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Conceptualising Remote Warfare: The Past, Present, and Future
Tom Watts and Rubrick Biegon
On 28 February and 1 March 2019 the Remote Warfare Programme and the authors held a two-day conference on remote warfare. We had three goals when organising this event:
to provide a forum for a more holistic study of remote warfare;
to promote greater dialogue between different stakeholder communities working in or researching remote warfare;
and to encourage reflection on the recent debates on remote warfare.
Our goal was to lay the groundwork for a richer understanding of the past, present, and future of remote warfare to help better inform academics and practitioners.
This essay captures the beginning of this conversation. It addresses the three major questions asked in our call for papers:
What is remote warfare?
What are the historical roots of remote warfare?
What is the future of remote warfare?[1]
Our analysis is selective, and we do not offer an exhaustive summary of the entire conference. Podcasts are available on most of the panels, and we did not wish to reproduce information which is available for you to listen to elsewhere.[2] To this end, this essay also aims to stimulate the development of remote warfare scholarship by identifying gaps within the conference proceedings. Some potential areas for future research are listed in the conclusion.
Our conference was organised around existing debates that speak to a perceived shift in the character of warfare in the twenty-first century. According to some, there is "a deep and widespread feeling that war has entered a new era, significantly different from what we have known in the past".[3] In defining this shift, scholars have entered into what Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould have labelled "something of a coining contest" as they grapple with "the spatial and temporal reconfiguration of war" in the contemporary era.[4] Remote warfare forms part of this larger debate, although its exact relationship to liquid warfare,[5] proxy warfare,[6] surrogate warfare,[7] and vicarious warfare[8] remains unclear.
As it relates to some of the specific practices of remote warfare, drone warfare was a major theme of our conference.[9] Serious questions remain regarding the purported precision of drone strikes, at least as it relates to civilian causalities.[10] These, in turn, have generated legal and humanitarian concerns.[11] When coupled with the use of other remote warfare practices, drones have contributed toward what some see as the "myth" that "it is possible to do remote warfare cleanly".[12]
The discussion of drones was also related to a broader discussion about the of the "intimacies" of remote warfare which was another major theme of our conference.[13] Several studies have examined the perspectives of drone operators, including conference participant Alex Holder.[14] Peter Lee, who embedded with UK drone pilots as part of his research, has written in detail about the "distance paradox" which drone operators face. The very same technology which allows MQ-9 Reaper pilots to fly the craft from thousands of miles away has also compressed the emotional and psychological distance between drone operators and their targets to a level comparable to World War One fighter pilots.[15] The psychological challenges experienced by drone operators have also been previously studied by Joseph Chapa, who argued that they have generated new forms of military sacrifice and ethics.[16]
Somewhat paradoxically, however, as warfare has become more "intimate" for some, it has become increasingly distant for others. This seems to be as true for drones as other types of warfare. Malte Riemann has previously argued that the use of private military security contractors has reshaped modes of remembrance, duty, and sacrifice, thereby making war appear less visible within democratic societies.[17] The study of remote warfare therefore raises important questions about who pays the costs of warfare in democratic societies, and what this means for the accountability and oversight of the use of military force.[18] Likewise, as Yvonni Efstathiou of the International Institute for Strategic Studies explored, it also raises the question of whether there is a relationship between regime type and the use and non-use of remote warfare.[19]
In fact, one major theme of our conference was the use of other practices of military intervention which, like drones, have enabled Western states to manage security challenges overseas from a greater strategic distance. As Foeke Postma of Pax for Peace noted in his post-conference summary, "[d]rones are used in concert with special forces, private military corporations, local armed groups, the transfer of arms, the sharing of intelligence, and other forms of security assistance".[20] This broadened focus on the practices of remote warfare is not new, and does not mean that the debate on drones is now redundant. From the term's recent inception, the practices of remote warfare were recognised to consist of more than drones.[21]
Many at the conference emphasised the importance of including building partner capacity operations in this debate, including Martijn van der Vorm and Ivor Wiltenburg of the Netherlands Defence Academy, CIVIC's Dan Mahanty, and the Oxford Research Group's Emily Knowles and Abigail Watson. According to Mahanty, partnered operations have "come to represent the preferred method of achieving national security objectives for the United States and several European countries".[22] Similarly, van der Vorm and Wiltenburg argued that "[w]hen large scale deployments are practically unfeasible or politically unpalatable, interventions focus on assisting local partners with enhancing their security forces in order to help them resolve security issues without large commitments".[23] Despite the continuing uncertainties about the military effectiveness of these practices, many areas in the world – such as the Sahel and Horn of Africa – have seen an increase in these partner-building activities, as multiple conference participants discussed.[24]
Moving forward, one major area of research identified at the conference was the need to amplify the voices of the communities in which remote warfare operations are conducted. Whilst there are obvious data limitation problems given the difficulties in conducting fieldwork in these countries, examining the non-Western experience of remote warfare offers the prospect of a more comprehensive analysis of its costs, consequences, and effectiveness. As Norma Rossi and Malte Riemann argued, by destabilising the temporality and spatiality of war,[25] remote warfare has undermined the traditional dichotomy between war and peace. One effect of this has been to create "privileged spaces of exception" in Western states where the conditions of war are absent.[26] Yet, whilst remote warfare may be "remote" in some aspects from a Western perspective, it is "immediate" and "ever present" for some communities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.[27]
During the conference, Baraa Shiban and Camilla Molyneux helped bring these currently marginalised voices into clearer focus. Drawing on fieldwork in Yemen, they demonstrated that the harm generated by remote warfare operations must be measured in more than just civilian casualties. These operations also have significant economic, educational, and mental health implications for impacted communities.[28] On this theme of non-Western experiences, Anicée Van Engeland has also begun to "decolonise" the study of remote warfare by examining how its practices are understood in Islam and how they may reinforce perceptions of "otherness".[29] Both of these studies make particularly timely contributions to the wider debate on the character and implications of remote warfare.
The concept of remote warfare is widely used to "periodise" the current slate of global conflicts ranging from the Middle East and the Sahel to the Horn of Africa. At the conference, it was commonly used as a shorthand to capture the effort by Western states – principally the UK and the US – to move away from the counterinsurgency (COIN) model associated with recent "large footprint" campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. As Paul Schulte has previously argued, for a variety of strategic and political reasons, Western policymakers pledged "never again (to) big interventionary COIN".[30]
According to some at the conference, contemporary practices of remote warfare have their roots in the military campaigns fought by the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. Emil Archambault, for example, examined the use of strategic and tactical air power during the Vietnam War as a key moment in the history of remote warfare.[31] During the Cold War, the superpowers regularly engaged one another via locally trained and equipped forces partly to reduce the risk of direct confrontation.[32] Some analysts go back further; John Alexander, for instance, traces the modern origins of remote warfare to the British use of airpower during the inter-war period. It could be argued that the concept has origins in imperial policing operations.[33]
Some of the practices of remote warfare – intelligence sharing, private military contractors, security cooperation, special forces – have roots in the twentieth century (if not before). It will not be difficult for scholars to find historical case studies to document this.[34] Others, such as drones and cyber, are more novel and are the result of more recent technological developments. Can this tension be reconciled, or is the history of remote warfare best studied as a response to the failure of large-scale overseas intervention?
In this respect, it remains unclear how far back we should trace the historical roots of remote warfare beyond Afghanistan and Iraq. It could be, to paraphrase Hew Strachan, that we have generally treated remote warfare as being "'new' because in part we have not been addressing [it] properly".[35] As he reminds us:
The challenge for the historian is much harder than the identification of continuity. That is the easy bit. The next stage is to use that as the bedrock from which to identify what is really new, as opposed to what merely seems to be new, to distinguish the revolutionary and evolutionary from the evanescent and ephemeral.[36]
In his keynote address to our conference, Strachan grounded contemporary practices associated with the "remote warfare" label in a much longer historical trajectory. Without discounting recent political and technological changes, he suggested that the dynamics linking strategy to domestic factors can be traced to the time of Clausewitz, if not before. In a contemporary setting, the strategic "distance" of more limited forms of war must be seen in light of democratic considerations "at home".[37]
What is the future of remote warfare?
As conference participants repeatedly stressed, for the immediate future, remote warfare is here to stay. Notwithstanding a major unforeseen security catastrophe, and despite the Trump administration's renewed emphasis on Great Power rivalry, it is unlikely that Western states will resume large-scale COIN campaigns in the immediate future.
In the longer term, the potential development of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) could change the fundamental character of warfare itself. An autonomous weapon can be broadly defined as "a machine, whether hardware or software, that, once activated, performs some task or function on its own".[38] The development of autonomous weapons have formed a central component of the Third Offset Strategy in the United States which aims to leverage advances in artificial intelligence to offset vulnerabilities elsewhere.[39] Whilst the Ministry of Defence has insisted that "[t]he UK does not possess fully autonomous weapon systems and has no intention of developing them"[40], the UK is investing (if on a much smaller scale and for different reasons) in similar technologies. Robert Clark described how, as part of Exercise Autonomous Warrior 2018, a British Army Battlegroup conducted four weeks of combat trails and testing with unmanned ground systems on Salisbury Plain.[41] Whilst barriers may still remain to their integration into British Armed Forces, autonomy is likely to become an increasingly important part of combat operations, surveillance, and logistics in the future.[42]
The development of such systems is the subject of considerable controversy. Multiple civil society groups, leading scientists, and some states have called for a pre-emptive ban on such weapons due to ethical and legal considerations.[43] According to Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss, the development of weapon systems with autonomy in their critical functions may create novel logics of appropriateness which challenge the existing norms governing the use of force.[44] Furthermore, as Bode discussed at the conference, the potential development of weapon systems with autonomy in their critical functions raises questions about the issue of meaningful human control in technologically-mediated forms of remote warfare.[45]
Others, however, are more optimistic. Used under the right conditions such systems have potentially "virtuous" uses.[46] Larry Lewis, director of the Centre for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence, argued that the proper use of machine learning algorithms can help minimise civilian casualties during armed conflict.[47] As he has previously argued:
AI could review imagery and other intelligence to reduce the number of civilians mistakenly identified as combatants. They could monitor areas and provide a double check of existing collateral damage estimates, particularly as things can change over time. AI-driven unmanned systems would allow those systems to take on risk and use tactical patience, which can reduce risk to civilians.[48]
Given the uncertain trajectory concerning the development of autonomous functions, it is difficult to precisely anticipate how they may change the practices and study of remote warfare.
Our conference aimed to lay the groundwork for a richer understanding of the past, present, and future of remote warfare to better inform academics and policymakers. In order to help further develop the study of remote warfare, we have identified a series of potential areas for future research:
Does remote warfare encompass different conceptualisations of the changing character of warfare, or is it distinct? What is the relationship between remote warfare and the debates on grey-zone warfare, hybrid warfare, liquid warfare, proxy warfare, surrogate warfare, and vicarious warfare?
Who are the users of remote warfare? Are these exclusively Western democratic states like the UK, the US, and France, or is there a non-Western approach to remote warfare?
How are remote warfare operations experienced by different communities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia?
The history of remote warfare:
How far should we trace the historical roots of remote warfare beyond the end of the counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Has remote warfare often been treated as a "new" development because its historical roots have not been properly addressed, or does the use of new technological practices, such as drones and cyber warfare, make it genuinely novel?
How should the historical roots of remote warfare be studied: as a set of practices or as a nexus of technological, security, and political developments?
The future of remote warfare:
Is remote warfare here to stay? If so, how should we approach elements of change and continuity?
What consequences would the development of AWS have for the "remoteness", oversight, and practices of contemporary warfare?
Given its breadth and complexity, we recognise that the study of remote warfare is likely to remain fluid for some time. It will continue to be shaped by shifts in the global security landscape and the patchwork of different professional, normative, and analytical perspectives of those involved in its study.
This presents both challenges and opportunities. At times, tensions emerge between those focused on the technical and operational dimensions of remote warfare, and those seeking to scrutinise its effects on human security and democratic accountability. All stakeholders would do well to reflect on their own positions in the study of remote warfare. A commitment to open dialogue and analytical reciprocity remains essential if remote warfare scholarship is to continue to grow. For some, "mentioning theory has long been a sure way to make policy makers' eyes glaze over"[49]. As our conference demonstrated, however, theory can add considerable depth to our understanding of the drivers, characteristics, and implications of remote warfare. Likewise, the first-hand experiences and perspectives of the military personnel conducting remote warfare operations are vital if we are to avoid a circular and inaccurate discussion of its practices.[50]
The intellectual and professional pluralism of remote warfare scholarship represents one of its greatest strengths. Participants may face different professional cultures and incentive structures, but the inclusion of diverse voices remains crucial if we are to realise a more holistic understanding of remote warfare. This briefing represents the beginning of this process, not its end, and we hope to organise similar events in the future. As remote warfare scholarship continues to develop, our collective commitment to reaching beyond our professional silos and working collaboratively remains paramount.
The authors and organisers wish to acknowledge the British International Studies Association Foreign Policy Working Group, the Conflict Analysis Research Centre at the University of Kent, and the Centre for International Public Policy at Royal Holloway University for providing financial and logistical support to the 2019 Conceptualising Remote Warfare conference. We would also like to thank Rob Chapman, research support officer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, for his assistance. We are grateful to all who attended or otherwise contributed to the conference. We are also grateful for those who gave feedback on a much longer version of this briefing paper at the 2019 BISA Post-Graduate Conference. Any mistakes remain our own.
Image credit: DVIDSHUB/Flickr.
Tom Watts is a Teaching Fellow in War and Security at Royal Holloway, University of London with research specialisations in American foreign policy, military assistance programs, and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. His PhD thesis asked what the Obama administration's military response against al-Qaeda's regional affiliates in the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel tells us about the means and goals of contemporary U.S. military intervention in the global south. Working within the historical materialist tradition, it advances a more critical reading of these processes which places military assistance programs and the reproduction of 'closed frontiers and open-doors' at the centre of its analysis.
Rubrick Biegon is an associate lecturer and research administrator in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. His research interests include US foreign policy, international security and inter-American relations. He is the author of US Power in Latin America: Renewing Hegemony (Routledge, 2017).
[1] Our original call for papers can be found here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/news/call-for-papers-conceptualising-remote-warfare-the-past-present-and-future
[2] Podcasts can be listened to here
https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/pages/category/event-podcast-conceptualising
[3] Azar Gat, 'The Changing Character of War', in The Changing Character of War, ed. by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 27–47 (p. 28). See also Hew Strachan, 'The Changing Character of War: A Europaeum Lecture Delivered At The Graduate Institute Of International Relations, Geneva', 2006 <https://europaeum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Changing-Character-of-War-Hew-Strachan-Europaeum-Lecture-2006.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019]; Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers, 'Introduction: The Changing Character of War', in The Changing Character of War, ed. by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 1–26.
[4] Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould, 'An Assemblage Approach to Liquid Warfare: AFRICOM and the "Hunt"for Joseph Kony', Security Dialogue, 49.5 (2018), 364–381 (pp. 365–66). You can also listen to Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould's podcast here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-theorising-remote-warfare
[5] Demmers and Gould, 'An Assemblage Approach to Liquid Warfare: AFRICOM and the "Hunt"for Joseph Kony'.
[6] Andrew Mumford, Proxy Warfare (London: John Wiley & Sons, 2013).
[7] Andreas Krieg, 'Externalizing the Burden of War: The Obama Doctrine and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East', International Affairs, 92.1 (2016), 97–113; Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli, 'Surrogate Warfare: The Art of War in the 21st Century?', Defence Studies, 18.2 (2018), 113–30.
[8] Thomas Waldman, 'Vicarious Warfare: The Counterproductive Consequences of Modern American Military Practice', Contemporary Security Policy, 39.2 (2018), 181–205.
[9] For a more detailed summary of the drone-related debates at the conference, see Foeke Postma, 'Drones as Part of Remote Warfare: A Conference Summary', The European Forum on Armed Drones, 2019 <https://www.efadrones.org/drones-as-part-of-remote-warfare-a-conference-summary/> [accessed 28 March 2019].
[10] Reprieve, 'Game Changer: An Investigation by Reprieve into President Donald Trump's Secret Assassination Programme and the Massacre of Yemeni Civilians in the Villages of Yakla and Al Jubah', 2017 <https://reprieve.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017_08_15_PRIV-Yemen-Report-UK-Version-FINAL-FOR-USE.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019]; Reprieve, 'Opaque Transparency: The Obama Administration and Its Opaque Transparency on Civilians Killed in Drone Strikes', 2016 <https://reprieve.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Obama-Drones-transparency-FINAL.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019].
[11] All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones, 'The UK's Use of Armed Drones: Working with Partners', 2018 <http://appgdrones.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/APPG-Drones-Master-FINAL-310718.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019]; Max Byrne, 'Consent and the Use of Force: An Examination of "Intervention by Invitation"as a Basis for US Drone Strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen', Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, 3.1 (2016), 97–125; Max Brookman-Byrne, 'Drone Use "Outside Areas of Active Hostilities": An Examination of the Legal Paradigms Governing US Covert Remote Strikes', Netherlands International Law Review, 64.1 (2017), 3–41.
[12] Emily Knowles and Abigail Watson, 'Remote Warfare: Lessons Learned from Contemporary Theatres', Remote Warfare Programme, 2018, p. 23 <https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=4026f48e-df60-458b-a318-2a3eb4522ae7> [accessed 11 December 2018].
[14] See Michelle Bentley, 'Fetishised Data: Counterterrorism, Drone Warfare and Pilot Testimony', Critical Studies on Terrorism, 11.1 (2018), 88–110; Lindsay C Clark, 'Grim Reapers: Ghostly Narratives of Masculinity and Killing in Drone Warfare', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 20.4 (2018), 602–23; Alex Holder, Elizabeth Minor, and M D Mair, 'Targeting Legality: The Armed Drone as a Socio-Technical and Socio-Legal System', Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 2018, 1–17.
[15] Peter Lee, 'The Distance Paradox: Reaper, the Human Dimension of Remote Warfare, and Future Challenges for the RAF', Air Power Review, 21.3 (2018), 106–30. See also Peter Lee, Reaper Force-Inside Britain's Drone Wars (London: John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2018).
[16] Joseph Chapa, 'Remotely Piloted Aircraft, Risk, and Killing as Sacrifice: The Cost of Remote Warfare', Journal of Military Ethics, 16.3–4 (2017), 256–71.
[17] Malte Riemann, 'Conceptualising the Dichotomy between Private Military Contractors and Soldiers amid "Society"', Political Perspectives, 8.3 (2014), 1–15.
[18] This topic was examined by multiple conference participants including Aditi Gupta, Peter Finn and Liam Walpole and Meghan Karlshoej-Pedersen amongst others. You can listen to their respective conference presentations here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-the-oversight-and-accountability-of-remote-warfare; https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-roundtable-on-ai-and-the-future-of-remote-warfare
[19] You can listen to Yvonni Efstathiou's presentation and view her slides here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-the-oversight-and-accountability-of-remote-warfare
[20] Foeke Postma.
[21] One of the Remote Control Project's earliest digests identified five key areas of Remote Warfare, for example: "special forces, [private military security contractors], drones, cyber warfare, and intelligence and surveillance". Caroline Donnellan and Esther Kersley, 'New Ways of War: Is Remote Control Warfare Effective?', Remote Control Project, 2014, pp. 6–10 (p. 7) <https://www.statewatch.org/news/2014/oct/Remote-Control-Digest.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019].
[22] You can listen to Dan Mahanty's presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-building-partner-capacity-and-remote-warfare
[23] You can listen to Martijn van der Vorm's and Ivor Wiltenburg's presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-building-partner-capacity-and-remote-warfare
[24] See also Abigail Watson and Emily Knowles, 'Improving the UK Offer in Africa: Lessons from Military Partnerships on the Continent', Remote Warfare Programme, 2019 <https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=94a8e650-09a0-408e-bc0d-3c0610c10d5e> [accessed 29 March 2019].
[25] A similar argument was also made by Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould. You can also listen to Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould's podcast here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-theorising-remote-warfare
[26] You can listen to Norma Rossi's and Malte Riemann's conference presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-the-cost-and-consequences-of-remote-warfare
[28] You can listen to Baraa Shiban's and Camilla Molyneux's conference presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-the-cost-and-consequences-of-remote-warfare
[29] You can listen to Anicée Van Engeland's presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-theorising-remote-warfare
[30] Paul Schulte, '"What Do We Do If We Are Never Going to Do This Again?"Western Counter-Insurgency Choices after Iraq and Afghanistan', in The New Counter-Insurgency Era in Critical Perspective (Springer, 2014), pp. 340–65.
[31] You can listen to Emil Archambaul's presentation on the Strategic Logic of Remote Counterinsurgency: From Vietnam to the War on Terror here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-the-cost-and-consequences-of-remote-warfare
[32] See Mumford.
[33] You can listen to John Alexander's presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-the-geographies-of-remote-warfare
[34] We are grateful to Dr Edward Stoddard for pointing this out.
[35] Strachan, 'The Changing Character of War: A Europaeum Lecture Delivered At The Graduate Institute Of International Relations, Geneva', p. 28.
[36] Hew Strachan, 'Strategy in the Twenty-First Century', in The Changing Character of War, ed. by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 503–23 (p. 504).
[37] You can listen to Hew Strachan's presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-sir-hew-strachan-keynote-speech
[38] Paul Scharre and Michael C. Horowitz, 'An Introduction to Autonomy in Weapons Systems', Center For A New American Security, 2015, p. 5 <https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/188865/Ethical Autonomy Working Paper_021015_v02.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019].
[39] Larry Lewis, 'Insights for the Third Offset: Addressing Challenges of Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence in Military Operations', Center for Naval Analyses, 2017.
[40] Ministry of Defence, 'Joint Doctrine Publication 0-30.2 Unmanned Aircraft Systems', Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, 2017, p. 14 <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/673940/doctrine_uk_uas_jdp_0_30_2.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019].
[41] Ministry of Defence, 'Army Innovation: Exercise Autonomous Warrior', 2018 <https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/events/awe-2018/> [accessed 29 March 2019].
[42] James Rogers and Robert Clark, 'The United Kingdom', in Digital Infantry Battlefield Solution: Research and Innovation, ed. by Uģis Romanovs and Māris Andžāns, 2019, pp. 103–13 <http://www.liia.lv/en/publications/digital-infantry-battlefield-solution-research-and-innovation-part-three-781>.
[43] Formed in 2012, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is an international coalition of non-governmental organisations which is committed to a complete ban on the development of fully autonomous weapons systems. More can be found here: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/. See also Future of Life Institute, 'Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter From AI & Robotics Researchers', 2015 <https://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/?cn-reloaded=1> [accessed 29 March 2019]. For an alternative position on the banning of autonomous weapons systems, see Kathleen McKendrick, 'Banning Autonomous Weapons Is Not the Answer', Chatham House, 2018 <https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/banning-autonomous-weapons-not-answer> [accessed 29 March 2019].
[44] Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss, 'Autonomous Weapons Systems and Changing Norms in International Relations', Review of International Studies, 44.3 (2018), 393–413.
[45] You can listen to Ingvild Bode's conference presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-roundtable-on-ai-and-the-future-of-remote-warfare
[46] This has parallels in the earlier debate on "virtuous" drones. See Caroline Kennedy and James I Rogers, 'Virtuous Drones?', The International Journal of Human Rights, 19.2 (2015), 211–27.
[47] You can listen to Larry Lewis' conference presentation here: https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/event-podcast-roundtable-on-ai-and-the-future-of-remote-warfare. Also see Larry Lewis, 'AI and Autonomy in War: Understanding and Mitigating Risks', Center for Naval Analyses, 2018 <https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/DOP-2018-U-018296-Final.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019]; Larry Lewis, 'Redefining Human Control: Lessons from the Battlefield for Autonomous Weapons', Center for Naval Analyses, 2018 <https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/DOP-2018-U-017258-Final.pdf> [accessed 29 March 2019].
[48] Larry Lewis, 'AI for Good in War; Beyond Google's "Don"t Be Evil:'', Breaking Defense, 2018 <https://breakingdefense.com/2018/06/ai-for-good-in-war-beyond-googles-dont-be-evil/> [accessed 29 March 2018].
[49] Quoted in Joseph Nye, 'Bridging the Gap between Theory and Policy', Political Psychology, 29.4 (2008), 593–603 (p. 594).
[50] Joseph Chapa, '"Drone Ethics" and the Civil-Military Gap', War on the Rocks, 2017 <https://warontherocks.com/2017/06/drone-ethics-and-the-civil-military-gap/> [accessed 29 March 2019].
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The posture of the British Armed Forces in and around the Persian Gulf mean that it would be very difficult for the United Kingdom, or its key ally Oman, to remain neutral in any military escalation of the conflict between Iran and the United States.
Remote Warfare Programme presents at BISA Conference
Abigail Watson, Senior Research Officer at the Remote Warfare Programme, recently presented at the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference.
Abigail Watson Published on Inkstick
On 10 June 2019, Abigail Watson, the Remote Warfare Programme's Senior Research Officer, had an article she had written published on Inkstick, a new website focusing on foreign policy.
Remote Warfare and the Practical Challenges for the Protection of Civilians Strategy
This briefing explores the strategic consequences of remote warfare for Protection of Civilians (POC) and outlines practical lessons the British armed forces can draw from contemporary theatres to improve its capacity for POC in partnered operations.
ORG Explains #10: The UK's Joint Expeditionary Force
This primer describes the new UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), situating it in the context of other European rapid reaction forces and the UK and NATO's expanded military presence in the Baltic Sea region.
Planning for Future Operations: Learning Lessons from Remote Warfare
Remote warfare looks set to be an enduring feature of contemporary campaigns. If it continues to be treated as a secondary task to major warfighting it is unlikely that British forces will ever excel at it.

