The year was probably around 1996, and although we didn't know it yet, the first instance of digital marketing was born - albeit it was living in the shadows of corporate IT departments.
You see, the Dotcom revolution had just begun, and all businesses - big, and small - needed a website, and developing it required a technology solution. It was a conversation that the CEO would first hold with the company IT department. How do we do this? Can we make it ourselves? Or do we pay an exorbitant sum of money to one of these 'web design' agencies that keep leaving flyers in the letterbox? With sales and marketing teams unfamiliar with this new thing called the internet, the IT team took the lead and began owning the digital solution.
For IT departments, this was a truly different game. Prior to the turn of the millennium, their time was largely spent coordinating internal infrastructure - setting up the local area network, hooking up desk phones for employees and managing the customer database. They were nonetheless important and specialised tasks, but hardly adequate preparation for creating something audience facing, like a website. But as history shows us, we made do, we developed our very first corporate websites. Web 1.0 they called it - we placed information online. It wasn't a marketing device, but it was the first stepping stone in the digital journey that enabled brands to connect their products to their audiences.
Similarly, email marketing came along, and with the major email clients of the time - Outlook, Lotus Notes and Eudora - being a skeleton of what email marketing software is today, IT was again involved in setting up mail merges and distribution lists - they held the digital solution together.
Ironically, email marketing at one stage was a richer medium than web. Unlike these information-heavy websites, email marketing teased the concept of content. But admittedly, marketers were still a little lost. We didn't really know what to put in these emails - what do we want to send people? In reality, we sent anything and everything we could. And open rates were frighteningly good (More than 65% of emails were opened in 2003, compared to 6% today). But like they always do, marketers - specifically, Groupon - ruined this for all of us.
As time passed, we rightfully figured out that websites needed to be more than a dumping ground of information ("Ben, why can't we upload the annual report to the homepage?"), and our email marketing had to be more than attaching a PDF of our latest product catalogue. The format demanded a bespoke approach.
Accidentally, we began to think about content. But of course we never called it that - it was just 'writing'. I remember the water cooler conversations vividly. "Does anybody know a journalist with some spare time?". It was a statement which usually attracted responses such as "Well, my daughter studies creative writing - we'll get her to write the company emails".
More than a decade passed, and although web 2.0 kicked in and we started making our marketing look better, we didn't really get better. We moved into more expensive digital marketing activities, like banner advertising, where some overpaid buffoon on the phone convinced us that placing our brand's logo on a bunch of random websites would increase sales. Maybe it did. But we never really tracked it. We just deployed our ads and hoped for the best.
As we embarked on the first decade of the new century, a shift occurred where young marketers entered the industry with native competencies to handle the company's digital infrastructure. There was always a bright, starry-eyed young kid in the office. This kid was going to start managing your website, and years later, the next wave of kids would go on to manage your first ever Facebook Page. But again, you didn't know it yet.
As simple as that, the handover was compete. The digital infrastructure (and its countless dashboards and backends) has become user-friendly enough - thanks Wordpress - that we didn't need IT to hold hands with the marketers. The marketing graduates, the kids in the office, the ones who grew up taking apart computers and downloading songs on Napster could do it. It was a better arrangement, we thought. The graduates understood communications, and although they were fresh out of university, they had a vague idea of what a target audience was, and they weren't completely hopeless when it came to crafting a key message. The rest, well, the traditionalists in the office could teach them.
The departure from IT was unceremonious. We left them with the web hosting arrangements and the domain management. "That's still tech," we said.
2010 onwards was almost entirely about social media marketing, as it shifted from a personal product to a powerful tool that offered brands unprecedented reach, and a utilitarian broadcast platform. And even though our bosses told us to upload that PDF brochure to Facebook, we knew better than that by now.
New job titles were born. Social Media Managers, Community Managers, and later, when we realised we actually needed a strategy behind this, and that the occasional Tweet or Facebook post wasn't really making an impact, we brought in Paid Social Specialists, connected the dots with our media buying agencies, and more recently, drove the creation of muscular Performance Marketing teams.
Digital marketing had become as broad as it was sophisticated, and soon enough it had become the most desirable career path for anybody whose skill set vaguely intersected with marketing, advertising, public relations or communications.
Although your mother didn't quite understand it, by 2012, it was much cooler to be a digital or social media marketer than a traditional one. Running out of channels, the traditional marketer transitioned to the role of product manager, driven hastily by the rise of ecommerce and the impending death of brick and mortar shopping experiences.
Singe handedly, the remarkable boom in social media and content syndication continued to evolve the role. Facebook and Twitter reintroduced the art of short-form storytelling, and the evolution of content-rich services like Outbrain and owned infrastructure such as content hubs forced businesses to re-evaluate the type of people they placed In digital marketing roles. Digital marketers now needed to be a combination of tech and communications - an insatiable mix that remains difficult to recruit, even now.
In many businesses, the digital marketer had to do it all - update the website, manage the social media presence, update Google AdWords copy, cut together video footage, and write long-form blog posts. It was all-encompassing, 360, and extraordinarily diverse. I had a blast cutting my teeth across all of the above, while recognising that it was probably an unsustainable business model. The Digital Marketer couldn't possibly do all of these things well - we had reintroduced specialisations.
By 2015, Content Marketing had well and truly joined the party. We recognised that in an era with so much digital competition, our content had to be astonishing if we wanted to cut through the noise. We employed content specialists to take charge of the company's storytelling function, and we handed over anything with words, video or photos to them - even metadata made it into the palms of the contemporary content marketer.
And just as the Nordic winter slowly shifts from winter to spring, the marketing industry has rotated once more. Content marketing has become the next big thing.
The revival of content caused us to rethink earlier decisions that seemed oh, so right. For example, we had these enormous, heavy and expensive social media teams, but now we had to reconsider - are they here to produce content, or do they simply manage a community, and push the 'publish' button and drive distribution? The industry still needs to sort this out, but what is now clear is that content marketing teams (and of course, content marketing agencies) are better positioned than ever to muscle into an organisations strategic plan, business objectives and overall marketing strategy. It cannot be ignored - we now live in a content marketing world.
The future of digital marketing - going full circle.
The obvious question, with content marketing functions moving away from digital marketers, what will happen to their roles? Plenty, I suggest.
Digital marketing is right back where it started, although bigger, better and stronger. And while these teams now have an opportunity to drive digital infrastructure again, they are now expected to lead much more than channel strategies.
Programmatic marketing has changed the game, and as we move to always-on environments, it is the digital team that will continue to drive this. The birth of Performance Marketing teams is more than a fad, it is the embryo of something much bigger - driving a performance and optimisation culture. The content team might give you great content, but without the performance team, you don't realistically have the ability to A/B test it, optimise it and measure it on the go. They remain drastically different skills. An abrupt example is this - the person who writes your website copy, is not going to be the person to set up multiple iterations of your homepage, and serve it to different audiences concurrently.
Digital insights, analytics and data science specialists are still not as prevalent as they ought to be. With enormous volumes of data being produced, and digital media spend being higher than ever, digital needs to get its act together and build a conversion culture. An article I wrote some years ago, 'Social Media Marketers: Why Are You Still Counting Likes' is just as relevant today as it was when it was written. If you are a social media marketer, you absolutely must be able to demonstrate how your conversion pixels are implemented, and you need to be able to produce reports the customer conversion funnel. This is how you demonstrate your value to the business. If this is you - go away, right now, involve the right people in the business and figure it out.
And arguably, your customer experience team should also sit within digital, because for most businesses, the digital experience now outweighs the physical one. Having customer centric specialists who understand the wide assortment of customer touch points (social, web, applications, television, physical, in store etc) is the only way we get better, and shift away from a digital gimmick culture, to one that delivers long-standing, rich and loyal customer experiences.
Digital has changed again. We truly have gone full circle. With the support of our friends in IT, we kick started a world that brands now cannot live without. We boarded the content train, rode it for a few exhilarating stops, and now we are heading back to our natural habitat - infrastructure, tech, performance and insights. This is a brilliant time to be digital, and if brands continue to invest, support and grow the function, it's only going to get better.


