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Climate alliance seeks more engineering institutions
THE Future Climate-Engineering Solutions (FC-ES) project, of which IChemE is a member, has released its Phase 4 Framework which encourages other engineering institutions to participate.
The FC-ES was set up in 2008 by the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA) after it was recognised that engineers could work to fill the gap between climate science and public policy by implementing practical and affordable solutions. It was launched ahead of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC's) Convention of Parties (COP) 15 held in Denmark in 2009.
The overall goal of FC-ES is for engineering institutions to work with their governments on engineering-based climate and energy plans with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, defined as limiting the global temperature increase to 2°C.
The Phase 4 Framework, Energy and Climate Planning to 2050, was launched on 9 February and outlines background information on the project, best practices from the experience in the last ten years, and guidelines for new member institutions on preparing an Energy and Climate Plan relevant to their home country.
FC-ES intends to hold a symposium later this year where countries can share their energy and climate plans.
IChemE's Jacob Ohrvik-Stott said "Overcoming climate change is the foremost challenge for engineers in the 21st century. Targets for the reduction of carbon emissions have been set at around 80% for developed nations and the UK government has adopted targets that will require a 57% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
"Such a radical change needs well-thought-through, clearly-defined plans and for engineers to come together to support each other in order to meet the aims set out in the UN's Paris Agreement. If we are to transition to a low-carbon society, then engineers will play a vital role in providing practical and proven solutions."
Thomas Damkjær Petersen, president of the IDA said: "When we had the idea in 2008 to bring the engineering voice alongside the existing voices in driving change for our climate, we had no idea where this journey would take us. As we start the 4th phase with this report, I'm extremely proud that we continue to bring that voice, and that Danish engineers alongside engineers from across the world continue to bring practical, tested, and understood ideas to the public, to interested parties and to governments."
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It's almost Valentine's Day! Whether you're spending it with your sweetie, celebrating with your friends, or planning the perfect 'Me Day' – nothing says "love" like making a lavender-infused gift with your own creative hands.
Madeleines, the Classic French Tea Cakes are baked in special molds that give them a delicate shell shape. The name 'Madeleine' was given to these delightful tea cakes by Louis XV to honor his father-in-law's cook Madeleine Paulmier.
Madeleines infused with divine organic culinary lavender flowers and heavenly Meyer Lemons are truly delicious, very easy to make and a beautiful Valentine's Day gift. Madeleines are best eaten the day they're baked. Though 3-5 days old Madeleines are wonderful too, when dunked into coffee, espresso and even wine. However you enjoy them, gift yourself by making some.
Culinary Lavender Tip: always use high grade organic culinary lavender such as Pelindaba Lavender's Organic Culinary Lavender. It's sweet, aromatic and delightful, which will make your baked goods even heavenlier!
Butter and flour 12 (3 inch) madeleine molds; set aside.
Using electric mixer or a mixing bowl, at high speed beat spelt pastry flour, almond flour, sugar, almond milk, lemon juice and melted butter until the mixture is creamy and smooth.
Add lemon zest and lavender flowers and beat for additional 2-3 minutes until they are well blended.
Spoon 1 Tbsp. batter into each mold.
Bake for 15-17 minutes, or until cakes are golden and the tops spring back when gently pressed with your fingertip.
Use the tip of the knife to loosen madeleines from pan if necessary; invert onto rack.
Let it cool for 5-10 minutes if you want to eat them right away. For packaging as gifts, let them cool for at least an hour.


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La Cordee - Quebec, Canada
Where is it?	Quebec, CanadaThree Locations:
St-Hubert	1595 boul. des Promenades	Saint-Hubert (Quebec)	J3Y5K2	Canada
Montreal	2159 Ste-Catherine Est	Montreal (Quebec)	H2K 2H9	Canada
Laval	2777 boul. St-Martin Ouest	Laval (Quebec)	H7T 2Y7	Canada
Visit our online store at www.lacordee.com
What's in it?	Our Departments
* Men's* Women's* Kids* Shoes & boots* Camping and hiking* Travel* Cycling* Surfing* Winter sports* Climbing* Paddling* Library* ParaskiFlex
o	Asolo	o	Atomic	o	Arcteryx	o	Black Diamond	o	Canada Goose	o	Chlorophylle	o	La Cordée	o	Columbia	o	Cerro Torre	o	Dakine	o	Eureka!	o	Exofficio	o	Five Ten	o	Garmin	o	Icebreaker	o	La Sportiva	o	Louis Garneau	o	Marmot	o	Msr	o	Mountain Hardware	o	The North Face	o	Outdoor Research	o	Osprey	o	Petzl	o	Royal Ribbons	o	Salomon	o	Sierra Designs	o	Suunto	o	Beal
Anything Else?	La Cordée is a thriving and expanding Quebec-based business that has always focused on what defines its essence: a passion for outdoor recreational activities of all types.
Throughout more than fifty years in the business, La Cordée has played a major role in shaping the world of outdoor recreation in Quebec. Today, it is more than ever involved in promoting and ensuring the future of outdoor sports in our province.
With its 250 employees dedicated to making you play outside, La Cordée is proud to be the link between you and the Great Outdoors.
La Cordée offers a wide range of clothing and equipment to everyone, from the beginner to the expert, who wishes to fully enjoy outdoor activities.
Guided by our desire to act ethically, with integrity and with respect for the environment:
o We are concerned with the well-being and comfort of our customers as they enjoy their free-time outside;	o We live and share our passion for outdoor activities;	o We encourage both learning about outdoor activities and the practice of outdoor activities;	o We invest in the development of the youth and the outdoor activities community;	o We treat customers, employees and partners with respect, fairness, honesty and transparency;	o We value long lasting relationships with our partners and with the community;	o We take pride in participating in the development of the local economy;	o We encourage respect towards nature and the environment;	o We promote products that respect the principles of sustainable development.
To be recognized as a leader in the field of outdoors activities on the basis of the expertise and commitment of its staff. To persue business growth through the development of an integrated network, by continuously adapting the business model to new social trends.
La Cordée started out in 1953. Originally founded as a cooperative, it sold fairly priced Scout uniforms. During its first ten years in business, it served the needs of the Scout community.
The shift toward outdoor sports
Over the years, a wider customer base, attracted by a growing selection of specialized products, visited the store. From then, La Cordée rapidly became the undisputed leader in the sale of products for outdoor sports in Quebec.
In its first days serving the general public, La Cordée specialized in camping gear and offered light equipment to customers interested in hiking. It is also during the sixties that climbing equipment appeared in Quebec and that the store became a meeting point for climbers of all regions of the province.
In the early seventies, La Cordée played an active role in the development of cross-country skiing, at a time where thousands of Quebecers were discovering this activity. Many skiers then Norge skis, which La Cordée imported exclusively from Norway and which were considered for a long time, the best skis available. It is also during this time that La Cordée moved to current address on rue Ste-Catherine.
During the eighties, the company imposed itself as a leading bicycle retailer in the Montreal region. For a long time the single cycling specialist in the province, La Cordée was also a pioneer for introducing the mountain bike here : they were available in its shops as early as 1985. It is also at that time that the status of the organization changed and that La Cordée officially got its business title. In 1982, the Fondation scoute La Cordée was created to manage the profits that the shop generated. Dedicated to helping the youth, this non-profit organization gave its support to Scouts du Montréal métropolitain and started a scholarship program.
It was in the nineties that the Retour aux Sources Program was born. Initially, the idea was to sell t-shirts to raise funds for the develoment of various outdoor recreational activities. People responded so favorably that it was decided that the company would use a portion of the proceeds from the sale of its homemade products to support various initiatives in that field. Since 1997, La Cordée invests 1% of the sales of its branded products in the the Retour aux Sources Program, which supports the development and maintenance of outdoor sports facilities in Quebec.
Climbing access in Quebec granted through Alpine Club of Canada and SEBKA
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Geocaching and Waymarking
I had a bit of a lazy day today, but not really. This afternoon, I spent some time Geocaching and Waymarking. Having received an e-mail hint from a new geocaching friend, I found the elusive ELM-MLK cache. It was nice to check that one off my list, as it had been haunting me for a while. The second cache I hunted today was Aggie Pride, which was an easy park-and-grab. Feeling good about those two finds, I headed off to re-hunt Speak: The Furry Moist Avenger, but was unable to attempt the hunt because a muggle was taking a nap near the cache location! I had a hint for this one and poked around a little bit, but I feared that if I poked too much, I'd wake the sleeping muggle, and I really didn't want to have to explain geocaching to someone just waking up from a nap.
Another thing that I did while I was out this afternoon was start finding some waymarks. This is pretty neat: it's like geocaching, except that there is no cache to find -- the location is the goal. I ended up discovering a total of six North Carolina Highway Historical Markers, which is one of the categories of waymarks. None of the markers I saw had been cataloged, so I created waymarks for them: J-96: Cone Brothers, J-22: Confederate Cabinet, J-21 Jefferson Davis, J-102: North Carolina Railroad, J-79: Sit-Ins, and J-64: T. Gilbert Pearson. It was pretty cool to find those markers and to go on the waymarking site and create entries for them. My entries were very basic -- I basically just put in the information that was on the marker itself. The approver wrote me an email telling me that, whenever possible, it's a good idea to include more detailed information about the event that is being commemorated by the marker. I agree, and will spend some time over the next few days doing some research on the topics mentioned in the markers I found so that I can beef up the descriptions on the waymarking site some more.
All in all, it was a good day to have fun with my GPSr. When it was all said and done, I came home and created a few new photo albums. I created an album called Fun with GPS, which currently has 2 sub-albums: Geocaching and Waymarking. As I do more fun things related to geocaching and waymarking, I'll try to keep these albums up to date with photographs of my adventures.
All told, it was a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
geocaching,
jeffholton
Was there much to talk about on April 12-13, 1865?
JD: Ok, budget report?
Cabinet member: We have no budget.
JD: Ok, scratch that, then. How's General Lee?
Cabinet member: No doubt on his way to Leavenworth, Kansas.
JD: To take the prison??!?
Cabinet member: Uhm. Yes, you could say that.
JD [with a sigh]: How's the weather in Atlanta?
Cabinet member: There is no Atlanta.
JD: Uhm. Right. Ok. Anyone for New Orleans?
Cabinet member: Well, it's there...for now. But rumor has it that a Texan's ineptitude will fix that within 140 years.
JD: Texan? [incredulous glare] Never mind. How's the cotton crop looking?
Cabinet member: The Brits like it enough, but did you see all the Gore-Tex in the latest L. L. Bean catalog?
JD [annoyed]: No. Land's End is based out of Maine. What about the slavery industry?
Cabinet member: Perhaps you didn't read the news. Lincoln freed them all two years ago, remember?
JD: [slaps forehead] Ok, anyone to make a motion to adjourn the meeting?
Cabinet member [reacting to sounds of cannon fire in the distance]: Perhaps "meeting evacuated" would be a more appropriate phrase.
JD: Right then. Meeting evacuated. [slams down gavel] RUN!
My guess is that they talked about the events described on a nearby marker:
Near this spot on April 13, 1865, President Jefferson Davis, members of the Confederate Cabinet, and Generals Joseph E. Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard met to discuss the Confederate military situation as a result of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomatox. With the reluctant consent of President Davis, a letter was sent to General William T. Sherman requesting a cease-fire to allow civil authorities to negotiate a peace. As a result of this initiative, on April 26, 1865, Johnston surrendered the army of Tennessee, which led to the end of the war.
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Nestled between Europe's most ancient forests and spectacular mountain ranges is the stunning Slovenia. The crossroads of the Balkans, this storied central European wonderland is one of the continents best kept secrets. A cultural and natural mecca, Slovenia features emerald waterways, craggy coastline, massive mountains, castles, canyons and caves. Surrounded by Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Austria, and the Adriatic sea, you'll savor the flavors and features of each in Slovenia. Explore rich landscapes, pristine wilderness, tiny towns and floating cities as you hike, climb, raft, kayak and eat your way through the heart of Europe.
With over half of the country covered by forest, and much of it covered in huge mountains, Slovenia is a world class wilderness experience. Spend 5 days hiking the alpine paradise of Triglav National Park. Trek through the spectacular Julian Alps, up jagged peaks, and along towering ridge lines. These days will be epic and challenging, but each night will finish in the remote Slovenian countryside with a hot meal and cozy bed to prepare you for the next days adventure.
Explore the inverted worlds of the Soca River Valley. The emerald waters of the Soca River carve their way through incredible rock formations that can be explored by climbing, jumping, rappelling and sliding on a canyoneering expedition. Learn a whole new way to adventure using ropes, harnesses, belay systems, and climbing techniques to explore the caves, canyons and caverns of this gorgeous gorge.
Get into the sparkling Slovenian magic of the Soca river on a white water rafting excursion. Known as the "Emerald Beauty" for its vivid waters, this river takes you through overhanging rock formations, beautiful landscapes, and thrilling rapids. Learn to navigate these crystal waters with your team, cruising narrow canyons, and paddling in sync. Watch the Slovenian wilderness go by on river time.
Access the best of the Adriatic sea on the historic coast of Croatia. Explore this spectacular stretch of beaches, turquoise water, and Roman remains, as you glide around the Istrian Peninsula in a sea kayak. Cruise by ancient seaside villages, examine ocean made caves, and tour oyster beds as you paddle this cultural coast, rich with Croatian and Italian heritage.


