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Ledger Nano S is a hardware wallet that is considered to be one of the best in terms of keeping your digital currency safe. Released in the end of 2016, it can boast with many positive opinions from all over the world.
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John Bolton on Palestine: 'Of Course It's Not a State'
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By Jason Devaney | Thursday, 04 October 2018 10:01 PM
National Security Adviser John Bolton reiterated the position of the United States and several western European countries this week when he said Palestine is not an official state.
Bolton spoke during Wednesday's White House press briefing and referred to Palestine as a "so-called state." When asked a follow-up about the remark, he went further.
"Of course, it's not a state now," Bolton said. "It does not meet the customary international law test of statehood. It doesn't control defined boundaries. It doesn't fulfill the normal functions of government. There are a whole host of reasons why it's not a state.
"It could become a state, as the president said, but that requires diplomatic negotiations with Israel and others."
One hundred thirty-seven United Nations members recognize Palestine as a state. Former Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat declared Palestine a state in 1988.
Bolton added his opinion on Palestine is the "position that the United States government has pursued uniformly since 1988.
"We don't recognize it as the state of Palestine. We have consistently, across Democratic and Republican administrations, opposed the admission of Palestine to the United Nations as a state because it's not a state."
Palestine has feuded with Israel over land for decades, which has led to several violent clashes over the years.
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The position of the United States and several western European countries was reiterated by National Security Adviser John Bolton this week when he said Palestine is not an official state.
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A powerful snowstorm, named Jonas by The Weather Channel, slammed much of the East, with significant snow falling from as far south as Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia to as far north as Boston. However, the storm dealt its biggest blow to the Mid-Atlantic. 29.2 inches of snow fell at BWI, the official National Weather Service observation site for Baltimore, between Jan. 22 and Jan. 24. That set the record for the most snow ever to fall on Baltimore in a single storm, breaking the old record of 26.8 inches set during a snowstorm in February 2003.
The storm began in Maryland just before the afternoon rush hour on Jan. 22. That afternoon, businesses, schools and government offices closed early. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan joined nine other states and Washington, D.C. in declaring a state of emergency. The emergency declaration enabled the mobilization of the state's National Guard to respond to what was predicted to be a snowstorm of historic proportions. The storm brought gusty winds and whiteout conditions to much of the interior Mid-Atlantic, paralyzing all modes of travel. BWI, Reagan National and Dulles International Airports were closed all weekend long. Saturday, Jan. 23 brought the storm's peak intensity. That's when the heaviest snow bands and strongest winds hit the region. Those snow bands saw snowfall rates as high as two to three inches per hour, triggering episodes of the "thunder snow" phenomenon and making it impossible for snow plow drivers to keep streets and highways passable. Around 8:30 p.m., Gov. Hogan, using powers available to the Governor of Maryland in a state of emergency, ordered the closures of Interstate 70 between the Baltimore Beltway and Interstate 81 in Hagerstown, and Interstate 270 between the Capital Beltway and I-70 in Frederick after several tractor-trailers jackknifed and blocked the highways. The interstates remained closed until Sunday morning, Jan. 24 so the tractor-trailers could be towed off the interstates, and plow crews could make them passable.
Even well into the new week, Baltimore City and surrounding county governments are struggling to get things back to normal, as streets are still narrowed by large snow banks. The Jan. 27 morning rush hour was particularly bad, as drivers trying to get back to work for the first time since the snowstorm encountered snowplows and front-loaders trying to clear the snow, along with the narrowed streets. Many residents in neighborhoods throughout the Baltimore Metro area complained about their neighborhoods barely being plowed or not being plowed at all. Several tourist attractions in Baltimore, including the Maryland Zoo, Lexington Market and the American Visionary Art Museum, were closed. Many public school systems were closed through Wednesday, and the start of the spring semester at area universities, including the University of Baltimore, has been delayed. The university's Office of Facilities Management said power went out in two campus buildings, and the heavy snow damaged part of the roof over the internet café on the top floor of the Academic Center. The storm even delayed move-in weekend at the University of Maryland-College Park.
With snowfall totals as high as 38 inches in the mountains of western Maryland, and just over 36 inches in Hagerstown and Montgomery County, some structures are simply unable to handle the weight of the snow. Porch collapses were reported at properties on 30th and 41st Streets in Baltimore City. According to media reports, at least three people died in Maryland after suffering heart attacks while shoveling.
While inland areas were hit hardest by the heavy snow, the snow changed to rain at the coast. Tropical storm to hurricane-force wind gusts whipped up battering waves that caused storm surge flooding and severe beach erosion from Assateague Island to the Delaware Bay and the Jersey Shore. The ocean breached the sand dunes in some areas of the Delaware coastal resort area, causing closures along some stretches of Coastal Highway. In Ocean City, all roads from U.S. Route 50 to the Inlet were closed due to flooding, and in New Jersey, residents along the coast said the flooding in the resort towns there was even worse than Superstorm Sandy.