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Rihanna's "Rude Boy" Racks Up Fourth Week at Number One
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Rihanna's "Rude Boy" has the Number One spot on the Billboard Hot 100 on lock for a fourth consecutive week. In fact, last week's Top Eight all maintained the same positions, meaning Rolling Stone's best new Stoner MC B.o.B. scored Number Two yet again with "Nothin' On You" and Train held strong at Number Three with "Hey, Soul Sister." Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" and Lady Gaga's "Telephone" rounded out the Top Five.
Usher scored the week's best Hot 100 debut with Raymond v Raymond's "OMG" featuring Will.i.am at Number 14, which marks the third best Hot 100 debut of Usher's career following 1998's "Nice & Slow" and "My Way." Lady Gaga entered yet another single, The Fame Monster's "Alejandro," which bowed at Number 72. Fresh off Erykah Badu's controversial new video for "Window Seat," the New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ahnk song debuted at Number 95. In one more interesting piece of chart news, Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe" has quietly enjoyed a 12-week run on the Hot 100, making it Eddie Vedder and Co.'s longest-running Hot 100 single since "Last Kiss" spent 21 weeks on the chart in 1999.
"Rude Boy" officially has become Rihanna's most successful single since "Umbrella." Thanks to the Rated R singer's high-wattage performance of "Rockstar 101″ on American Idol, expect that single to give "Rude Boy" some company on the Hot 100 next week.
• "Rude Boy" Becomes Rihanna's Best-Charting Single Since "Umbrella"
• Rihanna's "Rude Boy" Scores Second Straight Number One
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A South View of Canonbury House, near Islington.
London: Published by Robert Wilkinson, No. 125, Fenchurch Street [n.d., c.1816.]
Scarce engraving with very fine hand colour. 260 x 420mm (10¼ x 16½").
A fine & decorative view looking across fields to Canonbury House.
The Charter House, London.
Drawn and Engraved by J. Storer.
Published by J. & J. Cundee, Albion Press, London, 1814,
Engraving with hand colour. Sheet 200 x 225mm (8 x 9"). Trimmed.
Charterhouse in its original location in Smithfield, with boys playing cricket in the foreground.
The Charter House.
[London: A. Churchill, J. Knapton & others, 1720.]
Engraving. 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾") large margins.
A view of the London Charterhouse in Smithfield, from John Stow's ''A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster''.
[South East View of Chelsea Hospital.]
[Drawn & Publish'd by George Lynn, Chelsea, June 10, 1818, and Sold by Thos. Faulkner, Paradise Row, Chelsea.]
Etching, unfinished proof before aquatinting. Sheet 345 x 470mm (14 x 18½"). Tear in right edge, pencil notes underneath.
An early proof of Lynn's view of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, with figures promenading in the grounds, with only the etched outlines of the buildings and figures.
See Longford Images of Chelsea: 82 for the completed print.
A plan of the intended New Road from Paddington to Islington.
B. Cole sculp.
[London: Gentleman's Magazine, 1756.]
Engraved map. 165 x 480mm (6½ x 19"). Split in the binding fold.
The plan for London's first bypass, building Euston Road & Pentonville Road to allow the Duke of Grafton a better route to drive his cattle to Smithfield Market. Among the features marked are: Oxford Street; Berkeley, Grosvenor, Cavendish, Hanover, Red Lion and Lincoln's Inn Squares; Middlesex Hospital, Foundlings Hospital, Montague House (later the British Museum), St Giles's Church, 'Farthing Pye House' (a pub known for its pies, frequented by William Blake) and White Conduit House (future home to the White Conduit Club, later reorganised as the Marylebone Cricket Club).