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Dunwoody residents attending meeting question city's direction and city projects
by Joe Earle December 4, 2013 December 4, 2013
Dunwoody City Councilman-elect Jim Riticher hosted a public meeting Dec. 3 to hear what his constituents think of City Hall.
He heard plenty.
More than 50 people attended the two-hour-long meeting at All Saints Catholic Church. Many questioned or objected to the city's direction or to an array of current city plans or projects.
Residents criticized city projects ranging from the 12-foot-wide multi-purpose trail being built in Brook Run Park to Project Renaissance, the public-private redevelopment project under way in the Georgetown community, to consideration for a roundabout at the intersection of Vermack and Womack roads.
"I encourage you to fight the forces that want to turn Dunwoody into Decatur or the Highlands," Steve Gebhardt said. "Let's keep Dunwoody what made Dunwoody great – a small community."
Some residents also complained that city officials ignore their critics. "If they want us to be involved, they need to be listening and they're not," Adelina Alberghini said.
Riticher ran as one of three candidates proposing a "clean sweep" of the three Dunwoody City Council seats on the ballot in the November election. Riticher, the only one of the three running in a district without an incumbent, was the only one of the three to win election. Incumbent Councilmen Denny Shortal and Doug Thompson won re-election in their districts.
On Dec. 2, Riticher told members of his audience that they should remain involved in city politics. "This is not a one-man thing," he said.
After the meeting, he said he would consider hosting similar gatherings in the future. "I learned some things I didn't know when I walked in," he said.
Tagged: city, Dunwoody, election, Jim Riticher
Joe Earle
Joe Earle is Editor-at-Large. He has more than 30-years of experience with daily newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was Managing Editor of Reporter Newspapers.	More by Joe Earle


The Gophers sure aren't batting an eyelash at early competition.
After defeating Lehigh Friday, who beat Duke two years ago in the NCAA tournament, Minnesota once again put up a solid effort against a perennial NCAA tourney team, defeating Montana 84-58.
Andre Hollins led all scorers with 24 points, while Deandre Mathieu added 15, and Austin Hollins put up 11 on 4-of-8 from the field to round out the list of Gophers in double figures.
Wally Ellenson, who was held out of Friday's game by Richard Pitino despite being healthy and ready to play, made his season debut, playing sparingly and putting up three points.
Montana, who has made the NCAA tournament out of the Big Sky Conference three of the last four years, was led by Kareem Jamar, who had 18.
The Gophers are in action next against Richmond of the Atlantic 10, a 6 p.m. tap Saturday.


The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) is the only organisation that represents and protects the interests of builders merchants, plumbing, heating, roofing, decorative and timber merchants and their suppliers. We are the authoritative voice for the building materials distribution sector, conveying the views and issues that face merchants and suppliers, to the widest possible audience. BMF training ranges from formal Apprenticeships and sector-specific Diplomas, Degrees and a Master's Degrees in Merchant Leadership and Strategy, to on-line product knowledge and other specialist skills training.
This course will help you understand the build process involved during a residential new build or RMI project. You will explore the different phases of a residential project from design to finishing; the different packages of work at each construction phase ;and the different sub-contractors who are likely to be involved.
A three day regional management course or a choice of selecting the content to personalise an in-company course of between two and five days. This course has been designed to be engaging and highly interactive. Emphasis is placed upon challenging perceptions whilst providing insights as to how to manage people more effectively. Practical skills and techniques are also examined with a view to increasing delegate's confidence; particularly when dealing with difficult conversations. In turn this should lead to a change in behaviours upon return to the workplace and subsequent improvements in management style.


