I've spent the last couple of years doing what I would call slow travel, spending periods of a month or more in different cities. This began in late 2016 with a job that brought me to Berlin for months at a time over a period of a year. I quit that job last October and in the time since have been through Europe, Asia, the US, and then back around to Europe, where I am for the next several months with no fixed end in sight. I wanted to compile some observations that I've made in this time.
There is a perspective from which the venture model that dominates a large subset of the tech industry is a little baffling. The infrastructure necessary to operate web/software products has never been cheaper. To an extent, the manpower has also never been cheaper (in the respect that it is increasingly practical to hire from a global talent pool spanning regions with very modest salaries). Still, the model that dominates Silicon Valley and other leading innovation hubs is one of selling off huge chunks of equity and pursuing liquidity for shareholders (via acquisition or IPO) over autonomy and sustainability (i.e. indefinite operation with profit distributions).
I say this is "baffling", but there are reasons why the model persists.
I wrote a review of the PeerStreet peer to peer lending platform in late 2016. Now, having spent 2 years investing with PeerStreet, I wanted to do a retrospective as I have had a much more comprehensive exposure to the platform and more stats.
At a high-level, PeerStreet allows investors to participate in short term real estate lending. PeerStreet purchases short term loans (typically 11-24 month maturity, though there are also ultra-short-term 1-3 month offerings) from other hard money lenders and divides them among investors on the platform. You receive income from these notes in proportion to your investment. A major advantage of PeerStreet over certain other peer-to-peer lending platforms like Lending Club is that notes are secured by a first lien on a property, at a known loan-to-value ratio (which gives you some amount of downside protection in the event that the borrower defaults).
If your web application integrates with third party services via Webhooks, you will likely have encountered the need to forward Webhook requests to a local development server.
My solution to this had long been a free utility called Localtunnel, which forwards requests from a randomly-generated public host (i.e. [random-prefix].localtunnel.me) to your local machine. A major problem with Localtunnel is that it will not provide you a persistent URL, so you end up having to constantly reconfigure services to point to newly-allocated/temporary URLs.
If you have a VPS or dedicated server, you can use SSH remote forwarding to accomplish the same thing that Localtunnel does, but maintain a persistent remote hostname and port. This way you can configure development Webhooks once for your third-party integrations and be set.
I spent a good part of last year living in Berlin, encountering large, Cold War era constructions like the apartment block pictured above on my morning walk. This style of architecture, distinguished by exposed concrete cast in hard lines, with little paint or ornamentation, is part of an architectural school known as Brutalism, and was very popular through the mid 20th century, especially in Eastern Europe.
The term has since been transposed to the online realm with brutalistwebsites.com, a site put together in 2016 by Pascal Deville (now Creative Director at the Freundliche Grüsse). I wanted to pay tribute to the tongue in cheek term by recognizing some of my own favorite Brutalist websites.
In 2009 I got my first Mac laptop. I had been running Mandriva Linux on a beat up HP Pavillion through the first two years of my computer science program, and the week it finally died on me a Gizmodo "Dealzmodo" post advertised a liquidation of last-generation 15 inch Macbook Pros by a reseller. I got my Mac and promptly discovered the unprecedented ecosystem of fantastic, passionately-crafted desktop software built for the platform by small, independent software houses. In retrospect I've come to believe that the period from around 2005 to perhaps 2010 was truly the golden era of desktop Mac applications.


Waterfront Station is the centre of transportation for the entire Lower Mainland: three skytrain lines, Seabus, West Coast Express, freight rail, helicopters, float planes, regional and local buses, cruise ships, taxis, bikes, pedestrians. No other North American city enjoys such connectivity. Sadly, existing facilities are inadequate, and connections are often cumbersome. There are few attractive public spaces.
This September 12-18 is Placemaking Week in Vancouver, with a number of conferences and events happening involving placemaking designers and specialists from all over the world. SFU City Conversations joins them with a tour and conversation to envision a new downtown waterfront.
You can attend both events, or either one.
Join us for a waterfront tour beginning at Jack Poole Plaza (the Olympic torch) at 10:00 a.m. We'll finish the tour at 11:30 a.m at Waterfront Station, learning its history and opportunities.
Our tour leaders will be Tom Phipps and Michael Alexander, Members of the Downtown Waterfront Working Group, Steve Brown, Transportation Engineer for the City of Vancouver and Graham McGarva, founding principal of VIA Architecture.