In 1967 Robert L. Liscomb, a petroleum geologist working for Shell Oil Company, discovered well-preserved bones in Alaska along the Colville River. As the bones were fresh, not permineralized, he assumed that these were recently deposited, perhaps belonging to a mammoth or bison. Twenty years later scientists recognized the bones as belonging to the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus. Other bones found in this deposit belong to horned dinosaurs, and various carnivorous dinosaurs (including a pygmy Tyrannosaurus).
An article on Liscomb's bones states: "The bones are stained a dark red brown but otherwise display little permineralization, crushing, or distortion." (Davies, Kylie L., "Duckbill Dinosaurs (Hadrosauridae, Ornithisichia) from the North Slope of Alaska," Journal of Paleontology 61, 1987, pp. 198-200.) Other researchers have found similar frozen dinosaur bones. For example, in 1987, while working with scientists from Memorial University on Bylot Island, just east of the northern tip of Baffin Island, a young Canadian Eskimo picked up such a bone fragment. It was identified within days as part of the lower jaw of a duck-billed dinosaur. (Helder, Margaret, "Fresh Dinosaur Bones Found," Creation Ex Nihilo 14, 1992, p. 16.) In 2015 an article was published entitled "A New Arctic Hadrosaurid from the Prince Creek Formation." It states: "The hadrosaurid remains are almost entirely disarticulated, show little evidence of weathering, predation, or trampling, and are typically uncrushed and unpermineralized" (Hirotsugu Mori, et. al., Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Sept. 22, 2015, p. 3.).
While freezing biological material like collagen obviously inhibits decay and helps preserve structure (from your left over turkey dinner to reptile bones) there are limits to how long it can be preserved. Is it reasonable to expect frozen bones to remain in this pristine condition for 60 million years?


