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How Siri is making your call center look bad
Aimee Giese | August 9, 2016
It's not easy running a contact center in the age of Siri. Customer expectations of speech recognition are more complex and higher than ever, and traditional speech rec IVRs can't keep up. What is a call center to do?
If you think that smartphone usage doesn't affect the contact center, think again. Gartner reported that worldwide fourth quarter sales of smartphones in 2011 were estimated at 149 million. A Pew Internet survey found that as of May 2011, 35% of Americans owned a smartphone. JP Morgan predicted that 657 smartphones will leave stores in 2012. And the GSMA reported that second only to SMS messaging, native apps comprise the highest level of smartphone activity usage, capturing more than 20 minutes of average daily on-screen time.
And many of those apps are voice-controlled apps, Siri being the most popular among voice recognition tools.
The smartphone experience with speech recognition technology has already changed user expectations of interactions with automation in the contact center. Your callers might be wondering, "If Siri can understand me, why can't you?" The Siri Effect is hitting call centers hard, and all IVRs and call flow designs should be under scrutiny.
The truth is that in the age of Siri, DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency signaling, or touch tone response such as "Push 1 for sales, 2 for billing," etc.) doesn't cut it anymore. And customer care facilities should see this trend in user sophistication with respect to speech recognition as an opportunity rather than a curse.
The smackdown: IVR vs. Siri
While user expectations might be the same for a call center IVR as for a mobile speech-enabled app, the two have until now been vastly different in their goals and structures. Take a look at the structure, context and business expectation for each:
And due to changing user expectations, the contact center is experiencing a major shift in perceived value. This goes beyond asking callers to rate their satisfaction with a particular agent or a single call; these shifted expectations in terms of speech recognition interactions affect the entire corporate culture and the contact center's reason for being.
Paradigm shift: from cost center to loyalty engine
In the call center world, the old paradigm was to see the contact center exclusively as a cost center. This drove the quality metric of Average Handle Time, because the less amount of time spent on the phone with the customer, the lower the cost, right? This also drove organizations to create DTMF menu trees: who cares if the caller has to listen to three levels of menus and make six menu choices, as long as the forced-choice DTMF menu is easy for the organization to create? The organization didn't hesitate to make the caller do the work of navigating the DTMF IVR menu, because this is a cost center, anyway, right?
The paradigm that contact centers must adopt is the one that users have now come to expect: the contact center is a customer loyalty engine, not a cost center. Average Handle Time must be replaced by First Call Resolution, which is what the customer (not the organization) truly cares about. Users now expect accurate speech recognition, which is a little more work for the organization to create compared to a forced-choice DTMF menu, but it is much easier and more natural for the user to navigate. And speech recognition makes the technology do the work, not the caller. This is the new benchmark created by Siri: use technology to focus on a friction-free customer experience.
Why IVR speech recognition doesn't match the Siri experience
Let's take a look at how the Automated Speech Recognition engines (ASR) work in a typical speech recognition IVR call flow within the contact center. Let's say that Acme Widgets, Inc. has a speech recognition IVR for call routing, and the first prompt asks the caller "How may I help you?" The caller makes some sort of speech utterance as the Reason for Call (RFC), which the engine then parses compares to a language model of dynamic data based on hundreds or thousands of caller response utterances and converts to text for reference and improvement.
Based on the comparison of the converted utterance to the language knowledge base, the RFC is categorized into one of a series of buckets, such as sales, billing, customer service or tech support. Then the call is routed to the correct agent skill.
Where most contact center ASRs fail in comparison to Siri is between the language model and categorization. Because call center grammars are traditionally narrow, it's common for any unexpected utterance to fail because the developers didn't anticipate exactly what the caller might say. In this highly structured environment, one unclear syllable can make the difference between a smooth caller experience and a frustrating one.
How to match the Siri experience in the contact center
I'm not sure how other speech technologists have dealt with the rise in speech recognition expectations in the wake of Siri, but I'll share with you Spoken's solution to the issue. Since understanding the reason for call and identifying the caller are keys to accurate call routing, it's of vital importance that the speech recognition engine capture and interpret those caller utterances with near 100% accuracy.
However, within the structure of the contact center environment, even the very best ASRs out there only return about 50% accuracy for any one customer utterance. That means that even if the ASR understands nine digits of the phone number the caller utters, the system will still fail for lack of the tenth digit, and the caller will have a bad experience.
The Spoken approach is to support the technology with a hybrid solution: provide human Silent Guides that work in the background to correct those utterances that would otherwise fail. (If you're curious, find out more about how this works.) The Guides supplement the automation and bring the speech recognition accuracy level closer to 90%. If you're curious about the cost comparison, the quick answer is that because the Guides handles up to 10 simultaneous calls and reduce agent load, most customers experience a cost savings of about 15% over ASR alone.
What's really valuable is that the human safety net provides what pure ASRs can't: an additional layer of accuracy that improves speech recognition and keeps the experience closer to that of Siri.
Sophisticated speech automation for the win
Whatever approach organizations take to addressing the contact center in the age of Siri, the more sophisticated expectations of their customers can't be ignored. And while sites like GetHuman would suggest that what callers really want is a human agent, both Siri and studies have shown that users prefer automation over a live agent for simple tasks. And while 80% of callers will attempt to opt out or game the system when presented with a DTMF menu tree, over 90% will respond when asked an open-ended question such as, "How may I help you?"
Users are expecting more from speech-enabled IVRs than ever before. How is your organization addressing those heightened expectations?