Sulpitia Lodovica Cesis was born in 1577, probably in Modena, Italy. She was the daughter of a count, who gave her 300 gold pieces as a dowry when she entered the Augustinian convent of S.Geminiani in Modena in 1593. She is described as an excellent lute player. In 1619 a collection of motets by Sulpitia Cesis was published, Motetti Spirituali, containing 23 motets. The date of her death is not known, but probably after the year of this publication.
Four female soloists and orchestra.
This Stabat Mater is actually a mixture of two works. One is the motet by Cesis, the other a gregorian chant which was in use by nuns from Bologna. The chant is sung alternately by solo voice and choir. The stanzas by Cesis are sung by four soloists with instrumental accompaniment.
The "Analecta"-version of the text is followed, but only 8 stanza's are used. The Colorbar gives an impression how the chant is mixed with the Cesis composition.
The CD was recorded in Bologna, Italy, in October 2001.


Sanskrit Model paper 2019 – MP Board Sanskrit Guess Paper And Blueprint | Download Sanskrit Previous years Question paper. Most important question for Special Sanskrit Class 10th MP Board. High School Exam 2019 online Sanskrit Study. MP Board provide Model Paper for Class 10th.
प्र. अधोलिखितप्रश्‍नानाम् उत्‍तराणि एक वाक्‍येन लिखत?
प्र. स्‍वस्‍य प्राचार्यस्‍य कृते त्रिदिवसानाम् अवकाशार्थ प्रार्थनापत्रं लिखित? अथवा भगिन्‍या: विवाहे आमन्‍त्रयितुं मित्राय पत्रं लिखित?
Download Sanskrit Previous years Question paper. Most important question for Special Sanskrit Class 10th MP Board. High School Exam 2019 online Sanskrit Study. MP Board provide Model Paper for Class 10th.


Combination photography & naturalist slow paced hike to view, identify & photography wildflowers, rocks, scenery and a waterfall.
Meet at the trail head at 9am. We will depart at 9:05am.
From Ellensburg, drive east on I-90 to exit 143, Silica Road and The Gorge Amphitheater. At the bottom of the ramp, go left under the freeway for 0.7 mile. Turn left on Vantage Road SW. A Discover Pass is required beyond this point. Travel 2.6 miles to a small, easy-to-miss gravel parking lot on the right, surrounded by concrete barriers. There are no amenities.
Note: I will be camping at Wanapum State Park on Friday night. You might consider doing this also. Or, check the roster and contact those willing to carpool.
PLEASE READ ENTIRE DESCRIPTION BELOW BEFORE SIGNING UP!
This is a combination photography and naturalist field trip - slow day hikers are welcome to join us. We will be hiking at a very slow pace with frequent stops to take photos and identify plants, etc.
Hiking poles are suggested to help maneuver loose rocks. A tripod is good for taking waterfall photos.
Be sure to pack your 10 essentials! This is a requirement, not a nice to have list!
Explore the vast array of shrub steppe wildflowers at the Wild Horse Wind Facility. Enjoy the guided wildflower walks, presentations, displays, and wind turbine tours. RSVP Required: wildhorse@pse.com.
by Rich Landers and Craig Romano.


member of ABATE (American Bikers Aimed Toward Education).
South Carolina and one brother, Robert Brown of Indianapolis, IN.
Ochs-Tetrick Funeral Home with Pastor Jimmy Johnson officiating.
Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery, Orleans.


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Parents: Cyber Bullying Led to Teen's Suicide
Mother creates fictitious male profile to gain teen's confidence and learn info.
Nov. 19, 2007 — -- The parents of a 13-year-old girl who believe their daughter's October 2006 suicide was the result of a cruel cyber hoax are pushing for measures to protect other children online.
Tina and Ron Meier, who are now separated and plan to divorce, have taken up the cause of Internet safety after a bizarre twist in their daughter Megan Meier's death.
The mother of a former friend of Megan's allegedly created a fictitious profile in order to gain Megan's trust and learn what Megan was saying about her daughter. But the communication eventually turned hostile.
"There needs to be some sort of regulations out there to protect children. Parents can only be in so many places and so many times," Tina Meier said on "Good Morning America Weekend Edition" Sunday. "I wish there were regulations with these forums. There's got to be something."
The Meiers said they are unsure why someone would do such a thing.
"We don't know. How do you get in the mind of somebody? We just have no idea," Tina Meier said.
While the Meiers do not believe it was the woman's intent to have Megan commit suicide, they do hold her solely responsible for the death.
"I believe they are the ones who took her to the edge of the cliff and forced her to go over," Ron Meier said on "GMA." "Everything that we found out so far -- it was the sole idea of the mother."
He added that he did not believe the mother was acting on her daughter's behalf.
Megan Meier sometimes suffered from low self-esteem and was on medication at the time of her death. But her family said she looked forward to her 14th birthday and having her braces removed.
When a cute boy befriended Megan on the social networking site MySpace, the two formed a quick connection during their more than month-long relationship.
"She got this e-mail from this boy named Josh Evans," Tina Meier said.
Evans claimed to be a 16-year-old boy who lived nearby and was home schooled. But what began as a promising online friendship soon turned sour, as compliments turned to insults.
Evans said he didn't have a phone and so Megan couldn't talk to him. But the two continued their communication online, despite some red flags Tina Meier said she saw.
"It was just that nervous mom," Tina Meier said. She called police to find out if they could determine if a MySpace account was real. They couldn't.
Still, all seemed to go well between Megan and Josh until an unsettling message started a tragic chain of events.
"Megan gets an e-mail, or a message from Josh on her MySpace on Oct. 15, 2006, saying, 'I don't know if I want to be friends with you any longer because I hear you're not nice to your friends,'" Tina Meier said.
Someone using Josh's account was sending cruel messages and Megan called her mother, saying electronic bulletins were being posted about her, saying things like, "Megan Meier is a slut. Megan Meier is fat," according to the Associated Press.
The cyber exchange devastated Megan, who was unable to understand how and why her friendship unraveled. The stress and frustration was too much for Megan, who had a history of depression.
Tina Meier discovered her daughter's body in a bedroom closet on Oct. 16, 2006. Megan had hanged herself and died a day later.
But six weeks after Megan's death, the Meiers learned Josh Evans never existed. A mother, who had learned of the page from her own daughter, told the Meiers a neighborhood mom had created and monitored Evans' profile and page.
There was a connection between the Meiers and the family with the mother accused of running Evans' profile. In fact, the woman who created the profile had asked the Meiers if her family could store their foosball table.
Once they learned of the family's involvement, the Meiers destroyed the table, placed it in the woman's yard and encouraged the family to move, according to the AP.
"That's the biggest tragedy of this whole thing: An adult did it," Ron Meier said.
While the woman who created the fake profile has not been charged with a crime, residents have proposed a new ordinance related to child endangerment and Internet harassment. It could come before city leaders on Wednesday, according to the AP.
Cyber Bullying Common Among Teens
In the information age, playground poundings have moved to online chat rooms and instant messages. Nearly half of all teenagers report they have been the victim of cyber attacks. Everything from text messaging to e-mail can be used to bully victims. Some people even create Web sites solely dedicated to harassment.
It may be difficult for a well-meaning child to initially tell the difference between friend and foe online.
"When emotionally vulnerable young people get online, they can be very easily manipulated," said Nancy Willard, executive director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use.
Ron Meier said parents should be mindful of their children's online activities and relationships.
"Be as watchful as you can be," he said.


chloride shift The movement of chloride ions (Cl–) into red blood cells. Carbon dioxide reacts with water to form carbonic acid in the red blood cells (see carbonic anhydrase). The carbonic acid then dissociates into hydrogencarbonate ions (HCO3–) and hydrogen ions (H+). The plasma membrane is relatively permeable to negative ions. Therefore the hydrogencarbonate ions diffuse out of the cell into the plasma, leaving the hydrogen ions, which create a net positive charge; this is neutralized by the diffusion of chloride ions from the plasma into the cell.
"chloride shift." A Dictionary of Biology. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.