Mrs. Lee made this "dog head" bonnet for her only son, Peter. Chinese mothers traditionally dressed their one year old children in such bonnets to protect them from evil spirits. According to lore, if evil forces met the child they would pass by, thinking it were an animal, and of no value. Fur lines the bonnet's "dog's ears" and the padded wool of the hat lined Peter's head.


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Desperate to Get Advertisers Back, Twitter Is Holding a Buy-One, Get-One Free Sale for its Biggest Clients
Twitter is offering ads at deep discounts to entice its departed advertisers.
By Rachyl Jones • 12/01/22 5:29pm
Twitter needs advertisers, but advertisers don't need Twitter. NurPhoto via Getty Images
Twitter, desperate to get its advertisers back, is offering deep discounts for its highest-spending clients, according to Marketing Brew. In some cases, ads will receive twice the number of impressions a company paid for.
Since Elon Musk bought the platform in October, many advertisers have taken a step back to see what direction the platform will take under his new leadership. General Motors, General Mills and United Airlines are among the companies who paused their spending. Others have stopped entirely. Twitter relies on advertising as its primary revenue source, and Musk has urged advertisers to wait it out.
"I understand if people want to give it a minute and see how things are evolving," Musk said on a Twitter Spaces conference with advertisers. "But really, the best way to see how things are evolving is just use Twitter. And see how your experience has changed. Is it better? Is it worse?" Twitter did not respond to Marketing Brew's request for comment.
Twitter is offering additional impressions for the ads purchased in the U.S. If a company spends $500,000 on ads, Twitter will match that number in additional impressions—a value which is "absurdly high," an ad agency executive told the Marketing Brew. If a company spends $350,000, they will receive 50 percent in additional value, and 25 percent for spending $200,000.
Filed Under: Business, Digital Media, advertising, Elon Musk, Twitter
SEE ALSO: Rupert Murdoch Calls Off the News Corp and Fox Merger


Hanseatic Town, Hanseatic Trading Post, Subsidiary - which status has a town in Patrician IV?
At the beginning of Patrician IV you will find the mentioned town types. Hanseatic trading post can be upgraded to hanseatic towns later on. Thereby they get access to hanseatic buildings.


