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BREAKING: Sprint announces the "eco-friendly" Samsung Reclaim
Let me preface this post by saying that this whole "green movement" is a freaking scam. No company is making it easier for anyone to "go green" and buying a cell phone that's made with recyclable materials doesn't do anything for the environment. You're still plugging it in to charge and they're still churning them out in the same factory as their other phones. Rant over.
So, kudos to Samsung and Sprint for launching the "green" Reclaim today in NYC. It wouldn't be a Samsung announcement without some nod towards the fact that the Reclaim is the first mobile phone in the US to be constructed from eco-friendly bio-plastic materials. The $50 QWERTY phone will roll out on August 16 at Sprint, Best Buy and Radio Shack locations. With every Reclaim purchase, Sprint will donate $2 from each sale to The Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre program.
If you really wanted to be green about this whole thing, Samsung, then you should have made the damn box that it ships in smaller.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. & DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sprint (NYSE:S) is making it easier than ever for customers to "go green" with new eco-friendly products, services and programs and expanding its commitment as a leader in sustainability. Available on Aug. 16, Sprint and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the #1 mobile phone provider in the U.S.1, today announced Samsung Reclaim™ as the first phone in the U.S. constructed from eco-friendly bio-plastic materials. Made from 80 percent recyclable materials, Samsung Reclaim is a feature-rich messaging phone that offers environmentally conscious customers a perfect blend of responsibility without sacrificing the latest in network speeds and must-have features.
Reclaim is the most full-featured QWERTY phone launched by Sprint at less than $50. It will be available on August 16 in all Sprint retail channels, including Best Buy, Radio Shack, Web (www.sprint.com) and telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) for just $49.99 with a two-year service agreement after a $30 instant rebate and a $50 mail-in rebate (taxes and service charges excluded). It will be available at Wal-Mart in early September.
When customers purchase Samsung Reclaim from Sprint, $2 of the proceeds will benefit The Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre program, which supports land conservation across the United States and protects some of the world's most beautiful and important natural habitats.
"This generous donation from Sprint will help us protect and restore some of America's most beautiful and ecologically-important landscapes for future generations to enjoy," said Mark Tercek, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "We applaud Sprint's sustainability efforts, as innovation and new technology are crucial to the future of conservation."
Sprint is also launching several new environmental initiatives in an effort to support its aggressive long-term environmental goals:
* Sprint is the first U.S. wireless carrier to establish a set of environmental design criteria for future devices and accessories.
* Sprint is implementing a series of new environmentally-responsible retail initiatives including adding a dedicated display area in stores that highlights Sprint's commitment to eco-friendly products and accessories.
* Sprint is committing to reduce paper usage by 30 percent during the next five years.
"Sprint is widely recognized as a leader among telecommunications companies in environmentally-responsible initiatives, and today we are proud to announce an even stronger commitment to sustainability with new eco-friendly products and programs," said Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO. "Samsung Reclaim enables customers to go green while getting the latest in wireless technology. When customers walk into a Sprint retail store, they will be greeted by the information they need to make earth-friendly wireless choices, coupled with Ready Now to learn about the rich functionality of this device."
DEFINING GREEN WITH SAMSUNG RECLAIM
An eco-friendly overachiever, Samsung Reclaim from Sprint is designed with environmentally-responsible components and fully recyclable packaging, making it the perfect wireless phone for the eco-conscious consumer.
* Its bio-plastic material, made from corn, makes up 40 percent of the Reclaim's outer casing. Samsung Reclaim is free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), phthalates, and nearly free of brominated flame retardants (BFR): three materials commonly targeted on green electronics guidelines.
* The outer packaging and the phone tray inside the box are made from 70 percent recycled materials. The images and text on the box as well as the phone warranty information are printed with soy-based ink.
* The typical thick paper user manual has been replaced with a virtual manual that users can access at www.sprint.com/reclaimsupport.
* The charger is Energy Star approved for meeting the highest energy efficiency standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. It consumes 12 times less power than the Energy Star standard for standby power consumption and is equipped with a visible notification to alert the user to unplug the handset once it's fully charged.
"Samsung Reclaim is more than just an eco-friendly device, it's also a powerful and stylish phone that's easy-to-use," said Omar Khan, senior vice president of Strategy and Product Management for Samsung Mobile. "When you combine the Reclaim's impressive feature set with its bio-plastic hardware and eco-friendly packaging, you're using a phone that is good for you and the environment."
Operating on America's most dependable 3G network2, Samsung Reclaim boasts One Click, Sprint's award-winning customizable user interface with quick access to such social networks as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube. A new green One Click tile makes its debut on Reclaim providing the gateway to several green applications including:
* Five Simple Steps from Discovery Channel provides five simple changes you can make to be more eco-friendly, from how you commute to what you eat for dinner;
* Green Guides from Discovery Channel offers handy guides to help you green your lives with ease, and understand why;
* Green Glossary from Discovery Channel provides words and explanations about the Earth and Climate Change; and
* All Things Green, a Sprint Web category contains dynamic green headline and links to downloadable content.
Customers don't have to sacrifice the latest in technology to be environmentally-friendly with Reclaim. The stylish, full-featured phone offers:
* a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard making it easy to access personal or corporate email as well as text and multimedia messaging;
* Sprint Navigation with Search, providing easy access to directory information and GPS-enabled directions;
* 2 megapixel camera with 3x digital zoom and camcorder;
* advanced stereo Bluetooth® 2.0;
* expandable memory storage up to 32GB;
* an integrated Web browser; and
* two color options – Earth Green and Ocean Blue.
Sprint currently offers more eco-friendly accessories than any other U.S. telecommunications company. In May, Sprint announced the availability of new eco-friendly accessories, including the SOLIO Mono solar-powered charger and two new cell phone carrying cases made from 100 percent recycled plastic water bottles.
Sprint's green-themed website, www.sprint.com/green, details Sprint's green mobile applications and helps customers learn about Sprint's sustainability initiatives, including online bill pay, wireless recycling programs and acquiring green tips, such as using mobile GPS to calculate the quickest route to save gas. Customers can receive Sprint updates on specific company-wide environmentally-responsible initiatives on Twitter via @SprintGreenNews and can visit www.sprint.com/green for additional green tips.
GREENING SPRINT RETAIL STORES AND PRODUCTS
Beginning in September, all Sprint-owned retail locations will feature a new dedicated environmentally-responsible section that highlights eco-friendly products and accessories such as the SOLIO Solar Charger and carrying cases made from recycled materials. Sprint also will implement a new sustainable design blueprint for all future Sprint-owned retail store builds and refurbishments.
New and refurbished stores will implement numerous sustainable design elements consistent with LEED design standards, and will include energy-efficient lighting, low water usage plumbing fixtures and low VOC paint and carpet. The roll out of these energy efficiency upgrades is expected to reduce the carbon footprint of each store by about 19,000 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents.
Sprint's Environmental Product Design Criteria Vision Statement applies to all products sold in Sprint channels. Sprint will work with its device and accessory suppliers to design and provide products that:
* Reduce the use of potentially hazardous materials,
* Are energy efficient,
* Include standardized audio and charging interfaces,
* Are more recyclable, and
* Have more sustainable packaging including standardized sizes, reduced weight, increased recyclability rate, and increased recycled content.
Sprint also will work with its suppliers to measure and report on the environmental impact of their manufacturing processes.
LEADING IN SUSTAINABILITY
Wireless Recycling
* Sprint is the industry leader in the reuse and recycling of wireless devices sold. Sprint has an aggressive industry-first goal of reaching a 90 percent phone collection rate for reuse/recycling compared with annual wireless device sales by 2017.
* Since 2001, Sprint wireless recycling programs have diverted more than 17 million cell phones from landfills for reuse or recycling. Sprint's current collection rate is just under 35 percent, more than three times the national recycling average.
* Sprint is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Plug-In To eCycling Program.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Efforts
* Sprint has committed to reduce its GHG emissions by 15 percent by 2017 and to increase its use of renewable energy to 10 percent by 2017. In fall 2007, Sprint became the first wireless provider to join the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Climate Leaders Program.
* Sprint is the only U.S.-based wireless telecom to have a published GHG reduction target. In 2008, just its first year of measurement and reporting, Sprint achieved a 6.8 percent reduction moving from 2.18M metric tons of GHG emissions to 2.03M metric tons.
Green Energy Use
* Sprint is an industry leader in the purchase of green energy and is at the forefront of using renewable energy sources such as Hydrogen. Sprint ranks #20 on the EPA's Green Power Partnership Fortune 500 list.
* Wind power provides approximately 80 percent of the energy needed to run Sprint's Overland Park, Kan. corporate headquarters.
* Sprint recently received a $7.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand its use of Hydrogen fuel cells as backup power for cell sites. An industry leader, Sprint has deployed more than 250 Hydrogen fuel cell generators across its wireless network and has received 12 patents from the U.S. Patent Office that include Hydrogen fuel cells.
SAMSUNG'S CONTINUED COMMITMENT
Reclaim is Samsung's latest contribution toward its commitment to the environment. Samsung Electronics Co. was recently named as the second highest rated company in Greenpeace International's Guide to Greener Electronics scorecard. The research rates electronics manufacturers on reducing the climate impacts of products and operations, responsible recycling and take-back of unwanted electronics and the elimination of toxic materials from the products themselves.
Samsung recently adopted a new green management initiative with comprehensive goals intended to make Samsung a leading eco-friendly company by 2013. The "Eco-Management 2013" plan includes commitments to:
* Reduce greenhouse gas emissions normalized by sales* from manufacturing facilities by 50 percent and cut total indirect greenhouse gas emissions from all products by 84 million tons,
* Ensure 100 percent of Samsung's products are eco-friendly and exceed global eco-mark standards, and
* Invest $4.3 billion in various eco-management initiatives and enhance green partnerships with suppliers and partners.
Samsung's Mobile Take-Back Program™ is part of the Samsung Recycling DirectSM initiative. The Samsung Mobile Take-Back Program recycles end-of-life mobile devices by processing them to be reused as resources for manufacturers. The Samsung Mobile Take-Back Program is leading the effort to create a recycle-based society by distributing 100 percent recyclable mobile recycling envelopes made out of high density polyethylene. To find out more information on the Samsung Recycling Direct and Samsung Mobile Take-Back Program please visit, www.samsung.com/recyclingdirect.
Since June 2008, Samsung's Customer Care Center has recycled 635 tons of cardboard, which has saved more than 10,700 trees, 38,000 pounds of air particles, 4.4 million gallons of water, 2.6 million kilowatts of electricity and 1905 cubic yards of landfill space.
BEST BUY JOINS IN GOING GREEN
Sprint's partner Best Buy and its Greener TogetherTM initiative helps customers make smarter decisions about technology and energy use. Through Greener Together, Best Buy helps customers choose electronics and appliances wisely and use them more efficiently, plus find easy ways to recycle, reuse, or trade in products at the end of their life.
Best Buy recently began offering electronics recycling at all of its 1,036 stores nationwide including televisions, monitors, computer CPUs and notebooks, small electronics, VCRs, DVDs and more. The program is the latest addition to the electronics and appliance recycling options Best Buy offers to consumers nationwide including recycling kiosks, appliance and television haul-away, appliance and television pick-up and Tech Trade-In. Visit www.bestbuy.com/green for more information.