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It was executive produced by Q-Tip
Detroit rapper Danny Brown has announced plans for a new album called U Know What I'm Sayin?
The album hasn't been given an official release date yet, but Brown did confirm that the upcoming offering was executive produced by Q-Tip.
Executive produced https://t.co/pUu1A4goNW
— Danny Brown (@xdannyxbrownx) April 30, 2019
He later clarified on Twitter that his long-time collaborators Paul White and JPEGMAFIA also provide beats on the upcoming LP, though Brown also said that he "wasn't tryna list everybody that worked on the album yet."
EXCUSE ME?????? pic.twitter.com/PzxpgQ0bVq
— Josh (@Natural_Anthem) April 30, 2019
In addition to confirming the album title, Brown also unveiled some stylish new looks for High Snobniety.
🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾
A post shared by Danny Brown (@xdannyxbrownx) on Apr 29, 2019 at 10:05am PDT
uknowhatimsayin?
A post shared by Danny Brown (@xdannyxbrownx) on Apr 30, 2019 at 1:34am PDT
Clearly there are still more details to come, but it sound like a promising start to Brown's next album.
When the record does arrive, it will mark the full-length follow-up to 2016's Atrocity Exhibition.
Brown also released the concert doc Live at the Majestic last year, as well as the Accelerator EP in 2017.
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"The Chosen" Episode 1 Review
The Rev. Rob Courtney & Mtr. Liz Embler Beazley
Fr. Rob & Mtr. Liz are clergy at St. Paul's
We are screening the first season of The Chosen during this Season after the Epiphany. On Jan. 4 a group of us gathered to watch the first episode. Lots of people have been telling us about this series for a while now, and what better way to become acquainted with it than to watch as a church community.
**SPOILER WARNING** There are spoilers below, so if you'd rather avoid them until you can watch the show yourself come back later!
Want to keep going? Alright then. You were warned!
For our part, we both enjoyed the first episode! Some of the participants found it a little confusing, but that seems to be for a couple of reasons: 1) some of it comes down to an unfamiliarity with the gospel stories--which is okay! That's part of the reason we're watching this. We want, ultimately, for it to help direct us to the Bible. 2) First (sometimes second or third as well) episodes of TV shows can be confusing. There was one person present who has already streamed the entire series, and another who had seen the first three episodes. Both of them talked about their second viewings being more meaningful because they already knew where the story is going. I (Fr. Rob) always try to give TV shows at least 2 episodes, maybe 3, before bailing. Most TV shows need an episode or two of setup before hitting their stride. We get the feeling that's what's happening here.
Overall, we really appreciated the production value. It's well-directed, and deals very appropriately with some heavy themes. Mary Magdalene is depicted as struggling with real trauma, and some of the traumatic circumstances of her life are implied without in any way being graphic, which actually increases the narrative's power. The episode depicts the city of Capernaum as a rather desperate place, and the viewer gets the feeling that this place and its people are truly in need of saving, not unlike our own modern world. One gripe we had is in the costuming and casting of the Roman soldiers. Their helmets seem like they are flopping around on the soldiers heads, and the actors all seem to have British accents. The Jewish, Middle Eastern characters seemed a little more authentic compared to the soldiers.
While most of the characters themselves are biblically based, this first episode is a broad, speculative exploration of what these people may have been like. While much of what we learn about them is for dramatic effect, it does put real flesh on gospel characters who can seem flat on the page. We really liked Simon (Peter) and Andrew in particular. Mary Magdalene is also a highlight, but there is one aspect of her character that is decidedly unbiblical. Mary is portrayed as a prostitute which is nowhere in scripture. It is a tradition of the Church, but it is not biblical. All that the Bible says about her struggles is in Luke 8:2 where we learn that Jesus cast out seven demons from her. The tradition of her as a prostitute began in the 6th century when Pope Gregory the Great conflated Mary with other gospel characters. While The Chosen's portrayal of Mary has a lot to offer that is positive, it's disappointing that the writers decided to stick with this false and damaging tradition about her. They could have achieved the same effect of showing her as a woman who'd experienced great trauma in her life, a woman who was victimized, a woman who wrestled with her demons, without the false prostitution angle.
During our discussion several of us noted the interesting portrayal of Nicodemus, whom we only know from the Gospel of John. We see Nicodemus as a respected teacher and leader, yet also a man struggling with some doubts and insecurities, who is searching for greater spiritual depth than his role seems to offer him. This tracks very well with the Nicodemus of the gospel whom John portrays as coming to Jesus "by night" because he doesn't want others to see him meeting with Jesus (see John 3). We were curious to see how his character will continue to develop.
The characters we meet seem as desperate as the city they live in. They're all lost. They're all damaged, all searching. It's not until the end of this episode that we finally meet Jesus as he encounters Mary, calls her by name, and only then does she respond (see John 10:27). This also foreshadows John's famous resurrection scene with Mary (see John 20:16).
We mentioned that some of our viewers found the show confusing at first, others responded very positively. Here is what some of them said:
"It was like having scripture show up."
"Surreal. Spooky. But powerful!"
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, and let's have a conversation! Next Wednesday we'll be back for episode 2. Maybe you can join us! Learn more about our Wednesdays at Church (W@tCh) program here. Hope to see you!
The biggest disappointment was perpetuating the slander against Mary of Magdala.
The roman legionnaires should have had their buccula tied with a leather thong. Those check guards that were flopping around. Poor uniform discipline and costuming.
Also, the legionnaires were walking around in full armor seemingly at random and alone. If on patrol should at least be in pairs or a squad. Not a military expert either ancient or modern but looks strange. And a good way to get jumped by a band of Zealots. Were the Zealot around then or was that later?
The legionnaires also gave me an occupied Europe under the Nazis vibe. Or imperial stormtroopers searching Tatoonie for droids. Its as if The Chosen is setting up something.
Last thought: what was with the commander removing his helmet in the synagogue? Was he showing respect by taking it off? I doubt it, but it would be a typical gentile mistake. Roman military courtesy, take you hat off indoors? A deliberate insult? Or was he just glad to get that heavy and hot helmet off his head?
OK, I have a fascination with 1st Century B. C. and A. D. 1st century roman culture.
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Ted, good observations! I remember hearing that when Martin Scorcese made "The Last Temptation of Christ" he used the same group of Roman soldiers over and over because they didn't have enough money for costumes or cast! Don't know if maybe that's part of the bad soldier costuming or not. Why did the soldier take his helmet off indoors? Not sure, but it's a good question. It does seem like the polite thing to do, but they don't come off (nor I'm sure were they in reality) always polite. Thanks for chiming in!
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We're headed to St. Petersburg for a few days in September and are looking for a decent hotel.
By decent, I mean western standards of cleanliness and somewhat central (not much more than a 10 minute walk from Nevsky, the Hermitage or other main sites). We're also looking for something that won't break the bank. Our budget is less than $200 per night and we want a nice hotel, not a short-term apartment rental.
We've thought about Stony Island (http://www.stonyisland.ru/), Marco Polo, and Arkadia.
Has anyone stayed at these hotels? Can you recommend them or any others?
This might be a little above your price range, but the Petro Palace was a nice hotel when I stayed there a few months back.
Thanks, jheisel, I'll look into it.
At a first glance it's above what we're budgeting for hotels, especially when we've found some other 4*'s for less.
I'll probably book my accommodations through them and I'll certainly let you all know the results if I do.
Good site, thanks. I find there 2 room apartment only 40$ per night (fontanka emb. 60). I will recommend it for my friends.
same situation as you past month. heading to S.Petersburg for the week end and lookin gfor a convenient (not only money wise) accomodation. I checked the web sites from the forum but unfortunately I can't yet read russian.
Suggestions? Where did you stay in the end?
I can recommend the Alexander House hotel. They have two hotels called Alexander House 1 and the other is called no. 2.
AH1 is better but they are both very good and within your budget. They aren't quite as central as you have asked for but it will cost you about 150R in a gypsy cab to Nevsky.
AH1 is alo about a 10-15min walk from a good English pub called Dickens that serves nice beer and food.
really cheap one, convinient location and nice!!!
Try the "Sovetskaya Hotel" (it's now called something else, and, sorry, I cannot recall the new name ... now part of a local chain). It's an old soviet era hotel, a little bit out of the center (150 rubles by taxi, also metro nearby) but recently modernised, good simple rooms (about 800 of them), good service and security, breakfast usually included, and about 2000 rubles a night. Good value for money. Great views over the city if you get a room on the higher floors.
Found it .... Sovetskaya is now called the Azimut Hotel.
Please have a look at http://www.saint-petersburghotels.com I booked through them couple of times.
I found a really groovy hotel quite near the Moscow Railway Station, close to a Catholic Church. It turned out that it had just opened and they gave me a 10% discount. Really friendly staff and although there are only seven rooms, they are almost palatial!! Their site is Êàìåðäèíåðú-îòåëü (http://www.kamerdiner.com). Thoroughly recommended.


This record was published by Natural England on 27 June 2011 .
The Walking for Health (WfH) programme was the largest led walk intervention of its time and one of the largest public health interventions for physical activity in the UK. It aimed to encourage people to take regular short walks in their local communities, in order to increase their levels of physical activity, improve their health, and connect them with their local environment.
Initially set up in 2000 by the Countryside Agency, ownership of WfH transferred to Natural England in 2006. From April 2009 Natural England – working in partnership with the Department of Health – embarked on a three-year expansion programme for WfH which aimed to increase participation fourfold.
This Research Report examines the demographics of participants in Natural England's Walking for Health (WfH) programme between April 2008 and March 2010. The report is based primarily on the data of around 50,000 participants held on the WfH Database, but also draws on other related research.
The purpose of this report is to provide a clear and detailed picture of who took part in WfH, in order to inform the delivery of future led walk interventions aimed at tackling health and physical activity issues. It also provides evidence on the demographic impact of the first year of the WfH expansion programme.


