Ordering beads on the internet can be tricky. At least for me it is. I have difficulty visualizing mm sizes when I order beads and I've ordered beads that when I got them they were so tiny I was floored (no misrepresentation was involved in the seller – it was me and my inability to visual the size). I've also ordered beads that were much larger than I anticipated. Well recently Cynthia Machata of Antiquity Travelers had one of those moments. Cynthia ordered some grey pearls for a project and when she received them, they were ahem lets just say a lot larger than she anticipated.
Cynthia used the pearls in her project and because of the size, was left with an over abundance of these beautiful pearls. Cynthia decided to have a blog hop and send out six of these pearls to six people willing to play around with these beauties for a blog hop, count me in. Now I have no business signing up for any blog hop at this time of the year and I've been scrambling as I'm sure everyone else has been with their busy schedules. I came up with an idea awhile back for these gorgeous pearls but as I'm prone to do, I waited until almost the last minute to execute. I actually thought the hop was last weekend – the same weekend as my jewelry open house. Scrambling around, I put together the focal for my piece.
Awhile back I was rooting around in my stash and I found some sterling silver wire that I forgot I had. I also discovered some sterling silver squiggles that I bought some years back that I also forgot about. I made a structure for my piece with the heavy gauge sterling wire, wire wrapped the pearls and added them to the structure. My first attempt wasn't working out as I had planned – the pearls and squiggles were too close together and didn't stay put on my structure. Also stashed away in my stash of beads, tools and long forgotten gems was a coiling gizmo. I used some of the thin gauge wire that I discovered in my stash and made some short coils to use as spacers between the pearls and squiggles.
I am pretty pleased with the finished focal however I'm still unsure as to how I want to finish off the necklace. Having an extra week for the reveal allowed me to order some soft grey seam binding that I thought I would use but I'm not sure that's what I want to do. I'm also toying with using some black leather for the back portion but of course I don't have black leather to use so my project in incomplete.
Big thanks to Cynthia for allowing me to participate and please check out these other participants to see what they came up with for the hop.
I love the focal piece and it would look gorgeous with whatever you decide to use as the neck strap. The coil spacers were a great idea to keep everything in it's place.
Oh, what a fun statement piece you made with the pearls. I love how everything kinda fell together (with the exception of the finishing) I can see the seam binding in the picture and it is lovely, but I do bet the stark of the black leather would finish it off perfectly. This piece is fun and quirky, but still so professional and elegant. Wonderful!!
I love those squiggly swirls you created to complement the pearls. The necklace is sure to look amazing on and receive many compliments. I look forward to seeing how you finish it off.
Linda ~ The funky vibe of the squiggles and the pearls on the wire is fantastic! You had a good vision for these beads. I think the black leather would tie it all together beautifully ~ cool and edgy. The grey ribbon adds a nice softness too ~ more romantic. I looks forward to seeing what you choose. It was a fun hop!


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Network London
National Women's Network London is currently in a state of transition and does not yet have a formal calendar of events, although you are more than welcome to attend an event elsewhere in the country to see if the National Women's Network is for you.
As a not-for-profit, and therefore voluntary, organisation we have a fully committed group of volunteers who run the other branches and who are ready to support the re-launch of the London branch. If you are interested in re-starting this group, with the full support of our National team, then please get in touch.
Running a branch is so rewarding and the connections, the kudos and the support help to develop you personally and in business.
Contact me on the email or telephone number below for further information and let us introduce you to our friendly network, both locally and nationally.
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Email : Administrator@national-womens-network.co.uk
Networking For Women in London – St Albans, Hatfield, Harlow, Slough, Woking, Staines, Watford, Leatherhead, Orpington.

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Home Analysis Saudi Arabia Turns to Asia for Investment
Saudi Arabia Turns to Asia for Investment
King Salman of Saudi Arabia visited Malaysia on Feb. 26, the first trip to the country for a Saudi monarch in over a decade. In his tour through Asia, he also will visit Brunei, Japan, China and Indonesia. Jakarta has not received a formal Saudi visitation in nearly five decades. The king's decision to tour infrequently visited countries did not come out of nowhere – it was driven by Saudi Arabia's increasingly challenging economic situation. He is trying to find more capital to sustain the regime and went looking for it in Asia in the form of participation in Saudi Aramco's initial public offering (IPO).
Saudi Arabia is a petro-state. The nation's major oil company, Saudi Aramco, is the source of the country's oil wealth, which is funneled to the royal family and subsequently the state. The state is highly dependent on oil revenues, with the petroleum sector accounting for approximately 87 percent of its 2015 budget. Depressed oil prices mean there's less money available to pay for social programs and subsidies for commodities that are funded by oil revenues. This has put the regime in a dangerous position. Stopping payment on social spending risks creating a crisis of confidence among elites, which would challenge the regime's position and the country's stability. Saudi Arabia has so far avoided this problem by digging into its foreign exchange reserves, but these continue to fall and won't last forever.
In an attempt to bring in additional capital to refill the state coffers, King Salman last year announced that Aramco would be going public. The ruling family had resisted an IPO since Aramco was fully nationalized in 1980. The regime wanted to avoid this because an IPO entails disclosure requirements, which would make Aramco's operations more transparent. Selling shares also represents a small step toward the royal family beginning to lose control of the company. But harsh economic realities have forced its hand, and Saudi Aramco will now seek capital for up to 5 percent ownership of the company, a large enough share to bring in cash proceeds and small enough for the royal family to retain control. That King Salman personally traveled to Asia to seek investment from Saudi Arabia's key customers is a sign that the kingdom really needs the money.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak (R) talks with Saudi Arabia's King Salman (L) during the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two countries in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 27, 2017. King Salman is on a four-day visit to Malaysia to reaffirm relations and boost economic ties between the two countries. MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images
Given the lack of detail known about Aramco's finances, it's difficult to determine how much a 5 percent equity sale will actually represent in dollars. Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman claimed that the company will be valued at $2 trillion, but these statements need to be taken with a grain of salt since the royal family obviously has a vested interest in inflating the company's value. Wood Mackenzie, a consultancy group, estimated that Aramco may only be valued at $400 billion (this excludes the company's downstream business). If Aramco does sell 5 percent of stock, this leaves a wide range of potential capital that may be raised by the IPO from $20 billion to $100 billion.
Aramco's operations are not widely publicized, and the royal family wants to keep it that way. This explains the turn to Asia – while Saudi Arabia would like to have investment capital from the West, it knows it would come at a high price (greater transparency) that the kingdom isn't willing to pay. While Aramco could float some of its shares on the Saudi Arabian stock exchange, the sheer size of Aramco's IPO – which could be the biggest in history depending on the final valuation – means it will need the support of other stock exchanges. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has already begun to court the bankers leading the process. Some Asian stock exchanges are less stringent than U.S.-based ones, and seeking capital in parts of the world with fewer disclosure requirements would suit the royal family just fine.
Saudi Arabia's Asian customers have a vested interest in keeping Aramco up and running. Japan, a country notoriously dependent on foreign resources, imports 34 percent of its oil from Saudi Arabia, making Riyadh Japan's biggest supplier. Saudi Arabia is also the largest exporter of oil to Indonesia and China, which receive 28 percent and 16 percent of their oil imports, respectively, from the kingdom. These three countries are economically vulnerable to Saudi Aramco's – and therefore Saudi Arabia's – financial problems. If they end up committing capital to Aramco's IPO, it won't be because they're seeking investment yield. They must keep the supply of oil flowing, and if that means kicking up some cash now to do it, there's a good chance they will.
While the rate of Saudi Arabia's sale of foreign currency declined from 2015 to 2016, it still burned through $80 billion last year. In 2015, it went through $116 billion. In December, its foreign exchange reserves declined by approximately $2 billion. Although this is far less than the $10 billion drop it saw in October 2016, the trend of decline nevertheless continues. At the 2016 annual rate, a best-case valuation scenario would provide the kingdom with about a year of additional time before its reserves run out. Saudi Arabia may be gambling on a resurgence in oil prices, but even if this did happen it wouldn't fix the challenge that the kingdom has limited productive alternatives from which to generate revenue to fund social payments. In 2015, the International Monetary Fund predicted that if oil prices did not recover, and Saudi Arabia could not reduce its state expenses, the kingdom would empty its foreign exchange reserves by 2020.
King Salman's tour isn't important in itself, but the underlying imperatives that caused him to feel compelled to make these visits personally are. Saudi Arabia is currently facing struggles that are a result of a political economy built on a shaky foundation that's hardwired in petroleum exports, and seeking a one-time cash infusion alone will not solve its problems. The kingdom is a house built on sand.