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Feature: The Successes of Eurovision 2017
Editorials, Features	by eurovisionunion May 22, 2017
It's been a week since Eurovision 2017 concluded, and like many other Eurovision fans, we're down in the dumps with PED: Post Eurovision Depression. We're pushing through the PED with an in-depth analysis of the contest, starting today with our thoughts on what worked this year.
The Opening and Interval Acts
Over the years, we've seen some interesting and crazy interval acts, which makes you think, surely we've seen it all before? Straight up, the first semi-final interval act of Monatik performing the song Spinning spun our expectations out of the water. The song and performance was contemporary – think the Ukrainian Justin Timberlake. It was an energetic beginning to a semi-final which was full of ballad style songs.
Through the first semi-final, we also saw Jamala hit the stage with a revamped version of her song 1944, which of course won Eurovision in 2016, and we also saw her perform the song Zamanyly. The latter was a performance we won't forget anytime soon, as it was so distinctly cultural and meaningful, and possessed the Jamala charm.
It wouldn't be Eurovision without a Eurovision medley performed, and Ukraine managed to put their own cultural flair to it, and it was nice to see the hosts get involved with the show. Ukraine had the perfect balance of serious and self-deprecating, which has been displayed primarily by Sweden and Denmark in their previous Eurovision hosting gigs.
In the Grand Final, we saw Jamala perform again, who was slightly overshadowed by Ukraine's serial pest showing his backside (a memorable moment in itself) however for me the most unique performance was that of ONUKA & NAONI. Having heard some of ONUKA's previous work, I was interested to see how she approached Eurovision, and I wasn't disappointed. It was so strange but in the best possible way. All these intervals acts proved that Ukraine was proud of celebrating their own diversity and talent, featuring strong cultural elements but yet incredibly contemporary, and I didn't expect that at all.
At the start of the National Final season, we were hopeful that more nations were choosing to perform in their national language, however as time went on, more and more songs were getting picked in English. Despite that, the national language songs that were picked, for the most part, were amongst our favourites. Clearly, Portugal's Amar Pelos Dois captured the juries and televoters, hence the Eurovision win, but we can't discount the fact that all national language songs qualified to the final (excluding Malta, although we'd love to hear a song in Maltese sometime soon!). Not only did they qualify, but they did extremely well in the final. As we know, Portugal topped the table, but we've got Italy in 6th with a song in Italian, Hungary in 8th with a song in Hungarian, France in 12th with a mix of French and English and even Croatia who decided to use Italian as part of their song, finishing in 13th place. Belarus and Spain didn't fare as well, but despite that, this is a huge win for national language.
Eurovision often follows the trends of the previous year. Take Lordi's win, for example, for a number of years after, we saw the emergence of rock influenced acts, so the fact that the winner of Eurovision 2017 is in national language gives me some hope that we'll see this grow as a trend. Sure, the contest is now finally starting to mirror the chart trends, and I'm loving the fact we are being presented with songs that are incredibly radio friendly, but music in national language has a huge history at Eurovision, and it's something I don't want the contest to grow out of, even if the music itself is beginning to reflect more of what is charting worldwide.
Overall Quality of Music
When the general person thinks of Eurovision, they don't think of music quality as much as they think of outrageous performances. Carrying on from the previous point, I do think the quality of the music this year was for the most part remarkable, as has been for the last few years. Amongst the songs are a number of songs matching the artistic quality of 'non-Eurovision' music, with some managing to balance cultural integrity and quality music, Bulgaria coming to my mind specifically.
Often, it's easier to see if a song is specifically written for Eurovision – it would be grander, more non-sensical and keeps to a more simple song structure, however this year many of the songs sounded like songs that match the artists and their previous work – if they were already established performers. Latvia's Triana Park for example, their song Line is reflective of their previous edgy, dance-pop music, while Czech representative Martina Barta presented a jazzy style song, which although wasn't written by Martina herself, it still reflected her roots. Even from the UK, who yes, we're ripped off this year with their result, still managed to pull together a really classy entry despite the disappointment around national final time, and it began to suit her musical theatre qualities.
Staging Ideas and Execution
Eurovision 2017 ended up being a party of friends who didn't talk to each other beforehand, and all ended up in the same outfits with the same stage backgrounds. Despite the fact that we saw a hell of a lot of white outfits, and a lot of faces as the stage background, I do think there were some really stand out stage performances this year.
Naturally, Sweden slayed their staging, and kudos has to be given for consistently thinking of new and unique ideas for staging. There was a bit of criticism about Isaiah's staging, however the background itself, and the concept behind the staging was well thought through, and I personally found it to be quite aesthetically appealing in terms of visuals and colour. I could list so many other acts, from the interesting graphics behind Albania's Lindita, to the simplicity of Portugal's staging, from Belarus' who sailed their way into my favourites list, and of course Bulgaria's Kristian Kostov who served up one of my favourite performances of the night.
I think this year, staging had the potential to make or break an act. Let's take Switzerland as one example, where the official music video was incredibly grown up and classy, as was the song, however seeing it on stage with a somewhat childish design really made me rethink their performance. Yes, the song should have been in the final, but I do think their choices in staging lessened their chances of being taken seriously. On the flip side though, we have Croatia, who turned a car crash of a song into something even more memorable with their utopian staging.
Despite that, not all the songs that missed out had questionable staging. Take Latvia as an example, who had one of the best, if not the best staging of the first semi-final, yet still finished in last place in the semi. Iceland as well, I really enjoyed the simplicity and modern nature of the staging, but yet missed out. I enjoyed Ireland and FYR Macedonia in terms of staging, however not everyone can qualify, unfortunately.
The act that really pulled it out of the bag though would have to be the UK. What was so great about it, was that no one expected it, well at least, I didn't! It was so incredibly beautiful to watch on television, and it created this atmosphere that suited the tension of the song. Although their results weren't what was expected, their performance was a win in itself.
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Art of the Garden at Tate Britain, 3 June to 30 August 2004
Marc Quinn: The overwhelming world of desire (paphiopedilum Winston Churchill hybrid) , 2002, installation outside Tate Britain, pigment on stell, 8 metres high; photo M. Heathcode and C. Ellis; courtesy Goodwood Sculpture Park and Jay Jopling/White Cube/Tate Britain
"Step into an urban oasis at Tate Britain's spectacular summer show!" was the invitation to an unusual exhibition which is about to move on to the Ulster Museum in Belfast and then to Manchester Art Gallery. Art of the Garden showed the multiple and individual ways artists have been inspired by actual and fictitious gardens, formal and public gardens, the garden as abstract idea, a playground of colour, a backdrop for history or a private space that is part of many people's lives.
The exhibition is also part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the Royal Horticultural Society. The artworks featured reflect this period of time: beginning with Constable and Turner, the exhibition reaches right into the present with pieces by Lucian Freud and Marc Quinn. During this time the role of the garden changed repeatedly: from a place of relaxation, cultivation and culture, to a place of imagination and retreat, to an emblem of national identity (as for example, in British inter-war landscape painting), and to a place of contemplation and philosophical reflection (for example, in Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden, Little Sparta ).