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Q: WordPress Thematic framework - worth using? I've been examining the Thematic Theme Framework for WordPress (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/thematic).  I just got a job at a shop that does a fair amount of WP hacks and I'm examining Thematic for use as part of our 'standard procedures'.  I have themed WP a few times, just by copying twentyten or twentyeleven and then modifying it, but I'm at a point where I need to get deeper into WP to start overriding and really extending it (my PHP skills are decent).  My question is: in your opinion, is Thematic worth using?  My concerns are:

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*what is the point of hooking into Thematic's functions (that hook into WordPress) instead of just hooking directly into WordPress?

*if the Thematic project is abandoned because the developers all die in a plane crash a la Lynyrd Skynyrd (or for other reasons) where does that leave me?
I'm just having trouble seeing the advantages to using Thematic - what does it offer that WordPress doesn't do already?  I'm looking for a justification for learning development with Thematic instead of just learning WordPress development directly.
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A: I used Thematic for numerous sites. I really enjoy using it. I find that once you get used to it, it is a rapid system to develop with. However, I don't know how well it scales. The community and support are great though. One thing it lacks is built in responsive-ness for mobile devices into the default thematic package, but it is something they are working on.
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Konakovo  es una ciudad del óblast de Tver, en Rusia, centro administrativo del raión homónimo. Está situada en la orilla derecha del embalse de Ivánkovo, sobre el Volga, a 57 km al sudeste de Tver. Su población alcanzaba los 39.533 habitantes en 2009.

Historia

Konakovo es conocida desde 1806, en esa época como un pueblo con el nombre de Kuznetsovo. La población se desarrolló alrededor de una fábrica de porcelana construida entre 1826 y 1828. En 1930, Kuznetsovo fue renombrada como Konakovo en honor del revolucionario Porfiri Pétrovich Konakov (1878-1906), un trabajador de la fábrica de porcelana que participó activamente en la revuelta armada de los obreros y marineros de Kronstadt, en el momento de la Revolución de 1905, que fue detenido y fusilado el 7 de agosto de 1906, tras haber sido condenado a muerte por un tribunal militar. Konakovo tiene estatus de ciudad desde 1937.

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Industria y transporte

La empresa más conocida de la ciudad es la central termoeléctrica Konakóvskaya GRES, situada al nordeste de la ciudad. Fue construida en 1969. Suministra electricidad para la empresa de generación de energía Enel OGK-5, que fue separada del Estado (empresa estatal RAO UES) en 2004.

Con base en la vieja fábrica de porcelana que generó el desarrollo de la ciudad, existe una fábrica de platos de loza. Otras compañías industriales de Konakovo se dedican a los materiales de construcción y a la elaboración de herramientas.

Cuenta con un puerto fluvial en el curso del Volga (en el embalse de Ivánkovo) entre Tver y Dubná. Por otro lado, está conectada por ferrocarril por un ramal de la línea principal Moscú-San Petersburgo.

Personalidades

Piotr Nikoláyevich Pospélov, político soviético.

Enlaces externos y referencias

 Historia de Konakovo (en ruso)
  Informaciones sobre Konakovo (en ruso)

Localidades del óblast de Tver
Localidades a orillas del río Volga
Localidades establecidas en 1806