Sophomore guard Jimmy King's career high of 22 points and nine assists was not enough for the University of Indianapolis men's basketball team to pull out a win against the University of Wisconsin -Parkside Rangers on Feb. 17.
The Rangers took the early lead with two good free throws after a foul from junior forward Roderick Davis. Parkside expanded their lead up to seven points, until the Hounds came back to tie it up at 42 before the halftime break.
At the beginning of the second half the Hounds broke to tie and took the lead with a layup from King. The Rangers did not give up, and the lead bounced back and forth until Parkside took it back for the final time with a 3-pointer. The Hounds could not come back and fell to the Rangers 92-84.
Without leading scorer junior guard Eric Davidson, only five Hounds made it to the basket. Along with King's 22 points, redshirt junior Ajay Lawton scored 20, sophomore guard Jesse Kempson had 16, freshman guard Tate Hall had 15 and redshirt junior guard Alex Etherington had 11 points.
The team hosted the Lewis University Flyers on Feb. 16. The Hounds gave up the first seven points of the game before Lawton's layup put the Hounds in the lead. The Hounds maintained this lead for the remainder of the first half, going into the break with a score of 44-34.
The Hounds expanded their lead in the second half up to 14 points. The Flyers could not surpass the Hounds offense, and UIndy won 81-69.
The previous week, the Hounds went 2-0 with wins against the William Jewell College Cardinals and the Rockhurst University Hawks. According to King, the two-game winning streak boosted the confidence that the Greyhounds are feeding off of during the second semester.
Though the Feb. 11 game against the Hawks ended with a Greyhound victory, it came after a battle to overcome a 13 point deficit. Lawton credited the win to an increase in defensive attentiveness during the second half of the game.
The Hounds finished with five players earning double digit points in the game against the Hawks. Lawton led with 21 points total, six coming from two 3-point shots and five from free-throws, along with three assists and two steals. Hall finished the game with 15 points on 5-6 shooting. Davidson ended up with 14 points.
The Greyhounds' victory against the Cardinals ended with score of 90-80. The Hounds finished the game with four players scoring in double digits. Kempson led the team in scoring with 18 points, along with two blocks. Etherington ended the game with 13 points and two steals. Hall also scored 13 points over the course of the game. King scored 11 points along with 6 assists, the highest total on the team.
The Hounds started off strong, leading 20-9 after seven minutes of play. However, the Cardinals mounted a small comeback and went into halftime with a 44-39 lead.
Although the Hounds lost a few leads and fell behind in points several times throughout the game, they ultimately were able to hold on and come back with to win after stepping up the defensive pressure in the second half, according to King.
According to Lawton, the Hounds were out for revenge for their defeat against the Hawks in the previous season.
Gouard commended the tough battle between the Hounds and the Hawks and said the Hawks were not a team he took lightly.
Gouard hopes that these two victories will carry over into upcoming games and lead the Hounds into the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament.
Gouard said that improvements could be made to the Hounds early play but was happy with the overall effort and result of the team's performance.
The Hounds will play their next game in Rensselaer, Ind., against the St. Joseph's College Pumas on Feb. 23. The game is set to begin at 8:30 p.m.


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A new book for my library
Arrived today another title for my game design shelf. I want to discuss more about gamification and I think this book has a good point of view. Buy here (link).
And below the book description:
"What do Foursquare, Zynga, Nike+, and Groupon have in common? These and many other brands use gamification to deliver a sticky, viral, and engaging experience to their customers. This book provides the design strategy and tactics you need to integrate game mechanics into any kind of consumer-facing website or mobile app. Learn how to use core game concepts, design patterns, and meaningful code samples to a create fun and captivating social environment.
Whether you're an executive, developer, producer, or product specialist, Gamification by Design will show you how game mechanics can help you build customer loyalty".
Marcadores: book, digital games, gamification, gaming_concepts
Ludificator
In this moment I'm writing a book named "LUDIFICATOR". It's a quick reference guide for the newbie game designers. I hope someday this content will be translated to english.
In the third chapter of my book I bring an idea I've discussed in the first post of this blog (link here): the idea of Ludification.
And now I have a good graph to illustrate this concept, as you can see below:
I'm trying to explain that the idea of Lufication is better than Gamification because in my point of view, the Game is inside the Ludic Field.
In my book I tried to demonstrate that it is more adequate to call activities with game mechanics as Ludic Interfaces.
Hang on! The book is coming out soon!
Marcadores: book, digital games, gaming_concepts, ludification, vincevader
Scientific article: your brain on videogames
Wow! It's the 50th post! ;-)
Marcadores: digital games, fun, game
The Art of Video Games 2012
Photo by Blake Patterson
Marcadores: digital games, games, gaming_concepts, quote
Transmedia Storytelling & Games
I want to delimitate in this short post the concept of transmedia storytelling (JENKINS, 2006): a kind of narrative which develops into multiple mediatic platforms, such as internet, books, video games, comics, television and movies. I want to highlight one specific use of this strategy in the entertainment industry.
I'm going to show to You the strategic appropriation of transmediatic narratives in the industry of entertainment using an established example: the Star Wars fiction series transformed into a Lego board game.
In the movie below it's possible to see how the idea of the movie "The Empire Strikes Back" becomes a board game.
Every game is an unique experience. Every game have a different end. The essence is the same of the movie but players have the opportunity to change the famous battle of Hoth with dice results.
What do you think about that?
JENKINS, Henry. Convergence culture: where old and new media collide. NYU Press, 2006.
Marcadores: boardgames, games, gaming_concepts, lego, star wars, transmedia, vincevader
Games: Tools For Mass Communication
The source is Ogilvy notes: "Art, education, economics, propaganda. Games are arriving at the forefront of media to become an important way to engage entire generations of people. What's different from before? Five billion people are replacing the most common communication device, the simple cell phone, with a full-fledged gaming system in their pocket. There are multiple ways to publish and distribute games over the Internet and to the masses. For many, game creation is becoming a regular activity, as tools become both easier to use and more powerful for people without programming knowledge. This panel will cover unique perspectives on how games are becoming more meaningful forms of expression and a significant tool for communicating ideas".
Click to expand the image below:
Marcadores: digital games, gaming_concepts, graph, video game
Interview with Espen Aarseth
We have something new in this post: the first interview of the blog. An interview with Espen Aarseth (one of my favorite authors).
Espen J. Aarseth is a figure in the fields of video game studies and electronic literature. Aarseth was born in Bergen, Norway, in 1965 and completed his doctorate at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Bergen. He co-founded the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, and worked there until 2003, at which time he was a full professor. He is currently Principal Researcher at the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Let's rock!
Vince: There's a lot of definitions for "game". From Huizinga to contemporary authors we can find a lot of ideas about this subject. What's your definition of "game"?
Espen: I am with Wittgenstein on this one; '"game" ("Spiel") is a concept that cannot be formally defined, and when we try to do so, we inevitably end up with merely a definition of a sub genre. I do have a definition of games, but I also acknowledge that this is an overproductive definition, that also includes phenomena such as musical instruments: "Games are facilitators that structure behavior, mainly for the purpose of entertainment." Note that I don't use the word 'rules', but the broader term 'structure'.
Vince: What you think about the buzzword "Gamification"? Do you think it's a good concept to define the use of game elements in non-game activities?
Espen: It is an ideological attempt to make games important and useful; and a very naive view of how humans can be controlled. A scenario where gamification is successful could only be a nightmare. But in 7-8 years it will be forgotten. So do check my prediction in 2020.
Vince: In your book named "Cybertext" You said that "the concept of cybertext focuses on the mechanical organization of the text, by positing the intricacies of the medium as an integral part of the literary exchange". In what kind of game it's possible to see it clearly?
Espen: Mechanics is a crucial aspect in almost all games. Games are obvious, almost trivial examples of what I was talking about there. As I made clear in Cybertext, games are combinations of two layers, the semiotic and the mechanical, and this sets them apart from non-cybernetic media such as novels and films.
Vince: Send a message to the new researchers of the gaming concepts and game design field.
Espen: I believe we are entering a new phase in game research, where we already see glimpses of an academic field with professional standards of quality. We are not quite there yet, but hopefully the early days of sloppy research, terrible quality control and half-baked theorizing will soon be over. Things can only get better!
Vince: Thank you!
Espen: You are welcome!
Marcadores: aarseth, digital games, espen, game design, gamingconcepts, interview, video game, vincevader
Goals and rewards
By Vince
At this moment I'm working on my new board game named PYRAMYZ, a dice game that uses D4s as paws in an orthogonal board. I hope to cast this game by April or May of this year. I intend to write a complete review of the creative process of this new game after the launching, very similar to the review of my other board game named YN (link here).
While the production of the game is not finished I want to discuss an important point of the game design process: the creation of a logical goal/reward to the game mechanics. In the moment of conception of a new game, it is very common to think about components, complex mechanics, layout, and sometimes we forget to create a good and clear goal/reward to offer the players.
The goal of my new game is simple: to be the player with most victory points. And how can You get victory points? Putting the higher values of D4 dices in the squares of your color in the board. It's possible to have an idea in the image below:
In the book "Game Design: principles, practice, and tecniques - the ultimate guide for the aspiring game designer" there is a good view about this subject. The authors say:
"A crucial aspect of a game is that has a definite goal, and reaching this usually allows an individual to win. Goals can include eliminating the other player(s) from the game, achieving an identified target (for example by amassing a number of points), winning a race, or collecting a certain type of token.
Achieving the goal - winning - can be its own reward. A player may have defeated his opponent through his superior game-playing skill or he may simply have been lucky with random factors.
Many modern games, digital and non-digital, do not rely on winning as the sole reward but are designed so that all of the players can derive some enjoyment from the process of playing the game". (page 13)
Another good gaming concept! What do you think about that?
THOMPSON, Jim; BERBANK-GREEN, Barnaby; CUSWORTH, Nic. Game Design: principles, practice, and tecniques - the ultimate guide for the aspiring game designer. New Jersey: Wiley, 2007
Marcadores: game design, game designer, gaming_concepts, pyramyz, vincevader

