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Six weeks later, Georgia fires still raging
The state's inability to keep the fires from rushing out of the Okefenokee Swamp is kindling a debate over lagging forestry budgets.
By Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
@dixiebureau
Waycross, GA.
Firebreaks plowed by bulldozers into the soil can't slow the stampede of flames through the pine stands. At times, whirling "fire tornadoes" appear above the towering crowns, forcing smokechasers to run for their lives.
Six weeks after they first flared, the massive forest fires dogging south Georgia and north Florida remain largely out of control.
"It's frustrating, to say the least, that we can't get our hands around it," says Kym Stephens, a Georgia Forestry Commission firefighter.
Wildland firefighters in the South extinguish more wildfires – 45,000 a year – than any other region. In that light, the demoralizing effect that the Okefenokee Swamp fires are having on veteran firefighters is drawing attention beyond these pine plantations.
The state's inability to keep the fire from rushing out of the swamp and into the pine lands is kindling a debate over lagging forestry budgets, the impact of climate change on fire-suppression tactics, and the trend of timber companies divesting from the woods, taking manpower and equipment with them.
"This fire will have a national effect on how we look at fire behavior, how we account for our forestry budgets, as well as the pure economic effect it will have for a long time in this region," says Robert Farris, interim director of the Georgia Forestry Commission in Dry Branch.
Sparked in mid-April by a combination of downed wires and lightning, the amalgam of fires now known as the Georgia Bay Complex – Bugaboo Scrub, Sweat Farm, Big Turnaround, and Kneeknocker – has already burned more than a half-million acres, exceeding the enormous fires that burst through the region in 1953 and 1954. The latest fires were declared a federal disaster April 17, entitling the state to federal aid.
In an average year, wildfires burn 8,000 acres in Georgia; the Sweat Farm fire alone burned 10,000 acres in one night last week.
Clapboard forest cabins and brick ranch homes are being evacuated daily; 21 homes have burned down. The smoke has periodically shut down entire interstates. And on windy days, the plume has traveled miles, obscuring city skylines as far away as Mississippi and North Carolina. Seven firefighters have been injured since the fires first broke out.
The fires' erratic behavior has primarily been caused by an extreme drought, not seen in these parts in 50 years. Meanwhile, atmospheric inversions have pushed smoke close to the ground, hampering surveillance and creating confusion for firefighters. An unusually low jet stream is carrying embers up to two miles ahead, and sometimes to the flanks, of the fire. Smoke plumes reaching 30,000 feet have suddenly collapsed, "blowing out" the fire in all directions.
"Georgia is probably setting some all-time record highs on the amount of energy that can be released from these fuels, and that's not good," says Gary Curcio, a fire behavior analyst with the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources.
Forestry officials here suggest that lagging resources have also contributed to the difficulty in extinguishing the blaze.
Timber companies have begun to outsource plantation management, reducing the number of privately owned firefighting equipment from 180 to 20 in the past three years. That leaves the state with an increased responsibility to protect corporately owned lands, which bring in about $560 million in tax revenue each year.
Moreover, a Georgia State University study from 2003 showed that, when adjusting for inflation (but not for drought), the Georgia Forestry Commission should be receiving more than $60 million a year to prevent and fight fires. Instead, it will receive $42 million if Gov. Sonny Perdue signs next year's budget, a 9 percent increase over the previous year. In comparison, the south Georgia fires are expected to cost $42 million by the time they're put out. The US government will pay 75 percent of the firefighting costs.
The commission has lost 207 rangers, mostly to attrition, in the past 16 years. This week, local milk trucks were hauling water to holding ponds, and prison inmate fire departments were carrying out "structure protection" to save homes. While overall federal funding for state fire planning efforts has increased since the establishment of the National Fire Plan in 2000, money toward clearing brush and other fire mitigation measures on non-government lands has decreased by $20 million a year since 2004. That tends to affect Southern states like Georgia especially, experts say, since more than 90 percent of wildfires here occur on private pine plantations.
"People are desperately trying to get state and federal funding restored so we can better manage these forests and reduce the incidence of these catastrophic fires," says Steve Kline, a policy analyst with the National Association of State Foresters in Washington.
Even as their budgets have been stagnant, forestry managers have been maximizing what they have on hand.
But "there's a point where weather, temperature, wind, and humidity come together to create a catastrophic fire season where even a fairly well-prepared [agency] just cannot overcome forces that are so powerful at one place at one time to be overwhelming," says Mike Countess, a policy analyst with the Southern Group of State Foresters in Atlanta.
Morale has been a problem, too, because Forestry Commission firefighters earn vacation days instead of overtime pay. Many firefighters have accrued hundreds of hours in time off that they will probably not be able to take because of a busy fire season and staff shortages.
One of the Commission's biggest supporters in the legislature, state Rep. Carl Rogers, wasn't aware of the manpower shortages until he read about them in the newspaper. "They've never mentioned to me that they needed more personnel, and now they do because of what's going on," he says.
At a staging area close to where the fire made a "run" Sunday, firefighters face their own vulnerabilities as the fire advances.
"We can't ring the head of this thing," says Chris Brooks of Doe Run, Ga., a veteran dozer-operator. "Maybe they'll see the smoke in Atlanta and remember that we're out here."
Mr. Brooks may not have to wait long for the fires to get more attention. President Bush was scheduled to be briefed on the fire situation by Georgia and Florida forestry officials while in Brunswick, Ga., Tuesday.
Florida's growing wildfire problem
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November, month of thrown fireworks and burning effigies, will see issue 49 of Black Static magazine landing on doormats across the country. It's certainly better than having a banger stuffed through your letterbox. This issue features a 13,000 word offering, Dirt Land, by Ralph Robert Moore, while Martin Hanford provides the cover art.
This issue includes a story of mine called The Toilet. It's my fourth story to feature in Black Static, following on World of Trevor, The Bury Line and The Visitors. As a magazine, it's a broad church. Readers who might think it restricted to blood and guts and rampaging fiends should take a closer look. There's a real variety of writing to be found, detailing our many modes of terror, disquiet, pain, grief, loss, our human vulnerability.
World of Trevor, my first short story to be published anywhere, appeared in Black Static 42. So to have another story in the magazine feels rather like coming home, if that's not too presumptuous a comment.
I'm looking forward to seeing the artwork. I hope you enjoy your visit to The Toilet.


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IN A WORLD of unappeased, unabated, capitalism, it is time to manufacture, promote and embrace failure, queerly.
Failure, of course, goes hand in hand with capitalism. A market economy must have winners and losers, gamblers and risk-takers, con-men and dupes; capitalism, requires that everyone live within a system that equates success with profit and failure with the inability to accumulate wealth.
But this boom/bust economy leads everyone to expect that they will win and so in the wake of the realization that in actual fact, no one wins from such a market except the bankers and investors, losing has become a way of life, a new reality and failure is something with which we must reckon existentially, economically and politically.
As the collective who published The Coming Insurrection put it following the 2005 French riots in the banlieux, the economy is not in crisis, the economy is the crisis. They suggest we get dis-organized, that we find each other and that we help to push the system into collapse and bring the bankers down with it. In short, they propose wide-spread failure! This is very much what my book argues for in The Queer Art of Failure.
Over the course of writing this book, people have sometimes misunderstood me to be saying that people need to learn how to fail (we all actually already know how to fail well!) and they want tips, so consider this a crash course in failure, a self-help guide to failing well and failing better; this is 5 steps to being a complete loser: and why should we learn how to fail? Because winning has become the byword for greed, arrogance, profiting from others, conformity; winning means gloating, hoarding, condescending. And losing? Failing? Failure can become a potent form of critique, a repudiation of capitalism and profit margins, a refusal of the norm, an indifference to assimilation and a route to other ways of being in the world.
Failure may be the key to ecological survival. Attaining a 'first world' lifestyle means robbing the planet and all its poor inhabitants–people and animals–of what they need for basic survival. A 'first world' lifestyle means emitting unconscionable amounts of carbon and other waste, using up too much soil, water, fuel and minerals for everyone else to have a liveable existence, and above all it means tipping the ecology of the planet into catastrophic climate change.
Capitalism and Growth Economics = ecological & societal collapse = FAILURE. Its the thief in the night that has been sneaking up on us all for the past 120 years. We have already failed – yet are in denial. Bread and Circuses have kept us in a consumerist stupor and its time for the queers and the rest of it to take a good look through the veil. This ain't Kansas Toto.