The law No. 2016-1691 dated December 9th, 2016 known as "Sapin II", as well as Regulations No. 2017-1094 (June 12th, 2017) and No. 2018-824 (April 18th, 2018) transposed in French law an obligation resulting from a European Directive No. 2015/849 / EU dated May 20, 2015.
These provisions were issued regarding as to sanction money laundering more effectively, and to prevent the financing of terrorism.
The Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) is a legal concept intended to designate the natural person who holds, directly or via another legal person, 25% or more of the capital or voting rights of a company. The definition is even extended to the individuals capable of exercising control over the governing bodies. It is therefore possible to have several UBO per company.
Julie Soudaz is a corporate lawyer before the Hauts de Seine Bar since 2010. With more than 8 years of experience, she regularly assists French and international clients, whether they are small or medium-sized companies in the preparation of their declarations.
Who has to comply with the declaration?
All entities registered in the Commercial Court Register (excluding listed companies subject to other more stringent provisions) are concerned. It is therefore aimed at commercial companies (SARL, SAS, SA, SCA, SNC, …), civil companies (SC, SCI, SCM, SCP, …) but also Economic Interest Groups (GIE), associations, and collective scheme investment. Branches of foreign companies registered in France are also required to do so.
How to prepare the declaration?
The forms provided for this purpose (ie DBE-S-1, DBE-S-2 and possibly their annexes such as DBE-S-bis), should be completed. It is necessary to fill in as many forms as actual UBO identified. These must then be signed by the legal representative(s) of the declaring entity.
How to verify that the declaration is effective?
When you apply for your UBO declaration, whether it is electronic or postal, the Registry will provide you with a receipt that should be kept and stored by the company. This document must be updated in any event of a change in the situation of the UBO.
When the declaring company itself is involved in a complex chain of shareholding, the declaration must mention this chain, and can be traced back to the natural person or persons who can be identified as UBO.
25% threshold, however the legislation also provided in these cases that they can be grouped together, as for instance if the capital and voting rights held by a family, they must be identified as such ("family group") or when voting agreements exist between shareholders (eg shareholders' agreement) as well. This will then be integrated into the category of people with control over management decisions.
For any newly incorporated entity after August 1st, 2017, the formality amounts to €23.62. It must be completed either at the time of filing the application with the Commercial Court, or at the latest within 15 days after the receipt of application.
For all entities incorporated before August 1st, 2017, this formality amounts to €54.42.
It should be noted that any changes in the UBO must also be subject to a new declaration, the cost of which is €46.41.
All of these costs correspond to the costs of the Commercial Court Registry expenses, and are exclusive of any fees you may have for any external assistance.
The absence of a declaration is punishable by a fine of €7,500 (multiplied up to 5 times for legal personalities: €37,500) and up to 6 months of imprisonment for legal representatives and the declaring entity, excluding penalties. Additional sanctions can also be pronounced (ex: infringement from managing a company, injunction to submit the declaration, deprivation of civil rights …).
If the situation of your entity evolves, you are obligated to send a new declaration within 30 days of the event that changed the situation.
This is for example the case of a share transfer, a restructuring, a merger operation, a change of legal representative(s)… any situation that could impact the identity of the UBO.
A lawyer may be helpful in helping you determining the actual UBO, assist you in identifying the shareholding chain and the exact holding percentage calculation, verify the accuracy of information contained on the form(s) to be filed, and, more generally, secure you in this process. Indeed, in some cases where it is too complex to identify the actual UBO, it will be necessary to justify the steps and research carried out.
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I've decided that the pajama dressing fad is very cool. You put on a silky, totally comfortable outfit with nice shoes and some fun accessories and you're dressed. Easy, breezy, done. I found this outfit on super sale and had to have it. I've become a huge fan of the brand WAYF since I first saw it in the Nordstrom Savvy department. Their pieces are always current, fun and well made. More often than not, the piece that catches my eye on a walk through is by them. Since it's still on the chilly side here and I haven't yet dug out my open toe shoes, I paired this digital print outfit with my favourite cutout booties. I went with springy, floral jewellery in complementary colours and yet another amazing pair of Italia Independent mirrored sunglasses. Enjoy!
We're huge WAYF (and all things Nordstrom) fans too, and love your fabulously laid back outfit. Have a great weekend!
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New Campaign #WomenWarriors with charity Wellbeing of Women and Leo Bamford
Health & Fitness, Living, Mum, Parenting
Women's health charity Wellbeing of Women has launched a digital campaign to raise awareness for female reproductive conditions by sharing the stories of brave women who have battled obstetric and gynaecological health problems.
Titled #WomenWarriors after the strong women involved in the project, the Charity is encouraging women to post their own experiences, along with a photo of themselves and their scars, to social media with the hashtag: WomenWarriors.
The goal of the campaign is to unite women facing similar circumstances whether it be ovarian cancer, PCOS, Endometriosis or other, and to raise funds for further research into these conditions.
Leo Bamford, founder of parenting blog My Baba, suffered from two ectopic pregnancies and was left with four keyhole incisions, not to mention the mental scars.
"As women we all bear these scars, some are just buried deeper than others," she said, "I think it's important we discuss topics that are often seen as taboo."
To donate £10 to Wellbeing of Women, simply text WELL44 £10 to 70070
Or visit: https://www.justgiving.com/wellbeing
Instagram: @Wellbeingofwomen
Facebook: @WellbeingofWmen
Twitter:@WellbeingofWmen
Leo Bamford's Story
I was so incredibly numb when this photograph was taken. I've always been a happy person and have never even felt a touch of depression, but in January two years ago I felt anything but happiness. I felt angry, short tempered, totally useless, and as I said before – completely numb.
A month before this image was taken I was whisked into surgery to remove an ectopic pregnancy – my second ectopic. The first one was 2009 but I was lucky to go on to have two gorgeous children.
After a long gap we decided to try for another baby. I fell pregnant quickly but like the first, I had no tell-tale ectopic symptoms. After an early scan I found out it was another ectopic. They removed the pregnancy, a fallopian tube and part of my womb. The surgeon said it was a success, but I didn't feel very successful.
I remember not really caring about much for the weeks that followed. My weight sunk and I could see that family and friends were worried.
This picture shows me at my weakest moment, but looking back, I realise how strong I was.
You can see four little keyhole incisions, where the surgeon left his mark. I remember showing my grandmother who thought how neat they were. She said that after various surgeries her tummy looked more like a hot cross bun.
I think that was the first thing to make me laugh, and it made me realise that actually as women we all bear these scars, some are just buried deeper than others.
My surgeon who I love for saving one of my tubes told me that if I was stupid enough to try for another baby, that I had to promise him I would have a Caesarean section.
Almost a year ago, I did tempt fate one last time, and my Atticus arrived, leaving another scar that has helped make me the now happy again woman I am today.
Wellbeing of Women
Wellbeing of Women is the only charity finding cures and treatments across the breadth of female reproductive health: pregnancy and childbirth, fertility and IVF, gynaecological cancers, and overlooked areas like endometriosis, PCOS and the menopause. With only 2.48% of publicly funded research devoted to this area, our work is vital. Nearly every routine treatment we take for granted today has come about thanks to work we funded over the last 54 years – even the use of ultrasound in pregnancy. As former Royal Surgeon-Gynaecologist Sir Marcus Setchell said: "Wellbeing of Women has been at the forefront of medical research. There will barely be a woman alive today who has not benefited from their research."
Photo credit: Serena Bolton
International Women's Daymain 5Wellbeing of Women
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"My Baba is packed with expert advice and information on all aspects of fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and parenting. We're constantly researching and reviewing the latest educational toys, gadgets and gizmos, and blogging about the latest crafts, activities, fashions and mouth-watering family recipes. My Baba is also the ultimate present guide with unique gift ideas for babies, toddlers and children of all ages." Leonora Bamford, Founder


Please note that with effect 01 November 2015, the suspension of horses for a first episode of epistaxis has been reduced from 90 days to 60 days. This decision has been made by the NHA veterinary department and approved by the National Board after lengthy consultation with owners, trainers and private practitioners. This will be run on a trial basis for a year and shall be reassessed each year by means of ongoing analysis of data collected by the NHA veterinarians. Should it become evident that the amount of repeat bleeders is increasing, then the NHA reserve the right to return to the original 90 day suspension.
The NHA veterinary department is of the opinion that this trial will provide critical information to address the very contentious issue of the correct period of rest required for a horse to heal after an episode of epistaxis. We are comfortable that we will be able to monitor the data on a regular basis and that we will be able to take remedial action immediately should we feel that the situation is worsening. The converse is also true, in that if there is no effect on the amount of repeat episodes of epistaxis after a few years of monitoring, then we could consider reducing the 60 days even further. This ground breaking research will provide a lot of answers to a lot of questions concerning epistaxis and its effect on the racehorse.
Please note that the period of suspension for a second episode of epistaxis remains 180 days, unless the horse has raced for more than a year after its first suspension, in which case the suspension would be 60 days again. A third episode of epistaxis shall remain a permanent suspension.


To read Taylor's article which opens, "It seems like everyone is talking about the dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) these days…." click here.
This article comes from the website unwave, a new Turner Corporation venture that proudly claims to provide "a distinctive opportunity for Turner to leverage our vast branding and content expertise to create business opportunities with advertisers and consumers in a high-growth, high-impact business segment". In short, it's slick deceptive internet advertising for the lucrative health and wellness industry, based on the unqualified, hopelessly unreliable writings of Jeffrey Smith and the opinions of the "American Academy of Environmental Medicine". This latter organisation is absent from the list of regular medical specialties provided at the American Board of Medical Specialties.
Images on the CNN website version of the article are accompanied by series of cleverly deceptive captions. For instance they mention some countries ban GM crops, but these are political decisions (in France as part of a deal to protect their energy industry). They did not involve a valid food safety argument.
Conclusion: Gossip and whispering about GMOs is not the basis of good health advice.