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Q: "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend" usage Why is it customary for a heterosexual woman to refer to her heterosexual female friend as a "girlfriend",but not the case for a heterosexual man and his male buddy to call one another "boyfriends"?
How did our language evolve this way,and is it similar in other languages throughout the world?

A: I think the following extract offers an interesting point of view on the subject:
A Lexical Beef: 'Boyfriend' and 'Girlfriend.

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*Etymology Online dates the term "boyfriend," meaning "woman's paramour," to 1909. However, the term has an earlier platonic sense.  The first use I managed to find in Google Books, from an obscure 1850 publication titled Friends' review: a religious, literary and miscellaneous journal, describes the friend of a young man, not the lover of a young woman:

*Though daily occupied with his drudgery as a farm servant, he began to instruct himself in Latin and Greek. A boy friend lent him several books necessary in these studies…

*Girlfriend seems to have had a similar trajectory, beginning as a term for a young female friend, only taking on romantic connotations after the conversion of boyfriend.  Intriguingly, the original sense of girlfriend is still alive and kicking, as one can hear in phrases like, "I'm going to spend some time with my girlfriends this weekend."  I can't say for sure why the platonic meaning of boyfriend didn't also survive.  Perhaps some consider it un-masculine to refer to your drinking buddies the same way their girlfriends do?

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Argentina competed at the World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, from July 20, 2017 to July 30, 2017.

Medalists

Competitors

Artistic roller skating
Argentina has qualified to the games 1 male and 1 female.

Beach handball

Argentina has qualified to the games their women's national team. The women's team won the silver medal in the women's tournament.

Summary

Fistball
Argentina has qualified at the 2017 World Games in the Fistball Men Team event .

Gymnastic

Trampoline
Argentina has qualified at the 2017 World Games:

Men's Individual Double Mini Trampoline - 1 quota
Women's Individual Double Mini Trampoline - 1 quota

References

Nations at the 2017 World Games
2017 in Argentine sport
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Airshow China: Textron Aviation in big Zhuhai push, Daher-Socata Hoping To Be Awarded More G500, G600 Work
Airshow China: Textron Aviation in big Zhuhai push
Textron Aviation has a significant presence at this year's Airshow China in Zhuhai, with four aircraft appearing on static display.
The US company brought four different types to the show: a Cessna Citation XLS+ business jet (appearing at the show for the first time), a Beechcraft 350i turboprop, a Cessna Grand Caravan EX single engine turboprop, and a Beechcraft Baron G58 twin-engine piston aircraft.
The company says it is steadily growing its presence in China, and says its two joint ventures with the China Aviation General Aircraft Company (CAIGA) are going well.
Textron used the show to deliver the first two deliveries of the Citation XLS+ jets to emerge from its Zhuhai facility, which is primarily involved in assembly, painting, testing, interior installation, and customisation of aircraft delivered form the USA.
Daher-Socata Hoping To Be Awarded More G500, G600 Work
Daher-Socata is hoping to be tapped for more work packages on the recently announced Gulfstream G500 and G600, beyond its commitment to make main landing gear doors for the new large-cabin jets. Gulfstream "has been happy with our first deliveries and may award us other aerostructures by year-end," Daher group marketing director Vincent Chanron told AIN. These other potential work packages were originally assigned to an unidentified supplier that Gulfstream is now dissatisfied with, he said…
Top Business Aircraft Manufacturers and Their Production…
Bombardier: Tremendous Growth for Business Jets in Latin…
Business Aviation Demand, XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator, FAA…
Tags: daher socata, gulfstream, Cessna, private jets, private jets charter, business aviation, G500, citation XLS+, textron aviation, G600