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Die spätgotische Kirche Notre-Dame ist die römisch-katholische Hauptkirche von Caudebec-en-Caux, einem Ortsteil von Rives-en-Seine  im Département Seine-Maritime in der Region Normandie. Die Kirche ist bereits seit 1840 als Monument historique klassifiziert.

Würdigung
König Heinrich IV. soll gesagt haben, dass sie eine der schönsten Kirchen Frankreichs sei: "Es ist die schönste Kapelle in meinem Königreich". Tatsächlich enthält dieses Hauptwerk der Übergangszeit von der Spätgotik in die Frührenaissance kein Querschiff, anders als in Saint-Maclou in Rouen, die zur gleichen Zeit erbaut wurde, das erklärt vielleicht die Bezeichnung "Kapelle" durch den König.

Architektur

Äußeres
Das Bauwerk ist eine dreischiffige Basilika mit Chorumgang und Kapellenkranz. Die Chorkapellen tragen steile Einzeldächer. Das Mittelschiff wird durch Strebebögen gestützt und trägt einen Dachreiter. Architektonisch fällt auf, dass der Mittelpfeiler im Chorpolygon (ähnlich wie bei St-Maclou in Rouen) in der Achse des Bauwerks steht. Auf der Balustrade des Daches sind in gotischen Buchstaben Verse aus dem Hohenlied "Pulcra es et decora" (Kapitel 6) eingraviert. Dieser Satz ist auch auf der Galerie des Hauptportals der Kathedrale von Burgos zu finden.

Das Westportal ist fein gearbeitet und mit einer großen Zahl von Skulpturen (ursprünglich 333) geschmückt, die Heilige, aber auch Figuren aus dem täglichen Leben der damaligen Zeit darstellen, darunter einen Louren-Spieler, was eine der seltenen Darstellungen dieses vergessenen sackpfeifenähnlichen Musikinstruments der Normandie ist. Während der Religionskriege wurde die Bauplastik von den Calvinisten beschädigt, und die Brände, die durch die Bombenangriffe vom Juni 1940 entstanden und die umliegenden Häuser (außer im Nordwesten) vernichteten, verursachten weitere Schäden. Die kleinen Figuren an der Südseite der Westfassade wurden in ihrer ursprünglichen Anordnung und ihrem ursprünglichen Aussehen wiederhergestellt.

Der Glockenturm ist nicht zentral wie in Saint-Maclou, sondern an der Südseite des Gebäudes angeordnet und erhebt sich bis zu 54 m über dem Boden. Die feine Dekoration seiner durchbrochenen Turmspitze ist in der Region (zum Beispiel in Norville) nachgeahmt worden und verdankt ihre Bekanntheit zum Teil den drei blumengeschmückten Kronen, der kaudekanischen "Tiara". Sie trägt noch immer die Spuren eines Bombenangriffs der Alliierten im Jahr 1944.

Inneres

Hauptschiff und Seitenkapellen
Zwar weist das Schiff mit seinen harmonischen Proportionen kein Querschiff auf, dafür aber Triforien und Fensterflächen im typischen, spätgotischen Stil. Die insgesamt 19 Kapellen der Seitenschiffe enthalten diverse Kunstwerke. In der Kapelle des hl. Johannes des Täufers (linkes Seitenschiff) ist das Taufbecken aus dem 17. Jahrhundert mit kunstvoll geschnitzten Paneelen verziert. Auf seinem Deckel sind Szenen aus dem Alten Testament dargestellt. In der Heilig-Grab-Kapelle (rechts von der Apsiskapelle) ruht unter einem Baldachin (16. Jahrhundert) der liegende Christus umgeben von großen Statuen der Jünger. Das ganze Ensemble stammt aus der früheren Abtei Jumièges.

Im Gewölbe der Apsiskapelle Unserer Lieben Frau ist einer der größten hängenden Schlusssteine eingebaut, ein Monolith, der 7 Tonnen schwer ist und 4,30 m aus dem Gewölbe herabhängt, wobei er nur durch die Kräfte seiner Bögen gehalten wird. Dieses Werk stammt von Guillaume Le Tellier, der in dieser Kapelle unter dem rechten Fenster beigesetzt ist.

Glasmalereien
Das Bauwerk ist für die Glasmalereien aus dem 15. Jahrhundert bekannt. Über dem Portal im Nordschiff befinden sich vier Glasfenster englischer Machart aus der Anfangszeit des Kirchenbaus (wahrscheinlich die ältesten), die von Foulques Eyton, Hauptmann der britischen Garnison während des Hundertjährigen Krieges, gestiftet wurden. Eines von ihnen zeigt den heiligen Georg, den Schutzpatron Englands, wie er den Drachen erschlägt. Es hat sein Gegenstück in der Kapelle neben diesem Portal auf der rechten Seite, in Sankt Michael, dem Schutzpatron der Normandie, damals des Königreichs Frankreich, der ebenfalls einen Drachen getötet hat. Die meisten Glasmalereien aus dieser Zeit, vor allem in den Kapellen des nördlichen Seitenschiffs, stellen ganzfigurige Heilige dar, Schutzpatrone der Handwerkszünfte, die in dieser damals sehr gewerbefleißigen Stadt zahlreich waren.

Noch berühmter sind die Glasmalereien aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. Sie schmücken vier Kapellen in den letzten beiden Jochen im Stil zwischen Gotik und Renaissance an der Westfassade. Zwei weitere Renaissance-Glasfenster schmücken ebenfalls die unteren Fenster der Westfassade. Sie stammen möglicherweise aus den Rouener Werkstätten von Arnoult de Nijmegen (Arnold van Nijmegen), einem niederländischen Glasmaler, der auch die Glasmalereien der Kirche Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc in Rouen herstellte. Sie zeigen vor allem Szenen aus dem Alten Testament oder aus dem Leben Christi: Jesus und die Samariterin am Jakobsbrunnen, Moses und die Überquerung des Roten Meeres durch die Hebräer, das Letzte Abendmahl, die Heiligen Drei Könige, das Leben des Heiligen Johannes des Täufers und eine Wurzel Jesse. Es ist zu sehen, dass der Glasmaler bei der Darstellung der Überfahrt über das Rote Meer das Meer und seine Wellen in roter Farbe dargestellt hat.

Weitere Ausstattung

Die Orgel in einem Renaissance-Gehäuse hat 45 Register, verteilt auf 4 Manuale und Pedal. Sie wurde mehrfach umgebaut, zuletzt von Bartolomeo Formentelli im Jahr 2006. Die Spiel- und Registertrakturen sind mechanisch.

 Koppeln: Récit/Grand-Orgue, Positif/Grand-Orgue, Grand-Orgue/Pédale, Tirasse/Pédale, Tirasse/Pédale.

Auch für das geschnitzte hölzerne Taufbecken ist die Kirche bekannt.

Literatur
 Karl-Heinz Clasen: Die gotische Baukunst. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Potsdam 1930, S. 184, 186.

Weblinks

 Pfarrei Saint-Benoît de Caudebec en Brotonne auf der Website des Erzbistums Rouen