Xander Snyder is an analyst at Geopolitical Futures. He has a diverse theoretical and practical background in economics, finance and entrepreneurship. As an investment banker, Mr. Snyder worked in corporate debt origination and later in a consumer-retail industry group at Guggenheim Securities, participating in transactions ranging from mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital raises, spin-offs and split-offs to principal investing and fairness opinions. He has worked on more than $4 billion worth of transactions. He subsequently co-founded and served as CFO for Persistent Efficiency, an energy efficiency company that used cutting-edge technology to create a new type of electricity sensor for circuit breakers and related data services. In his role, he was responsible for raising more than $1.5 million in seed capital and presented to some 70 venture capital and angel investors in the process. He also signed four Fortune 500 companies as customers, managed all aspects of company accounting, budgeting and cash flow, investor relations, and supply chain and inventory management. In addition to setting corporate strategy, he helped grow the company from two people to a 12-person team. As an independent financial consultant, Mr. Snyder wrote an economics publication for a financial firm that went out to more than 10,000 individuals and assisted in deal sourcing for a real estate private equity fund. He is an active real estate investor and an occasional angel investor. Mr. Snyder received his bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in economics and classical music composition from Cornell University.
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Daily Memo: A US-China Cease-Fire, the US vs Everyone on Trade, the UAE vs Saudi Arabia on Iran
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SM KNIGHTS BASKETBALL
San Marcos High School Alumni
Fresno State University - Johnny McWilliams - Graduated SMHS 2016
From San Marcos, Calif., earned league Player of the Year honors as the all-time leading scorer in San Marcos High School history. He led the Knights to the CIF semifinals and a state playoff appearance two years in a row.
Cal State San Marcos University - Jason Simmrin - Graduated SMHS 2016
Graduated in 2016 from San Marcos High, where he was a two-time all-conference performer... Averaged 17 points 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.3 steals as a senior to help lead the CIF Finals... Lettered three years, led team in rebounding three times, and was honorable mention all-conference as a sophomore... Named to the Blue Knights Honor Roll.
UCSD - Mikey Howell - Graduated SMHS 2016
A 2016 graduate of San Marcos High School.
- All-Avocado East League
- As a junior, led SMHS to a 26-4 record and an Avocado East championship
Miramar College - Stefan Zivkovic- Graduated SMHS 2015
Stefan currently plays for Miramar College where he was named a starter at the beginning of the season. He played for
San Marcos High School and graduated in 2015.
Miramar College - Nikola Zivkovic - Graduated SMHS 2015
Nikola currently plays for Miramar College where he was named a starter at the beginning of the season. He played for
San Marcos High School and graduated in 2015.
Iona University/San Diego State University - Ben Perez - Graduated SMHS 2014
Ben was an all-CIF first-team selection after leading his team in scoring at 16.6 points, 4.1 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 1.6 steals as a senior... In his final season, he helped the Knights to the 2014 CIF final... Finished his career as a two-time first-team all-Avocado League selection, an all-CIF choice and the Avocado East Player of the Year, while helping San Marcos to consecutive Avocado East titles.
Adams State University/Central Arizona - Trace Dimeff- Graduated SMHS 2014
Trace Dimeff is in his 1st year at Adams State after attending Central Arizona and was named starter at the beginning of the season. He came from San Marcos High School where he holds the most three pointers in a single game. (10)
St. Martins University - Cole Preston - Graduated SMHS 2013
High School: Was a four-year varsity starter and also named team captain...Was named to the All-League team twice and is a two-time Eagle Classic MVP.
Mira Costa College - Tristan Neihart - Graduated SMHS 2013
Tristan played in only five games as a freshman at Mira Costa before having to take time off due to an injury. Tristan was seeing increasing minutes as the season progressed and scored a season high 8 points against Fresno City in his last game. He now starts for the Spartans as a guard.
College Of Idaho - Matt Meyers - Graduated SMHS 2009
Palomar College - Zach Ramirez - Graduated SMHS 2009
Palomar College - Vuk Ekmecic - Graduated SMHS 2009
Miramar College - Shane McPherson - Graduated SMHS 2010
San Francisco State University - Chris Featherly - Graduated SMHS 1999
San Francisco State University - Dante Carey - Graduated SMHS 1998
Palomar College - Chris Kroesch - Graduated SMHS 1997
Colorado College - Brian Baum - Graduated SMHS 1994
Grand Canyon University - Kwaku Amoaku - Graduated SMHS 1994


Grammy winning trumpet player, Maurice 'Mobetta' Brown, once again showcases his rapping alter ego with the latest track off of his upcoming LP, Maurice vs. Mobetta. With "Misunderstood Part II" we get an uptempo jazzy track with features from Consequence, Saunders Sermens and Stimulus. With all respect due to Jean Grae and Prodigy, this would be my favorite track off the album, thus far (DJ Center on the beat). Maurice vs. Mobetta will be out on October 8th (pre-order).


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Falling motor premiums too hasty and hitting insurers - Ageas UK boss
By Mark Richardson2018-05-17T08:17:00+01:00
Andy Watson says motor premiums have come down too sharply before any legislation has been passed of Ogden rate change or whiplash reform
The industry has been too hasty dropping motor premiums in anticipation of changes brought on by the Civil Liability Bill according to the chief executive of Ageas UK.
Andy Watson made the comments after posting Q1 results for this year that showed a 13% drop in GWP across the business (£393.3m vs £449.8m).
The results showed a return to Q1 profit of £9.2m and Watson confirmed he was pleased with the profitability of the motor side, which saw its combined ratio improve to 91.7% from 106.4%.
But he said the anticipated changes to the Ogden rate and whiplash reform had pushed premiums down across the sector too greatly. GWP on the motor side of the business dropped to £196.9m compared to £233.8m for the same period last year.
Watson admitted it was a concern.
"The motor market is anticipating legislation changes around whiplash reform and changes to the Ogden rate, but neither of those things have happened," he said.
"They've been talked about and the legislation is currently going through its parliamentary process, but the changes have not yet taken place, so the market is getting a little ahead of itself I think. We'll see where it goes and it's something we will monitor for the rest of the year."
Speaking to the Insurance Times at the annual Biba conference, Watson confirmed this was an issue he had discussed on the day with another insurer chief executive. He said it was an issue that would be hitting the GWP of motor insurers across the industry.
"It's a live conversation," he added. "Pricing is coming down and if it continues to come down it will be something we would want to monitor. Prices continuing to fall when there's no significant reason for them to fall doesn't make a lot of sense."
Top line attention
GWP also dropped on the household and commercial sides of the business. Watson said notwithstanding the effects of 'the beast from the east' the results were not unexpected following moves over recent years to cut less profitable aspects of the business, such as their special risks account last year.
He said the return to profitability was largely impacted by the run-off from cutting this business, but that it would inevitably affect GWP.
He said: "If there is an attention point in our first quarter results it is the top line and we will look to address that for the rest of the year."
And he added: "Looking forward we are optimistic. We will stick to the knitting of the three main lines of motor, household and commercial.
"We'll continue to work hard in the three channels of broker partnerships and direct. If we have an emphasis it's that we want to further grow our commercial account.
"Digitally traded business in particular, some aspects of schemes and some aspects of open market are of particular interest to us."
Boisseau among those to leave Ageas UK in restructuring plan
The restructure sees several senior figures leave Ageas UK
Ageas UK receives strong H1 boost from motor
Ageas recovers strongly from Ogden hit in 2017
Motor market returns to profit with best COR since the 90s
But EY predicts a return to underwriting losses within two years


In the simplest terms, this is a noir-detective story... But the unique symbiosis of two separate cities (in two separate countries) that happen to occupy the same physical space adds a complexity (both practical and allegorical) that the hard-boiled gumshoes of yore could never manage.
China Miéville is the author of King Rat; Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar, winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council, winner of the Locus Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories; and Un Lun Dun, his New York Times bestselling book for younger readers. He lives and works in London.


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22 Interesting And Fascinating Facts Abut Honeyberries
Honeyberries are a honeysuckle native throughout the cool temperate of the Northern Hemisphere. They're available in countries such as North America, Canada, Japan, Russia and Poland. Take a look below for 22 more interesting and fascinating facts about honeyberries.
1. The leaves of the honeyberry tree are opposite, oval, 3 to 8 centimeters long and 1 to 3 centimeters broad, greyish green, with a slightly waxy texture.
2. The flowers of the honeyberry tree are yellowish-white, 12 to 16 millimeters long, with five equal lobes. They are produced in pairs on the shoots.
3. The honeyberry is edible and is somewhat rectangular in shape, weighing 1.3 to 2.2 grams, and being about 1 centimeter in diameter.
