Iraqi forces, supported by US-led airstrikes and special forces, advanced on Mosul from the east and the south on Monday in the first phase of a long-planned offensive to retake the city, which has been in the hands of Islamic State since 2014.
In this extract from The Age of Jihad (40% off until October 22nd), Patrick Cockburn remembers the original seizure of Mosul on the 10th of June 2014, and the days that followed.
Islamic fundamentalists have opened new fronts in their battle to establish an Islamic state across Iraq and Syria as they launch attacks in cities which were previously under the control of the Baghdad government. A multipronged assault across central and northern Iraq in the past four days shows that ISIS has taken over from the al-Qa'ida organisation founded by Osama bin Laden as the most powerful and effective extreme jihadi group in the world.
ISIS now controls or can operate with impunity in a great stretch of territory in western Iraq and eastern Syria, making it militarily the most successful jihadi movement ever. It has proved itself even more violent and sectarian than what US officials call the 'core' al-Qa'ida, led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is based in Pakistan. ISIS is highly fanatical, killing Shia Muslims and Christians whenever possible, as well as militarily efficient and under tight direction by top leaders. The creation of a sort of protocaliphate by extreme jihadis in northern Syria and Iraq is provoking fears in surrounding countries, such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, that they will become targets of battle-hardened Sunni fighters.
In Iraq in the past four days ISIS has fought its way into the northern capital of Mosul, sent a column of its fighters into the central city of Samarra, taken over Iraq's largest university at Ramadi and launched devastating bombings in Baghdad. The well-coordinated attacks appear designed to keep the Iraqi security forces off balance, uncertain where the next strike will hit. They started four days ago on Thursday when ISIS fighters in trucks with heavy machine guns stormed into the city of Samarra, which is mostly Sunni but contains the golden-domed al-Askari shrine sacred to Shia. Destruction of this shrine by al-Qa'ida bombers in 2006 led to wholesale massacres of Sunni by Shia.
The ISIS tactic is to make a surprise attack, inflict maximum casualties and spread fear before withdrawing without suffering heavy losses. On Friday, they attacked in Mosul, where their power is already strong enough to tax local businesses, from family groceries to mobile phone and construction companies. Some 200 people were killed in the fighting, according to hospitals, though the government gives a figure of 59 dead, 21 of them policemen and 38 insurgents. This assault was followed by an early morning attack on Saturday on the University of Anbar at Ramadi, which has 10,000 students. Ahmed al-Mehamdi, a student who was taken hostage, told a news agency that he was woken up by the sound of shots, looked out the window and saw armed men dressed in black running across the campus. They entered his dormitory, said they belonged to ISIS, told everybody to stay in their rooms but took others away. One leader told female students: 'We will teach you a lesson you'll never forget.' They turned the science building into their headquarters, but may later have retreated. On the same day, seven bombs exploded in an hour in Baghdad, killing at least 52 people.
Roads out of Mosul are choked with refugees heading for what they hope is safety in Kurdish-held territory. A university lecturer from a well-known family in Mosul says: 'Mosul has fallen completely into the hands of the terrorists. Everyone is fleeing… . We are also packing up to leave home, but we have no idea where to go.' Many of the refugees fleeing towards the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Kurdish capital Arbil are Sunni Arabs but they are likely to be joined by members of small sects and ethnic groups such as the Yazidis and Shabak, whom ISIS might kill.
Mosul is a majority Sunni Arab city and traditionally the home of many families that joined the Iraqi Army under Saddam Hussein. His defence minister was normally somebody from the area. Ever since the US-led invasion in 2003, control of the city by Baghdad has been unstable. In 2004 it was stormed by Sunni insurgents who captured most of it and held it for three days until they retreated after the US military appealed to the Kurds to send Peshmerga units to reclaim it. Could this happen again? The Kurds lay claim to large parts of Nineveh province though not to Mosul itself.
The ISIS success shows that the local Sunni political leadership has little influence since the governor, Atheel Nujaifi, only narrowly escaped from his provincial headquarters before ISIS captured it. What will the Iraqi government do now? It could counter-attack. In theory it has 900,000 soldiers under arms. But the Iraqi Army is more of a patronage system to provide jobs rather than a trained military force.
ISIS has grown swiftly in strength over the past three years under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It has become highly organised and controlled from the centre, but without becoming less merciless and fanatical. Its propaganda films frequently show non-Sunni Muslims being executed and its reputation for savagery may have helped demoralise the Iraqi security forces in Mosul. The resurgence of ISIS is also explained by the Iraqi Sunni being emboldened by the revolt of the Sunni in Syria in 2011. The Sunni uprisings in Iraq and Syria have combined into one crisis.
The capture of Mosul by ISIS is an earthquake in the politics of Iraq and Syria. Moreover, the impact of this event will soon be felt across the Middle East as governments take on board the fact that a Sunni proto-caliphate is spreading. The next few weeks will be crucial in determining the outcome of ISIS' startling success in taking over a city of 1.4 million people, garrisoned by a large Iraqi security force, with as few as 1,300 fighters. Will victory in Mosul be followed by success in other provinces where there is a heavy concentration of Sunni, such as Salahuddin, Anbar and Diyala? Already, the insurgents have captured the important oil refinery town of Baiji, with scarcely a shot fired, by simply calling ahead by phone to tell the police and army to lay down their weapons and withdraw. These spectacular advances would not be happening unless there was tacit support and no armed resistance from the Sunni Arab community in northern and central Iraq. Many people rightly suspect and fear ISIS' bloodthirsty and sectarian fanaticism, but for the moment these suspicions and fears have been pushed to one side by even greater hatred of Iraq's Shia-dominated government.
The fall of Mosul has changed the balance of power between Iraq's three main communities: Shia, Sunni and Kurds. Shia rule in non-Shia areas has received a blow from which it will be difficult for it to recover; Kurdish dominance in mixed Kurdish–Arab areas will expand; the 5 or 6 million Sunni Arabs will never be marginalised again. It is not just in Iraq that the balance of power is changing. The Iraq–Syria border no longer exists for most practical purposes. In Syria ISIS forces will become vastly more powerful because the movement can draw on fighters, weapons and money from its newly conquered territories in Iraq. The rest of the Syrian military opposition to President Bashar al-Assad will find it difficult to compete on the battlefield with ISIS if it manages to consolidate its recent victories.
ISIS is itself amazed by its spectacular victories this week. In a speech its spokesman, Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, says that 'enemies and supporters alike are flabbergasted' by its triumphs that he attributes to divine intervention.
Adnani is derisive about 'the Fool of the Shia. Nouri [al-Maliki]: Look at what you have done with your people, fool! You were always an underwear merchant! … Your people could have reigned supreme over Iraq, but you made them lose that opportunity. Even the Shia will curse you now.' This analysis, though rhetorical, is probably correct and many Shia today blame Maliki's leadership for the disasters that face them.
Overall, there is a strong sense that ISIS did not expect such a swift victory, recalling that only recently they had been subjected to 'imprisonment, torture, military raids.' Their houses had been occupied and they had had to take refuge 'in the mountains, in underground bunkers, in valleys, and in the expanse of the desert.' The flight of 30,000 Iraqi Army troops and police from Mosul in the face of 1,300 or so ISIS fighters seems to have caught the group's leadership by surprise, much as it did the rest of the world.
Again and again Adnani spits out sectarian hatred of the Shia. 'The Shia are a disgraced people,' he says, accusing them of being polytheists 'who worship the dead and stone'. The new war in Iraq could be even more savage than the horrors that went before.
Iraq is breaking up, with Shia and ethnic minorities fleeing massacres as a general Sunni revolt, led by ISIS, sweeps through northern Iraq. The ISIS assault is still gaining victories, capturing the Shia Turkoman town of Tal Afar west of Mosul after heavy fighting against one of the Iraqi Army's more effective units.
Pictures and evidence from eyewitnesses confirm that ISIS has massacred some 1,700 Shia captives, many of them air force cadets, at the air force academy outside Tikrit, showing that it intends to cleanse its new conquests of Shia. Sunni cadets were told to go home. If the battle moves to Baghdad, then the Shia majority in the capital might see the Sunni enclaves, particularly those in west Baghdad, such as Amiriya and Khadra, as weak points in their defences, and drive out the inhabitants.
In a misguided effort to sustain the morale of people in the capital, the government has closed down the internet. It had already closed YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. The excuse is that ISIS uses them to communicate, but this is extremely unlikely since ISIS has a more professional communications system of its own. Since there is little confidence in the news on government-run television stations, or provided by official spokesmen, the internet shutdown is creating a vacuum of information filled by frightening rumours that are difficult to check. The result is an atmosphere of growing panic in Baghdad with volunteers from the Shia militias being trucked to Samarra, north of the capital, to stop the ISIS advance.
Many civilians are leaving Baghdad and the better-off have already gone abroad. The head of an Iraqi security company tells me: 'I am off to Dubai on an unscheduled holiday to see my daughters because all the foreigners I was protecting have already left.' The price of a cylinder of propane gas, used by Iraqis for cooking, has doubled to 6,000 Iraqi dinars, because it normally comes from Kirkuk, the road to which is now cut off by ISIS fighters.
Rumours swirl through Baghdad. There was a report this morning that the whole of Anbar, the giant Sunni province, which normally has a population of 1.5 million, had fallen. But a call to a friend in its capital Ramadi revealed that fighting is still going on. A former minister last night told me that ISIS, unable to take Samarra, had switched its assault to Baquba in Diyala province, one of the gateways to Baghdad, but a resident denied there was fighting.