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Definition: digital music player
Hardware or software that plays audio files encoded in MP3 and other audio formats. On the software side, applications that reside in the user's computer, such as iTunes, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer, are used to organize a music collection, play audio files and rip music from a CD. Software players may also provide access to Internet radio stations and other streaming audio sites (see media player).
Hardware Players
On the hardware side, devices use solid state flash memory to hold songs downloaded from an online store or the user's computer. Apple's iPod has long been the industry leader, but players have come in all sizes, with some units including FM radio. See iPod.
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All players, whether hardware or software, support MP3 and generally several other formats. AAC is Apple's featured format, and FLAC provides CD quality sound. See codec examples, MP3, AAC, FLAC, Pono and high-resolution audio.
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Diamond Rio - One of the First
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A Back Pack Boom Box
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BIS warns of effect of rising 'world' interest rate but some data disagrees
Home FINANCE FORWARD BIS warns of effect of rising 'world' interest rate but some data disagrees
The impact of commodity price, currencies and the Shanghai market's volatility finally spills into developed countries' equity markets but the effect was short-lived as NY Federal Reserve President William Dudley said a rate hike was 'less compelling' now than several weeks ago. Dudley's remarks were followed later in the week by Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer who said it was 'too early to tell' although there was a 'pretty strong case' until recently. With the Fed still in the spotlight, Finance Forward looks at how well a BIS working paper that lays out how a crisis could occur matches up with Turkey as an example and follows the article with a look at the external debt risks in Indonesia.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a working paper timed almost perfectly to the recent volatility which makes the case that developed market yields have a dramatic impact on the long-term yields in emerging markets. The effect of this is that countries with floating rate currencies retain their monetary policy flexibility where rates are set (at the short-end of the yield curve) but the monetary policy is less effective at influencing long-term yields on their own local currency bonds.
In a period where developed markets have maintained low interest rates, the 'world' interest rate has been fixed near its zero lower bound (the authors point to the 10-year US Treasuries as "dominat[ing] this 'world' interest rate"), the prospects of 'normalizing' interest rates represents a significant risk for emerging markets. The mechanism for the risk is that the changes in the 'world' interest rate have twice the impact on long-term bond yields in emerging markets as the same change would if made by that country's central bank to its short-term interest rate target.
The authors argue that the rise in term premium (which has been falling since the early 2000s) could reverse when investors decide the rate tightening cycle is set to begin. If the term premium expands, it would push longer-term interest rates up by more than any immediate rise in the Federal Funds Rate potentially raising emerging market local currency bond yields. The 'taper tantrum' in 2013, when investors began to anticipate the end of the Fed's asset purchases and emerging market bond yields rose, is the model for the beginning of the crisis in emerging market debt markets by the authors' logic.
The move would be amplified by foreign investors (who now own more than 30% of some emerging market local currency bond markets) pressuring currencies through out-of-the-money FX hedges (bond prices tend to move with currencies). Adding to the pressure would be investors in emerging market local currency bond mutual funds and ETFs taking advantage of their daily or intraday liquidity and forcing sales of the underlying assets which are significantly more illiquid.
The recent volatility, which has been brewing throughout 2015, provides a useful test for the hypothesis of how emerging markets are 'broken' as a result of the rise in importance of the 'world' interest rate and foreign investors' liquidity preferences in local currency markets. As an example, consider Turkey which has seen political risk, geopolitical risk as well as the exchange rate volatility associated with many emerging markets this year. It should be a 'perfect storm' but at least to date, it has weathered the storm relatively well.
The chart below shows the last 5 years of the Turkish lira exchange rate and spread of local currency bonds maturing in 2025 over 10-year treasuries. Notable are 2011, 2013 and 2015 when the lira lost about one-quarter of its value against the dollar and local currency spreads rose from about 500 basis points (bps) to 800 bps. But the currency stabilized and yields returned to their earlier level. The 'taper tantrum' has a similar 25% devaluation in the lira against the dollar with rising spreads again. But again, the currency stabilized (but did not appreciate back to earlier levels) and yields fell.
It is too early to tell whether the cycle will repeat again in 2015/2016, but as a similar 25% devaluation has been accompanied by a rise in spreads from 500bps to 800bps. This could be the 'beginning of the end' for emerging markets if the BIS working paper is correct. However, the data fails to show (or show yet) a cycle of rising yields ("foreign investors may react to turbulence by pulling back in an indiscriminate way" creating a "distress loop"), falling currencies ("prices in the more liquid forex market may overshoot") and fire sales by mutual funds ("run-like flight out of EM assets").
So far, the movement in the lira and lira-denominated government bonds has been in line with previous cycles of Fed- or ECB-induced fears about interest rate rises. In addition, research from the Investment Company Institute finds that although regulated funds control 30% of foreign-held emerging market debt, they account for just 15% of total volatility. Data from the International Institute of Finance, which tracks emerging market portfolio flows, finds significant outflows from EM equity funds (down $8.7 billion in August), there was a net (albeit lower) inflow for EM debt of $4.2 billion.