4. Honeyberries are circumpolar, meaning that they're found in or near wetlands of boreal forests in heavy peat soils. However, they can also be found in high-calcium soils, in mountains, and along the coasts of northeastern Asia and northwestern North America.
5. Honeyberries are winter-hardy and can tolerate temperatures below -47 degrees Celsius.
6. The haskap variety of honeyberries have been used frequently in breeding efforts, but other varieties have been bred with it to increased productivity and flavor.
7. Powdery mildew tends to affect honeyberries, usually after the fruit matures in mid to late summer.
8. When the honeyberry plant is affected with powdery mildew, it's common for the leaves to turn white with brown patches eventually developing.
9. Honeyberries are harvested in late spring or early summer two weeks before strawberries for Russian type varieties, with Japanese types ripening at a similar time to strawberries.
10. Honeyberries are ready to harvest when the inner layer is dark purple or blue.
11. In North America, most Russian varieties of honeyberries are adapted to hardiness zones 1 to 4.
12. Honeyberry plants can take 3 to 4 years to produce an abundant harvest.
13. The average production on a good honeyberry plant is about 3 kilograms, or 6.6 pounds, and it can maintain productivity for about 30 years.
14. Honeyberries can be used in various processed products, such as pastries, jams, juice, ice cream, yogurt, sauces, candles and a wine similar in color and flavor to red grape or cherry wine.
15. For centuries in East Asian countries, honeyberries have been used for supposed therapeutic applications in traditional medicine.
16. Honeyberries have a higher level of antioxidants than blueberries.
17. Honeyberries don't sucker but send up shoots from the root crown.
18. Many honeyberries require proximity to another unrelated honeyberry plant for pollination by bees and other insects. Some varieties will produce some fruit alone.
19. Birds love honeyberries and if the plant isn't protected, they will destroy it.
20. Weeds should be kept away from young honeyberry plants until the shrubs are well established.
21. The University of Saskatchewan began breeding honeyberries in 2002. Using lines from Russia, Japan and the Kuril Islands north of Japan, this program is producing fruit that is sweeter and superior in taste to many other honeyberry varieties on the market.
22. Honeyberries are known as "zhimolost" in Russia and "haskap" in Japan.
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They ran across my back - the two of them - as I slept. I knew what they were even before I turned on the light and shuddered at the thought of their ghastly white legs coming in contact with my bare skin.
"Djuk!" I shrieked and jumped up, waking up my brother.
"Ma kara?" What's happened, he asked. We were speaking in Hebrew.
"Djuk!" I repeated angrily, as if it were somehow his fault, turning on the lights and pointing at the pair of cockroaches perching on the wall above my bed.
Djuk was the first word we learnt in Hebrew upon our arrival in Lod, two years before. It was the first to greet us in the morning, turned onto its back on the kitchen floor, flapping its white legs frantically. My brother and I stood above it, riveted, watching its every move. We had never seen anything like it. A shiny, dark brown thing, with a small head, flat body and long, flexible antennae. It was disgusting, sure, but there was something admirable, if not loveable about it: the way it seemed content to bathe in the light, unperturbed.
"Fasza," Cool, my brother remarked. We were speaking in Hungarian. We still believed that we were on our 'Easter vacation.' We were "going to see some palm trees," my mother had promised, and then return home. But things rarely turn out the way adults promise, we were soon to discover. The place mum called a 'hotel' was in fact a Maon Olim, a dwelling for immigrants, for Jews wishing to exercise their 'right of return' to the holy land and become full-fledged Israeli citizens. We were supposed to be Jewish too, except we were not. But that is something we learned years later. I was nine when we landed in Lod, and my brother, seven.
"DJUK," we heard a man's booming voice from behind us. He introduced himself as Avi. He was our mother's Hebrew tutor – the man with the dandruff, or nits (we could never tell which) as we renamed him later. He pushed us aside, and without further ado, squashed the djuk with his hiking sandals. The crushing sound of our first Israeli buddy meeting its death mortified us. Avi roared with laughter. "Dead djuk," he declared in a blend of English and Hebrew, languages as foreign to us as the djuk itself.
"Koos emek," my brother swore at them in Hebrew. They deserved to die. We had seen enough of them by now to know better. They were pests, of the ugliest kind, and this was our home (even if mum frequently reminded us that "it was an office first, home second"). This "twenty-three square meters ground floor office/home" in central Tel Aviv was all we had when we were not at school, or climbing trees.
"I'll get the spray!" said my brother as he sprung out of bed.
"Why don't you go and get one then?" He had a point.
I stepped off the bed hesitantly, as if about to dip my toe into some dangerous waters where ravenous sharks were waiting to chomp bits of my body. It was only fair that the shoe should be hers. I chose her favourite black pair and handed it to my brother. He raised the shoe in the air and was about to strike when I noticed another roach running across mum's drafting table, snaking its way between the pencils. "There's another!" I cried out, startling my brother, who had, thanks to me, missed his shot.
"Yes, but you are the one with the Judo black belt," I countered.
"Doesn't matter. You are better at this," I said.
It was the right thing to say because my brother's second attempt was an astounding success. Not only was the djuk completely flattened, but it happened to meet its death right on Barbra Streisand's nose. Mum loved Barbra. Her picture was the first to go up on our wall; the Israeli flag was second. Serves her right, I thought, for all the bloody memory -s I had to endure. On the rare occasion my mother was at home, Barbra was there too, singing in the background "let the memory live again," as if there were any memories worth reliving. "Isn't she beautiful?" my mother would say, but I don't think she cared much for my opinion. If I didn't like the rules of her house, she reminded me, I was welcome to leave and find me another mother. Or ask my father to raise me.
Everything my mother liked I hated: Barbra Streisand, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen, Woody Allen, Shimon Peres, Feminism, Zvi Hecker, Bauhaus, Chagall, Oriana Fallaci (whoever she was), tuna, olives, honey, Camembert cheese, avocadoes (especially avocado soup), Shabbat, Passover, matzo, and Rosh Hashanah.
My sense of triumph, however, was short lived. I spotted another roach darting across the floor towards the bathroom, and another happy pair dallying on the kitchen window.
"There are just too many of them!" I burst into tears.
"It's worth a shot." He put down the shoe.
Shoshanna's Real Hungarian Blintzes was one of the hottest restaurants in Tel Aviv. Shoshanna was a Hungarian immigrant like us, who believed that blintzes were a Hungarian invention and not a French one. She liked to debate this point, always politely, with her French customers. We loved Shoshanna. She was our Hungarian safta, grandma. But our mother was not at the restaurant and Shoshanna didn't know where she was.
Call who? I thought. Who was mum's boyfriend of the moment? Was it the hairy, fat one, or the skinny curly haired guy who forgot to bring her flowers? Besides, we didn't have their phone numbers. We were home alone fighting an army of cockroaches with a shoe, while she was with God-only-knows-who doing disgusting things. My eyes welled with tears. I blinked them away before Shoshanna would notice. I shook my head 'no' and took my brother's hand.
"Hers is chestnut, mine is walnut!" my brother interjected.
"What kind of loud music?" I was intrigued.
It sounded simple enough. Armed with Shoshanna's ingenious advice and the best Hungarian blintzes in our belly, we were ready for round two. Those manyaks, they were gonna get it good.
"Our neighbours will kill us. It's two o'clock in the morning," I hesitated as my brother loaded the cassette into the tape recorder. "Who cares? They wouldn't even let you use the roof for your birthday party on, remember?" He pressed 'play' and after the dramatic drumming, Samantha Fox began to moan: 'Ooh, Touch me, Touch me, I want to feel your body…' 'This is the night,' she cheered us on. 'This is the time,' It was our time. 'We've got to get it right.' We had to get it right. No djuk was going to take over our home. We ran out quick and locked the door behind us, leaving Samantha Fox the exterminator to take care of our problem.
"Flying?" my brother put his arm around my shoulder, and I was happy to comply. What adults would belittle as 'skipping,' my brother and I called flying. Arm in arm we could reach unimaginable heights. And we had Tel Aviv's busiest streets all to ourselves! We flew down Natan haHaham street to Ben Yehuda, then Gordon, all the way to HaYarkon and Gordon beach.
The beach at this opportune hour was deserted, and the comfy beach chairs that we had always envied from those rich manyaks were now ours for the taking. We collapsed onto the damp sand in convulsive giggles, laughing about something we had already forgotten. Life was good. We dragged two of the beach chairs to the edge of the sea and sprawled out, pretending to be important people. My brother was Moshe Dayan and I was Golda Meir. We were miming smoking like true experts, though we had never gone near a real cigarette.
