somehow become a merit badge for us to pin on our heroes? This view implies, also, that your plumber or your accountant or the kid flipping burgers at McDonalds could not possibly be a victim of depression, and yet this is not just patently untrue but deeply (and perversely) condescending.
I'd better stop now. I'm beginning to feel lower than whale shit myself.
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Persistence seems to be the name of the game for the Socialmatic camera.
Just recently, Socialmatic LLC announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with C & A Marketing Inc., which grants rights to produce and market cameras and accessories under the Polaroid brand.
That's a big deal because Socialmatic is an idea that's been bubbling near the surface for several months but has never been able to get off the ground. With help from the Polaroid name, potential buyers might finally see the camera go from concept to reality.
"It's been really hard, believe me," says Antonio De Rosa, the project founder.
De Rosa, who is from Italy, announced last May that he wanted to build a camera that would allow users to take pictures, apply Instagram-like filters in-camera, and then upload those photos to the web or instantly print them out like a Polaroid. He ran an Indiegogo campaign to fund the project but raised just a fraction of his $50,000 goal.
Then in September we reported the Socialmatic might have new life because De Rosa, and his company, ARD Studio, had found a private investor and business partner for the project. We expected to know the names of his partners soon after the announcement but De Rosa and ADR went silent for several months.
When interviewed recently, De Rosa would not go into detail about the new MoU, but says he hopes to have a definitive agreement soon and expects to have the camera in consumers' hands by the first quarter of 2014.
Along with the hardware, which will be called the Polaroid Socialmatic camera, De Rosa says Socialmatic plans to follow through with an Instagram-like photo-sharing app for both the iOS and Android operating systems. The Socialmatic camera will also be able to share the photos to other sites like Facebook and Instagram and each printed photo will have a QR code so that people can identify the photographer and start following them.
In past interviews, De Rosa said there would be two models to choose from, but now he says there will only be one. It will have 16GB of storage, an SD-HDC card slot, 3G and Wi-Fi connections, Bluetooth, GPS, an optical zoom, and an LED flash. For the paper cartridges De Rosa had said he hoped to be able to use the same ZINK, or Zero Ink, technology that Polaroid used to in its Z2300 model. He would neither confirm nor deny that in our most recent interview nor would he confirm the price, which earlier had been estimated at somewhere between $350 and $450.


In her book What Happened, Clinton lists a plethora of reasons why she lost the 2016 presidential election. At no point in the book or during the promotional tour that followed, did she square blame for the loss on herself. In an interview with Esquire, Senator John McCain went off on Hillary Clinton's embarrassing excuse tour.
You've got to understand that you can't rewrite history,' McCain said in an interview published Monday.
McCain had the Senate to fall back on when his presidential aspirations went belly-up.
Hillary had only a series of sympathetic TV interviews and her book tour.
McCain suggested she got back on the horse too quickly.
'This is Hillary's problem right now: She doesn't have anything to do,' McCain said.
If there is somebody who can emphasize with Clinton, it's McCain. The Arizona lawmaker got his behind handed to him by Obama in 2008. Yet, even he's not buying Clinton's excuses.
Once you've lost support from the anti-Trump RINOs, it's time to pack it in, Hillary.
"Even Trump hater John McCain is tired of Hillary's whining about losing the election," tweeted Paul Joseph Watson.
"She made a connection between Mr. Obama and what she called her biggest gaffe of the campaign: telling voters in Ohio, we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," writes Mark Landler in the New York Times.


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Atomic clock scientists suggest shortening minute to 59 seconds
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NY Post ^ | January 5, 2021 | Hannah Sparks
Data shows our former 24-hour daily rotation is decreasing incrementally, making the day marginally shorter. For example, Sunday lasted only 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59.9998927 seconds, according to TimeAndDate.com. And though the planet's rotation rate may speed up or slow down slightly from day to day, due to natural terrestrial and celestial alterations, astronomical calendar trends indicate that recent years have become shorter overall. Case in point, 2020 beat 2005's shortest day 28 times, and 2021 is slated to be about 19 milliseconds short of a typical year, with an average daily deficit of 0.5 milliseconds. The world's clock...
Leap Second on Saturday Will Cause 61-Second Minute ("missed it by *that* much!")
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Space.com ^ | 29 June 2012 | Joe Rao
The transition from June to July will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone's control. Time will stand still for one second on Saturday evening (June 30) because a "leap second" will be added to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks. International Atomic Time is a very accurate and stable time scale. It is a weighted average of the time kept by about 200 atomic clocks in over 50 national laboratories worldwide. Atomic time is measured through vibrations of atoms in a metal isotope that resembles mercury and can keep time to within a tenth of a billionth...