Einzelnachweise

Caudebecencaux
Caudebecencaux
Monument historique seit 1840
Notredame
Caudebecencaux
Caudebecencaux
Caudebecencaux
Caudebecencaux
Caudebecencaux
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Category Archives: Brazil
Order of Rio's Carnival Parades in 2023
In 2023 the main parades of the Grupo Especial in Rio de Janeiro's carnival are currently scheduled to take place on the nights of Sunday, 19 February and Monday, 20 February 2022. The 12 schools and the order that they will parade in 2023 are:
Imperil Serrano
Grande Rio
Unidos da Tijuca
Salgueiro
Mangueira
Paraíso do Tuiuti
Portela
Imperatriz Leopoldinense
Beija-Flor
Viradouro
Posted in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro | Tagged 2023, Brazil, Carnival, Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Decade of Brazil and Rio Guides
10 years ago in April 2012 we launched a labour of love, www.braziltheguide.com, which was followed two years later – in time for the 2014 FIFA World Cup – by the much more complete www.riotheguide.com.
The reason we launched the sites was that we were and still do get consulted about Rio and Brazil on a weekly basis and this seemed an easier way of telling people where to find the information and share it. We were also often asked when we would update "The Insider's Guide to Rio de Janeiro", last published in print form in 1995, and the web sites seemed the obvious answer. #brazil #riodejaneiro
Posted in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro | Tagged Brazil, Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian Trade in 2021
Posted on March 8, 2022 by Critical Divide
According to figures from ApexBrasil, the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, Brazil's exports to the UK rose by 21% to hit £2.2bn by the end of 2021. The exports are Brazil's highest by value to the UK since 2014, and contributed to Brazil registering a record global trade surplus in 2021 of £44.4bn.
In the food and drink sector, Brazilian fruit exports to the UK grew by 15% with strong demand for tropical varieties and superfruits such as mangos, papayas, peaches, nectarines, and berries. Taking advantage of post-Brexit trade between Brazil and the UK, sugar and ethanol exports surged by 67% to hit €122.6m / £105.5m, the result of a new sugar import quota agreed by the UK government which allows for higher volumes of tariff-free sugarcane from Brazil.
Exports to the European Union rose by 32% in 2021 to reach €30.8bn / £26.5bn, the highest since 2013. The total value of goods exported by Brazil in 2021 totalled €236.8bn / £203.7bn, a rise of 32% on 2020 values, and an all-time high for the country.
In the other direction Brazilian imports of UK goods rose by just 9% to £1.8bn in total for 2021, with particularly high demand in Brazil for oil and gas products (5,530% increase in value to reach £41.5m), British spirits (105% increase to £15.8m), chemicals (54% increase to £37.2m), and transport equipment (35% increase to £15.3m). Imports from the EU totalled €32.4bn / £27.8bn, a rise of 26% on 2020 levels. Brazilian demand was strongest for EU oil and petroleum products, pharmaceuticals and chemicals
Posted in Brazil | Tagged Brazil, trade
The Greatest Restaurants in Latin America 2013-2021
Posted on November 23, 2021 by Critical Divide
As Latin America gets back to some form of normality, we have the list of what are considered to be the 100 best restaurants in Latin America "past and present".
Due to the pandemic the organisers decided to come up with a retrospective list, which spans 12 countries and was created by aggregating the votes from all previous editions, all the way down to No.1, being crowned The Greatest Restaurant in Latin America 2013-2021. The top ten are:
Central, Lima, Peru
Maido, Lima, Peru
D.O.M., São Paulo, Brazil
Astrid y Gastón, Lima, Peru
Pujol, Mexico City, Mexico
Boragó, Santiago, Chile
Maní, São Paulo, Brazil
Quintonil, Mexico City, Mexico
Tegui, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Don Julio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brazil has 17 restaurants listed in the Top 100 and they are:
3 D.O.M., São Paulo, Brazil
7 Maní, São Paulo, Brazil
11 A Casa do Porco, São Paulo, Brazil
22 Lasai, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
23 Mocotó, São Paulo, Brazil
41 Oteque, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
49 Manu, Curitiba, Brazil
51 Oro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
54 Tuju, São Paulo, Brazil
65 Evvai, São Paulo, Brazil
66 Fasano, São Paulo, Brazil
68 Glouton, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
75 Tordesilhas, São Paulo, Brazil
77 Soeta, Vitória, Brazil
86 Arturito, São Paulo, Brazil
88 Komah, São Paulo, Brazil
90 Corrutela, São Paulo, Brazil
The short video counts them down:
Posted in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo | Tagged Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
Brazil Qualify for 2022 FIFA World Cup
With a 1×0 win over Colombia on 11 November 2021, Brazil mathematically guaranteed its place at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in December 2022, and in doing so remains the only country to qualify for every single one of the 22 World Cup Finals, winning five of them.
After the finals in Russia in 2018, Brazil is tied with Germany in playing 109 games in the finals, but has won 73 games compared to Germany's 67. Brazil has also scored 229 goals in finals, compared to Germany's 226.
Follow the World Cup at www.worldcuptheguide.com
Posted in Brazil, World Cup 2014 | Tagged 2022, Brazil, Qatar, World Cup
New music festival – The Town – for São Paulo in 2023
it has been confirmed that in September 2023 Rock in Rio will morph into "The Town", a new music festival for São Paulo, which will take place at the Grand Prix circuit of Interlagos over two weekends.
600,000 people will be expected over the five days of the festival that has Heineken as its main sponsor and will be supported by TV Globo and Multishow. The stage set and setting will reflect the skyscrapers of São Paulo. It is probably that Brazil will see Rock in Rio and The Town on alternate years. There is certainly the demand.
For more information on The Town CLICK HERE
Posted in Brazil, Music, São Paulo | Tagged Brazil, São Paulo, The Town
Pick of the top São Paulo restaurants for 2021 from Veja's "Comer & Beber"
Posted on October 23, 2021 by Critical Divide
Given the number of restaurants in São Paulo it can be useful to know what the top three in each category of Veja São Paulo's list of best restaurants were in the 25th edition of "Comer & Beber". The winner listed first.
Best Overall Restaurant: Casa do Porco
Contemporary Brazilian: Maní / D.O.M. / Evvai
Brazilian: A Baianeira (MASP) / Banzeiro / Jiquitaia
Barbecue / Meat: Rubaiyat / Pobre Juan (Higienópolis) / Templo da Carne Marcos Bassi
French: Président / Bistrot Parigi / Chef Rouge
Italian: Fame / Fasano / Nelita
Trattoria: Lido Amici di Amici / Moma – Modern Mamma Osteria / Nino Cucina
Pizza: A Pizza da Mooca / Carlos / Deveras Pizza
Japanese: Ryo / Kan Suke / Shin-Zushi
Arab: Shahiya / Chef Benon / Monte Líbano
Mixed: Chez Claude / Pipo / Skye
Newcomer: Kazuo / Beefbar / Roi Méditerranée
Hamburger: Z Deli Sandwiches / Fat Cow / Holy Burger
Sandwich: Zoe Sandwich Shop / Gero Panini / Matilda Lanches
Botequim / Bar: Esquina do Souza / Bar do Giba / Moela
Cheap & Cheerful: Cuia Café / Jesuíno Brilhante / Petí Gastronomia / Pão com Carne
Ice Cream: Frida & Mina / Albero dei Gelati / Davvero Gelato Tradizionale
Posted in Brazil, São Paulo | Tagged Brazil, São Paulo
"Deserto Particular" chosen as Brazil's selection for the Oscars 2022
Aly Muritiba's "Deserto Particular" (Private Desert) has been chosen as Brazil's official selection in the Best International Film category for the Academy Awards in 2022.
It tells the story of 40-year-old Daniel (Antonio Saboia), who has been suspended from active police work in Curitiba, in the south of Brazil, and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north to the interior of Bahia in search of her, starting on what is apparently a fool's errand. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognise the woman, until eventually one man says he can put the two in touch but under very specific conditions.
The film premiered and was very well received at the Venice Film Festival in September in Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori). It will open in Brazil on 25 November.
Posted in Brazil, film | Tagged Brazil, Oscars
Trade between Brazil and UK bounces back
Posted on August 20, 2021 by Critical Divide
According to the latest numbers released by Apex-Brasil, Brazilian exports to, and imports from, the UK have bounced back strongly to pre-pandemic levels in the second quarter of 2021.
The total value of Brazilian exports to the UK increased by 41% year on year, which is 5% more than exported in the same period of 2019. Similarly, Brazilian imports of UK goods soared by 52% in Q2 2021, up 29% on Q2 2019 and the highest value since 2015. This equates to bilateral trade between Brazil and the UK reaching US$1.4bn (£1bn) between Brazil and the UK, a 46% increase on Q2 2020 and 15% above Q2 2019 levels.
Part of the increase is due to an upsurge in commodity prices, such as metal ores, oil and soy as well as export growth in transport equipment, chemicals and metallurgical products.
Brazil also recorded a large trade surplus with the EU of $911m (€756m, £652.1m), the highest for a quarter since 2011. This is a turnaround on the deficit of $1.4bn (€1.1bn, £1bn) Brazil had with the EU in Q1 2021.
Posted in Brazil | Tagged APEX, Brazil, trade
Copa America 2021 in Brazil
Posted on June 3, 2021 by Critical Divide
Originally planned for Argentina and Colombia in 2020, and then moved to 2021 due to the pandemic, the Copa America was finally switched to Brazil at the very last moment with games taking place from 13 June to 10 July 2021. Brazil had hosted and won the cup in 2019.
Group games will be played across four stadiums – Nilton Santos (Rio), Olympic (Goiana), Arena Pantanal (Cuiaba) and Mane Garrincha (Brasilia) – with the final to be played at the Maracanã in Rio.
Posted in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo | Tagged Brazil, Copa America, football
Brazil At a Glance
Welcome to Brazil
Tweets from the Guide
Latest News from Brazil
Latin American News
Fugitive Gillespie brothers may have been killed in Brazil January 27, 2023
Detectives confirm they have shared their concerns with the families of James and Barry Gillespie.
Haiti police riot after crime gangs kill 14 officers January 26, 2023
Fourteen police officers have died since the start of 2023 amid a huge surge in gang violence.
Peru unrest: Police to dismantle roadblocks set by protesters January 27, 2023
The government says security forces will take down barricades set up by opponents of President Dina Boluarte.
Colombian drug lord Otoniel pleads guilty in US court January 26, 2023
Dairo Antonio Úsuga, also known as Otoniel, led Colombia's Gulf cartel before his arrest in 2021.
Peru protests: President calls for 'truce' after clashes January 25, 2023
Dina Boluarte says radical groups are behind the ongoing demonstrations calling for her to resign.