We watched the coal black sea in front of us in self-important recompense. It belonged to us, and us only. I loved this sea, even if "it wasn't the most beautiful sea in the world," as my father had pointed out on his fleeting visit. I loved it dearly despite being stung numerous times by mean-spirited jellyfish. And I loved even more what lay beyond its pitch-dark horizon: a promise of something new and better, waiting to be explored – by me.
"Sorella," sister, my brother called me by my Italian nickname, knowing how much I hated the Hebrew name that mum had given me.
"Si, fratello," I replied in my flamboyant Italian accent, though 'yes' and 'brother' were two of the dozen words I knew in my favourite language.
"So are you! We come from the same parents!" I took another exaggerated inhale of my pretended cigarette.
"Big time." I took another drag of my mimed cigarette.
His sincerity made me uncomfortable. We had been sworn enemies until now, pulling whatever we could grab: Him – my hair, I – his ears.
"That's okay. It has grown back." I wasn't quite ready to apologize for being mean to him in my own creative ways.
We smiled and burst into giggles, the crushing waves of the Mediterranean slowly lulling us to sleep on the beach chairs.


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In 2014, A.L.S. Ice Bucket Challenge was among the best viral marketing challenges examples in the social network. Millions of people on the social media started filming themselves, pouring a bucket of ice water over their heads and sharing the video with their friends. The challenge was created to give support for fighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease. People finished the challenge and then nominated the next person they knew on the social media to take the same challenge. By following this trend, Ice Bucket Challenge became a 'fab' on social media with many online celebrities such as Tyler Oakley, Zoe Sugg and huge celebrities and entrepreneurs like Justin Bieber, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates participating.[76] Until September 2014, over 2.4 million ice bucket-related videos had been posted on Facebook, and 28 million people had uploaded, commented on or liked ice bucket-related posts. And about 3.7 million videos had been uploaded on Instagram with the hashtags #ALSicebucketchallenge and #icebucketchallenge.[77] The ALS association didn't invent the ice bucket challenge, but they sure received a huge amount of donation from this activity. It raised a reported $220 million worldwide for A.L.S. organisations, and this amount is thirteen times as much donation as what it had in the whole preceding year in just eight weeks.[78]
Speaking of credit cards, if you don't use them to rack up debt, you can instead use them to generate income streams for you -- via their cash-back or rewards programs. Some cards offer flat-rate cash-back percentages up to about 2%. Others target certain kinds of spending or certain retailers. If you spend a lot at Amazon.com, for example, you can get a card that rewards you with 5% cash back there -- which can really add up. (It's not hard to spend $250 per month at Amazon, which is $3,000 per year -- enough to earn $150 back.)
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Basically, people looking to borrow money will make a listing on the site. Those borrowers are then placed into a category and given a "rating" based on their credit history and rate. You, as an investor, will contribute money to these loans and then be paid back at the predetermined rate of interest. Invest and see those monthly interest payments deposited into your account.
One of the simplest ways to enjoy passive income streams is to buy stock in healthy and growing companies that pay dividends. Better still, look for dividends that have been increased regularly at a good clip (many companies often hike their payouts annually) and that have room for further growth, as evidenced by a dividend payout ratio of around 70% or less. The payout ratio is the amount of the annual dividend divided by the trailing 12 months' earnings per share. It reflects the portion of earnings being paid out in dividends. The lower the ratio, the more room for growth. A ratio above 100% means the company is paying out more than it earns, which isn't too sustainable. Here are some examples of stocks you might consider and research further:
2) Find Out What You Are Good At. Everybody is good at something, be it investing, playing an instrument, playing a sport, communications, writing, art, dance and so forth. You should also list several things that interest you most. If you can combine your interest plus expertise, you should be able to monetize your skills. A tennis player can teach tennis for $65 an hour. A writer can pen her first novel. A finance buff can invest in stocks. A singer can record his first song. The more interests and skills you have, the higher chance you can create something that can provide passive income down the road.
To model Viral Cycle Time's effect on growth, I searched the web, high and low, looking for a pre-defined formula. To my great surprise, there was no formula that I could find that correctly calculated customer growth, and showed the impact of Viral Cycle Time. What was also surprising, was that I did find several blogs showing formulae for viral growth, but in every case, they appeared to make the same mistake, which was assuming that the entire customer base would continue sending out invitations for every cycle. So I collaborated with my partner, Stan Reiss, who turns out to be a whole lot smarter than I am, and he helped me develop the fomulae that are used in the more sophisticated model for viral growth below:
Old Spice's viral video marketing campaign first aired during 2010's Superbowl weekend. It went on to increase the company's revenue by 107%. The campaign had 40 million views. It increased Old Spice's Twitter followers by 2,700%. It lifted Facebook interaction by 800%. All these viewers turned the Old Spice YouTube channel into the all-time most viewed channel.003
Ibotta: this is a bit different! You need to take a picture of your grocery receipts with your phone and upload them to the app. You will then receive between $0.25 to a few dollars per receipt as cash back for buying certain products. It's so easy I can't believe they actually give you cash for that. Plus you'll get a free $10 bonus when you sign up!
This video became a major hit because it directly addressed how phrases that are so commonly used can be detrimental to someone's self image and confidence. In the video, various men, women, and young boys are asked to "run like a girl" or "fight like a girl". Then young girls are asked to do the same, with a very different approach: They show strength and confidence in their movements.
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4) Treat Passive Income Like A Game. The only real way to begin your multiple passive income journey is when you are making active income. The initial funding has to come from somewhere. Hence, treat passive income as a game that has various levels. If you fail to achieve one level, it's not the end of the world since you still have active income and can restart. Furthermore, a game is meant to be played with integrity. Using shortcuts (non passive income streams), someone else's income as a supplement (spouse), or one-offs (capital gains) does not count. The primary purpose of any game is to bring enjoyment to the player and beat the boss.
'The influencers in order to communicate marketing messages to the audiences you seek to reach'.[36] In business, it is indicated that people prefer interaction with humans to a logo.[37] Therefore, it seems that influencers are on behalf of a company to build up a relationship between the brand and their customers. Companies would be left behind if they neglected the trend of influencers in viral marketing, as over 60% of global brands have used influencers in marketing in 2016.[38] The influencer types come along with the level of customers' involvement in companies' marketing.[39] First, unintentional influences,[40][39] because of brand satisfaction and low involvement, their action is just to deliver a company's message to a potential user.[41] Secondly, users will become salesmen or promoters for a particular company with incentives.[40][39] For example, ICQ offered their users benefits to create the awareness of their friends. Finally, the mass reached influencers are those who have a huge range of followers on the social network. Recent trend in businesses activity is to offer incentives to individual users for re-posting the advertisement messages to their own profiles. A common type of an incentive puts all the re-posting users into a random draw for a valuable gift [42]


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Inventions & Inventors
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When Was the Flat-Screen TV Invented?
Inventions & Inventors / By Gene Luoma
Flat-screen televisions didn't become super functional for a few years after their invention, despite some television companies taking them on. The resolution was relatively low, and the quality was not what you'd expect for a current-day TV, so when was the flat screen tv invented?
Two professors named Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow and their graduate student, Robert Wilson, came up with the prototype invention for the first flat-screen in 1964. Although a considerable invention for its time, the first flat-screen TV created by these professors was more of a prototype.
The men invented it as a one-time product and had no intentions of selling it to the public.
The First Flat-Screen TV
The first flat-screen TV invented by Donald, Gene, and Robert consisted of plasma technology. It was cheaper to utilize and was used to try to solve graphics problems with computer monitors at their university. The TV had a monochrome orange glow and had memory and bitmapped graphics.
The first functional flat-screen TV to go on sale came years later, in 1997 by Fujitsu. This TV invention would pave the way for flat-screen TV sales and truly jump-start its popularity in the retail world.
What Company Made the First Flat-Screen TV?
In 1997, technology company Fujitsu released the first-ever flat-screen TV to the public, which had a 42-inch screen, and weighed 40 pounds. For the TV fans of the world, this invention was futuristic and exciting. Being only 3-inches thick, the TV was the thinnest on the market.
The first flat-screen TV to be sold went for a whopping $15,000 due to its innovative design and specialty graphics. It brought on a true challenge to the regular CRT TVs of the time, which were bulky, heavy, and often had poor resolution. Fujitsu's flat-screen TV was well-waited and appreciated.
Flat-Screen Prices Come Down in 2005
Since the majority of people couldn't afford to purchase the first flat-screen TV, the initial design was not a hit. It was not affordable for the regular American household. It wasn't until 2005, when Toshiba released a 42-inch flat-screen TV for $4,500, that the flat-screen TV started to decrease in price.
With more and more companies taking on the modern innovation of this TV design, more and more households could afford them. Soon after, in 2006, 80-inch flat-screen TVs came to the market, and Panasonic created the first 103-inch prototype flat-screen, which they would later sell on the market.