Obama's last-minute virtual weigh-in on the Wisconsin recall
06/05/2012 10:18:10 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 16 replies
latimes.com ^ | June 5, 2012 | Melanie Mason
Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin has been imbued with national consequence, with many political watchers declaring the outcome could have significant implications for November's presidential race. So how has President Obama weighed in? On Twitter. "It's Election Day in Wisconsin tomorrow, and I'm standing by Tom Barrett. He'd make an outstanding governor," Obama wrote Monday night, capping the Tweet with the "-bo" signature that denotes a "personal" tweet from the president himself. It was the only time the president personally has voiced support for Barrett, the former Milwaukee mayor seeking to oust Republican Gov. Scott Walker, since Barrett won the...
UHP boss: Troopers won't enforce SB81
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West Valley City » In what might be the most symbolic setback yet for the state's new immigration law, the director of the Utah Highway Patrol says troopers will not be certified as immigration agents. "We are concerned about traffic safety and also ensuring that all people have a safe and secure environment in Utah," Utah Department of Public Safety Director Lance Davenport said Wednesday at a Latino town hall meeting here. "And that includes you."
Do we need a freeper minutemen`s squad?
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I`ll keep this brief.I think we need a freeper minutemens squad that`ll be ready to respond to any october suprises,ours or their`s.We need freepers willing to compile and share a listing of links to freindly media,talk radio,Fox Cable,web sites and anyone who`ll listen(individuals excluded).When our side hits,we respond with support.When the Rats hit we counter with facts and criticism.What do you,my fellow freepers,think of the idea?Comments,both pro and against are welcome.
Britons Go Bust At rate Of One Per Minute
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Britons go bust at rate of one per minute By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 05/08/2006) One person is falling victim to insolvency every minute of the working day and home repossession applications show the biggest rise since the early 1990s housing crash. Many are finding it impossible to pay record gas and electricity bills The Government figures issued yesterday, 24 hours after the Bank of England raised interest rates for the first time in two years, show that more and more families are being caught up in the ballooning debt crisis. Experts said that many families were finding it...
BP nabs alleged gang member
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TUCSON - A Mexican national with an extensive criminal history in the United States, who said he is a member of a Mexican gang, was taken into custody Sunday by agents from the U.S. Border Patrol's Naco Station. Arrested was Eulogio Soriano-Vasquez, 30, who was apprehended after crawling under the border fence west of Naco. He was taken into custody with a small group of illegal immigrants who tried to enter the United States around 6 a.m. During his processing, it was discovered Soriano had been arrested for the possession and sale of cocaine in Palm Beach, Fla., in March...


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Acting on a tip-off a joint team of forest and police personnel led by the beat officer of Mangaldai (Territory) under NK Forest Division, Jatin Bora on Monday, conducted a raid in Bhakatpara Kacharigaon village under Dhula Police Station of Darrang district where they busted an illegal sawmill reportedly running for quite a few days in connivance with a section of corrupt police and forest officials.
The joint team seized the set of the mechanized saw and power generator worth around Rs 1 lakh.
However, the owner of the illegal sawmill managed to escape before the arrival of the team.
It may be mentioned that in a joint operation launched by the Forest Division of Dhubri and Parbotjhora Divisions on April 2, 2018 seized equipment and timber logs from four illegal sawmills operating in Bhelkhowa and Boraibari area under Parbotjhora Forest Division in the Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD).
All four sawmills which were being operated in the areas illegally were dismantled by the field staff members of duo forest divisions, informed by the official of Parbotjhora Forest Division.
The official said that these sawmills were functioning illegally in violation of sawmills rules.
Soon after coming to know about the operation, all the working staff members engaged in the mill managed to flee from the spot while the parts of sawmill like wheel, motor, saw band and timber worth Rs 10 lakh were seized by the forest team.
While contacted, A Sundar, District Forest Officer of Parbatjhora Forest Division said that a joint team from Parbatjhora and Dhubri launched a drive against the illegal sawmill operated in the locality and seized the woods worth Rs 10 lakh and also machines used in the site.


A unique and modern communications and member engagement policy.
The UK Chamber of Shipping have been pressing forward with a unique and modern communications and member engagement policy. Omni have worked with the communications team on some interesting challenges around the status of web technology within the shipping industry.
At the beginning of our relationship, we realised that the Chamber's data publishing requirements, had outgrown those on their previous site. This change was influenced largely by the new communications policy, in particular with regards a shift towards greater transparency plus the need to give more streamlined communication controls to the management team.
We embarked upon a rebuild from scratch - conveniently this also meant that we could reinvogorate the design, which had previously slipped behind developments made to the Chamber's print branding. Gone was most of the member's area functionality in favour of an open-by-default publishing approach. In came a single interface for managers to publish Chamber materials, populate a document repository, run mailing list campaigns to committee members.
Two choices were made at the beginning which in retrospect proved to be very successful. The first was a technology choice: Wagtail - the elegant new CMS built on Django. The second was methodology: the Chamber team agreed to let Omni run the project using purely Agile techniques.
The Chamber had only run digital projects using Waterfall before, so this was quite a leap of faith on their behalf. The working methodology developed over time, but ultimately it is largely the same today, several projects forward.