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Introductions Ben "Cincere" Wilson, Institute of Transformative Mentoring at the New School Judge Jonathan Lippman, Independent Commission on NYC Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform Moses Gates, Regional Plan Association Panel Moderated by Alyssa Katz, THE CITY Panelists: Queens Council Member Costa Constantinides; Claire Weisz, WXY Studio; Melissa Iachan, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest New York City is pursuing an ambitious plan to shut down the jails on Rikers Island by reducing the number of people incarcerated and shifting to borough-based facilities that are closer to the city's courthouses. Supporters believe that a smaller system will be more fair and just, and that borough facilities will be safer and more accessible to the courts, visitors, service providers, and attorneys. Opponents express concerns about the scope of the plan and the impact of the proposed borough facilities on their surroundings.
But the discussion over Rikers has not focused on the future of the island, which could be repurposed to provide lasting benefits to nearby communities and the entire region. Relocating facilities currently sited in the South Bronx and North Queens to Rikers would eliminate local sources of pollution, open up shorelines for park space, and create space for well-paid green industrial jobs. New waste water treatment facilities on Rikers could prevent 9 billion gallons of sewer overflow into the Long Island Sound every year. New sources of renewable energy could provide environmental, health, and financial benefits for residents across the region. And just as importantly, the opportunity to reimagine the South Bronx and North Queens coastlines could let local communities shape new positive visions for the area.
Join Regional Plan Association, the Independent Commission on Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, and the Center for New York City Affairs to explore how New York City could be transformed by eliminating the jails on Rikers Island and repurposing it for public uses..


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Basically, portfolio page will present the culinary arts in creating new dishes and flavor combinations to customers.
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Q: normalizing data by duplication note: this question is indeed a duplicate of Split pandas dataframe string entry to separate rows, but the answer provided here is more generic and informative, so with all respect due, I chose not to delete the thread

I have a 'dataset' with the following format:
     id | value | ...
--------|-------|------
      a | 156   | ...
    b,c | 457   | ...
e,g,f,h | 346   | ...
    ... | ...   | ...

and I would like to normalize it by duplicating all values for each ids:
     id | value | ...
--------|-------|------
      a | 156   | ...
      b | 457   | ...
      c | 457   | ...
      e | 346   | ...
      g | 346   | ...
      f | 346   | ...
      h | 346   | ...
    ... | ...   | ...

What I'm doing is applying the split-apply-combine principle of pandas using .groupby that creates a tuple for each group (groupby value, pd.DataFrame())
I created a column to group by that simply counts the ids in the row:
df['count_ids'] = df['id'].str.split(',').apply(lambda x: len(x))

     id | value | count_ids
--------|-------|------
      a | 156   | 1
    b,c | 457   | 2
e,g,f,h | 346   | 4
    ... | ...   | ...

The way I'm duplicating the rows is as follows:
pd.DataFrame().append([group]*count_ids)

I'm slowly progressing, but it is really complex, and I would appreciate any best practice or recommendation you can share with this type of problems.

A: try this:
In [44]: df
Out[44]:
        id  value
0        a    156
1      b,c    457
2  e,g,f,h    346

In [45]: (df['id'].str.split(',', expand=True)
   ....:          .stack()
   ....:          .reset_index(level=0)
   ....:          .set_index('level_0')
   ....:          .rename(columns={0:'id'})
   ....:          .join(df.drop('id',1), how='left')
   ....: )
Out[45]:
  id  value
0  a    156
1  b    457
1  c    457
2  e    346
2  g    346
2  f    346
2  h    346

Explanation:
In [48]: df['id'].str.split(',', expand=True).stack()
Out[48]:
0  0    a
1  0    b
   1    c
2  0    e
   1    g
   2    f
   3    h
dtype: object

In [49]: df['id'].str.split(',', expand=True).stack().reset_index(level=0)
Out[49]:
   level_0  0
0        0  a
0        1  b
1        1  c
0        2  e
1        2  g
2        2  f
3        2  h

In [50]: df['id'].str.split(',', expand=True).stack().reset_index(level=0).set_index('level_0')
Out[50]:
         0
level_0
0        a
1        b
1        c
2        e
2        g
2        f
2        h

In [51]: df['id'].str.split(',', expand=True).stack().reset_index(level=0).set_index('level_0').rename(columns={0:'id'})
Out[51]:
        id
level_0
0        a
1        b
1        c
2        e
2        g
2        f
2        h

In [52]: df.drop('id',1)
Out[52]:
   value
0    156
1    457
2    346

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Q: "make: *** No targets. Stop." error I've prepared the following makefile, to automatically clean-up all the temporary projects I want to delete:
.SUFFIXES : bye

#  The default action is to
#      remove the latest project, i was working at...
byebye :
    rm -rf "$(ls -1dt /projects/new_* | head -n1)"

#  Remove a specific project.
#  Run make from the command-line as 'make new_1_bye' etc.
%_bye :
    rm -rf /projects/$*

But, if I run make as:
$ make

I get:
make: *** No targets.  Stop.

Why?

A: The .SUFFIXES line seems to cause the trouble.  Suffixes normally start with a dot (.c, for example).  Make appears to accept the suffix bye, but that means the line byebye: marks the start of a suffix rule, and the %_bye line is also a suffix rule.  That adds up to mean there are no targets cited in the makefile, hence the error message.
If you use .SUFFIXES : .bye instead, make is then happy with the makefile.