Then at 12:30 p.m. join us for our SFU City Conversation at SFU Vancouver (directly across from Waterfront Station).
To start the conversation, we have Rico Quirindongo, Seattle architect and planner, Darren Davis, Senior Transportation Planner for Auckland, New Zealand, and Urban Planner and author Lance Berelowitz.
Then it's your turn to share your thoughts and ideas on how to imagine the most connected, most exciting, and most dramatic waterfront in North America.


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New Hours for Archives and Research Collections
Beginning Wednesday, May 22, Archives and Research Collections and the Ottawa Resource Room in the Carleton University Library will be closed on Wednesdays. These changes are being made to allow the department to process archival collections and to work on special projects. The hours will be piloted during the summer session before making a decision on whether or not they will continue during the Fall session.
Access to the Archives and the Ottawa Resource Room during these closures will be considered on a case by case basis. For access, please contact: arc@library.carleton.ca.
ARC Closed - February 13, 2019
Please note that Archives and Research Collections will be closed on Wednesday, February 13.
ARC closing at noon on December 11th and 14th
Archives and Research Collections will be closing at 12 noon on Tuesday December 11th and Friday December 14th.
ARC closed August 15th and 16th
Please note that ARC will be closed Wednesday August 15th and Thursday August 16th, 2018.
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Please be advised that ARC will be closed Thursday July 12th and Friday July 13th. ARC will open again on Monday July 16th.
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Collection Update:
Archives and Research Collections has a number of documents digitized and available on the Internet Archive website: https://archive.org/details/carletonarchives.
Looking for past editions of The Carleton or The Charlatan newspaper? Browse here: https://archive.org/details/carletonarchives?and[]=newspaper.
Looking for yearbooks from 1949 until 1970? Browse here: https://archive.org/details/carletonarchives?&and[]=yearbook
You can also find Convocation guides course calendars!
New Database Being Updated
ARC is in the process of changing over to a new database and as a result searching may be impacted. The photo database is under development at the moment and there may be some records that were available on the old database that are also currently under development. If you are having trouble locating something please contact Lloyd Keane: lloyd.keane@carleton.ca or 613-520-2600 x2739.
Carleton thanks the Fakirani Family for its donation to the Ugandan Asian Archives
In 1972, Hassanali and Sakinabai Fakirani along with 60,000 other Ugandan Asians were forced from their homes by Uganda's dictator Idi Amin. Hassanali, Sakinabai and 6,000 others entered Canada as refugees.
Almost 42 years later, on June 20, the Fakirani family gathered at Carleton University with friends and other members of the Ugandan Asian community in order to commemorate World Refugee Day and announce the Fakiranis' support for Carleton's Ugandan Asian Archives Collection. The archive includes more than 1,000 newspaper clippings about the 1972 expulsion. A gift from the Fakirani family has supported the cataloguing and digitizing of the archive, the creation of a website as well as the ongoing collection of oral histories.
"It's very important because it allows the family to share some of the experiences that we'd been through during the time that we had to leave the country and also the experience of settling into Canada," said Nizar Fakirani, Hassanali and Sakinabai's son. "We want to preserve this experience for the future generations. I hope that they will learn about it and extrapolate from it. That it will assist Canada, and our policy makers, to be able to respond to any future incidents of similar kind, where people have to be uprooted in large numbers."
Carleton University has named a study room in the library in the memory of Hassanali and Sakinabai Fakirani.
Idi Amin ordered the 1972 expulsion of Ugandan Asians in what was recognized as an indophobic policy to cleanse the country of non-Ugandans. Many Ugandan Asian families had been living in Uganda for generations and played important roles in the country's economy and daily life. The expulsion order led to one of the largest refugee events in Canada's history.
The Ugandan Asian Archives Collection was brought to Carleton in conjunction with the Canadian Immigration Historical Society. It provides unique personal perspectives on the expulsion as well as how Western countries, particularly Britain and Canada, handled the event.
"We now have a presence in Canada that we never had before this project," said Senator Mobina Jaffer at the June 20 event. Jaffer is a Ugandan native whose family was also forced to flee under Amin's dictatorship. "This is the next stage in our evolution, and it's a very emotional stage, because now we have a place in history."