Imagine if you had a personal assistant managing your money for you! They pay your bills, set aside money for investing, save money for your next vacation, and tell you how much money you can safely spend on fun things without messing everything up. That's what money automation does for you. In this guide I'll show you how to automate your money from start to finish. Automate your money, sit back, relax, and enjoy life like you should!
Have you ever tried running or working out every day after not doing it for a long time? How did it go?
If you're anything like me, it's sooo hard to build that habit and do it consistently. Things come up, I forget, sometimes I just don't feel like it.
Managing your money successfully works the same way. You could say to yourself today, I'm going to manage my money like a badass and begin saving money tomorrow!
How will it go? Maybe you'll make some progress, but most of the time it will just drop off and you'll be right back where you started.
There is a way to beat that problem. You probably guessed it! Automate Your Money!!
With exercising you can't automate your workouts but thankfully with money you can automate it.
This is the secret to success with money! Yes, you just learned the secret to becoming rich and handling your money like a badass!
With automation, your money just works for you. You don't even have to think about it, or even remember to do certain financial tasks on certain days.
It's chugging along in the background making you richer every year.
So how you do this amazing automation secret?
I'm going to show you.
Here is an overview, but ignore it for now. It will make more sense as you read the rest of this guide.
This is the first step. If you don't have a bank account you need to get one. I recommend Simple, but the choice is yours.
Once you have a bank account you need to make sure every income you have is going straight into your bank account via direct deposit.
There are some exceptions but most modern employers can send your paychecks directly to your bank account just by filling out a simple form.
If you have other income like government payments, they can also direct deposit into your bank account. It's simply a matter of filling out a form.
If you have other income from sources like PayPal or Stripe, those should also be direct deposited directly into your bank account.
It's an easy first step and quick win!
If you work for a company you most likely have insurance through them.
Make sure any insurance related expenses are coming out automatically of your paychecks from your employer.
Whatever type of insurance you use or need, make sure to send the payment directly to them from you paychecks.
Talk to your HR department if they are not being automatically paid.
No thinking about it, no worrying about it being paid.
So far, your income is automated in to your checking account. Your insurance payments are automated and we're just getting started!
Your employer probably has a retirement account option like a 401k. Hopefully your enrolled in it if they do.
Most employees automatically deduct a contribution to your 401k from your paycheck and may even contribute some for you.
If you're not automatically depositing in your companies retirement account you need to.
Automation is what makes investing work. By not having to think about it, you'll be investing automatically without the stress of forgetting or worrying about the money.
You may also have a IRA. You probably can't get your IRA through you company so you will have to have this automatically withdrawn from your checking account.
Contact your IRA provider or just login to the online site for your IRA and setup an automatic transfer to your IRA from your bank account.
Scheduling this takes all of the willpower issues out of the equation and makes savings for your retirement effortless.
This alone will help you build wealth without thinking about it while doing whatever you love!
An emergency fund is critical to make your money work for you. The idea is that you create a separate fund at your bank or with an app that allows you to aside money in the case of an emergency.
Instead of reaching for a credit card, you can use your own money in those situations where you have an unexpected expense that you just don't have enough money for.
A good starting point to shoot for is $1,000.
Create a separate account that you can easily transfer money from and to your checking account.
Setup an automatic transfer on a weekly or monthly schedule to your emergency fund ideally around the time of your paycheck deposit so that you don't even realize the money is gone.
Once it's setup, you don't have to worry about it and the next time you have an unexpected expense you'll have a nice chunk of money sitting there waiting for you!
Automating your bills is going to make a huge change in your life. Bills are painful to deal with.
Mentally, you're watching all of you hard earned money go out the door. It's just plain stressful.
It takes time away from you that you could be doing something else.
Thankfully, it doesn't have to be this way. You can automate your bills and hardly even have to think about them.
Here's my favorite technique for automating my bills so that I don't even miss the money and it allows me to spend only about 15 minutes a month working on my bills.
List out all of your bills and how much they are on average.
Assign each bill to a paycheck. Try to distribute the bills evenly so that you have remaining money from your paycheck after each bill is paid.
I get 2 paychecks per month. I assign 2 bills to 1 paycheck and 3 bills to other paycheck.
As soon as that paycheck hits my bank account, the assigned bills are scheduled to be paid from my bank account immediately through my banks scheduled payments feature.
The money comes out as soon as I get paid so that I never even miss the money and I don't have to stress out about paying the bills and watching that money go out.
I no longer have to worry about my bills. I just do a quick checkup every month to make sure everything is working as intended.
Note: This is where you can automate your debt as well. You can assign your debt payments just like bills to your paychecks and automate the scheduled payments. It's the perfect way to get out of debt.
You should have financial goals. It could be as simple as saving for a home down payment or it could be something as cool as a trip to Hawaii.
No matter what your financial goals are, the easiest way to achieve them is to automate the process towards your goal.
So, you're going to have to figure out what your financial goals are for the next 1 - 3 years and list them out.
Let's say I want to go to Las Vegas in a year. I think the total cost of hotel, airfare, food, Uber, etc will be about $2,000.
To reach this goal in a year I divide 2,000 / 12 = $167 per month.
So now I know I need to setup an automatic transfer in my bank to a savings account for $167 every month on the 15th for example.
You could even make it even smaller amounts if that works better for you. For example, you could divide $167 by 4 and that would be $42 per week.
There is also apps like Digit that can help you save towards your goal if you can't do it with your bank.
As long as it's automated and you don't even have to think about it, it will be SO MUCH EASIER!
Automate those goals and your chance of reaching your financial goals will be so much better.
A budget allows you to track how much money is coming into your bank account and how much you can spend on different things like entertainment, rent, mortgage, electricity, etc.
Starting out with pen and paper is a great start, but once you've got it mastered, automation is the next step.
Clarity connects to your bank account and automatically tracks your income, categorizes your expenses, and tells you how much you are safe to spend.
Budgeting is hard to automate, but Clarity will get you very close.
Lately, I've been using my bank, Simple, to automate all of my expenses by creating categories for each and Simple automatically sets aside the money for each of those expenses in special groups. It's really cool.
Finally, another option is YNAB (You Need A Budget). You can't fully automate your budget with YNAB but you can create your budget and then it will automatically import you transactions into your expense categories.
Which one is right for you is a matter of preference. Take a look at each of these tools and see which one is best for you.
Tracking your money and net worth can be done with paper and pen, but again, once you've mastered the process, it's time to automate it.
I have 2 tool recommendations that are great for this. The first one is Mint.
Mint has been around forever. It's a great tool to automatically track all of your financial accounts in one place. It also tracks your net worth from all of your accounts.
It even goes to the depth of pulling your current vehicle values and even home value.
It's been around forever and it's a great tool.
Another option is Personal Capital. Personal Capital is newer than Mint, but it has pretty much the same feature set.
I like that Personal Capital has a cleaner and more modern look. In addition it seems like it has less ads in your face all of the time.
You can't go wrong with either though. They will pull in all of your financial accounts, assets, debts, and even track your net worth.
This gives you a real time picture of your finances at any time. You can't beat it.
Lastly, money automation is never 100% automated. You have to keep an eye on your money to make sure everything is running smoothly.
Create a checklist to review your automated systems once a month to make sure everything is working as you intended.
You may not be able to get your money 100% automated, but 90% is way better than 0%.
Pretty much everything about your money can be automated and the more you automate your money, the better it will work for you.
Imagine a personal assistant handling your finances for you. That is what money automation does for you.
No more thinking about your money constantly, worrying about it, or wasting time managing it, when it could all be automated.
Automate your money today and find out just how easy managing your money can be!
What Does It Mean To Be a Money Badass?


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Le parc est basé sur Maya l'abeille et est construit à Tuchoměřice, au nord de l'aéroport de Prague-Václav-Havel. Ouvert le , il s'agit d'un joint-venture avec le groupe Kaprain, propriétaire du magasin d'usine contigu, Le groupe Plopsa s'occupe de la conception et de la construction tandis que Kaprain l'exploite avec le payement d'une licence. L'investissement est d'environ trente millions d'euros. Il y a quinze attractions dont douze manèges.

