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http://www.gadgetspeak.com/gadget/article.rhtm/755/863132/Lindy_BTS-360.html
A Lindy Speaker
Published Aug 20, 2015 Author mfereday
Bluetooth Speakers continue to be a popular item with regards to new products. This latest offering arrives from Lindy.
Under the tag line of "Connection Perfection", Lindy has released its BTS-360 product which is a Bluetooth speaker with NFC (Near Field Connection) functionality. Included in the box with this compact speaker is a micro-to-standard USB lead for charging the unit's 1000mAh Lithium Polymer battery and a small User Manual covering English, German, French and Italian languages.
While a little too bulky, with dimensions of 120 x 100 x 75mm (H x D x W), for sticking in a pocked, and its weight of approximately 350g means it should be easily portable in a bag or other container. The speaker is box-shaped with rounded corners. It is predominately black in colour apart from a red top. While the speaker's main body is constructed of a plastic material, the red top is a cloth material.
Decorating the front of the speaker is a 6 x 1cm panel which gives the impression that it might serve some tactile purpose but this is not so. This panel is merely decorative as it points towards the Bluetooth pairing button near the base of the speaker and the NFC contact point on the top of the unit. When active pairing is in operation, the pairing button will glow with the familiar blue hue.
See also: Speakers
Located on the rear of the unit, near the base, is a small power button sandwiched between the micro USB port and a 3.5mm jack socket for linking a non-Bluetooth aware device to the speaker. Just above these connection options is a small well which acts as a reflex chamber for the speaker's bass output.
You have a choice when it comes to pairing a device to this Lindy speaker via Bluetooth. If your Bluetooth mobile device supports NFC then you just need to simply tap it on the top of the Lindy speaker to activate the pairing process. Without NFC support, you can take the more traditional approach of getting your mobile device to search for available pairing options. You will need to hold down the speaker's power button until the Bluetooth pairing starts to flash with a blue light.
This Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP 1.2 device features a 3-inch driver that has been designed to deliver audio in full 360 degree directions. The speaker driver has an output of 10W with an impedance of 4Ω and a frequency range of 86-21 KHz. Helping add to this speaker's audio output is the unit's Bass reflex chamber as it enhances the bass performance of the BTS-360.
Although this Lindy speaker does not feature any music playing controls of its own, delegating, such tasks as volume level and track cycling, to the attached device, the speaker does feature an integrated microphone for use with telephone calls. An incoming call to an attached smartphone will cause the music currently being played to fade out while you decide whether to accept or reject the call using the handset. The music will then resume once the call is ended.
Along with Bluetooth streaming, audio can arrive via the appropriately named Audio In connection from devices, such as MP3 players, that do not support Bluetooth. You will need to supply the necessary lead with 3.5mm jack plugs as Lindy has taken the decision not to include one in the box. When a lead is inserted into the socket, whether linked to an MP3 player or not, this will block Bluetooth delivery until the lead is removed causing the Bluetooth stream to resume. In tests the volume level rarely needed more than a minor adjustment when switching between various devices.
While sound quality was of a reasonable standard for casual listening, I was a little disappointed to discover that audio break up occurred when there was a distance of eight metres between the source located outside and the speaker placed inside. However, partially compensating for this was the performance of the unit's 1000Mah Lithium Polymer battery. Lindy had rated this battery at providing 18 hours of playback but this figure faded into the distance as I was able to get well over 22 hours of listening to music from a single battery charge.
Lindy has priced the BTS-360 Bluetooth speaker at £59.94.
http://www.lindy.co.uk/audio-video-c2/bluetooth-audio-c1498/bts-360-bluetooth-speaker-with-nfc-p8089
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function M.stdout(...)
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      if s ~= 1 or cap ~= "" then
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function M.car(tab)
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end

function M.deepcopy(object)
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      if type(object) ~= "table" then
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function M.imap(f, tab)
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function M.filter(f, tab)
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function M.fill(val, num)
   local res = {}
   for i=1,num do res[i] = M.deepcopy(val) end
   return res
end

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-- @param x table
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function M.num_elem(x)
   local n = 0
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-- @param fun function to apply to each node
-- @param root root to start from
-- @param pred predicate that nodes must be satisfied for function application.
-- @return table of return values
function M.maptree(fun, root, pred)
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		 if not pred or pred(v, tab, k) then
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		 end
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   __maptree(root)
   return res
end

-- O' Scheme, where art thou?
-- turn operator into function
function M.AND(a, b) return a and b end

-- and which takes table
function M.andt(...)
   local res = true
   local tab = {...}
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   end
   return res
end

function M.eval(str)
   local l = load or loadstring -- 5.1 backward compat
   return assert(l(str))()
end

function M.unrequire(m)
   package.loaded[m] = nil
   _G[m] = nil
end

-- Compare two values (potentially recursively).
-- @param t1 value 1
-- @param t2 value 2
-- @return true if the same, false otherwise.
function M.table_cmp(t1, t2)
   local function __cmp(t1, t2)
      -- t1 _and_ t2 are not tables
      if not (type(t1) == 'table' and type(t2) == 'table') then
	 if t1 == t2 then return true
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	    -- iterate over all keys and compare against k's keys
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	       if not __cmp(t1[k], t2[k]) then
		  return false
	       end
	    end
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	 return false
      end
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end

function M.table_has(t, x)
   for _,e in ipairs(t) do
      if e==x then return true end
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   return false
end

--- Return a new table with unique elements.
function M.table_unique(t)
   local res = {}
   for i,v in ipairs(t) do
      if not M.table_has(res, v) then res[#res+1]=v end
   end
   return res
end

--- Convert arguments list into key-value pairs.
-- The return table is indexable by parameters (i.e. ["-p"]) and the
-- value is an array of zero to many option parameters.
-- @param standard Lua argument table
-- @return key-value table
function M.proc_args(args)
   local function is_opt(s) return string.sub(s, 1, 1) == '-' end
   local res = { [0]={} }
   local last_key = 0
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      if is_opt(args[i]) then -- new key
	 last_key = args[i]
	 res[last_key] = {}
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	 local list = res[last_key]
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      end
   end
   return res
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--- Simple advice functionality
-- If oldfun is not nil then returns a closure that invokes both
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-- 'before' or 'after'.
-- If oldfun is nil, newfun is returned.
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-- @param newfunc
function M.advise(where, oldfun, newfun)
   assert(where == 'before' or where == 'after',
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   if oldfun == nil then return newfun end

   if where == 'before' then
      return function (...) newfun(...); oldfun(...); end
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      return function (...) oldfun(...); newfun(...); end
   end
end

--- Check wether a file exists.
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-- @return true or false
function M.file_exists(fn)
   local f=io.open(fn);
   if f then io.close(f); return true end
   return false
end

--- From Book  "Lua programming gems", Chapter 2, pg. 26.
function M.memoize (f)
   local mem = {}			-- memoizing table
   setmetatable(mem, {__mode = "kv"})	-- make it weak
   return function (x)			-- new version of 'f', with memoizing
	     local r = mem[x]
	     if r == nil then	-- no previous result?
		r = f(x)	-- calls original function
		mem[x] = r	-- store result for reuse
	     end
	     return r
	  end
end

--- call thunk every s+ns seconds.
function M.gen_do_every(s, ns, thunk, gettime)
   local next = { sec=0, nsec=0 }
   local cur = { sec=0, nsec=0 }
   local inc = { sec=s, nsec=ns }

   if not type(time) == 'table' then
      error ("gen_do_every requires the time module")
   end
   return function()
	     cur.sec, cur.nsec = gettime()

	     if time.cmp(cur, next) == 1 then
		thunk()
		next.sec, next.nsec = time.add(cur, inc)
	     end
	  end
end