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Drake sells his mansion on YOLO Estate for $14.5 million and the photos are crazy
Kay Jimenez
Are you looking for a home that is more like a luxury holiday resort than a home? Drake's got you, fam. You just need $14.8 million to get his "YOLO Estate" title deed.
Champagne Papi is selling one of his luxury residences in Hidden Hills, California, after moving to another mansion in the LA area (he is said to have just bought a home A new pillow worth $70 million in Beverly Hills From Robbie Williams.)
The three-acre property is downright ridiculous, in its most draconian in all respects, and boasts its own massive pool with spa grotto, an 80-foot rock waterslide, a 25-seat movie theater, tennis and basketball courts, and equestrian trails. Even the bull ride mechanic for a reason.
It's like Drake's little Playboy mansion… in the literal sense of the word; Fortune reports that the legacy was once Owned by the late Hugh Hefner Himself.
Seeing pictures of the place, this last little dish shouldn't surprise you much.
According to Drizzi Bought Hidden Hills Home in 2012 for $7.7 Million From the owner of Saddle Ranch (Larry Pollack), he later told Rolling Stone in an interview that he had actually wanted the place for years.
"I was like, 'What are the craziest swimming pools in the world?'" "And when I searched on the internet, this happened…this house had a desktop image on my computer years before I bought it," The artist said To Rolling Stone in a 2014 profile.
After keeping it in his real estate portfolio for a decade (and some incredible partying, no doubt), Drake listed the home through the duo of celebrity realtor Rayni and Branden Williams.
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They describe it as "a 3-acre resort style home tucked away in the very exclusive, guard-gated enclave of Hidden Hills".
The Tudor English home is located on a private cul-de-sac and comes with the option to purchase two adjoining properties, also owned by Drake, for a total of $22.2 million (USD).
Its really hard to describe how rich and modern this place looks. You have to look at the pictures.
Realtors say the 12,500-square-foot home features "the perfect blend of rustic charm and modern comfort."
It has six heaters, for starters…
And a wine booth with its own tasting room.
Several marble bathtubs can be found on site, punctuated by a Chanel skateboard (?)
However, the real game is the sensational cavernous pool area, mainly due to the fact that it is – as the property owners put it – "surrounded by televisions for watching the big game or enjoying a floating movie."
What could be more of a drake?
Although they don't explicitly identify Mr. Graham as the owner of this property, it's a widely open secret – one that the real estate team doesn't necessarily shy away from.
"If you're reading this it's not too late," he hints at the list. "5840 Round Meadow Rd Show."
"Lifelong beer expert. General travel enthusiast. Social media buff. Zombie maven. Communicator."
Key discovery in search for origin of life – astronomers discover largest molecule yet in cosmic 'dust trap'
Hooray! Universal Studios Hollywood will get its own Super Nintendo universe


CSP was able to make a modest contribution to the relief efforts by installing "rocket stoves," simpler, smaller versions of the cook stove, for displaced families who were living in semi-permanent houses.
After a period of recovery and assessment, CSP started constructing stoves again two months later. From June 2015 the project was implemented in three municipalities and within a year, installed around 550 cook stoves, directly benefitting about 2450 family members.
In Nepal, we currently work in the communities of Agara and Banepa. In contrast to the steady growth of our work in Uganda, the story of the Cookstove Project in Nepal involves two very distinct phases divided by the quake that devastated large areas of the nation in April 2015. Thousands of Nepalese died and millions more were displaced. The 130,000 homes that were destroyed included many that had received new cook stoves in the previous year.
The approach in Nepal is similar to our work in Uganda but cultural differences require the employment of "social mobilizers" in each community, usually women, who can help to explain the project to their neighbors.
Our full time social mobilizer coordinates with local government officials; organizes meetings with local leaders, groups and community members; explains the detrimental effect of indoor air pollution and advantages of clean cook stoves; advises the beneficiaries on the proper use of the cook stoves; works closely with the social mobilizers of the individual villages; and gathers new requests for clean cook stoves.
Unlike Uganda, where clay is readily available, the cookstoves constructed in Nepal are built with bricks, steel piping and mortar. The families make a monetary contribution of around $4.00 or they provide the bricks needed. With their new, efficient stoves, they can reduce their total fuel costs by 50%, so this small investment makes economic sense in addition to the health benefits.
The participation of the beneficiaries in partnership with the stove master is crucial for sustainability and ownership. The women are shown during the construction process how to clean out the chimneys and repair any small cracks in the outside of the stove. There is an evaluation and follow-up system in place so that the women are supported in their use of their new stoves.


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Populism and Trust in Europe: Perspectives for 2019
Tal - Stad Washington D.C. - Land Förenta staterna - Datum Måndag | 03 december 2018
It's a great pleasure to be here today and it's been a particular privilege to be in Washington this week observing and discussing events on both sides of the Atlantic, noting the reflective aftermath of the death of President Bush, and reading with interest the reaction to Secretary of State Pompeo's speech in my workplace city Brussels on Tuesday at another German Marshall Fund event. I should immediately however dampen all expectations of similar fireworks here.
I want to begin instead by noting Charles Dickens 'best of times, worst of times" observation at the start of his book A Tale of Two Cities, and how one's evaluation of the French Revolution very much depended on whether you were controlling the lever of the guillotine or having your neck placed underneath its blade.
Contemporary politics is often mediated through the same binary lens. Brexit is Independence Day or Armageddon; Donald Trump will make America great again or bring the international order to its knees. Populism is a threat to liberal democracy or a legitimate means of taking back control.
Western Europe has been war free for the last seventy years, it has relatively high levels of social protection, many world beating cities when it comes to quality of life, a Union that managed to protect the Euro, avoid Brexit contagion, emerge from the worst of the financial crisis, and is still a champion of the universality and indivisibility of human rights.
But on the sharp end of the blade we have unhealed wounds from the financial crisis, significant youth unemployment, rising nationalism, a number of EU member states openly defying foundational norms and values, a politically exploited migration crisis and new uncertainties about old alliances.
Europe is also surrounded by "strong man" leaders while President Trump is rattling the cages of long presumed settled structures of international co-operation. Nationalism is having a moment, and while the trend for populist leaders hasn't swamped EU politics, it is certainly reshaping them.
In his book "Factfulness" Hans Rosling argues that the world - developed and developing - is in better shape than ever. Yet none of us wake up in the morning grateful that our cave dwelling days are over. We experience our world in the felt present, as individuals, and compare our individual experience not with abstractions but with those we consider to be our nominal equals.
The fact that your life chances are phenomenally greater than those of someone in an impoverished village on the other side of the world is of little relevance if your next door neighbour is on a professional fast track and you've had to take a second job in the gig economy to make ends meet.
The recent, intense protests in Paris and other parts of France against fuel price increases and other Government policies were driven not by the utterly impoverished but by many in the so-called struggling classes, motivated not by literal hunger but by a sense of injustice, of unfairness, of being treated not with the promised egalite of the state.
As human beings we also have a capacity for complacency, for forgetting. This generation cannot live in a permanent state of relief and gratitude for the ending of war in Europe seventy years ago and as time passes memory fades.
A recent CNN report showed that growing number of Europeans have never heard of the Nazi Holocaust. One out of every twenty people surveyed in seven EU states admitted to this, and in France, among young people, that statistic was one in five.
So the idea of a Europe permanently united by shared memories of horror and a determination not to repeat the mistakes of the past may be somewhat past its sell by date.
Modern angst centres on control, the fear of lives being hollowed out by big tech, globalisation, artificial intelligence, increasing inequality, the gig economy.
Yet none of this is new, neither the fears nor their political exploitation. I recently saw the Broadway theatre version of the 1976 movie 'Network' in which the central character is let loose by a ratings hunting producer to deliver populist jeremiads against global corporations, a system fixed against the ordinary man and woman, and a media incapable of truth, a deliverer of 'fake news'. His corporate boss in turn describes a world in which there are neither nations nor individuals but rather a world determined by nothing more than the flow of money.
It is, he says, the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. "That is the atomic, subatomic and galactic structure of things today!"
Our modern rash of populism was described recently by a former Irish Ambassador to the EU, Bobby McDonagh as "essentially a rejection of four things: complexity, compromise, diversity and the inevitability of imperfection".
Instead we get simplistic and or nationalist solutions to issues that really do need collaborative approaches based on compromise, elements central to European integration yet now derided by populists as weaknesses.
But populism isn't just about snake oil and magical thinking. It takes hold precisely because the problems it points to are not always illusory and because our liberal democratic institutions and leaders do not always deliver. The pro Brexit camp may have been wilfully pointing in the wrong direction at the culprits but they skilfully scratched the correct existential sores.
If trust is essential in a democracy then we need to be honest in recognising when that trust has been betrayed. As Ombudsman, my role within the EU institutions is precisely within that space.
While I do not work at the political level, when people talk about the system working against them, my work with the administration of the EU identifies where and how that can happen. When information is hidden, when the revolving door gives advantage to a private interest, when intensively lobbied laws can emerge with the public interest diluted, when deal making is done behind closed doors without appropriate citizen oversight, or when a citizen is simply treated discourteously or dismissively by a public administration, all of these problems if not resolved add to the potential pool of distrust in the system.
And when I reflect on this, and on recent riots in Paris, and on Brexit, and on the surprise election of President Trump, I wonder if the issue isn't so much trust as fairness – the idea that people can deal even with great adversity if they consider that everyone else is in the same boat, that the same laws and same measures apply to everyone. I have always been struck by a small child's intuitive sense that something isn't fair. The increase in fuel prices in France arguably would not have lit the flame of protest if policies considered by some in France as favourable to the wealthy had not previously been introduced.
We receive over 2000 complaints a year from across Europe, and especially from those working within the "Brussels beltway" about the administration of the EU institutions and agencies. Each year we conduct around 400 inquiries into these complaints, while others are redirected to a national level. Much of our work focuses on mundane issues of good administration; however some inquiries are relevant to our discussion today.
- We have dealt, for example, with former European Commissioners taking up positions in the private sector - the so-called 'revolving doors' challenge and the Commission has since tightened up its Code of Conduct. One high profile case concerned the decision by former President of the Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, to join Goldman Sachs bank in 2016;
- We also deal with EU officials, who move to the private sector often in an area in which they were involved in regulating. Such moves at senior level are now proactively published with any restrictions on lobbying of their former colleagues also noted.
- We also pushed the Commission and Council to be as transparent as possible in the Brexit talks.
During the now stalled trade negotiations between the EU and the US (TTIP) we launched an inquiry to ensure transparency. Following pressure from the European Parliament, civil society and ourselves, the Juncker Commission then set a new standard of transparency for all EU trade talks.
- The European Central Bank also falls under our mandate. A few years ago, when an unpublished ECB speech delivered at a private event moved the markets we engaged with the ECB on improving practices and it now has much tighter procedures on stakeholder engagement and its meeting diaries are now published.
- However, the ECB and I did not agree in a case concerning the membership of President Draghi of a private group of bankers based here in Washington DC. The so-called 'Group of 30' includes representatives of some of the global banks which the ECB itself now supervises.
I recommended that President Draghi suspend his membership to avoid any perception of a conflict of interest and an erosion of ECB independence. He declined to do so despite the fact that the former chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, did step down from the Group of 30 when she took up office in Washington DC and rejoined when she stepped down from her Fed role earlier this year.
President Draghi is highly respected and credited by many as the saviour of the Euro, yet if the contemporary lack of trust partly arose from the financial crash and the failure of regulation and regulators, then it is more important than ever for those charged with protecting the public interest not to allow even the perception of an overly close relationship with those they regulate.
Finally, let me mention what is probably our most important piece of work and that concerns the transparency of the Council, the institution where national Ministers decide on legislation but which tends to use the opaque tools of diplomacy when it comes to deal making on legislation.
This helps enable a 'blame Brussels' culture. The lack of transparency leads to a vacuum in turn filled by populist rhetoric about who is to blame for any unpopular legislation.
I am hopeful that in the run up to the EU elections next year, and at a time when the phrase 'take back control' is frequently used by those hostile to the EU, the Council will acknowledge that citizens should have that control as a right and implement the recommendations I have made.
What unites many of these issues speaks again to fairness, to people's anger - expertly stoked by populists - at privileged insiders, privileged access, decisions being made about them without them, and at times the inappropriate monetising and exploitation of public service.
Some of this will impact on next year's European Parliament elections which will decide the makeup of the powerful political groups in the parliament but will also be a deciding factor in who is elected President of the European Commission.
The elections will also be a test of the degree to which nationalist and populist ideologies have taken hold even if traditionally EU elections may have similarities with US mid-terms, and may not necessarily reflect what might happen in a national election.
So to conclude and to revert to Mr Dickens who in that opening paragraph in the tale of London and Paris spoke also of the age of foolishness and the age of wisdom. The latter may be a long way off but when it does come it will hopefully not have been achieved at too high a price - the fallout of damaged trust in the institutions that we the people expect to protect our interests.
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HD 1461 c
HD 1461 c is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 5.59 Earths, it takes 13.5 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.1117 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2015.
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TORRANCE, Calif. – The Santa Monica College Corsairs won their second match in a row defeating El Camino College in their home opener 6-1. El Camino College (0-1) was outmatched by Santa Monica (2-0) as the Corsairs jumped to an early 4-0 lead within the first thirty minutes of the match.
SMC Goalkeeper Yosemite Cruz played 80 minutes allowing 1 goal off of a penalty kick. SMC back up goalie Evelyn Jimenez held El Camino scoreless for the final minutes of the game.
Corsairs will travel to Long Beach College (1-2) to take on Vikings Tuesday at 2pm.