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I have attempted to create the custom control as a subclass of ItemsControl, and the binding then works, but I can't figure out how to know when an item is added to the control so that I can work on it.  I have also considered adding a DependencyProperty of type ObservableCollection to the control and then binding to it according to these instructions:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970563.aspx.  But setting it up that way doesn't allow me to bind to the DependencyProperty at all.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1, in 1891, at age 17-18 (the first two movements were completed while he was still 17; the third movement and the orchestration were completed shortly after he had turned 18). He dedicated the work to Alexander Siloti. He revised the work thoroughly in 1917.

Instrumentation
 2 flutes
 2 oboes
 2 clarinets
 2 bassoons
 4 french horns
 2 trumpets
 3 trombones
 Percussions
 String instruments
 Solo piano

Structure

The work is in three movements:

Overview

First version

This was actually Rachmaninoff's second attempt at a piano concerto. In 1889 he had begun but abandoned a concerto in C minor (the same key, incidentally, in which he would later write his Second Piano Concerto). He wrote Natalya Skalon on 26 March 1891, "I am now composing a piano concerto. Two movements are already written; the last movement is not written, but is composed; I shall probably finish the whole concerto by the summer, and then in the summer orchestrate it" He finished composing and scoring the piece on July 6 and was satisfied with what he had written. The first movement was premiered on 17 March 1892 at the Moscow Conservatoire, with the composer as soloist and Vasily Safonov conducting. This may have been the only time the composer played the concerto in its original form, although Siloti, to whom it is dedicated, programmed it to play himself on several occasions.

Composition students were usually advised to base their efforts on a specific model for their first exercises in new forms. In Rachmaninoff's case this was the Grieg Piano Concerto, which was a favorite work of his and one with which he had been familiar from  Siloti practicing it at the Rachmaninoff household during the spring and summer of 1890 for future concerts. Rachmaninoff adapted the entire musical structure of the outer movements to the Grieg concerto, literally building his music into it. With all his other concertos, Rachmaninoff would prove more enterprising.

Revision and current structure
The public was already familiar with the Second and Third Concertos before Rachmaninoff revised the First in 1917. The First is very different from his later works; in exchange for less memorable melodies, this concerto incorporates elements of youthful vivacity and impetuosity.

The differences between the 1890–1891 original and the 1917 revision reveal a tremendous amount about the composer's development in the intervening years. There is a considerable thinning of texture in the orchestral and piano parts and much material that made the original version diffuse and episodic is removed.

Of all the revisions Rachmaninoff made to various works, this one was perhaps the most successful. Using an acquired knowledge of harmony, orchestration, piano technique and musical form, he transformed the early composition into a concise, spirited work. Nevertheless, he was perturbed that the revised work did not become popular with the public. He said to Alfred Swan, "I have rewritten my First Concerto; it is really good now. All the youthful freshness is there, and yet it plays itself so much more easily. And nobody pays any attention. When I tell them in America that I will play the First Concerto, they do not protest, but I can see by their faces that they would prefer the Second or Third."

Selected recordings

Manuscript version
 Alexandre Ghindin, pianist, with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in 2001 (first recording)

1917 version
 Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist, with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded in 1941.
 Byron Janis, pianist, with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1957.
 Philippe Entremont, pianist, with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded in 1958.
 Sviatoslav Richter, pianist, with Kurt Sanderling conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in 1959.
 Byron Janis, pianist, with Kirill Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1962.
 Earl Wild, pianist, with Jascha Horenstein conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in 1965.
 Tamás Vásáry, pianist, with Yuri Ahronovitch conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1975.
 Peter Rösel, pianist, with Kurt Sanderling conducting the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, recorded in 1982.
 Zoltán Kocsis, pianist, with Edo de Waart conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1983.
 Vladimir Ashkenazy, with Bernard Haitink conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra, recorded in 1986.
 Mikhail Rudy, with Mariss Jansons conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in 1993.
 Krystian Zimerman, pianist, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1997.
 Nikolai Lugansky, pianist, with Sakari Oramo and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 2003.
 Stephen Hough, pianist, with Andrew Litton conducting the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 2004.
 Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist, with Antonio Pappano conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker, recorded in 2005.
 Boris Berezovsky, pianist, with Dmitri Liss conducting the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in 2006.
 Simon Trpčeski, pianist, with Vasily Petrenko conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in 2010.

Notes

References
Bertensson, Sergei and Jay Leyda, with the assistance of Sophia Satin, Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Washington Square, New York: New York University Press, 1956). Library of Congress Card Catalogue Number 55-10065.
Harrison, Max, Rachmaninoff: life, works, recordings (London and New York:Continuum, 2005). .
Neils, Eiger, notes for ONDINE 977, Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 1 and 4 (Original Versions); Alexander Ghindin, piano, with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Norris, Geoffrey, ed. Stanley Sadie, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 1980), 20 vols. .
Norris, Geoffrey, Rachmaninoff (New York: Schirmer Books, 1993). .