Wagtail itself was very well received by the Chamber staff - in particular its ease of use and friendly editing experience. From a training perspective, too, it excelled - it was simply easier for the Chamber project team to learn and then train the wider communications staff than any other system they had used previously.
With a successful re-launch out of the way, the Chamber could begin to focus its efforts in improving the management of its member communications.
We started by building a system which allowed them to dynamically match the membership of users of a particular committee to a relevant mailing list handled by our chosen provider, Mailchimp. This dramatically reduced the burden on Chamber administrators, as Chamber members could declare their interest in a given committee in one place, and our system would add them to the relevant documentation access list in the Library as well as include them on the automated circulars.
Once this was completed, we built a function which allowed the Chamber to effectively go to its members and help them approach the web in a more modern fashion. The Chamber is now able to 'host' any one of their member or partner organisations' sites on the back of the Chamber's own. Any such partner site, crucially, has a strict separation of data at the database layer, meaning that their own user's data was kept separate from that of the Chamber's, and it also boasts a brand identity and theme of its own.
The benefits of this to the Chamber's partners is clear: they are able to learn lessons from the Chamber's own digital experience, and leverage a strong technology stack to promote themselves and their core operations. But it is also a cost effective offering - this 'stronger together' approach reduces the up-front back-end development costs; the hosting fees per month; and the yearly cost of keeping software up-to-date with security releases.
This was by no means an easy project. The initial results have been encouraging with the launch of Maritime UK.
We are currently working with the UK Chamber of Shipping on three long-term projects, which are rolling out over the next 6 months.
The first is to produce a beta-test of a member knowledge-sharing service, an internal-facing reddit-style link and information sharing service to foster and encourage member discussion and co-operation outside of the Chamber's regular events. Following this, we are looking into producing a series of indexes of data gathered from the community which will be used to enhance public debate. Crucially, this will also involve production of an automated system to curate and process the raw source data.
Finally, we are preparing to create a management dashboard to help the Chamber's events staff manage, run, and analyse their day-to-day work - with the aim of streamlining their efforts and increasing their efficiency.


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Everything you need to know about aerial photography
Nov 9, 2022 by Sonia Klug 2 Comments
Aerial photographs can not just convey a lot of information with one picture, but also tend to lift the spirits. There is something very special about the birds-eye view, which inspires photographers and viewers alike. Chandler Borries is a US travel, outdoor, and aerial photographer based in Lisbon. He started shooting aerial photography while traveling in Australia and says,
Since I was young, I wanted to learn how to fly. The perspective from above always intrigued me. I love telling a story with a drone as it gives you a different perspective and worldview.
Captivating photo of a volcanic fissure wins Drone Photo Awards 2022
Aerial photography gives us a unique perspective even on the scenes that we see every day. But when they capture powerful moments like volcano eruptions and fissures, they make us gasp in awe.
The Drone Photo Awards contest has shared its 2022 winners, and the overall winner shows a volcanic fissure captured from above. It was shot in Iceland and portrays a secondary fissure happening a few hundred meters from the main crater of Fagradalsfjall volcano during its eruptive phase in September 2021.
Photographer captures breathtaking canyons with a 150 MP Phase One IQ4 and a helicopter
Jul 18, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment
I find canyons and gorges to be among the most breathtaking places to visit and photograph. They're as beautiful from a viewpoint as they are from air, and photographer Mitch Rouse sure proves it in his stunning aerial images.
While drones are easily available today, Mitch chooses a more complex, and I'd say braver method for taking his aerial shots. Pairing a Phase One IQ4 with his passion for photography and flying, he takes mesmerizing photos from up high. The series we chose shows the incredible beauty of canyons, and Mitch kindly shared the photos and some details with DIYP readers.[Read More…]
Aerial photo series shows massive solar plants in the US and Europe
Apr 4, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment
When we step back and take a look at the bigger picture, it's easier to see any situation more clearly. It's similar to aerial photography: when you go up there and see the bigger picture from above, you'll see so much that's impossible to see from the ground.
With his work, German photographer Tom Hegen is the perfect example of this. He focuses on aerial photography that documents the traces we leave on the earth's surface. In his project The Solar Panel Series, he photographed massive solar panel installations from the air. Not only his project focuses on the human's impact on the earth, but the photos are exquisite and definitely not something you see every day.
Drone survives entering a volcano crater; then a tree nearly finishes it off
Nov 1, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment
We've seen quite a few close encounters between drones and active volcanoes. Some drones survived, some didn't, but this little DJI Mini 2 has quite a strange fate. It entered an active volcano and survived filming it without any trouble. But then, on its way back – a tree almost finished it off.
Drone captures surfers and great white shark swimming together peacefully
Most of us have been taught that sharks are scary and that we should fear them. But photographer Scott Fairchild shows us that sharks and humans can coexist in peace. He recently captured drone footage showing two surfers and a great white shark swimming near each other in perfect harmony.