--- Expand parameters in string template.
-- @param tpl string containing $NAME parameters.
-- @param params table of NAME=value pairs for substitution.
-- @param warn optionally warn if there are nonexpanded parameters.
-- @return new string
-- @return number of unexpanded parameters
function M.expand(tpl, params, warn)
   if warn==nil then warn=true end
   local unexp = 0

   -- expand
   for name,val in pairs(params) do tpl=string.gsub(tpl, "%$"..name, val) end

   -- check for unexpanded
   local _,_,res= string.find(tpl, "%$([%a%d_]+)")
   if res then
      if warn then print("expand: warning, no param for variable $" .. res) end
      unexp = unexp + 1
   end

   return tpl, unexp
end

local function pcall_bt(func, ...)
   return xpcall(func, debug.traceback, ...)
end

--- Evaluate a chunk of code in a constrained environment.
-- @param unsafe_code code string
-- @param optional environment table.
-- @return true or false depending on success
-- @return function or error message
function M.eval_sandbox(unsafe_code, env)
   env = env or {}
   local unsafe_fun, msg = load(unsafe_code, nil, 't', env)
   if not unsafe_fun then return false, msg end
   return pcall_bt(unsafe_fun)
end

--- Preprocess the given string.
-- Lines starting with @ are executed as Lua code
-- Other lines are passed through verbatim, expect those contained in
-- $(...) which are evaluated and the result inserted.
--
-- Adapted from: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SimpleLuaPreprocessor
--
-- @param str string to preprocess
-- @param env environment for sandbox (default {})
-- @param verbose print verbose error message in case of failure
-- @return preprocessed result.
function M.preproc(str, env, verbose)
   local chunk = {"__res={}\n" }
   local lines = M.split(str, "\n")

   env["__concat__"] = table.concat

   for _,line in ipairs(lines) do
      -- line = trim(line)
      local s,e = string.find(line, "^%s*@")
      if s then
	 chunk[#chunk+1] = string.sub(line, e+1) .. "\n"
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	 local last = 1
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	    last = index
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	       -- write part before expression
	       chunk[#chunk+1] = string.format('__res[#__res+1] = %q\n ', text)
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	 end
	 -- write remainder of line (without further $()
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      end
   end
   chunk[#chunk+1] = "return __concat__(__res, '')\n"
   local ret, str = M.eval_sandbox(table.concat(chunk), env)
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      print("preproc failed: start of error report")
      local code_dump = table.concat(chunk)
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	 print(tostring(i)..":\t"..string.format("%q", l))
      end
      print(str.."\npreproc failed: end of error message")
   end
   return ret, str
end

--- Convert a string to a hex representation of a string.
-- @param str string to convert
-- @param space space between values (default: "")
-- @return hex string
function M.str_to_hexstr(str,spacer)
   return string.lower(
      (string.gsub(str,"(.)",
		   function (c)
		      return string.format("%02X%s",string.byte(c), spacer or "")
		   end ) ) )
end

--- Return the maximum of two numbers
-- @param x1
-- @param x2
-- @return the maximum
function M.max(x1, x2) if x1>x2 then return x1; else return x2; end end

--- Return the minimum of two numbers
-- @param x1
-- @param x2
-- @return the minimum
function M.min(x1, x2) if x1>x2 then return x2; else return x1; end end