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Gregory Atkins, doctoral candidate, history, presented "The Rise of the Evangelical Mecca: Boosters, Young Life, and the Navigators in Colorado Springs"—which explores the first evangelical business-ministries to move to the city, their interactions with boosters, and the model set by that interaction—at the 107th annual meeting the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association in Portland, Ore.
Jennifer Binczewski, doctoral candidate, history, received the 2014 David Rogers Research Award from the Catholic Record Society (UK) for her dissertation, Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1620.
John Bishop, professor, biological sciences, delivered the keynote address at the banquet of the WSU Master Gardener Advanced Education Conference in Tacoma, Wash., in September: "The Paradox of Enrichment and Other Stories of Colonization from Mount St. Helens' Pumice Plain."
An essay by Tiffany A. Christian, doctoral candidate, critical culture, gender, and race studies, "Gendered Survival: The Recuperation of Wounded White Masculinity in Doomsday Preppers," was accepted for inclusion in the forthcoming anthology We Dare Not Go Back! Critical Essays on Apocalyptic Media in the Millennium(McFarland).
Paula Coomer, instructor, English, published two new books, both of which are finalists for the 2014 Idaho Book Award: Nurses Who Love English, poems (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), and Blue Moon Vegetarian, memoir (Booktrope).
Through Booktrope, Coomer also recently published a cookbook, Blue Moon Gluten-Free Vegan, and has three more titles due for release next year: Blue Moon Herbs, Spices, and Medicinals, non-fiction; Jagged Edge of the Sky, novel; and Blue Moon Folkways Kitchen, non-fiction.
Asaph Cousins, professor, biological science, published an article in the Journal of Experimental Botany: "Disruption of the mitochondrial alternative oxidase (AOX) and uncoupling protein (UCP) alter rates of foliar nitrate and carbon assimilation in Arabidopsis thaliana."
Michael Delahoyde, clinical associate professor, English, published the article "Perspective Art and Shakespeare" in the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter. In September, he presented the paper "Oxford's Early Errors" at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship's 2014 authorship conference in Madison, Wisc. Over the summer he also led master classes and outreach events for the California Shakespeare Theater in San Francisco thanks to an English department summer research fellowship for non-tenured faculty.
Robert Eddy, associate professor, and Victor Villanueva, Regents Professor and director of the WSU Writing Program, English, are co-editors of a new book, A Language and Power Reader: Representations of Race in a 'Post-Racist' Era (Utah State University Press), which offers readings by writers, scholars, and others about racism and the language of racism in action.
Monica K. Johnson, professor, sociology, presented an invited lecture on "Parental Financial Assistance in the Transition to Adulthood" at Duke University, and her co-authored article "The Great Recession and Recent Employment Trends among Secondary Students in the United States" was accepted for publication in Longitudinal and Life Course Studies.
Christopher Lupke, professor, foreign languages and cultures, was named Fulbright Visiting Research Chair for fall 2014 at the University of Calgary, BC, where he is teaching a seminar and conducting research for a book about the Confucian notion of "filiality" in modern Chinese literature and culture. He is also presenting public lectures on the subject at UC and elsewhere in Canada.
Leonard Orr, professor, English, WSU Vancouver, was a finalist for the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize. His poems "Invitation" and "Backyard" were featured on the journal's website. He also published the poem "Desperate Times" in Slant (Summer, 2014).
This fall, Orr was a faculty member for the poetry event LiTFUSE 2014 in Tieton, Wash., where he taught a master class, led a workshop, and read poems from his new collection, A Floating Woman (WordTech/Cherry Grove, forthcoming, 2015).
Melissa Parkhurst, instructor, music, published To Win the Indian Heart (Oregon State University Press), which chronicles the musical life of Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Ore, the nation's oldest continuously operating federal boarding school for Native American children.
Craig Parks, professor, psychology, has been named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
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Samantha Swindell, clinical associate professor, Lee Daffin, clinical assistant professor, and Lisa Fournier, associate professor, psychology, published a book chapter, "Training Tomorrow's Teachers: Graduate Training in University Instruction in the Department of Psychology at Washington State University," in The New Psychology Professorate: Helping Students Become Competent Teachers.
Jennifer Thigpen, associate professor, history, published a monograph Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai'i's Pacific World, which demonstrates that women's relationships—formed in the 19th century—became vital to building and maintaining the diplomatic and political alliances that ultimately shaped Hawai'i's political destiny. (UNC Press)
R. Charles Weller, instructor, history, published the research paper "Religious-Cultural Revivalism as Historiographical Debate: Contending Claims in the Post-Soviet Kazakh Context" in the Journal of Islamic Studies, highlighting the internal struggle between resurgent Muslim and Tengrist (i.e., "native Turkic religious") positions developing in dynamic interface with lingering atheistic-Communist and rising Western-secular as well as Christian influence among the Turkic Central Asian peoples.
Greg Yasinitsky, Regents Professor and director, music, is featured on Round the Korner, a new CD recording by the Delbert Bump–Greg Yasinitsky Quintet, available from iTunes, CD Baby, and numerous other outlets.


Welcome to our 00 issue! Devoted to contemporary challenges in the dissemination of knowledge, this Salon will stay open and grow with each new contribution and event. Through interviews with journal editors and posts by researchers and stakeholders in scientific publishing, we will focus on the important changes caused by the digital era in scholarly publishing.
No doubt Nathalie Casemajor, Professor-researcher and member of the Wiki community, shares this point of view. Interview on the pedagogical virtues of Wikipedia and on the academic responsibilities of Web 2.0.
Lien social et Politiques (LSP) is an international, multidisciplinary, francophone journal dedicated to the themes of social relations, social problems and public policies. In 2015, with the publication of its 73rd issue, the magazine made the move to open access. LSP has been available in digital format since 2002 and in digital format exclusively since 2014. Johanne Charbonneau, journal editor from 2011 to 2017, explains what motivated these changes and how they were negotiated.
By facilitating the creation, update, access and transmission of information, digital publishing leads to a transformation of the modes of production and distribution of scientific journals. This transformation is not yet complete, but we now have enough hindsight to identify the changes that the digital era, which began in the 1990s, has produced in the field of the scholarly publishing.
The positive impact of open access on the use and circulation of scientific publications is well known. We demonstrate here for the first time this impact for scholarly journals published on the digital platform Érudit. The analysis of downloads between 2011 and 2015 in Canada and internationally allows us to show that immediate open access worked in several ways to the journal's advantage over delayed open access.
Fifty years old, but still young, Criminologie was one of the first more traditional journals to have met the challenge of open access. Since January 2017, the journal has offered unlimited, free online access to its latest issues, while continuing to publish a paper edition. In this way, it will continue to attract the best authors, renew its readership and reach out to practice settings that do not always have the means to subscribe to the journal but who, nonetheless, constitute the journal's target audience.
Partnership is the journal of Partnership, Canada's national network of provincial and territorial library associations. The journal promotes the exchange of ideas about libraries, librarianship, and information science among practitioners across all library sectors. Partnership is a Canadian, bilingual and open access journal publishing double-blind peer-reviewed research and editorially-reviewed articles and opinion pieces.
Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture is an open access electronic publication that creates a bridge between Francophone and Anglophone networks and establishes a dialogue between the new generation of researchers and seasoned specialists, while ensuring a continuity in the field of the history of books through the dissemination of the most up-to-date subjects. Firmly interdisciplinary, the journal calls on much expertise to situate the written work in society, to analyze its uses, and to measure its reach.
Lien social et Politiques is a French-language, international, and multidisciplinary journal devoted to an examination of the social phenomena from the perspective of individuals and their social practices, as well as institutional regulations and actions. The journal is published since 1979. It now a digital only publication and, since 2015, has been accessible for free on the Érudit platform.
Founded in 1968, Criminologie is primarily dedicated to presenting research results and addresses both scientists and criminal-justice professionals. This theme-based journal calls upon researchers in various fields: criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, jurists, etc. Criminologie is the only French-language criminology journal published in North America. The journal is printed and digital as well. The electronic version is available in open access since 2017.
The main mandate of Archives is to contribute to the development of archival and information sciences, both from the point of view of theory and practice, by providing a space for publication for research, reflections and professional experiences. Archives is a meeting point between diverse disciplines more traditional related to information science and new challenges as metadata or content management.Archives is the journal of the Association des archivistes du Québec.
Documentation et bibliothèques is the Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation's quarterly journal. The Journal offers articles about the new realities and tendancies in the library and information community across the province of Quebec as well as the Francophonie. The Journal follows those developments both from a theoretical and a practical standpoint. Every year, the journal publishes a special thematic that can be considered as a monography.
A sectional view of the New York Public Library, 1911 (detail).
Colour enhancement: Cyril Doisneau, 2017.
Source : The New York Public Library Digital Collections.


Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S., on Tuesday discussed the company's plans to launch a new venture, called "Store No. 8," which will operate as a Silicon Valley incubator for new online stores.
The incubator will focus on startups engaged in machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics and augmented reality.
Lore unveiled the plans at the annual Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas.
The move reflects Walmart's ambition to catch up to Amazon in the e-commerce retail space. Lore took the helm of Walmart's e-commerce business after Walmart acquired Jet.com, the company he cofounded.
More Walmart acquisitions are in the works, he said, as the company accelerates its expansion in the online arena.
Walmart intends to take advantage of its already strong presence in brick-and-mortar locations, which can serve both as traditional showrooms for customers and as distribution centers for online shoppers who want to find clickable discounts and pick up purchases from a reliable distribution center that is close to their neighborhoods.
"Walmart does a pretty good job of enabling online sales for its retail inventory," said Michael Jude, a program manager at Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan.
"Where it falls short is enabling a retail ecosystem where many companies can sell goods and services under their umbrella," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Amazon has put together an enormous technical and intellectual property base to support and extract revenue from such an online marketplace, while Walmart has fallen short in that regard, Jude added.
Walmart currently operates almost 11,700 retail units globally, including 4,672 in the U.S. alone. It also operates in more than 6,300 in overseas markets. In addition, it runs 660 Sam's Club warehouse locations.
Lore's announcement followed several months of strategic acquisitions by Walmart. It has added a number of online apparel retailers to its growing Walmart online ecosystem, allowing them to retain their own brand identities and human talent, with the goal of building on existing customer relationships.
"These are small, but they are telling and they're tactical," noted Charlie O'Shea, lead retail analyst at Moody's.
"Walmart starts to pick things off in subsegments of retail and bolt them on," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Walmart earlier this year acquired ShoeBuy for US$70 million. Founded in 1999, it was one of the first retailers to sell shoes on the Web.
Although Shoebuy continues to operate under its own brand -- with CEO Mike Sorabella, his top executives and 200 employees remaining in place at its existing headquarters -- it now is part of the Walmart retail e-commerce business.
Walmart next acquired Moosejaw, an outdoor apparel and sporting goods retailer, for $51 million. Considered one of the leading online stores in the category, it operates 10 physical locations.
Under that agreement, Moosejaw CEO Eoin Comerford, his executive team and the company's 350 employees became part of Walmart's e-commerce retail operation, but continue to operate under their own brand at the same locations.
Walmart's most recent acquisition, ModCloth, brought one of the leading online specialty retailers of women's apparel and accessories to the retailing chain.
Modcloth is known for offering a diverse range of apparel for different body sizes and lifestyles, and for promoting a positive body image.
As with the other acquistions, ModCloth CEO Matthew Kaness, his top executives and the retailer's 300-plus workers will continue to operate under the same brand and at the same locations as before.


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Report: Timeline for North America
1 1497 Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada, Canada John Cabot lands somewhere on the coast of North America (probably Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island) in 1497 and claims it for King Henry VII of England. Giovanni Caboto (c1450-c1498) was an Italian navigator and explorer and like other Italian explorers took commissions from other countries. He sought and was granted funds from King Henry VII so his explorations to Canada were made under the English flag. Henry VII Tudor, King of England, Lord of Ireland, 14th Earl of Richmond
2 1576 Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, Canada Seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage Sir Martin Frobisher
3 1585 Virginia, USA Walter Raleigh rose rapidly in Queen Elizabeth I's favour, being knighted in 1585, and was involved in the early English colonisation of the New World in Virginia under a royal patent. Elizabeth I Tudor, Queen of England
4 1620 Plymouth Rock, Cole's Hill, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA After a 3 month voyage, the Pilgrim Fathers land at Plymouth Rock on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the Mayflower; found New Plymouth. Click here for John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers James VI(James I) Stuart, King of Scotland, England and Ireland
5 11 Nov 1620 Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA The Mayflower left from Plymouth, Devon, England on 6 Sep 1620 (with William Brewster who had travelled from Leiden, The Netherlands to join the ship) and after a gruelling 66-day journey marked by disease, which claimed two lives, the ship dropped anchor inside the hook tip of Cape Cod (Provincetown Harbor) on Sunday 11 Nov 1620 (observing the Sabbath no one left the ship on that day). They wintered on board ship and all surviving passengers moved ashore at Plymouth Rock, Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA between 21/28 Mar 1621. Elder William Brewster
6 Nov 1621 Plymouth Plantation, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA William Bradford is credited as the first to proclaim what popular American culture now views as the first Thanksgiving, a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general William Bradford
7 1735 Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA Intent on converting the Indians and to deepen and regulate the religious life of the colonists John and Charles Wesley set sail from England to Savannah, Georgia, USA.
On board ship John Wesley met Moravian Missionaries who's 'evangelical' (from Greek 'euangelion', good news) religion converted emotions into faith struck a chord. Moravian Brethren had been forced out of Bohemia (Czech Republic) in 1722 and settled across the border at Herrnhut, Saxony on land provided by their supporter Count Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf. Their first missionary a potter named Leonard Dober had traveled to preach on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas in 1732.
John Wesley had a disastrous love affair in USA and soon returned to England John (Jackie) Benjamin Wesley
8 13 Sep 1759 Quebec, Canada The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War. Beginning on 12 Sep 1759 the British Army and Navy commanded by General James Wolfe defeated the French Army, on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City which proved to be a deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britain over the fate of New France, later Canada. George IIAugustus Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
9 13 Sep 1759 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada After a lengthy siege Wolfe defeated a French force under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran allowing British forces to capture the city of Quebec. Wolfe was killed at the height of the battle due to injuries from three musket balls.
Wolfe's part in the taking of Quebec earned him posthumous fame and he became an icon of Britain's victory in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion. He was depicted in a painting The Death of General Wolfe. This painting became very famous around the world. Wolfe was posthumously dubbed "The Hero of Quebec", "The Conqueror of Quebec", and also "The Conqueror of Canada" since the capture of Quebec led directly to the capture of Montreal which ended French control of the country. James Peter Wolfe
10 Between 1761 and 1769 Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA Served in the provincial legislature, writing incendiary political pamphlets including "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved" (1764), quote: "The colonists are by the law of nature freeborn, as indeed all men are, white or black". Also n James'Patriot' Otis
11 1770 Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA George Whitefield owned slaves using them at his Bethesda Orphanage and to raise money for the orphanage he had slaves work at Providence plantation. He treated his slaves well and they were reputed to be devoted to him. Whitefield was critical of the abuse and neglect of slaves by other owners. When Whitefield died on 30 Sep 1770, he bequeathed his slaves to Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
The Second Great Awakening (1790 to 1840s) saw widespread Christian evangelism and conversions and preaching to slaveholders and slaves alike. As the French Revolution arrived in 1789, the USA began to export and market Protestantism. Freed evangelical slaves began returning to Africa. Selina Shirley, Countess of Huntingdon
12 04 Jul 1776 Pennsylvania State House, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent and ended in a global war between several European great powers. The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists and their allies overthrew British rule. In 1775, Revolutionaries seized control of each of the thirteen colonial governments, set up the unifying Second Continental Congress, and formed a Continental Army. The following year, they formally declared their independence (04 Jul 1776) as a new nation, the United States of America (USA).
Amongst its founding fathers was the Puritan polymath, Benjamin Franklin (born 17 Jan 1706 Boston, Massachusetts, USA, died 17 Apr 1790) a major figure in the 'age of Enlightenment' who invented Lightening Conductors and who's theories helped harness the power of Electricity. Franklin influenced the founding of the USA as a secular nation, independent of any church. State freedom of religion had not been seen since the 4th century, and the people's ability to choose their religion would allow religious diversity to flourish. The 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution, Bill of Rights expressly prohibits the US Congress from making laws 'respecting an establishment of religion' or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, laws that infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. George III William Frederick Hanover, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
13 17 Oct 1781 Yorktown, York County, Virginia, USA The Siege or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by General Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis. It proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender of Cornwallis? army prompted the British government to eventually negotiate an end to the conflict. George III William Frederick Hanover, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
14 19 Oct 1781 Yorktown, York County, Virginia, USA The Siege of Yorktown from 28 Sep 1781, followed by the Battle of Yorktown and subsequent Surrender at Yorktown on October 19, 1781 of British Forces led by Lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau. Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
15 02 May 1803 Louisiana, USA Threatened by invasion and despite the peace Treaty of Amiens, Great Britain declared war on France in May 1803. Faced with imminent war and bankruptcy, Boneparte saw French possessions on mainland North America would be indefensible and sold 828,800 square miles to the USA, 'The Louisiana Purchase' at less than three cents per acre. Napoléon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy
16 31 May 1889 Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA The Johnstown Flood (or Great Flood of 1889 as it became known locally) occurred on 31 May 1889 due to a catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam situated on the Little Conemaugh River 14 miles (23 km) upstream of Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA Aaron Farmery
17 4 11 1901 Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA Per State of Utah Marriage License. John Hyram Morris
18 Apr 1903 St. John, New Brunswick, Atlantic Canada, Canada The Barr Colony was the last great emigration scheme in English/North American history. Almost 2,000 English men, women and children emigrated to the prairies of western Canada in 1903, crossing the ocean from Liverpool to St. John New Brunswick and continuing by train, wagon and foot to an area set aside for them in what is now Saskatchewan. As other nationalities emigrated in large numbers to Canada, feeling grew in Ottawa to keep "Canada for the English." At about the same time, Rev. Isaac Barr conceived the idea of leading a group of Englishmen and their families to the almost undeveloped areas of the western prairies. Notes from Liz Wallis http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wallis/barrcol/. Harry Ducker
19 21 Jul 1925 Rhea County Court House, 1475 Market Street, Dayton, Rhea County, Tennessee, USA The 'Scopes Trial' often called the 'Scopes Monkey Trial' was an American Civil Liberties Union test case trial of John Scopes, an American high school teacher who contested the Butler Act, which made it unlawful, for Tennessee state-funded educational establishment 'to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.' Often interpreted as forbidding the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Scopes lost his case, but Tennessee repealed the Butler Act in 1967. George V Frederick Ernest Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, House of Windsor, King of the United Kingdom, the Irish Free State and the Commonwealth Realms, Emperor of India
20 Mar 1941 Washington, District of Columbia, USA Lend-Lease was a program under which the US supplied the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, China, France and Allied nations vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies. A total of $50.1 billion worth of supplies were shipped: $31.4 billion to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France and $1.6 billion to China. Reverse Lend Lease services (rent on air bases) that went to the US totaled $7.8 billion, of which $6.8 billion came from the British and the Commonwealth. The terms of the agreement provided that the material was to be used until time for their return or destruction. Supplies after the termination date were sold to Britain at a discount, for £1,075 million, payment was to be stretched out over 50 years at 2% interest. The final payment of $83.3 million due on 31 Dec 2006 (repayment having been deferred on several occasions), was made on 29 Dec 2006 (the last working day of the year). After this final payment Britain's Economic Secretary, Ed Balls, formally thanked the US for its wartime support. Canada operated a similar program that sent $4.7 billion in supplies to Britain and the Soviet Union.
This act also ended the pretense of the neutrality of the US and consequently Germany had its submarines attack US ships. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
21 07 Dec 1941 Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA On 7 Dec 1941 Churchill received news that The Empire of Japan had conducted a miss-communicated unannounced military strike against the US fleet at Pearl Harbor bringing the US into World War II, much to Churchill's and Britain's relief. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
22 30 12 1944 Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA Correct date of marriage. Married in a Presbyterian church in Oakland. George Orton Canning
23 5 Mar 1946 Westminster College, Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri, USA Churchill delivers his 'Sinews of Peace' speech:
"...From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow." Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
24 1982 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA Songwriter, record producer and musician most famous for writing the title track of Michael Jackson's Thriller, the biggest-selling album of all time. Rodney L Temperton


