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Wander up onto the moors to see the Cow and Calf Rocks Credit: getty
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Mention Ilkley and, almost without exception, people adopt a funny face, bob their heads and begin singing about the dangers of walking on the town's moors without a hat – On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at – usually in a terrible Yorkshire accent. But there's more to the West Yorkshire town, at the gateway to Wharfedale, than its heathery and rocky moorland, wonderful though that is.
From its Roman origins and rare Anglo-Saxon crosses, to its spa-town heritage, promenades and riverside walks, it has much more than a casual glance might suggest. Yes, it has smart shops and tea rooms, but also real-ale pubs and thriving festivals and is, according to many, more down-to-earth than its rival, Harrogate. Throughout August, its summer festival (summerfestival.ilkley.org) features a continental food market, jazz and swing bands, guided walks plus a rock concert.
So about this hat – will I really need one?
The weather can be contrary on the moors, so pop one in your pocket and set off for the Cow and Calf Rocks. These massive grit stone outcrops, formed by glacial action at the eastern end of the moors, dominate the skyline.
Of course, most locals know they are really here as a result of Giant Rombald (the moor is part of the larger Rombald Moor) having a domestic with his wife. On a clear day, the views are stupendous: north-east to Almscliffe Crag and the Vale of York, and west up the green folds of Wharfedale.
Head west, watching out for grouse, curlews, and rock carvings known as cup-and-ring stones – thought to be either Neolithic or Bronze Age – to the huddle of whitewashed cottages above one of the moor's tarns. Built in the 18th century to house plunge-pools fed by a nearby spring, at White Wells (visitbradford.com) you can see the origins of Ilkley's establishment as a fashionable Victorian spa town.
Ilkley was established as a fashionable Victorian spa town Credit: getty
Next take the 15-minute downhill walk through Mill Ghyll to the top of Brook Street. Here you'll be rewarded with one of the finest views of Ilkley. The street stretches down to the River Wharfe and up to the wooded slopes on the far side, while to the left sprawls the tree-lined boulevard of The Grove with its canopied shops, colourful flower beds, steepled Christchurch and jolly bandstand.
Isn't there a famous tea room on The Grove?
Indeed. Bettys – a Yorkshire institution – is celebrating 100 years of fine teas and fancy baking (bettys.co.uk) this year. The loose-leaf teas and cakes served on gilt-handled trolleys are worth the prices.
Treats at Bettys
Anything else worth seeing in town?
Absolutely. In Cunliffe Road you'll find another Ilkley institution: Mortens, a family-run hardware store (established 1937) whose Tardis-like interior can sort you out with everything from ostrich feather dusters to watering cans. While The Grove used to be the premier shopping street, for a mix of smart and quirky, try Leeds Road.
At The Plant Point (theplantpoint.co.uk) you can buy exotic houseplants while Fuggle and Golding (fuggleandgolding.co.uk) sells batch-brewed craft beers, and The Commute (thecommuteyorkshire.com) offers coffee as well as bicycles. Across the road, the glossy counters of Lishman's butchers (lishmansbutchers.co.uk) present a startling variety of meats from Yorkshire black bacon to prize-winning pork pies and gigantic sausage rolls called, with immodest Yorkshire style, Sausage Rolls Royces.
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I'm full to bursting. I might need another walk now...
That's the spirit! Head down to the river, calling in at the Manor House Museum (ilkleymanorhouse.org; open on Saturdays and Sundays; free). The town's most historic building, it dates back to the 14th century and has a medieval core, built on the site of a Roman fort, Olicana.
Run by volunteers, events held here range from photographic exhibitions to Roman fun days. Next door, the parish church is worth a visit for its rare carved Anglo-Saxon crosses (allsaintsilkley.org). Next follow the riverside path, below the church and over the pedestrian suspension bridge into Middleton Woods; a haze of bluebells in the spring and magical in any season.
Take a woodland walk at Bolton Abbey Credit: getty
For more woodland walks, drive the six miles up the valley to Bolton Abbey, part of the Devonshire estates (boltonabbey.com; £10 per car). Explore the ruined 12th-century Augustinian priory, testing your balancing skills on the Welly Walk or stepping stones, or strolling through Strid Wood.
Is there anywhere to cool off?
You bet. Ilkley is home to one of England's best-preserved – and Grade ll-Listed – lidos. An Art Deco swirl with original Thirties café and sun terrace, a highlight of the lido is the peerless view to the moors (bradford.gov.uk; adults £8.30, children £4.10). Be warned, it's unheated, but that just makes it all the more refreshing.
Swimming always makes me hungry...
No problem. Bistrot Pierre (bistrotpierre.co.uk; from £12) serves up classic French dishes such as boeuf bourguignon and moules-frites in a Parisian-style dining room of mirrored walls and colourful banquettes. In the former local newspaper offices, Friends of Ham (friendsofham.co.uk; sharing boards around £13) has a hipsterish feel and specialises in charcuterie, cheeses and craft beers.
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And where can I lay said hat?
Slap-bang in the centre of town, The Crescent Inn (telegraph.co.uk/tt/the-crescent-inn-hotel; doubles from £89) has boutique-simple rooms, a smart restaurant, a real-ale bar and French-style breakfasts. Alternatively, Olicana Park (olicanapark.co.uk; short stays from £200) has cosy cottages and striking Swiss-chalet-style log cabins.
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GM said a 40 day strike in the US would cost it around $3 billion in profits
General Motors cuts its earnings forecast for 2019, saying that a 40-day US strike by the United Auto Workers union that brought virtually all of its North American operations to a standstill would cost it around $3 billion in profits this year.
But GM shares rose in early trading on the back of a better-than-expected quarterly net profit because of robust US sales of high-margin pickup trucks and SUVs.
Wall Street analysts have viewed the strike costs as a tradeoff for three US plant closures agreed to with the union that will boost GM's profitability.
"The underlying business was strong this quarter," GM's chief financial officer Dhivya Suryadevara told reporters at GM's headquarters, describing the strike as a "one-time impact."
Last Friday, the 48,000 United Auto Workers union members at GM ratified a new four-year labour deal with the Detroit company.
The 40-day strike cost GM more than $2 billion according to analysts.
The Detroit-based automaker reported a 6% increase in third-quarter US sales, led by its highly-profitable full-size pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers that helped it race to a strong profit margin of almost 11% in North America.
It is that underlying business that has investors excited.
Virtually all of the pre-tax profits came from its North American business and its captive finance arm.
In China, where GM reported a 17.5% drop in third-quarter sales, the company's equity income fell 40% to $300m.
It was the fifth quarterly sales decline in a row for GM in China, the world's largest car market, where the industry is expecting a second consecutive annual sales drop.
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers expects a 5% decline for industry sales in 2019, then contracting or growing slowly over the next three years.
Last week, GM's US rival, Ford, cut its forecast for operating profit for the year after a disappointing quarter hurt by higher warranty costs, bigger discounts and weaker-than-expected performance in China.
GM said the strike by the UAW had cost it $1 billion on pre-tax profits in the quarter, or 52 cents per share.
CFO Suryadevara said the automaker lost around 300,000 units of vehicle production during the strike.
The union wrung higher pay and other benefits from GM as part of the deal to end the strike.
Under the deal, GM will invest $9 billion in the US, including $7.7 billion directly in its plants, with the rest going to joint ventures.
The biggest US carmaker said the full-year impact of the strike would be around $2 per share, or around $3 billion.
GM said it now expected full-year adjusted earnings per share between $4.50 to $4.80, down from its previous forecast of $6.50 to $7 per share.
GM also cut its projected 2019 capital expenditures to around $7.5 billion from its previous outlook of $8 billion to $9 billion.
The carmaker posted third-quarter net income of $2.3 billion, or $1.60 a share, down from $2.5 billion, or $1.75 a share, a year earlier.
Excluding one-time items, GM earned $1.72 a share.
Analysts had expected $1.31, on average, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
GM said its revenue fell slightly to $35.47 billion from $35.79 billion, above analysts' estimates of $33.82 billion.