Aerial tilt-shift timelapse turns Sarajevo's abandoned 1984 Olympic Village to miniature
Aug 16, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment
The 1984 Winter Olympics took place in Sarajevo, in former Yugoslavia (today Bosnia and Herzegovina). It was the first Winter Olympic Games held in a socialist state after many countries boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Although the Olympic Village in Sarajevo is abandoned today, it inspires artists and urban explorers. One of them is Joerg Daiber of Little Big World. Using a drone and a tilt-shift effect, he shot a timelapse of the grandiose venue in an unexpected way – he turned it into a miniature.
Drone saves spear fisherman from shark attack
Jul 23, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
While chilling on his balcony in Bondi Beach, Australia, drone pilot Matt Woods launched his drone to take some aerial footage. What he didn't expect was seeing a spear fisherman and a shark lunging towards him. Woods called the lifeguards and helped them prevent what could have been a shark attack.
Watch: Drone crashes into an erupting Iceland volcano while filming
Jun 1, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
The eruption of Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano attracted thousands of spectators this spring. Naturally, there were many photographers and filmmakers among them, so we've seen some epic footage and photos of the event. But Joey Helms' aerial video is probably the closest we'll ever see an active volcano. Joey flew his drone so close to the volcano that he literally crashed it into the exploding lava.
Aerial photographer sees landscapes as stunning abstract paintings
May 24, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
Aerial, landscape, and abstract photography fall within my favorite genres. And when those three are brought together – boy, that's a treat! If you like any of the three genres, Gábor Nagy is the photographer whose work you'll love. He sees and captures the astonishing beauty of our world with his drone, and often gives his photos painterly quality that will leave you speechless. For this article, I've chosen his aerial landscapes that look like abstract paintings, and they're truly a feast for the eyes.


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I saw two sets of footprints in the sand…And Jesus' were headed in the opposite direction.
Getting your church out into your community can seem like a Big Deal, especially if you're doing it for the first time. Between rustling up new volunteers, squeezing out extra money in the budget, and wrangling all the people who will complain that "we've never done it that way before", it can oftentimes seem like more trouble than it's worth; especially when it sometimes takes years of consistent effort before your church will see results.
Don't know where to start? Here are five ideas.
Where do people who are homeless gather in your community? Find that park (or parking lot), buy a few dozen donuts and a gallon of coffee, and hang out with them on a Saturday morning.
Contact your local family homeless shelter. Make homemade cards with messages of appreciation and encouragement, and send them to the residents along with cookies (even store bought are fine) and flowers.
Talk to a receptive school guidance counselor and find out what their poorest students need most. (It may be books, backpacks, or food for the weekend). Put together care packages for the students. Pray for the children whose lives you will be blessing.
Don't know much about your community? Find the local gathering spot (restaurant, cafe, gas station), and hang out there for a couple hours. Buy coffee for the next person behind you in line, and watch who comes in and out for a couple hours. Afterwards, use what you see as an opportunity for prayer.
Your Turn! What other 5/5/50 ideas do you have?
In One Hundred Words: Two sociologists study the Dones: people who are walking away from church, often after a lifetime of commitment. They examine the reasons why the Dones left, (e.g. judgmentalism, bureaucracy, inflexible doctrine, lack of meaningful ministry), how their exit is a result of their commitment to their faith, and what churches can do to bring them back.
Who Should Read It: Lifelong church people – both laity and pastors.
How Long?: A very easy, not-at-all-technical 140 pages.
Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope are not radical firebrands. They are restrained sociologists. They open the book with a detailed explanation of their methodology. They are highly respectful of their subjects, letting them speak in their own words as much as possible. They are careful not to draw sweeping conclusions.
All of this makes the picture they paint in Church Refugees that much more surprising and disturbing. The book is the product of hundreds of interviews with the "dechurched" or the "dones", people who "make explicit and intentional decisions to leave the church and organized religion." (14) They reveals that the dones are not the people many of us thought they were. These are not those who left because the pastor started using too much contemporary music or because their favorite knitting circle shut down. These are not the perennial church-hoppers, who change communities like other people change socks. The dones are deeply committed Christians: people who gave the institution their all ,often for decades, and who left because of their faith.
Church Refugees explores what caused the dones to make that decision. It groups their reasons into four chapters. First is "Community and Judgment", which explores the dones' deep desire to experience authentic, non-judgmental spiritual community. Second is "Activity and Bureaucracy" which describes the way that church structure actively prevented the dones from living out their calling. Third is "Conversation and Doctrine" which details the done's desire to have meaningful, honest, open conversations about faith and life where there isn't an orthodoxy that everyone has to unthinkingly adhere to. Finally is "Meaningful Ministry and Moral Prescription" which shares how the dones' experience that the church was more concerned with "policing personal morality" than healing society, especially in regards to poverty.