"We are so thankful to the Fakirani family for sharing their very personal story with us and supporting the archive's development," said Patti Harper, head of Carleton Library's Archives and Research Collections department. "The Ugandan Asian Archives will contribute to migration and diaspora studies research, a field of growing importance especially when you consider the UN's recent news that the world now has the highest number of displaced people since World War II."
Over the course of the coming years, Carleton Library will work with communities, families and individuals in Canada to capture the oral histories of South Asian and Indochinese refugees who came to Canada in the 1970s and 1980s.
Archives and Research Collections has created a number of small exhibits highlighting some of the material in the Modern Poetry Collection. Poetry broadsides, oddities, and mongraphs are on display on the 5th floor. Why not stop by?
Carleton University Library Archives and Research Collections Acquires Full Set of Rare French Educational Cards
Archives and Research Collections has recently acquired a complete set of 90 cards measuring 13cm x 8.3cm includes index cards and 86 hand-coloured engraved cards of the French départments following the revolution. Housed in the original gilt wooden box, each card contains a map of the featured Department and a description of characteristics. The second edition is remarkable for its increased embellishment and lavish illustrations. There is only one other copy of the second edition of this very rare set of educational cards housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Read more about the cards.
You can also check out more photos of the cards in our photo album on the ARC Facebook page.
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Where is the underwater hotel
Where do they have underwater hotels?
Best underwater hotels
Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai.
The Manta Resort in Pemba Island, Zanzibar.
Ithaa Underwater Restaurant at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island.
Subsix at Niyama in the Maldives.
Utter Inn Hotel in Vasteras, Sweden.
Jules' Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida.
Lime Spa at Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives.
Are there any underwater hotels in the United States?
Jules' Undersea Lodge -Key Largo, Florida, United States
Keep in mind, Jules' Undersea Lodge is the only underwater hotel in the United States.
Where is the world first underwater hotel?
Conrad Maldives Rangali Island
What is the underwater hotel in Dubai called?
Atlantis Dubai
How much does it cost to stay in a underwater hotel?
Guests will be able to stay in the suite as part of a package that will cost around $250,000 (though the resort has not yet determined exactly what will be included for the price). Named "Muraka," the undersea hotel room is a two-level structure.
How much does it cost to stay in the underwater hotel in Dubai?
The Suite Life: The $8,167-a-Night Neptune Suite at Atlantis, The Palm. For the high roller looking to spend thousands of dollars a night on a hotel room, these downright outrageous accommodations, where underwater views and gold-laced bath amenities are part of the package, do the trick.
Do ice hotels have bathrooms?
There are no bathrooms (except the Deluxe Suites) or storage in the Ice rooms or Art suites. These facilities are housed in a heated service building, where you also keep your belongings during the night. … You get a locker or cubicle (if staying in an Art Suite), where you can get changed and keep your belongings.
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How deep is the underwater room at Manta Resort?
The floating hotel room is actually situated in the center of a blue hole, an area of the coral reef approximately 50 m (164 ft) wide where the sea drops to 12 m (39 ft) deep during high tide.
Is Atlantis Hotel underwater?
Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai
The floor-to-ceiling windows in the underwater rooms at Atlantis, the Palm look into the resort aquarium's Ambassador Lagoon, filled with 65,000 sea creatures.
How did they build underwater hotel?
Ithaa was built in Singapore and then transported to the Maldives, where workers situated the 175-ton structure on the sea floor by filling it with 85 tons of sand ballast. They then attached the restaurant to four steel piles (each of which had been vibro-hammered approximately 15 feet into the seabed) with concrete.
Will the Maldives be underwater?
They could also be gone within the next century due to climate change. With sea levels rising dramatically in the past few decades, the islands will suffer the most as they eventually become entirely submerged.
How do you get into an underwater hotel?
According to their website, Poseidon Undersea Resorts will transport guests to their accommodations via an elevator at the end of a pier. The pressure inside the resort is the same as the atmospheric pressure on land, so those who have yet to experience deep-sea habitats will be fine.
Can you sleep underwater?
Yes, a human can sleep underwater with an underwater supply but, will wake up in heaven if no one is there to protect them. … So, a human can sleep only if another person or a group remains on guard.
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Is Burj Al Arab the only 7 star hotel?
Burj Al Arab, Dubai
Reportedly the world's only 7 star hotel, Burj Al Arab offers the ultimate in luxury featuring a 180m tall atrium, a fleet of white Rolls Royce cars, dancing fountains and touches of gold leave everywhere.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Jason Gestring, and I want to be your Vista Chiropractor. If you're tired of experiencing neck pain, back pain, or headaches – call us today to schedule a no charge initial consultation.