External links

Rachmaninoff's Works for Piano and Orchestra An analysis of Rachmaninoff's Works for Piano and Orchestra including the Piano Concertos and the Paganini Rhapsody

Piano concerto 1
1892 compositions
1917 compositions
Compositions in F-sharp minor


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The roaring twenties are a decade known for flapper dresses, The Great Gatsby, and illegal secret bars called speakeasies. Back then Prohibition was the law – preventing the sale, creation, or consumption of alcohol. So enterprising Americans opened bars in secret.
Looking back on the time period it's romanticized. The idea of illicit parties and forbidden drinks while listening to jazz music sounds fun, and perhaps not too dissimilar to some teenaged shenanigans you may have participated in.
Well, it appears history really does repeat itself, considering the 2020s have begun to see speakeasies cropping back up in New York City. Obviously alcohol isn't illegal anymore, in fact, sales have skyrocketed this year as people attempt to cope with the goings-on of the world.
However, public gathering is pretty forbidden these days, especially without a mask. Most people are doing their due diligence in staying home as much as possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but in a country which has a culture of strong individualism, there are bound to be people who decide to do whatever makes them happy.
While there are likely multiple places secretly opening doors for social gatherings to those in the know, the names of those places aren't public knowledge. If we did know, they likely would have already been shut down.
The only known modern speakeasy is La Boîte, a fancy nightclub in the Lower East Side. It's been said the bar and club is only opening for managers and lucky friends of said managers. To get in, you even needed to recite a password.
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I wasted 3 months & met more than 20 developers who showed interest in my idea. In the end we finally got a guy who said yes to join me. in a months time he asked 3 lacs rupees to develop the website (both mvp & website - version 1). When i asked why he need this he said he'll be needing 4 developers under him & he will just guide them, upon which i asked why he'll himself not be coding he said "he has his job & get very less time" so we finally decided to keep search going for cto.
after few more meetups we met a team of two (One UI girl & and a cto) both are childhood friends & be 24/7 together they call me to their place (I travel to their coworking 20 kms) & only meet after their freelancing jobs (Meetings only after 6:30pm once in a week as per their preference). They also are not willing to meet outside or do frequent sessions on the product, especially the guy does as the girl says. its been a 2 months now since we discussing & all they want to pivot the model and has not started single thing interns of development. When i asked the girl she should at least start deciding theme, fonts, color palettes or should start with some sketches, she says I will do it when it will be required. same goes with the tech guy I asked him to at least live the blog, same story.
They are also asking for the Cofounder agreement before work / equity too & directorship too.
So I'm confused shall i sign the cofounder agreement with them? or shall i give it to a agency / or shall i hire a developer & take a office space & ask him to come there & build. Me & my cofounder both are not from tech. what to do? Its High time now for me.
I have Idea & few sketches I know i dun have a roadmap or process flows and the screen by screen layouts. So we can tell them what we need but if they play clever with us we will never be able to understand the catch.
If we hire the developer again as i told you we both are not from tech background so we can face the same issue here too.
He has joined a job now. Even i have incurred loss & i'm already some debts, I'am married too & interest on me, if i join a job everything stops there & then.
what he says now. "That i'll not leave my job, i will give the extra time of mine, I will pay some amount in the company monthly contribution & i'll also not live in the flat too"
I thought we both take flat so we would be saving cost on space thing. I'am giving my 100% to this.
So my question is if he lets say starts putting some amount also, he will not get time to work in company timings, secondly he will earn so he can pay equal contribution & i have to arrange from my parents for the same. & even now company expense have to bear space too. so in short what should be done.
Is it I need someone who can take hard decisions like me? or am i lacking on something.
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1) If idea stage has proven to be tough, it will only get tougher when business kickstarts.
2) If you have already chose your friends wrongly, you will choose your team wrongly.
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5) Come back to start the project when you're in a better state of emotions, financials and absolute clarity on the different pillars needed to support a growing business.
Yeah Bro first search investor who would invest money in your idea. Not only that make team who knows more about your ideas and setup plan for making your project. I am also studying software engineering. I have a good team .first u have to share your idea with your team meets then only start work.


The banking industry is perhaps one where technology has made the most difference compared with a few years ago. This is clear with all banking applications – websites, smartphones apps, new and more advanced capabilities of ATM machines, and it's also true for customer service.
Banks need to serve their customer with an omnichannel approach, since customers have different preferences (web, chat, mobile...) and depending on where they are they can easily decide to move from one channel to the next.
Customer want access to their financial information and self-care 24/7, and it is a challenge for banks to keep the pace with the volume of requests, as well as the continuous update of rules and procedures, that are regularly changing according to new regulations and internal policies.
Conversational Virtual Agents represent a formidable first line of customer care, available 24/7, and easily scaling up according to the volumes of requests. The Virtual Agents can quickly adapt to any change in the procedures, keeping consistency over all the available channels.
Human Agents can then focus on the exceptions and on those areas of customer care where high levels of skill are required. Customer care team members then have more time for training activities to be ready to provide high quality advice to their clients.
Banks customer care needs to serve and handle multiple and different areas of knowledge, depending on the type of request, the level of authentication and the profile of the customer.
The service spans from general information regarding the services offered by the bank to financial advice; from self-care and financial operations to documents handling and contractual updates.
It is well known that the linguistic skills of a Virtual Agent are very much dependent on the domain it is trained for. Handling a multi-faced domain is normally a challenge for most of the cognitive services available in the market. IM.MIND provides unique features to handle multiple linguistic domains within the same service. This is particularly handy for the customer care of a financial institution, as the Conversational Virtual Agents are able to switch easily from one context to another and provide the highest performance each time.
Context awareness and consistency across multiple channels is always a challenge. To address it, IM.MIND, preserves the status of the interaction with the customer: if the communication was interrupted in the middle of a transaction, the Virtual Agent can pick up the same transaction from where it stopped, remembering the previous conversation.
This is true even if the customer contacts the service on a different channel, for instance with a phone call after a chat session.
Different user profiles, recent user activities, recent incidents, business decisions (like the decision to activate a promotion, cancel a service, etc.) are all valuable information that the Virtual Agent can consider to change the flow of the dialog and make the interaction with the customer more personal and effective.
A prominent Italian bank decided to explore the potential of the chat channel while its customers were visiting its website, considering it friendlier and less invasive than other ways of communication. They felt that customers would use chat more readily to initiate a conversation and clarify their needs before possibly escalating and continuing the conversation via phone or email.
Since the size of the workforce necessary to handle the chat conversations was a concern, the bank decided to act smart and allow Virtual Agents to handle the initial steps of communication with the customers and provide most of the relevant information.
They contacted Interactive Media, and the bank's chatbot was born. The virtual agents implemented with IM.MIND manage a huge service domain, ensuring the necessary level of quality in the interaction with the customer as well as the scalability of the chat service to cope with any fluctuation in the numbers of customers visiting the web site. Meanwhile, human operators monitor the service and will directly engage in communication with the customers when their expertise and human touch is required to secure the business.


Roc Nation, which Jay Z founded along with Jay Brown in 2008, is launching a "startup platform" called Arrive to invest in early-stage startups and help those companies build their brands.
New York-based venture capital firm Primary Venture Partners will be serving as a venture advisor to the fund and GlassBridge Asset Management will be providing "institutional and operational support."
There's no word yet on the size of the fund.
The news that Jay Z — whose real name is Shawn Carter — and Brown were planning to launch a venture fund was originally reported by Axios' Dan Primack last month.
With Arrive, Roc Nation plans to offer a slew of startup services beyond capital investments, and there are further plans to launch a later-stage fund in the future. Roc Nation also plans to expand its "social impact investing" later this year.
Carter has been investing in tech startups since at least 2012. Both Carter and Brown invested in Uber's Series B, according to Axios, and Carter has invested in three other startups: the high-tech-luggage maker Away, the nail-parlor company Julep, and the private-jet startup JetSmarter.