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The collection is arranged by topic and then chronologically. The materials are contained in one box and consist of half a linear foot. The constitution and by-laws are included in the collection, as well a list of past officers and meeting locations. There is a brief history of the organization as well as a description of the author, Dr. Eugene St. Martin, who complied much of the records from scattered sources.
The earliest annual meeting records in the collection are from 1950. The collection also has annual meeting material from every year after that until 2006. In addition, the collection contains photographs and correspondence from the society. There is also some material from the Texas Urological Society, as the Louisiana State Urological Society still maintains a relationship with that organization. The collection consists of 1 box, it is 0.5 linear foot.
Acquisition Note: Source: Dr. Eugene C. St. Martin..
Preferred Citation: Louisiana State Urological Society records, Manuscripts Collection 1061, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
Scope and Contents: The Louisiana State Urological Society has been active since at least 1934 when Louisiana joined the American Urological Association. The society's annual meetings are held around the state. Originally the organization represented Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas and their meetings rotated between the three states. Dr. Eugene St. Martin began the task of compiling records of past meetings and materials concerned with the Louisiana State Urological Society. He contacted past presidents and members who sent him their recollections and their remaining documents from the meetings and proceedings of the organization.
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The online travel review company was hit by the market sell-off at the beginning of the year along with a weak earnings report.
What: With 2016 now halfway in the books, TripAdvisor Inc (NASDAQ:TRIP) stock is down 19% after getting hammered by the broad-market sell-off earlier in the year. As the chart below shows, the stock was down more than 35% in February, and has struggled to recoup those losses even as the S&P 500 hits all-time highs.
So what: The travel review site and its online travel agency peers, Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) and Priceline (NASDAQ:BKNG), tend to fall sharply on concerns about a global economic slowdown. Travel is a discretionary industry and sensitive to macroeconomic trends. As stocks plummeted at the beginning of the year on falling oil prices, a strong dollar, and other issues, TripAdvisor and its elevated valuation got hit particularly hard, falling 22% in January, though there was little company-specific news out.
The stock bounced back on February 11, gaining 12% on a strong fourth-quarter earnings report. Earnings per share increased 29% to $0.45, above estimates at $0.33, though revenue growth slowed to 7%, in part due to currency translation.
Its first-quarter report was not so stellar, however. Revenue actually fell 3% to $352 million, missing expectations at $370 million, while earnings were well below the mark as well.
Now what: TripAdvisor's big push recently has been into an instant booking platform, bringing it into direct competition with Priceline and Expedia, though Priceline agreed to add its listings to the platform.
While a recent decline in click-based advertising is threat, TripAdvisor's long-term business still seems strong. The company occupies a unique space in the online travel industry as the clear leader in reviews, and could make an appealing buyout target for Priceline, which has a history of growing through acquisitions. I'd expect TripAdvisor to bounce back when it reports second-quarter earnings in early August.


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package com.eclipsesource.schema.internal.serialization

import com.eclipsesource.schema._
import com.eclipsesource.schema.{JsonSource, SchemaType, SchemaValue}
import com.eclipsesource.schema.drafts.{Version4, Version7}
import com.eclipsesource.schema.internal.draft7.constraints.{AnyConstraints7, NumberConstraints7, StringConstraints7}
import org.specs2.mutable.Specification
import play.api.libs.json.{JsArray, JsBoolean, JsString, Json}

class SchemaReadsSpec extends Specification {

  "Schema Reads for draft 4" should {

    import Version4._

    "not fail with match error (#104)" in {
      val schema = JsonSource.schemaFromString("""
        |{
        |  "someProp": {"type": "sting"}
        |}""".stripMargin)

      schema.isSuccess must beTrue
    }

    "not be able to read boolean schema" in {
      Json.fromJson[SchemaType](JsBoolean(true)).isError must beTrue
    }

    "fail if exclusiveMinimum is not a boolean" in {
      val result = JsonSource.schemaFromString(
        """{ "exclusiveMinimum": 3 }""".stripMargin
      )
      result.asEither must beLeft.like { case error => (error.toJson(0) \ "msgs").get.as[JsArray].value.head ==
        JsString("error.expected.jsboolean")
      }
    }
  }

  "Schema Reads for draft 7" should {

    import Version7._

    "read boolean schema" in {
      val booleanSchema = Json.fromJson[SchemaType](JsBoolean(true)).get
      booleanSchema must beEqualTo(SchemaValue(JsBoolean(true)))
    }

    "read compound type with error" in {
      val schema = JsonSource.schemaFromString("""
                                                 |{
                                                 |  "type": ["number", "string"]
                                                 |}""".stripMargin)

      schema.isSuccess must beTrue
      schema.asOpt must beSome.which(
        _ == CompoundSchemaType(
          Seq(
            SchemaNumber(NumberConstraints7().copy(any = AnyConstraints7().copy(schemaType = Some("number")))),
            SchemaString(StringConstraints7().copy(any = AnyConstraints7().copy(schemaType = Some("string"))))
          )
        )
      )
    }
  }
}

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package web

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"net/http/pprof"

	chiMiddleware "github.com/go-chi/chi/middleware"
	"github.com/hellofresh/janus/pkg/api"
	"github.com/hellofresh/janus/pkg/config"
	httpErrors "github.com/hellofresh/janus/pkg/errors"
	"github.com/hellofresh/janus/pkg/jwt"
	"github.com/hellofresh/janus/pkg/middleware"
	obs "github.com/hellofresh/janus/pkg/observability"
	"github.com/hellofresh/janus/pkg/plugin"
	"github.com/hellofresh/janus/pkg/router"
	"github.com/rs/cors"
	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
)

// Server represents the web server
type Server struct {
	Port              int
	Credentials       config.Credentials
	TLS               config.TLS
	ConfigurationChan chan api.ConfigurationMessage
	apiHandler        *APIHandler
	profilingEnabled  bool
	profilingPublic   bool
}

// New creates a new web server
func New(opts ...Option) *Server {
	cfgChan := make(chan api.ConfigurationMessage)
	s := Server{
		ConfigurationChan: cfgChan,
		apiHandler:        NewAPIHandler(cfgChan),
	}

	for _, opt := range opts {
		opt(&s)
	}

	return &s
}

// Start creates a router and serves requests async
func (s *Server) Start() error {
	log.Info("Janus Admin API starting...")
	router.DefaultOptions.NotFoundHandler = httpErrors.NotFound
	r := router.NewChiRouterWithOptions(router.DefaultOptions)
	go s.listenAndServe(r)

	s.AddRoutes(r)
	plugin.EmitEvent(plugin.AdminAPIStartupEvent, plugin.OnAdminAPIStartup{Router: r})

	return nil
}

// Stop stops the server
func (s *Server) Stop() {
	close(s.ConfigurationChan)
}

// AddRoutes adds the admin routes
func (s *Server) AddRoutes(r router.Router) {
	// create authentication for Janus
	guard := jwt.NewGuard(s.Credentials)
	r.Use(
		chiMiddleware.StripSlashes,
		chiMiddleware.DefaultCompress,
		middleware.NewLogger().Handler,
		middleware.NewRecovery(httpErrors.RecoveryHandler),
		cors.New(cors.Options{
			AllowedOrigins:   []string{"*"},
			AllowedHeaders:   []string{"*"},
			AllowedMethods:   []string{"GET", "POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "DELETE"},
			AllowCredentials: true,
		}).Handler,
	)

	s.addInternalPublicRoutes(r)
	s.addInternalAuthRoutes(r, guard)
	s.addInternalRoutes(r, guard)
}

func (s *Server) addInternalPublicRoutes(r router.Router) {
	r.GET("/", Home())
	r.GET("/status", NewOverviewHandler(s.apiHandler.Cfgs))
	r.GET("/status/{name}", NewStatusHandler(s.apiHandler.Cfgs))
	if obs.PrometheusExporter != nil {
		r.Any("/metrics", obs.PrometheusExporter.ServeHTTP)
	}
}

func (s *Server) addInternalAuthRoutes(r router.Router, guard jwt.Guard) {
	handlers := jwt.Handler{Guard: guard}
	r.POST("/login", handlers.Login(s.Credentials))
	authGroup := r.Group("/auth")
	{
		authGroup.GET("/refresh_token", handlers.Refresh())
	}
}

func (s *Server) addInternalRoutes(r router.Router, guard jwt.Guard) {
	log.Debug("Loading API Endpoints")