The diversity of artistic responses to the 'garden' and its varying historical roles is also mirrored in the various art forms featured at the exhibition: apart from paintings and sculptures, the visitor can find photographs, collages, different forms of installation, recordings, music, as well as delicate pencil drawings on the exhibition walls by Jacques Nimki. In order to relate the subject of the show back to its original space, even the small front garden of Tate Britain became a showground. Here, the towering steel orchid by Marc Quinn ( The overwhelming world of desire ( paphiopedilum Winston Churchill hybrid )) caught the eye of passers-by, while Susan Hiller's sound piece What every gardener knows , which is based on Mendel's Laws, was less easy to find. Graham Fagan linked exhibition space and garden in exhibiting the hybrid tea rose Where the heart is in the garden and a bronze cast of it in the gallery.
After a small introductory space, nine rooms were divided thematically into five sections: Thresholds and Prospects , The Secret Garden , Fragments and Inscriptions , Coloured Grounds and Representing and Intervening .
John Constable: Golding Constable's Flower Garden , 1815, oil on canvas, Ipswich, Museums and Galleries; image held here
The first section dealt with the physical borders of the garden space, how walls and fences define it; and with views that transcend these. The first paintings were a pair by Constable, painted from a window at his family home. The artist combined a depiction of his mother's flower garden with a view across the fence over his father's pastures and fields. Even more interesting than these very personal pictures are a group of lesser-known paintings from the inter- and post-war periods – paintings like A corner of Merton, 16 August, 1940 by Harry Bush and Bethnal Green allotment by Charles Ginner show, in the typical survey style of the time, gardens and allotments between ruins and gave them allegorical importance.
Charles Isaac Ginner: Bethnal Green allotment , oil on canvas, 1943 (?), 55 x 76 cm, Manchester Art Gallery; image held here
While the introductory text to this section mentions the importance of early eighteenth-century prospects, no further context was given, nor was this earlier concept being linked to the exhibition's selection of paintings featuring 'thresholds and prospects'. This is an unfortunate omission, which probably derives from the obvious and strained ambition to keep the emphasis on thematic arrangement. The exhibition started with Constable and ended with Freud and Hume, and yet the exhibition negated any chronology and refused contextualization. This may have been due to an attempt to facilitate understanding of the very broad subject, which would have suffered under more dates and names. But giving context and historical information would have actually helped the visitors to better understand the development of the garden and its representation in art, and not necessarily turned it into a specialised show for art historians.
The lack of historical context could also be found in the next section: a quote from Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden introduced the theme of seclusion, privacy and emotion. The 'hortus conclusus' was briefly mentioned but its meaning in Christian iconography remained unexplained.
Drawings by Beatrix Potter, Cicely Mary Barker's Fairy paintings and some Pre-Raphaelite paintings represented the romantic side of this section.
Ian Hamiliton Finlay: Nature over again after Poussin (detail), 1977, installation at Tate Britain, eleven black-and-white photographs, each in halves mounted separately in Perspex, plinths, recorded flute music, each photograph 49.5 x 29.2 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; photo M. Heathcote and C. Ellis; courtesy Tate Britain
Fragments and Inscriptions focused on gardens as embodiment of philosophical concepts, in the content and composition of the featured works. For example, Finlay's sequence of photos, Nature over again after Poussin , in which nature is arranged according to the style of eleven landscape artists (complete with their respective signatures), question the relationship between art and nature. Another work by him, Sundial: a small interruption in the light , represents a 'fragment' which is commonly found in gardens and, together with funerary urns and fragments of antique statuary, brings ideas of mortality into the garden. Surprisingly, the visitor found here a bit of information on the sundial's history, e.g., that it became popular in gardens since the sixteenth century.
John Singer Sergeant: Carnation, Lily Lily, Rose , 1885-6, oil on canvas, 174 x 153.7 cm; courtesy Tate / Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1887; from the Coloured Grounds section of Art of the Garden
The fourth section, Coloured Grounds , explored the most obvious characteristic of a garden, namely being a 'living painting'. The mutual relationship between gardens that are created according to a 'picturesque' colour scheme and paintings that recreate the ephemeral colours of actual gardens was explored in a group of small-scale paintings centring on Gertrude Jekyll's famous garden. She derived her inspiration from copying Turner – as an example, her copy of his The Sun of Venice going to sea is exhibited. Jekyll's colour schemes became alive in her garden and were in turn captured in a painting by Helen Allingham.
The last section consisted nearly completely of contemporary responses to the garden as a concept. Representing and Intervening is the caption of a group of artworks which play with the images associated with gardens. Most prominently, these are cut flowers and blossoms, for example, Anya Gallaccio's floorpiece with 10,000 cut roses and the already mentioned bronze cast of a rose by Graham Fagan. In connection with Jacques Nimki's large-scale picture Florilegium , a brief explanation of the history of the florilegium was given but, it seems, more as a word explanation, not to contrast the differing interpretations of these flower albums in the seventeenth and in the twenty-first century.
Anya Gallaccio: Red on green , 1992, 10,000 red roses, 300 x 400 cm; photo M. Heathcode and C. Ellis; courtesy James Hyman Fine Art/Tate Britain
In general, Art of the Garden was a brave and quite successful attempt to present a broad subject and the myriad different forms of artistic response. The exhibition tried to assemble for the first time material about artists' gardens, garden accessories (from William Nicholson's Miss Jekyll's gardening boots to Finlay's sundial), emotional images, horticultural knowledge in art (Hiller's attempt to make Mendel's Laws audible), the garden as a lost world (Quinn's Italian landscape , a frozen garden). To unite and order these many different works, the grouping in broad sections was required. But, unfortunately, the indecisiveness between thematic and chronological arrangement threatened to keep the exhibition on a superficial level, where the broad range of garden art is presented to the visitor but not in its historical and 'etymological' connections.
The wonderful catalogue, edited by Nicholas Alfrey, Stephen Daniels and Martin Postle, compensates only partially for this lack. Apart from the exhibited works and essays on the five sections, it contains essays on background themes (such as Country Garden , Suburban Prospects , Garden Colour , Gardens Illustrated , The Garden of England , Artists' Gardens ) which give all the information that is missing in the exhibition.
Art of the Garden will be at the Ulster Museum in Belfast from 30 October 2004 to 6 February 2005 (admission is free), and at Manchester Art Gallery from 5 March to 15 May 2005.
Johanna Roethe is a final-year student of History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin
Arthur Hughes: April love , 1856 . oil on canvas; courtesy Ulster Museum
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El repertorio hace un recorrido desde 1980 hasta 1990, conteniendo al menos una canción de cada uno de los ocho discos lanzados en ese periodo. Por consiguiente, no incluye versiones de ningún tema de sus tres primeros discos, ni tampoco del que en ese momento era su más reciente larga duración, Ese soy yo (1992). El corte más sonado fue "Potpurri", de más de diez minutos de duración, cuyo repertorio de siete temas ya era más o menos conocido por sus fanes, pues en los últimos años solía incluirlo en sus conciertos.