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Q: Java 8: Map of field to list of items Lets say I have a List<Person> Gathering and I want a Map<String, List<Person>>, mapping Person.surname to a List of Person:s that have the same surname. Is there a convenient way to do this using streams?

A: Yes, by using Collectors.groupingBy(...):
Map<String, List<Person>> personsBySurname = gathering.stream()
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Apple iPhone X vs Samsung Galaxy S8: Speed performance compared
Apple iPhone X vs Samsung Galaxy S8: Speed performance compared--Image source- Apple -youtube screenshot
Samsung Galaxy S8 supports a superfast wireless network technology called Gigabit LTE.
by Manaswi X
All eyes were on Apple this September as the company unveiled the iPhone X and iPhone 8. The company has unpacked its 10th-anniversary device with cutting-edge specs. The list includes features like wireless charging capability, a dual camera setup, AI (Artificial Intelligence) integration and more. Companies like Samsung and LG have facilitated many needs with their offerings like Galaxy S8 and V30 respectively. These devices have an upper hand over iPhone X in one factor: its internet speed. Take for instance; samsung galaxy S8 supports a superfast wireless Network Technology called Gigabit LTE.
This is missing in Apple's iPhone X. According to CNET, even though iPhone X supports LTE networks, it is not as fast as its Android competitors.
Apple vs Samsung
Given that Apple has never really been a part of adopting the latest network technology for years, this doesn't come across as a surprise. They are hardly the first ones to bring any technology forward. The Cupertino giant has a reputation of waiting for things before they fully embrace them. The CNET report also points at how they weren't the first ones to bring 3G network to the table either. They forayed into the 3G segment sometime in 2015. By this time, Samsung was already dominating the industry.
Support for LTE networks holds grave importance these days.
High-end technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have become increasingly mainstream. Developers are creating content on the basis of it. Therefore, networks that support these needs are of crucial importance. According to a report by ZDNet, carriers like Verizon are now working towards implementing 5G networks in the industry.
In fact, they have even begun setting up plants across US (Austin, Indianapolis, California) dedicated towards this cause. Real world environments are being developed over time so that the 5G evolution can flourish with success. According to BGR, Galaxy S8 is ahead of iPhone X in the overall performance of the phone too.
Apple's target audience
In a time like this, big daddies of the smartphone industry including Apple and Samsung are expected to keep up with the advancing technology. But Apple caters to a niche market. The niche market is expanding over time but the firm has established itself a very exclusive, elitist agenda, noted Gadgets Hack. The Cupertino giant has already established collaboration with Verizon in an effort to explore 5G networks. But this doesn't change the fact that Samsung's Galaxy S8 is much speedier than Apple Iphone X.
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The married fire chief, with annual sales of £ 100,000, was investigated for visiting his former secretary and violated the lockdown rules
Scared residents fear their homes will be NEXT as pictures show homes on Kent cliffs
Scared neighbors of a mother whose dream home fell off a cliff fear they will be next and desperately try to prop up the collapsing shoreline.
Striking drone imagery shows houses swaying on the cliff in Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppy off the Kent coast, six months after Emma Tullett's Spanish villa-style bungalow fell off the edge for £ 195,000.
Ms. Tullett was broken when her home, called the Cliffhanger, was destroyed in four days in late May, leaving a 20-foot sinkhole.
The neighbors of Eastchurch's Surf Crescent had taken matters into their own hands, working around the clock to consolidate the crumbling cliff and save their properties from the same fate.
However, last month the Swale Council asked residents to stop all work because of "environmental concerns".
Scared neighbors of a mother whose dream home fell off a cliff fear they will be next and desperately try to prop up the collapsing shoreline. Pictured: the remains of Emma Tullett's house in June after it fell off a cliff in Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppy, Kent
Striking drone imagery shows homes swaying on the cliff six months after the £ 195,000-value Spanish villa-style bungalow fell from Mrs. Tullett's mother
Ms. Tullett was broken when her home, called the Cliffhanger, was destroyed in four days in late May, leaving a 20-foot sinkhole. Pictured: the house before it fell off the cliff
In the meantime, more land has slipped over the edge in heavy rain. On Sunday, 15 feet of land collapsed from a resident's garden in heavy rain.
Residents blame months of inactivity for the cliff's further collapse and are now asking for permission to protect their homes before it's too late.
Now they say that heavy rain causes landslides on a daily basis.
Neighbors Ed Cane, 67, and Julian Green, 62, fear that it will only be a few more weeks before their bungalows land at the end of the trash as they continue to watch their gardens look out over the cliffs from day to day get smaller.
Delivery man Mr Cane, who lives in a two bedroom bungalow and whose wife Lynn leans on Ms. Tullett's outhouse, watched on Sunday as 15 feet of his garden fence collapsed, leaving a steep drop in the 20 foot sinkhole below.
He tried using clay to prevent further falls, but claimed the environmental agency was there with two police officers on Wednesday to warn him to stop the flies tipping on his own land.
Mr. Cane said, "They will do nothing to help us and make it impossible for us to save our own livelihoods.
"I don't know how long I'll be here. If that amount of land can fall at one time, any moment my house could fall off.
"I'm really scared of what might happen. We live in fear.
"I work at night and I'm always worried that something might happen while I'm away.
"And then when I try to sleep here that day, I wake up every hour thinking it might fall.
"It only gets you down because you're constantly nervous.
"This awful weather doesn't help and that's why we wanted to get this
Hole filled before winter.
"The council says we are posing a danger to the public by filling the hole, but the real danger to the public is for all to see.
Emma Tullett (pictured above), 43, and her family have been living in the new accommodation since their Kent bungalow called Cliffhanger fell over the edge in May
"We don't get any support and they don't seem to care. There are 49 houses here, up from 50, and they seem happy to let these off the cliff one by one despite the current housing shortage. & # 39;
Retired truck driver Green added, "I don't think my house will be here until Christmas."
A year and a half ago he paid £ 80,000 for the one-bedroom bungalow where he lived with his wife Christine, 58, son Jason, 38, wife Jess, 35, and their two children David, 16, and Shyla, 11 ) lives.
Mr. Green said, "We are constantly fearful for our safety. We don't sleep. My son, who has cerebral palsy, is up until the wee hours of the morning hearing parts of the cliff fall every night.
"It also affects my disabled wife. It gets worse here.
"If we don't do something soon, my house and Ed's house could go. I think there will be another home down there by December or January.
"God forbid if it happens to women and children in the middle of the night, it could be a tragedy. It was so happy last time.
"We have been completely forgotten and until a second house goes, nobody will listen.
"The work we did tried to prevent that, but now the earth is starting to fall again."
Angry councilor Malcolm Newell, 71, chairman of Eastchurch Gap Community Group Ltd, decided, along with the owners of 48 neighboring properties, to sort things out himself.
The retired woodcutter's Hawthorne Lodge bungalow was teetering on the verge when the Cliffhanger home finally fell on June 1.
He was forced out of the house he bought in 2001. He says it is worth £ 1 million to him and when he saw Ms. Tullett lose everything, his ongoing campaign for help stepped up.
Ms. Tullett was broken when her home, called the Cliffhanger, was destroyed in four days in late May, leaving a 20-foot sinkhole