return M

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Home » All Content Source Stream » Canada Cross-Border Guide: How to Ship Truckload Freight Over the Northern Border
Canada is one of the United States' most important trading partners — second behind only Mexico in 2019.
With the 2020 update to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), that trade relationship will continue growing.
Every year, over $525 billion USD in imports and exports move between the two countries, and 68% of all that cross-border freight moves in a truck.
Almost 30,000 trucks cross the Canada-U.S. border every day, and though it's extremely common, it is more complex than moving freight domestically.
You're dealing with two governments and clearing customs — there's a lot to keep track of.
We'll walk you through all the basics, giving you a step-by-step process to get your freight over the border, whether you're shipping truckload freight from Canada to the U.S., or the U.S. to Canada.
Shipper's Guide to Moving Cross-Border Canada Freight
Establishing an Importer of Record
Choosing a Cross-border Transportation Provider
Paperwork: the Key Documents You'll Need
Preclearing Your Shipment (PARS/PAPS)
The Harmonized System
Common Mistakes (Don't Do These 5 Things)
Cross-Border Canada in 9 Steps (BONUS: Infographic)
Using a Customs Broker in Canada Cross-Border Shipping
Though a good cross-border freight services provider will make things easier for you, there are some steps you need to take before shipping.
Specifically, you will want to set up a reliable customs broker.
In short, it's a good idea to have a customs broker for all shipments to and from Canada.
What's an Importer of Record?
The importer of record will be the party listed on the customs documents and is responsible for handling any tariffs owed the U.S. or Canadian governments.
This party bears responsibility for ensuring compliance with all importing laws.
The shipper, receiver or even a third party can be the importer of record.
Who Should Be the Importer of Record?
If you are less experienced with cross-border freight, and your customer on the other side of the border already has a customs broker set up and handles these shipments frequently, it's often a good idea to let them be the importer of record.
This is common practice. Even if you're ultimately paying the tariffs, the importer of records' customs broker can handle it up front and then invoice you.
Furthermore, it is always easier for a party on the destination side of the border to act as the importer of record.
Why? There are extra steps during the set-up process for the importer of record to be on the exporting side of the border.
Pro Tip: You can still arrange your own transportation provider without being the importer of record.
How Do I Choose a Cross-border Transportation Provider?
Similar to domestic transportation, you have two main options to move your freight:
Work directly with an asset carrier or freight forwarder
Rely on a cross-border 3PL or freight broker
An experienced cross-border 3PL maintains relationships with hundreds of cross-border freight carriers, which can open you up to flexible capacity and pricing.
It can be hard to get visibility into the entire cross-border Canada carrier market, especially for small and medium-sized businesses.
Working with a 3PL, you can take advantage of a large network to access backhaul lanes for competitive pricing.
Pro Tip: If you choose your own carrier, they must have the authority to operate in both the U.S. and Canada. Not just any trucking company can haul on both sides of the border.
Paperwork You'll Need to Ship Cross-Border Truckload
There is a lot of detailed documentation required to ship freight from the U.S. to Canada (or Canada to the U.S.).
Getting the paperwork right is essential for quick and easy customs clearance. At the very least, you're going to need a BOL and a commercial invoice.
Bill of Lading (BOL):
Commercial Invoice:
Certification of Origin:
Under NAFTA, the U.S., Canada and Mexico required a uniform Certificate of Origin to prove that imported goods qualified for preferential tariff treatment.
Under the new trade agreement, the USMCA (or CUSMA as it's called in Canada), proof of origin is still required, but the information does not have to follow a prescribed format.
It can be completed by the importer, exporter or producer. Another change from NAFTA: the certificate can be signed electronically. Previously, NAFTA required a wet signature.
Other Documents:
Not every cross-border load is the same — depending on your exact shipment, you may need additional paperwork.
What Is a Tariff Code / Harmonized System?
A tariff code is a product-specific code as documented in the Harmonized System (HS) maintained by the World Customs Organization (WCO).
The HS is a standardized numerical method of classifying traded products. It is used by customs authorities around the world to identify products when assessing duties and taxes and for gathering statistics.
The first six digits of the code are the same in all countries. Each country can modify their codes by adding two or four digits to them.
For the export process, you will need both the U.S. and Canadian codes.
Pro Tip: Your customs broker will help you figure out the right classification, how to declare your freight and how much duty you need to pay.
Preclearing Your Shipment with Border Patrol (PARS/PAPS)
The Pre-Arrival Review System (PARS) allows customs brokers to submit release information to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for review and processing before the goods arrive at the Canadian border.
This speeds up the release or referral for examination process for the carrier when the driver arrives at the border with the freight.
The U.S. has a similar system for inbound loads called PAPS, or Pre-Arrival Processing System.
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How to Move Truckload Freight Across the Canada-U.S. Border
Now that you know about the paperwork, customs and service options, let's quickly walk through the full process step-by-step.
You can download the full cross-border Canada infographic and save it for a quick-reference guide next time you have a shipment.
9 Steps to Moving a Cross-Border Canada Truckload Shipment
1. Establish the importer of record.
Can be the shipper/exporter, or importer/receiver.
This will be the party arranging the customs broker and paying duties and fees (at least up front).
2. Set up your customs broker if you're the importer of record.
Allow at least a full week for the selection and set up of a broker.
3. Speak to the customs broker to make sure you have everything squared away.
Be transparent with the broker. Ask questions. They'll guide you through the process and tell you everything you need.
4. Get all your paperwork together.
Your customs broker will tell you all that you need, but you will at least need a BOL and a commercial invoice.
5. Select your freight forwarder/3PL and/or carriers.
Choose a transportation provider that has experience with shipping on both sides of the border.
Look to a reliable 3PL for more flexibility and competitive options.
6. Connect your carrier and your customs broker.
Once you decide who is going to transport your freight, they need to be in communication with the customs broker.
7. Ship your freight.
Once the importer, exporter, transportation provider and customs broker are in total alignment, it's time to move your shipment.
8. File documents with the customs broker, based on what's on the BOL and commercial invoice.
Once the product ships, and you have the final product count and descriptions, you can finalize the paperwork and send it to the broker.
The shipper, the receiver or the carrier may do this — it doesn't matter, as long as someone does.
9. Pre-clear your shipment.
As the driver heads toward the border, the customs broker will contact the appropriate customs agency to pre-clear the shipment.
The carrier notifies the border with their PARS/PAPS that a driver is on the way. Anyone can look online to see if the load has cleared.
When the driver arrives at the border, the shipment should be precleared by customs. The driver then passes through border patrol.
Depending on traffic and the border crossing point, this can take as little as a few minutes, but generally no more than two hours.
That's it! Your shipment is across the border.
Once the driver has crossed, they head to the receiver for final delivery.
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Tripura governor Tathagata Roy tweeted that Pathankot terrorists should be wrapped in pigskin and buried in pig excreta.
Why does Roy hold such beliefs?
Should action be taken against him?
The Governor of Tripura, Tathagata Roy, has a remarkable ability to showcase his communal credentials. The latest evidence of his weird thought process is in his ruminations on the Pathankot terror attack.
With reference to the terror strike, Roy tweeted on 2 January his prescription to "dissuade suicide attacks". "Ensure they can't go to their heaven," his tweet said, adding, "US General Pershing showed how".
In subsequent tweets, he went on to tell the story of American General John Pershing, who, according to Roy "put 50 Islamist Moro rebels in Philippines before a firing squad and shot 49 of them with bullets dipped in pig blood...He then let go of the 50th rebel to tell his comrades that having come in contact with pigs the other 49 will burn in hell".
"Reportedly, it worked" Roy tweeted, adding that the "Russians, following Gen Pershing's logic, are reportedly burying Chechen rebels in pigskin with face down".
Just as the siege went on over the next couple of days and turned ghastlier, Roy's relentless tweets too got nastier. He tweeted on 4 January, "I seriously suggest Russian treatment to terrorists' carcasses. Wrap them in pigskin,bury them face down in pig excreta. No chance of Houris".
In Islamic terminology, Houris are popularly considered to be fair maidens in heaven whose company shall be enjoyed by all believers who go to heaven. The allusion to pigs through the expressions "pig blood", "pigskin" and "pig excreta" has been made because orthodox Islam considers pigs to be impure, unholy creatures.
These tweets convey what crassness is Roy capable of, apart from betraying his Islamophobia.
As his last tweet started getting noticed and drawing flak, the Governor kept going on, tweeting on 6 January, "Abuses pour in against my tweet about Russian treatment to suicide jihadis. Message is clear: PLEASE don't do this, it'll be end of suicide attacks".
In another tweet, he expressed his inability to understand "this flood of sympathy for carcasses of jihadi terrorists".
Roy is already well-known for many of his tweets like the one in which he expressed his happiness with what Hindus did in Gujarat in 2002 and another in which he raised the bogey of "Islamic takeover of West Bengal".
In another tweet, he had said, "I admire #UjjwalNikam who says he fabricated Biryani story to counter our 'secular' media's campaign to paint Kasab as a 'poor little boy'".
Another tweet of his had kicked up a major storm on 31 July, 2015. Following the hanging of Yakub Memon for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, Roy tweeted, "Intelligence should keep a tab on all those (except relatives & close friends) who assembled before Yakub Memon's corpse. Many are potential terrorists".
His appointment as Tripura Governor had come out of the blue in May 2015. In a post on his blog, 'Against the current', dated 2 January, 2016, Roy himself says that he was informed of his appointment over telephone "bang in the middle of my Kung Pao chicken" at Delhi's Hotel Imperial.
After being sworn in as Governor, he had expressed regret that he will now be unable to tweet in keeping with his politics. However, he seems to have somehow realised that holding a high constitutional office in the country is no barrier at all from making crass and communal statements.
Given that he himself says that as Governor of Tripura, he has "little to do" apart from "ribbon-cutting", as expressed in his blog, President Pranab Mukherjee might actually be doing him a favour if he relieves him from his duties. His tweets will still be around, but at least they won't have any association with the Raj Bhavan.