With time, these companies drifted away from plasma technology and started to aim towards liquid crystal displays (LCD), which were much clearer, and could make TVs lighter and thinner. This design is the type of display utilized by most flat-screen TVs today, although some newer models use LED, QLED, and OLED displays instead.
What Were TVs Called Before Flat-Screen TVs?
The style of TVs before the flat-screen was called Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) and were bulky, heavy objects with a small display. They started in black and white and later utilized plasma color to bring color TV to the household.
Invented in the 1930s, these TVs were a fantastic invention to most families. They allowed people to "see films" at home, without leaving your sofa. It wasn't until 1954 that the first color TV was invented. These TVs started at around 20-inches and hit 40-inches in the 1980s.
In the 80s, these TVs started to be used for video gaming and computer monitors as well. In the 90s, Sony released the first HD CRT TV, which was widely more popular than the competing new flat-screen TVs on the market, which cost over ten times the price.
2003 and 2004 were indeed the years when LCD flat-screen TVs started to gain popularity and out-sell the typical CRT.
Did You Know? Interesting Fact About Television Invention
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
The invention of the TV, and especially the flat-screen, was one of the most advanced inventions of the 20th century. Let's take a look at some interesting TV facts about the invention of TV as we know it today.
Did you know that the average person watches 10 hours of TV per day?
The liquid crystals used to make LCD technology were accidentally discovered by a man named Friedrich Reinitzer in 1888. That's 80 years before the first LCD TV!
In 1995, the world's largest LCD TV was 1,500 feet long and 90 feet high, and you could see it in the streets of Las Vegas.
2010 was the year of the world's first 3D LED TV, released by Samsung.
The CRT technology used to make the first TV was actually invented in 1897!
TV companies first introduced TV to the public at the World's Fair in 1939. They broadcast the president across the fairgrounds and used this as the first advertising for the TV products.
Between 1950 and 1969, TV users in the US went up from 1 million to an astounding 44 million households.
Interesting Facts About Flat-Screen TVs
Now, let's look at some flat-screen-specific fun facts.
Did you know that LCD flat-screen TVs have over 6 million pixels?
Unlike the CRT TV, LCD flat-screens don't experience burn-out. If you've ever owned a CRT, you know that keeping it turned on for an extended period can cause the image to "burn" into the screen. LCD technology doesn't do this.
Magnets cannot damage LCD flat-screen TVs.
You can now buy curved flat-screen TV monitors.
The world's thinnest flat-screen TV in 2021 is only 0.15 inches thick and is nicknamed the "wallpaper TV" due to its size.
Custom TVs Arrive
If you've been thinking about investing in a new flat-screen, the future is now! Some of the specific customizations for flat-screen TVs include:
Extra-thin (down to 0.15 inches)
Up to any size that you could imagine
New technology such as OLED and QLED
Smart TV technology
Back in the 60s, when Donald and Gene invented their prototype, they had no idea they were developing the future of in-home viewing and TV.
In the 21st century, streaming platforms have become extremely popular, causing more and more flat-screen TVs to offer smart capabilities, such as incorporating Roku, Firestick, and Google Chromecast. These services allow people to continue watching TV outside of the age of cable television.
When Did Flat-Screen TVs Become Popular?
Flat-screen TVs first became popular in the late 1990s. Although they weren't fancy HDTV models, they were still a massive hit on the market because they offered better picture quality than CRTs. They were also lighter and thinner, although not very affordable.
Image by Kai Suckow from Pixabay
By the early 2000s, flat-screen TVs were extremely popular. 2003 and 2004 saw considerable rises in flat-screen TV sales. LCD and plasma TVs became available with more color and had bigger screens. Their cost went down as well. Sales skyrocketed.
Flat Screen Popularity in the 21st Century
Even in the 2020s, people continue to jump into the flat-screen TV craze. Prices don't seem to intimidate buyers when they compare the differences between their older models and the new modern-day versions. Some new features are available that buyers love, including:
Curved monitor designs
Super-thin wall-mounted TVs
4K and 5K resolutions
As more manufacturers discover new technology, the prices will continue to fall. You can purchase the 30-inch flat-screen plasma or LCD for around $800, and in some sales, as little as $300. On Black Friday sales, prices are probably even lower.
Some of the most popular flat-screen TV manufacturers today include:
When the first TV brands released the first flat-screen TV models, Samsung and LG were the last to lean into the trend and are now at the top of the market. How interesting is that?
Considering how rapidly technology changes year after year, seeing what new inventions develop in the next decade will be fascinating. In an age of transformation, anything is possible.
Future TVs will be interactive, large, ultra-high-definition, and paper-thin. People will be able to attach them anywhere, including walls, ceilings, and showers. They might even have special features such as touch screen interaction and voice control. If you can imagine it, it's possible that it could become a reality.
The first flat-screen TV inventors would be amazed to see the technology achieved today and the variability of items available on the market.
Bitzer & Wilson Inven the First Plasma Video Display. Retrieved from https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=1384.
Fujitsu Announces World's First Commercial 42-inch-diagonal Wide-Screen Color Plasma Display. Retrieved from https://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/1995/Aug/24-e.html.
LCD. Retrieved from https://techterms.com/definition/lcd.
Sony Operating Instructions. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20201028191204/https://www.docs.sony.com/release/PVM4300.pdf.
History of the plasma display panel. Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1621302.
How do consumers feel about streaming services vs. cable? Retrieved from https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/how-do-consumers-feel-about-streaming-services-vs-cable/.
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REVIEW: Maanaadu
By MANIGANDAN K R
A still from the film. Source: IANS
Director Venkat Prabhu seems to have delivered a winner. To his credit, he seems to have managed to make a film that is deeply engaging, despite it having a complex plot that is hard to conceive and difficult to narrate.
Starring: Silambarasan, S.J. Suryah, Kalyani Priyadarshan, Daniel Pope, Karunakaran, Premgi Amaran, Y.G. Mahendran and S.A. Chandrashekar
The film begins with Abdul Khaliq (Silambarasan) boarding a flight. He sits next to Seethalakshmi (Kalyani Priyadarshan), who he realises is heading to the same wedding that he plans to attend. Her intention is to greet the couple and wish them; Abdul, however, is plotting to help the bride elope with her lover, who's his friend Moorthy (Premgi Amaran).
As they land in Chennai, Abdul meets his friends Moorthy and Syed (Karunakaran) and all four head to the wedding. On their way, they meet a man named Rafiq (Daniel Annie Pope), who is desperate for help, as he looks to get away from someone pursuing him.
A quick series of developments occur and before Khaliq even realises what is happening, the state's Chief Minister (S.A. Chandrashekhar) is assassinated while addressing a rally.
Just when a stunned Abdul starts to believe that things can't get any worse, he gets killed … only to realise he is back in the plane, seated next to Seethalakshmi.
It doesn't take long for Abdul to realise that he is stuck in a time loop and that every time he dies, the loop begins again from the point he boarded the flight. Abdul decides to use the time loop to his advantage and stop the assassination of the Chief Minister. How he goes about doing it is what 'Maanaadu' is all about.
A still from the film. Source: Twitter
Venkat Prabhu masterfully narrates a time-loop story in such a way that there is no room for boredom. Right from the time Abdul disembarks from the plane, the story picks up pace and there is no looking back. Venkat Prabhu's narration is so good that you don't mind sequences being repeated.
The first half all about Khaliq — how the youngster realises that he is in a time loop and how he learns to take advantage of the challenging situation he finds himself in. The second half sees an engrossing battle between Khaliq and Dhanushkodi (S.J. Suryah), the Assistant Commissioner of Police, who is intent on the assassination taking place.
The manner in which both Khaliq and Dhanushkodi think on their feet to outwit each other is immensely enjoyable.
One other reason why Venkat Prabhu must be congratulated is for certain dialogues in the film that show he's got his priorities in order.
For instance, there is a sequence in which Abdul explains to his friends what is about to happen. While doing so, he stresses on the need to stop the assassination, not only because the Chief Minister is about to die, but more importantly, using this as an excuse, some elements would be painting an entire community black. He says the latter is the bigger problem of the two.
Next, the film has two brilliant performances to offer and both come from the lead artistes. Yes, Simbu and S.J. Suryah come up with sterling performances and match each other move for move. It is as if there is a silent contest going on between the two on who will take the honours for this film.
S.J. Suryah, in particular, is outstanding. His dialogue delivery and mannerisms are so delightful that what could have been a boring sequence eventually ends up being a highly enjoyable one.
Yuvan Shankar Raja's background score is brilliant. It intensifies the pace of the plot as and when necessary. But the man who deserves the maximum credit is editor K.L. Praveen for having edited a really complex story and making it a comprehensive entertainer.