Another metric of the distress loop would be the spread of Turkish sovereign bonds denominated in hard currency (USD) over US Treasuries shown in the chart above. If the 'distress loop' were beginning, the spreads should be wider today on USD bonds to reflect higher risk of a debt crisis that would result. As the chart shows, not only is this not the case, the rise in spreads on Turkey's international bonds are lower than in either the 2011 and 2013. Not all the evidence calls for an entirely sanguine outlook—Turkey's CDS spreads today are wider than following the taper tantrum but the weight of the evidence to date points to current volatility not being indicative of the start of a 'distress loop' for emerging markets.
Indonesia's rough patch
China's 'Black Monday' last week sent tremors around the global as hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped from stock markets both in emerging as well as developed markets. For as much as the current volatility in the global financial markets, falling commodity prices, a decelerating Chinese economy as well as a potential rate hike by the US Federal Reserve has sparked jitters to investors who saw emerging markets as a way to invest in higher growing economies.
Indonesia, an emerging economy, could contain an opportunity for emerging markets investors. Although Indonesia's economy performed exceptionally well over the decade following the Asian Crisis, its growth has slowed down primarily on the back of weaker international demand and slower investment growth due to lower commodity prices.
Despite a drop in commodity prices, Indonesia recorded a $0.5 billion trade surplus in June 2015, the country's seventh straight monthly trade surplus. But lower commodity prices do not bode well for Indonesia as it is a major exporter of coal, crude palm oil (CPO), nickel and various other commodities which have plunged recently and show no signs of a rebound any time soon due to lower Chinese demand. Another worry is the depreciation of the Rupiah, which will help preserve Indonesia's trade surplus (mostly by curbing imports).
However, with export dropping from lower Chinese demand, the current account deficit will remain high due to a drop in exports as well as foreign investor equity inflows reversing as prices drop according to IIF data. With the central bank policy rate already hovering at 7.5% and 10 year bonds yielding 8.71%, a continued sluggish economy and could make Indonesia vulnerable to further currency weakness, stoking a pick-up in inflation from its 5.4% rate in 2014 to a year-over-year 7.3% rate in July 2015.
As of yet, the increase of its government bond spreads over Treasuries is signaling more limited vulnerability compared to markets like Turkey (see article above) though rising international interest rates could expose the government and private sector being dependence on external funding.
The deadly duo–external funding and currency depreciation–could overwhelm what little positive signs there are today and send Indonesia's economy into a rough patch. External debt outstanding (debt owed to non-residents) was $292.6 billion as of the end of 2014, up 10 percent from $266 billion at the end of 2013. Moreover, the Indonesian rupiah has fallen about 12% so far this year, crossing the psychological barrier of 14,000 per USD. With significant external debt, a drop in the currency represents a rising burden for Indonesia's Rupiah-earning state and corporates.
With the dollar value of external debt having grown by approximately 30% from 2011 to 2014, the market may be vulnerable to a Fed rate hike. Higher US rates will put further pressure on the Rupiah and the Indonesian economy. In order to avoid further pressure onto the IDR, in such a high inflation environment, Bank Indonesia (BI) (Indonesia's central bank), may have to raise the interest rate. Although an increase in interest rate will further slow down the economic activity, it might well serve BI's goal of ensuring a stable financial system, contributing to price stability and defending the Rupiah.
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When the kids came in for class, Ms. Gilmour handed each of them a small flag. Tanner, Nicole, Rudy, Carmen, Stephen and Truman the Dragon greeted her and took a flag.
It was the first day of class of the new school year, and Ms. Gilmour was as excited to greet the kids as they were to see her. Everyone wanted to tell her about their summer vacation. Tanner shared first.
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Muslim pilgrims pray on a rocky hill known as Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual hajj pilgrimage ahead of sunrise near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. More than 2 million pilgrims were gathered to perform initial rites of the hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage that takes the faithful along a path traversed by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,400 years ago. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Muslim hajj pilgrims ascend Mount Arafat for day of worship
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — More than 2 million Muslims gathered Saturday at the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for an intense day of worship and reflection on what's considered the climax of the Islamic hajj pilgrimage. Many had tears streaming down their faces as they raised...
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — More than 2 million Muslims are gathered at the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for an intense day of worship and reflection on what's considered the climax of the Islamic hajj pilgrimage. Some had tears streaming down their faces as the men, wearing...
Muslim pilgrims pray as they watch thousands of pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have arrived in the kingdom to participate in the annual hajj pilgrimage, a ritual required of all able-bodied Muslims at least once in their life. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Over 2 million Muslims in Mecca for start of hajj pilgrimage
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — More than 2 million pilgrims were gathered in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Friday to perform initial rites of the hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage that takes the faithful along a path traversed by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,400 years ago. The hajj in Islam is...
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Congratulations to Kirsten Spence for winning the Golden Smartie Award!
Having being nominated by the school's PA, it goes to show Kirsten has made a good impression on the whole school. To gilt her achievement, we surprised Kirsten whilst teaching and presented her with a certificate and £50 cash prize.
Well done Kirsten and thank you for being an exceptional teacher!