The world of home automation is changing and converging. As the IoT is increasingly being used for smart home use cases and there has been quite some – increasing – hype around all sorts of smart home labelled products and future home scenarios, the concept of the real connected smart home is more popular than ever. Yet, as always beyond hype there is also a reality.
In this article we don't look at the avalanche of consumer electronics products that have been launched at tradeshows such as CES nor at what a smart home could like in a decade from now but at smart home and home automation realities and evolutions as they are out there, will soon be out there or have been out there since quite some time.
In fact, home automation, an essential part of a smart home, and even the concept and reality of a smart or intelligent home as such go back to long before the term Internet of Things was even coined.
To illustrate this fact let's look at some of the existing standards, technologies, functions and realities in two different areas, home automation with its increasingly importance of 'smaller' building management systems and small building automation on one hand and the smart home 'segment' as it's often understood in the sense of connected appliances, remote controls and, today, IoT-enabled appliances at home on the other hand. Two separate, yet converging worlds as we'll see.
Standards and protocols which are used in a small residential building automation, home automation and lighting and room control context such as KNX, C-BUS or DALI bus technologies and wireless EnOcean exist since a long time as well, in many cases far over a decade.
Even Z-Wave, a name that will probably ring a bell with people who are familiar with IoT is over a decade old. And of course everything is IP nowadays as light and room control (L&RC) and building management system (BMS) expert Jean Commeignes, who is responsible for the L&RC badge of the EcoXpert certification program of Schneider Electric, explains in our interview on the evolutions of light and room control amid the accelerating use of IoT.
You can even go way back further in time to the seventies when the X10 home automation communication protocol was launched and enabled remote control of, among others, lamps. It was joined in the eighties by platforms/protocols such as LonWorks and CEBus (not the same as C-Bus).
You will find some of the many mentioned standards in the high-end segment of the home automation world, for instance with regards to that aspect of light and room control which is part of the smart home automation ecosystem.
You might also find them in a smart building automation system for buildings that are larger than the average home as this building automation example shows. You might even find them in even larger buildings and in an Industry 4.0 context as well, albeit it integrated with other standards. There are overlaps and more standards out there which really are used in various contexts, including home automation – but not solely.
By way of an example: as Jean Commeignes also eloquently explains in our interview on lighting and room control, the concept of a room – and thus the used technologies and standards – stretches beyond rooms in a smart home context and combines a range of room control functions which you can find at home, in a hotel lobby, in an office meeting room and, as you can imagine, also in rooms and similar spaces in any other environment: warehouses, factories, you name it.
Just like home automation and its evolving protocols aren't new, the 'vision' of a smart home as most people see it in this day and age of connected IoT devices, isn't really new either.
The example of the connected fridge and all it would be able to do goes back to the early days of the Internet. In fact, at the end of the nineties these kinds of connected appliances already existed, albeit in limited ways and not as they look now.
More importantly, as we'll see a smart home is not one with a bunch of IoT-enabled and connected kitchen and other appliances. And smart home automation is a different thing. However, the notion of the smart home has been broadening and gradually including appliances on top of longer existing home automation realities such as temperature control, blind control, energy management solutions and the mentioned lighting and room control to name a few.
Over a decade ago the term smart house used to be quite popular. However, the meaning of a smart house wasn't really defined.
In this 2004 publication, for instance, you see the term smart house used as the combination of intelligent devices, embedded into the home environment, with a focus on health monitoring and older people or people with disabilities. Do note that the idea of remote health monitoring, an important IoT use case in healthcare, goes back some time as well. For the authors a smart house consisted of several building blocks, including of course a lot of sensors.
Others spoke about the smart house and indeed sold smart house solutions in the sense of what you would call a smart home in an IoT context, with on top of that several home automation controls and functions as they exist today.
So, once again overlaps. This was also the case for another term we have been using long before the smart home; the intelligent home. Synonyms indeed but with intelligent homes and intelligent buildings we were again more in that dimension of heating and air conditioning controls, audio and video and so forth. There was also a Danish company, LK (Lauritz Knudsen), that made a building automation system for the intelligent home, called IHC which stands for Intelligent House Concept and is/was sold as a smart house solution by partners and got acquired.
A term that you also may encounters is the connected home. In 2017 research from Gartner on connected home solutions (more below), the firm defined connected home solutions as follows: "Connected home solutions consist of a set of devices and services that are connected to each other and to the internet and can automatically respond to preset rules, be remotely accessed and managed by mobile apps or a browser, and send alerts or messages to the user(s)". That's a nice one too. Yet, essentially it overlaps with the types of solutions in the more modern sense of the smart home as we covered it and which is converging with the home automation sense anyway.
To cut a long story short: many terms for similar and/or overlapping concepts and quite a bit of history indeed. And then the modern consumer IoT smart home craze still had to come with all its appliances and platforms such as Nest and many many others….. Reality? If it's called smart today, the Internet of Things is always there.
Home automation and smart home are two different things, although they are often used interchangeably.
Home automation does what it says: home automation enables to configure and automate how various devices inside and outside/nearby the home work together in an automated way in the context of a connected home. You can compare it with building automation in larger, often commercial, buildings. And, in a sense, a smart home automation system can be compared with an IoT-enabled building management system (BMS) for smaller buildings, although in most homes you won't find those high-end BMS systems but more limited home automation systems whereby the functions and look and feel are different, depending on what functions are needed.
Yet, in the world of building and home automation, which really brings together several specializations, not all is black or white – it rarely is in general. So, you might certainly encounter mini-systems for home automation that are pretty sophisticated and look more like an integrated small building management system.
Thanks to home automation you can monitor and control the components in and nearby your home with the infrastructural foundations for a truly smart or connected home where smart electrical, mechanical and other operation technologies (OT) meet IT in IoT.
What is the definition of a smart home, of which home automation is part, then? Is a smart home a smart building? Although everyone knows that a home is a building, a smart home is not a smart building.
By way of an example that these two terms are distinguished from each other: in our overview of the main IoT investments per use case according to June 2017 data from IDC you'll notice that a de facto distinction is made between smart buildings as a cross-industry IoT use case which is poised for fast growth ($40 billion in 2017 and, along with connected vehicles predicted to rank among the top segments until 2021) on one hand and the also fast growing investments ($63 billion by 2020) by consumers in smart home solutions on the other, with spending on smart home technologies forecasted to grow with a 19.8% CAGR until 2021.
So, is that the difference between a smart home and smart building? Residential (private, home) versus non-residential? Unfortunately not always and it depends on whom you ask, it can get complicated indeed.
Some will classify a large or even smaller residential multi-family building such as a big flat building or a smaller apartment building with the necessary connectivity, capabilities, intelligence and automation as a smart building. That is because such buildings have shared assets and facilities. Unless you're really rich or disabled you probably don't have a lift in your smart home, for instance. And if you do, it's not shared, it's yours. Some have found the answer by speaking about smart apartments in such a context of large residential buildings as it separates the 'private living space' which a home tends to be from the shared building space.
Let's make it even a bit more complex before making it easier and tangible again.
Imagine airconditioning (AC). If you have it, it might be across your entire home or in one or more rooms. If you have it in your apartment, same scenario. If you live in a block of apartments one or more shared areas could also have it.
However, it's not hard to imagine that an HVAC (Heating, Ventilation And Airconditioning) solution doesn't look the same in a room, building-wide in a luxury villa and in the possibly big entry hall – with the elevators – in a multi-family housing flat complex. Moreover, in the case of flats it uses shared resources such as the networks, electrical infrastructure and so forth, so with large residential buildings it's a bit of a grey zone.
Last but not least it's important to remind that, although there are smart home and home automation experts, de facto often many worlds are colliding here.
The people who know all about smart metering know electricity but that doesn't mean they understand HVAC, which is an entirely different ball game or lighting and room control, which again is different.
In most homes you won't find the really high-end solutions though and home automation is different from your large luxury villa in the tropics. Moreover, the IoT is playing a converging role. In smart homes. And in smart buildings.
On one hand smart home is an umbrella term for the automation, digitization and interconnecting of several home automation areas, which as mentioned have existed since quite some time: lighting, room control, blind control, solar shading, audio and video control, security and entry control, the list goes on.
On the other hand and especially since the arrival of the Internet of Things and its many applications in the sphere of home appliances, smart meters and IoT consumer devices for the home such as smart TVs, connected entertainment systems, Internet-enabled appliances and voice-command systems, the smart home increasingly was seen as an integrated IoT-enabled living, security, comfort, entertainment and overall home concept which looks a bit different (no smart fridges in traditional home automation).
Yet, as said, this too is converging. So, what would be the definition of a smart home in this context whereby we really move beyond single and often isolated 'smart home solutions' (and gadgets) to a somewhat broader perspective?