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TUTICORIN: A drainage-cleaning robot has been introduced for the first time in Tamil Nadu at the city corporation here as part of efforts to rid the state of manual scavenging.
According to officials, the robot named Bandicoot has been introduced at a cost of Rs 18 lakh.
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The building that houses the headquarters of Uber, seen June 21, 2017, in San Francisco. Uber acknowledged more than 3,000 sexual assaults occurred during U.S. Uber rides in 2018, the company said in a long-awaited safety report. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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PUBLISHED: December 13, 2019 at 10:58 am | UPDATED: December 15, 2019 at 10:17 pm
Uber racks up more than 3.1 million ride-share rides every day. That's more than a billion rides each year. Certainly a big number, but so is this: 3,045. That's the number of sexual assaults that occurred in Uber vehicles in 2018, according to a first-of-its-kind report released Dec. 5 by the ride-share giant. For 2017, the number was 2,936.
Uber deserves credit for putting out the report it didn't have to issue. In an ad published last week, Uber said it released its findings "not to find out what's going right, but what's going wrong." Finding solutions won't be easy. Of the 5,981 reports of sexual assault in 2017 and 2018, 515 involved rape or attempted rape. The most common type of sexual assault was nonconsensual touching — 1,560 incidents in 2018.
What's the best prism through which to view these numbers? Uber's right when it says the vast majority of trips, 99.9%, occur without incident. It's also right to say that just one assault on a passenger or a driver — Uber says a share of assaults involve drivers as victims — is one too many.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said his company is "a platform that connects people. And we have to keep making the kinds of investments to make sure those connections are constructive and safe." In the same interview, he added, "I think that Uber is at the size now where we are a reflection of society. And sexual assault, sexual misconduct is a societal problem."
But in this context — a business built on putting total strangers in close contact — it's an Uber problem. The Uber business model has at its core the idea of bringing together nonemployee drivers and random passengers through software. It's a manifestation of the gig economy. Airbnb, DoorDash, Instacart and even Facebook all thrive on the level of faith that the client or user has in the interaction. In Uber's case, that faith comes from the ride-share titan's ubiquity. More than a billion rides every year, and rarely does something horrible happen.
Uber and other ride-share apps try to reinforce that faith with assurances that they've fine-tuned measures to safeguard both passengers and drivers. Background checks on drivers have been tightened. Uber has introduced "Ridecheck" technology that flags whenever an Uber car has made an unexpected stop or has crashed, allowing a passenger to report what has happened to Uber or police. And contacting 911 about an Uber ride emergency is now possible through the app.
But 3,045 sexual assault incidents on Uber trips in 2018 alone suggests that Uber has a lot of work to do. Uber's safety report marks a good start — knowing the scale of a problem helps, as does being transparent about it. Lyft, Uber's chief rival in the ride-share race, says it will release its own report, though it hasn't said when.
Ride-share has been a godsend to countless cities. It's the product of Americans' love affair with smartphones and desire to get from A to B conveniently and economically. But passengers — and drivers — deserve to rely on more than faith alone if they're to feel safe inside a car with a stranger.
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whenever my dad bought and established a succulent company called hill Crest Gardens to complement his tree seedling business back in the 1990s, it absolutely wasn't a principal focus of their.
A small part hustle that often broke also and sometimes had been a tax-write off with regards to had beenn't lucrative.
Hill Crest Gardens ended up being a very various kind of company compared to the kind my father had turned out to be a professional at.
In the beginning, the company he purchased that became hill Crest Gardens sold flowers via print catalog and e-mail lists.
He tried to make it a wholesale procedure. But working together with big box shops, distribution centers, and large garden facilities had been such a pain.
He quit by the early 2000s and chose to move the business online to sell and ship plants directly to clients.
That's when he reached out if you ask me – their son with a pc science and marketing degree residing significantly more than 500 miles away from home.
It had been mostly my initiative to simply help with advertising and remaking the website. I was naturally attracted to the competitive and imaginative nature of retail business.
At first, We saw it as a lot more of an interest and "helping our family business out a little bit" than as a viable career course.
That has been the early 2000s, back when we'd a cool website on a vintage platform. Didn't everyone then?
I happened to be helping to make yes our Google Adwords had been ready to go which we weren't overspending our spending plan.
That has been about this – and things putted along.
I still had a complete time work in Southern Ca. My father still had their full-time B2B family members company.
You might have two guys pursuing a side-hustle, but that doesn't create the outcomes of a complete time focus. Sales were flat through the 2000s.
Absolutely nothing might of ever happened, if it weren't for Magento Go shutting down and suggesting their clients to BigCommerce.
Today, hill Crest Gardens is California's fastest growing online succulent vendor. And, we're recovering and much more efficient than ever.
In 2017, we saw a 45% boost in income with a decrease in Google ad invest vs. 2016. That's huge!
In 2012, I made the decision it absolutely was time for you to turn that cool old site into one thing semi-usable. I came across Magento Go and utilized my computer technology background to reconstruct the website.
Product sales went up that very first year.
They went up a lot more that 2nd year.
And, 2014 – Magento Go announced which they were shutting down.
The email they delivered to alert us suggested BigCommerce. In my experience, it had been a way to seriously reconsider the mechanics to build an on-line brand that complemented the offline side company.
All of a sudden, I happened to be putting more hours into my side-gig, getting decidedly more and much more serious about this amazing site that was switching a profit despite our reluctance.
Most likely, things have been complicated on Magento Go.
Modifications needed my specialized some time attention.
Any brand new features must be incorporated –– by me personally.
Tiny modifications were a large demand on my already restricted time.
There have been a lot of reasons why you should perhaps not put way too many eggs inside online business basket.
However things changed – fast.
The reason why? Regarding brand new platform, our product sales skyrocketed.
We quickly expanded from a team of three to a group of 20 – as well as in more or less four years, our product sales are up 10x.
By that time, I'd currently quit the corporate work, but the growth had me going back home to Northern Ca to cultivate the team and build a world-class brand.
Today, I'm an executive at hill Crest Gardens and I oversee all our operations.
So how'd we get there?
Just how did we get from a fascinating, family part hustle to create my father's B2B business (which we nevertheless run) to a consumer market via the internet?
Well, that's an account about fear, Amazon and making sure my father's legacy endures beyond my generation.
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But there clearly was still an elephant within the space: Amazon.
I was well aware that Amazon had been (and is) taking over every industry.
I knew so it behooves smaller businesses like us to build out communities and lifestyles NOW before Amazon comes for our portion.
We knew I needed to buffer the brand name from Amazon ASAP. This implied a shift in focus around our marketing efforts.
Because right here had been the fact: until i possibly could make the elephant in space more of a mouse, i'dn't have the ability to grow the Mountain Crest Garden brand name effectively.
We had a need to buffer united states, and secure united states from Amazon's overarching reach.
Also to get that protection, we required a community.
To construct that community, well – we required content, and a lot of it.
Amazon's business model benefits cheapness of product over anything else, something that doesn't actually fly for many people in the world of live flowers.
You can't palletize and store flowers in a Prime warehouse without quality suffering, for example. Amazon additionally can't do community and lifestyle like niche portions can.
They can't harness the passion and connection with my dad, which he passed down in my experience, which i will now tell our customers.
This is where the largest problem comes in for brands just like me (and I'm presuming like you).
How will you create the content had a need to build a residential district to beat out Amazon?
In 2015, I happened to be getting e-mails constantly from apps and tool companies looking to get me personally to make use of their service.
We ignored almost all of them.
Most likely, sales had been rising, traffic was rising. You merely have plenty amount of time in your day.
But when I understood we needed content to build town essential to bumper ourselves in through the effect of Amazon, we knew we required help.
That's when I seemed back in a company that had reached out a couple of months early in the day.
RivetWorks had arrive at me personally via e-mail with a content-based marketing solution they said helped brands promote user-generated content.
The very first time they reached away, I became too busy. Bing AdWords ended up being working, and I had been heads down inside daily.
Nevertheless the more we seriously considered it, the greater I knew the potential ended up being here.
Ask clients for it all: a review, a photo of the product in the open, and a star score.
Obtain permission to use the above for marketing purposes.
Immediately update those pictures and reviews to the correct item pages –– and then launch social advertising campaigns with the content submitted by users, and unique reviews of the goods.
It had been interesting – though to be fair, I still don't 100percent purchase in to it.
Over RivetWorks, I also utilize Shopper Approved (which automates a study besides for text-based reviews).
It's an all-in reviews strategy: get fast text ratings to establish popularity, but in addition get picture based reviews for social proof and great initial content.
They have been simply less exciting.
With RivetWorks, I got photo evidence that individuals liked my services and products – with no additional focus on my end.