The stories are often heartbreaking. Among them is Kate, a passionate, extremely gifted Christian who wanted to start an art-therapy after school program.
As a church person, this book is a hard mirror to look into. Any long-time church person recognizes this behavior. Truth be told, we often perpetuated it. We tell jokes about it, excuse it as inevitable, and even actively defend it. It's become normal.
All those ugly stories that we sweep under the carpet? In this book, we hear all of them and are reminded that our justifications leaves bodies behind.
What if the dones are right?
What if much of what we call church is just a highly efficient way for us to hide from God?
What if the vast time and energy that we spend in maintaining our institutional structures is not really about faithfulness, but about choosing to leave hungry people unfed, naked people unclothed, sick and imprisoned people unvisited?
What if the dones are leaving, not because they're burnt out on church, but because they're brave enough to search for a true expression of church outside of the institution?
Perhaps the dones have not left the church, perhaps it is us institutionalists who have left the church, maybe even generations ago, and just never realized it.
In the end, the book left me wondering, do we really need to engage with the dones to get them back, or should we just follow them out into the future?
Then again, maybe that's a rabbit hole too terrifying to jump into.
 How many Methodists does it take to change a light bulb? One to change the light bulb, and three committees to approve the change and decide who brings the potato salad and covered dishes.
 See: Matthew 25:31-46. Jesus doesn't say much about worship services, committee meetings, or denominational gatherings.


(Dec 1, 2015) (TITC) – On 26 November 2015, in Ha Noi, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Thien had a meeting with Vice President Cruise Operations at Genting Hong Kong Limited, Mr. Raymond Lim.
(Nov 25, 2015) (TITC) – Visit Viet Nam Year 2016 – Phu Quoc - Mekong River Delta with the theme "Exploring Southern Land" is a typical cultural-economic-social event with national scale hosted by Kien Giang in coordination with localities in the Mekong River Delta region, Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang City, provinces of Thua Thien Hue, Lam Dong and Lao Cai.
(Nov 21, 2015) (TITC) – At the press conference held on November 17, 2015, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Vuong Duy Bien informed a wide range of activities to celebrate the 250th birth anniversary of Nguyen Du (1765-2015) – a national great poet and World Cultural Celebrity.
(Nov 20, 2015) (TITC) – From 23 - 27 November 2015, in Ha Noi, the Embassy of Argentina will organize Argentine Week in Viet Nam to introduce Argentine culture, music, cuisine, dance, films, photography and trade to Vietnamese people after the success of the first "Argentine Night in Ha Noi" in 2014.
(Nov 20, 2015) (TITC) – On Nov 16, 2015, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) coordinated with Kien Giang Province to hold a press conference on "Visit Viet Nam 2016 - Phu Quoc - Mekong River Delta" in Ha Noi.
(Nov 17, 2015) (TITC) – On November 12, 2015, at Viet Nam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Art, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Vuong Duy Bien presided a press conference to inform a series of activities of Mekong Delta Tourism, Culture Week which will take place from November 16-19 in Ha Noi Capital.
(Nov 14, 2015) (TITC) - To introduce French culture and strengthen friendship between Viet Nam and France, French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFV) in Viet Nam will organize "Beaujolais Nouveau" red wine festival on 19 November 2015 at Pullman Hanoi Hotel. This was official information provided by the Organizing Board at the press conference on 11 November in Ha Noi.


Malang – MMM's "Everything is Possible"
One of beautiful grand mosque (masjid jamek) in Batu.
Batu is a city located in East Java, Indonesia. Formerly, it was a part of Malang regency; but in 2001, Batu became an independent city with its own mayor and city council.
A population of 170,000 people, it mostly consists of Javanese and Madurese ethnics. The town used to be a recreation place for the Dutch colonial officers in the Dutch colonial area (before 1945).
Scenery view in residential area at Jl. Flamboyan, Batu.
Now you can only witnessed the wall bearing the marks of shots by team Densus 88 on Wednesday, 9 November 2005. Many people from Indonesia and Malaysia visited this place at Jl. Flamboyan II, A-7 Kelurahan Songgokerto Batu.
Batu tourist resort and the vicinity, offering a breathtaking view and a breezy atmosphere, is said to be the hill resort where tourists can take a' rest to regain freshness and new spirit. In the vicinity of Batu, scattering places of interest have so far attracted many visitors due to the distinctive features found in every tourist resort in the area such as: Songgoriti which is famous for its curative thermal spring, while Selecta is naturally famous for its swimming pool, impressive view of fruit market and fresh vegetables as well as flower kiosts along the street – side leading to the bathing side.
Pegunungan area where the weather a little cooler than Malang. You can find special grilled corn here and not forget to get hot coffee too.
A view of residential from Pegunungan area.
Accommodation and its facilities scattering here and there such as star hotels, inns, villas, restaurants, souvenir shops, streetside stalls, play – grounds and swimming pools are available. This fascinating tourist object of Batu is located approximately 20 km to the north from west Malang.