'Maanaadu' is a decent entertainer narrated with great skill.
Watch the trailer here.
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Not liking macOS? Prefer linux? In this post we'll show you how.
One USB Storage Device fast enough to run an OS from (e.g. SanDisk Ultra Fit); we shall call this the target device from here on.
As well as a MacBook running a macOS version between El Capitan and High Sierra (inclusive).
You should be comfortable running commands on terminal; bash is assumed.
Internal speaker and headphone jack output is still not working (probably).
Chaining GRUB2 bootloader probably needs to be manually (possibly automatable) rebuilt every kernel update, and probably the keyboard and touchpad drivers too.
Removing the ubuntu folder from the EFI Partition, resetting the default boot partition from macOS, and not connecting the external drive containing Ubuntu should revert things to a normal state.
I strongly do not recommend installing Ubuntu to the internal drive as macOS upgrades tend to assume several things about the partitioning state of the internal SSD and messing around with it outside of Disk Utility and the Bootcamp-proscribed instructions may mess stuff up. In particular, note the macOS upgrades that converted HFS+ partitions so that they were within CoreStorage partitions, and the macOS upgrades that converted HFS+ filesystems into APFS filesystems.
Preparing the target device to make it bootable.
After this stage you should have a partition that your MacBook recognizes as a partition containing macOS that it can boot into.
Installing Ubuntu to the target device.
After this stage you should have an Ubuntu installation in your target device that might not be bootable into.
After this stage you should be able to boot into the Ubuntu installation, but keyboard and mouse support may not be present.
Installing and configuring internal keyboard and touchpad drivers.
After this stage your Ubuntu should have internal keyboard and touchpad support, but it may no longer be bootable.
Rebuilding and reinstalling the bootloader.
After this stage you should be able to boot into the Ubuntu installation and be able to use your mouse and keyboard.
This stage is similar to Stage 4, and I think it must be re-performed everytime you update the kernel of your installation.
Download the Ubuntu 17.10 x86_64 Desktop image. I have not tried the other versions, which may have slightly different installation instructions in stage 3. The 17.10 Beta 2 desktop image suffices.
We convert the .iso image file into a .dmg disk image file that the MacBook recognizes as bootable.
Note that writing to rdiskN is speedier than writing to diskN as it skips several layers of software abstraction. Nevertheless, depending on the USB standard your LiveUSB supports, it may still take quite a while.
We are done with this stage. Unmount your LiveUSB.
Insert the target device. Let diskN be its identifier; as before, we may discover its identifier with diskutil list.
We now mount the "Ubuntu Boot Loader" partition and navigate our terminal shell into its root; the standard Finder mounting suffices, whereupon it will be located at /Volumnes/Ubuntu Boot Loader.
where M is the partition identifier of the "Ubuntu Boot Loader" partition, which can be discovered with diskutil list.
We are done. Insert the LiveUSB and shutdown or restart the MacBook.
We assume that the LiveUSB and the target device are both plugged in, and that the reader shall connect external input devices whenever required for input.
When the MacBook starts, immediately during or before the bootup chime, hold down the Option button to enter the native bootloader. Select any of the EFI Boot options.
You should arrive at the Live Ubuntu desktop. You should need an external keyboard and mouse while in this environment. Proceed with installation as per usual, except for the following part.
At "Installation type", and presented with where and how on the disks you wish to install Ubuntu, select "Something else". I do not like connecting to the Internet and updating just yet; we may do that later.
Select to format the partition that was diskNsM in macOS as ext4, and use it as the root / mount point. Choose to install the bootloader in the same partition, that is, the partition that was diskNsM in macOS. Leave every other partitions and drives alone.
Proceed and complete the installation, but do not reboot just yet.
You should now be booted into a Live Ubuntu OS. You should have both the LiveUSB connected from which you are running the OS, and also have your target device connected. We shall identify the partition that you have installed Ubuntu 17.10 to by sdAN where A is some small-caps letter and N is some integer.
We now build the GRUB2 bootloader.
From outside the chroot'd shell (that is, from the Live Ubuntu desktop), save your boot.efi file somewhere from your macOS installation (e.g. Google Drive).
Reboot into macOS. Due to how the macOS searches for bootable partitions, from now on you may have to always hold down the Option button and select the location you would like to boot into, else you may arrive at a GRUB2 fallback shell.
cp /path/to/boot.efi "/Volumes/Ubuntu Boot Loader/System/Library/CoreServices/"
It does not seem likely, but you may have to re-bless the "Ubuntu Boot Loader" partition.
We are done. Your Ubuntu 17.10 installation should now be bootable.
You do not need the LiveUSB from here on. Reboot the MacBook with Option key held down while booting, and select "Ubuntu Boot Loader". You should boot into GRUB2, and should be able to select an Ubuntu menu entry to boot onto your Ubuntu 17.10 installation. From here on you may need to perform input via an external keyboard and mouse. Log in.
You may be prompted to restart your system, but it is important not to just yet.
You should now have a system that should load the drivers upon boot. But (I'm unsure about this point) you may have to rebuild your GRUB2 bootloader to correctly identify the kernel to boot into.
After every system update (upgrade) that rebuilds the kernel, you should re-run this step.
Upload boot.efi to some place accessible by macOS.
Mount "Ubuntu Boot Loader" and replace the old boot.efi file in that partition with the new boot.efi file. Remember that it must be done with the Terminal as Finder glitches out.
I doubt this must be done, but you may need to re-bless the partition.
Nailen Matschke (nailen@caltech.edu) for instructions on how to boot into Ubuntu from Apple's native bootloader via intermediately booting into a standalone GRUB2 bootloader.
github.com/chisNaN for easy instructions to install and configure the keyboard and touchpad drivers.


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Is he the president of all of the United States?
He missed Nancy Reagan's funeral, and missed Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral. It's not because they were conservatives, was it? What was he thinking? Doesn't he represent all of us?
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Colin Koopman, Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty, Columbia UP, 2009, 288pp., $45.00 (hbk), ISBN: 9780231148740.
Surf's up! There's a gnarly new wave rolling towards the shore so grab your surfboards and head out to the water! Even better: it's a wave of Pragmatism! Pragmatism as Transition (hence, Transition) aims to develop a new "wave" of pragmatism, "Transitional Pragmatism" or "Transitionalism." The need for such an alternative is justified, ostensibly, by an "impasse" or "holding pattern" which is paralyzing various contemporary pragmatisms and preventing them from doing "cultural criticism" and helping solve pressing (non-philosophical) ethical and political problems. Transition's basic strategy is to diagnose the impasse by showing a tension between two major historical roots (or "waves") of pragmatism and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each. Each of these two historical waves of pragmatism reveal, it is argued, various "transitional" elements of their own which can be selectively salvaged for use in the new and improved pragmatism, Transitionalism.
More specifically, the "1st wave" of pragmatism includes American classical pragmatists (CP) C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, primarily; the "2nd wave" includes figures sometimes called neopragmatists or linguistic pragmatists (NP): Richard Rorty, Robert Brandom, and Hilary Putnam, mainly. Many other figures (pragmatists, non-pragmatists, and others) are enlisted to advance critical and constructive points, with special help coming from Pierre Bourdieu, Stanley Cavell, Bernard Williams, and Michel Foucault. Despite this large and diverse cast, Transition primarily addresses itself to scholars in the American pragmatist tradition; we conclude this because the majority of close analyses (when given) are spent interpreting or criticizing Dewey. (The extent to which we were persuaded by these analyses forms the core of this review.) Nevertheless, we believe that something of interest can be found here for anyone interested in the above mentioned figures, various pragmatisms, or theories regarding genealogy, sociology, or anthropology.
The book consists of seven chapters and an introduction, notes, a bibliography, and an index. The introduction outlines some key terms and then neatly encapsulates the structure and motivation for the book's argument. Chapter 1 explicates the core components of Transitionalism, namely meliorism, historicity, and temporality; chapter 2, called "largely an effort in quotation," seeks to show that "transitionalist" themes characterize "every major pragmatist thinker" (7) as it begins comparing classical and contemporary streams within pragmatism. Chapter 3 labors to establish the necessity of a 3rd wave (Transitionalism) by showing how and why an impasse exists between the first two waves. Arguing that CP is too foundationalist-leaning ("experience-centric") and NP is too narrowly focused on linguistic-practice ("language-centric") the chapter is "concerned to point out certain deficiencies that result from placing too much stress on experience or language rather than on the processes of transitioning in which both experience and language ought to be situated." (8) Chapters 4, 5, and 6 seek to utilize the previous chapters' material by demonstrating how seeing through a "transitioning" lens can relieve longstanding impasses in epistemology, ethics, and political theory (e.g., a solution to the utilitarian/deontology impasse in ethical theory is proffered). Finally, Chapter 7 pleads for much greater attention to genealogical approaches to criticism, such as found in Foucault. These approaches, Transition argues, supply two lacunae in pragmatism: (a) a method for identifying our problems' specific historical roots (rather than focusing too singularly upon consequences, which, it is argued, CP typically does) and (b) a better mechanism for creating problems which stir up thinking -- a.k.a. "problematization." The chapter (and book) ends with a plea for more cross-pollination between genealogical criticism and pragmatism.