A smart home is a house or other form of mainly one-family private buildings which is either home to the family, serves as vacation home or is rented to other families for living or holiday purposes, consisting of automated, digitized and connected home assets, electrical services, controls and appliances across several building and home components and functions. These run within a communications network and enable an enhanced monitoring, comfort, energy conservation, maintenance, home activities and security of its occupants whereby the residents/owners have access to the resulting services and controls via special displays and controllers, which can take many forms such as built-in wall displays, proprietary devices, remote controls, various IT devices such as a computer, tablet or smartphone and/or multiple devices at the same time.
A smart home solution is a solution which plays a role in the realization of a smart home. However, the use of an intelligent device in the home or of one or more separate products or solutions which are labelled as smart home products or solutions by their vendors do not make a home a smart home.
Integration and expansion possibilities are essential components of a smart home (more about the preferences regarding smart home solutions and 'the state of the smart home' below).
We haven't defined a smart building yet, that's for another article. But by looking at some of the goals in smart buildings and building management, we can compare with the smart home. At the end of the day it's more or less the same but with different types of buildings (mainly commercial and functional like schools, airports, hotels, factory plants, hospitals or office buildings but, as mentioned also and depending on whom you ask, large residential buildings), different technologies and application areas, different networks, other standards and solutions and goals of which some are also found in smart homes but which predominantly revolve around energy efficiency, building and occupant health, productivity and comfort of residents, asset maintenance, security, regulatory compliance and overall building health and value (as an asset to its owners).
Regulation is a key driver in smart buildings (energy and ecology) but in some countries there is also regulation (and/or incentivization) with regards to modernizing older homes with an eye on energy consumption and even with regards to new homes. And saving on that bill is still important for families and the environment in general, regardless of type of building.
The value of a building is important for whom owns it. Just as environmental certifications, modern technologies that make sense and the future readiness of a big commercial building makes it more valuable, the same goes for – truly – smart homes. And that doesn't just go for the price of the building as such. If you ever wanted to rent a holiday home in a country like Spain for your vacation and you compared the price for a home with airconditioning (it indeed can be hot in Spain in the Summer), blind control and a connected home entertainment system with the price of a holiday home without airco and a good old satellite TV you know what we mean.
Most of the other aspects in smart building (except perhaps the connected office and asset maintenance dimensions but you can easily translate those into private benefits too) are valid for smart homes as well. Comfort, for instance, needs no further explanation.
As you can see it's easy to speak about a smart home but less easy to understand what it exactly means.
The latter is due to the explosion of all sorts of stand-alone IoT solutions and products that are sold under that 'hot' label of smart home but whereby the more holistic scope of smart homes and home automation is very often ignored. Again: a smart home solution does not make a smart home – and it's not because a vendor sells something as being a smart home solution that it is but that's another story.
As mentioned smart home investments are poised to grow rapidly in an IoT context. There are already many smart homes with advanced home automation in specific markets, however.
Remember that convergence of the traditional home automation and the smart home in the modern IoT context? Well, in luxury houses, among others, you will find smart homes with previously mentioned standards such as KNX, still one of the fastest growers in terms of smart home standards, also outside Europe and China.
If we look at the more recent IoT-related meaning of the smart home, most 'owners' de facto have some smart solutions like a smart thermostat (and how smart is that, really?) , a smart entertainment system, a smart home security solution and of course a smart meter as governments and utilities roll out smart meter programs pretty much everywhere. But really few people have a fully smart and connected home.
The full-fledged smart home is rarely a reality today. A true connected home would at the very least mean end-to-end interoperability and security, several of the above mentioned 'applications' such as HVAC, light control, room control, some form of energy consumption monitoring and control, the connection of smart home appliances and a more or less stabilized market, making that smart home vision come true.
However, with the Internet of Things existing standards have been joined by several other standards and communication forms. Just think about the various evolutions in connectivity standards (short range like Bluetooth 5.0, Bluetooth Mesh, the next Wi-Fi and long range too for some applications), proprietary standards in the vendor ecosystems and platforms (the wars of the big players such as Google and Apple) and the different alliances with home automation standards (the previously mentioned Z-Wave, ZigBee etc.).
If you look at the – longer existing – high-end of the smart home and home automation market there is obviously more maturity and these vendors have solutions that support several of the existing standards such as KNX, as well as IP. In home automation and building automation, a few standards will remain but IoT will replace a lot and act as a converging force.
At the lower end and in the pure IoT smart home market it's still a bit more of a disconnected mix. Moreover, that segment isn't necessarily cheap either and there is a lot of DIY going on there, certainly in an IoT context (HVAC and electrical work, for instance for connected power, isn't really fit for DYI and with DYI there are also DYI risks of course).
Smart home solutions that cover it all are still far too expensive for most people as Beecham Research stated in its October 2016 smart home report.
The research said that smart homes are overpriced but also undersold and misunderstood. Although the market of smart home devices is expected to do just fine, there is a lack of understanding of smart home solutions and what they can offer. This leads to the focus on practical applications and not enough on the aspects of new home comforts and easy living.
At the end of 2016 there were ample announcements that will certainly further boost the IoT smart home space. There is more attention for security (e.g. the Z-Wave alliance launched a new certification program), there are innovations in connectivity (e.g., finally Bluetooth 5.0 is there, now the products), vendors have taken new initiatives (e.g. Google's Android Things), the list goes on.
However, the devices and solutions are still expensive, there is no open standard that is 100% safe to connect all the appliances and data. People also don't trust the manufacturers and the suppliers enough and there is more fear than before. Despite all the factors that hold back growth in the market Beecham Research says that the sales of smart devices for the home will grow with an average of 34 percent to reach $16.2bn in 2020.
The earlier mentioned research by Gartner, announced early March 2017, confirms that the connected or smart home in its true sense isn't exactly for tomorrow (for everyone), although the period until 2021 will see strong growth in connected home and smart home solutions.
According to Gartner's research, a lack of understanding buyer motivations seems to play a crucial role in the reluctance of buyers and providers of connected home solutions are urged to better understand what inspires users to adopt these solutions. Do note that with connected home we go beyond Internet of Things devices for consumers, even if used in a home context as you'll read.
All in all, approximately 10 percent of households in the surveyed countries (US, UK and Australia) have connected home solutions. So, we're still in the stage of the early adoption.
An interesting finding from a user/customer perspective for providers of smart home solutions is that a majority of respondents is more in favor of having a single application to integrate their connected home devices.
Ease of use, interfaces and a single app do seem logical preferences, certainly if you are one of the few having various connected home solutions such as connected home entertainment systems and connected security alarm systems. In total, 55 percent rated 51 or more toward the preference of one integrating app, Gartner found.
A second interesting finding is that consumers also start recognizing the importance of brand certification (58 percent rating 51 or more with regards to certification of – the parts – of the solution by a brand).
While these insights might help vendors and providers to enhance the attractiveness of their connected home offerings, Gartner's Amanda Sabia recommends to push beyond early adopter use and see what motivates those early adopter users to buy more solutions.
Gartner's Jessica Ekholm recommends connected home solution providers to focus on the real value proposition of a full connected home environment, meaning devices, service and experience, with an emphasis on the solving of daily tasks.
We've indeed seen enough consumer Internet of Things devices (also in a home context) pop up that are not just hard to defend from a value proposition overall and certainly from a more holistic and task solving perspective.
Do remember Gartner's definition of connected home solutions and that, when we talk about the real value proposition of a full connected home environment, that does mean/include the value of integrating devices and of a connected home ecosystem.
The US is by far leading in the adoption of connected home solutions. A large majority of respondents is still happy to set temperature and lighting controls manually. And for providers there are monetization challenges in some categories (subscription models aren't that obvious everywhere).
Despite the fact that the real smart home is not there yet, we are using smart home appliances and specific solutions in specific areas. It could be entertainment, home security, smart kitchen appliances (a rather popular segment), anything really.
According to a study by the IAB, released end 2016, 47 percent of consumers already have a connected/smart TV and streaming device.
Another 39 percent of consumers is interested in buying such a combination. So, that part of the entertainment piece seems to get covered fast. Smart home entertainment systems are also called one of the key 'practical' applications, driving the market, along with home safety and anything that saves money.
We already mentioned quite some data sources (IDC, Gartner, Beecham Research etc.). Let's tackle some more that confirms the findings regarding smart home automation dynamics.
According to April 2017 findings from Zion Market Research, the global smart home market is expected to reach $53.45 billion by 2022. That's more cautious than IDC's forecasts, yet it's important to look at the definitions as usual.
Lighting control, a major home automation area, also in the future.
HVAC control, essential in home automation.
Among the main drivers we find (just as in commercial and larger buildings) energy efficiency (part consumer awareness and part legislation), an aging population, government initiatives and rising income in developing countries.
Light control has the largest market share in smart homes and convenience, comfort and security are other key topics as was to be expected.
According to July 2017 research by Transparency Market Research the global market for home automation is expected to rise to a valuation of US$21.6 bn by the end of 2020.
Here as well energy efficiency (or energy conservation) is seen as a key focus point, leading to, among others an important role for the comfort and value of HVAC.
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Domenic Weinstein (Villingen-Schwenningen, 27 de agosto de 1994) es un deportista alemán que compite en ciclismo en las modalidades de pista, especialista en la prueba de persecución individual, y ruta.