Scene inside a restaurat in Batu.
Pond of koi fish, with a chilly water free flowing from the hilly area.
Now food is ready. Its really delicious from "Lesehan Warung Bambu".
Apple drink. The famous drink produce of Batu, Indonesia.
Apple tree in Indonesia (especially in Malang) began to be known about the year 1908 before Indonesia proclaimed the independence. The Ducth was the first people who brought it, and rearched good areas for apple growing. Batu is one of them, and above all it is the most suitable. The first apple variety grown in Batu was Rome Beauty.
Malang is the second largest city in East Java province and the fourth largest city in Indonesia. It has an ancient history dating back to the Mataram Kingdom. The city population at the present time is around 1.5 million, and the population of the urban area is 2 million. The total population is therefore around 3.5 million. During the period of Dutch colonization, it was a popular destination for European residents. The city is famous for its cool air and the surrounding country regions of Tumpang, Batu, Singosari, and Turen.
The name of Malang is taken from a temple namely Malang Kucecwara. The name of the temple is now applied to the motto of Malang. Malang Kucecwara literally means God has destroyed the false and enforced the right. Location of the temple is supposesedly located near modern Malang. But in modern Indonesian, Malang means "unfortunate", it's not related to Malang's etymology.
Malang is served by the Abdul Rachman Saleh Airport, a domestic airport with flights to Jakarta.
Malang, one of the cleanest and coolest cities in East Java has, without any doubt, been famous since a long time ago. Historical remnants are scattered around Malang Regency showing that it has played important role in many eras.
The Regency of Malang borders on Blitar and Kediri Regencies in the West, Jombang, Mojokerto and Pasuruan in the North, Probolinggo and Lumajang Regencies in the East and Indonesian Ocean in the South.
Malang Regency has 7 Districts, 1 Administrative Town, 35 Sub Districts, 16 Ward Administrative Units and 390 Urban Villages.
Malang, which is noted as one of the most fascinating towns in East Java, lies 90 kms away to the south from Surabaya, the capital city of the province. It is really a nice place to stay. Malang has now become the educational, industrial, cultural as well as tourist centre.
A large number of schools, ranging from elementary and secondary schools to universities, indicate the town as an outstanding centre of education.Thousands of students from all over East Java and even those from other provinces flock to the town to study either in private or public schools.
Mosque AR Fachrudin in Universitas Muhammadiyyah, Malang.
In the mean time, a wide range of companies – some of which are the big Bentoel cigarette company which is quite popular among the ASEAN countries as well as European countries, Penamas cigarette company, coconut oil factory, 'Topeng' or Mask handicraft at the villages of Jabung and Kedungmonggo have become a familiar landmark in Malang Regency, showing evidently that the city is really an industrial centre.
As a centre of tourism, Malang has a lot of places of interest which are classified into local, regional, national and international standards, including traditional dance performances such as Tari Topeng (Mask dance), Jaran Pegon, Tari Beskalan (Beskalan Dance), etc.
Malang still has a lot of tourism objects that will attract you to visit it. Coban Rondo waterfall, Wonosari tea plantation, Wendit pool, mount Kawi, mount Bromo panorama, Coban Pelangi waterfall, Karangkates recreation park, and the others, are Malang's interesting places that presents their nature scenery.


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Pressure cooker bomb scare in New York
Bomb squad staff investigate the appliances. Credits: Reuters
Kitchen appliances resembling pressure cookers were left in two locations in New York's Manhattan, disrupting car and subway travel during the morning rush hour before police deemed them harmless.
The discoveries of the devices, which the city's chief counterterrorism officer called "rice cookers that could be mistaken for pressure cookers", raised concern because of the latter's previous use as makeshift bombs in New York and Boston.
Surveillance video shows a dark-haired man in his 20s or 30s with a shopping cart placing the devices at two locations inside the busy downtown Fulton Street subway station, said John Miller, the New York Police Department's deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism.
A man wanted for questioning. Photo credit: Reuters
"Because of the timing and the placement and items we're carrying this right now as a hoax device," Miller told reporters at the scene on Friday. "That's the investigative category."
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The unidentified man is "not a suspect but certainly someone we'd want to interview", he said. Police posted two photographs on social media of the cookers at Fulton Street.
Officials said they had not determined whether the discovery about an hour later of a third implement resembling a pressure cooker next to a garbage can on a street corner in the borough's Chelsea neighbourhood was related, Miller said.
Miller noted that in September 2016, the so-called 'Chelsea Bomber', Ahmad Khan Rahimi, wounded 30 people using a device made from a pressure cooker and a mobile phone timer that exploded on Manhattan's West 23rd Street. Another pressure cooker bomb was left nearby but did not explode.
Rahimi was sentenced last year to life in prison.
There was also an explosion in Midtown Manhattan in December 2017 when a Bangladeshi man, Akayed Ullah, detonated a homemade bomb in a pedestrian tunnel connecting two subway lines and a bus terminal. Three people were wounded.