Home All Posts Locus of Control – Are you in control?
Everyone wants to know what separates winners from losers? One of the significant factors limiting the attainment of your vision is the degree to which you believe you are in control of your destiny. Your locus of control can be internal or external. You can have a combination of both but normally one will outweigh the other. So what are the differences between an internal Locus of Control and an external Locus of Control, and how can you identify them?
• External Locus of Control – listening to what you say, or your team members, when talking about your business and your life. If you hear things like, "I would have been successful but the economy turned sour" or "I got caught by a pile of bad debts so I had to close the business down" you or they have an external locus of control. People with an external locus of control blame the external factors for their failure.
• Internal Locus of Control – people with an internal locus of control feel that they can influence the issues around them. You'll hear them say things like "I misjudged the market so I put on too many people which ended up costing me a packet of money" or "I found that my skills weren't sufficient to handle the negotiation".
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Rhode Island increasing renewable resources
Per U.S. Department of Energy report
The Coventry wind farm. Photo courtesy of Rhode Island's Office of Energy Resources
According to a U.S. Department of Energy report, it appears that Rhode Island is aiming to substantially increase its renewable resources capacity, including wind power.
Gov. Gina Raimondo said that she is committed to increasing renewable resources to 1,000 megawatts by 2020. That's according to the U.S. Department of Energy, which told The Block Island Times that Rhode Island's potential wind capacity "is about 200 megawatts." Block Island Wind Farm developer Deepwater Wind is pursuing a wind farm project capable of producing 1,000 megawatts in an offshore leased siting area.
Alternative energy sources currently generate 100 megawatts of energy for the state's needs, 50 percent of which is wind energy. Other sources include solar photovoltaic, hydroelectric and biomass (organic material used as fuel) resources.
"Rhode Island leads the nation in offshore wind by being home to the nation's only commercial offshore wind farm, and also led the nation by adding the most distributed wind capacity in 2016," said Liz Hartman, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Energy. Hartman was referencing a 2016 Offshore Wind Technologies Market Report published by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in which it noted that Rhode Island installed 15-megawatts of additional wind energy in 2016.
"Of the 15-megawatts cited in the report, Rhode Island has nine 1.5 megawatt turbines in Coventry and one 1.5 megawatt turbine at Portsmouth High School, which all became operational in 2016," said Robert Beadle, Communications Manager for Rhode Island's Office of Energy Resources.
The DOE report notes that: "In 2016, Rhode Island installed 45 megawatts of utility-scale wind capacity," and that "Rhode Island legislators approved an increase of Rhode Island's Renewable Energy Standard from 14.5 percent by 2019 to 38.5 percent by 2035. On March 1, 2017, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo announced a commitment to increase the state's renewable energy resources to one gigawatt by the end of 2020."
(For reference, one gigawatt equals 1,000-megawatts, while 1-megawatt is equal to 1,000 kilowatts. Per the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. home uses about 940-kilowatt hours per month.)
When asked if Gov. Raimondo's goal of 1,000 megawatts (one gigawatt) for renewable resources was attainable by 2020, Hartman said, "Rhode Island currently has 101.6 megawatts of renewables, so getting to 1-gigawatt would require a tenfold increase." Hartman provided The Times with information noting that in May of 2017 wind energy has supplied about 50-megawatts of the state's renewables portfolio, with solar at 10-megawatts, hydroelectric at about 3-megawatts and biomass resources at 37 megawatts.
"Rhode Island's potential wind capacity, based on current wind turbine technology, is about 200 megawatts," added Hartman. "This maximum potential wind capacity could go up a bit in the future with technological advancements, for example, having bigger, more efficient turbines — a trend we're already seeing, but you would still need a good amount of deployment of other renewable resources to reach 1,000 megawatts."
Deepwater Wind has said its leased siting area located 18 miles offshore in federal ocean waters between Martha's Vineyard and Block Island has the capacity to produce up to 2,000 megawatts, or two gigawatts, of wind energy. The company anticipates building a large scale wind farm that could generate 1,000-megawatts and supply energy to 350,000 homes.
Under key findings in the report it states that: "Rhode Island led the nation in annual distributed wind power capacity additions, with 15 megawatts of newly added turbines used in distributed applications in 2016. This brings the state's total to 24.1 megawatts of distributed wind installed between 2003 and 2016." Hartman said that the 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm "is too new to have electricity generation data being reported to the U.S. Energy Information Administration."
At this point in time, about 95 percent of Rhode Island's energy supply is provided by natural gas and petroleum resources. "Rhode Island currently has a lot more wind than solar or hydropower, but these are all eclipsed by natural gas, which provides most of the state's electricity," said Hartman. A data table provided by the DOE (for May 2017), noted that 94.7 percent of the state's electricity was provided via natural gas and petroleum, while 5.3 percent comes from other renewable sources, 2.7 percent of which is wind energy.
As for distributed wind capacity, Block Island Power Company President Jeffery Wright said it was "great' that Rhode Island led the nation in most distributed wind in 2016. "The best form of any generation is right at the location where it will be consumed, and distributed generation does exactly that," he said. "It limits losses from transportation and offsets power company loads and peaks. The key to successful wind generation is location; both from a wind resource standpoint and aesthetic/noise standpoint."
"We are encouraged by Rhode Island's standing in the report as a national leader in offshore wind energy," said Beadle. "As host to the nation's very first offshore wind farm, currently generating 30 megawatts off the southern coast of Block Island, we see this project as a critical first step in launching the offshore wind industry in the United States. We remain hopeful that the federal government and states will enact legislation to incentivize the development of more wind farms as we seek to source more of our nation's power


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Back in October, I partnered with Amazon + Cotton Inc to style a look with pieces from the Fashion Delivered Collection. Yes that's right, Cotton Incorporated as in "The Fabric of Our Lives®". Cotton's Fashion Delivered Collection showcased at New York Fashion Week featured versatile, on-trend, and of course comfortable, cotton-rich looks.
This collection featured pieces perfect for all occasions. I had a lot of fun shopping the collection via Amazon. They had a whole splash page where visitors were able to watch screenings of the NYFW runway show and shop the looks you saw coming down the runway. I shared this via Instagram and Instagram Stories which is the best way to keep up with most folks nowadays. I'll never ever stop loving blogs but it's definitely quicker to share in the moment via Instagram.
Below you can check out the pieces I selected, as you can see the Endless Rose blouse is very versatile. You can dress it up or down. I wore it recently to a party with a mini skirt and it was a HIT let me tell you. I'll have to get around to shooting it in its full glory. My favorite part of this collaboration was discovering Australian brand Acler. You know the Aussies have been killing the fashion game for awhile but I still felt blown away by Acler. I've included some Acler pieces I'm lusting over below as well as different colorways for my Aquazzura flats.