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La chica de humo
Tengo
Hay que arrimar el alma
Detenedla ya
Pobre diablo
Megamix (No he podido verte/ Bella señora/ Jarro pichao)
Quiero dormir cansado
Solo
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Popurrí (Con olor a hierba/ El día que puedas/ Tengo mucho que aprender de ti/ Todo se derrumbó dentro de mí/ Insoportablemente bella/ Tú y yo/ Si ese tiempo pudiera volver)
Toda la vida

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Master of Arts in Teaching alumna Lural Ramirez hopes that new teachers dream big.
"College of Education students coming out of a really strong program like Oregon State's should challenge and stretch themselves," she says. "It's important to be open minded, and learn new things. Dream big."
Ramirez has been dreaming big herself since arriving at Oregon State in the early 2000s. "What was fantastic about the MAT program was the intensiveness. The program does a great job mixing pedagogical theory with time spent working with students and engaging more as a teaching professional."
When Ramirez graduated, she felt fully prepared to enter the classroom. "I had a lot of good knowledge, and I had a lot of job offers coming out. I was a really good teacher candidate thanks to the program."
Ramirez worked at Lincoln Elementary school in Corvallis after graduating, where she helped start a dual immersion program in Spanish and English. But after ten years, she was ready to dream a little bigger. "It was really inspiring to see all the changes we brought about at Lincoln. And I'd always wanted to move abroad."
"I think that if you always stay in the same place, speaking the same language, working the same job, you're not learning as much as you could."
So Ramirez and her family moved to Costa Rica, where she joined Futuro Verde. "It's one of the most inspiring schools I've ever worked at," she says.
Futuro Verde is a bilingual IB (International Baccalaureate) world school located in rural Costa Rica. Their curriculum weaves environmental education and social justice in with the core classes, challenging students to be critical thinkers and learners.
Futuro Verde received its IB designation just this year after clearing a five year authorization process. "We have 185 students, and typically IB schools have between 500 and 1,000 students. We were told by the authorization board that they had never seen a school that was so small and rural that fulfilled the requirements to become an IB world school."
Starting in 2019, students graduating from Futuro Verde will have the IB distinction on their diploma, something that Ramirez says will open countless doors for them. "We can already see a shift…they are much better thinkers and they are much better learners, but they also have much bigger dreams."
"We've opened up this world of possibility for them."
Futuro Verde is a nonprofit school, with around 35% of students receiving some kind of financial assistance. This sets it apart from other private schools, Ramirez says, and also ensures a more diverse student body.
Futuro Verde is also unique in its commitment to sustainability. The school has the highest green certification allowable in the country of Costa Rica, and all students take environmental education classes from the age of three.
"Our environmental education is a mix of theory and a lot of practice. We're surrounded by native jungle. There's howler monkeys in our trees. We want to embrace that nature. So we don't have any doors or windows on classrooms, everything is very open. The animals come in and the students go out."
"It's a way for children to grown up very connected to the world around them."
Students at Futuro Verde receive a holistic education. From the age of three, they take math, science, history, English, and Spanish classes, but they also take classes in visual arts, music, physical education, and swimming. "There's also a comparative language study that gets the students thinking meta-linguistically about language development."
"The students are not sitting for two hours doing math. Our kids are doing the math, but not necessarily in math classes. We believe they should have opportunities to learn in lots of different ways."
Each graduating student is fully bilingual in Spanish and English, as classes are taught half in Spanish and half in English. Many students are often multilingual with as many as ten different languages spoken in the homes of students.
Students at Futuro Verde also have the opportunity to participate in sports, such as swimming. "Our kids are incredibly gifted athletically. They go to nationals, and we have kids qualifying for central american games."
"We have a swim team that's just incredible, and we don't even have a pool. They train in the ocean and rivers. Then they go to these competitions in giant olympic sized pools they've never even seen before, and then they win! They have unbelievable grit."
This year, the school received a donation that will go towards building a sports facility for the student athletes. "It's amazing to see people around the world inspired and wanting to contribute and support our school," Ramirez says.
Ramirez says the advice she would give to new teachers is to never stop dreaming. "It can be easy to think, maybe I did my student teaching in first grade so I'm going to find a first grade position, but it's really important to stretch yourself. Can you be open to a possibility in a teaching assignment that goes beyond the class that you're teaching that makes more of a community impact? Can you help develop a program at your school that has a really important impact on the community?"
"The most important questions you can ask are: what can I use my skills for, and how can I make the greatest impact on the community I'm choosing to work in?"
To find out more about Ramirez and Futuro Verde; visit the school's website at:
https://www.futuro-verde.org/
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The emergence of Bitcoin as one of the hottest new investment assets has surprised many who once believed the blockchain-driven cryptocurrency would never have real-world value. It has also generated immense amounts of interest from those who had either never heard of Bitcoin before or who knew relatively little about it. As a result, there are now incredible opportunities for making extra money in the cryptocurrency niche.
In the following article, you'll find out how to make money with Bitcoin and discover a few of the many different ways to capitalize on the cryptocurrency trend and earn Bitcoin in lots of different ways.
Remember, keeping your bitcoins or altcoins on your exchange wallets is highly insecure. You should never store then on the exchange for longer than is necessary. To make your Bitcoins, LiteCoins or any other crypto currency safe, you will need a hardware wallet like the Ledger Nano S or Trezor.
Once you purchase your Bitcoin or Altcoins from one of the exchanges that I have listed below, simply move your coins off the exchange and into your own hardware wallet. This is really the only safest way to store digital currency.
Before launching into the ways you can earn Bitcoin and make money with Bitcoin, it's important to take a realistic view of how much money you could make. Though there is certainly a huge amount of money to be made in this market, many of the beginner-friendly ways of earning Bitcoin will only result in small amounts. Don't get discouraged, though. Even small amounts of Bitcoin can be useful assets, especially given the current rapid growth of the value of the cryptocurrency. If you want to accumulate larger sums of Bitcoin, that's also entirely possible.
It will, however, require an initial investment that may not be easy for you to afford. With that out of the way, let's begin exploring the different ways in which you can start making money with Bitcoin.
#1 – Bitcoin Mining – Number one way of making money with bitcoin.
If you want to put together the largest possible amount of Bitcoin, mining is among your best options. Mining refers to the use of computer hardware to automatically perform a set of mathematical operations, which in turn creates new Bitcoin. The way Bitcoin is set up, only 21 million can ever be produced. At the time of writing this article, about 16.7 million of these Bitcoins have been successfully mined, leaving more than four million on the table for Bitcoin miners.
One thing you will need to know about Bitcoin mining before getting into it is that the difficulty increases over time. In other words, it will take more time and more computing power to generate each subsequent Bitcoin. In the early days of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency enthusiasts were able to use graphics processing units on regular computers for their mining. By now, however, the difficulty has gone up so much that much more specialized equipment is needed.
One way to approach Bitcoin mining is to do it yourself. To do this, you'll need to invest in a Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin miners are external devices that supply the necessary computing power to produce Bitcoin in today's high-difficulty environment. The price of a Bitcoin miner will vary considerably based on its processing ability. Small USB miners start at under $100, while larger, more powerful mining devices can run into the tens of thousands of dollars. Although the initial investment of buying a Bitcoin miner can be fairly large, it allows you to produce your own steady stream of new Bitcoin until the full 21 million has been reached.
If you decide to start mining yourself, be sure to keep the peripheral costs in mind. Not only will you have to pay for whatever equipment you choose to use, but there will also be electricity costs involved. If you have a large miner that produces a substantial amount of heat, you may also have to install a cooling system to keep it running properly. Together, these costs can eat up much of the profit margin in Bitcoin mining. Luckily, if Bitcoin continues to appreciate in value, these peripheral costs will eventually be compensated for retroactively through that appreciation.
If you don't want to go to the initial expense and hassle of setting up your own personal Bitcoin mining operation, you can still get in on the action with what is known as contract mining. In contract mining, you'll pay a fee in exchange for a company to employ its Bitcoin mining equipment on your behalf. This contract will last for a certain period of time, and all Bitcoin mined during that time on the equipment you've contracted will be sent to your Bitcoin wallet. Two of the most major contract mining services are Genesis Mining and Hashing24. Contract mining is an easy and passive way for you to accumulate Bitcoin, though it will cost more over the long run than having your own Bitcoin mining equipment.
Though mining lets you earn Bitcoin faster than any other method, its high investment threshold means it won't be suitable for everyone. If you're looking for a smaller-scale way to dip your toe into the Bitcoin pool, you may prefer completing micro-tasks that pay in Bitcoin. Micro-tasks are small, simple actions, such as viewing an advertisement or engaging with a post on social media. Though the pay is usually very low, micro-tasks are probably the simplest way to get into Bitcoin.
One of the best places to go to get started with micro-tasks that pay in Bitcoin is CoinWorker, a marketplace that specializes in such tasks. CoinWorker tasks are paid in points that are each worth $0.01(USD). Though many tasks on CoinWorker pay as little as $0.03-0.05, some do pay over $1.00. Tasks listed on CoinWorker are typically very easy and take only a few minutes to complete.
There are also several sites that will pay you small amounts of Bitcoin for viewing ads. Like other micro-tasks, these actions pay very small amounts of Bitcoin, but are incredibly easy to perform. If you're trying to earn your first Bitcoin, viewing ads is among the easiest ways to do it. Some of the best sites that allow users to view ads in exchange for Bitcoin include CoinAdder, Ads4BTC and Advercoins.
Bitcoin faucets are a bit like micro-tasks in the sense that they pay very small amounts of Bitcoin in exchange for a small amount of your time – often around 1 Satoshi, which is a hundredth of a millionth BTC. In the case of faucets, though, Bitcoin is usually available to be claimed by users at a set interval, such as every five minutes.
The idea behind Bitcoin faucets is that their owners sell on-site advertising, which is then viewed by users who come to claim their Bitcoin. Bitcoin faucets pay amounts that are almost too small for many users to bother with, but they're a good way to break into the world of Bitcoin and start to see a small amount of cryptocurrency in your digital wallet. Moon Bitcoin is one of the most popular of these faucets, but there are many others out there, including FreeBitcoin, Bitcoin Zebra and Daily Free Bits.
One of the most interesting developments in Bitcoin over the past couple of years has been its emergence as a fairly popular investment asset. Investing in Bitcoin, though still not as common as putting money into stocks and bonds, is rapidly moving into the financial mainstream. As one might imagine, investment is one of the more lucrative ways of making money with Bitcoin.
The most basic form of Bitcoin investment is buying and holding Bitcoin until its price goes up enough to turn a profit. Thanks to its high level of price volatility, Bitcoin has produced some incredible gains for investors who pursued this strategy early on. If you had invested just $500 into Bitcoin when it was worth $1 in early 2011, your investment would be worth more than $9.5 million today. Of course, this is an extreme example, but it does demonstrate just how profitable Bitcoin investment has been for some traders who have been willing to hold their investments for long periods of time.