Video shows moment of attempted terror attack in New York
Pressure cookers were turned into bombs by a pair of ethnic Chechen brothers when they killed three people and injured more than 200 at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
The discoveries, which were first reported at about 7am local time on Friday, created havoc for thousands of motorists and commuters on the numerous subway lines that converge at Fulton Street as police and bomb squad vehicles swarmed to the scene.
Even after police deemed the devices harmless at the Fulton Street station complex, which is close to the World Trade Center, officials warned of residual delays for commuters.


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Whitney Wolfe Really Wants To Overcome Tinder at Its Own Online Game
On a sunny might early morning in Ny, Whitney Wolfe smoothes the woman hair (wonderful) requires a sip of their iced java (black colored) and details over the leafy patio at a handsome guy sitting with a friend.
"You swiped inside your face just now," she claims. "So did I." Wouldn't it be good, she goes on, if there were a bubble over their mind listing their job and his awesome training? Wouldn't it is good if you could simply get up and state 'Hi?' And wouldn't it be good if there clearly was absolutely no way however imagine you're desperate or odd should you decide did?
Per year after she ended up being ousted from Tinder and nine period after she prosecuted the organization for sexual harassment, Wolfe is back with a dating application of her very own, dubbed Bumble. Basically, the app try an effort to answer their practice of issues above. It works the same as other online dating apps—users read pictures of more consumers, swipe best if they fancy whatever read, and get matched in the event the interest is common. But there's one vital huge difference: on Bumble, just people can deliver a note initially.
For Wolfe, 25, that key huge difference is mostly about "changing the landscaping" of online dating by putting ladies in power over the experience. "the guy can't say you're eager, due to the fact app produced you will do they," she states, adding that she informs this lady pals to make the first move and merely "blame Bumble." Suits end after 1 day, which supplies a bonus for women to attain aside earlier's far too late (the women-message-first function is only created for right couples—if you're LGBTQ, either party can deliver the most important content.)
Wolfe states she have always been comfortable making the first step, while she thought the stigma around are too forth. "i might say 'I'm just probably rise to your,' and all sorts of my personal girlfriends had been like 'Oh no no no-no, you can't do this,'" she says. "Guys found it become 'desperate,' when it wasn't desperate, it was section of a broken program."
Like other startup founders, Wolfe provides large dreams your solution: "It's maybe not an online dating software, it is a fluctuations," she claims. "This could replace the way men and women address one another, women and men big date, and females feel about on their own."
Bumble established about 6 months before and is apparently catching on. With around half a million people https://www.hookupdates.net/escort/west-palm-beach giving 200,000 information a day, it's raising about 15per cent every week, Wolfe says. Some 60per cent of suits become talks. While Bumble has not yet monetized and won't disclose the important points of their capital, Wolfe's companion and significant funder was Andrey Andreev, creator of Badoo, the multi-billion dollar European myspace and facebook. Their own Austin-based workplace features just six employees—and five ones is women.
Wolfe had been a co-founder at Tinder and commonly credited with boosting that app's recognition on college campuses. She is discharged in the midst of a breakup with Justin Mateeen, the service's fundamental marketer. This past year she submitted an intimate harassment lawsuit against the providers, alleging that Mateeen got publicly known as her a "whore," that then-CEO Sean Rad have ignored the woman complaints against Mateen's harassment as "dramatic," and therefore the lady male co-worker stripped the woman of her co-founder subject since they mentioned that having a female throughout the founding team would "make the business appear to be a tale." The suit ended up being after established from judge and Wolfe is reported to possess walked away with more than $one million, with no admission of shame by either celebration. Tinder is had by IAC.


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Argentine powers losing their way
Gregory Sica
When it comes to South American soccer, there's arguably no rivalry more bitter than the one between Argentina's two most popular clubs: Boca Juniors and River Plate. Between them, they have won an unprecedented 56 league championships, making them by far the two most successful clubs in the country.
Boca's and River's success goes beyond the domestic scene, as both also have won their fair share of international titles, including a total of eight triumphs in South America's most important club competition, the Copa Libertadores.
Both clubs have maintained success over the years with all-star rosters, thanks to their financial superiority over the rest of the Argentine First Division. It's no different this season. Boca boasts an incredibly talented squad that includes current and former Argentine national-teamers Juan Román Riquelme, MartínPalermo, Federico Insúa and Roberto Abbondanzieri. River counters similarly with Ariel Ortega, Marcelo Gallardo and Diego Buonanotte.
But despite the quality on hand, Boca and River have seen better days, not only domestically but also internationally. While both were rather surprisingly eliminated in the first phase of the Copa Sudamericana -- South America's second-tier international tournament -- against lesser Argentine clubs last month, they have also faltered in the current Argentine Apertura Championship.