The man who designed the security system at the main center for Scientology on the West says it eventually was used to keep people from escaping.
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Season one of Leah Remini's Scientology special was about telling the stories of its victims. Season two is about taking it down.
Leah Remini and Mike Rinder want this second (and previously unplanned) season of their A&E show to do something more than just give Scientology a black eye.
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MEISELS, DOB BERUSH B. ISAAC:
By: Herman Rosenthal, Peter Wiernik
Polish rabbi and statesman; born in Szezekoeiny about 1800; died in Warsaw March 17, 1870. He was a scion of one of the oldest families in Cracow, and was brought up in Kamenetz, Podolia, where his father (d. 1832) was rabbi. After marrying the daughter of the wealthy Solomon Bornstein of Wielicka, he settled as a banker in Cracow, of which city he became rabbi in 1832. He occupied the rabbinate for nearly a quarter of a century, but was not recognized by the entire community, a considerable part of which adhered to his opponent, R. Saul Landau. Meisels always took a conspicuous part in the civic life of his place of residence; and in the stormy times of 1846 he was chosen one of the twelve senators of Cracow. In 1848 he was elected, with the aid of Catholic votes, to represent the city in the provisional Austrian Reichsrath, meeting at Kremsier. He took his seat among the radicals, and when the president expressed his surprise at seeing a rabbi seated on the "left," Meisels gave the reply: "Juden haben keine Rechte" (Jews have no right!).
In 1856 Meisels became rabbi of Warsaw, where he soon gained the respect and confidence of the entire population. In 1861, during the riots and excesses which preceded the outbreak of the second Polish insurrection, he did everything in his power to induce the Jews to sympathize with the cause of Poland. He accompanied the Archbishop of Warsaw to the funeral of the victims of the first outbreak and marched together with Father Wyszynski at the head of a delegation to the city hall. Later he was appointed by the Russian vice-regent a member of the provisional municipal council of Warsaw; but he remained loyal to the cause of the Polish patriots, thereby, it is believed, preventing massacres of Jews which some Polish leaders had planned and which the Russian government was not anxious to avert ("Allg. Zeit. des Jud." 1861, p. 227). Late in 1861 Meisels, together with Dr. M. Jastrow, was arrested and thrown into prison; after several months' confinement both were expelled from the country. Meisels was invited to settle in London; but in 1862 he was permitted to return to Warsaw, where he remained until his death.
Meisels was the author of novellæ on the "Sefer ha-Miẓwot" of Maimonides, which appeared together with the text as "Ḥiddushe MaHaRDaM" (Warsaw, 1870). One of his sons, Israel Meisels, was dayyan in Cracow and rabbi of Siedlce, Poland, from 1858 to 1867. He died in Cracow Nov. 17, 1875, aged 58 ("Ha-Maggid," xix. 407). Another son, Solomon Meisels, was living in Vienna in 1871.
B. D. Rabbinowicz, Dobeb Sifte Yeshenim, Warsaw, 1870;
Angelchik, Ish Ḥayyil, Cracow, 1871;
Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 185, Warsaw, 1886;
Wettstein, Toledot MaHaRaN (biography of Ḥayyim N. Dembitzer), pp. 14 et seq., Cracow, 1893;
Orient, 1848, pp. 240, 348, 358; 1849, pp. 15-16;
Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1861, pp. 177, 214, 228; 1862, p. 22;
Ha-Shaḥar, viii. 504.
H. R. P. Wi.