And also at the full time, I had gotten great at Google AdWords. I figured when the rest of the procedure could be automated and all We had a need to do ended up being discover a new marketing platform (Facebook), it had been like a win-win.
I forced Google AdWords administration to a company (Logical Position raise your voice here as it's working great!), built out our team, and we leaned into a new online marketing strategy.
Here's exactly what occurred next.
A big element of our brand new strategy included leveraging social evidence through user-generated content.
With Rivet's help, we started doing that.
We started spotlighting photos of just what clients were really doing with your flowers.
Within per year, we collected over 2,000 user-generated pictures, and began highlighting them all over our website, videos, weblog as well as on our social records.
To encourage submissions, Rivet helped us incentivize this process via a competition which customers who distribute images are entered to win a $100 present certificate once a month.
Today, we're still achieving this – and it's working.
12 months over year, we're seeing a 40percent upsurge in client engagement and submission.
February 2017: 90 pictures and videos presented.
February 2018: 125 photos and videos submitted.
And, February continues to be really our off-season. A year ago we had 119 pictures and videos for March, 204 for April… then it skyrocketed to 494 for May!
Therefore, use 40percent gains for the people months, while'll get a sense of what we expect this present year.
Then, we repackage this user-generated content as social media marketing product.
In the average Facebook post that has among our consumer pictures, we see high organic engagements: 100+ likes, a number of shares, and 3,000+ reached.
It's effortless natural advertising for us – and also the sales keep rolling in.
Alongside user-generated pictures, we also place a huge consider gathering comments from customers and reviews, which we then leverage for both our external and internal marketing efforts.
We encourage new customers to accomplish our short pop-up survey through Shopper Approved, which asks questions about why the shopper chosen a particular item and why they're buying from us.
As soon as they've received the item, we follow-up with a full email survey, which again assists us gather important components of social proof like testimonials and reviews – whilst additionally helping united states better comprehend our clients.
The greatest element of all of these efforts: They're mainly automated.
Meaning we could stay hands-off and watch this rich, appropriate content roll in month after thirty days.
Looking back at in which we began, it's amazing to observe how far we've come.
Ecommerce didn't remove instantaneously. Consistently, it had been just…there.
It wasn't until I was able to put my complete attention into this procedure and now we began utilizing automated user-generated content that it transformed from a mere side hustle into a growing, lucrative operation.
Not just did this development enable me to leave my business job, nonetheless it's also now one thing i could put myself into 100per cent.
That I am able to experiment with.
That i could view grow.
It's a way to build something that persists – as an extension of family business.
Even though we focus heavily on site design and UGC, these aren't the actual only real tools i personally use to make what was when a 1990's offline, B2B succulent farm into California's many effective succulent website for both our conventional B2B customers and whole new, growing portion of B2C customers.
Constant re-evaluation of all of the company procedures and costs, selecting inefficiencies.
Make the most of a great ecommerce advantage: constant experimenting with prices, services, names, description, and on-site information.
Landing pages, landing experience, and on-site Search Engine Optimization are supercritical! A location in which sweating the tiny material actually pays off.
For aesthetic items like plants, obsess concerning the quality of your main item pictures (perspectives, back ground, lenses, lighting, post processing and editing, and realism).
Be honest in regards to the fortune involved in good timing in a particular market. Maybe you had a great idea however the time just wasn't quite appropriate! I'm not sure how hill Crest Gardens could have grown decade ago whenever succulents had been mostly referred to as "cactus" and novelty collector plants – even if we'd all of this same technology!
In the long run, though, we're building our community. We're buffering against Amazon. We're bringing this household business to the next decade.
And I also couldn't become more proud.
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"Almost Lover" is the first single released from A Fine Frenzy's debut album One Cell in the Sea. The single experienced success in Europe. The single was a huge success in Slovenia, being one of the most popular songs of 2008 there, along with Duffy's Mercy. However, Slovenia has no official singles chart as singles are not sold there. On all unofficial airplay-only charts, the song reached number one. Show Almost Lover piano sheet
A Fine Frenzy description
Alison Sudol, known professionally as A Fine Frenzy, is an American alternative singer-songwriter, pianist, and Goodwill Ambassador for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Her debut album, One Cell in the Sea, was released in 2007, followed in 2009 by Bomb in a Birdcage. Sudol's songs have charted in the United States, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, and France, among other countries. Her music has also been featured on numerous television shows and featured in several major motion pictures. A Fine Frenzy's latest album, Pines, was released on October 9, 2012. More piano sheets by A Fine Frenzy
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Alphabet reports a strong third quarter despite free-falling advertising values
Alphabet's strategy of trying to stuff the difference between declining mobile advertising value with additional clicks appears to still be paying off as the company once again showed Wall Street that it can make a ton of money and continue to grow.
Alphabet (we're just gonna call it what it is because we're talking about the core business: Google) reported earnings of $9.06 per share on revenue of $22.4 billion. That's another 20 percent gain compared to the same quarter a year ago. Wall Street was looking for earnings of $8.64 per share on revenue of $22.05 billion.
Google's business was for some time called into question because the value of advertisements on mobile was not as high as on desktop — specifically desktop search — which was Google's sweet spot. Indeed, Google's cost-per-click, a key metric determining the value of an ad, fell another 11 percent year-over-year this quarter. But aggregate paid clicks increased 33 percent in the third quarter year-over-year, showing it's still able to compensate for that decrease. In the last quarter, Google's cost-per-click fell 7 percent compared to the second quarter in 2015, and cost-per-click was down 5 percent quarter-over-quarter.
Still, it's going to remain a question mark for some time as its cost-per-click continues at a double-digit decline. Google has to get its ads on as many devices and in as many mediums as it possibly can — whether that's through a voice-driven speaker, its own phone where it can control the experience or pushing its services across as many devices as it possibly can. Wall Street may tolerate that decline for the time being, but it's going to have to taper off at some point if Google is going to show it's going to be a strong core business.
For now, because the company's strategy is working, and that last quarter the company showed it could continue to work, it looks like Wall Street is happy. The stock isn't going ballistic — it's up about 2 percent — but it's not on a wild swing down right now, either. In addition, Google is also authorizing a roughly $7 billion share repurchase program, in another move that is going to return additional value to its overlords on Wall Street.
As the years have passed, Google has gone from one of the only online advertising juggernauts to going head-to-head with Facebook, whose advertising business is rapidly expanding and offering a good alternative to Google. Both perform really well at different parts of the marketing funnel — Facebook is great for brand awareness while Google is good for capturing purchase intent with search — but they're increasingly competing with each other for advertising dollars.
And that's also not to mention emerging platforms like Snapchat which, while it isn't necessarily a threat to Google yet, represents a potential additional advertising platform that could suck away the dollars Google is hoping to acquire as it tries to further expand its advertising business. Snapchat's valuation may reach as high as $35 billion in an upcoming IPO, and it previously projected it would hit $1 billion in revenue in 2017.
So while Alphabet has been trying to rapidly roll out new devices and markets, like Google Home and the Pixel, all eyes are still going to be on its advertising business for now — which is staggering. In fact, questions about the company's advertising growth were at the time largely stamped out when it delivered a tremendous second quarter that showed that it could continue to grow that business.
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Okay! Back to Alphabet.
Earlier this month, Alphabet held an event where it unveiled its first phone, the Pixel, and an Amazon Echo-like device in Google Home. It's also pushing its voice assistant, Google Assistant, hard across all its devices as it looks to get people closer and closer to using Google for mundane tasks. While not necessarily monetized, there's plenty of opportunity to do so, and keeping users glued to their devices gives them more eyeballs that they could potentially monetize with ads.
But not everything is well within the Alphabet empire. The company's "other bets" revenue increased only marginally from $141 million to $197 million while still losing nearly $1 billion. The loss declined year-over-year — from $980 million in the third quarter last year to $865 in the third quarter this year — but Alphabet, and in particular CFO Ruth Porat, have indicated that the company is going to be more judicious about its spending going forward.
In the past year, Alphabet shares have gone up by around 11 percent. That's not quite the crazy performance of Facebook — which is seen to be a huge growth opportunity — which has grown around 24 percent. But Google is also worth around $550 billion, and even small-point swings represent an enormous shift in value for the company. At one point, even, Google surpassed Apple as the most valuable company in the world.
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Students for Life of America has been bringing our "Planned Parenthood Truth" display to college campuses across the country. The display asks students to read real reports from public health departments and mainstream news sources about Planned Parenthood's facilities and their failure to protect women. At the end of the display, students are asked if they trust Planned Parenthood.
We are going on to college campuses to expose the unsanitary conditions in Planned Parenthood.