Before making further remarks, we wish to identify our perspective -- which Koopman names "classicopragmatism" but which we prefer to simply call "pragmatism." (We apply this label not as a wedge, but because we are unconvinced of the validity of Koopman's taxonomy regarding those working with pragmatist themes.) Whatever the merit of our arguments, we believe Transition has a range and excitement likely to inspire interest and discussion among a variety of audiences beyond pragmatism -- including Rortyans, literary theorists, postmodernists, Foucauldians, and many others -- and so we realize portions of our critique may fail to comment on ideas central to many. We also want to acknowledge the important merit Transition deserves for pointing to and opening a much needed discussion about the disagreement between philosophers that are supposed to share a name and a history. His attempt at diagnosis and treatment are ameliorative -- and welcome.
In our view, the relation between Transitionalism and meliorism is unclear. At one point, Koopman seems to equate them, writing "When philosophy itself is interpreted through the lens of these transitionalist notions, it turns out that philosophy is best understood as a theory and practice of hopeful cultural criticism … [which some pragmatists refer to as] meliorism." (16) However, Koopman later marks them as distinct, writing that Transitionalism is "neutral with respect to development and decay" whereas "meliorism, by contrast, clearly connotes something valuable." (17) He then subsumes "melioristic cultural critique" within the broader temporal and historical perspective of Transitionalism. "Meliorism," he writes, "is successful transitionalism." (17) Well, the reader wonders, what is actually true about "transitionalism" and "meliorism"? Are they the same thing or different? Again, it's not clear, for the definition of "pragmatism" (mentioned earlier) makes it seem that pragmatism and meliorism come to the same thing; but a page later Koopman again separates what appeared to be identical, claiming that "it remains to be spelled out exactly how meliorism contributes to pragmatism" (18) and referring to something called "pragmatic meliorism" (18) which he says runs from Emerson, through James and Dewey, to Rorty. However, in a discussion meant to illustrate meliorism (concerned with pragmatic reconstructions of "truth"), Koopman refers to the centrality of "melioration" for "pragmatist transitionalism." Confused? So were we.
Transition's central chapter 3 provides a brief intellectual-historical review of periods or "waves" in American pragmatism (CP and NP). "The first wave of classicopragmatism placed its primary emphasis on the concept of experience. The second wave of neopragmatism placed its primary emphasis on the concept of language." (72) Adding a vague, summarizing gesture (of a sort found, alas, throughout the book) he writes, "This yielded a philosophy of experience and a philosophy of language, respectively. A philosophy of transitions was at best an afterthought in each instance" (72, our emphasis). What exactly are the charges against CP and NP, here?
The charge against CPs like Dewey was that their use ("reliance," "emphasis" -- the verbs vary) of experience in their metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics encouraged them toward tacit acceptance of the trans-experiential "Given" which Wilfrid Sellars warned about. It is not that they explicitly accepted or promoted such things, but rather that their versions of experience (called, variously, "primary experience," "pure experience," or "qualitative firstness," 82) edged their philosophies incautiously close to "a givenism that courts representationalism and foundationalism." (89; see also 75-76) In essence, Koopman has repurposed Rorty's charge against Dewey as a charge against CP in general. The whole lot stinks. (The only difference we can see between Koopman and Rorty is that Rorty explicitly and fully charges Dewey with this -- and sticks to it -- while Koopman alternately issues half-charges and half-retractions.) It is a shame that the CP's conception of "experience" serves as an absolutist backstop, for their processual philosophy was about escaping such foundationalist traps.
Having described the pluses and minuses of these two conflicting waves of pragmatism, Transition renews its discussion of Transitionalism (a focus of Chapters 1 and 2) so it can show that it resolves the impasse between the two waves of pragmatism (supposedly pragmatism's "central problem") and sprint beyond their limitations. Transitionalism promises to utilize a "ready insistence on temporality and historicity" as a way of developing "the core epistemological, ethical, and political insights of pragmatism without reliance on either an experience-centric or a language-centric philosophical framework." (100-101). It is the express purpose of the subsequent chapters (on epistemology, ethics, and political theory) to show Transitionalism at work before concluding, in Chapter 7, with an additional argument that pragmatism needs greater incorporation of genealogical approaches.
Recall that Transition intends to launch a "third pragmatism" that "makes peace" (106), recuperate the "best of both waves of previous pragmatism", and play down the "pernicious elements" of both. Those elements, again, are the "linguisticism" of neopragmatists like Rorty and the "lingering foundationalist tendencies" (106) of James, Dewey, and others following in their footsteps. Serious questions should be raised about Koopman's understanding of the impasse he is trying to resolve. He thinks of his view as a "third wave" because it is not predominantly driven by either language or experience. We believe his analysis of the impasse is superficial because it fails to recognize a more fundamental source of difference dividing the first two waves: it is not a choice between concepts ("language" versus "experience") but rather a difference of metaphilosophical starting points -- a "practical" versus "theoretical" starting point for philosophy. What makes linguistic pragmatism problematic is that it starts, as did modern philosophy, with a theory. While particular theoretical starting points vary (all sensation is atomistic, sensation is categorically non-mental, all experience is linguistic or temporal or historied, etc.), each philosophy starts with something theory-driven and that is what the CPs do not share. Their insistence on the practical starting point ("radical empiricism" is James's term) is what, in our view, sets them apart. For this reason, we have difficulty conceding Koopman's understanding of the impasse. However, we choose to spend the bulk of our time on another premise of his overall argument, that which requires Dewey et al. to be foundationalists, and in a full-fledged way. If that premise fails, no rescue by Transitionalism is needed.
We will defend Dewey against this charge (of foundationalism or something just shy of it) in a moment. First, we feel bound to point out that the charge is never fully-made nor fully-fledged. It is not fully-fledged because CPs like Dewey are never said to embrace foundationalism or givenism; rather, by dint of their "metaphysical-sounding" (202) notion of experience they "warmly invite [givenism's] subtle forms," "risk" foundationalism (86), exhibit foundationalist "tendencies" (87,106) and ultimately fail to show how to "avoid the pitfalls of foundationalism, representationalism, and givenism." (91) Throughout, Transition waffles between condemning CPs as "foundationalists" and exculpating them on extenuating circumstances (e.g., poor choice of words, misjudging their audience, or being born before Wilfrid Sellars could explain the Myth of the Given problem to them).
Regardless of the half-hearted nature of these charges, Transition concludes that they provide sufficient reason to abandon CP: "The pragmatism I am urging is beyond foundationalism because it enables us to see that we need not ground our practical successes in any foundation of experience" (129, our emphasis). Despite endless qualifications, there is, in the end, no uncertainty about. The result is a parody of charity toward CP because while the charges do not really add up, Transition really cannot come to any other conclusion given its ambition to provide a "third wave." It seems that facts have been fixed to suit policy.
In sum, the charges against CP are murky and waffling, made with short passages of little support. We and others have argued that Rorty and Co.'s construal that experience plays a foundationalist role in Dewey is contra-indicated by massive amounts of textual evidence. Whatever one takes experience in Dewey to mean -- and this is no easy issue, we grant -- it is a virtual certainty that it neither implies nor entails a metaphilosophical commitment to foundationalism. Whereas Koopman, Rorty, and Brandom may all agree that Sellars' critique of the myth of the given showed that "experience" is a dispensable concept, we believe the CPs were doing something more than Sellars's critique could obviate. For the target of Sellar's critique is a certain conception of knowledge -- experience in the modern sense; but this is not "experience" in Dewey's dominant sense, namely, the best methodological starting point for a melioristic philosophy in a processual world.
Indeed, the overcoming of modern philosophy's starting point -- subjectivism, if you will -- formed the broadest and firmest basis for agreement among the CPs. The modern, subjectivistic view of experience had, they argued, led to artificial and irresolvable problems, and the promise of pragmatism was to diagnose and dispense with this starting point (and any theories derived from it). Peirce called it "Cartesianism" because he saw it in Descartes (CP5.416); James detected it in atomistic (primarily) British empiricism and calls for a more "radical" empiricism. By the time Dewey comes along, philosophy's failure to identify and eschew the subjective starting point is so stubborn and common that Dewey christens it "the philosophical fallacy" and proceeds to offer more extensive diagnoses and reconstructions than did his predecessors. As mentioned briefly earlier, the problem lies with philosophers' preference to start from a theoretical view of things -- in many cases, that of a subject or spectator set apart from a world-to-be-known. Pragmatism's proposal, then, emblematized in "experience," is to argue that philosophical inquiry start where the philosopher herself starts: amidst concrete, pre-theoretical, everyday experience. Theories will arise, typically to serve inquiries, but they must be returned to experience (to "practice") to provide confirmation.