	// APIs endpoints
	groupAPI := r.Group("/apis")
	groupAPI.Use(jwt.NewMiddleware(guard).Handler)
	{
		groupAPI.GET("/", s.apiHandler.Get())
		groupAPI.GET("/{name}", s.apiHandler.GetBy())
		groupAPI.POST("/", s.apiHandler.Post())
		groupAPI.PUT("/{name}", s.apiHandler.PutBy())
		groupAPI.DELETE("/{name}", s.apiHandler.DeleteBy())
	}

	if s.profilingEnabled {
		groupProfiler := r.Group("/debug/pprof")
		if !s.profilingPublic {
			groupProfiler.Use(jwt.NewMiddleware(guard).Handler)
		}
		{
			groupProfiler.GET("/*", pprof.Index)
			groupProfiler.GET("/cmdline", pprof.Cmdline)
			groupProfiler.GET("/profile", pprof.Profile)
			groupProfiler.GET("/symbol", pprof.Symbol)
			groupProfiler.GET("/trace", pprof.Trace)
		}
	}
}

func (s *Server) listenAndServe(handler http.Handler) error {
	address := fmt.Sprintf(":%v", s.Port)

	log.Info("Janus Admin API started")
	if s.TLS.IsHTTPS() {
		addressTLS := fmt.Sprintf(":%v", s.TLS.Port)
		if s.TLS.Redirect {
			go func() {
				log.WithField("address", address).Info("Listening HTTP redirects to HTTPS")
				log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(address, RedirectHTTPS(s.TLS.Port)))
			}()
		}

		log.WithField("address", addressTLS).Info("Listening HTTPS")
		return http.ListenAndServeTLS(addressTLS, s.TLS.CertFile, s.TLS.KeyFile, handler)
	}

	log.WithField("address", address).Info("Certificate and certificate key were not found, defaulting to HTTP")
	return http.ListenAndServe(address, handler)
}


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Q: Implementing Deque using 3 Stacks (Amortized time O(1)) I have this question for howmework:
Implement a Deque using 3 Stacks. The Deque have those operations : InsertHead, InsertTail, DeleteHead,DeleteTail. Prove that the amortized time for each operation is O(1).
What I've tried is to look at the problem as Hanoi problem.
So lets call the Stacks as: L(left), M (middle), R(right).
Pseudo-code Implementations:
InsertHead(e):
     L.push(e);

DeleteHead(e):
     L is empty:

       while R is not empty:
          pop and insert the element to M;
       pop M;
       while M is not empty:
         pop and insert the element to R;

     L is not empty:
       L.pop(e);

InsertTail and DeleteTail are on the same principle of the above implementations.
How can I prove that the amortized time is O(1)?
because there can be N elements in L and the wile loop will take O(n), now if I'll call the deleteHead N times to calculate an amortized time the complexity will not be O(n^2)?
can someone help me how can I prove that the above implementations take O(1) in amortized time?

A: We proceed using the potential method; define
Phi = C |L.size - R.size|
For some constant C for which we will pick a value later. Let Phi_t denote the potential after t operations. Note that in a "balanced" state where both stacks have equal size, the data structure has potential 0.
The potential at any time is a constant times the difference in the number of elements in each stack. Note that Phi_0 = 0 so the potential is zero when the structure is initialised.
It is clear that a push operation increases the potential by at most C. A pop operation which does not miss (i.e. where the relevant stack is nonempty) also alters the potential by at most C. Both of these operations have true cost 1, hence they have amortised cost 1 + C.
When a pop operation occurs and causes a miss (when the stack we want to pop from is empty), the true cost of the operation is 1 + 3/2 * R.size for when we are trying to pop from L, and vice versa for when we are popping from R. This is because we move half of R's elements to M and back, and the other half of R's elements to L. The +1 is needed because of the final pop from L after this rebalancing operation is done.
Hence if we take C := 3/2, then the pop operation when a miss occurs has amortised cost 1, because the potential reduces from 3/2 * R.size to 0 due to the rebalancing, and then we may incur an additional cost of 3/2 from the pop which occurs after the rebalance.
In other words, each operation has an amortised cost bounded by a constant.
Finally, because the initial potential is 0, and the potential is always nonnegative, each operation is amortised cost O(1), as required.

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Zagreb Funicular
The Zagreb Funicular links the Upper and Lower towns and its only 64-second long ride makes it the shortest public-transport funicular in the world.
Put to action in 1890, the funicular initially had steam engines and sometimes needed a little push from the passengers themselves, while today the electrical ones are used in this, still popular means of transportation. The funicular has kept its original structure and appearance to this day and thus earned the status of a protected monument of culture and one of the key Zagreb sites.
Lower station is located on Tomićeva street which connects to Ilica - Zagreb's longest street, while the upper station is located under Lotrščak Tower at Upper Town Strossmayer promenade.
The idea of building a first Zagreb funicular, came to the entrepreneur D.W. Klein, while he was looking at the frequency of pedestrian traffic. After analysis, the entrepreneur found that most people use Tomic street to reach the Upper Town, not other like Mesnička or Radićeva Street.
Financial viability of the project was beyond doubt, so the entrepreneur from Osijek quickly became involved in the construction of the shortest railway in the world.
Zagreb Funicular has up until nowadays kept the original structure and appearance, which earned her the status of protected cultural monument and one of the main Zagreb landmarks.
"Old Lady" is one the safest means of transport in the world
The Old Lady, as respectfully the Funicular is called by Zagreb citizens, in 2010. celebrated the 120th anniversary. In more than a century there were no accidents, not one passenger was hurt, so convincingly the Funicular carries the title of the safest means of public transport, not only in the Croatia, but globally as well.
Zagreb funicular has fully retained its original exterior and building construction, and the most of technical characteristics that her builders have made.
Tickets and where to buy
The Zagreb Funicular is managed by ZET ( Zagreb Electric Tram ) today, and the price of a ticket is 4 HRK or approximately about 0.5 EUR.
Tickets can be purchased by the by the driver at the upper station of dispatch or the operator's cabin on the lower funicular station.
The funicular ride is also included in all ZET tickets ( for tram or bus), within their lifetime.
Book your accommodation in Zagreb!
Sightseeing of Zagreb
Events in Zagreb