...but how many years he'll be in therapy because we posed him for these pics. Heh.
I love the picture with Curious George.
So cute! Just wait until his high school graduation party... you can post these all over the place for his friends to see.
So beautiful!! Thanks for sharing your handsome fellas.
LOL! Those are just too cute.
He's going to remember this when he chooses your retirement home.
He could not be cuter!
He's adorable. My youngest is my Spunky Monkey too...we have tons of pictures with her and monkeys. We even went to the zoo today...and, of course, got another picture of her near the monkeys.
look how little he was honey!! sooo sweet!


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NATO Adopts New Protocol Standard for Underwater Communications
July 18, 2017 by Robin Mitchell
Underwater transmission protocols may finally be unified in a protocol that aims to help interconnectivity with devices ranging from buoys to submarines.
Underwater transmission protocols may finally be unified as NATO adopts a new standard, JANUS.
NATO announced recently that it's adopting a standard protocol for underseas communication. What's JANUS and how does undersea communication differ from in-air data transmission?
Why JANUS Was Needed
Thanks to standardized communication protocols, devices can communicate effectively. Wi-Fi, 4G, and Li-Fi are all examples of protocols that allow for reliable data transmission, enabling the growth of the mobile industry and the ubiquitous Internet of Things.
The intersection of the electronics industry and maritime industry—an intersection that includes buoys, submarines, and other autonomous underwater devices—heavily relies on wireless communication. This is partly because of the vastness of our oceans and the untethered nature of most seacraft. For example, a submersible craft that needs to map the bottom of a trench in the ocean at a depth of 8km and then explore crevices and caves cannot reliably use a cable. In this scenario, wireless communication would be ideal as it would allow for complete freedom of movement and would not require the host (a ship for example) to carry 10km of cable.
Alvin, one of the most famous Deep Submergence Vehicles in the world. Image courtesy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
However, there is a serious problem with traditional wireless communication technologies: they rely on electromagnetic waves to transmit data. We tend to take for-granted that electromagnetic radiation does very well in the atmosphere (primarily due to the fact that air is mostly empty space) and, as a result, we can get radio signals to travel great distances with decent reliability. For a matter of perspective, the ESP8266 module can transmit a Wi-Fi signal up to 5km (with the aid of a telescopic antenna) while traditional radio stations can broadcast their signals up to 50 miles. The radio equipment current aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 probes are transmitting their data over a distance larger than the size of the solar system!
So if EM waves can travel such distances, why can they not be used for underwater communication?
Light and Sound and Water
It has been established that electromagnetic waves can travel for some distance in the atmosphere. But how far can they travel underwater?
The answer is not far at all. Typical Wi-Fi devices having a range of anywhere between one to three feet. Water molecules are actually quite close together with molecule sizes being approximately 0.29nm with average distances between two water molecules being 0.31nm. This small separation is one of the reasons why water is very good at absorbing radiation and also one of the reasons why a bright light will struggle to go further than 100 meters underwater. In fact, the light from the sun does not typically penetrate further than 200 meters into the ocean, making photosynthesis impossible at greater depths.
Light cannot penetrate very far into water. Image courtesy of NOAA
But water's density makes it ideal for a different type of wireless transmission: acoustic. The denser a material is, the better it is at transmitting sound. (Picture the classic tin can phone using a piece of taut string to transmit sound.) Not only does sound travel further in a denser medium but it also travels at a greater speed (for example, the speed of sound in the air is 343 m/s while the speed of sound in water is 1,500 m/).
Communication via sound is so practical underwater that the blue whale, the largest and loudest mammal, can communicate over thousands of miles with other whales just by making low-frequency rumbles. Sound is currently used in many applications underwater with one of the biggest uses being SONAR (Sound Navigation And Ranging), where a sound pulse is emitted from a source and the reflected pulse from objects underwater are received. Using multiple receivers, the size and distance of objects can be determined, which can greatly help with generating an image of the environment when there is little to no light.
But ranging and navigation is not the only use for sound. Data transmission is also possible in a near identical matter to normal wireless communication involving error correction and parity bits.
Acoustic Data Transmission
Underwater acoustic digital data transmission is currently manufacture-specific—there is no one specific protocol. While each specific protocol has its own unique frequency and/or message structure, they usually use one of the following encoding methods for actually defining a 1 or 0:
Frequency shift keying
Phase shift keying
Frequency hopped spread spectrum
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
The use of multiple different protocols has resulted in devices not being able to communicate and share information. When it comes to the underwater world, we now have a situation similar to the pre-IBM standard days when there were many different computer manufacturers specifying their own data protocols and file structures.
JANUS could be the solution, a unified underwater protocol that will allow for all devices to communicate.
The Unified Protocol
JANUS is an underwater protocol developed by The NATO Science and Technology Organization's Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation. It was adopted recently by NATO to help unify all underwater communications and allow for devices made by different manufacturers to cross-communicate.
What makes JANUS a real contender as a unified protocol is its ability to allow for devices to announce themselves on a commonly-used frequency, 11.5kHz. Then, when two devices have agreed to connect, they can switch to a different frequency or transmission method for faster data rates. This is incredibly important as data transmitted using sound waves has a seriously limited baud rate where the baud rate is affected by the frequency of the carrier wave, reflections of near by objects, sound-to-noise ratio, and much more.
Joao Alves, one of the key researchers, made an interesting analogy as to the purpose of JANUS: Imagine two people meet in a foreign country and want to communicate with each other. Chances are that they would both speak English to establish a common universal language. However, the two discover that they both speak Spanish fluently and then switch languages for ease and speed. In this case, JANUS provides the common platform for individuals to announce who they are and how fast they can communicate.
JANUS could allow for all devices to communicate in a similar fashion to the Internet. Image courtesy of CSIRO [CC BY 3.0]
The JANUS protocol also defines how sound should be encoded in a carrier wave (specifying the use of FH-BSK), as well as error correction and redundancies. Some of the specifics of the protocol can be found in this 2010 conference paper but here are a few key points:
Three pulses are used as the "wake-up" announcement for other devices to begin listening. The time between the pulses should be no less than 0.4s as reverberant energy needs to dissipate (i.e., reflections of objects and medium boundaries).
Four inputs are required for the first 64 bits of a JANUS message, which includes sample frequency, output file name, output format, and the name of an external file.
Up to 4096 bits can be transmitted as a payload for data transmission.
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JANUS could really revolutionize the underwater industry with devices that can communicate and share information which is never a bad thing (remember how the internet has impacted lives with the availability of free information?). The JANUS protocol could enable for an underwater IoT as well as mesh networking which could potentially increase data rate speeds if a data block is split up and sent on different frequencies from different sources.
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IMPD chaplains bring peace to families, police on darkest days
Posted 6:34 AM, December 26, 2019, by Courtney Crown
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Just over a dozen IMPD chaplains, only three paid and the rest volunteer, are in charge of bringing peace and comfort to families who have suffered personal tragedies.
"There is no typical scene, even if you're going on the same type of scene," Chaplain Orlando Jordan Jr. said.
Jordan said the coroner, detectives, and other members of law enforcement will call them to a scene where there has been a death, such as a homicide, a suicide or an overdose.
"Families will show you how to properly minister to their needs and that time of grief and sorrow," Jordan explained.
Jordan said the IMPD chaplain's office is always available to help others, regardless of their religion.
"Our office encompasses every religion that we possibly can bring in as a chaplain. We have a Muslim, an Imam that's a chaplain, we have a Catholic priest that's a chaplain, we have a Jewish Rabbi that's a chaplain, as well as a myriad of Christian based pastors and ministers," Jordan explained.
Jordan serves alongside Chaplain Patricia Holman, who is the senior staff chaplain.
"When something bad does happen, we're a constant, a constant, in a world that's always changing," Holman said.
Holman brings a special perspective to the office.
"I was an officer before I was a chaplain, and I had 32 years as an officer," Holman said.
Holman and Jordan said it is not only victims' families they assist, but other officers, both current and retired, and even their families too.
"Both chaplains and officers see a lot of stuff that nobody ever wants to see and experience things that nobody would ever want to experience," Jordan said. "That can weigh on you if you don't have that outlet to be able to talk to somebody."
Throughout the year the chaplains also spend time with children and do numerous service projects, like making a bench out of recycled plastic bottle caps and other plastic material and helping a woman on the southeast side of town with a rebuild project.
"To not do just reactive work, but proactive work, to reach out to the community even before things happen," Holman said.
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I was in Florida last week and was lucky to catch Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers at the historic Capitol Theater in Clearwater. My review of the show is up at No Depression.
Also, while I was "standing on the beach", Jackson Browne was about to put a new album out called "Standing in the Breach". I reviewed it for the 'ol PopMatters.


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Media Ownership Monitor Turkey
This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource turkey.mom-rsf.org/en/ retrieved on 2020/01/18 at 10:15
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) & Bianet - all rights reserved, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Individual Owners
Ahmet Albayrak
Ahmet Albayrak, born in 1952 in Trabzon, is a shareholder - along with his five brothers - of Albayrak Yayın Holding A.Ş. which owns Yeni Şafak, seven magazines and two TV channels. He is the Head of the Board of Directors at Albayrak Holdi̇ng A.Ş. In 2009, his phone conversations were tapped as part of an ongoing investigation, in which Albayrak can be heard making plans to change the members of the state-run Press Advertisement Agency (Basın İlan Kurumu) in order to get more advertising for Yeni Şafak and making arrangements to support AK Party in Trabzon for local elections. Albayrak group is known to have close ties to the ruling AK Party and the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The group has taken dozens of public tenders especially since the mid 90s, some of which were subject to claims and investigations of corruption.
Media Companies / Groups
Albayrak Media Group
Albayrak Holdi̇ng Anoni̇m Şi̇rketi̇, Head of the Board of Directors
Tümosan Motor ve Traktör Sanayi̇ Anoni̇m Şi̇rketi̇, In the Board of Directors
Affiliated Interests Family Members Friends
The Albayrak family makes up the entire executive board.
Data Publicly Available
ownership data is easily available from other sources, e. g. public registries etc.
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Q: What is meant by authoring in workflow Foundation I need to what is meant by authoring in workflow foundation and what are it's types.

A: Authoring basically means creating new or modifying existing worklfows. There are two basic types, the sequential and the state machine workflow.

A: Finally i found out. Authoring is mode of writing the workflows.
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Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities – Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute. FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, the Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Tianjin, China. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
Open-Rank Tenure Track/Tenured Positions (Job ID# 519661)
FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) is a rapidly growing program of excellence at Florida International University (FIU). The School has 30 tenure-track faculty members and over 3,000 students, including over 90 Ph.D. students. The School is engaged in on-going and exciting new and expanding programs for research, education and outreach. The School offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, and M.S. degrees in Telecommunications and Networking, Cyber-security, Data Science, and Information Technology as well as B.S./B.A. degrees in Information Technology. NSF ranks FIU 39th nationwide in externally-funded research expenditures. SCIS has six research centers/clusters with first-class computing and support infrastructure, and enjoys broad and dynamic industry and international partnerships.
The School of Computing and Information Sciences invites applications from exceptionally qualified faculty at all levels with particular emphasis in cybersecurity, data science, AI, and machine learning. Ideal candidates for junior positions should have a record of exceptional research in their early careers and a demonstrated ability to pursue and lead a research program. Candidates for senior positions must have an active and sustainable record of excellence in funded research, publications and professional service as well as demonstrated leadership in collaborative or interdisciplinary research. In addition to developing or expanding a high-quality research program, all successful applicants must be committed to excellence in teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Applications are encouraged from candidates with highly transformative research programs and seminal ideas that extend the frontiers of computing and networking across other disciplines. A Ph.D. in Computer Science or related disciplines is required.
Qualified candidates for Open-Rank Tenure-Track/Tenured faculty positions are encouraged to apply to (Job Opening ID # 519661). Visit https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/ and attach cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, research statement, etc. as individual attachments. Candidates are required to provide names and contact information for at least three references who will be contacted as determined by the search committee. Review will continue until the position has been filled.
FIU is a member of the State University System of Florida and an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.