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Indemnity cover will be provided for NHS staff providing paid-for vaccinations.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced that staff providing paid-for travel vaccinations in England and Wales will now be protected by the RCN indemnity scheme.
A State-backed indemnity scheme for general practice (GP) staff was introduced by the NHS in England and Wales earlier this year. It is provided by NHS Resolution and offers automatic cover to all staff working in NHS GP services.
While the idemnity schemes included travel vaccinations given in GP surgeries, it excluded circumstances where vaccinations are paid for by the patient.
The RCN has now extended its indemnity scheme to cover this gap.
The change means both employed and self-employed RCN members providing paid-for travel vaccinations from GP practices not included in CNSGP in England and GMPI in Wales will be covered by the RCN indemnity scheme.
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Roz Hooper, RCN Head of Legal Services (Regulatory), said: "For the most part, these new state-backed schemes in England and Wales give our members working in GP services peace of mind about their indemnity cover as they're automatically included.
"However, members providing important paid-for travel vaccinations have now been told that this service will not be included in the scheme. We know this must be worrying to members and we want to support them so they don't have to face the decision of either no longer providing the service or purchasing expensive insurance just for this.
"We think that the provision of travel vaccinations in GP practices is an important public health benefit in local communities, because expert advice can be given at reasonable cost.
"We have decided to extend our RCN indemnity scheme to cover both employed and self-employed members in England and Wales who provide travel vaccinations from GP services. This is so they can be fully confident that between the state-backed schemes and the RCN, they are covered for all their clinical practice.
"Importantly, for the same subscription, our members also have access to all the RCN's other professional legal workplace services, including employment advice and support for NMC referrals, criminal investigations, inquests and employment tribunals."
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If you are looking for a truly special canoeing experience, come with us into Francis Marion National Forest to explore Echaw Creek. From the moment you settle into your hybrid canoe*, you'll be in an ancient forested wonderland of tupelos and towering bald cypresses. As an accompanying soundtrack, you'll be surrounded by the calls of prothonotary warblers, northern parulas and northern cardinals. You won't find an area of the Lowcountry that is more raw, wild and exotic.
As you paddle between cypress knees that are protruding from the inky water, we'll show you how to spot the vivid yellow prothonotary warblers that call this ecosystem home in spring and summer. And looking to the sky down the creeks open corridor, we'll search for Mississippi and swallow-tailed kites.
Whenever we venture down Echaw Creek, we can't get over how prehistoric the landscape feels. American alligators, turtles, whitetail deer and turkeys often make an appearance while we paddle down the creek. This is a great blackwater expedition for anyone looking for something out of the ordinary.
*The hybrid canoes have seats that sit low on the decking of the hull, more like a kayak. This positioning allows us to use kayak paddles for better maneuverability. The traditional canoe shape of the boat gives you room for gear and to move around comfortably.
You can book this as a private tour for groups of 6 or more.
Gear (canoe, PFD, paddle, etc.), pre-paddle prep/instruction, guide, and tax.
Participants will canoe on a guided expedition down a tidal blackwater creek. This is an excellent tour for beginning and experienced paddlers.
Shoes that will stay on your feet (Tevas-style shoes are best), a hat, and synthetic clothing (it will dry faster than cotton). During cooler weather, dress in layers.
Drinking water, sunscreen; Pack a lunch and snacks for our break on a creek bank.
You'll need to cancel prior to 48-hours or you will be charged for the tour.
My husband, in-laws, and I were privileged to experience the Echaw Creek Kayaking Tour this past Saturday, July 12th, 2014. Our kayaking tour guide was Geoff Caruso and needless to say, he was incredible! The tour was incredibly well-organized, detailed, and well-worth our money. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable on all the history, wildlife, and nature of Echaw Creek and South Carolina. The kayaking trip is great for experienced and in-experienced kayakers. My mother-in-law and I had never kayaked before, but with Geoff's guidance and help, we felt like pros by the end of the day! Two Thumbs Up for this kayaking trip!
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The Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food is the result of a collaborative partnership between Special Collections (UvA), the Amsterdam School forCulture and History(UvA) and the research unit Social & Cultural Food Studies (FOST) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
http://bijzonderecollectiesuva.nl/foodhistory/amsterdam-symposium-on-the-history-of-food/
Prof. Dr. Ir. Louise O. Fresco; Mrs. Claudia Roden; Prof. Dr. Peter Scholliers; Prof. Dr. Irene E. Zwiep
The symposium has the aspiration to become an annual point of assembly and an exchange of knowledge in the field of food history. It intends to stimulate debate and research that bridges the gap between different disciplines. Submissions are encouraged to use an interdisciplinary approach, in which theory and methods from diverse (social) sciences are appropriated or from other disciplines that take a historical stance. Another aim is to transfer academic research to a wider public and stimulate research using the Special Collection of the University of Amsterdam. The symposium is therefore targeted at both an academic and a professional audience.
Topic 2016 – Fire, Knives and Fridges
The material culture of cooking tools and techniques
This year's topic is inspired by the renewed interest in traditional cooking and preservation techniques, such as baking and fermenting, but also by innovations like sous-vide cooking and molecular gastronomy. Since prehistoric times humans have used tools, such as fire, grindstones, and knives to transform raw ingredients into edible food. Anthropologists such as Claude Lévi-Strauss and Richard Wrangham have suggested that it is the discovery of cooking which sets humans apart from apes and makes us a "cooking animal". In their view, advancements in the technology of cooking mark the human transformation of (raw) nature into (cooked) culture.
From the control of fire onward, technology defines the way we eat: what we eat and cook depends on how we cook it. Tools and techniques are first adopted because they meet a certain need or solve a particular problem, but over time they become an integral part of food culture. Yet, they do not emerge in isolation, but through interaction with local resources, cultural preferences, technological innovations, prosperity levels, and beliefs. The symposium aims to explore how cooking techniques, skills and tools as a form of material culture have shaped food cultures and eating habits – and vice versa.
In her highly praised book Consider the Fork (2012) Bee Wilson, for instance, reveals how culinary tools such as forks and chopsticks, but also devices like the stove, the fridge and the microwave have fundamentally shaped our daily life, cuisines and food cultures. She demonstrates, for example, how the introduction of the refrigerator changed the way food was preserved, cooked and eaten. Refrigeration liberated cooks from preserving food through pickling, salting or canning. As a preservation device the fridge removed the seasonality from our diet and transformed what people ate: fresh dairy and produce all year-round, but also processed convenience food. Furthermore, fridges changed the way people shopped for food, for instance, by time-saving weekly shopping at the supermarket.
Technological changes, though, are never a top-down story. Even in the age of mass media and production, consumers and users matter. Collectively we determine products' success and change their meaning through tinkering and adapting its usage. Ruth Oldenziel and Adri Albert de la Bruhèze, for instance, have focused on such processes of mediation and negotiation during technological changes.
Topics for Papers
We invite papers that focus on the history and material culture of cooking tools and techniques, and their interaction with food cultures. We especially welcome papers from the perspective of technological, social and cultural history. Topics might include, but are not restricted to the following:
Technological history/archaeology/material culture
In general, tools and techniques used for cooking, preservation and eating in domestic households, restaurants, fast food eateries, and street vendors.
The influence of new cooking technologies on cuisines and dishes
o The use of gas and electrical stoves; microwave ovens
o Mixers and blenders, (semi-)automatic toasters, grills and the like
The organisation of professional kitchens based on cooking techniques and tools
o The influence of grand restaurants (Escoffier)
o The use of convenience foods and their tools
Social history/anthropology
The influence of cooking and eating tools on time consumption, etiquette, table manners and social distinction
o The use of forks and knives
Tools specific to society, culture and place
o Fork cultures, chopstick cultures, eating with fingers
o New techniques and utensils brought in by colonial powers or by immigrants
Religious cooking techniques and tools
o Ritual slaughter; Kosher kitchen practices
The representation, mediation and promotion of (new) cooking tools and techniques in cookery books, literature, magazines, advertisements, and audio-visual media
o The representations and marketing of the refrigerator or microwave
o Cookbooks on cooking with gas ovens or stoves, mixers
o Imagination and mediation of 'labour saving' devices, 'wonder' and 'miracle' machines, and futuristic gadgets
Guidelines Paper Proposals
The conference program consists of plenary keynote lectures, paper presentations and panel discussions. If you are interested in presenting a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract before 30 April 2015. Please expect to be presenting to a large audience of up to 350 people, including academic as well as professional participants. The conference language is English. Presenters of accepted papers are asked to speak 20 minutes, followed by a discussion with the panel and the audience under the supervision of a session chair.
Title of proposed paper
Abstract (maximum 500 words)
Biographical information (short CV)
Contact information (e-mail, telephone and postal address)
Applications should be sent by the deadline of 30 April 2015 to: Foodhistory-ub@uva.nl
As it may not be possible to include everyone's submission, the organizing committee and advisory board will make a selection. You will be notified if the paper is accepted by 30 June 2015.
Filip Degreef; Antonia Mazel; Joke Mammen; Nathalie Parys; Steph Scholten; Ingrid de Zwarte.
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It has been a reasonably historic time for all you superhero followers on the market, as we celebrated the 80th anniversary of Superman's debut just a few weeks in the past! Your dad and mom most likely assume that comedian books started back within the Nineteen Thirties and Forties with Superman and Batman. Till the mid-2000s, China's cartoon character licensing market had been mainly pushed by products from the U.S. and Japan, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros, and Doraemon characters.
Entries provide a good start line for students by providing a basic essay and biographical info. I counsel Stan Lee's Easy methods to Draw Comics and Sterling Publishing's Art of Drawing Manga. The applying of one of the most iconic cartoon motifs – the speech bubble – permits the unit to be immediately acknowledged as a spot for comics, animation and cartoons.