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Fidelity Investments has announced the launch of Fidelity Digital Asset Services, making it easier for institutional investors to buy cryptocurrencies.
Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified financial service firms in the world, has launched Fidelity Digital Asset Services, LLC, a new company that will provide enterprise-quality trade execution and custody of digital assets to institutional investors including market intermediaries, family offices, and hedge funds.
Our goal is to make digitally-native assets, such as bitcoin, more accessible to investors…We expect to continue investing and experimenting, over the long-term, with ways to make this emerging asset class easier for our clients to understand and use.
According to Fidelity, the first step in realising the future for cryptocurrencies is creating a foundation for institutional-quality solutions that will help advance the industry. The company acknowledges that while there are numerous retail service providers in the cryptocurrency space, there is a lack of support for large institutional investment.
The new company is expected to provide solutions that institutional investors have been demanding. With rich experience serving over 13,000 institutions to date, Fidelity Investments believe that it's ideally suited for the job.
Recent research by Fidelity Investment, titled the Fidelity Global Institutional Investor Survey, discovered that 70% of institutional clients believed that new asset classes will likely come up as a result of adavancing technologies, including blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.
To enable its clients to invest in this new asset class, Fidelity Digital Assets will offer institutional-grade custody of digital assets, trade execution at multiple market venues, and dedicated client services.
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For much of the past decade I've spent the bulk of my time teaching adolescents in the field of social studies. Within this field, I have taught courses on psychology, government, sociology, economics, and – what always seems like students least favorite topic – history. Whenever I teach a history course, I consider it my mission to provide sparkling answers to that ages-old question us teachers face; why do we have to know this?
So, when the calendar turned to summer my over-zealous self determined that it's never too early to introduce a few history lessons to my own son, and I created another mission for myself: to teach some local history to a 2 ½ year old. Why? Because knowing about the past gives us a greater appreciation for the present, because learning how the place we call home came to be opens the imagination, and lastly, because history can be learned when you don't even realize it.
One of the striking aspects of Door County history is character. This place, and its' past, are full of stories of people who were unconventional and idealistic, people who braved the elements to make a living and establish communities. Even today, much of the peninsula is populated by folk who must make their livings from May to October, and then survive through the winter. Perhaps Hjalmar R. Holand sums it up best in the opening of his book Old Peninsula Days, "One of the last places in the West to yield to the demands of present convention is the Door County Peninsula…the people have gone about their somewhat unusual daily occupations unembarrassed by a knowledge of outside standards and methods, and thus developed types and a character of their own." And though these words were written in the early 1900's, the foundational culture of the Door continues to permeate our daily lives today.
Lighthouses: Perhaps there is no better symbol of the peninsula's past than the ubiquitous lighthouse. Between the Sherwood Point and Canal Station lighthouses in Sturgeon Bay and Pottawatomie Lighthouse on Rock Island, there are several more lighthouses in between as well. All offer a wonderful opportunity to visit, explore, and ask your children questions about why these stations were for, what kind of jobs people had a long time ago, and what it would be like to live on a boat for weeks on end. Now, I won't pretend that my son had answers for any of these questions, but I like to think there somewhere in the recesses of his developing brain a gear or two turned, after all, every time we bike past Eagle Bluff Lighthouse in Peninsula Park he boldly shouts to anyone within earshot; lighthouse! And though our visit to the Cana Island Lighthouse was mostly spent munching on snacks, the short walk from the parking lot to the actual lighthouse was one of beauty and excitement.
Cottage Row: As a parent of a young child (soon to be children) it seems as if sometimes most of the day is spent in kind of a waking stupor – like if there is actually any opportunity to nap, falling asleep would happen instantaneously. So, coffee is of the essence. Further, being up at 5:00 means that by 7:00 you've already had breakfast and the kid is raring to go, so why not use it as an opportunity to get yet another cup of coffee and take a walk down quiet Cottage Row in Fish Creek? This has become something of a routine for us lately, and as we walk we notice the old stone wall lining the road, the ancient tennis courts now covered in ivy and becoming swallowed by the woods. We look at the beautiful old homes (and the beautiful renovated ones as well) and stroll along this road of living history. It's enough for me to see that my son recognizes the sections of old wall (and points out the new sections as well), I sense that he somewhat understands that people were here before, and they left behind a lot of beauty that we get to experience.
Everywhere, everyday: This is where the flexibility enters the lesson plan. I know that forcing anything upon a child is bound to backfire, and thus I've now taken the approach that just by going about our daily lives there will doubtlessly be opportunities to introduce a history lesson or two. This can be as simple as getting an ice cream cone in Ephraim and then walking to Anderson Dock, or perhaps visiting the Sister Bay Farmer's Market nestled within numerous historical buildings. In the end, I must remember to realize that though spontaneity is obviously unpredictable, when the opportunities do appear to instill some sort of lesson to my son, I must embrace them in small steps on his level. For the more I can open his eyes to other ways of life from different eras, and to the diversity of people and ideas that make up our home (and the world), the greater the chances are that he will appreciate those differences and develop a sense of empathy and altruism down the road. And that's a lesson worth teaching.


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Pack of 5 French for kids !
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Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

Seeds

  Jenny Byrne (qualifying competition, lucky loser)
  Rennae Stubbs (withdrew)
  Yone Kamio (first round)
  Tessa Price (qualified)
  Rossana de los Ríos (first round)
  Nicole Muns-Jagerman (second round)
  Laura Golarsa (qualified)
  Misumi Miyauchi (first round)
  Claire Wegink (qualified)
  Katrina Adams (first round)
  Monique Kiene (first round)
  Kristin Godridge (first round)
  Ai Sugiyama (qualified)
  Petra Thorén First round)
  Julie Richardson (second round)
  Meredith McGrath (qualified)

Qualifiers

  Dinky van Rensburg
  Claire Wegink
  Tessa Price
  Cammy MacGregor
  Laura Golarsa
  Ai Sugiyama
  Meredith McGrath
  Kirrily Sharpe

Lucky losers

  Jenny Byrne
  Marketa Kochta
  Louise Field

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

Fifth qualifier

Sixth qualifier

Seventh qualifier

Eighth qualifier

External links

1993 Wimbledon Championships on WTAtennis.com
1993 Wimbledon Championships – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation

Women's Singles Qualifying
Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles qualifying
Wimbledon Championships


The Power of Now - How Real-Time Analytics Transform Social.
Measuring in real-time can boost your social campaigns, enhance PR, and even net you elusive ROI.
The ability to pivot operations at speed has become one of the defining success factors of businesses in the Internet age. Those organizations that can adapt to changing market conditions quickest, stand to capture more of the available market– and to avoid situations that could kill their business.
This means that even marketing campaigns need to be able to flex and adjust, using the latest data to refine and re-target. And if these adjustments can take place as the campaign is underway, so much the better.
Here are our top three reasons why your social media campaigns need real-time analytics to create a maximum return on investment.
All of the major social media platforms provide tools to monitor reach and engagement for your status updates. But when you are running a campaign across multiple platforms, it becomes quite difficult to collect, collate, and standardize those insights.
The amount of manual effort involved means that reporting is a scheduled job – weekly, monthly, and sometimes only after a campaign has finished. These reports work, but leave you with a delay between social engagement and taking a strategic action to change the course of your campaign.
In the age of instant gratification, customers simply do not want to wait – for anything. According to HubSpot, companies that try to contact potential customers within an hour of receiving queries are nearly 7 times as likely to have meaningful conversations with key decision makers than their competitors who take more than an hour.
This same urgency needs to be applied to every aspect of your campaign. Real-time analytics will help you identify when something is working well, or failing to achieve expectations. These observations will then provide direction, and evidence, for how best to amend the campaign.
After all, it is easier to turn around a failing campaign than it is to justify a failure at the end.
The instantaneous nature of social media means that it is very easy to make a mistake when posting updates, particularly in follow-up messages to customers who have engaged with the campaign. Poorly timed humor or messages that make no account of local customs can be an instant source of offense.
Worse still, the viral nature of social media can elevate a small mistake to global outrage within a matter of hours. An ill-conceived sales offer to commemorate Martin Luther King Day turned into a PR disaster for Minnesota-based clothing store Global Village Duluth.
The brand posted an offer on their Facebook page offering "25% off everything black.". Despite having just 233 page fans at the time of the original post, the offer quickly went viral, with hundreds of messages condemning Global Village Duluth for being insensitive, ignorant, and much worse.
Real-time analytics would have quickly revealed that something was amiss. And a social media management platform capable of performing sentiment analysis would have shown that the peak in interest was far from positive. This early warning could then have been used to try and recover the situation, preventing a major PR disaster that saw the incident named on several "worst of social media PR' lists.
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You will, of course, need a platform capable of collating stats and analytics from all of your social accounts to calculate ROI value. Otherwise, the delay incurred by having to manually collect, collate, and process data will cost you precious time and prevent you from adjusting campaigns quickly.
The ability to determine ROI quickly may well be the most powerful motivating factor for driving further campaign improvements. Particularly if those figures are then shared outside the social media team.
The democratizing nature of the Internet means that your business needs to identify and exploit any potential advantage to stay ahead of the competition; lower prices are no longer the defining factor for your customer's purchasing decisions. Instead, quality and speed of service are becoming more important.
And if real-time analytics can help you boost any aspect of your social marketing and service operations, your team must take advantage of them – or your competitors will.
Ready to learn more? Contact Falcon Social today to arrange a quick demo and see the power of real-time analytics for yourself.