Have you ever met the person at the networking event that seemed to get a memo that said it was a speed networking event? I've had people literally drop in on a conversation to hand me their business card. Now – if that business card also had a free drink coupon on the back of it, I'd gladly accept it. But same rules apply here – if you don't know my name or what I do, it's likely that I don't want your business card.
We've all been there – you're at a networking event where you know ABSOLUTELY NO ONE and you strike up a great conversation with someone else who seems to know no one. As tough as it is, you've got to break away and continue to mingle. Don't be the person who clings to the same person the entire night – you might miss an awesome opportunity to meet someone else!
Virtually every after-work networking event comes with alcohol. Whether it's a couple of drink tickets with your entry fee or a purely open bar for two hours, you've got to pace yourself (thank you for the lesson, college). Talking professionally doesn't go well when you're 4 pinots in. Lay a good base with the hors d'oeuvres, drink water, and have a coffee before you leave.
Networking is a great time to work in your successes. But it's also a great time to learn about others' successes. Seriously, don't make this event all about you. Arrogance isn't a good look and it's pretty likely that everyone there has something they're proud of. Come up with your elevator speech about your proudest moment, and make sure you're asking questions of others.
So your dad was college roommates with the CEO of XYZ Huge Company. Awesome! Does that make you more qualified than I am to do a job? Probably not. The only time this would be mildly appropriate to bring up is if it naturally flows into the conversation.


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Saw Rabbit Hole last night at Ensemble Theater. I was not really looking forward to seeing it, because the storyline revolves around a 4 year old boy accidentally killed. However, it turned out to be a fantastic play.
Today I woke up thinking that the people in the story were real, and that a little boy really had died. That's how real this play is.
Highly recommended. It shows for one more week.


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One of the perks of being bald?? An even larger canvas for face painting:) Thanks to the sweet people at the Indian Lake Easter Egg Hunt today for all of my fun artwork... especially the bunny on the top of my head. Happy Easter everyone!


The Gynaecological Cancer Clinic provides comprehensive testing and treatment for endometrial cancer with the health and wellbeing of the whole woman in mind. The Gynaecological Cancer Clinic is part of the Comprehensive Women's Cancer Service.
Women attending the Gynaecological Cancer Clinic may have a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of endometrial cancer. At this clinic we will ask you a number of questions about your symptoms and any issues affecting your health. We will conduct a physical examination to work out if you need to have further tests. We will then discuss with you your treatment options and assist you to make decisions about your care.
After you have been referred to the Gynaecological Cancer Clinic by a doctor, you will receive a letter from the Women's with an appointment time.
If a MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan has been arranged for you it is important to fast for four (4) hours prior to the appointment and driving following the scan is discouraged.
If you need surgery, you will receive a letter with a date to attend pre-admission clinic, this is where you will receive further information about your surgery and the recovery process.
You will receive a letter with a date for admission (a date for coming back to the hospital) for your treatment. You must contact the number provided to confirm your admission date. If you do not confirm your admission date, your surgery date might be given to someone else.


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#37 Defensive Back
Birth Date (Age) 1993-09-27 (29)
Born Orlando, FL
School UCF
Status AMER
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Special Teams Tackles 0
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-CFL All-Star, 2021
-West Division All-Star, 2021
-CFLPA All-Star, 2021
-Blue Bombers Most Outstanding Rookie, 2017
2022: Blue Bombers
Alexander continues to be a dominant presence for the football club both in the secondary and in the locker room.
The veteran safety opted to remain in Winnipeg over the winer after injuring his knee in the 2021 Grey Cup victory to best take advantage of the his rehab. He returned to the lineup after his recovery for a game in Hamilton on September 17th and started five regular-season games as well as the Western Final and 109th Grey Cup while posting eight defensive tackles, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery.
Alexander had his best season in 2021 and was recognized by being named to both the CFL All-Star Team and the Canadian Football League Players' Association All-Star Team. Alexander finished the season with 44 total tackles – 36 on defence and eight more on special teams – adding two interceptions and a forced fumble in his 13 games, all starts. He also added six more combined tackles in victories in the Western Final and 108thGrey Cup.
On February 11, 2022 Alexander signed a two-year contract to remain with the club.
Injuries limited Alexander to 10 games in 2019, all starts, but he continued to serve as a versatile and dynamic defender as well as a respected voice in the locker room. Alexander finished the year with 38 defensive tackles, four special-teams tackles, with four pass knockdowns and a fumble recovery. Missed eight games during a stretch from August 1-September 27 and when he returned, made the switch from defensive halfback to safety.
Alexander was particularly effective in the playoffs, with five tackles in the Western Semi-final win over Calgary, a forced fumble in the Western Final victory over Saskatchewan and then an interception in the first quarter of the Grey Cup win over Hamilton.
Alexander signed a one-year contract extension on January 11, 2021.
Alexander dressed for 14 games in 2018, all starts, and continued his transformation into an important part of the team's defence. He finished with 36 tackles, three interceptions — tied for second on the club — while adding two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, four pass knock downs and five tackles for a loss.
The emerging force and now a veteran voice in the Bombers defence agreed to a new two-year contract on February 12th, 2019 that would keep him with the club through the 2020 season.
Made his CFL debut in the Bombers Canada Day win over Saskatchewan, finishing with five tackles and a tackle for loss… Finished the year with 52 tackles, including seven in two separate games – Sept. 30 at Edmonton and Oct. 21 at Toronto… Made his first career interception in the regular-season finale in Calgary on Nov. 3, returning it 56 yards for a touchdown… Was named the Bombers top rookie after finishing the year with 52 tackles, one quarterback pressure, two forced fumbles, four knockdowns, one tackle for a loss and one interception.
College/Professional
A walk-on at the University of Central Florida, earned a full scholarship in 2012… Was a member of the American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team in 2013… Twice nominated for the Burlsworth Trophy, awarded annually to the college football player who began his career as a walk-on player… Attended the Atlanta Falcons training camp in 2015.
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According to a new report from Greenlight Digital, Over a half a million (522,115), or 21%, of those online searches for hotels were made by UK consumers using a mobile device. More than half (59% / 307,786) of mobile searches for hotels were for accommodation in UK destinations with the capital city London (13%) and York (3%) garnering the most queries.
Travellers are increasingly using search, social media and apps to shop for, and book, their hotel travel.
• laterooms.com was the most visible website for hotel-related searches on laptops/desktops, achieving a 46% share of voice.
• Booking.com was the most visible advertiser for hotel-related searches on mobile devices, achieving an 88% share of voice.
• Lastminute.com attained a 62% share of voice through ranking for 496 mobile keywords.
'Hotels' was the most popular search term, accounting for 6% of mobile searches followed by 'cheap hotels' at 4%.
Mobile apps are important, but when it comes to hotel bookings, people still prefer to make online reservations directly from hotel websites instead of through smartphone applications. Nielsen reports that 69% of mobile users prefer the mobile web to find hotel information, while Google reports that only 12% book rooms from apps (compared to 40% from mobile web).


Ski apps have come a long way since the early days of the iPhone. Here are five ski apps that Fall-line staffers actually own (and use).
Designed by skier and physiotherapist Neil Maclean-Martin, the app features quality and challenging workouts aimed specifically at skiers. Read issue 135 of Fall-Line for the full review.
Zoomable high-resolution 3D piste maps for 750 resorts worldwide. You can record your skiing and load them to the web.
Hold up your phone to scan the horizon and this app will figure out exactly what peaks you're looking at, identifying their name and stats.
Records the steepness and speed of your run so you finally have proof to back-up your bragging to friends at the end of the day.
The freerider's ultimate app: FATMAP uses altitude and GPS data for 1-2m accuracy, shows gradients avalanche and crevasse zones along with speed, distance, vert, weather and snow conditions. Read the full review here.