Over the years, many philosophers have disagreed with the CP's metaphilosophical argument on behalf of a practical or experiential starting point. We are not asserting its truth, merely that it is nothing like foundationalism in philosophical inquiry. While the CPs arrive (empirically, hypothetically) at a general view of experience, this view has nothing to do with "the given." Yes, Dewey struggled to find a better word than "experience" to express his view; nevertheless, he was prolific and emphatic that experience as method is neither erudite nor theoretical but rather "the life [one] has led and undergone in a world of persons and things" (LW 1:369).
experience is already overlaid and saturated with the products of the reflection of past generations and by-gone ages. It is filled with interpretations, classifications, due to sophisticated thought, which have become incorporated into what seems to be fresh naïve empirical material (LW1:40).
These accretions -- call them "life experience," in the everyday use of that phrase -- are there at my, your, our starting points of inquiry. They cannot be peeled back or divested to return to something more real or genuine. Thus, Dewey was quite clear that philosophy-as-criticism never utilizes some "given" notion of experience as a foundation guaranteeing knowledge, and he was also clear that philosophy must practice self-criticism along with its critical focus on the problems and issues that matter to us. "We cannot," Dewey writes, "achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought, one that can be acquired only through the discipline of severe thought" (LW1:40). Such criticism of habits is possible, Dewey thought, if we can remain mindful (radically, empirically) of how things initially come across to us -- their "gross, qualitative" character, as Dewey put it. This is not a metaphysical relapse -- it's what the average person calls "keeping an open mind." It is to this lived experience that we can take our recourse, regardless of how convinced we are that even this "given" might be conditioned by personal, historical, and cultural context. All we can do is try our best to cultivate naïveté, according to Dewey.
In sum, we do not find Transition's critique of the CP's concept of experience very convincing. While it is likely that CPs such as Dewey could have used less misleading terms, it is unlikely he could have spilled more ink trying to explain and clarify their meaning. Transition gives us no good reasons, then, to think that abandoning "experience" would significantly advance pragmatism today. Koopman's preferred alternatives -- "transitions," "temporality," "historicity" -- seem as liable to misinterpretation as experience, even after his explications.
We have spent a significant amount of time on "experience" because it is the linchpin of the book. If Transition's critique of "experience" falters, then the book's solution -- Transitional Pragmatism -- is a solution in search of a problem. This is our conclusion. CP did not hold a foundational-leaning view of experience, and so the impasse (as this book describes it) between an "experience-centric" 1st wave and a "language-centric" 2nd wave does not exist, either. There are surely things dividing "classicopragmatists" and "neopragmatists," (such as their metaphilosophical starting points) but Transition does not show how this third wave would provide the necessary next step.
We wish to conclude with a few words of praise. First, we applaud Transition for its ambitions. It tries to synopsize many different movements in philosophy -- various pragmatisms, analytic philosophy, and genealogical approaches -- and then extricate elements common (but often buried) in each so they can contribute to Transitionalism. Its motives are also laudable: (a) to make peace between factions which have much to exchange, but have (in Koopman's view) stopped talking; (b) to synthesize new forms of pragmatism so they can better address cultural problems; and (c) to give future "public intellectuals" new tools to create their culture. Bravo! to all these goals. Second, we think that Transition does an admirable job of bringing out what is of interest to pragmatists in a variety of figures often left unmentioned -- such as Bourdieu, Williams, and Foucault. The continued fecundity of pragmatism depends on scholars like Koopman bringing such "outsiders" into the purview of pragmatists. Finally, we would call attention to the nuanced treatment of Rorty; to pick one example, Transition's summary of Rorty's trajectory as a philosopher was also nicely done (29 ff.). Contemporary philosophers have made a professional sport out of beating up on Rorty, and Koopman reminds us how earnest and genuinely pragmatist Rorty's efforts were to criticize and ameliorate our common future.
 Transition's prose is, to our minds, weighed down by too much verbose or jargonistic language. Indeed, given all the jargon, it was odd, to say the least, to hear Koopman remark later in the book (about views he was criticizing), "whatever one thinks of all these ism's, it is undeniable that one of the central aims of every variety of pragmatism is to rid philosophy of them." (120) We can only comment: "change begins at home." Simple "classicopragmatists" that we are, we would prefer merely to say, instead, that pragmatism is a philosophy ever-mindful that "things change all the time" and "we can make things better."
 Not only are Dewey and other CPs at risk of foundationalism; so are contemporary classicopragmatists such as R.W. Sleeper, T. Alexander, J. Gouinlock, and R. Bernstein (who is also labeled a "neopragmatist" in the book). However, these contemporary classicopragmatists have far less a reason to fall into foundationalism, given the benefits given to them, Transition argues, by linguistic philosophers like Sellars and Rorty.
 See, for example, Hildebrand, 2003 and Pappas, 2008, op cit. n.3. See also Hickman, Larry, Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism (Fordham University Press, 2007), Tiles, J.E., John Dewey: Political theory and Social Practice, (Taylor & Francis, 1992 ), Alexander, Thomas M., John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987).
 We were puzzled by a section in Transition that criticized Dewey's theory of inquiry because it does not explain "where problems come from, how they are generated, and what contribution inquiry itself makes to the recognition of a situation as indeterminate and then problematic." (200) "On Dewey's theory," Koopman complains, "we simply cannot specify where indeterminacies come from insofar as they are the material of raw primary experience. Indeterminacies are, on his view, simply given to us." (200) These comments betray an inadequate understanding of what a situation is for Dewey. He might answer: we encounter situations that trouble us -- we are troubled by them; and only after feeling the trouble is inquiry initiated to characterize such situations (as "problems" of this or that sort) and use hypothesis and action to address them. Koopman's notion that a theory of inquiry must be able to specify in advance where indeterminacies come from puts before inquiry a theoretical test it does not have to take.
 Indeed, we have questioned, too, the coherence of this very notion ("transitional pragmatism" or "transitionalism") as well.


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Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur has more BPL people than its total population
INDORE: Burhanpur in western Madhya Pradesh, bordering Maharashta would probably be the only town where number of people living below poverty line is more than its population.
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Fortification is easy solution to growing malnutrition threat in MP
INDORE: Madhya Pradesh is a growing state aiming at multi-dimensional developments.
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Narmada greens to ease water woes
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Form panel for issues relating to Indira Sagar project: HC
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Tribal protest against acquisation of land for cement factory
Up in arms against land acquisition, farmers from nearly 27 villages, mostly tribal, of Manavar Tehsil of Dhar district on Thursday protested against the acquisition of their land for the proposed
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IDA to build 30,000 more affordable houses in next 5 yrs
At a time when Indore Development Authority (IDA) is finding it difficult to find takers for its affordable houses, its board on Wednesday promised to construct another 30,000 affordable houses in
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BRTS may have flyovers, FOBs
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Tiger pugmarks found in Dewas forest
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You can Remove the extension from site from Extension > Manager > select JA Multilanguage > Uninstall and it will be removed from site.
Kindly make sure once it removes your changes will be lost.
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You could Remove all the translated item.
And it will help you to remove the translation.
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On the other hand they did not tell me how to uninstall the large number of modules and articles copied (multilingual component of JA is uninstalled), as many copies as languages had been enabled. It can? or does it cause me more inconvenience ?.
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In this photo provided by the Armed Forces of Denmark, a view the disturbance in the water above the gas leak, in the Baltic Sea, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Following…
In this photo provided by the Armed Forces of Denmark, a view the disturbance in the water above the gas leak, in the Baltic Sea, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Following the suspected sabotage this week of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines that carry Russian natural gas to Europe, there were two leaks off Sweden, including a large one above North Stream 1, and a smaller one above North Stream 2. (Rune Dyrholm/Armed Forces of Denmark via AP)
Germany opens investigation of Baltic gas pipeline blasts
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation into the suspected sabotage of two gas pipelines built to bring Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
Undersea explosions late last month ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which until Russia cut off supplies at the end of August was its main supply route to Germany. They also damaged the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which never entered service as Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
German federal prosecutors, who investigate national security cases, said they have opened an investigation against persons unknown on suspicion of deliberately causing an explosion and anticonstitutional sabotage.
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