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Ep 277- Pandemic: The Action Faction (w/ Tommy Fisher, Brian Kolfage, Mike Cernovich, Larry Elder, and Vish Burra)
Raheem Kassam, Jack Maxey, and Greg Manz are joined by Steve Bannon to discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic as the nation still struggles to recover with debates raging about border security, criminal justice reform, and re-opening schools. Calling in is Tommy Fisher and Brian Kolfage to provide an update from the new wall being built. Mike Cernovich calls in to discuss his thoughts on President Trump's recent DACA declaration. Also calling in is Larry Elder to discuss his new movie "Uncle Tom" and BLM.
or watch here…
1. Steve Bannon says President Trump should sanction Xi Jinping for coronavirus pandemic, treatment of Hong Kong: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/steve-bannon-says-president-trump-should-sanction-xi-jinping-for-coronavirus-pandemic-treatment-of-hong-kong/vi-BB16CFDm
2. This contractor says he can build Trump's border wall faster and cheaper than the U.S. can: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-14/tommy-fisher-trump-private-border-wall
3. Trump tours wall as construction hits 200-mile mark, says southern border has 'never been more secure': https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-wall-200-mile-mark-southern-border
4. We Build The Wall: https://webuildthewall.us
5. Trump says he'll sign order with 'road to citizenship' for DACA recipients: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506844-trump-says-hell-sign-order-with-road-to-citizenship-for-daca
6. Numbers USA: https://www.numbersusa.org
7. Cernovich: What I Find Weird About DACA: https://www.pscp.tv/Cernovich/1lDGLkaoBRYKm
8. Hoaxed: http://hoaxedmovie.com
9. Trump commutes Roger Stone's sentence, days before prison term set to begin: https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/trump-commutes-roger-stones-sentence-days-before-prison-term-set-to-begin
10. Warriors coach Steve Kerr: China doesn't ask about US 'human rights abuses': https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/465447-warriors-coach-steve-kerr-china-doesnt-ask-about-us-human
11. NBA has a new CEO in China. His first task is to make up with Beijing: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/business/nba-china-ceo-daryl-morey/index.html
12. The Prince Reader's Guide: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/531158/the-prince-by-niccolo-machiavelli/9780140449150/readers-guide/
13. Former Acting DNI Grenell on declassifying Russia probe docs: 'Transparency is never political': https://www.foxnews.com/media/grenell-on-declassifying-russia-probe-docs-transparency-is-never-political
14. Mike Cernovich's website: https://www.cernovich.com
15. Larry Elder's Uncle Tom: https://uncletom.com
16. Chinese fixer targets FIVE Prime Ministers: New evidence of Beijing's infiltration of British Establishment as it emerges leading figure 'tasked with grooming foreign elites' met politicians including Boris Johnson, David Cameron and Tony Blair: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8515561/Chinese-fixer-targets-five-leaders-New-evidence-Chinas-infiltration-British-Establishment.html
17. Arizona's surge in coronavirus cases has been "the worst in the entire country," health expert says: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-coronavirus-cases-worst-in-united-states/
18. Andrzej Duda wins re-election as Polish president: https://www.ft.com/content/1fa0c837-7cbe-4188-aff5-7a9e4a1b28b6
19. Over Under Clothing: https://www.overunderclothing.com
1 Raheem Kassam, Jack Maxey, and Greg Manz are joined by Steve Bannon to discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic as the nation still struggles to recover with debates raging about border security, criminal justice reform, and re-opening schools. Calling in is Tommy Fisher and Brian Kolfage to provide an update from the new wall being built. Mike Cernovich calls in to discuss his thoughts on President Trump's recent DACA declaration. Also calling in is Larry Elder to discuss his new movie "Uncle Tom" and BLM.
2.1 Show Notes
Ep 278- Pandemic: CCP Cabaret (w/ Larry Elder, Bryan Horn, and Vish Burra)
Matthew Palumbo: TikTok – The Next Battlefield