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Jeanne Gaillarde (vers 1524) est une poétesse française.

Biographie
On sait peu de choses de Jeanne Gaillarde. Lors du passage de Clément Marot à Lyon vers 1524, celui-ci fit connaissance de Jeanne. Ils échangèrent deux rondeaux. Par ailleurs, Verdun-Léon Saulnier attribue à Jeanne Gaillarde sept autres rondeaux, sur la foi du manuscrit 2335 de la BNF où figure une version différente du rondeau Response  au précédent rondeau, suivi de sept rondeaux signés J. G. : et sur le fait que, Marot comparant Jeanne Gaillarde à Christine de Pisan, celle-là ne peut être l'auteure d'un seul poème.

Les deux rondeaux

À ma Dame Jehanne Gaillarde de Lyon, femme de grant scavoir

D'avoir le prix en science et doctrine
Bien mérita de Pisan la Christine
Durant ses jours ; mais ta plume dorée
D'elle serait à présent adorée,
S'elle vivait par volonté divine.
Car tout ainsi que le feu l'or affine,
Le temps a fait notre langue plus fine,
De qui tu as l'éloquence assurée
D'avoir le prix.

Donques ma main, rends-toi humble et bénigne,
En donnant lieu à la main féminine :
N'écris plus rien en rythme mesuré,
Fors que tu es une main bienheurée
D'avoir touché celle qui est tant digne

D'avoir le prix.