Ganó dos medallas de plata en el Campeonato Mundial de Ciclismo en Pista, en los años 2016 y 2019, y cuatro medallas en el Campeonato Europeo de Ciclismo en Pista entre los años 2015 y 2019.

Participó en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016, ocupando el quinto lugar en la prueba de persecución por equipos.

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It has been raining non-stop for the past few days! Boo... for me rain=frizzy hair, pants, and booties! I am still not a fan of rain boots, but maybe one remotely bizarre day I will begin to warm up to them. However, until that day arrives...I am all about booties! They keep my footsies dry, warm and happy :) When going for booties on a rainy day, remember to spray them with water-repellent otherwise it might damage the shoe.
I never quite understood the point of rain boots as reasonable amount of leather shoes are water-proof. But then again it is completely my opinion and I have see people pulling off rain boots with flying colors!I just have a hard time seeing myself do that.
Whenever I shop was fall and winter footwear, I keep in mind the weather and always look for shoes that are comfortable and water-proof. Also, the thickness of leather plays a great part in the selection. I don't like paper-thin leather as it will get wet and is most likely to crack in cold temperatures. The biggest NO NO for wet weather is SUEDE! I've made a huge mistake a while a go by purchasing a $600 pair of Michael Kors suede boots for winter.Let me tell you it broke my heart when after a month of wear they looked like garbage! I had to learn my lesson the hard way, so just wanted to make sure that you don't. Because every time I think about the boots, I want to cry. Although, I adore suede shoes....they are only for dry weather.
Despite the nasty weather, I decided to venture outside to grab some yummy desserts with Andrew and his brother.Since I am quite a bit of tomboy at heart, spending time with the boys is always fun-filled :P I settled for a fun look with pig-tails which have become my latest obsession. Ever since seeing Prada's Spring 2010 show and ads, I was determined that this was the summer of pig-tails! All I need to do is find a perfect berry lip-gloss since red still intimidates the life out of me :P To make the day a little brighter, Marc by Marc Jacobs scarf added a perfect touch of color.
P.S. I will be hosting another giveaway!!! So be sure to check back throughout this week!
Wishing Everyone a Lovely Day!!!
May 11 My Top Ten Wardrobe Essentials...as featured on Fabricate This!


Rod Stewart is extending his 2019 UK summer tour into a winter arena tour including two shows at London's O2.
Due to the huge demand for the previously announced shows, Rod will now play an extra five arena dates in support of the release of his 30th studio album Blood Red Roses which debuted at number 1.
Rod Stewart Live in Concert has already announced 12 dates with headline shows at football stadiums, outdoor venues and arenas across England and Scotland from May through to July.