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Poco M3 with 6GB RAM, FullHD+ display 6000mAh battery launched starting at Rs. 10,999 in India
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The Poco M3 has been launched in India. If you can recall, the device was announced in Europe about 2 months ago. It is sort of similar to the Redmi 9 Power that debuted in India recently.
Poco M3 Official
The Poco M3 is equipped with a 6.53-inches LCD Full HD+ display, with 60Hz refresh rate. The screen has a water-drop notch for the 8MP selfie camera with an f/2.05 lens. The phone has a 90% screen-to-body ratio, 1500:1 Contrast ratio, 70% NTSC Colour Gamut, 19.5:9 aspect ratio, a pixel density of 395ppi. The display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3, and comes with a pre-applied screen protector.
Sadly the Poco M3 runs on Android 10, with MIUI 12 on top. The phone is powered by a 2.0GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor and an Adreno 610 GPU. It has 6GB of LPDD4x RAM, and 64GB UFS 2.1 and 128GB of UFS 2.2 storage. In addition to this, the Poco M3 has a dedicated microSD card slot that supports up to 512GB of expandable storage.
The main camera setup on the Poco M3 consists of a 2MP Macro lens with 4cm focus, 1.75μm pixel size, f/2.4 aperture, FF, a 48MP primary lens with an f/1.79 aperture, 0.8μm pixel size, 1.6μm 4-in-1 Super Pixel, 1/2″ Sensor size, 2MP Depth Sensor, 1.75μm pixel size, f/2.4 aperture, FF and an LED Flash.
A side-mounted fingerprint scanner is present on the right edge of the device's frame for biometric authentication. The Poco M3 has Stereo Speakers and a 3.5mm headphone jack. In terms of connectivity. the phone supports Dual SIM cards that is part of a triple card tray, other options include 4G VoLTE, Dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/ A-GPS / GLONASS / Beidou / Galileo, etc. It also retains the IR blaster.
The Poco M3 is backed by a 6,000 mAh battery that charges over a USB type-C port, and supports 18W fast charging. The 18W charger is included in the box.
Poco M3 specs
Display: 6.53-inches LCD Full HD+ 1080 × 2340 pixels, Water-drop notch, 90% screen-to-body ratio, 1500:1 Contrast ratio, 70% NTSC Colour Gamut, Corning Gorilla Glass 3, 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 395ppi
Operating system: MIUI 12 for POCO, based on Android 10
Processor: 2.0GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 662
Memory: 6GB RAM LPDDR4x
Storage 64GB UFS 2.1/128GB UFS 2.2 + up to 512GB via dedicated microSD card slot
Battery: 6,000 mAh, USB Type-C, 18W Fast Charging, 22.5W fast charger in-box
Main Cameras: 2MP Macro lens with 4cm focus, 1.75μm pixel size, f/2.4 aperture, FF + 48MP f/1.79 aperture, 0.8μm pixel size, 1.6μm 4-in-1 Super Pixel, 1/2″ Sensor size + 2MP Depth Sensor, 1.75μm pixel size, f/2.4 aperture, FF + LED Flash
Selfie Camera: 8MP 1.12μm pixel size, f/2.05 aperture
Security: Side-mounted fingerprint scanner
Audio: Dual Speakers, 3.5mm headphone jack
Connectivity: Dual SIM, 4G VoLTE, 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/ A-GPS / GLONASS / Beidou / Galileo
Sensors: Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor, Accelerometer, Electronic compass, Vibration motor, IR Blaster
Dimensions: 162.3 x 77.3 x 9.6mm
Poco M3 price in India
The Poco M3 price in India starts at Rs. 10,999 for the 6GB/64GB version, while the 6GB/128GB model costs Rs. 11,999.
The Poco M3 will be available in 3 colours: Cool Blue, Poco Yellow and Power Black. The phone will go on sale at 12PM on 9th February, at Flipkart.
Poco M3 launch offer discount
The device is temporarily discounted by Rs. 1,000 for ICICI Bank Credit Card users, which means you can get the 64GB version at Rs. 9,999, and the 128GB version for Rs. 10,999 respectively.
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Home Libraries Confer Long-Term Benefits
A large new study finds people who grew up in book-filled homes have higher reading, math, and technological skills.
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We've known for a while that home libraries are strongly linked to children's academic achievement. What's less certain is whether the benefits they bestow have a long-term impact.
A new large-scale study, featuring data from 31 countries, reports they do indeed. It finds the advantages of growing up in a book-filled home can be measured well into adulthood.
"Adolescent exposure to books is an integral part of social practices that foster long-term cognitive competencies," writes a research team led by Joanna Sikora of Australian National University.
These reading-driven abilities not only "facilitate educational and occupational attainment," the researchers write in the journal Social Science Research. "[They] also lay a foundation for lifelong routine activities that enhance literacy and numeracy."
The researchers analyzed data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Competencies. Its surveys, taken between 2011 and 2015, featured adults (ages 25 to 65) in 31 nations, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and Turkey.
All participants were asked how many books there were in their home when they were 16 years old. (One meter of shelving, they were told, holds about 40 books.) They chose from a series of options ranging from "10 or less" to "more than 500."
Literacy was defined as "the ability to read effectively to participate in society and achieve personal goals." Participants took tests that "captured a range of basic through advanced comprehension skills, from reading brief texts for a single piece of information to synthesizing information from complex texts."
Numeracy tests measured the "ability to use mathematical concepts in everyday life," while IT-related tests "assessed the ability to use digital technology to communicate with others, as well as to gather, analyze, and synthesize information."
The results suggest those volumes made a long-term difference. "Growing up with home libraries boosts adult skills in these areas beyond the benefits accrued from parental education, or [one's] own educational or occupational attainment," the researchers report.
Not surprisingly, the biggest impact was on reading ability. "The total effects of home library size on literacy are large everywhere," the researchers report.
Growing up with few books in the house was associated with below-average literacy rates, while he presence of around 80 books raised those rates to the mean. Literacy continued to increase with the number of reported books up to around 350, at which point it flattened out.
Similarly, the effects of a home library on numeracy were quite significant across the board. Its impact on technological skills was smaller but also widespread.
These results raise two interesting questions. First: Will findings like this fade as printed books become less-important sources of knowledge in the digital age?