One of the problems that has plagued Bitcoin investment in the past is the lack of reliable exchanges. If you've been following Bitcoin for a while, you might remember the surprise collapse of the Mt. Gox exchange that occurred as the result of a massive hack in 2014. With millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin lost, that hack set the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin back by years. Now, though, a new generation of more secure and better-run exchanges are coming onto the market to supply Bitcoin services. The most prominent of these has been Coinbase, which has become the de facto Bitcoin exchange for most new investors, if you are interested in other cryptocurrency exchanges then check out these Coinbase alternatives.
A less well-known way of investing in Bitcoin is to trade it as a CFD, or contract for difference. In essence, a CFD is a derivative instrument that is based on the price of an asset, in this case Bitcoin. Unlike standard investment, however, CFDs don't involve actually buying the asset they mirror. Instead, traders open positions on the movement of an asset's price with a CFD broker. CFDs typically have high leverage rates, meaning that both gains and losses are higher than they would be in a more traditional investment environment. Used properly, Bitcoin CFDs can be fairly profitable. If you're too reckless with them, though, they can be high-risk investments. Whether you should personally trade Bitcoin CFDs depends almost entirely on your personal level of risk tolerance.
By now, you've probably gotten the idea that you can make money with Bitcoin. What you might be more impressed by, though, is the fact that there are ways to make money from Bitcoin without actually owning any. The way to do this is to market profitable Bitcoin-based products and services to the growing audience of people who are interested in the cryptocurrency market.
The easiest way to get into being an affiliate marketer for Bitcoin products is to promote Bitcoin mining devices through the Amazon Associates affiliate program. Using this program, you can send visitors from your website to Amazon and receive a small commission on any products they buy there during the next 24 hours. Though Amazon's selection of Bitcoin mining equipment is a little limited, it should be enough to get you started. You'll also need a website on which to post your affiliate links. The good news is that, since Bitcoin miners are generally priced at $100+, you don't need to sell too many of them to start making some decent money from your marketing efforts.
The same concept can also be applied to Bitcoin services. Many services surrounding Bitcoin, including the contract mining services discussed earlier in this article, offer generous commissions to marketers who refer customers to them. If you're going to create a website, integrating promotions for services can be helpful to your readers and profitable to you.
As you may already be aware, there is a massive online marketplace for freelance services ranging from writing to website development. Hundreds of sites already exist to connect freelance workers with customers who are willing to pay for their services. A novel twist on this trend has come in the form of a handful of sites that send payments to freelancers in the form of Bitcoin. If you have a useful skill that businesses or other individuals would be willing to pay you for, you may be able to render services in exchange for fairly significant amounts of Bitcoin.
Freelancing in exchange for Bitcoin has two advantages that make it one of the best ways to make a serious entry into the cryptocurrency market. The first is that, unlike mining or investing, there is little or no initial cost for most forms of freelance work. The second is that some freelance jobs can pay amounts of Bitcoin worth dozens or even hundreds of dollars, setting it apart from the other free methods that often involve receiving only a few cents worth of Bitcoin at any one time. If you want to earn Bitcoin at a reasonably fast rate without investing a large amount of money at the outset, freelancing is likely your best option.
Before jumping into freelancing, give some thought to what kind of service you are going to be selling. Some of the most popular options include writing and proofreading services, graphic design, video production, voiceover work, programming and audio editing. Of course, the services you'll end up offering will depend on your own interests and skills.
Once you've decided on the services you intend to sell, you'll need to sign up for a freelance marketplace that pays in Bitcoin. One option that may be attractive to some is XBT Freelancer. This site offers many high-paying jobs, but most of them are fairly technical in nature and may not be suitable for all freelancers. Cryptogrind, another major marketplace, lets freelancers offer simpler services in exchange for lower prices. If you've ever used the traditional freelancing platform Fiverr, Cryptogrind will probably seem familiar to you, as its basic workings are very similar to Fiverr's.
If you know much about making money online, you've probably encountered the idea of being paid to place ads on a website. Luckily, the exact same concept works well with Bitcoin. If you want to earn some cryptocurrency passively by creating great content, consider signing up with a Bitcoin-based ad network like BitMedia. These networks will pay you in Bitcoin for click-through actions on ads placed on your website. The more visitors and clicks your content gets, the more Bitcoin you can earn.
Though Bitcoin ad networks can theoretically be implemented on any type of site, they'll be most effective on sites that actually focus on cryptocurrency and technology. This is because most of the advertisers using these services at the moment are in the Bitcoin niche themselves. The good news is that this makes Bitcoin ad networks easy to implement on the same site you use to promote Bitcoin-related affiliate products. This approach gives you the chance to earn Bitcoin and normal dollars at the same time from the same website, diversifying your income stream between the two.
Lending out money for interest has always been one of the best ways to generate passive income, and this principle holds very true with digital currencies. Bitcoin lending is a great deal like peer-to-peer lending in that it allows individual lenders to take on the role of a bank or other financial institution. In turn, these lenders then collect the interest as the money they lent out is repaid. To earn Bitcoin through loans, you'll need to use a lending platform. Bitbond is one of the most popular and trusted platforms at the moment, though there are several others available. Interest rates on Bitcoin loans can be quite high, with some exceeding 10 percent.
Before you can get into lending, you'll need to have some initial Bitcoin to start out with. You can buy it, mine it or earn it using one of the other methods described here. You can also use lending to complement other methods of earning Bitcoin. If you want to make serious amounts of money from lending, though, buying an initial stock of Bitcoin may be a good idea, as it will allow you to fund more loans and receive more interest payments. Remember that, just like any other loan, default is a possibility in Bitcoin lending. Always be sure to carefully consider the person you're lending to and only fund loans you have a high degree of confidence in.
Most of the options you've seen on this list so far have been small, simple ways to earn money with Bitcoin that you can do on the side. If you're really serious about making a living with Bitcoin, though, one of the best ways to do it is to become a developer for the growing number of sites and digital systems that use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. For every new website that decides to accept payment in Bitcoin there is a potential opening for a developer with a specialized knowledge of Blockchain. If you are that person, the opportunities available to you in the coming years could be virtually limitless.
Of course, this method of making money with the Bitcoin trend is far from simple. To start with, you'll need a strong understanding of computer science, mathematics and computer programming. From there, you'll also need to become knowledgeable in the specialized field of blockchain. Realistically, you should expect to go back to school to earn a computer science degree if you haven't done so already.
With such a high threshold for entry, you may be wondering why becoming a blockchain developer is worth your time. The answer to this question lies in the amount of money that skilled blockchain experts can earn in the current market. The average salary of blockchain developers comes in at about $80,000, while top-level developers can command salaries in excess of $300,000.
This large earning potential is also tied to growing demand. With Bitcoin becoming more and more well-known with each passing day, the number of companies investing in blockchain technology could increase substantially over the next few years. Since blockchain developers are few and far between, this means that the developers who are active in the marketplace can rely on being in very high demand for the foreseeable future.
Once you've established yourself in the world of Bitcoin, you may decide to share what you've learned with others who are less knowledgeable than yourself. Whether it's Bitcoin investment strategies or how to properly set up a miner, there are people out there who will be extremely interested in learning from your experience. If your content is good and you have valuable information to teach, you can even end up making a decent amount of money form helping other people learn about cryptocurrencies.
One way to get into teaching about Bitcoin is to make YouTube videos about it. Though YouTube certainly won't make you rich, you can monetize videos with Google's Adsense program to make some ad revenue from them. If your channel becomes a popular source of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency information, this stream of income could even add up to being fairly appreciable.
If video content isn't your strong suit, you can also write articles about the ins and outs of Bitcoin. These articles can be posted on your own site, or guest posted on another website in the Bitcoin niche. If you create good written content, you can make good money by selling articles to websites that need them.
Finally, if you're feeling really ambitious, you can create a course about some aspect of Bitcoin. Online courses are a great way to make some extra money, but they take quite a bit of time and effort to put together. If you're going to create a course, your best bet for marketing and selling it is to post it on Udemy, a user-generated course content site. Through Udemy, you can sell your course for whatever price you like and have access to millions of potential students. Whatever you do, make sure that the advice you are offering is valuable enough to make it worth paying for. If you create a sub-par course filled with information that could be found using a simple Google search, you aren't likely to make much money off of it.
What better way to end this review of the different ways to make money with Bitcoin than on the fun note of playing games? Games that pay out in Bitcoin are very similar to faucets in that they pay very small amounts of Bitcoin and generate a profit through advertising. The advantage of Bitcoin games is that they monetize an activity that you may well dedicate time to every day for free. If you are in the habit of playing mobile games, try finding some games that will pay you small increments of Bitcoin to reward you for the time you spend on them. Even if it doesn't amount to much, it's still better than playing a game for free.
The category of Bitcoin-based gaming also includes digital casinos that use Bitcoin as a currency. Though these may be fun for you if you enjoy gambling, they aren't a very good way to reliably make money. Like any other casino, the odds will always be in favor of the house. If you're okay with losing some Bitcoin and just want to have some fun, though, there's nothing wrong with giving this type of gaming a try.
As you can tell, the ways in which you can profit from the rise of Bitcoin are practically limitless. Whether you want to hold cryptocurrency yourself or make money by supplying services and know-how to other Bitcoin enthusiasts, there are opportunities for you in the current market. Best of all, the full potential of Bitcoin is probably far from being realized. As cryptocurrencies start to enter more widespread use as financial instruments and everyday methods of payment, the opportunities to make money with them will only continue to increase.
What a helpful guide on Bitcoin for the new people who are just learning about it and wanting to take part on this.
I'm not sure what my opinion on bitcoin is, at the moment. Got mixed feelings about it. But I guess I will have to have an experience with this currency before judging.
Your tips here are very helpful. Thank you very much for sharing this!
Hi, Jamie! As a blogger, writing content about bitcoin is the probably the best way to earn it. Also, working as a freelancer and accepting only bitcoin is another great way. However, this requires that your clients need to have bitcoins and are willing to pay using it. In today's world, it is rare to find high-paying clients in dollars, let alone in cryptocurrency. But I am of the mindset that if you actually want Bitcoin, you can find a lot of ways to do so, and still, make a big profit.