Nine rounds into the season, Boca finds itself mid-table (five points behind league leader San Lorenzo), while River's problems are far more extensive -- los Millonarios are in 16th place, only two points from the bottom.
Such poor starts have put both teams at risk of missing out on the 2010 Libertadores, something they simply can't afford. The archrivals are keenly aware that perhaps the only way to salvage something from the season is by winning the Argentine Superclásico on Sunday at River's Estadio Monumental (2 p.m. ET, Fox Sports en Español; 6 p.m. on delay on Fox Soccer Channel).
Regardless of how well or poorly either club is doing, the grudge match is always regarded as the most important game on the Argentine soccer calendar. This version won't be the exception.
Los Millonarios may be the most celebrated team in the Argentine first division, but since winning the '08 Clausura championship, they're mired in the deepest crisis in their 108-year history. The drop-off led to the resignation of former manager Diego Simeone and, more recently, Néstor Gorosito.
Far beyond coaching problems, a combination of factors are at work, including poor management, internal conflicts and, most important, the fact that the club isn't producing or attracting quality players like it used to.
Over the last decade, River has boasted a host of well-known, world-class players such as Javier Mascherano, Gonzalo Higuaín, Esteban Cambiasso, Martín Demichelis, Pablo Aimar, Juan Pablo Sorín, LuchoGonzález, Santiago Solari, Javier Saviola and Andrés D'Alessandro. River also traditionally has attracted accomplished imports such as Marcelo Salas, Juan Pablo Ángel and Mario Yepes.
The quality of its squads was the reason for several titles over the past two decades. Since then, however, there has been a significant decline in youth production. In recent years, foreigners Alexis Sánchez and Radamel Falcao García have been River's best players. But because of the club's financial constraints, it couldn't afford to keep them.
River has lost a great deal of prestige, and the players it has recently purchased is clear evidence. Los Millonarios thought they had hit the jackpot when they beat Vélez Sársfield to the signature of Cristian Fabbiani this year, but the overweight striker has proved to be one of the worst signings in the club's history. Not only has he performed horribly on the field, but he has also been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons off it.
Instead of relying on its youth, River decided the best way to go was to sign experienced veterans who had found success at the club earlier in their careers. This paved the way for the return of club idols Ortega, Gallardo and, more recently, Matías Almeyda. But despite their past achievements, those three players don't have the legs to perform for a club of River's status, and all have been largely disappointing. While Ortega and Almeyda arrived after fighting it out in the Argentine lower leagues, Gallardo signed after a forgettable spell at D.C. United of Major League Soccer.
What was River thinking? It can't continue to rely on aging veterans if it intends to return to its glory days. Traditionally, River has been characterized for its fast, free-flowing soccer. Exciting players like D'Alessandro, Aimar and Saviola gave River a certain identity that not only was envied by Boca and its other Argentine rivals, but also by top European clubs. The volume of soccer on display was breathtaking at times, as River ripped apart its opponents with swift penetrating runs and crisp, short passing. With so many veterans on its roster today, however, that kind of soccer is a distant memory.
While River's problems are much too complicated to be resolved soon, the same can't be said about Boca's. Los Xeneizes won their third successive league match, against Tigre last Sunday, and seem to be on the right path to recovery. Ever since Alfio Basile threatened the club with his resignation after the defeat to Godoy Cruz at the Bombonera stadium last month, the six-time Libertadores champions have been in fine form.
The difference between Boca and River is the way the club is managed. Boca offloaded a few key players in the offseason to generate profit, including Rodrigo Palacio, Juan Forlín and Fabián Vargas. But instead of putting all of the cash from the sales into the bank, the club found adequate replacements. Results didn't appear immediately, but after some major setbacks, including Boca's Sudamericana elimination, the team has found its top form with excellent timing heading into the Superclásico.
One of the main reasons for Boca's revival this season has been the form of star veterans Riquelme and Palermo. After a slow start to the season, Riquelme finally has reached his peak, and the quality he's producing has benefited the entire squad. Palermo, who only last year contemplated retirement, has experienced some of the greatest moments of his career recently.
After being recalled to the Argentine national team by Diego Maradona following a 10-year absence, Palermo scored twice in a friendly match victory over Ghana and then scored Argentina's memorable injury-time winner in the crucial World Cup qualifier against Peru. Had the 35-year-old Palermo not been at his best for Boca, and had he not scored a spectacular header from 40 yards out against Vélez, perhaps he would have been overlooked.
Boca has an enormous amount of depth, and if it's able to defeat River at the Monumental as it did last year, it will revitalize its hopes of winning the championship. Such a thing seemed much too distant just a couple of weeks ago.
Gregory Sica: 10 Argentines who could follow Schelotto into MLS
By Gregory Sica
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Gregory Sica: Palermo chats about Argentina, Boca Juniors, MLS
Gregory Sica: Argentine clubs are losing ground in the Libertadores
Gregory Sica: Boca wins when it needs to, but a Copa repeat is no lock
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