Response au précédent rondeau par ma dicte Dame Jehanne Gaillarde

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If there is a fascinating subject of warfare where no casualties occur but the battle goes on,it is Google vs. Facebook battle. I love to analyze the battle that has been going on between two large companies, one a giant and another a social media titan.
The giant Google has sounded the bugle. No longer it is afraid to take the battle into titan Facebook's territory. It has had enough. It really feels that the title of the giant of the Internet belongs to Google and not to Facebook.
Jokes apart, last month was a month that was very eventful in terms of launch of Google plus. With Google plus, Google has finally stopped tiptoeing around Facebook with not so great products and instead decided to tackle Facebook head=on. Google plus was launched with much fanfare. The invites started to flow but were soon stopped when Google got overwhelmed with the demand( really? ) . The notable features included Circles, where you could add friends and the huddle where many friends could video chat together. A few less notable features were also introduced. Google successfully played to the gallery with more privacy options( though it has the largest amount of data on anyone on earth) hitting Facebook almost where it hurts the most.
Internet was abuzz with how Google plus was on the better side of Facebook. After all it had more privacy, better features and an almost Facebook like look. In fact a few pictures that floated showed it customized exactly to look like Facebook. There are sites after sites comparing Google Plus with Facebook. In features department Google plus fared much much better until Facebook brought its own chat application in association with Skype.
How many bullets you got?
Till now Google plus has garnered support of 10m( 18m as of latest ) users compared to 750 m users that use Facebook. That is mark of its popularity in short amount of time.
The interesting point to note , that most of the analysts have forgotten is how many of the 10m are still on Facebook. In my opinion, most of them are still there. They like Google plus and they still cannot leave Facebook. Thus none out of own them exclusively. However Facebook still owns 740 m ( 750 –10) exclusively, those that Google would like to woo.
Even after so much slogans that are being hurled in the online world, I am not very hopeful that Google plus will ever displace Facebook from number one.
No one could ever displace Google from Search Engine leadership. No one could beat Microsoft in Desktop office . No one could beat Amazon in e-retail sales.
There have been cases where number one has been toppled by number one, but often they are not in majority.
To start with my argument, if you ever purchase a software, do you really go by features all the time? Yes, it is more bang for a buck but do you really use all the features? It is quite possible that you get excited initially by the count of features but how many of them you possibly use. I would say , only 20% ( based on the famous 80/20 rule).
So what has war got to do with Facebook vs Google?
Let us look at this from a battle point of view. Though warfare technology has rendered advantage of heights irrelevant, in a business, such a warfare is not possible. If you study history, you will find that most of the time, the entrenched enemy is extremely difficult to topple if not impossible. The entrenched enemy has good knowledge of terrain, has been there for a long time andis dug in . It is has been proven that battle for an army has always been tough that is going up the hill to fight the enemy that is entrenched on the hilltop.
Some years ago, Microsoft used to be a dominating IT company. Its software ruled PCs ( still does) till the Internet arrived. Microsoft was so busy with ts core business that it gave internet revolution a miss.
Web darling Google has some fresh competition: a pair of start-ups aiming to improve on its immensely popular recipe for serving fast, relevant search results untainted by pay-for-placement listings.
From a web darling to a web giant Google has traveled quite a bit in time. Doing a "time search" ( year 2000) on Microsoft vs Google, I was hard pressed to find any news about Google.
Google has done what a start-up, using disruptive technology does to a giant and in the process become one. Now it is the new Microsoft, earning a lot and having huge market cap.
If you look at Facebook it is doing the same to Google that Google did to Microsoft, using disruptive concepts and innovation . Google is responding similar as Microsoft ( Google Plus vs Facebook and Bing Vs Google). Even though MS's Bing provides better results than Google , it is lagging far behind Google in internet search market. A case of being too late, when the party is over.
The argument that a better product wins, is not always true. There are many operating systems that exists today. Many of them are much better than Windows Vista and seven ( the geek community which includes me would agree ;) . However, how many consumers actually use them over Microsoft? A very few and I am talking of not-so technically challenged people. Success in business market of course depends on a good product but is also on the right perception and occupying the category first.
TIP: If you ever find a category that is unseen by others in business, launch a product in that category. Once you create a perception, others will find it very hard to break it.
Example : Today hundreds of companies make Photocopier instruments ( Canon, Xerox, HP etc.) but how does general public call a photocopy , a Xerox. Why? Because the name is stuck and even if Xerox is no longer a leader, the name Xerox is still synonymous with photocopying.
Size matters ? Not if it is not your turf.
Next argument is that Google just by its sheer size will crush Facebook. Truth is far far from this argument. If this was the case, Google would have never become what it was today and IBM would not have allowed Microsoft to take over its PC business. If that was the case none of the start-ups would be successful in the face of mighty giants. History has recorded otherwise.
Another argument is that Google is growing in many products while Facebook leads in only one. That is true but that does not indicate that Facebook is going to go down to Google. Facebook has acquired a characteristic of its own and enjoys a huge brand perception, ignored for a really long time by Google. Though Google is a fantastic technology company, the only product that competes directly with Facebook is Google plus. The winner is still not decided yet.
Google plus is also under severe line extension trap with Google plus. It has smartly played other categories such as Gmail, Android and others( with Google silently hiding behind). I am not saying that this law is perfect but it works most of the time.
I am not in love with Facebook particularly. To tell you , I am more of a fan of Orkut, which stands much neglected when so much focus is on Google plus. In my opinion Google plus will find it very hard to beat Facebook until Facebook commits blunders or leaves a void for Google to pick over. In the near future, I do not see that happening.
Here's the mindset people (should) have. With Google plus being WAY better, Facebook has already revamped and will continue to make serious changes to the layout, function, and experience of the social network. So far, they're just trying to implement features the Google+ provides; which is totally natural. I think that instead of people forcing themselves to learn how to use Facebook all over again, they should just switch to G+. With all the changes Facebook is making, why not try something COMPLETELY new (and better) on for size? If you don't like it (which you will) you can go back to FB.
Facebook is still the King of social networking sites, and for the foreseeable future Google will be the King of the search engines. I really, believe that this is how it will stay, and maybe they should both focus on maintaining a market share in what they are good at instead of trying to compete with each other.
I'm not a techie. I'm a run of the mill computer user. I'm with Facebook and for the time being, I don't plan on joining Google birth baby +. A couple of my friends have looked at the + features and enjoy it, but most of my family and friends are sticking with Facebook, for the convenience of it, for the already established network, for the ease of already knowing the set up.
The one thing that will turn the tide is if Facebook starts to charge. When it affects my pocket book, there's no more need for it.
Despite the fact that you are not a techie, you have analyzed a tricky situation very well. :). Your reasons are precisely the one why Google plus will find it difficult to gain more users. The less technical a user is, the less likely she is to move between networks. If one is a social media expert now one will have to deal with multiple networks which confuse customers.
Thank you for dropping by and hope to see you soon .
Ashvini, reading your blog posts is like sitting in an advanced business class at a top university. You explain concepts clearly, voice your well-reasoned opinion, then engage in fascinating, in-depth discussions.
I, too, am intrigued by this battle (great writing, I loved the quote too!), but I don't know who will win. The marketing landscape is cluttered with the landfills of superior products that failed to inferior ones (the earliest I can think of in the tech world is Sony's Betamax vs. VHS). When high definition DVD players were launched, people held off buying them (and the DVD's) until they knew which format the movie industry would adopt (Blu-Ray won).