Mrs. Tullett's house was a Spanish-style villa. She said it was "like torture" to see her house fall off the cliff because it was "dragged out all weekend".
An aerial view of the ruins of Ms. Tullett's house in early June after it fell over the cliffs forced her and her family to seek temporary shelter
67-year-old delivery man Ed Cane, who lives in a two-bedroom bungalow and whose wife, Lynn, leans on Ms. Tullett's outhouse, watched on Sunday as 15 feet of his garden fence collapsed and a steep drop fell onto the 20 foot sinkhole left underneath
Angry local councilor Malcolm Newell, 71, is one of the residents who tried to prop up the crumbling cliff
Retired truck driver Julian Green said, "I don't think my house will be here until Christmas." A year and a half ago, he paid £ 80,000 for the one bedroom bungalow where he lived with his wife Christine, 58, son Jason, 38, wife Jess, 35, and their two children David, 16, and Shyla, 11 ) lives Green said: "We constantly fear for our safety. We don't sleep. My son, who has cerebral palsy, is up until the wee hours of the morning hearing parts of the cliff fall every night. & # 39;
A contract was signed with a private contractor to have the cliff shored up with unwanted clay to clear the rubble from Ms. Tullett's house and her orange seat, Ibiza.
As part of the rebuilding, a platform had to be created at the bottom of the cliff for the excavator to use a 15-foot arm to remove the debris – but even that couldn't reach the bottom of the hole.
Clay was used to build up on the edges of Surf Crescent in the hopes of rebuilding the former road at land level and greening the bank for dog walkers to use as a walkway.
But once they cleared all the debris and were ready to fill the estimated 20 foot sinkhole, the job was brought down.
Angrily, Mr. Newell said, "We really need permission to get on with the work, as it is only a matter of time before we lose more of our fellowship.
Ms. Tullett, 42, pictured the day after her house collapsed in June, said of the terrible day, "We have lost everything, our homes, our belongings and memories. The children didn't even have their shoes on. "Apart from the phones and my bank card, everything worked."
"The window that protects our homes is getting smaller every day. The time is running. However, this shameful bureaucracy prevents us from making it safe.
"If it keeps raining the way it has, I think Ed and Julian's houses could be gone by Christmas. We can fix this before it's too late.
"Unfortunately, they could be forced to move elsewhere in the New Year just because the Environmental Protection Agency and Swale Borough Council have completely neglected us.
"You really need to fix yourself. Apparently, filling in the hole is a danger to the environment and the public if I'm sure the only danger here is the large drop approaching our homes.
"We could have been done now if they kept us working to fill the hole. This part is already green and is solidifying. & # 39;
The Swale Borough Council said building permits were required to work this size last month.
A spokesman said: "We are concerned about the environmental impact of the landfill on the surrounding area of special scientific interest and other potential damage it may cause.
The remains of the family's pool, which is under threat and located near the home of owners Julian Green, Ed Cane and Malcom Newell, who all lived next to Ms. Tullett
"The cessation of residence obliges residents to cease all activities for 28 days while we work with other relevant agencies such as Kent County Council, the Environment Agency and Natural England."
A spokesman for the Environment Agency, which regulates waste management, added on October 21, "Contractors working on behalf of Surf Crescent residents have registered waste exemptions with the Environment Agency that allow the use of waste under certain circumstances .
The environmental agency inspected the site on October 7 and found that waste had entered the sinkhole outside of the provisions of this exemption.
"As a result, we told several residents and the contractor that we would deregister the exemptions and asked them to stop importing waste to the construction site."
Ms. Tullett said, "I want to know what the Swale Council is up to. I think the Council should do more to help us all. & # 39;
The family has been temporarily housed in the nearby village of Rushenden, where they have spent the past five months.
Ms. Tullett said, "We're in a triple and our dining room is used as a bedroom.
"We're here for a maximum of two years, so we have to find a more permanent place to live. We didn't get anything back from the Council or the House. & # 39;
The family was evacuated from their seaside home on the Isle of Sheppey on May 29, just four days before it all collapsed.
Ms. Tullett said, "That time has really passed, but it has dragged on in other ways.
The scene shown this week after Swale Council issued a call to residents to stop all work to consolidate the crumbling cliff last month for "environmental reasons".
The scene near the homes of Julian Green, Ed Cane and Malcolm Newell, all of Mrs. Tullett's neighbors
Ms. Tullett and her family have been living in temporary accommodation since their loss. In the picture: the remains of their dream property and the outdoor pool
An aerial view of the house of Malcom Newell, next to Mrs. Tullett's house
"The only thing that caught me that day was that we noticed these cracks in the street and that there was one that went straight through my sidewalk at the front.
When I called the council they said it had nothing to do with them because it was a dirt road.
"I called the environmental agency and they said it had nothing to do with them. He said it was probably because it was so dry.
"He gave me a number to call on Monday – this was Friday – but by then it was obviously too late."
She added, "Nobody wanted to know when I was going to say something bad, like it was going to happen.
"Now are you trying to stop us from getting it right?"
Ms. Tullett said she was looking for a "fresh start" when she moved to Cliffhanger with her partner and four children in August 2018.
She immediately bought the property for £ 195,000 which had three bedrooms, an annex, two additional bedrooms and a swimming pool.
Drone photos taken in June show Ms. Tullett's house falling off the cliff when her car was down and had already fallen over the edge
Shocking images show the family's car submerged in a pool of water (left) after cliff erosion caused the house to fall almost entirely from the edge
Teams from Kent Police, Kent Fire & Rescue, Coast Guard, Swale Borough Council, Southern Water, UK Energy and Environment and Eastchurch Parish Council were on site in the idyllic community
The 43 year old, who was living in Surrey at the time, said, "I signed up to receive estate agent emails for various houses in Kent and beyond, and one day I got the email for this house and get this house i was like oh my god that's what i want.
"The view was absolutely fantastic."
On the evening of the first cliff fall, Ms. Tullett was sitting in her living room with a glass of wine and her 17-year-old daughter Becky was watching the Take That & # 39; s lockdown show on Youtube.
Ms. Tullett said, "I could hear small cracks and creaking, but if you live in a half-timbered house, you get that anyway.
"I haven't thought about it too much. Then the blind on the window behind me fell off the wall and startled the living doo-das out of us.
"My partner came in and looked and said we have to go, we have to get out. The front fence was gone. & # 39;
She continued, "I started running around trying to pack bits and pieces and the children.
A google map view before the cliff collapsed shows how close the oceanfront residential area known as Surf Cresent is
Today's dramatic images show the remains of Mrs. Tullett's bungalow, which she had to inspect in the days that followed
On the evening of the first cliff fall, Ms. Tullett was sitting in her living room with a glass of wine and her 17-year-old daughter Becky was watching the Take That & # 39; s lockdown show on Youtube. Ms. Tullett said, "I could hear small cracks and creaking, but if you live in a half-timbered house you still get that."
"I turned into a headless chicken for a while. When we got outside there were bricks everywhere. & # 39;
The fire department arrived at the scene and evacuated local residents after their daughter called 999.
But not knowing whether or not their family home would be saved in the coming days was "torture," the family says.