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Parc de loisirs en Tchéquie
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AHGBI Visiting International Fellowship
AHGBI Grants to Attend Conferences of the REAH
Postgrads and Early-Career Researchers in the Association of Hispanists
Representing the Graduate Community
The AHGBI is strongly committed to enhancing the participation of postgraduate students and early-career researchers in the life of the Association, and to engaging with the graduate community. One of the Association's key roles is to represent Hispanism in national debates about postgraduate study and funding. All Masters and doctoral students can join the AHGBI as associate members for just £15 per year. This entitles you to attend and speak at the annual conference. The AHGBI's national committee has an officer who is responsible for postgraduate matters. At present, the Postgraduate Officer is Dr Sophie Stevens.
If you wish to raise any matters with the committee about postgraduate issues, or to apply for one of the awards below, please contact Sophie at: sophie.stevens@kcl.ac.uk
PG Students, ECRs and the Annual Conference
Annual AHGBI Travel Award for Doctoral Students
Annual Publication Prize for a Doctoral Thesis
AHGBI / Spanish Embassy Postgraduate Conference Grants
AHGBI/WISPS Dorothy Sherman Severin Early-Career Research Fellowship in Luso-Hispanic Studies
Useful Link for Postgrads
Postgraduate Students, Early-Career Researchers and the Annual Conference
The AHGBI encourages postgraduate students and early-career researchers to participate alongside established academics as colleagues in the Association, and particularly in its annual conference. You are welcome to participate in panels organised by academics, to propose panels individually, or jointly with academics. If you wish, you may propose panels that focus on postgraduate work in progress. You can find details of our annual conference here. To this end, the AHGBI provides grants for postgraduates and giving papers at its conference. There is an annual competition for these grants: applications are made through the conference proposal submission process.
New in 2019-20!
Conference Support for ECRs in temporary / pro-rata contracts
We are delighted to announce that from 2019-20, the Committee will sponsor up to four awards for colleagues up to 5 years post-PhD, to the value of £250 each plus dinner.
Conference Support for Postgraduate Students
The Committee continues to sponsor up to eight awards of £250 plus dinner for postgraduates to participate in the Annual Conference.
How to apply for support for the AHGBI conference (PGR or ECR)
In order to apply for one of these awards, you should, by Monday 14th October 2019:
(1) Carefully read the Call for Papers and Panels on the Conference webpage.
(2) Complete the online conference proposal submission form.
(3) Send a copy of the same title and abstract by email to the PG Secretary via the address at the top of this page. In the subject heading of the email, you should write 'AHGBI conference support'.
Please note that we are unable to consider allocating awards to those who have received them in previous years, and that you should be registered as a postgraduate student for the session 2019-20 in order to apply for one.
Annual AHGBI Research Travel Award for Graduate Students
The AHGBI offers an annual research travel award of £500 for graduate students. The award is open to all graduate students (masters and doctoral) in the UK and Ireland who have joined the AHGBI, and who do not have a grant that includes maintenance payments as well as fees. The award will be given to support a research trip to advance scholarly research in the languages and cultures of the Iberian peninsula and/or those cultures associated with them throughout the world. The research trip must lead directly to a publication. Application deadline for 2018/9: 28 February 2019. The application must be for a research trip which takes place between 1 January 2019 and 30 October 2019.
Send the application form by email to the PG Secretary via the address at the top of this page.
Download 2019 Application Form (Word)
In association with the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain in London, Tamesis Books and Legenda, the AHGBI has established a publication prize to be awarded to the two most distinguished doctoral theses in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies each year. Click here for more details and a nomination form.
AHGBI/Embassy Postgraduate Conference Grants
In association with the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain in London, the AHGBI offers financial support of up to £500 to postgraduate students in Hispanic Studies attending a conference that has direct relevance to their subject of study. This scheme does not apply to the AHGBI's own annual conference (see the paragraph above for information about support for postgrads attending the AHGBI conference). The award is open to students wishing to speak at any conference (other than AHGBI) between 1 October 2018 and 31 July 2019. You may apply for the award for future conferences in advance of receiving official acceptance from the organisers.
Deadline for 2018-19: 28 February 2019. Please return the form to the PG Secretary via the address at the top of this page
Download 2019 Application Form (Word document)
The Fellowship is aimed at early-career researchers in Luso-Hispanic Studies (broadly understood) in the UK and Ireland. Applicants should have completed a PhD in Luso-Hispanic Studies during the last three years. The Fellowship provides funds of up to £1250 and access to an academic mentor. The Fellow is expected to offer at least one conference paper based on research undertaken for the Fellowship at the annual conference of either AHGBI or WISPS. Reasonable costs for attending the conference will be met. In order to able be to attend either the AHGBI or the WISPS conference, the Fellow will normally offer the conference paper either during the academic year of the Fellowship, or during the following academic year.
Application deadline for 2018-19 TBC.
PORT for Modern Languages (Postgraduate Online Research Training, Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London): online research training and resources of particular use to Masters and PhD students, and to those running postgraduate training programmes
Photo: Beatriz's feet at Mácara, Antas de Ulla, Galicia (Spain), by María Liñeira
About the AHGBI
The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland is a professional association of University teachers and researchers in all areas of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is a UK charity (Registered Charity Number 1158229). This website provides information about the Association and about events and activities in which Hispanists are involved.
Web Officer:
Dr Kirsty Hooper (University of Warwick) k.hooper@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Abigail Loxham (Liverpool University)
abigail.loxham@liverpool.ac.uk
Dr Katie Brown (King's College London) katie.brown161@gmail.com
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Related Associations
~ Anglo-Catalan Society
~ Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
~ Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies (ACIS)
~ Association of British & Irish Lusitanists (ABIL)
~ BETA (Asociación de Jóvenes Doctores en Hispanismo)
~ Red Europea de Asociaciones de Hispanistas (REAH)
~ Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)
~ Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS)
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'Art Russie et Caucasien' is the name of a forthcoming auction. And with a fine selection of Russian silver, icons, furniture and paintings, the name certainly lives up to its promise.
'Art Russie et Caucasien' is a forthcoming sale at Leclere in Paris at the beginning of November.
One of the earliest paintings of the auction is a portrait of Maria Feodorovna (née Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), whose husband, Paul I of Russia, ascended to the throne in 1796. The portrait shows her as a crown princess at the age of 18 years.
It was executed by the workshop of the Swedish painter Alexander Rosalien, who was a popular portraitist in the late 18th century and lived mainly in Paris and was influenced by the local art scene. His portraits were mainly known for the excellent reproduction of fabrics.
In the mid-1770s he visited his homeland and then lived in Russia from 1775-77, where he painted the members of the local nobility and the tsar's family.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian art scene, as well as those in Paris and Vienna, was seized by a wave of avant-garde that broke with all classical art and paved the way for modernity. Based on the foundations of futurism and cubism, styles such as neo-primitivism, cubofuturism or suprematism, which were often pursued for only a few years, were created in Russia. One of the main representatives of these experimental styles was Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935), whose students from 1919 included Nikolai Mikhailovich Suetin.
Suetin, who is represented in the auction with the work Dynamics of Balance, became a major proponent of suprematism developed by Malevich, a consistently non-objective art that rejected any kind of abstraction. Suetin was co-founder of the artist group UNOWIS, which had considerable influence on Russian modernism, and also works as a porcelain painter. As such, in 1925 he participated in some of the works of the 'Exposition des internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels moderne' in Paris, the exhibition that gave Art Deco its name.
A contemporary of Suetin, who also worked as a painter and graphic artist, was David Petrovich Shterenberg. Shterenberg came from a Ukrainian Jewish family. After studying painting in Odessa, he moved to Paris in 1906 where he discovered cubism and finally pursued a non-objective style.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he returned to Russia where his art was well-received. Through contacts he became co-worker and leader in various art commissions and institutions. But the taste of the new Soviet government changed with time, and from the 1930s Shterenberg was forced to paint in a more realistic style. His abstract works disappeared from the museums.
The auction, which will feature paintings, Russian furniture, icons, wooden boxes and the coveted Russian silver crafts, will be held on 6 November in Paris. There you can see all 289 lots.


Three very worn radiates dating to c. AD 260-296. Issuing emperors (but most likely of the Tetrici), Reece periods and reverse types unknown. Most details illegible. Diameters between 15.79 and 18.58mm, combined weight: 4.98g.
Copper alloy radiate of unknown emperor, standing figure reverse, further details illegible, AD 260-296.
Copper alloy irregular radiate copying unknown emperor, further details illegible, circa AD 260-296.