HAMMOND - Parking for the Southeastern Louisiana University versus Sam Houston State playoff game must be handled differently than regular season games in order to meet NCAA guidelines. University officials stated that they want to make sure the campus and community are fully award of these significant changes.
Parking areas will be cleared Friday night to accommodate paid parking beginning at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7. Vehicles left overnight are subject to being towed.
The Hammond Christmas Parade will also roll promptly at 10 a.m. on Dec. 7. The parade will begin at the University Center and travel south on General Pershing Street. It will then follow a route in downtown Hammond and return north on North Oak Street and finally end back at the University Center. Traffic from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. will therefore be limited on these streets due to the parade route.


The coffee shop offers a wide range of light lunches and mouthwatering home made cakes, while the Gatehouse bar is open for performances offering a selected range of drinks.
Stafford Gatehouse Theatre is in the heart of Stafford, just seconds from the main shopping centre and central tourist attractions. It is less than 10 minutes drive from Junctions 13 and 14 of the M6 and can be found by following the theatre mask symbols on routes into the town centre. There are ample parking facilities a short walk away from the theatre and cycle racks are available outside the building.
Nearest railway station is Stafford, which is 1 mile away.
Ancient High House, StaffordTake a walk through time in the largest remaining timber-framed town house in England which was built in 1595. Period room settings reflect the fascinating history of the house and also houses the museum of the Staffordshire Yeomanry.
Stafford Castle and Visitor Centre, StaffordAn impressive example of the motte and bailey system. The site itself extends to over 26 acres and consists of Keep, inner bailey, outer bailey, woodland, herb garden, visitor centre and car park. Stafford Castle is considered one of the best surviving examples of Norman earthworks in the country.
Izaak Walton's Cottage, StoneThatched timber framed 16th century cottage bequeathed to the people of Staford by the celebrated author Izaak Walton. it is home to a small angling museum, herb garden and tea room. Also a venue for small exclusive weddings.