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Things are really happening oh! A Nigerian farmer identified as Tunde William-Funmilayo, has shared the horrific details of how his guard, Jonathan, whom he takes as a brother, attacked him on the night of October 10, 2017. While narrating how he survived the assassination attempt, Tunde disclosed how he died several times and came back to life after being struck on the head with a machete.
Read the account as it happened as shared by Tunde William-Funmilayo below.
"DELIVERED BY THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD !…THE DAY MERCY SAID NO..
And so it was at about 5 am on this day at this hour on the 10th of October last year … I was suddenly awoken by the door of my room opening. this was in the farm bungalow in Ibadan.
Standing inside my room by the door was Jonathan, my guard! I was alarmed and shouted, what do you want ? to which he replied .you called me. I said get out I didn't call you unknown to me at that time he had a knife in his hand. then he rapidly approached the bed shouting sebi you are going to London tomorrow.
I knew I was in trouble but could not make any sense of it. being not naturally violent,.attack mode did not kick in.
to join him as he was bored at the weekends.
"I got up swiftly as he approached and covered his head with my blanket, pinning his hands beside him . then proceeded to push him backwards out of my room along the corridor towards the main living room . all the while trying to figure out what's wrong , I felt my heart starting to race as I was going into panic, but had the presence of mind to regulate my breathing so my reasoning would not be impaired .
at this point, I pushed him through a set of louvre windows. only to reveal the other guard waiting with a machete, I had completely forgotten about him.
jonathan takes the matchet raises it and reveals the knife in the other hand raised to!
I was cornered my brain still looking for answers against attack or even defence… with hindsight, I imagined some bruce lee moves I could have done. but then I sought to connect with him eyeball to eyeball. I looked in his eyes asking and pleading. there was no human being there! only a demon I now knew I was going to die! I could see my staff coming in the morning and my dead body found. I could see it!
but something in me rose up and said no not today speaking in tongues since under my breath I began to quote, the scriptures, despite once being a house pastor the only scripture I remembered was "I shall not die but live to declare the glory of the lord in the land of the living ,this constantly being augmented with tounges . of course I am trying to make light of the situation now but I was terrified, petrified and even remember begging that my children were waiting for me in two days. with his arms, raised still, cornered I knew there nothing else to do. strangely I was more worried about the knife than the Matchette. even my tongues had ceased!
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anyway, I like the running version like the films. so I turned a corner and down I went, face first, later realising my left side was paralysed. I remember being aware of a bamboo stake beside me which I wanted to grab and swing towards my pursuers. but alas I could not move! I tried so hard my brain, what was left of it still frantically thinking in crises mode of what to do and why I could not move.
then I DIED… what I didn't know then was what seemed like five minutes to me before I woke up, apparently was an hour. with rain pouring into my now open skull, brain exposed on the sandy ground.
I didn't know when the pursers went over me or why they did not finish me off. it was later revealed to me that an angel of God took over the area. covered my head with his wings and somehow made these guys just walk by me! these are people who knew I could identify them!
"I just recall getting up and running! even Lazarus didn't run! I ran for the gate and reached my neighbour's gate my dearest pastor and truest friend pastor Alex who has stood in the gap for me for two decades.
on seeing me and my state the silly gateman won't let me in till he got the pastor to say so. while waiting he went to the security toilet got a bucket, filled it with water and uncountable microbes and proceeded to pour this over this same head!
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Tag: last of the Bubbling Under
The last of the Bubbling Under
Alright!
The Temptations circa 1965 – David, Melvin, Paul, Otis, and in the middle, Eddie
We've come to the last of the Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. These are songs that just didn't chart high enough to be deemed a hit. Many of them are quite familiar nonetheless, and I own all of them in some physical form.
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby – Otis (Redding) and Carla (Thomas), #109 in 1969
Crush with Eyeliner – R.E.M., #113 in 1995
Louie Louie – Paul Revere and the Raiders, #103 in 1963, the SECOND version of the song on the list
Like a Rolling Stone – Rolling Stones, #109 in 1995
Her box set gleaned all of these
Skylark, #101 in 1985,
Heartbeats Accelerating, #112 in 1993
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, #101 in 1995
More Than This – Roxy Music, #102 in 1983
Watch Your Step – Carlos Santana, #107 in 1983
Put Your Lights On– Santana featuring Everlast, #118 in 1999
When I Meet Them – Seals & Crofts, #104 in 1972
Sock It To Me, Baby – Bill Minkin as Senator Bobby, #128 in 1968, unfortunately, released just before the RFK assassination
My Kind of Town – Frank Sinatra, #110 in 1964
When Somebody Loves You – Frank Sinatra, #102 in 1965
Kind Woman – Percy Sledge, #116 i 1969
Black Coffee in Bed – Squeeze, #103 in 1982
Bad Sneakers – Steely Dan, #103 in 1975
I Love My Dog – Cat Stevens, #118 in 1966
Matthew and Son – Cat Stevens, #115 in 1967
Brand New Day – Sting, #103 in 2000
Once in a Lifetime – Talking Heads, #103 in 1981; a live version went to #91 in 1986
Road to Nowhere – Talking Heads, #105 in 1985
Carolina in My Mind – James Taylor, #118 in 1969; reached #67 in 1970
Their 5-disc box set gleaned most of these
Paradise, #122 in 1962
The Girl's Alright with Me, #102 in 1964, RB #39; B-side of I'll Be in Trouble (#33 pop)
You've Got To Earn It, #123 in 1965, RB #33; B-side of Since I Lost My Baby (#17 pop)
I Truly, Truly Believe, #116 in 1968, RB #41; B-side of I Wish It Would Rain (#4 pop)
Try Jah Love – Third World, #101 in 1982
A Dime A Dozen – Carla Thomas, #114 in 1968
You Don't Miss a Good Thing (Until It's Gone)– Irma Thomas, #109 in 1965
I'm Gonna Cry Till My Tears Run Dry – Irma Thomas, #130 in 1965
Something in the Air – Thunderclap Newman, #120 in 1970; hit #37 in 1969, reissued because of its inclusion in the movie The Strawberry Statement
Wordy Rappinghood – Tom Tom Club, #105 in 1982
Talk To Ya Later – The Tubes, #101 for two weeks in 1981
River Deep-Mountain High – Ike and Tina Turner, #112 in 1969; original issue on a different label initially reached #88 in 1966
Love's Gone Bad– the Underdogs, #122 in 1967
Need Love – Vanilla Fudge, #111 in 1969
Since I Fell for You – Lenny Welch, #134 in 1967; reissue of #4 1963 hit
The Kids Are Alright – The Who, #106 in 1966
MacArthur Park – Andy Williams, #102 in 1972
Night Train – Steve Winwood, #104 in 1982
I Call It Pretty Music, But the Old People Call It the Blues – Little Stevie Wonder, #101 in 1963
Generals and Majors – XTC, #104 in 1981
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Another One Rides the Bus, #104 in 1981
I Love Rocky Road, #106 in 1983
Headline News, #104 in 1994
Gump, #102 in 1996
Yup, that's the last of the Bubbling Under experiment. What will be the next theme?
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MITER SAW FOR BEGINNERS
By alama | June 8, 2022 | 50
In this video we will be covering the different types of miter saws, their basic parts, general maintenance, safety, and the 5 most common types of cuts.
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Daniel Carrillo on June 8, 2022 at 8:35 pm
what's the tubing connected to the saw for?
Cliff Gorman on June 8, 2022 at 8:37 pm
jackie zhong on June 8, 2022 at 8:37 pm
thank you,very informative, i like the most is that, you put subtitle on things you trying to explain,,keep up the good work.
Breaktime on June 8, 2022 at 8:39 pm
I have heard this is an amazing saw. The hitachi. I found it new for about $600 out the door – worth it? My hang up is the capacity – miter and bevel capacity vs. New saws. And also the capacity of the blade…. but seems to me if a 10" saw can cut 4×12(at least I think it can do that much) what more would I need?
Neither a 10 or 12 can cut a 6×6 either way
bartek20091990 on June 8, 2022 at 8:40 pm
Thank you for important information!
Timur Kholodenko on June 8, 2022 at 8:40 pm
Very nice and useful tips, Sir, thank you.
Ricardo Rosa on June 8, 2022 at 8:41 pm
This is great!, learned so much from it. Glad to subscribe.
Chris Butler on June 8, 2022 at 8:43 pm
Thank you I appreciate this ! I'm a young maintenance guy for a hotel and love learning new skills for my job.
Andy P on June 8, 2022 at 8:43 pm
I have one and love it! Added dust collection which helps… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnP3AsoMI2A
Maxwell Voke on June 8, 2022 at 8:44 pm
Sir thank you for this video but I wish you used a bigger board for these examples
Brian Lough on June 8, 2022 at 8:45 pm
Thanks found this useful!
Joseph Alfaro on June 8, 2022 at 8:45 pm
Michael D. Bauer on June 8, 2022 at 8:46 pm
Absolutely outstanding video! Looking to get a miter saw but have never used one and know nothing about them. You gave me more than enough information to get me started and did it in a way that was not "overloading". Too many people make massively long videos and fill them with unimportant drivel. Yours was to the point and well explained. Great channel.
Wendy Jones on June 8, 2022 at 8:46 pm
Thankgod for people using YouTube to show u good information on how to use tools safely and show you how to use power tools correctly thankyou
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Lillie Estrada on June 8, 2022 at 8:47 pm
Thank you!!! Your explanations are absolutely great!!!!
Ameldur on June 8, 2022 at 8:49 pm
I wish I watched this last Friday.. I was cutting baseboards and man did I waste a lot of material. Learned a lot though, silver lining 😉
Karen Hoskins on June 8, 2022 at 8:51 pm
I'm just trying to get mine open again after 10 yrs of storage I have forgotten how to unlock it 🙄
Zed on June 8, 2022 at 8:53 pm
Good voice level over the background music.The instructions are clear and concise,thanks.I subscribed.
Matthew on June 8, 2022 at 8:53 pm
Thank you for making these videos! You are a great teacher!
gammer 911 GT on June 8, 2022 at 8:54 pm
is the Aimex miter saw also good. because i saw a video on the Aimex miter saw on the link https://youtu.be/b7Ts6OyAMEg
Boyd Crider on June 8, 2022 at 8:55 pm
Great, thanks for posting.
VanCodeSwitch on June 8, 2022 at 8:58 pm
You are so clear and to the point! Thank you
P on June 8, 2022 at 8:58 pm
I was not building homes with my dad at 6 years old, i really love remodeling work, i simply needed a quality craftsman to show me some basics, thank you so much/ subscribed 👍
Martin Silva on June 8, 2022 at 8:59 pm
Thank you! The last tip >>> awesome! Thanks again.
YoWanderful on June 8, 2022 at 9:00 pm
OMG!!! This was awesome! Thank You!
Paul Klenk on June 8, 2022 at 9:03 pm
He needs to be wearing gloves
Edwin Woodward on June 8, 2022 at 9:05 pm
Ive learned a lot, you are a really good teacher! Thanks.
Robert Roby on June 8, 2022 at 9:05 pm
Excellent video! I just purchased my first mitre saw, so this is valuable information. I'm going to rewatch it and start using it. Thanks a lot.
Krishan Ramsammy on June 8, 2022 at 9:08 pm
Thanks a million bro🙏🙏
Aurora Borealis on June 8, 2022 at 9:08 pm
Thank you for not having a pointless themed intro
The French Nanny on June 8, 2022 at 9:09 pm
Very helpful. Thanks!
jane williams on June 8, 2022 at 9:10 pm
Excellent teacher. Thanks so much!
M D on June 8, 2022 at 9:10 pm
Hi Sir. Could you explain why every time I cut piece is about under 1/2 in thickness it always fly out of my saw ( dangerous) did I set up wrong or saw is not good enough ( brand Kobalt) but long than 1.0in is fine after cut off piece it stay there. Thks
Thomas Nguyen on June 8, 2022 at 9:12 pm
Thank you for the tips! Great video!
eddy a on June 8, 2022 at 9:13 pm
Hi, what dust shroud does your saw have? Thanks
lynjs on June 8, 2022 at 9:14 pm
Thank you, Sir. I am a real green newbie. I have to use my brother's Skilz Miter saw to cut some baseboards to finish up the hall closets. We had water damage twice. We paid someone to fix flooring and everything. However, they didn't finish. So, despite paying this said person, I have to finish my closets myself. It is insane that one pays someone to do the work, but in the end, you're either paying another to finish up or fix their mess or you're doing it yourself. You have eased a lot of my fear with this item. I will re-watch till I get comfortable enough to do my project. Thank you again.
Marc Wibble on June 8, 2022 at 9:17 pm
Thanks, it was well worth viewing for the stop block notch tip alone!
5th Pixel on June 8, 2022 at 9:19 pm
Craig Oliver on June 8, 2022 at 9:20 pm
excellent video. I just bought a new compound, double bevel miter saw and wanted some tips. I learned a lot! Thanks
SILVERTONGUE DAYWALKER on June 8, 2022 at 9:21 pm
Fab Fab Fab. Your set up is very professional. You really are great with the Camera and explained everything one needs to know in great Detail. Hope to buy one in the future.
Bob Brock on June 8, 2022 at 9:23 pm
I had my miter saw throw a piece of wood when I was practicing doing an angled cut. I think my mistake was not letting my saw get up to full speed before making my cut. It scared the living hell out of me. I watched some videos on how to avoid this in the future. Does anyone have any other tips for avoiding this?
Backtatt on June 8, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Scundoor Sup on June 8, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Hitatchi is terrible quality
They should stick to TVs
Sue Mitchell on June 8, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Great intro to using the mitre saw thankyou!
Johnny Vegas on June 8, 2022 at 9:30 pm
nice video, thanks
J V L on June 8, 2022 at 9:30 pm
Nice tips. Just got my Dewalt mitre saw today.My wood workshop is almost complete with the basic tools.Hope to do some DIY stuff soon.Cheers from India.
Bonnie Miller on June 8, 2022 at 9:30 pm
Velo Moose on June 8, 2022 at 9:31 pm
Just got my first miter saw…a Milwaukee Fuel 10" dual bevel cordless. This video is super helpful, especially the tip about sneaking up to the line on the miter cuts. Thank you.
Melissa K on June 8, 2022 at 9:32 pm