The Wiegands: chasing your dreams.
I laid in bed last night with my heart pounding out of my chest thinking about all the people whose lives were changing this month with what I do with my job.
Off to a world we call our own"
Its scary to take leaps, to be vulnerable, to chase something.
What an honor it is to have a job that ignites dreams in peoples hearts. It births belief, changes lives and unlocks destinies.
Today with my kiddos I suddenly had tears streaming down my cheeks " mama what?!"… Happy tears!
The last week of the month is called the "end of the month hustle" which is a whole lot of cheering on people we love and a whole lot of happy tears. We have already OVER 500 people on my team flip ranks just this month and that number will grow drastically tomorrow, the last day of the month.
Thank you Lord, for placing the dream in our hearts. I'm humbled to be a part of something so so much bigger than myself. Thank you for every yes and for honoring each one.
3 1/2 years for me.
We had just moved out of our home, sold tons of what we owned. I was sitting on the edge of our bed in the One Bedroom we were all living in together while we waited to see what is next? I had been praying, what is my next step?
Where do you want me Lord?
Within a 24 hours period I got a text and 2 emails from 3 people who have no connection with each other and all 3 said word for words the same thing. And all 3 used the same bible verse. They all had the exact same message to me and all the exact same details.
"He has a plan for your family. He will bring it to you, no need to chase or pursue. He will bring it in His own time. BIG things, believe big, dream big, expect big, receive big and ask big!"
There was a lot of details in each that were the same. It left me alone on the edge of that bed with a lot faith that these words were true.
You are the light of the world. A town on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven.
I am grateful for all of you have said YES....who have taken the leap.
I am grateful that your stories are being written. What an honor to step back and watch the pen begin to write them out.
We have ONE life, what are you going to do with this one, beautiful, precious life you have been given?
This was my reality 5 years ago I share my story over and over because my hope is that something in it, will spark something in you.
No security, no direction, no financial freedom. Just prayers and hope that God had a plan for our family. and He did. Thank goodness His plans are way more creative and better than my own. Remember this is REAL and it can happen to YOU. Not just the girl next to you, YOU.


Sometimes you're lucky enough to read something that opens up a place inside you that was tight and closed before. You walk away from those words to a world with a bit more spirit and texture.
That's how I felt after I read this piece by Frieda Kipar Bay, an herbalist, mother, artist and educator who I've been lucky enough to cross paths with a time or two. She also happens to make wild-crafted, herbal syrups that the boys and I happily guzzle down when our bodies need them. So do yourself a favor, read this transporting story that Frieda is letting me share here, and then take some moments to check out Taproot Medicine, which is, like all things Frieda creates, a thing of raw, elemental beauty.
i happened to have put a bench in the middle of a robust little hummingbird's territory (calypte anna for you latin geeks). i've been visiting that bench in the overgrown wild garden for some time now – many seasons – watching him spin around me from tree to tree, singing at the top of his tiny lungs and fearlessly dive bombing anyone who dares to enter his home. but today something new happened. this funny little creature flew way up above me, so far!, and just when i thought he'd never come back he swooped down towards the horizon, disappeared, then reappeared on the other side of me with a loud warrior cry, and went back up towards the sky to do it again. he circled around and around, at first i actually thought another hummingbird was chasing him he was so fast to rebound, but no. it was just this one tiny being ferociously enjoying his very own roller coaster. i was completely exhilarated. then, he was done. back on the oak branch, chewing out his ballad of a song.
so when i go on a little hike to tend the mugwort patch, thin the hemlock, or prune the elderberry it's not just a pleasure stroll, or a harvesting trip, but a collecting of the medicine of belonging. if you don't know it, kat anderson's book tending the wild is a lovely informative read, as is braiding sweetgrass, by robin wall kimmerer.
from wherever you are on the earth right now, i wish you homecoming.


Most either hate or love speaking in public. For those that despise public speaking, they can learn to enjoy it when it is made easier for them. You can improve your speaking skills by reading these tips.
You should know your speech by heart. When you get to the point where you can give your speech at any moment, then you are ready to practice your overall delivery. Also, you can change the speech when you are on stage if you want.
Learn the material the best you can. While you will probably practice beforehand to memorize it, you sill need to know any data or facts that you could be asked about that are related to your speech. Depending on the type of audience and how receptive they are, you can weave in stories as you go along. In addition, you can rely on them during the question and answer period or during follow-up conversations.
Practice your speech once it's memorized. Work on issues where you lose your flow. Yoiu can also practice good breathing techniques as you speak. Leave time for interruptions like laughter and applause. If you can, try to practice using the podium and other equipment you'll be using when you make the real speech.
Become familiar with the venue in which you will make your speech. Test your voice in it to see how far it projects if you aren't using a microphone. Try out any equipment you will be using. Make use of visual aids. Figure out how much eye contact you must make.
Practicing is the most important part of speech preparation. Do this near a mirror so you can see yourself. You can also include friends and family in the audience.
Stay away from alcoholic drinks prior to speaking. You may think that you will be more relaxed. You do not want your speech to fall flat because you are too intoxicated to remember what you wanted to convey in your speech.
To speak well, you must have a thorough understanding of the topic at hand. Pick something that is interesting to you. Keep a conversational tone to keep the attention of your audience.
Prior to launching into your material, try to win over the crowd. Smile when entering the room, and you can try shaking hands if you're able. When you make a positive impression beforehand, the audience is bound to be more receptive to your message.
Make sure you practice your speech every single day. You will start to know the material very well, which should help you feel better about the speech as a whole. Make sure that you carry your note cards to the podium for back up should you forget your speech. That way, if there's a point you forget, you can make a quick glance at your notes to jog your memory.
Once your speech is prepared, practice it as much as you can until it's memorized. Use a mirror to view how your body language comes across. Ask for feedback from your family or friends as you practice in front of them. Good preparation ensures that you will make the best presentation possible.
It is important to speak with confidence in a clear voice when addressing large groups. If you can manage it, try to keep a water glass nearby while you speak. Avoid dairy and soda prior to your speech. They can make your saliva thick, and this can coat your throat with mucous that inhibits your speaking ability. Try drinking hot tea before you speak to get your vocal cords to relax.
If you know you will be speaking publicly, try to visualize the speech ahead of time. Visualize it and how the audience reacts to it. You can increase your confidence when you picture the audience clapping for you.
Don't wait until your speech is over to answer questions. If they have to wait, they may forget. Your audience will appreciate it if you let them speak out when a thought strikes them.
A great way to build rapport with the audience is by starting it with a story. It can be something hypothetical, news-related, or a personal story. By adding this human element, your audience will be much more engaged and will have more of a desire to listen and understand. Just make sure that your story does not offend in any way.
Prior to delivering a speech, know your audience. Each audience expects a different thing from you. For instance, colleagues may wish to learn from your speech. Friends may simply want to have fun. Know your audience and cater to them.
When you are nervous before you give a speech, imagine that you are a person in the audience. Do you think you'd make a big deal if your speaker made errors? Would this cause you to think the speaker was a complete loser? It does not need to be a big deal if you happen to make a mistake; you are likely your own worst critic.
Public speaking is something that you need to take seriously. Do your homework, refine techniques and make sure you're ready to give your speech. Know that you need to practice to become comfortable with speaking in public. Prepare the speech well so you will make memorable speeches. Use what you learned in this article, and your speeches can be great.
Try controlling pacing when speaking. It is not unusual for people to speak quickly when nervous. It doesn't matter how good the content of your speech is if the audience can't understand you. Slow down and enunciate clearly so your audience can understand what you're saying.
Before speaking, do some vocal warm ups. This will help a lot especially during morning speeches. If you don't, you may find that you'll start carrying a lot of tension in your vocal chords during the speech. This can make your voice crack and add a tinniness to your voice.
Many people tremble when they think of speaking in front of crowds. However, with key advice, this fear can be eliminated. The article above should have given you insight on what a reluctant speaker like you needs to know.