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Coldplay: The Band. The Music.
Orphans (Official Video)
Thread starter jc90
Out of 10, how would you rate the new Orphans music video?
Ewwww 1/10
Perfect 10/10!
EC-JTR
Livin' life in Technicolor
Coldplayer
My favourite part is Chris playing alone in in the city and nobody recognices it and obviously the song. New York or LA?...
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JimmySVK
New Coldplayer
Very good music. Reminds me of the clip Birds. I look forward to more songs.
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42Escapist
You could be me, I could be you
It's a really cool video, so different from what I expected but really charming and joyful without feeling sugar-coated by too much eye candy. There's a lot of focus on the band, which is something I love to see.
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IcebatofvalikinRRBZ8
Ink>Everglow(Live)
So....what color are the new era outfits?
Caught the premiere last night. One of the most unique music videos from them. I liked the combination of the different scenes and kind of the demo-ey footage at the beginning as well as a more acoustic stripped take on the song. I found the rotating upside down a little disorienting but after it happened a few times I got the point.
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You're a Sky Full of Stars
IcebatofvalikinRRBZ8 said:
Thought for sure they'll be in clothes similar to Christmas Lights but they aren't.
Unless they have different clothes for the different sides.
cp3176 said:
I found the rotating upside down a little disorienting but after it happened a few times I got the point.
I saw it as how the world would be like for someone when a bomb goes off.
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One thing I noticed similar about Christmas Lights and this new era is that the beginning of Christmas Lights had that vinyl thing playing or whatever just like the new lyric vids do.
That's a really cool interpretation of the rotating parts in the video @shred, I never really thought about that before. It was definitely an interesting choice and one that grew on me after it happened a few times. Perhaps it also represents thinking about getting "drunk with their friends" again as the whole band is also jamming out in that room and IIRC the chorus lines up with those scenes as well.
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Coeurli
#TeamLittleGirlies #GlutenTag
The video is a wild emotional ride especially from a Coldplay fan's point of view. Wow. I absolutely adore Mat Whitecross for this.
It's an insane mess but it somehow makes so much sense. Watching the video for the first time got me very emotional but also made me realize how they are truly not holding anything back anymore - it feels exceptionally personal.
I think that's what makes the video stand out : it both carries the message of the song AND showcases and references the band in a very direct, band-to-fan, personal sort of way.
Ohmygod i have things to do but INSTEAD how about we take a look at each theme/sequence separately and highlight what's so great about each of them ?! Yes i'll do that
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- Intro : 0.00 - 0.29 : Moses! It's so sweet and unexpected to hear him have this conversation with his father. It's so relevant as an introduction to the song though. Here you can already tell that the video is some kind of behind-the-scenes of the making of both the song and the video, as we will figure out later. Sweet and personal and relevant. And definitely the most Mat Whitecross of all their videos
- Mysterious dark place : 0.29 - 0.48 : ok WHAT is this place ? We need to turn into CSI mode and figure this out. It does feel like...an abandonned place of some kind ? ruins perhaps ? It looks like...it's a negative view... it has some form of stage and columns ?
I love hearing the acoustic version. I assume we will get to hear it again this era, perhaps through an acoustic session if they at some point decide to promote the album decently.
- Chris on the stairs : 0.49 - 1.28 : Acoustic version some more! This is a solid performance! I can't believe no one caught that. It wasn't even shot long ago, we were all on high alert...smh.. I read on Twitter that the place is most likely the stairs across from Madison Square Garden in NYC. And for once I approve of Chris' outfit
- Acoustic but with the band : 1.28 - 1.58 : at this point the video starts feeling like it's a proper mess but it's so good to finally see the band together! It's interesting how they legit use footage from the studio and then a garden performance... it makes you feel part of the process... Obviously important to note the flowery shirt too...
- Band with dancers on the beach : 1.59 - 2.16 : this sequence looks so cool , I feel like it's too short! I wish we would have seen more of it, perhaps this sequence with the emails on screen, and another sequence without the emails ? The settings, the dancers, it looks really beautiful.
Now about the emails : as we know, these emails are actually emails exchanged between Mat, the team and the band regarding the video...Now that's something I would have never expected to see! They are quite interesting and would be definitely worth capturing... Some of them add meaning to the video and the song. One actually mentions how instruments used (in a later sequence) should look like instruments kids would have built from parts and weapons found in a bombed Aleppo street
It's great to see that they genuinely took the topic seriously and went to great lengths to add cohesive, relevant details.
Also the scene on the beach has a nice Chris/Jonny moment and indeed catching Phil on his phone
- In the room : 2.17 - 2.35, 2.49-2.56, 3.17-3.24, 3.27-3.34 : brilliant idea! I'm sure there are quite a few interesting details in the room itself (for instance the poster that reads Cherubim seraphim). As this was brought up before, I think it meant to represent how your home is shaken because of the bombings... You would have expected this setting, in a normal video, to really be the main set, like, at least half of the song. It's cool that they didn't just use this.
I love the shots with the sunset light onto the room....Beautiful.
This one represents the song really well. Its upbeat energy is shown in the performance, in the dance and in the band's joyful expressions, and the severity of the lyrics is represented by the set itself. Brilliant. Many gif-able moments there
- Shadow Coldplay : 2.35-2.49, 2.56-2.59, 3.15-3.17, 3.25-3.26, 3.35-3.36 : and THAT's the part that made me cry... It may all be a coincidence, but this looks like a reference to a previous Mat Whitecross directed Coldplay video, Lovers in Japan (....actually quite a lot of the video feels like LiJ, could be interesting to list all the common points). The shots are absolutely gorgeous, and it also feels like a reference to the band's career... VLV, their early days (the sunflowers ), the birds (later days, MX, GS, AHFOD)...
- Set with band and protesters/dancers 3.00-3.14 , 3.36-3.46: that's perhaps my least favourite part, in the sense that I'm not especially fan of the aesthetics there (the juxtaposition of the black & white set, the characters in every corner and the flowers in the middle..a bit too much for me).
However it's another interesting part serving the message of the song. Here there are references to protests all over the world for peace, freedom and social justice, but also the instruments used by the band are made from weapons and things kids could find in the streets. It's a relevant conclusion, it carries a message similar to Mylo Xyloto : hope can grow from anywhere.
The BOUM BOUM KA drawings look very cool tho.
- Ending : Chris being Chris it's nice to show that to the world. This is a very humble ending and also does fit with the song somehow (as it demonstrates empathy).
Overall, the structure of the video is insteresting because it shows how the different sets have different purposes. It seems that some of them are mostly about the song and its meaning, while others seems very personal. It all feels so genuine and a truly interesting insight into the band that we've missed for so long. It's a mess but I love it
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Now I see why there were no leaks
"We filmed this part of the Orphans video a few weeks ago at 3am in NYC, on a phone. Nobody paid us much attention. PH"
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/B4IlUW2Au16/?igshid=1ljticf5dgd11
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Woah! Does this explain the flower reference in the projected sequence?? There is a flying reference for the birds and of course for fire/explosions.
Pretty amazing if that's the case.
View: https://twitter.com/youngsneakypee/status/1188676580496691200?s=19
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thomasPh
I asked Mat about the strange video from Orphans : View: https://twitter.com/ThomasPhilibert/status/1188877903557251073
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Most Interesting Poster 2015
Honorary Coldplayer
gai said:
cHrIS mArTiN iS nOt A gOoD lYrIcISt
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thomasPh said:
At first I thought it was an infra-red video (you know how drones with missiles have that infra-red camera) of the place that Chris plays the guitar.
But who knows. It could be just in infra-red view of a specific place where wars has happened.
MosesTheMarshmallow
Brilliant video! The middle section is so pretty and LIJ like. The birds are breathtaking. The room upside down effect really captures the upbeat mood!
The beach scenes are cool and I wonder if an alternate music video will be released with just that part.
We got some really cool studio easter eggs in the first minute, with Will's backing vocals being really clear, Jonny playing a mandolin (?), in addition to Chris on the acoustic of course.
BY THE WAY THIS MAY BE THE ONE COLDPLAY MUSIC VIDEO WHERE GUY AND JONNY SMILE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Has somebody somehow extracted the emails from the middle part? Would be really interesting and cool to read
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shred said:
Remember the leak on Coldplay.com ? it mentionned a performance in Amman, Jordan...This bit could have also been shot there, at the famous ruins site ?
I ran away
A Rush of Blood to X&Y
Charity Donator
So the mysterious shot in the dark has been revealed to have been in Central Park, NY, by Chris on a radio interview.
The video is so wholesome and made me appreciate the song more, although the contrast of the joyfulness of the music and their smiles etc contrasting with the dark, dark lyrics about a warzone still alienate me. I'd love to see an all-acoustic version.
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@Coeurli wow, that's a really in depth look at the video! Appreciate it! I did especially like how the first half especially was kind of a shortened "behind the scenes" look at how the song was made essentially, which is something I haven't really seen in a music video before. No, it's not a "proper" "how it's made" inside look, but it manages to get much of the information across in such a small period of time, and manages to find its way into the first half of the video in a casual viewer-friendly format, which I think is a really cool idea. They even showed some of the emails which provide insight into just how much thought they put into this very well made music video!
Coeurli said:
we were all on high alert...smh
Except me. I only managed to become aware of the 2 singles after they were released and subsequently became amazed by them. Partially because I didn't expect to hear anything from them until late 2020 at the earliest, considering how busy they've been. And that I'd taken lots of time off from the forum, it was the perfect recipe to catch me by surprise in the best manner possible (I didn't even know through the forum, popped up in my YT feed which I find weird because for artists I follow my phone will send me notifs if they have any new material, so I'm surprised I never really got anything from that)
42Escapist said:
I was thinking after I watched the premiere, that it is mind blowing to think of all these unassuming people walking by in the streets, unaware that they were being exposed to new Coldplay material that would make it onto a future album. Most of these poor people wouldn't have recognized this opportunity to say "hey guys look at me I got an inside look at new Coldplay material". They might realize it after the fact when they hear this on the radio (and lucky for them that this turned out to be the biggest hit thus far, so this is fairly likely) so they might be weirded out when they realize they'd definitely heard the tune before, then realize some guy played it when they were walking down the streets of NYC at 3am, and if they did some digging they'd find out it was a new song and someone somehow managed to know it before release (or they'd figure out that they unknowingly got a sneak preview of a new song right from the boys themselves! or they'd assume they went for the walk after the release, although 3 weeks is a pretty big time and depending on their life situation they may or may not be able to distinguish that). Then for those of those who truly realized what happened they would have considered that a cursed missed opportunity to leak the song or brag about being the first ones to hear it outside of the band and the producers themselves
Still I find it baffling that nobody noticed freaking Chris Martin in NYC. Yes it was a quiet 3am night but still, you think somebody would have recognized him. Maybe a reasonable person did and kept quiet about it, as unlikely as that is I guess sometimes leaks happen, sometimes not :/
What I find to be "something else" is that somebody went through all the trouble of digging deep into the lyrics to really find out what they were about. Really some amazing symbolism in their lyrics, if you look for them, otherwise they just fade into the background, so they can cater to both the casual listener and the analyst. I wonder if Chris would come along and confirm this all. That would be really cool and I haven't seen such an in depth look at Coldplay lyrics in a long time. Considering the contrast of the poppy wrapper the song is in and the dark and devastating story the lyrics tell this is a very good place to start, I'd think. Wonder what the rest of the album will be like lyrically!
Tweet unavailable..... what did he say?


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Happy Tuesday, Ya'll! I hope you took advantage of this beautiful warm weather we had over the weekend as I hear it's suppose to cool off, which I am not looking forward to. I love the HOT, HOT summer! Crazy? Eh, probably!
Did I mention I have a love for Sea Turtles and all things Dory? Well, so does my sister's BF, Tom. He loves turtles and has owned a few in his day, so my bro, his GF and I decided to get in the paddle boat and go turtle hunting around the lake.. Un huh.. Yep, it was also an adventure.. I'm telling ya, my bro is a fun dude! Every time we would spot a turtle it was like they knew we were coming to get them, so they would swim as fast as they could to get away from us. Some of these turtles are huge snappers, which are quite large. These little buggers are fast too, but George was caught and is currently residing at my rentals house until my sister's BF can get him a cozy home! George is so dang cute! I love this little guy!
No trip would be complete if I didn't start and finish a few books. You got it! I started and finished two whole books. I am on my third book from the weekend! I love to read in case you didn't know? I'm sure that's not a shocker to most of you who read my blog quite frequently. It is super quiet up there, you can't get good reception on your cell phone and TV is not an option, so you might as well READ!
How was your Labor Day weekend? What did you do? Who did you hang out with???
Hey! I went to the park and watch Nick play Frisbee for Labour Day! Read a little bit - I'm reading Rebekah by Jill Eileen Smith! I'm loving her books!!
Sounds like a great weekend! I will need to look into Jill Eileen Smith's books! I can't believe how big Shane is!


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Die WRC Academy 2011 war die erste Saison der WRC Academy, die aus der Rallye-Juniorenweltmeisterschaft hervorgegangen ist. Sie wurde über acht Rallyes in der Zeit vom 25. März bis zum 12. November im Rahmen der Rallye-Weltmeisterschaft 2011 ausgetragen.

Teilnehmer
In der WRC Academy waren ausschließlich Ford Fiesta R2 der Klasse A6 zugelassen, um die Kosten einer gesamten Saisonteilnahme bei ca. 135.000 Euro zu halten.

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Wertung

Die Punktevergabe erfolgte nach dem FIA-Standard 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 für die zehn schnellsten Fahrer einer Rallye. Zusätzlich bekamen die fünf schnellsten Piloten, die das Ziel erreichten, noch je einen Bonuspunkt für pro erzielter schnellster Wertungsprüfungszeit in dieser Klasse.

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