three Catherine Khordoc, The Comic E-book's Soundtrack: Visual Sound Effects in Asterix," in The Language of Comics: Word and Image, ed. by Robin Varnum and Christina T. Gibbons (Jackson, MS: College Press of Mississippi, 2001). Unique cowl and interior art from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Detective Comics, Amazing Spider-Man, and more.
Will Eisner refers back to the two-parts that form this aesthetic and narrative relationship—the panels and the web page—because the controlling devices in sequential artwork 9. The ability to form and angle the panels, overlap them on high of one another, organize them in particular patterns on a web page or to position them on prime of a larger background body allows for a multilayered emotion and that means for the reader.
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Each balloon will include a special operate inside the museum, including two exhibition spaces that can display cartoons, comics and animations. Most comedian book artists will earn an artwork degree with an emphasis in drawing or. The new Museum would be the icon of a larger improvement, the Comic and Animation Centre. The Dam Keeper is certainly one of the most painterly graphic novels we have printed, and I am very happy with it. Dice and Robert made the journey to the comics medium with passion and humility, and the outcome speaks for itself.
Hangzhou at the moment hosts the annual China International Comic and Animation Festiva l (CICAF), the most important such pageant in the nation, and other other offerings at the museum embrace displays regarding video video games, and different "balloons" might be devoted to an enormous library the place visitors can read comics and watch animation, and three film theaters (including one IMAX theater) that can display films and also host film festivals.
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Abstract Art took place in the previous couple of centuries where artists sought to move away from pure realism painting and put in their own style and emotion into the subject of their portray. Thus, many of the considerations, and one thing of its austere style and techniques endure to today within the works of a wide variety of artists, including Andrea Fraser, Tino Seghal, Gabriel Orozco, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Glen Ligon, and Damien Hirst.
Duchamp, who became the darling of the radical Dada motion (founded by Tristan Tzara ), created quite a few difficult works corresponding to his " readymades " sequence of discovered objects , of which essentially the most celebrated was Fountain (1917), a typical urinal basin, which Duchamp submitted for inclusion in the annual, exhibition of the Society of Impartial Artists in New York.
Conversely, though his essay on the application of cybernetics to artwork and artwork pedagogy, "The Development of Change" (1964), was quoted on the dedication web page (to Sol Lewitt) of Lucy R. Lippard 's seminal Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Artwork Object from 1966 to 1972, Ascott's anticipation of and contribution to the formation of conceptual art in Britain has obtained scant recognition, perhaps (and satirically) because his work was too intently allied with art-and-technology.
Whereas first-wave conceptualists like Weiner and Baldessari remain lively in the present day, they impressed younger artists from Jenny Holzer to Tracey Emin to proceed the practice of language-based art and to push the boundaries of art and its definitions.
In his largely self-referential artworks that try to explore the essence of artwork, Kosuth offers special prominence to language, and steadily references Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and Freud's psycho-analysis, like in his acclaimed collection of work from the Nineteen Eighties that function Freud's theories and inverted pictures of Previous Masters. …
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Does any artwork require a dictionary? At the flip of the 20th century, the adroit performances of John Singer Sargent had been alternately admired and viewed with skepticism for their manual fluency, yet at almost the identical time the artist who would turn into the period's most acknowledged and peripatetic iconoclast, Pablo Picasso , was finishing a traditional academic coaching at which he excelled.
Furthermore, regardless of some erosion of religion within the aesthetic requirements of Renaissance ideology – which remained a strong influence all through the world of high-quality artwork – even portray and sculpture had to conform to certain aesthetic guidelines with a view to be thought of "true artwork".
A means of attempting to solve this problem was to look beyond the work itself, and concentrate on the art world: art was that which the establishment of art – artists, critics, art historians, and so on – was ready to treat as art, and which was made public by the establishment, e.g. galleries.
The sacking of Rome (c.400-450) launched the dead interval of the Darkish Ages (c.450-a thousand), brightened only by Celtic art and Final La Tene Celtic designs, after which the historical past of art within the West is studded with all kinds of artistic 'types' or 'actions' – resembling: Gothic (c.1100-1300), Renaissance (c.1300-1600), Baroque (seventeenth century), Neo-Classicism (18th century), Romanticism (18th-nineteenth century), Realism and Impressionism (nineteenth century), Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Summary Expressionism and Pop-Art (twentieth century).
This led to Romantic rejections of this in favor of pictures of the emotional aspect and individuality of people, exemplified within the novels of Goethe The late nineteenth century then noticed a host of artistic movements, equivalent to tutorial art , Symbolism , impressionism and fauvism amongst others.…
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2023 NWSL Draft Preview: San Diego Wave FC Gears Up For 2023
Wave FC enters its first in-person draft on Thursday, January 12, in Philadelphia
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – San Diego Wave Fútbol Club will participate in its first in-person NWSL Draft and second as a club this Thursday, Jan. 12, ahead of the 2023 season kick-off in March.
After seeing immediate impact from the 2022 draft, Wave FC will look to add more talent to its roster this year. The club is currently scheduled to make two picks: No. 33 and No. 45 in the 3rd and 4th rounds, respectively. Read below for everything you need to know ahead of the NWSL Draft this week.
In its inaugural 2022 season, San Diego Wave FC made history as the first expansion team to make the playoffs and advanced all the way to the NWSL Semi-Final. With a taste of playoffs success last season, Wave FC now has its eyes set on the NWSL Championship in October.
The draft will be hosted at the 2023 U.S. Coaches Convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 3 p.m. PT.
The Draft is free and open to the public. There will be general admission seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
How to Stream?
Coverage of the NWSL Draft will begin on CBS Sports Network from 3 to 4 p.m. PT. The draft will then stream live on Paramount+ and CBS Sports HQ, the free 24/7 streaming sports news network, from 4 to 8 p.m. PT.
Wave FC's Inaugural Draft Success:
San Diego acquired Stanford University standout defender Naomi Girma as the first overall selection in the 2022 NWSL Draft. Girma went on to make history, becoming the first player to win both NWSL Rookie of the Year and Defender of the Year while leading Wave FC to a playoff semifinal. Girma also featured heavily as a young face on the international stage for the U.S. Women's National Team.
Hailing from Grand Canyon University, Marleen Schimmer became the first German player to be drafted into the NWSL as Wave FC's second inaugural pick (1st Round, No. 9).
Wave FC also drafted midfielder Sydney Pulver (2nd Round, No. 25), midfielder Belle Briede (3rd Round, No. 27) and defender Kayla Bruster (4th Round, No. 40).
Who is registered for the Draft?
The 2023 NWSL Draft live registration list can be seen here and will be updated on a rolling basis. This year, there will be 48 total selections in the NWSL Draft from Angel City FC's No. 1 pick to selection No. 48, which is currently held by Portland.
Players eligible to be selected are those who have registered for the Draft and have been vetted as meeting the eligibility requirements by the League, which include:
Be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or a foreign national who is currently or was enrolled at a university in the United States during the 2022-23 academic year;
Be an individual who has exhausted, lost, or renounced their remaining collegiate eligibility during the 2022 calendar year, including high school graduates choosing to forego;
Be at least 18 years old on or before January 1, 2023;
Not be under a current professional contract, nor have previously signed a contract to play soccer professionally;
Players must register for the 2023 NWSL Draft by 11:59 pm ET on Monday, January 9, 2023.
How Does the Draft Work?:
The Draft will see 12 selections in all four rounds until completed. In Round 1, each team will have five minutes to announce its pick, while Rounds 2-4 will see each side allotted three minutes to make its selection. Teams are also eligible to request up to three time-outs during the Draft for further discussion, rule clarification, or trade discussion, and all time-outs taken regardless of round will be three minutes in length.
For this year's upcoming NWSL Draft, San Diego Wave FC is currently slated with two picks: No. 33 and No. 45 in the 3rd and 4th rounds. The league's most current draft order can be seen here.
Players who register for the draft but are not selected will become discovery eligible on the day following the 2023 NWSL Draft.
Who is on Wave FC's 2023 roster right now?
San Diego has an impressive current roster of 20 players ahead of its second NWSL season with more additions to come:
Goalkeepers: Kailen Sheridan, Carly Telford
Forwards: Amirah Ali, Makenzy Doniak, Rachel Hill, Sofia Jakobsson, Alex Morgan, Jaedyn Shaw
Midfielders: Belle Briede, Danielle Colaprico, Taylor Kornieck, Kristen McNabb, Kelsey Turnbow, Emily Van Egmond
Defenders: Abby Dahlkemper, Mia Gyau, Naomi Girma, Madison Pogarch, Kaleigh Riehl, Christen Westphal
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At Long Last, A Safer School for Marsh Fork | Inside the Kudzu Bug
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On Jan. 7, more than 200 students of Marsh Fork Elementary began classes at a new facility a few miles from the old school in Raleigh County, W.Va. Because of health concerns brought on by a coal processing plant and a high-hazard coal slurry impoundment located adjacent to and above the original building, Marsh Fork was the center of a controversy that led to protests, arrests and nationwide publicity. Equipped with smart board presentation stations and computer labs with the fastest internet connection in the area, local officials say the new Marsh Fork Elementary is one of the state's most advanced schools.
Inside the Kudzu Bug
Researchers are looking closely at the invasive kudzu bug, hoping that biological clues will give them an edge in their fight against this troublesome insect. Like the aggressive vine it dines on, the kudzu bug is spreading rapidly. According to The Macon Telegraph, it arrived in Atlanta, Ga., in 2009 and is now found in eight states. Tracie Jenkins, an assistant professor at University of Georgia, discovered the bug's Japanese origins through DNA research. She also found that the kudzu bug relies on three specific bacteria to maintain basic functions. By studying the bacteria, Jenkins and her colleagues hope to find a way to exploit the bug's weaknesses. Having the insect devour large patches of the invasive kudzu may be good news for native species, but the kudzu bug also inflicts similar damage on soybeans and other native and garden plants.
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2013 -- Issue 1 (Feb/March)
Tangled Up in Kudzu
They're Here: Alien Species in Appalachia