This enchanting adventure will have children spellbound as they follow Tulip, Willow and Lavender through the fairy garden, watch the magic and learn their dances step by step.
Along the way, learn fairy folklore and facts about each flower. Listen as Tulip, Willow and Lavender introduce the poems from the original Flwoer Fairies books by Cicely Mary Barker.
This programme contains live action, dances and music, enhanced with animated imagery, plus entertaining DVD extras including the charming baby Tulips' dance.
Remember, the more you learn about fairies the more likely you are to see one!


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Saudis in the worst squeeze play yet.
October 28, 2001 3:53 PM Subscribe
Saudis in the worst squeeze play yet. SA is in a triangulation of criticism from Afghanistan, from within the country, and from Washington. The fall of this Muslim regime, a US ally, with a horrible human rights record and repressive culture, the largest supplier of oil in the world, and huge supplier of contract business for the US, is not something to take lightly. Catch-22.
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BTW, for those who are suspicious: the Christian Science Monitor is a not a religious rag as the name belies. It is published by the The First Church of Christ, Scientist, but it is a veritable jewel of independent journalism and, thankfully, they publish everything online. They do their own reporting, no wire services. In my opinion, it has the best foreign news coverage of any US paper, with far less resources outshines the NYT.
posted by mmarcos at 3:54 PM on October 28, 2001
they had a boring interview with johnny depp the other day :)
posted by kliuless at 4:14 PM on October 28, 2001
The Monitor had the important story of senior Saudi clerics' recent fatwas against the royal family, which should be read on this topic, all the way back on October 12. The Economist just picked up the story and has it as fresh news today, with less background and analysis. I grew up in a family that subscribed to the CSM, and I think it's amazing how relatively unknown the newspaper has remained among those who would find its international coverage worth reading.
The CSM is updated once daily (like the NYT used to do, ca. midnight ET), and doesn't publish on the weekends. If you don't like the front page, you can survey the last week of their coverage here.
posted by Zurishaddai at 9:27 PM on October 28, 2001
If anyone wanted proof that the US cares more about maintaining its economic superiority over the world than promoting democracy and human rights, Saudi Arabia is it. I only hope that whatever follows the fat lazy kings is something closer to democracy.
posted by laz-e-boy at 11:45 PM on October 28, 2001
Someone's earned his cognomen here.
posted by y2karl at 1:06 AM on October 29, 2001
a recent New Yorker analysis of the Saudis:
> There is little that the United States can do now, the
> diplomat said. "The Saudis have been indulged for so
> many decades.They are so spoiled. They've always had
> it their way. There's hardly anything we could say that
> would impede the 'majestic instancy' of their progress.
> We're their janissaries." He was referring to the captives
> who became élite troops of the Ottoman Empire.
> "The policy dilemma is this," a senior general told
> me. "How do we help the Saudis make a transition
> without throwing them over the side?" Referring to
> young fundamentalists who have been demonstrating in
> the Saudi streets, he said, "The kids are bigger than the
> Daddy."
posted by jfuller at 6:40 AM on October 29, 2001
it's not just saudi arabia either:
In the Middle East, South and Central Asia, where the Bush administration hopes to achieve the greatest cooperation, most governments sit very uneasily. Extreme pressure by the United States on the political leaders of these nations places them in a bind. If they don't cooperate, they risk military retribution by the United States. If they do cooperate, they risk being overthrown or removed from office, or even assassinated by extreme elements in their own societies. A few examples illustrate this point...
what's a cognomen? :)
posted by kliuless at 7:46 AM on October 29, 2001
Many people in the Middle East -- and elsewhere -- strongly believe that the US policy is propping up the House of Saud -- the royal family who rule with an iron fist -- purely of out selfish, US interests. They believe that the 1991 Gulf war was to protect and preserve the Kuwaiti royals, another group of people who don't really care about human rights or their own subjects.
The problem is -- the alternative, especially for the US in particular, and the West in general, is worse. Forces who want to replace the currant regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere tend to be extremists. (Iran may be an exception -- where the moderate forces have the backing of the majority, but the conservative Mullahs dominate the military, police and the courts). Therein lies the US foreign policy quandary.
The Saudis may feel squeezed -- or triangulated -- but what is the alternative? If the US pulls the troops out of Saudi Arabia, then bin Laden et al have won, and we certainly DON'T want that, do we?
posted by Rastafari at 8:07 AM on October 29, 2001
Certainly we do not want bin Laden to win by having the Saudi monarchy fall, but with their legitimacy dropping every day, what is the US and the Muslim world doing to insure a stable alternative? I think the US should encourage nascent efforts from within the Muslim world, one that promote democracy, freedom, etc.
posted by laz-e-boy at 9:02 AM on October 29, 2001
Cognomen.
Both status quo and alternatives look dangerous.
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	[2016/4/12] IsNullOrEmpty()
		null か空かは区別できたほうがいい・・・と思う。
		安全管理的には、null は null のままにして値が変なことを知れたほうがよい。
*/
#include "../Internal.h"
#include <Lumino/Base/StringRef.h>
#include <Lumino/IO/PathName.h>
#include "../Text/UTF8Encoding.h"
#ifdef LN_OS_WIN32
#include "../Text/Win32CodePageEncoding.h"
#endif

LN_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
template<>
int GenericStringRef<char>::CopyToLocal8Bit(char* dest, int destLen) const
{
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}
template<>
int GenericStringRef<wchar_t>::CopyToLocal8Bit(char* dest, int destLen) const
{
#ifdef LN_OS_WIN32
	CPINFOEX cpInfo;
	BOOL r = ::GetCPInfoEx(CP_THREAD_ACP, 0, &cpInfo);
	LN_THROW(r, Win32Exception, ::GetLastError());
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	size_t byteUsed = 0;
	size_t charUsed = 0;
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	dest[byteUsed] = '\0';
	return byteUsed;
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		dest, destLen, Encoding::GetUTF8Encoding(),
		&result);
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	//dest[byteUsed] = '\0';
	//return byteUsed;
#endif
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	//if (len < LN_MAX_PATH)
	//{
	//	std::wcsrtombs(dest, &wstr, mbstr.size(), &state);
	//}
}

// テンプレートのインスタンス化
template class GenericStringRef<char>;
template class GenericStringRef<wchar_t>;

LN_NAMESPACE_END

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The FM Church officially registered in Ukraine as "Mayak Nadii," which means "Beacon of Hope." This registration allows the mission team to carry out a multitude of religious activities anywhere in Ukraine.
The church in Rivne is based on simple, easily reproducible concepts. The strategy is to go out, develop new relationships, and disciple new believers under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. One new ministry seeing success is the Lighthouse of Hope Rehab Center. Over 30 men have gone through the six month residential program, getting victory over their addictions or posttraumatic stress disorder and learning about God' goodness, grace and power. The work in Ukraine is currently led by a dedicated lay couple, Misha and Lena Petrochenko.
The Wenatchee, WA, Free Methodist Church began sending doctors and dentists to Rivne in the early 1990s through Ukraine Medical Teams. These teams served as the medical staff during children's camps at a large state-operated facility. All children attend one of these camps at least once during childhood. The city government then requested that the Free Methodist Church begin a long-term work in Rivne.
the work of addiction recovery at the Lighthouse of Hope Rehab Center, for those in recovery to know the power of Christ in their lives.