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Fruits Basket (japanski Furutsu Basuketto) je anime serija redatelja Akitaroa Daičija, snimljena po istoimenoj mangi Nacuki Takaje.

Riječ "fruits" u naslovu je uvijek u množini; pošto u japanskom jeziku ne postoji glas "tu", stoga se koristi glas "tsu" i tako dolazi do "fruits", umjesto "fruit". Naslov dolazi od dječje igre koja se igra u japanskim osnovnim školama.

Priča
Radnja prati srednjoškolku Touru Honda, koja je nedavno ostala bez majke. Seli se djedu, koji nedugo nakon selidbe odluči preurediti stan, te Touru odlazi živjeti sama. Iako živi u šatoru, ide u školu i radi, ne gubi optimističan stav. Jednog dana, Touru nalazi u šumi kuću u kojoj živi njezin školski kolega Juki Souma i njegov stariji rođak Šigure Souma. Kada saznaju u kojim uvjetima Touru živi sažale se, te ju odluče pozvati da živi s njima. A i trebao im je netko tko će im obavljati kućanske poslove. Kada sazna da joj je šator uništen, zajedno s majčinom slikom i svim osobnim stvarima, Touru prihvaća ponudu. Nedugo nakon useljena, Touru otkriva tajnu obitelji Souma; 12 članova obitelji (od 13) posjeduju duhove životinja Kineskog horoskopa, plus trinaesti, duh mačke koji se više ne smatra dijelom horoskopa. Kada ih osoba suprotnog spola zagrli, kada su pod utjecajem emocija ili kod fizičkog napora, pretvaraju se u životinje. Svi koji su ikad saznali za tajnu završili su s gubitkom pamćenje|pamćenja, no Touru obećaje da je tajna sigurna s njom. Dalje priča prati njihove živote (Touru i obitelj Souma).

Likovi
Touru Honda (jap. Honda Tōru)
Srednjoškolka, koja ostane bez majke završi živjeti s obitelji Souma, Šigureom, Jukiom i Kjom. Obožava kuhati i odlična je kućanica. Pošto ne želi zamarati djeda, radi da bi otplatila školarinu. Draga je osoba, uvijek spremna pomoći i naivna, zbog čega joj drugi likovi često govore da ponekad mora gledati i vlastite interese.
Kjo Souma (jap.Sōma Kyō)
Kjo je mačka po horoskopu. Kladio se s Akitom, da ako pobijedi Jukija (štakor) prije kraja škole, bit će mu dopušten ulazak u horoskop; ako izgubi bit će zaključan u sobu do svoje smrti (kao i sve mačke prije njega). Iako je trenirao mjesecima, ne uspijeva zadati niti jedan udarac Jukiju. Svaki put kada mu netko pokuša pomoći, Kjo ga odguruje od srama zbog svog pravog lika. Kada Touru vidi njegov pravi lik, prihvaća ga i moli da ostane s njom, što stvara veliko prijateljstvo.Kjova velika želja, osim pobijediti Jukija, je biti prihvaćen i cijenjen. Nakon nekoliko epizoda, odluči se pomiriti s Jukijem samo zbog Touru.Boja kose mu je narančasta.
Juki Souma (jap. Sōma Yuki)
Juki je štakor po horoskopu. Zahvaljujući svom izgledu, poznatiji je kao "Princ dražesni" (eng. "Prince Charming") ili "Prince Yuki". Ima velikih problema sa socijalizacijom. Ima svoj fan klub; PYFC (Prince Yuki Fan Club).Kao djetetu Akito mu je prouzročio razne grozote, zaključavao ga je i mentalno mučio, što je prouzročilo klaustrofobiju.Potajno je ljubomoran na Kjoa, jer misli da on može imati normalan život, kako nije dio horoskopa. Touru ga privlači.

Nagrade
Nacuki Takaja je osvojila Kodansha Manga Award u šoudžo kategoriji za Fruits Basket mangu. Manga je također osvojila "Best Manga" nagradu 2007. na American Anime Awards.2001. Fruits Basket anime osvojila je Animage Anime Grand Prix nagradu.

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Manga
 Hakusensha Fruits Basket manga stranica
 Tokyopop Fruits Basket engleska manga stranica
 Chuang Yi Fruits Basket English manga stranica

Anime
 TV Tokyo Fruits Basket anime stranica
 Funimation Fruits Basket anime stranica

Manga i anime
Animirane televizijske serije


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Q: Smart table: conditional st-sort attribute in ng-repeat I am using Angular Smart Table and it is pretty good, but i faced with problem related to sorting:
let's assume that i have some columns definition and for each column i have information whether i can sort by this column or not:
$scope.columns = [
    {
        id: "id",
        sortable: true
    },
    {
        id: "type",
        sortable: false,
    }
];

In my html file i want to declare table headers with ng-repeat to avoid stupid refactoring when something in columns definition is changed. Somethig like that:

    {{ column.title }}

 ....

So my question is: how can i set attribute "st-sort" only for those columns, for which column.sortable is true?
I tried to use custom directive that adds this attribute depending on column.sortable and it actually adds it, but st-sort not works in this case (may be because this directive compilation is happening after table compilation, i have no idea...)

A: This should work:

        {{column.id}}

  ...


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Q: How to change connection string automatically on build with Nant is it possible to change the connection string in my web.config automatically when build type is release using Nant? if so, how? thanks

A: I assume that you want to do this in order to have the connection string point out a production environment rather than development or test environment when Nant builds the release code. I usually have a different approach to solve this scenario; keep the connection strings in a separate file. You can do this by using the configSource attribute:
<!-- point out a file containing the connectionStrings config section -->
<connectionStrings configSource="connections.config"></connectionStrings>

The connections.config file should look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<connectionStrings>
    <add name="myDb" connectionString="{your connection string}"/>
</connectionStrings>

Since the connection strings rarely change in the production environment, the file connections.config can then typically be excluded from the deployment.

A: Another alternative is to use a template where you have a token in place of the connection string e.g.
<connectionString>
   <add name="myDb" connectionString="@CONNECTION_STRING@" />
</connectionStrings>

Then use filterchains to replace this with the appropriate string.
<copy file="Web.config.template" tofile="Web.config" overwrite="true">
    <filterchain>
        <replacetokens>
            <token key="CONNECTION_STRING" value="${ConnectionString}" />
        </replacetokens>
    </filterchain>
</copy>

The value of the ConnectionString property will vary according to the build type.
Filterchains are described in the Nant Documentation

A: I think you could use the xmlpoke task. For example, if your web.config is
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <connectionStrings>
        <add name="myDb" connectionString="blah" providerName="blah"/>
    </connectionStrings>
</configuration>

Then you could add a task to your build file like this.
<xmlpoke
    file="path_to_your_web_root\Web.config"
    xpath="/configuration/connectionStrings/add[@name='myDb']/@connectionString"
    value="your_connection_string" />

Oh, here is the documentation of the xmlpoke task. http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/xmlpoke.html

A: I use a simple way. I prepared many versions of the config file, each contains its own connection strings (DEV, TEST, PRODUCTION). In NANT script, when I author different targets, I copy the specific config file to overwrite the default one.


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Q: Windows XP, write protect a partition on non-system disk I need to be able to disable writing to disk, on a drive in Windows XP. I don't see this on Google searches...?
To be more clear, I'm not looking to protect the C:, but rather another HD called F:.
In fact, I'd like to make another partition G: on the non-system drive for additional backups of new data and write protect that as well.
This is for a friend with very limited resources and old computer.
I did make him a non-admin account for everyday use so that he would be less likely
to do bad things to his machine. This gentlemen is not computer savy and is in general hard
on systems.
EDIT: As Dave pointed out, I do not really want to write-protect a new partition G: which would be for backups...I'll simply change the root folder's permissions.


For some time, Adobe was rumoured to be building a real platform independent video and audio app, that works across all devices and that lets you capture on one device, store in the cloud and edit and publish on another device, mobile, tablet, laptop or desktop. Adobe already has its flagship NLE Premiere CC, as well as its little cousin Premiere Elements and a mobile editor (Spark), but now Rush joins the Premiere product range.
Premiere Rush CC is a brand-new app for creating and sharing online videos. Rush works across all devices and is designed to be not only easy but also user-friendly on all screen sizes. On your smart phone or tablet, Rush can make use of the onboard camera to capture video, but it is just as easy to import media from other cameras or other sources. The editor is very intuitive and includes tools for (limited but effective) colour correction, for audio manipulation,for titling and motion graphics based on for example a range of templates that are built into the app. This allows for quick and dirty capturing and editing within Rush (and even publishing immediately on social media). But because everything is synced to the cloud, the same project can be opened and edited also immediately within Premiere, giving access to all its extensive professional functionalities to process the same media.
Available on iOS, Mac,and Windows. Android will follow soon. Free trial version available. Premiere Pro users have access to Rush.