This week on Media Mavens it was just Riley and I, talking about what we've been up to and taking listener questions. We cover everything from the hottest new anime boys dating sim – Mystic Messenger, anime, what Nintendo's been up to, and what we're looking forward to next year. Take a listen and please consider giving us a review if you like what you hear.
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It was awesome. I really do enjoy listening to you. You have a lovely voice. Are u looking forward to Last of Us part 2?
I am looking forward to Last of Us part 2. We talk about it (a little bit) in our most recent episode.


I have seen a few articles about using these Fisher & Paykel Smart Drive washing machine motors as a starting point to make a wind generator. Once modified it looks to be a great inexpensive means to make electricity. Randy's Workshop has some good documentation on how to modify these motors to be used as a generator.
"This Fisher & Paykel Smart Drive Permanent Magnet motor is comprised of a hub, stator, main shaft, two bearings and a bearing holder. The Stator is stationary and comprised of 42 wound coils. The ends of the windings are easily accessible for re-wiring. Since this doesn't have brushes, when the hub is spun it actually becomes an alternator producing AC current."
Nothing too special here – though it's nice if the builders are recycling parts from broken washers. The biggest trouble with windmill electrical generation is, as always, regulation and storage.
Another more plentiful possibility would be to use a brushless motor used in certain wheelchairs- Google "Invacare GB motor". Pretty heavy though at around 20 kilos for these.
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Hi everyone,yes i have the Fisher & Paykel smart drive generator kits forsale on trademe.
my membership name is ivan19 i will be listing the kits on there from now on.
Iam interested in any info you can provide.
I can't find any reference to Fisher Paykel smart drive units on http://www.trademe.co.nz . So, what's going on ivan19?
Does anyone know the specs on this smart drive, ie: Max voltage output, & RPM required? Cheers.
These units can make hundreds of volts. They are usually rewired to 12,24,48v applications. They seem to produce about 500w when designed properly.
sir can you give me a complate wiring connection and the rectifier connection pls sir ….
I`m from Atlanta. Can you tell me the price for smartdrive? and some specifications? Thank you!
Currently my fisher and paykel generator produces extremely low current and very high voltage. Current is in the milli amp range.
And when I connect it to a low resistance it is very hard to turn but with a high resistance its very easy to turn..
the L.G. front load and top load washers have the same basic 3 phase design and are pretty easy to find.
hoping to have a working proto-type soon.