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Researchers are increasingly using machine learning to solve real world problem. It enable computers to teach themselves by examining huge data sets. Facebook uses the machine learning to enable computers to categories text and recognise images. People may be curious to know about Facebook's Human Like Learning applications. This article briefly explains Facebook's DeepText and Moments App.
Billions of people check, Facebook every day, and has trillions of status updates, event invitations, photo albums. The majority of text-based information on Facebook servers is unstructured. Facebook doesn't know user's intent of posting. Deep Text understand the meaning and sentiment behind posted text. They are building it to help people to find things interested in and weed out spam.
DeepText is trained using Deep Neural learning algorithm by presenting huge data sets. It categorise text and provide meaning to all the text. The company is striving to turn all that unstructured data into meaningful information. It facilitates users to efficiently search required content. Basically the Deep neural learning is a sub area of artificial intelligence.
The company is developing great capacity to manage and monitor all the information posted on the network. It use Deep Text to connect people with similar interests, sell more ads, and help people find things they're looking for. Facebook's Human Like Learning application, DeepText is working successfully.
Moments is an interesting photo sharing solution. It lets you share them with a few taps. The app is powered by artificial intelligence based face recognition algorithm. The app uses machine learning to learn from set of photos. Then it automatically recognise people in the photo. Moments is one of the Facebook's Human Like Learning applications.
Moments scans your camera photos for familiar faces and lets you quickly "sync" them to the subject of the photo. Your will see the photos added to their own synced collection, if they uses the app.
However, they will receive a notification on Facebook Messenger that photos are waiting in Moments, if they do not have the app. The app then builds a collection of photo albums featuring you and your tagged friends that you can scroll through, search, and easily rename. The company is investing billions of dollars for development of such machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.


Thank you Mark Bittman, for finally joining our efforts in spreading the word. Salad dressing is a chemical product and therefore, bad for you. It's also expensive. We wrote about them in 2003, here.
In last week's article in the NYTimes, Mark Bittman says: Bottled salad dressing and marinades are the biggest rip-offs imaginable. Click here to read the article.
Next Post If It Is Cheap, It Is Fake. Buy Olive Oil only from Trusted Vendors.