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In this article I'll explain how to use the table values of the CSS display property to format certain sections of a simple three-columns layout. The final layout is shown in the picture below.
The first two rules give a basic formatting to our header. We've set a height in ems and a minimum height in pixels. The latter equals the height of the background image that we'll use as a banner. A minimum height gives a full visibility to our background image even when the user decreases the base font size or when the specified font used on the page is not available. The last declaration of the first rule creates a new context positioning through the value relative of the position property. Thanks to this declaration, we can absolutely position our navigation menu by taking the header section as a reference and not the whole viewport. Then we want to get rid of the heading's text, since it must be replaced by the background image. We use absolute positioning with an enormous negative value for the top property. This value will actually make the text disappear from the page.
Then comes our navigation menu. The first declaration of the third rule turns our unordered list into a table. Since we're working now with tables, we should be sure that there will be no extra space between the cells. For that reason, we use the border-collapse property set to collapse. By doing so, the borders of the single cells will collapse to form an unique border. Tables can be floated and absolutely positioned, since they're actually block-level elements or, more precisely, elements that work in a block-level formatting context. Our menu will be absolutely positioned on the right and with a left border. Its height will equal the height of its container, while its width will be 15% of the container's width.
Finally, we create the table cells in the fifth rule by declaring display: table-cell on the a and strong elements. The border of these cells will collapse to form an unique border, as said above. The width of the cells will be 100% of the total, plus a 0.3em of left and right padding. In case you're wondering, the content of the cells will not overflow its container because of the type of table layout set on our menu. Tables can have two types of layout, controlled by the table-layout property: auto and fixed. The first value is used by default on all tables and it's used also on our menu. With this value, the global width of the table will be determined by the width (and the content) of its single cells. In other words, we have a fluid table that will expand automatically together with its cells.
Again, we've turned the outermost container into a table and its children into table cells. The vertical alignment of the text is controlled by the vertical-align property. The width of each element can be adjusted in order to satisfy particular needs. In this case, we could change the value 40% with 60%, since the content of a date doesn't require so much space.


Tieto - Open source culture – what does it mean to me?
Open source culture – what does it mean to me?
Digitalization is slowly reaching the majority of businesses also in the Nordics. I have been working on the front line of these changes, witnessing how hard it is to adapt to the changes that digitalization brings within the organization with new thoughts, tools, and ways of working.
My experience of Nordic companies is that digitalization as a concept is already well known, but the adaptation process is still taking its baby steps. This is also indicated by the latest Cloud Maturity Index Survey (published by Tieto and Radar), which shows that Nordic companies are early pioneers of cloud computing services, but few use the technology beyond cost cutting.
I have been very keen to understand the reasons for why it is so hard to recognize the need to change and to act before competition does. Why do we accept the cap of lost revenue by letting the markets change without being able to adapt to the fundamentals in the era of digitalization?
In my opinion, it is difficult for us as a human beings to accept one of the core thoughts of digitalization – one must accept the fact that someone is doing the job better, cheaper, and with more experience than you would ever be able to do by yourself. Within the Nordic market area, where we are used to knowing our customers, markets, and competition relatively well, it is not easy to understand why we should interact with each other, change our competencies, and invest in the unknown. The answer is very simple: because we have to. As the change within digitalization is not led by ourselves (let's finally admit it – the Nordic region is not the center of digitalization, even though we have some great success stories) we need to find our success factors, both as companies and individuals.
If this is not an easy concept to understand and adopt at the corporate level, how on earth can we transform our own ways of thinking?
It means that we need to understand that someone is also doing my job better, cheaper, and with more experience. I can't fight against that change, so the only way I can succeed is to adapt to the era of digitalization, open up everything I have ever learnt about customers, markets, competition etc. and align this knowledge with other individuals that know even more than I do. This "leap into the uncertain" is not easy for most of us, but without actually changing (and not only speaking about it), one has already lost.
I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of an organization which has already adapted to this way of thinking in its core strategies. At Tieto, we call this thinking "Open Source Culture". As much as it challenges the existing ways of working and thinking, it also encourage us to show our expertise, challenging our peers and ourselves to perform better at all times. I truly believe this is the only way we can change the mindset in the Nordics from being the early pioneers to actually making a difference, not only locally, but within the global markets as well.
I really encourage you all to read through the statement of "Open Source Culture" below and join me and my colleagues at Tieto in the debate about making the Nordics a global outperformer.
"At Tieto, we have a good reason to wake up and come to work each day: we are committed to developing enterprises and society through information technology. It's a huge task. Luckily, we have talent. Lots of it.
There can be no creativity without freedom and trust. We trust in the knowledge of our people, instead of telling how we should think, act or look like. We believe in exchanging ideas, dreaming out loud and simply having passion for our customers' success. We gain results by being the first ones to cross the finish line – and the last ones to give up. Every victory for our customer is a victory for all of us.


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This week on CCTV
Cambridge Uncovered - Is Cambridge Cycle-Safe? Strategies for ensuring traffic safety are necessary for every municipality. The July death of cyclist Dana Laird in Central Square is a tragic reminder to Cambridge that these strategies should constantly be evaluated and improved. This month on Cambridge Uncovered sit in on a roundtable discussion between city officials and bicycle advocates as they explore the issue of traffic safety in Cambridge. Funded by the Kellogg Foundation, Cambridge Uncovered is CCTV's public and cultural affairs program.
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Minority Families in Cambridge Hurt by FCC Decision
As a result of a recent ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), linguistic minority families in Cambridge are losing a popular computer literacy training program sponsored by Cambridge Community Television (CCTV). Serving 60 families annually since its inception in 1997, CCTVâs Family Computer Literacy Program will end in December. Through a unique family-centered approach, this 12-week program gives parents a thorough introduction to computers hardware and software, and coaches them in sharing what they learn with their children.
Funding for the program had come from the cable modem portion of the franchise fees paid to the City of Cambridge by the cable company, AT&T Broadband, and passed on to CCTV. On March 15th, the FCC ruled that cable modem service was no longer a cable service, but rather an information service, and thus not subject to franchise fees. Cable companies pay franchise fees to municipalities as compensation for their use of the streets and sidewalks ("public rights of way") for private gain; the fees help pay for community services such as public, educational, and governmental access channels and facilities. The surprise decision devastated cities and towns all across the country; the loss to the City of Cambridge alone totals hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
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CCTV is #1 in Overall Excellence
For the third time in nine years, Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) has received first place in the "Overall Excellence in Public Access Programming" category of the Hometown Video Festival. The Award is given annually to the center that demonstrates creativity, innovation, and diversity in its programming. Sponsored by the Alliance for Community Media, the national umbrella organization of Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access centers, the Hometown Video Festival drew 1,500 entries from around the country. CCTV competed in the "annual budgets over $400,000" category, against centers with budgets two and three times its size. The Overal lExcellence Award was presented to CCTV on July 11 at the ACM national conference in Houston. CCTV was also the recipient of this award in 1994 and 1998.
CCTV's Production Coordinator, Sean Effel, prepared the winning entry, editing together excerpts of programs shown on Cambridge's public access channels, 9, 10, and 22. Judges comments praised CCTV's entry. "Fabulous demonstration of your center's overall work," and "Very impressive, great diversity, a model access center," and "Great breadth, scope and depth." The winning program can be seen on Channel 10 every Sunday in July at 4:00PM.
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Greymatter takes over News Page
Like the way the News page looks? CCTV has configured a weblog software to manage our news and announcements, which makes it easier for us here at the office to keep you up to date with current affairs without all of us being professional web developers. The best parts of this "blog" system is that old articles are automatically archived in a searchable format, and the ability to create book length entries without taking up the entire front news page... note the "more" button at the end of paragraphs. This was a free CGI script package called Greymatter which anyone can download and install on their own server, to give credit where credit is due, visit noahgrey.com to get your own copy of this great software.
Update: June 2005. Note that our new content management system is now a package called Drupal. Visit their website to learn how to use their well designed script package to build an online community with your interests! http://www.drupal.org
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CCTV Staff in New Fall Wardrobe
Abercrombie, Gap, and Urban Outfitters were taken by surprise when CCTV released its new fall fashion line up last month. The sales index for these hot digs have given this sluggish economy a swift kick in the butt, just in time for the next spending season, and we can expect to see less successful fashion spinoffs on NBC, CBS, and ABC.
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Summer Media Institute Web Based Videos
CCTV's 12th annual Summer Media Institute has come to a close! The SMI is a six-week program which, in conjunction with the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program, teaches teenagers about media literacy and digital storytelling. There were thirteen participants this year, and they've created some amazing final projects - which you can see Right Here!
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sorry for the late reply, hope you are well mate.
We are planning the next remix comp. at the moment, hopefully launching in Feb. if you have any requests/suggestions etc for artists, labels, tracks that you'd like to see involved, or tweeks to the set up of the comp. let me know here please.
I'm afraid the Technique comp. samples are no longer available, sorry mate.
Hope to see you enter the next comp.