Perhaps, Sikora and her colleagues write, but for now, "the beneficial effects of home libraries in adolescence are large and hold in many different societies, with no sign of diminution over time. Moreover, home library size is positively related to higher levels of digital literacy."
The second, broader question is: Precisely how does growing up around books produce more highly skilled adults? More research will be needed to find out, but Sikora and her colleagues note that "children emulate parents who read," and, in such an environment, acquiring knowledge via the written word often becomes a pleasurable pastime.
"Scholarly culture is a way of life," they conclude. Clearly, that pattern of behavior gets established early. Spend time as a teen pulling books off a shelf, and the resultant benefits will have a very long shelf life.
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Tom Jacobs is a senior staff writer at Pacific Standard, where he specializes in social science, culture, and learning. He is a veteran journalist and former staff writer for the Los Angeles Daily News and the Santa Barbara News-Press.
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NEON brings exciting contemporary art to a wider audience by putting together free exhibitions in public and private places in Athens and Greece that offer new and powerful experiences to the public and their interaction with urban life. NEON does not restrict itself to just one space, it energizes public spaces in Athens and the periphery.
NEON supports artists working today through a program of scholarships and grants, providing them with access to education, research and production resources.
Using art as an educational leverage, NEON cultivates the relationship between young people and awareness of contemporary art.
NEON partners with cultural institutions to implement common-ground activities with the aim of making contemporary art accessible to the public.
NEON, founded in 2013 by collector and entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos, works to bring contemporary culture closer to everyone, in the firm belief in the ability of contemporary artistic creativity to rouse, emotionally move and motivate. It also aims to contribute to the wider efforts being made to revitalise the city and inspire the daily lives of its citizens. NEON does not restrict itself to just one space. It activates public spaces in Athens and the periphery. NEON advocates all institutions which are established in the field of learning, new productions and the dialogue with the city.
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OPENING | CITY PROJECT | PROSAIC ORIGINS | ANDREAS LOLIS
Opening | City Project | Prosaic Origins | British School at Athens | ©Natalia Tsoukala | Courtesy NEON
13 – 30 September 2018 | WED-SUN: 12.00-20.00
3 October – 14 November 2018 | WED-SUN: 10.00-18.00
12 September, 7pm
NEON invites you to the opening of the exhibition PROSAIC ORIGINS by Andreas Lolis, on Wednesday 12 September 2018 at 7pm, in the British School at Athens garden, curated by Nayia Yiakoumaki, as part of NEON's CITY PROJECT 2018.
Andreas Lolis is a sculptor who works with marble, one of the noblest materials in the history of art. Cardboard boxes, ladders and planks of wood become marble effigies of precarious, transitory and unnoticed original objects. Through this traditional method, he elevates the everyday world of abandoned partial objects, makeshift constructions and ordinary things to the status of statues.
The British School at Athens opens its garden to the general public. Established in 1886, as part of a wider political and cultural movement that used as its foundation the model of 'foreign' educational institutions originating in developed western countries, the BSA offered a base in Greece for people to study all aspects of Hellenic culture, ancient, medieval and modern.
For this historic setting, Lolis has created sculptures that collide with the western idealisation of Classical Greek heritage installed in such a way as if they had always been there, abandoned objects, disrupting previously bucolic appreciations of the urban garden and the harmonious equilibrium of the School's classical architecture.
CITY PROJECT is an initiative for public art and the city, conceived and commissioned annually by NEON to a Greek artist. NEON aims to activate public and historical places through contemporary art, contributing to the interaction of art, society and the city. NEON has previously presented exhibitions by Kostis Velonis at 11 Kaplanon Street (2017), Zafos Xagoraris (2016), Maria Loizidou at the Kerameikos Archaeological Site and Museum (2015) and Aemilia Papaphilippou at the Ancient Agora of Athens (2014).
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Have you ever watched the Oscar's on TV and thought "If only I was there with my favorite celebrities"? That was kind of like my experience back in June at the Pizza Executive Summit in Chicago. I am only aware of two pizza-related business events: The Pizza Expo in Vegas (on my list for next year) and the more operator-focused Pizza Executive Summit.
I was honored to attend and see the pizza industry from a whole new level. If you've ever read my posts, I usually write about customer experience, taste, and style, and what my overall feelings are… usually positive :). The demographic of owners, operators, CFOs, Presidents, etc, were concerned with a wider variety along with reaching ME, the consumer.
A handful of talented speakers offered their advice & insight, and I listened and learned more about the pizza & restaurant world than I expected. Here are some key takeaways from a few speakers that interested me, and hopefully you will find them interesting as well!
Companies should get focused and specify their goals..
I think these are great points of social media. We want our friends/followers to know where we're eating, and why, and how great it is. If a company capitalizes on that and rewards us for being vocal or coming back again and again, it feels GREAT!
All in all, I loved this event. I loved meeting people from all over the country who share in my passion for pizza. PizzaMarketplace.com and its employees were friendly and enthusiastic. I met executives from some of my favorites: Rosati's Pizza, Nancy's, Monical's, Go Roma, and Homemade Pizza Company. Also, I met people from pizzeria's I hadn't tried because of location, and I can't wait to visit one day!
As I approach my first blogiversary, I think of how thankful I am to have such supportive followers, friends, and family, who support my love for pizza. I'm so glad to have this as a hobby and one day will be able to do so much more with it!
Great post! You do such cool things!