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You love me, you need me, you're always walking there by me. I don't know why, but you do.
I don't know why you choose me, but I'm so glad that you do.
And I don't know why you use me, but I'm so glad that you do.
I started this summer with a lot of "I don't know why's…" but this week has really transformed the way I understand my calling as a Peace Intern and my broader calling as an instrument of God's peace in the world.
What a beautiful closing night in Athens, gathered in a circle around our newly painted and installed peace pole! It's been a truly incredible week. As we have learned and experienced aspects of the world's major religions, we have grown deeper in our expressions of our own faith. We have experienced the diversity among us as Disciples and enjoyed exploring the tough questions of life. I am so very grateful for the amazing adults at this camp who have welcomed me into community and helped me name my call to ministry. I've loved the amazing conversations and could very well see myself following in their paths to seminary someday. I'll always remember hours spent in the lake, beautiful worship services and prayer practices, and courageously open dialogue.
Throughout the week we have been taking down the walls of the box we put around God through our Christian faith by experiencing God through learning about other faith traditions. In that moment we realized how camp itself can be a box around God, and we began to tear down those walls as campers experienced how the message of Jesus relates to life outside of camp.
All week we have been discussing our lens of understanding God.
This was the type of moment I had been hoping for all summer – a moment where some realized that their God-lens extends outside of camp to shape their every interaction with the world. That Jesus really meant it when he said the greatest commandments are to love God and love others, and that no one is excluded from that radical, active love.
With that kind of "ah-ha! moment," perspectives can shift and campers can be able to apply their view of God to the rest of the world. Bingo!
O Divine Master, make us instruments of your peace… Grant that we not so much seek to be understood as to understand.
…And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love. Yes they'll know we are Christians by our love.


Great art is part of any great urban environment. Phoenix has many great artistic organizations and museums but it's natural to look to Phoenix Art Museum for inspiration.
If you'd like to learn more, Ms. Sewell will give a free talk, Tales from the Haute Sea, this Wednesday, March 21 at 7pm. Museum admission is free this evening and you'll find delightful, locally produced food and wine for sale in the museum Café, Palette.


Liston College in Auckland have started off 2019 with the launch a new website with the help of the team here at Inbox Design.
The site features a fresh new design that is mobile friendly and powered by the new 2.0 version of Inbox Design's Salvage Content Management System.
Liston have also taken advantage of our re-vamped e-Newsletter Site Extra to streamline how they connect with the school community.


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H.R. 4555 (115th): DHS Interagency Counterterrorism Task Force Act of 2017
To authorize the participation in overseas interagency counterterrorism task forces of personnel of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
John Rutherford
Sponsor. Representative for Florida's 4th congressional district. Republican.
This bill was introduced in a previous session of Congress and was passed by the House on January 9, 2018 but was never passed by the Senate.
"THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS - Marianas Daughter now Colonel"
— Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP0] on Jan 12, 2018
"House Passes Series of Bills to Combat Terrorism"
— Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO3] on Jan 11, 2018
"On the House Floor This Week - 1/8/18"
— Rep. John Delaney [D-MD6, 2013-2018] on Jan 8, 2018
Passed House (Senate next)
The bill was passed in a vote in the House. It goes to the Senate next. The vote was by voice vote so no record of individual votes was made.
Reported by House Committee on Homeland Security
GovTrack.us. (2020). H.R. 4555 — 115th Congress: DHS Interagency Counterterrorism Task Force Act of 2017. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4555
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A month of whining and complaining arrives on January 6th, 2019. Legal concerns will be greater this month, which could be good for rental property or real estate listings. It will be easy to complain this month. I want to encourage you to resist sharing with others anything that causes you problems, because what you resist, persists! It is similar to what many parents know. Never tell your kids what you do not want them to do because that will be the last word they hear! Example: Saying "Don't drive fast!" as your teenager walks out the door and catches your last two words…"Drive fast!" Not what you wanted them to hear, right? "Be safe" is a better choice.
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Zig Ziglar was one of the greatest positive thought leaders and one of my mentors who taught….
Which becomes a Great Life!
As I mentioned last month more people will travel to see family and friends in December 2018 compared to previous years. The AAA reported more than 102 million travelers hit the road from December 22 through January 1; a peak time for our Feng Shui energy. The airports had the highest travel since 2003. Plus space flights for paying passengers came a step closer on December 13 with the latest test flight of Bronson's Virgin Galactic traveling beyond the attitude that NASA calls "space". According to Feng Shui December 2018 was a month that brought a high potential for creativity and travel.
With whining and complaining in the center of all buildings arriving this month in January, we are sure to see a lot of complaining and for some, arguing. This is evident by the change in our government as we now have a democratic majority in the US House of Representatives. Get ready for some surprises in your life and in our nation coming in February with the energy of separation in the heart of all buildings.
A lot of change can happen now, and it is good for you to decide what you truly want since I mentioned previously the first four months of the year bring outstanding energy for manifesting the life you want to enjoy for the next 20 years. Remember to focus only on what you desire! Often we see a lot of whining and complaining before change occurs. Use what you don't want to help you focus on what you do want.
Wealth comes to the North this month, so if this is an area you spend a lot of time, then get ready for expansion of wealth, good health, and/or new relationships! If you are in sales and you spend time in the North this month, you might see more clients and have more sales this month. The separation/sickness energy potential will be in the Southeast this month so expect to "let go" of something to make room for something you desire, or someone you would like to spend more time with! Get clear how you would feel when you attract what you desire, because it is your emotions that manifest!
There is major change coming to the West this month with the energy potential to create delays, pain, and/or struggles along with the outgoing yearly 2018 energy of separation that has been in the West all year. You may remodel in the West part of your home or business this month, or change jobs or relationships this month, especially if your bedroom or front door are located in the West quadrant! See below for all energies in each part of your building this month!
Wishing You the Most Joyful Year Ahead!
I am grateful to keep in touch with so many of you year after year. I have been working on many of your yearly update reports so you can continue to have a heads up for the new yearly visiting energy arriving on February 4, 2019. Thank you again for your support, and please send me an email on how things are going for you in your life, I always enjoy hearing from you! If you are not on my email list to receive this blog in your inbox, then be sure to fill out the form to the right of this page with your name and email BE SURE TO LOOK FOR A CONFIRMATION EMAIL IN YOUR IN BOX!
If you have always wanted a Feng Shui report done on your home or business, at the beginning of the new year is a great time to have a report done, because in my written report you receive remedies for every month beginning in February and running through January of the following year. CLICK HERE to read more about having a home or business report done by email or in person. Please phone me if you are thinking of purchasing or renting a home or business. It costs you nothing to phone me and chat about your future plans. Most of my clients who have a consultation, do come back year after year to have an update report done when the yearly and monthly visiting energies change, as it will beginning February 4th, 2019.
CENTER: has the potential to bring the occupants of the building whining and complaining and it arrives on January 6th, 2019. Legal concerns will be greater this month, which could be good for rental property or real estate listings. It will be easy to complain this month. I want to encourage you to resist sharing with others anything that causes you problems, because what you resist persists!
SOUTH: has the potential for wealth, and can also bring the potential for feelings of betrayal, robbery, vanity, craving for sugar all depending on what energy is with it.
SOUTHWEST: this energy has the potential to increase what it is with. The out-going yearly visiting energy in the Southwest has brought the potential for creativity, travel, respect, love, and/or learning new information all year. Last year would have allowed you to learn something new, possibly related your career. Now this month in January the visiting monthly energy has the potential to increase the out-going 2018 visiting energy in the Southwest to its highest potential all year. Enjoy more travel, creativity, learning, love and respect here in January 2019.
EAST: the monthly visiting energy in the East brings the potential for wealth and fame. Plus in the East the 2018 yearly visiting energy along with the monthly visiting energy brings the potential for spending an inordinate amount of time on your appearance, desire to shop, and/or craving for sugar or alcohol.
NORTH: brings the potential for friends visiting, an increase in clients, additions to your family, good health, expanded wealth, and/or abundance! Spend as much time as you can this month in the North or prosperity!
SOUTHEAST: this energy has the potential for separation and/or sickness. You may receive a transfer or promotion, or change jobs this month. If this is your bedroom you may decide to put your home up for sale this month. You may experience more health challenges, change jobs, or end a relationship this month, It is a month to "let go" if you spend time in the Southeast very often during January. You may also be gone from your home a great deal this month if you spend time in the Southeast since travel is in many of the quadrants this month.
NORTHWEST: this month's visiting energy brings the potential for travel, creativity, respect, learning, and/or teaching.
WEST: this energy brings the potential in the West for delays, pain, and/or struggles. Sometimes you will find yourself forgetting things and having to come back if this is your office, or bedroom or entry door. This energy may cause you to feel tried or you may find yourself relaxing more. If this is a bedroom you may over sleep this month and find yourself running late for appointments, work, or other activities.