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'Important vaccine for Australia': Moderna gears up for RSV jab
Biotech giant Moderna will submit data on a new vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to the Therapeutic Goods Administration this year in hopes of getting a product approved for older Australians as soon as 2024.
The $US73.2 billion ($104.8 billion) global vaccine maker revealed on Wednesday morning that a phase 3 trial for its vaccine against the respiratory disease showed it was 83.7 per cent effective in preventing at least two symptoms of the virus in older adults aged over 60.
Moderna is working to advance a pipeline of vaccines that go well beyond its initial COVID-19 product. Credit:AP
RSV is a seasonal virus that can cause coughing, congestion and a sore throat, but can also lead to serious illness in infants and older adults. It was first identified in the mid-1950s, and researchers have been working on a vaccine for the product ever since.
Cases of RSV climbed during the winter months last year, with the virus responsible for more paediatric admissions to Victorian hospitals than COVID-19 or the flu last July.
Moderna's chief medical officer Dr Paul Burton told this masthead that the company was now finalising its data on the vaccine for older adults to submit the product for approval to regulators.
"We would hope that we would have approvals really by the end of 2023 into early '24, for that northern hemisphere season, and then obviously, be ready for the subsequent southern hemisphere winter in 2024," he said.
The company is also running trials of an RSV product for infants, toddlers and pregnant mothers. Burton said the strength of the data from the older adults trial is a good sign for the possible future use of the vaccine by other groups.
"I would be cautiously optimistic that we'll see equally good, strong effectiveness and efficacy results in those other groups of people," he said.
The vaccine could eventually be made in Australia at Moderna's mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant in Melbourne, which the company is building with a view of providing a range of respiratory disease products beyond its current COVID-19 vaccine.
The company is also working on developing a range of combination vaccines, which could fight influenza, COVID-19 and RSV within a single shot.
Burton said Moderna had the capability and technology to bring multiple vaccine products into one dose and that this idea wasn't too far away.
"I would be confident that by the middle of this decade, we could absolutely have those combination vaccines tested and potentially available to people," he said.
The possibility of combination vaccines could be a challenge to biotech incumbents like CSL, which has long been a major supplier of influenza vaccines globally.
CSL is also investing in new vaccine technology, however, including inking a licensing deal last year for a range of next-generation mRNA vaccines developed by US biotech Arcturus.
While Moderna's new vaccine has not yet secured approvals, Burton said he believed the Australian government would be keen to secure orders of doses.
"I think this would indeed be an important vaccine for Australia, it's also been through a particularly bad RSV season, as we are right now up here in the Northern Hemisphere," he said. "I would imagine that they would be eager to talk to us about this."
Health Minister Mark Butler has been contacted for comment.
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By Sailing Intelligence (As Amended By ISAF)
Waiting Game At Danish Open
Phil Robertson and his WAKA Racing team made an improved showing on day two in Aarhus
© Sailing Aarhus
Danish Open 2009
Competitors had a long wait before suitable conditions allowed for racing to get underway today at the Danish Open in Aarhus, Denmark.
Conditions off Aarhus took an even more extreme turn for the second day of the Danish Open, organised by the Royal Danish Yacht Club. While competitors awoke to dense fog off Marselisborg Havn, this was burning off by the time battle commenced mid-morning.
The surprise race in flight nine of the round robin was when America's Cup and match racing veteran Peter Gilmour (AUS) and his YANMAR Racing team were dispatched by 49er Olympic gold medallist, match racing newbie, Jonas Warrer (DEN).
"He did a very good job," admitted Gilmour. "He was very early for the start and did a very good job of slowing down in the light conditions and thumped us off the start line. So we were seven or eight boat lengths behind to start with. Then wherever he went it was good for him and wherever we went it wasn't good for us. So that lead extended and it wasn't until the end of the race that we started to get back close enough to him. But they held off very nicely, congratulations to them. He sailed very coolly for someone new into match racing. It wasn't intimidated at all, it was very nice to see."
Unfortunately after this one flight was sailed the wind shut down, the northwesterly gradient wind fighting the southeast sea breeze. The crews waited. All the boats came in and there was more waiting. Lunch time in the tent overlooking the race area was accompanied by no wind, the air so still that you could hear a pin drop on the opposite side of the marina. More waiting. It was not until 6pm local time, just as the crews were considering heading back to the hotel the entire Danish Open entourage is staying in, that finally the gradient northwesterly re-established and the signal came to get afloat again.
Three more flights were hastily sailed in breeze occasionally gusting up to 10-12 knots. In an about turn of his fortunes from the morning, none of these were to prove good for Warrer. In the first race he was seen off by the 22 year old New Zealander Phil Robertson.
A product of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squad's famous youth training programme, that has over the years produced some of their top sailors such as Gavin Brady, Robertson gained entry to the Danish Open after having won the Warren Jones Youth Regatta in Perth, Western Australia, in February. This is only his second regatta on the World Match Racing Tour following on from Troia Portugal Match Cup in June.
"Yesterday was a little tough - we were a little disappointed," said Robertson of how he is finding this regatta. "We aren't quite confident in the boat. It is our first time in the DS37. Yesterday we got beaten up boat-wise, but we had some really good races. We didn't sail badly, it was just little things. It is awesome to be here. We get the Nationals back at home once a year and when we race Dean [Dean Barker (NZL), Emirates Team NZ skipper] it is the best race we get. You learn so much more. We love racing at this level and the more we do the better we'll get."
After losing to World Match Racing Tour leader Adam Minoprio (NZL) in the next flight, Warrer's next race was decimated by Danish veteran match racer Jes Gram-Hansen, culminating in him being disqualified within moments of crossing the line.
"We had starboard entry and two minutes into the prestart he got a penalty in a port-starboard situation. Then we were able to keep the control for the start." Gram-Hansen hooked him and the 49er gold medallist was faced with the choice of a double penalty for deliberately failing to keep clear or being over early. Unfortunately he chose the latter option and was also over early by three or four seconds and was involved in a collison with Gram-Hansen. With three penalties and an OCS, Warrer was history, while Gram-Hansen was docked half a point for the collision.
While the inter-French team match between Sébastien Col and Mathieu Richard was one of the most close fought of the day, so was the dust-up between Gilmour and Minoprio in today's final flight.
"Their tactician Cam [Cameron Dunn (NZL)] did a real good job keeping them close, we could never extend," said Minoprio. "Coming into the last top mark they got a nice lift and we got a bad right and they came right on to us so that when we were rounding us they were a lot faster. They went over us and hoisted above us, but we were happy for them to go over us as it was a very long starboard gybe [to the finish]. So we set a kite for the gybe set and laid the finish line and there was nowhere for Gillie to go. So it was good to get another one over him."
With Minoprio winning both matches today he hopes his fortunes are taking a turn for the better after a disappointing first day of the regatta that saw him end up with a 1-4 scoreline. "We have a long regatta to go. We have turned it around from yesterday, but we have four more races and we have to pretty much win all of them to win a spot in the semi-finals. We have a massive job ahead of us."
Having managed to fire off three flights just as it was getting dark today, so the organisers are only three flights behind schedule. Morten Lorenzen, CEO of the Royal Danish Yacht Club says it is essential to complete the round robins, ideally tomorrow. "Then we have a winner and a loser. We will look at how we do the semis and maybe set the semis to go down to first to three [rather than first to five]. So we still have room to manoeuvre."
The forecast for tomorrow is for a more solid 15 knots once again from the northwest. "Half of that would be okay, so it is looking promising," says Lorenzen.
Jes Gram-Hansen (DEN) Trifork Racing 5.5-1.5
Mattias Rahm (SWE) Stenna Bulk Sailing Team 5-2
Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing 4-3
Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team 4-0
Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team 3-2
Peter Wibroe (DEN) Wibroe Sailing Team 3-2
Adam Minoprio (NZL) ETNZ and BlackMatch Racing 3-4
Sébastien Col (FRA) French Match Racing Team 2-3
Jonas Warrer (DEN) 2-4
Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team 2-5
Ian Williams (FRA) Team Pindar 1-4
Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing 1-4
ISAF Match Racing World Championship Leaderboard
(Top eight teams after Stage 6 of 9)
1. Adam Minoprio (NZL), ETNZ/BlackMatch, 86 points
2. Torvar Mirsky (AUS), Mirsky Racing Team, 74 points
3. Mathieu Richard (FRA), French Match Racing Team, 68 points
4. Ian Williams (GBR), Bahrain Team Pindar, 64 points
5. Peter Gilmour (AUS), YANMAR Racing, 62 points
6. Damien Iehl (FRA), French Match Racing Team, 44 points
7. Sébastien Col (FRA), French Match Racing Team / K-Challenge, 41 points
8. Ben Ainslie (GBR), Team Origin, 40 points
The winner of the annual World Match Racing Tour is crowned as ISAF Match Racing World Champion. Find out more at www.sailing.org/matchworlds.