Ms. Tullett said, "It was pretty surreal. It's hard to explain, but if you had a house fire, you would have the fire and anything goes.
& # 39; But that was dragged out over the weekend. Was it like torture to wake up every morning and think my house was gone?
"We have lost everything, our home, belongings and memories. The children didn't even have their shoes on.
"Apart from the phones and my bank card, everything worked."
After five months, the family is still struggling to come to terms with what happened.
Mrs. Tullett said, "It's still angry. One of my neighbors sent me a video of the night we were evacuated. That made me cry. & # 39;
She added, "It's a little easier now, a little bit like a bereavement, a few months later. The kids still say they want their home back. We miss summers in the garden, in the pool.
"It was just a different way of life in the middle of nowhere. It's the life I wanted for my kids, walking the beach after school, coming back muddy and having no neighbors right above us.
"I miss this way of life."
The family is hoping to raise £ 10,000 for professional help as they have "many unanswered questions" and their neighbors' homes are still at risk.
A crowdfunding site has been set up.
An erial view shows Mrs. Tullett's house swaying dramatically over the edge before falling completely off the cliff
"I heard that crackle and crunch and then you could tell that the cliffs were gone. I think the cracks must have got bigger over a couple of days, "she said in June
The two-bedroom, half-timbered swimming pool house was purchased in August 2018 and appeared to be stable a few days before collapse
Ms. Tullett said, "We have sought professional help, but funds are required.
"We have done everything we can to cut costs where we can, but we still need to get technical reports to answer our questions.
Ms. Tullett added, "We urgently need help getting the answers we need. We are so close. This could help secure our future and the future of the remaining properties.
"Ultimately, all of these agencies knew there was erosion in the area. Why didn't they stop people from selling or buying the houses?
"Why are companies still allowed to market these homes if they're not safe? If they had warnings a few years ago, this would not have happened.
"Something should have been done."
A Swale Council spokesman added: "We have contacted the residents and have been honest about what we can and cannot do for them. We will continue to contact the residents concerned about possible next steps.
"It is not for the council to do anything about the lost property, but we have housed them on the basis of our housing responsibilities.
"Current policy remains the same as it has been for years, with no active intervention in defending the cliff. We commissioned an expert report to inform residents of what might happen in the future."
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Maybe you are one of these people who look unproductive on the outside at times, but lots of things are going on inside. You are constantly thinking, developing ideas… in silence. The environment does not take note of that.
Your best ideas are not developed at your office desk, but during a day on the beach, while running on the treadmill, or simply when taking a shower.
Some of this 'breeding ideas' almost takes place on an unconscious level. Then suddenly, you get things done in an outburst of energy. And as long as this works for you, there is nothing wrong with that. By no means are you less successful than your super-productive counterparts.
In essence: listen to yourself and distinguish between truly unproductive patterns (e.g. a NEED to overcome procrastination) and a more inconsistent but still highly productive working styles (e.g. working in bursts of energy, interrupted with periods of apparently unproductive times).
1. Define what you really want to achieve to experience fulfillment in life. Stop running after the goals of other people.
2. Persistence is definitely the key to success. If forcing yourself to be productive when you don't feel like it does not work out for you, check if you are a procrastinator or an incubator: procrastinators get distracted and don't get the necessary things done. Incubators need to breed ideas internally, and then become highly productive in bursts of energy.
At simple view, to become an "incubator", sounds fairly easy, however, in my very personal point of view it depends how ready we are or we feel to look somewhere else -outside our problem- in order to to burst our energy level and find new solutions with more options.
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I am currently reading a book on Christianity in the U.S. and I come across interesting denominational types. here are a few with a brief description.
Come-Outers–people who separated from other religious types to come out from among them and be separate. Often came out of Extreme Wesleyan, Holiness Movement stuff.
Nice to know we haven't traveled very far.
I did not feel like watching TV last night, but alas, I persevered and went ahead and did anyway. I happened across the History Channel, which, for a brief moment, was not showing any footage of World War II, but rather a documentary on the antichrist.
"Well, that could be interesting," I thought to myself. "Yes, yes it would" I answered to myself. "Fine then. Let's watch it!" I replied. "Can do, big man!" I replied to my reply.
Aided by interviewees with eminent clergy, scholars, historians and psychologists, this incisive program examines the evil enigma from every conceivable angle.
I may have to disagree with the eminent idea. Among others, they interviewed Benny Hinn, a university of Wisconsin professor, Jerry Jenkins, and the guy who wrote the Late Great Planet Earth who was off by 20 years (so far) as to the return of Christ.
All in all, though, I enjoyed the show. They got into dispensationalism and its "founder" J. N. Darby. It was a tad belittling and the conclusion was that Bible prophecy is a fable and something to cheer poor Christians. But that is to be expected.
I can see some History Channel employees digging up this video at some point in the future trying to see if it lends any help as to why a whole bunch of people just disappeared. "Even so, come quickly" I thought to myself. "Indeed." I replied.
I've had several posts in the last few days about Mel Gibson's little drinking problem. I want to make sure you know that this is not an attack on Mel, it's an attack on the idiotic Church. I like Mel and his movies and if he wants to make more, I say "go for it." I have nothing against him nor am I rejoicing in a downfall.
It made me rather nauseous then and I don't want people to forget just how dumb it is to put any man on a pedestal. If you don't remember back that far, perhaps this will refresh your memory.
You can always visit supportmelgibson.com so you can defeat with your Bible the anti-Semitic charges against The Passion.
Relax out their folks. Perhaps we can see that Mel's time in church was for a little thing called "profit." I don't blame him, it worked and that's why he's successful in the business. He'll give an account and so will we. Let's be a bit more discerning next time, shall we?
Tammy Estes went to church last night with about 60 other people when she stood up with a gun. Most of the people left but 10 stayed behind to talk with her. They then became hostages.
Turns out that Tammy is the pastor's wife. She is allegedly upset over rumors about an affair. No word as to how many of those 60 people were edified.
My shattered world is starting to be pieced back together. Mel has apparently issued an apology for his drunken actions.
I wasn't terribly offended, I just want another God-honoring movie about Jesus. Get busy Mel.
With Friends Like This. . .
The "Passion of the Christ" director repeatedly said, "My life is f—-d," according to the report by Los Angeles County Deputy James Mee.
So we got that going for us. Guess that whole killing of Jesus deal may have been anti-semitic eh? Should have known.
I was reading an advice column in a Focus on the Family magazine today written by a Bill Maier, who is a "psychologist-in-residence" at FOTF.
Now, I'm sure by pointing out a problem with this I'll be accused of attacking Lordship salvation, but that's not my point. Even John McArthur would tell a child they have to believe that Christ died and rose again, it's called "the Gospel." The power of God? Ring a bell there, Bill?
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