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September 21, 2015 September 21, 2015 kkm
By Rinku Khumukcham
(…….chingda satpee engelei,
…….. chinnadana kenkhibee……
….…..Eina kenge kendedo…
……… malangbana humbada ……
………ho kenbane…….)
Centric to the essence of this classical Manipuri folk song, which emphasize the end of an immatured blooming orchid of the hill, blown away by the blowing wind, Kalakshetra's young but energetic and potential director cum performer heisnam Tomba, though his deep understanding of reality and myth has aesthetically presented the existing fate of the 'lambam' living in this trouble prone state of Manipur in particulars and the world in general, at his production 'KANGKHATHANG' ,which literally meant 'useless sword' or 'not admissible to anywhere'.
Claded with indegeneeous cultural uniqueness accumulated from this soil,the auditorium of Kalakshetra which they called 'Studio theatre' locates right at the foothills of Langol range;a few minutes drive from the bedlam world of Imphal town. As we reached the culturedom, a warm recieption from the Kalakshetrarians made us sure that, we are certain to see the waiting hall wandering about theentrance to the studio theatre, Heisnam Tomba, the director of the play KANGKHATHANG, whowas also performing as an actor at the play came out with a gong(sembung) leading us all to their studio.We know the play beguns as 'the son of kalakshetra's stimulated all his energy to capture our attention. Gibing remark over the impressive tradition,M. Akshaykumar, member, EZCC,Kolkata said Kalakshetra had born and grown a generation to hand over its tradition. The tradition founded by Padmashree H. Kanhailal, who is not only the founder director of Kalakshetra but also the real father of Heisnam Tomba. Few experts generally term his theatrical tradition as 'physical theatre'.
The studio theatre of Kalakshetra is a defect proscenium, structured in the form of Manipuri Mandop. Except for the flat performing space which is only a few inches from the first row of the audiences and the dark clothes encircling at the three sides there were nothing to caught the audiences eyes. After everyone settled on their seat, three world class performers on the conventional Manipuri costume, barefooted and without any artificial make-up came out to perform the play. With a bow for blessing the trio began to perform capturing the mind of the audiences without enabling them to blink their eyes.
About the play: A collusion to the uncertainty of a writer,a painter and an actor cast by Mr.Manitomba and the directror of the play H.Tomba under his own write up,respectively had skillfully presented the modus operandi of today's society and express their greviences the need for realization of every concern authority to bringing a peaceful environment.
The trio schematically presented the present state of the 'lambam' or the innocent civilian caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. The screwy bullets floating here and there from both authority and the none authority has created a stalemate to the free movement of the innocent public. The power that empowered the authority has ended countless life with a "pheecheeong" from the byonetts of their guns. And the non authority mushrooms to countered by empowering themselves with SLP (self loaded powers). The number of … "pheecheeong.." rise on their game of hide and seek. For each.. "pheecheeong" a life is lost. Life of an innocent human being or life of a 'lambam' who are born with lot of promises. Like the orchid of the mountain range that was blown away by the terrible wind before being used for useful proposes many life ended without completing their jobs. The actor's frustration of the unfriendly wind blown from the northern block,and the anguish of the writer to the bedlam situation with simultaneous expression of painting by the painters had brought reality of world in just about 45 minutes.
The vibrating body gesture of the actor along with various touching dialogues is no better than the writer's energetic skill to arrest both body and mind of the audiences. Neither does the painter lack any attention of the audiences that heals both their body and mind through his heart throbbing tune of 'PENA'(a violin type indigenous instrument) along with his sweet vocals.
The play itself is the description of his painting that begins along with the play and completed with the end of the play.
Even though, the trio world class performer of Kakakshetra were invincible performing artists, as the saying goes on- "Nobody is perfect except the supreme spiritual head of the Universe", they sometime fail to conceive perfectionism to their body gesture to the expectation of the audiences. Small problems face by the actor while getting up directly due to poor practice of physical exercise and the uncontrol statue figure of the writer with the same physical problem is one factor. Perhaps, this was due to the proximity of the audiences and the performers that enable us to look from the closest distance.
Maintenance of space by the trio was excellent as they occupy every nook and corner purposely. However, when the trio occupy whole of the performing space, it create confused to the audience to observe one at a time due to the proximity of the performers and audience gap. Rather the one who find seat at the extreme corner definitely find problems to feel the reality. For these a triangular sitting arrangement is perhaps required so that every audience get satisfaction.
However, overall views on the p-lay 'Kangkhathang' which is produced under the scheme of grant-in-aid to individual for specific performing project for2004-05 by the Deptt. Of Culture, Ministry of Tourism & Culture, Govt. of India is a total success of young Director Heisnam Tomba, the blooming legacy of Kalakshetra and the pride of Manipur .
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I'm sitting in Eileen's consultation room, her comfy sofa with tissue box close to hand and ubiquitous bottle of water to refill my ever ready tear ducts. We had been talking about a friendship I had with a Mum from my children's school. That "friend" had taken my phone, read through all my texts, deleted some and seemed to feel entitled to do so (her husband and I were also good friends, I had helped with a fundraiser which clearly had not sat well with her). I had no reason to doubt her right to do as she did until Eileen patiently explained what a "boundary" was.
The concept of "boundary" is still an alien one to me, but I have learnt a wee mantra to help me with it.
Would I do it/say it?
Does it make me feel safe?
Where do I feel this action/comment in my body?
Since discovering the earth-shattering fact that I can establish boundaries and expect others to respect them, my life has changed exponentially. I've flushed out the toxic friendships, I'm quick to exit stage left when I perceive danger and I have a small expectation of being treated well by the world at large. However, sometimes it takes a wee while to remember my mantra and act. When you aren't used to a lifetime of established boundaries, instead accepted every wrong dealt to you as being what you deserved, it's going to take a while to have your boundary setting on automatic.
I loved a man not so long ago who's nearest and dearest (for the most part) appeared to see me as the latest punching post, from his best girlfriend who lashed me with her acid tongue for an hour riding me up one side and down the other with the nastiest and ludicrous shyte until it was all I could do but stumble out of the room and faint on the bank of grass outside, to his eldest who dismissed me as another piece of fluff her father picked up off the street. It wasn't until my own best girlfriend turned up for a visit and I recounted to her all the going's on that I remembered helped by the horror on her face, not to mention how impressive her ability to use the word "fuc*" as adjective, noun, verb, adverb, and pronoun was.
I had returned to the beaten up little puddle of doormat goo I'd sworn I'd never be again. Nobody's fault but my own.
So what are these magical Boundary things and why are they so important? Is it a barrier for others not to pass? Is it a protective cloak, impenetrable wall that will stop others from hurting us?
I believe Boundaries are the nirvana of PTSD recovery. When those bastards are automatic, grounded yet fluid, you know you are one healthy human with a healthy brain that EXPECTS to be treated with respect, compassion, and understanding. When they are faltering, half-assed and barely visible, well then my love, you and I still have a long way to go but we'll get there. If it kills us, we will get there.
Another trick I use is to put either my children or my friends in my place. How would I feel if they were spoken to or had this done to them? If you feel an instant desire to pummel the perpetrators head into jello then a boundary has been crossed.


Hello! I am so excited to be visiting over here on Corey's blog. Isn't she the best? Not only is she insanely talented, but she is the NICEST person too. Always smiling and cheerful. I feel lucky that I have had the chance to hang out with her in real life several times.
My name is Stacy Risenmay and I have been blogging about 8 years. I share everything from simple DIY projects to full blown room makeovers. I love designing and getting my hands dirty. I am a mom to four boys and some of my favorite projects are things I built for them or that they have helped me do. I hope they grow up to be DIYers too.
Earlier this year I made over both kid bedrooms. Two boys in each room. The most recent one was this mountain themed room for my two nature loving boys. The room is long and narrow which made the layout a bit tricky. I ended up building an L shaped bed. Even though they have a good sized closet, you can never have enough storage, so I raised the bed to create a fort and additional storage below.
My other two boys are both passionate about music and wanted a more modern vibe. I built them new beds as well. One with storage for my teen and a clubhouse type fort for my younger son. The room is complete with leather tab curtains and a faux brick wall to hang their guitars.
My son helped make this fun side table out of old metal card catalog drawers.
One of my favorite things about our 1938 home is that is has a lot of big windows. I love light! Our family room is no exception. It's sunny and is the perfect place to curl up and read a book. From the reclaimed wood shelves for all our books, to the gallery wall with photos from trips we have taken, and the card catalog side table, it is filled with DIY projects.
Oh, and the terrarium lamp is a DIY too!
This spring we added a paver patio to the back of our house. I wish we would have done it sooner! It has made such a big difference in not only the look of the house but how we use our backyard. We also recently got a new roof which re really needed. The before photos prove how bad it was!
Here we had this beautiful patio that was smack dab in front of all our electrical boxes. I needed to come up with a way to hide them but also make it easy to access them when necessary. I created this sliding wall with planter boxes. It works great and was pretty easy to do!
I love nature and being outdoors just as much as I love designing and decorating. When I was asked to write a book, I combined both those passions. My book is all about decorating with elements from nature. I have 35 DIY tutorials as well as styling tips and plant care.
When I don't have a large room makeover in the works, I love creating smaller projects. This vase is one of three based on the idea of reusing a glass light shade. I had three "base" ideas. One hangs, one is geometric, and then this one has gold legs and decided to make all three!
As a self proclaimed plant lady, I love collecting plants and building planters for them. This slatted one has a modern feel and was super easy to make! I have made a hanging beaded planter, a set of three hexagon planters, and even one that was made from a tree trunk.
Thanks for letting me share a bit of what I do over on my blog. I would love for you to stop by and have a look around!
Very nice beds for the boys your very talented.


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the package until middle of next week.
a specific installation method is needed.
1) Change to your language, for example German.
2)Install Bacon Recorder pet package.
3) Install bacon recorder language pack.
the word Recording is in your language.
updated Russian version ready by Saturday.
Updated French version . Thanks to Toutou linux author.
Another thing I wanted to ask you. Maybe you have mentioned it already.
for to cover the whole night.
I also want that tht schedule script to chose low quality each time.
The name can be Recording time start for the recording.
new time stamp for each hour.
...but it appears to work if people launch it multiple times.
morning you can right click on file and split it into chunks.
It only takes a second to do, so it's very easy.
not good at all. Much appreciated you cared.
initially but it turned out there was nothing wrong with baconrecorder.
settings. Normally there is a warning that /root is full.
I've been testing two timed recordings, set one after another.
It works fine and is quite useful.
at a later time. How close can the stop and start be? 1 minute?
I know I would know the answer if I just tested but in case you already know.
just because I am too lazy to search through everything for the missing good mike.
and the computer still records clearly.
or set a timed recording. The length is determined by entry box.
Then a few seconds latter I set a timed recording for latter in the night.
The length can be different from the previous recording.
When I wake up in morning there is two messages of completion.
I did that for years, but bacon recorder is now my favorite program.