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GOOD NEWS! Fairness Doctrine No More
Published August 22, 2011 November 26, 2017 by Papa Giorgio
This is somewhat related to my newer posts such as:
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Democrat Camille Paglia notes the undemocratic nature of Democrats — via CAN I JUST FINISH MY WAFFLE:
"I don't get it. I don't get it.
The essence of the 1960's was about free speech. That's what Lenny Bruce and Berkley were about. It was about free speech.
And not for one second should the government be wandering into the surveillance or montoring of the ideological content of talk radio.
They have betrayed the soul of the democrat party to even mention this.
Every true liberal democrat should be standing up in defense of talk radio no matter how heinous they may think what is being said is.
This is immature — immature for people of one party to try to squelch or erase the thoughts of another.
Liberals have a strangle hold on the major media and have had for 50 years.
What more do liberals want?
Talk radio rose as a counter to that fact. And I talk as a democrat…
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The fairness doctrine's constitutionality was tested and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 1969 case, Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC (395 U.S. 367). Although the Court then ruled that it did not violate a broadcaster's First Amendment rights, the Court cautioned that if the doctrine ever began to restrain speech, then the rule's constitutionality should be reconsidered. Just five years later, without ruling the doctrine unconstitutional, the Court concluded in another case that the doctrine "inescapably dampens the vigor and limits the variety of public debate" (Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241). In 1984, the Court concluded that the scarcity rationale underlying the doctrine was flawed and that the doctrine was limiting the breadth of public debate (FCC v. League of Women Voters, 468 U.S. 364). This ruling set the stage for the FCC's action in 1987. An attempt by Congress to reinstate the rule by statute was vetoed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and later attempts failed even to pass Congress.
As an independent regulatory agency, the FCC has the power to reimpose the doctrine without congressional or executive action. So far, the Commission has taken no position on the Hollings-Hefner legislation or expressed an interest in reregulating on its own. Current FCC Chairman James Quello, though, has stated that, "The fairness doctrine doesn't belong in a country that's dedicated to freedom of the press and freedom of speech." (Doug Halonen, "Twelve to Watch in 1993," Electronic Media, January 25, 1993, p. 66.) The Clinton Administration has not taken an official position on the legislation.
Supporters of reviving the fairness doctrine base their argument on the very same three faulty premises that the FCC and most judicial rulings have rejected.
Faulty Premise #1: The "scarce" amount of spectrum space requires oversight by federal regulators.
Reality: Although the spectrum is limited, the number of broadcasters in America has continuously increased.
Supporters of the fairness doctrine argue that because the airwaves are a scarce resource, they should be policed by federal bureaucrats to ensure that all viewpoints are heard. Yet, just because the spectrum within which broadcast frequencies are found has boundaries, it does not mean that there is a practical shortage of views being heard over the airwaves. When the fairness doctrine was first conceived, only 2,881 radio and 98 television stations existed. By 1960, there were 4,309 radio and 569 television stations. By 1989, these numbers grew to over 10,000 radio stations and close to 1,400 television stations. Likewise, the number of radios in use jumped from 85.2 million in 1950 to 527.4 million by 1988, and televisions in use went from 4 million to 175.5 million during that period. ("The Fairness Doctrine," National Association of Broadcasters, Backgrounder (1989).)
Even if it may once have been possible to monopolize the airwaves, and to deny access to certain viewpoints, that is impossible today. A wide variety of opinions is available to the public through radios, cable channels, and even computers. With America on the verge of information superhighways and 500-channel televisions, there is little prospect of speech being stifled.
Faulty Premise #2: "Fairness" or "fair access" is best determined by FCC authorities.
Reality: FCC bureaucrats can neither determine what is "fair" nor enforce it.
The second fallacy upon which the doctrine rests concerns the idea of "fairness" itself. As defined by proponents of the doctrine, "fairness" apparently means that each broadcaster must offer air time to anyone with a controversial view. Since it is impossible for every station to be monitored constantly, FCC regulators would arbitrarily determine what "fair access" is, and who is entitled to it, through selective enforcement. This, of course, puts immense power into the hands of federal regulators. And in fact, the fairness doctrine was used by both the Kennedy and Nixon Administrations to limit political opposition. Telecommunications scholar Thomas W. Hazlett notes that under the Nixon Administration, "License harassment of stations considered unfriendly to the Administration became a regular item on the agenda at White House policy meetings." (Thomas W. Hazlett, "The Fairness Doctrine and the First Amendment," The Public interest, Summer 1989, p. 105.) As one former Kennedy Administration official, Bill Ruder, has said, "We had a massive strategy to use the fairness doctrine to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters, and hope the challenge would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue." (Tony Snow, "Return of the Fairness Demon," The Washington Times, September 5, 1993, p. B3.)
Faulty Premise #3: The fairness doctrine guarantees that more opinions will be aired.
Reality: Arbitrary enforcement of the fairness doctrine will diminish vigorous debate.
Of all arguments for the reinstitution of the fairness doctrine, the most inaccurate and insidious is that it will permit a greater diversity of opinion to be heard. By requiring, under threat of arbitrary legal penalty, that broadcasters "fairly" represent both sides of a given issue, advocates of the doctrine believe that more views will be aired while the editorial content of the station can remain unaltered. But with the threat of potential FCC retaliation for perceived lack of compliance, most broadcasters would be more reluctant to air their own opinions because it might require them to air alternative perspectives that their audience does not want to hear.
Thus, the result of the fairness doctrine in many cases would be to stifle the growth of disseminating views and, in effect, make free speech less free. This is exactly what led the FCC to repeal the rule in 1987. FCC officials found that the doctrine "had the net effect of reducing, rather than enhancing, the discussion of controversial h of public importance," and therefore was in violation of constitutional principles. ("FCC Ends Enforcement of Fairness Doctrine," Federal Communications Commission News, Report No. MM-263, August 4, 1987.) Even liberal New York Governor Mario Cuomo has argued that, "Precisely because radio and TV have become our principal sources of news and information, we should accord broadcasters the utmost freedom in order to insure a truly free press." (Mario Cuomo, "The Unfairness Doctrine," The New York Times, September 20, 1993, p. A19.)……
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'Outrageous': Hawaii man files suit over alleged wrongful eviction during pandemic
A Honolulu man is alleging that he and his two-year-old daughter were wrongfully evicted from their apartment at the Turtle Bay resort back in Nov. 2020.
By Rick Daysog
Published: Nov. 25, 2022 at 6:23 PM HST|Updated: Nov. 26, 2022 at 11:37 AM HST
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Honolulu man is alleging that he and his 2-year-old daughter were wrongfully evicted from their North Shore apartment in November 2020.
Ali London was removed from the one-bedroom vacation rental at the Turtle Bay resort during the eviction moratorium. said lawyer Andrew Daisuke Stewart.
Stewart added the moratorium also protected tenants living in vacation rentals.
"Just completely outrageous — especially given the pandemic and the lockdown that was in place — and pretty much heartless you know, a couple of days before Thanksgiving," said Stewart.
"They're left on the streets, basically. They don't have a residence, they had to get everything out within a couple of hours."
The owner — who lives on the mainland — declined comment, referring all questions to an attorney who could not be reached.
The owner's lawyer previously said that neither London nor his daughter were the victims of wrongdoing.
The suit said London was current on his $1,300 monthly rent, which he paid between August and November 2020.
But because Gov. David Ige allowed short term rentals to resume operations in November 2020, the apartment could fetch a much higher price.
As a vacation rental, the apartment now rents for an average of $295 a night.
But the problem is, the eviction moratorium didn't exempt vacation rentals, legal experts said.
"There's sort of a misconception that the landlord tenant code code does not apply to vacation rentals. And there's nothing in the landlord tenant code that gives an exception for vacation rentals," said Dan O'Meara, managing attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii's Housing and Consumer unit.
"So this vacation rental was not much different than the month-to-month lease."
O'Meara said violating the eviction moratorium could trigger additional damages and attorney fees for London.
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