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Carrie Underwood's honest realization about postpartum recovery is a great reminder to all new moms
Carrie Underwood and her husband, hockey player Mike Fisher, just welcomed their second child, little Jacob Bryan Fisher back in January, but as the face of a fitness apparel line, CALIA by Carrie Underwood, this mom of two is feeling a lot of pressure to get back in shape.
But she's recognizing that a lot of the pressure is coming from within herself, and so she's giving herself grace and time in her postpartum fitness journey, as it hasn't been as easy to meet her fitness goals as it was after her first pregnancy.
"As I was working out today, I realized that for the past 11(ish) months, my body has not belonged to me. It was a perfect home for Jacob. And even now it belongs to him every time he drinks his milk," she wrote in a recent Instagram post.
"I promise to stop analyzing every angle and every curve and every pound and every meal. I'm going to keep staying the path because it is a journey and as long as I'm always working towards my goals, one day I'll reach them. I'm going to take it day by day, smile at the girl in the mirror, and work out—because I love this body and all it has done and will continue to do!"
Carrie Underwood on Instagram: "I'm going to be honest, "bouncing back" after having Jacob has been much more difficult than after I had Isaiah and I've been pretty hard…"
Her words are inspiring, and so is her track record as a mom who cares about fitness, but cares about connecting with her family even more.
Back in 2018, before Jacob was in the picture, Underwood posted pics of her oldest, then 2-year-old Isaiah on Instagram, trying to work out with mom and dad. He uses a resistance band with his mom and tries push-ups with his dad, hockey player Mike Fisher. "My boys make workouts fun (and a bit less productive, but that's ok)! #staythepath" she wrote in her post.
Carrie Underwood on Instagram: "My boys make work outs fun (and a bit less productive, but that's ok)! #StayThePath @caliabycarrie 📸: @erinoprea"
It's totally okay to want to get back in shape after having a baby, but it's not okay to beat yourself up for being human. Pregnancy and birth transform a woman's body, and we cannot expect ourselves to run as fast as we did before or fit into our old jeans right away.
As Tone It Up co-founder Katrina Scott said on a recent episode The Motherly Podcast, Sponsored by Prudential, "We need to change the conversation with everyone and with ourselves and realize how cool it is that our bodies are different."
It's clear that Underwood is changing the conversation in her brain, and by sharing her thoughts with her 8.4 million Instagram followers she's also changing the way her community thinks about postpartum recovery.
Thanks for your honesty, Carrie.
Tone It Up's Katrina Scott on why we've been talking about postpartum bodies all wrong
Carrie Underwood reveals she had 3 miscarriages before baby #2 in emotional interview
The physical (and mental!) benefits of working out with your kids
Heather Marcoux is the News Editor for Motherly and mom to one little boy. A former television journalist, Heather lives in Canada with her husband, son and a foursome of adorable pets.
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What do moms do on their days off? Work
When it comes to taking care of the baby and the house, modern dads say they want to be equal partners.
But when Saturday arrives, research shows men are often relaxing while women are the ones doing unpaid housework with a "leisure time" discrepancy of more than 50 minutes a day on the weekends.
The study revealed that women were more likely than men to spend their weekends watching kids or performing housework.
So after a long week of watching kids or clocking hours on the job, what does mom do more of than dad? Work.
Claire M. Kamp Dush, Ph.D., an associate professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University, and lead author of the new study, says she is hopeful we can all find more balance. It's just going to take some hard discussions—and an understanding that there's more than one way to load a dishwasher or dress a baby.
The study published in the journal Sex Roles saw Ohio State researchers tracking how 52 dual-income couples spent their time on a minute-by-minute basis as they welcomed their first child. The participating couples kept time diaries for workdays and non-workdays during the third trimester and for about three months after the baby's birth.
The researchers expected to see a lot of entries where mom and dad were doing childcare or housework together, but they didn't.
"Men actually increased their time doing leisure while she was doing work across the transition of parenthood," Kamp Dush shares. "It actually got worse once the baby was there."
According to Kamp Dush, there are a couple of factors behind this disappointing dynamic.
"One thing that's going on is women have a lot of societal pressure put on them to be perfect mothers. So if something is less than perfect with the baby or the house, the consequences are coming back on them," she explains, adding this pressure to have everything done to high standards may lead some moms to micromanage their partners.
If a dad is slacking, Kamp Dush suggests moms ascertain what his motivations are. Often, she says the solution may be as simple as empowering him to do things his own way. (Even if it isn't the outfit you would have picked for the baby...)
"It may also be the case that he just doesn't want to do it and he enjoys his leisure time," says Kamp Dush. If that's the case, she suggests calmly explaining the cost that his rest requires you pay. That may prompt him to do a bit more because, as Kamp Dush says, "He might also enjoy having a happier spouse and co-parent."
The earlier you can have these conversations, the better
Unaddressed resentment in relationships tends to build overtime, which is why it's essential to check in on how you (and your partner) are feeling early and often.
Kamp Dush suggests moms with heavy mental loads write down the tasks and duties they're dealing with. Then rip the list in half and hand it to dad. Couples can certainly negotiate the listed responsibilities, but the important thing is that they're not all on mom.
"Then, you're going to have to let it go," she explains. "Men know how to do these things. As women, we need to just let them do it."
Dads need to do 50 minutes more of unpaid work
The gender disparity in unpaid work hurts our careers, our families and our relationships, but it doesn't have to.
According to the Promundo's State of the World's Fathers' report, if men did 50 minutes of unpaid work a day we could close the gender gap.
"We need men to do our share. Fifty minutes more to relieve women of 50 minutes less would get us really close to equal," the president and CEO of Promundo, Gary Barker, tells Motherly.
When dads are more empowered and moms feel like their household responsibilities are more balanced, the whole family is going to be better off.
[A version of this post was first published July 29, 2018. It has been updated.]
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