Emotions are separate from cognition.
More positive emotion is always a good thing.
The functional is not emotional.
This leads them to overweight their CX programmes towards: designing for delight, embedding emotional clues in journey maps and seeking to measure emotions effect.
To be fair, this emphasis on emotion is not entirely incorrect. After all, emotions are critical to decision-making. They tell us what is important 'to us' and enable fast decision-making when faced with a complex world of limited information.
However, to 'manage' emotion we must also not fall into folklore and mythology.
To see emotion as the only influencer on consumer decision-making is wrong. Cognition is pretty important too!
Indeed, in psychology the current approach to emotion is that it is based primarily not on some automatic emotional cue but on how we first appraise a situation in light of our well-being and goals. Let me explain.
Imagine a football match. You have invited your friend along to see the game in which your favourite team is playing. Your friend doesn't much like football but is coming along anyway. Halfway through the game your team scores a goal. What's your emotional reaction? Happiness, of course. What's your friend's emotional reaction? Well, he might be happy for you, but couldn't really care less about the game.
Here, the same game was being watched but the 'emotional' reaction was different because the meaningfulness of the event was different.
A relational aspect: the relationship between a person and the environment.
A motivational aspect: an evaluation of a situation in relation to the achievement of one's goals.
A cognitive aspect: an appraisal or an evaluation of how relevant and significant a situation is to one's life.
Firstly, define emotional moments since these flag up important and salient customer experiences.
Secondly, understand the emotional context, since emotions are based on appraisals.
Ethnography can help determine emotional effects at a deeper level. This is particularly important since customers and employees are often not good at relating back the full emotional experience, especially when emotional appraisals and emotions themselves are fleeting and often lack conscious expression.
Use narrative not scales to measure emotional content. The reason for this goes back to anthropology: in interpreting our experiences, customers use stories. For instance, no-one walks out of a store and says that was a great 8.5 out of 10 experience; and no-one evaluates each and every detail of their experience.
Since emotions are grounded in appraisal (goals, wellbeing), just going with a prime set of emotions or sentiment classifications is not enough. Only by understanding the appraisal basis to emotion can we reveal 'our real motivations'.
Quantifying appraisals and emotions can be done through applying algorithms to text. On the basis of say a 60% level of accuracy, this can be sufficient for mass data feeds such as social media.
However, my favoured method at least with smaller samples is to get customers or employees themselves to quantify their own narratives for emotional content and attendant appraisals.
There is an important reason for quantifying with the customer.
Narrative is usually only the surface layer of meaning. How customers interpret their narrative and emotional response adds another meta-layer of meaning. As this information has to come from the respondent, it is best to enable self-quantification.
Increasingly, this focus on identifying the appraisal basis of emotional reaction is becoming important. So while an Own-brand can of beans may not evoke much competitive differentiation beyond price; a can of Heinz beans has a more 'meaningful' brand attachment and hence rebalances the cost-benefit equation.
If you have a boring experience you'll have boring drivers to your experience. So understand the importance of being open to creating new narratives around how we can get customers to appraise in a different more value creating way.
My argument is: only once we understand appraisal do we move to personas, since in appraisal-directed behaviour it's not the 'personality' dynamics of the role or some other criteria that are important but an understanding of the appraisals themselves.
Hence, emotions are not only grounded in 'the event' but can act to enhance a rational response.
For sure we can act irrationally 'with emotion' but it is a step too far to say emotions are irrational. Especially when we simply would not understand what is rational for us without them.
For sure we can act irrationally 'with emotion' but it is a step too far to say emotions are irrational.
"Reduction in emotion may constitute an equally important source of irrational behavior."
Do not consider emotions as irrational and something to avoid. When dealing with human systems we cannot and should not ignore them. We equally should not try to 'take out emotion' through processes such as zero UX or considering customers only as cost-benefit calculators.
For instance, I cannot appraise you as different from the completion, hence my only appraisal is related to convenience and low price.
On the other hand, do not assume that we can 'create' irrationality in the customer by 'making' them emotional so they 'irrationally' stick with us for the long-term or spend more.
For sure, sometimes an emotional response does represent a driver. If a customer service rep is rude to me on the phone, I appraise it as a bad thing. I feel annoyed and never use you again. However, many times the fleeting moments that emotion represents are reflections of something else.
Small emotional clues (in the sense that I feel something so I attend to it) influence how I am disposed. For instance, consider how Luton Airport ask me to pay £1 for a security bag – where Heathrow do not. This is something I dislike and impacts on my emerging and changing sense of the quality of customer service (the appraisal) at the airport.
Quality of customer service in essence is a gross signal, a big ticket item but one defined by the many actions and interactions that are experienced by consumers within the airport - the weak signals.
Emotions emerge as we engage with an environment. Since they are marginally different each time, they lack the predictability we would normally look for in predictive analytics.
This nudge aspect of emotion is critical. It defines where we are and where we are heading in our relationship to a customer experience.
Hence, during my stay in the Leela hotel I felt disappointed that they had started turning off the air conditioning to rooms and removing fruit displays. In this case, the experience is not enough to turn us off from using the service again, but they are enough to degrade our engagement.
Emotions emerge as we engage with an environment. Since they are marginally different each time, they lack the predictability we would normally look for in predictive analytics. Hence we need to be aware of how they impact our disposition in the moment but we should not assume they drive behaviour.
Use real-time narrative collection and vector methods to uncover how emotional moments are affecting which direction customers are moving towards. This is not the same as an NPS target, this is about knowing how things are disposed and which narratives we need to amplify and dampen (the KPI: more stories like this, fewer like that).
Use the Cynefin framework to understand better whether appraisals and their emotional response fit into a complicated mechanistic approach or more nudge based dispositional approach (Complex).
If emotions are for learning, then it stands to reason that they are not required if we have learnt: except perhaps in a muted way.
If, for instance, we went to our local supermarket for the first time we might find ourselves feeling pleased because of its convenience and value for money. On the tenth occasion, though, our emotions are muted to the level of the category. We can still be tremendously loyal of course, but we don't need to feel it!
Customer value creation is critical but that is not the same thing as 'feeling' positive. In fact, we can 'love' a hotel which is why we notice and feel strongly about the negative things.
The journey mapping rule of trying to emotionalise every action is incorrect and just leads to annoyance.
Hence, in the fleeting moment we can see how we go to the Mandarin Oriental hotel, we love the place, but in the moment we have a mixture of feelings. I hate the way they continually ask if they can help you.
Whither the Kano model. Heading to delight (dependent on category) is not always a desired or stable condition.
Personally, I don't want every touchpoint on a customer journey to be something I evaluate as 'positive'. And many times no experience is the best experience, especially when dealing with a hygienic and transactional one.
The journey mapping rule of trying to emotionalise every action is incorrect and just leads to annoyance: the kind of fakery that enforces customer service agents to overrule their own emotional intelligence by a corporate rule to say 'how are you today' when all I want is fast efficient and emotionless service.
Be relevant. Understand where and why you are seeking to create more of an emotional pull based on new or differentiated appraisals of concern to the customer. Do not create journey maps where every touchpoint is measured and required to score highly.
In measurement, do not seek to push for the highest scores (except if you are selling a Faberge egg or other hedonic experience). Focus on the well-satisfied consumer, one that is engaged and comfortable with the experience, that maybe would score an 8 out of 10 but sees the cost-to-benefit dimension as positive and differentiating.
Imperfections are to be loved. In an encounter between two people we are establishing the ground rules of a relationship. This means shifts and turns that cannot be mechanically directed by the brand and sometimes require negative or no emotion as part of their enactment.
Finally, I end with a view on functional actions. Sure, most of the time downloading a web page, picking up a cup of coffee or making a phone call is a functional item. But we must always be aware that when the functional goes wrong what is hygienic can quickly turn into a moment of pain and stress.
If a functional activity like getting a mobile signal fails when I'm in a rush, sure I'll get emotional!
If a functional activity is innovated, it has the potential to be invested with more emotional potentiality. For instance, look at how Amazon transformed a functional activity such as opening a box. If it can be made meaningfully different and of value to the customer then it can be emotional.
Ensure that loss aversion is adequately covered and responded to.
Consider functional experiences in the light of their potential to be innovated for emotional response.
Above all else, link your CEM efforts to creating value for the customer. Which is not the same as emotional response.
Steven Walden's new book, Customer Experience Management Rebooted – Are You An Experience Brand Or An Efficiency Brand? is available now.
This comment posted in the MyCustomer LinkedIn group by user Marta Topornicka.
Really good article tackling complex matter of emotions in Customer Experience Management. The fact that emotions are not only grounded in 'the event' but can act to enhance a rational response, simply sums up what CX professionals are to achieve. Enhance the rational response, even cognition by designing the environmental context, where possible, but don't try to implant 'emotional experiences'.
I like the notion of focusing on context (from which emotions and attitude emerge). The danger of implanting emotional experiences is that you remove nuance. It now becomes something fixed in. Now I am not saying that's a bad thing but we need to maintain resilience.


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The purchase comes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the U.S. in June when President Donald Trump said his country looked forward to exporting more energy products to India.
IOC bought 1.6 million barrels of U.S. Mars crude, a heavy, high-sulfur grade, and 400,000 barrels of Western Canadian Select that will be delivered onboard a Very Large Crude Carrier, IOC's head of finance, A.K. Sharma, told Reuters.
The cargo was priced on a delivered ex-ship basis, which is "very competitive" to that of Basra Light, Sharma said.
"So long as the prices remain competitive, we will buy more of the U.S. crude," he said.
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Indian refiners are seeking these heavy, high-sulfur grades as feedstocks after modifications at their plants make it easier to process these types of crudes, which typically sell at a lower cost relative to other oil types. The U.S. could become an alternative source for the Indian companies for these grades.