This collection features tastefully produced instrumental versions of 12 timeless Irish classics, all in multiple different versions, edits, mixes.
The 12 tracks were recorded with live musicians playing live Irish and contemporary instruments, and everything was meticulously put together with a clean, elegant production by award winning composer/producer Bjørn Lynne.
This is a very large music collection: The download is a 460 MB .zip file and the physical CD version is a DVD-ROM containing about 1.5 GB of music data. Each track is available in multiple different versions and edits, including 60-secs edits, 30-secs edits, an Underscore version of the whole track (great for sing-along or play-along), and some tracks are offered in various versions with different lead instruments -- all things that give you great options in editing.
Formats: The download is a 460 MB .zip file containing 61 audio tracks in true CD-quality (320-kbps) 44.1 khz MP3 files, and 38 music loops in 44.1 khz uncompresseed WAV files. The physical disc is a DVD-ROM for PC or Mac, containing all the tracks, all the edits, versions and seamless music loops as uncompressed WAV files. (~1.5 GB).


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Budynek Zespołu Szkół nr 2 – położony jest przy ul. Stefana Żeromskiego w Konstancinie-Jeziornie, ukończony został w 1958. W latach 2005-06 nastąpiła jego rozbudowa i modernizacja zgodnie z koncepcją pracowni Bulanda Mucha Architekci.

Historia
Historia szkoły sięga końca XIX wieku. Budynek szkolny powstał w latach 1956-58 według projektu inż. arch. Jana Wolińskiego. Nauka w nowym obiekcie rozpoczęła się 20 lutego 1958. W latach 60. zbudowane zostało boisko szkolne, natomiast w latach 70. plac do siatkówki, bieżnia i skocznia.

W 2004 rozstrzygnięto konkurs architektoniczny na modernizację i rozbudowę budynku ZS nr 2. Wybrano projekt warszawskiej pracowni Bulanda Mucha Architekci. Projektanci zaprojektowali budynek współczesny, opisywany jako zharmonizowany z otoczeniem i krajobrazem, z zastosowaniem nowatorskich rozwiązań technicznych, uwzględniających uwarunkowania konserwatorskie, wpisując projekt w zadrzewioną działkę oraz zabytkowe wille Konstancina. W rozwiązaniach elewacji wykorzystano walory naturalnych materiałów. Do istniejącego budynku szkoły dobudowano część dydaktyczną wraz z dużą wielofunkcyjną salą sportową, która może być wykorzystywana do organizowania imprez kulturalnych i wystawienniczych. Zagospodarowano przyległy teren działki-parku, sytuując w nim boiska i bieżnie.

Autorzy projektu rozbudowy i modernizacji
 Autor: Bulanda Mucha Architekci - Andrzej Bulanda, Włodzimierz Mucha, Jacek Chyrosz
 Współpraca: Jarek Ptaszyński, Ilona Bitel, Sebastian Tabędzki, Aleksandra Wrzosek

Nagrody i wyróżnienia
 Nagroda I stopnia Ministra Infrastruktury 2008 w dziedzinie Architektury i Budownictwa
 "Polski Cement w Architekturze" XI edycja - III nagroda
 finalista konkursu "Życie w Architekturze" w 2012 organizowanego przez czasopismo Architektura-Murator

Przypisy

Obiekty budowlane w Konstancinie-Jeziornie

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