Those of you who have read my book will have come across a namecheck in the foreword of a certain Kenneth White. White introduced the term Geopoetics, the meaning of which has informed both my writing and the way that I see the world for a long time-long before I had even heard of Geopoetics or knew what it meant.
In youth a man plays with women, in middle age with the arts, and in old age with a garden.
I put it in context for myself.
Here I am: happily married; playing at being a poet; thinking about peas.
How often the imagination compensates for the limited world view of the young.
Town borders; forest edges; the last stop before the motorway slip road. These are the limits of their everyday world.
But then they are elevated high, and their vision expands, the world opens up and they feel themselves diminishing.
Look there, on the horizon: it's the future; it's the unknown.
I saw this yesterday while waiting for the 163 bus. My son James wasn't sure if it was real, or alive, but I think that like everything else in Bury bus station it had given up the will to live.
Recently, while on my London jaunt, I was sat in a coffee shop in Canary Wharf, reading A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. A particurlar scene caused me to laugh out loud, gaining the attention of my fellow patrons, and I picked up my mobile to pretend that someone had sent me an amusing text.
It was as if I had been caught doing something shameful in public.
I don't know why I did this, it was a spontaneous reaction to my sudden display of emotion at the book I was reading. It's as if we should only be moved in some capacity by social interaction, in response to the prompting of others. Any bibliophile, or nature lover, or music fan, etc, can tell you that you can be adequately entertained and provoked by such solitary pursuits.
Ahem, anyway . . .
After my acute, public act of deception, I was pretty sure that out of this experience I'd be prepared for any future eruption.
It was soon put to the test.
The previous day, Mr Ancliff had typed a polite letter of complaint, asking what had happened to the extra pint of milk he had requested. The handwritten reply read: 'I did get your milk delivered. It must have been stolen, so kiss my f****** a***.' The milkman has quit without notice and has not been seen since. A company spokesman has apologized, and Mr Ancliff has been given complimentary milk for his trouble.
I laughed out loud at the milkman's reply. Perhaps the poor man had been having a bad day and Mr Ancliff's note was the last straw. As a former postman I can fully relate to that.
Immediately, I went to put the book down while fumbling in my pocket for my phone. But then, previous self-analysis kicking in, I shrugged to the people around me, and carried on reading my book.
I came out there and then, in that coffee shop, as a book indulger, rereading the same sentence over and over among a bemused and curious crowd, smirking away into my Americano.
I've just been reminded of this from a Facebook post I made three years ago, when my then six-year-old daughter and three-year old son were putting on a performance for me at home.
Millie was doing a magic trick with James as her assistant. He holds a tray, she has to get a toy figure in the tray without touching it, using a pencil. She takes too long, James pushes her, Millie pokes him with the pencil, so he hits her over the head with the tray.


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