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Liked: This was an OK stay, but wouldn't repeat it. However, the Coco's restaurant was adjacent to the hotel, and that was really good! Parking was fine. The front desk attendant phoned the room to make sure everything was OK just after we got in the room. That was nice, but we didn't know some of the issues yet. The hotel was full, so I doubt there was another room available, anyway.
Disliked: Seemed like there were multiple little things just not up to snuff. The bathroom sink didn't drain, so we decided to use the sink in the kitchette. But the drain in that sink made thunking noises, on and off, all night. The TV remote barely worked. The "breakfast" available was a granola bar or a wrapped muffin.
Disliked: Curb we?re you move luggage into lobby.
Disliked: When I checked in, they were fully booked and didn?t have the double room I had reserved online months prior to our stay. The bedding was cheap and thin. I called the front desk for an extra blanket and was told I had to go get it because the woman at the desk couldn?t leave her post. As I headed down to get the blanket, there was the woman who was supposed to be at the desk helping other guests into their room just a few doors down from where my room was. She wasn?t very accommodating or pleasant.
Disliked: Staff was unfriendly, front desk Latina female arguing with customer when we arrived...Found that uncomfortable. Should not consider packet of hot cereal breakfast. Coffee ran out and female black staff with limp forgot to replace. Several folks waiting. No bathroom downstairs. No cooking utensils? Yet there was a stove. Don?t think I will return.
Liked: I did like the location and how close it was to a Walmart and grocery store.
Liked: I did like the location and how close it was to a Walmart and grocery store. The gentleman that checked me in and out was very pleasant. The woman that work their all seemed to have an attitude when I called about my concerns.
Disliked: The room was small compared to what I am use to with a kitchen included. I had someone attempt to come into my room one night and was told the manager would contact me and I NEVER spoke to a manager. The entire hotel was without hit water for a full day. No compensation was attempting to be given for any inconveniences. My main complaint is I was made to feel like it was my fault someone had access to my room because I didn't have the deadbolt bolted, thankfully I did have the bar that goes over the door closed and that prevented them from coming into my room. Why did they have a key that worked for my room?