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ADA lobbies coronavirus legislative package
ADA lobbies Congress' coronavirus legislative package
Association focuses on ensuring provisions are beneficial to dentists, owners
By Jennifer Garvin
Image courtesy of CDC/Alissa Eckert, Dan Higgins.
Washington — As Congress works on legislation in response to the coronavirus disease outbreak, the ADA is working to ensure that those bills include provisions that are beneficial to dentists — particularly dental practice owners — and their patients.
In a March 17 Issues Alert, the ADA told dentists that Congress is currently considering a legislative package — HR 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. That bill, which was developed between Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin, focuses on short-term issues such as child and elderly nutrition programs, COVID-19 testing, unemployment benefits, and family medical and sick leave.
The bill is currently headed to the Senate floor for a vote after the House adopted technical corrections on March 16 that were needed to move the bill forward. These corrections, which the ADA is still evaluating, are "important because the provisions regarding family medical leave/sick leave could create an economic hardship for dentist owners and other small businesses," according to the alert.
The alert went on to say the ADA is concerned about the bill's paid leave provision "because while it could be beneficial to employees, it could also cause a financial burden for many small businesses in America." In response, the ADA, along with more than 80 organizations, asked Congress to reconsider the provision in a March 16 joint letter to Congress.
The Association also shared that the ADA has learned that Congress is working on an additional legislative package related to COVID-19. The package is expected to provide at least $750 billion to alleviate the economic crisis facing millions of Americans and contains provisions to increase federal funding to provide immediate help to small businesses.
"The ADA will be working to ensure that those provisions will benefit our dentist owners," the alert concluded.
Follow all of the ADA's advocacy efforts at ADA.org/advocacy.
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Rugby's Farmers Market has become a popular event come late summer
Edie Wurgler
With fall arriving in just a few days, the Rugby Farmers Market is winding down for the season.
But for the sellers and buyers who show up every Wednesday and Saturday enthusiasm is as high as when the season started.
The produce changes every few weeks, "but we always have a good crowd and probably ten or twelve vendors," said Vernice Brossart, one of this year's organizers.
This summer has been different from those of the past in that the market is now loosely run by the sellers themselves. Previously the Chamber of Commerce was in charge.
Arlyne Rothschiller has been a supporter since the start, which she thinks was in the mid-1990s, possibly even earlier. "I was on the chamber board then,"she said, "and we started it downtown by the Christmas tree."
The original idea was to have it in the business district to attract shoppers, but it didn't work out that way. "It was out of the way, it was hot on that concrete, and there was no parking'" Arlyne said.
She pushed to have the market moved to the intersection of U.S. Highway 2 and N.D. Highway 3.
"I thought they could spread out, catch some traffic off the highway," she said.As a bonus, the chamber tourism and office building is at the intersection, helping to draw a crowd. It took a while for traffic to build, but it proved to be a good move, Arlyne said.
For many years the market operated under the direction of the chamber and was open Saturday mornings only. Vendors were charged for the spaces, and the chamber furnished tables. "I think it was $20 for the season back then, or $2 or $3 per week," said current chamber executive director, Don Sobolik. Later that was raised to $30 per season.
That structure changed in the summer of 2009 when the chamber decided to let vendors use the space rent free, but furnish their own tables. The number of sellers increased substantially.
In 2008 a Wednesday afternoon market was added and the starting date moved up to mid-July. "At the beginning it was usually at the start of August through the first frost," Don said. He can remember times when there wasn't a lot of produce available because of uncooperative weather, but the market persevered.
Sandy Brossart of Barton has been a vendor the last few years. A self-described farmer at heart, she said she always raises a large garden, but her family and friends can eat only so much, and she always has leftovers. When the chamber decided not to spearhead the market this year, Sandy talked to Vernice Brossart, another regular vendor. "Sandy had some raspberries to get rid of," Vernice said, so in mid-July they hung up a few posters and put a small ad in the newspaper. Response was good right from the start.
"It's run differently now, and I think that's why they have more vendors," said Wanda Nielsen, a long-time shopper. "Plus Vernice Brossart makes the most delicious jams and jellies," she added enthusiastically.n
Many vendors have come and gone over the years. Lois Dumdai of Knox sold garden produce and home-canned goods for about six years, and her dill pickles and bread and butter pickles were always in big demand. This year she didn't plant a garden so pickle lovers will have to put their taste buds on hold until another year. She is hoping to be back gardening next summer.
Ed and Elaine Selensky of Rugby have had a booth the last few years. Ed's produce--tomatoes, carrots, onions, peppers, cucumbers, squash and pumpkins pair nicely with Elaine's baked goods--white and wheat buns, caramel rolls and specialty breads. "We've been here pretty well every Wednesday and every Saturday this year," Elaine said. The Selenskys have two gardens, one in Rugby and one at their farm, and are able to accomodate even large orders. "A woman from Cando is coming for a bushel of tomatoes on Wednesday," Elaine noted.
Towner's Arnold Larson started selling at the market last year. He doesn't have a large garden but sells a good variety including tomatoes and cukes. "No more potatoes, though," he said, having sold his entire crop by the end of August.
"I start my tomatoes from seed on Valentine's Day," he said. By the time he sets them out in the spring they are nearly two feet tall. This past spring was ideal, he believes. "I only covered them one time this year. Last year I was covering, covering, covering." He fertilizes twice a season, but doesn't use other chemicals. "I don't think you should spray for pests," he says. "I wouldn't chance it."
According to Arnold, vendors set their own prices, but they are pretty similar from booth to booth. Early in the season he sold both tomatoes and cukes for $1 a pound, but last week reduced them to 75 cents and 50 cents respectively. It's the end of the year for him and he just wants to get rid of his veggies.
A familiar face at every Saturday market is that of Marilyn Slaubaugh of Wolford. She sells some garden produce, but shoppers really go for her baked goods including breads, buns, pies, cookies and rolls. "The pies and bread sell well," she said. "Last Saturday I sold 20 big pies and 20 small pies."She usually doesn't sell on Wednesdays. "For me, I don't have the customer traffic on Wednesday. It's different traffic. I sell Pennsylvania peaches, and I'll sell them on Wednesdays, with just a few baked goods." The extra sweet peaches are raised in Wisconsin and delivered to Marilyn by friends.
Leroy Leer of Wolford was one of the early-day vendors at the market. "I was farming full-time with dairy," he said, "then I had a stroke. I liked gardening, so I started gardening. I could tinker around out there (in his garden) and it was good physical exercise for me. I got a book from Bismarck about raising a lot of vegetables in a small area," he added. "I put a drip water system in and raised potatoes, peppers, cukes, Walla Walla onions, red beets, cantaloupe, squash. I sold gladiolas for 75 cents each, and they sold well. For the work we put into it, we didn't get rich," Leroy said with a laugh, "but it really helped me out physically." When Leer suffered a second stroke two years ago, he stopped gardening.
The upcoming change of season will barely register with some vendors. Retired carpenter, Simon Sattler, of Knox plans to stick it out right into fall. This year he added items he crafts from wood to the garden produce he sells. And some of his produce just isn't ready to go yet. "I've got muskmelons in my garden that are just beautiful." he said. "After it freezes I'll have lots of apples. I'll be one of the last ones out here."
That's music to the ears of Arlyne Rothschiller. "I can see it spreading out like a big-city farmers market," she said, "with crafts, flowers, canned goods."
That dream may be a few years down the road, but with the increased demand for locally grown food, the Rugby farmers market looks like a fixture that won't disappear any time soon.


It was a little behind schedule, but El Niño delivered its wrath upon California today, flushing the state with the first of many punishing rains. And you know what happens in punishing rains. Trash cans take to the streets. By themselves.
Supposedly CES is all about autonomous vehicles this year so it's a shame we didn't see more of these at the show. I mean it's no burning palm tree, but surely Google's working on one of these, right?


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text: Alec Charles is Principal Lecturer in Media at the University of Bedfordshire. He is author of Interactivity: New Media, Politics and Society (2012), editor of Media in the Enlarged Europe (2009) and co-editor of The End of Journalism (2011). Recent publications include contributions to Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television, Journal of Popular Television and Utopian Studies. He has previously worked as a documentary programme-maker for BBC Radio and as a print journalist.