But people are only spending time, not money, joining these social media sites, so they can sign up with multiple sites to see which they like best.
Google is first and foremost an advertising company and doesn't want to lose out on the advertising revenue generated by Facebook.
Factors which may determine the winner are cool, fun and features. If Facebook suddenly seems like your grandfather's social media site, how many under 30's will flock to Google+?
I would be very interested to learn your thoughts on Google+ v. Orkut. Perhaps in a future blog post?
I would also be interested in reading your thoughts on this battle in a year. But I will be back visiting your blog very often in the meantime!
Thanks for sharing your truly brilliant analysis and writing with us!
I am so much flattered by your opinion of my blog and writing. But I know that it is not grammatically 100% correct ;) ( I have problems with in, with etc.).
Yes, this battle is very exciting and we should consider ourselves lucky to witness such a thing that is being discussed almost daily in many blogs and sites. I can only read about Betamax because it never came to India. That technology was I think was redundant in USA before it even came here. I only remember watching VHS format cassettes in my childhood.
I was previously of the opinion that great products always win. Unfortunately that is not the case. The product that makes space in customer's mind and manage to keep it wins. You examples are proof of that.
In my opinion, Google can be successful than Fabcebook only when it is able to build an ecosystem which matches facebook. It may have to really think differently than just to copy ideas and call them their own. I think Google can learn from success of Android ( Now Samsung phones are selling almost equal to iphones). Android is the product of future.
Google plus is not a competitor of Orkut ( we all know that ). But Google plus is going to cannibalize orkut. Once Google plus reaches a success point, in my opinion orkut will be gone and things migrated to Google plus. But I see I can compare Facebook vs Orkut , that would be interesting :) What do you say?
Thanks again for coming to my site and leaving awesome comments :) .
I have to disagree with you on the line extension piece. It seems to me that Google has finally stopped throwing one-off social features at the wall to see what will stick. Instead, with Google+, the company appears to have thought about how to integrate a social platform into its core (search) business model.
Will it be a "Facebook killer"? Not likely any time soon, for the reasons you've quite well defined. But Google+ has promise because millions of people already have a reason to interact with the company. So while Google+ is a different place to hang out, it's not an unfamiliar place.
Thanks for your comments :). I think and that may be my opinion, the brand is slightly stretched from before. When I talk of social media, the thing that comes to my mind are FB and twitter. May be Google had done it well but in my opinion there is a lot of time before it will kill facebook ( provided Facebook does not make grand mistakes ).
Thanks for adding to the discussion and hope to see you soon.
Wow, thanks for all the time and thought it took to write this post. Boy did I find it interesting to read this perspective when you used the examples of the other brand names such as Microsoft, Xerox, etc.
I can see because Google is bigger that they want to outrank Facebook eventually but with 750 million users on Facebook who like Facebook, not everyone will be moving over. I believe I read some statistics a few weeks back that the younger generation that doesn't care much about their privacy will stick with Facebook while the older generation might consider moving over. After just doing some research of my own for a post I wrote today, 50% of the popular is 30 and under. They are going to stick with where their friends are.
It should be interesting to see what happens over the next few years. For right now, I'm still with Facebook although I am on Google+ as well. I just haven't had time to figure it all out so that I even know if I like it or not. Only time will tell.
Welcome once again to my blog. I love to read your comments and opinions :).
It really took some time to write this post :). I think all of us have the same dilemma. Where to go next? Facebook is not innovating that much. Google plus was a definite change.
Though from my work experience , I would like to say that companies that innovate may often not win ( really) because they are competing head on with the leader. The leader has to just makes some tweaks here and there to make sure that it is dominant. Yesterday, I was reading about Peter Drucker' theory on innovation. He says that entrepreneurs look for places where there is no demand and create demand out of them. Social media is so full of companies, one more was not really needed. Now we have MS too coming in with its own social media tool :).
Innovation has to be in different areas. For eg Google Android, gmail, labs where google has created some innovative features are a few example. Here the leaders were destroyed by their sloth and lack of innovations.
Your information on age profile of users looks excellent. I think that would be one of the primary reasons people would stay there.
I am not taking any sides just putting things as they are :) and I love to know from everyone what they think .
Your opinions are valuable. Thanks for sharing with us.
I don't see facebook dying any day soon, but I think there is a lifespan to every social media network. If facebook stops innovating, maybe even reinventing itself, people will move on at some point in time. New platforms are developed everyday and Google definitely has the skills, talent and scope to make this work.
I think what you mean is introduction of "disruptive technologies and ideas". Is it ? Yes disruptive technologies are difficult to handle . The problem with google is that it has taken too long to create a social media product. Isn't it always difficult to fight the leader ( unless you find some points that you can sell upon)? The threats to facebook as I see is if they stop innovating like Google and /or emergence of disruptive technologies in future.
And other important statement as you have pointed out in your blog, comes from the LinkedIn CEO who says that Google+ won't be so successful as people really do not have so much free time to spend on another social network.
Now, if you are asking me…I think yes..it is all about time management today. To find time for so many social networks today, it really is a tough ask. And when you look at the fact that Google+ is simply a clone of the facebook then why to switch over to the same. Yes, Privacy is one of the concerns but honestly, how much does it affect. I think issues like personal privacy on social networks have been overhyped. For a very simple reason, there is nothing like privacy on social networks as said by Mark Zuckerberg itself…why is it so difficult for people to understand and follow. If you are so concerned about privacy then why do you share anything private. Why not simply avoid it? Ofcourse, Google+ has hit facebook very badly here with its innovative concept of circles but I feel it shouldn't be long enough before we see something similar being implemented by facebook also.
Yes, the battle has begun but facebook still has a greater edge over Google+ at present. Users do matter and so Google+ has a long way to go and I am sure they are upto it. Let us wait and watch..!
My dear friend, awesome points. I have seen your article and here it is for others to see .
Privacy may be a large concern but yes if that was the sole reason so many people would not have signed up and gladly shared their information. It brings up an important economic question. If people are given some tools for free which they can use to make their lives better, they would part with their private information. It is strange because we thought people would hide this information rather than share. That means if we reduce the barrier we can extract as much information as we want from them. It is both useful and deadly conclusion.
Now next it sets sight on Twitter after the deal has collapsed. It is so difficult to fight on so many fronts and in my opinion whole product will become average. Your link of yahoo says quite a thing about why and what of the social media fight.
It is going to be interesting to watch how it turns out.
I don't think Google will take over Facebook. I do think that the millions that use Google + are still using FB. As you said when you create a perception, others will find it very hard to break it. The amazing example of Xerox, Microsoft, Google, etc. are cast-iron evidence.
I think when companies get bigger, they tend to be less risky. Google now is so big. Are they willing to take risk when it comes to social media? When Facebook started, it was small and therefore willing to take risk. If FB fails, who would notice? But if Google does, then that's something big, right?
Microsoft never cared for internet like Google never cared for social. Google has to show to its shareholder that it can make more money. However I find it difficult to understand why not put the same money into new ideas and win from there. With bigger companies risk taking become less and less ( you said it).
I think they are trying to get the feet in whatever they can on account of huge user base they have got but it will interesting to watch how things turn in future.
I Appreciate your comments and keep coming back.


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