The reality is, we won't know until you come into our office for a consultation and examination.
During the consultation, we'll discuss your health history and current condition.
I'll be listening for indicators that will determine if your condition will respond to the care we provide in our office.
I will also get a good idea of any problems you might be experiencing that may slow down your results.
If all goes well, we'll continue to an examination. It's during this time that we will check to see how your spine moves and do some orthopedic and neurological tests.
If I can help, I'll let you know right away. If I can't help you, I'll make sure to refer you to the right type of doctor before you leave my office.
Why Wait Another Day to Get Out of Pain?
The biggest mistake new patients have made when they've come into my office? Waiting too long. While we can still help most of the patients that walk through our doors – how quickly you will respond to treatment is often directly related to how long it took you to get into my office.
Patients are usually thrilled once the pain goes away, then upset that they suffered needlessly for years before seeking help. "I just didn't know chiropractic could help" and "I wish someone would have told me about this sooner" are common phrases once they finally get help.
Does Insurance Cover It? What If I Don't Have Insurance?
Most patients are pleasantly surprised that their health insurance does cover chiropractic care in our office. We are happy to verify your benefits and let you know what's covered before you start any treatment or care in our office.
If you don't have chiropractic coverage, or don't have health insurance at all (as is the case for many patients), you'll be happy to learn that we have affordable payment options available.
The first step is to give us a call and schedule a consultation in our office. Let's find out if our office is the right place for you. Each step will be explained as we progress and we'll make sure the treatment is right for you and is something you can afford.


The focus of this album falls on the "Berliner Requiem" of 1928, together with two a capella choral pieces, "Legende vom toten Soldaten" and "Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen", which fall in the vicinity of the "Requiem". The four songs to texts by Walt Whitman give an impression - not merely in musical terms - of the way the "American" Weill grappled with the subject of war and death, this time form the perspecitve of one who "stayed at home" and helplessly confronted the Second World War. The album opens with the large-scale "Recordare", a religious view of the same subject, and is counter-balanced by the concluding "Kiddush". The latter work is the only piece on this album which does not directly deal with the problems of war and peace, but its meditative and religious stance can be taken as symbolic of peace.
The vocal works on this live recording cover a period of twenty-four years. During this time not only the circumstances of Weill´s life but his very musical language changed whith almost unimaginable radicality. At first an "avant-garde" composer in the early 1920s, a spiritual confrère of Schoenberg and Hindemith, Weill underwent an simplification and popularization in his musical style which, in scale, is probalby unique in the history of music.
10. Oh Captain! My Captain!
Recorded at Robert-Schumann-Saal, Düsseldorf, March, 24, 1990, with Jürgen Wagner (tenord), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) and the Robert-Schumann-Kammerorchester conducted by Harmut Schmidt (1 - 9) and Marc-Andreas Schlingensiepen (10 - 14).


Emily has been researching drug policy-related issues since 2008 when she began working as a research associate at Transform Drug Policy Foundation where she contributed to a number of publications including 'After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation'. She also spent a year as a research assistant at the Global Drug Policy Observatory where she was the lead author for two reports on developments in cannabis policy in the United States. Emily's PhD analysed how drugs have been constructed as a threat to humankind and the nation state, and how these threat constructions have limited national and international drug policy. She teaches an undergraduate unit on 'Drugs and Society' in the School of Policy Studies at the University of Bristol.


People can do different courses which will enable them to secure jobs in society. Nursing may become one of the courses that the people may study because they will manage to secure employment in their society at any time. When one has completed studying the nursing course, they need to look for an agency that will help them to get employment in their society by listing the jobs related to their course at all times. people will get a good amount of cash per hours after service delivery in their work stations at all times. The professionals should get the right amount of money at all times when they do their work so that they can live a good life. Therefore individual should look for a good employer who will give them a job and pay them a good amount of money at all times. One can save their money using the new technology, and the savings will get sent to the individuals. People should negotiate with the ones employing them on the amount of money they expect to get before they can start their work. An employee should discuss with their boss the activities they need to deliver each day when at their workstation.
When one finds for a job, they expect to see the one that suits their need. An individual will have their requirement like the pay they want to get at any time. One ought to take a crack at an occupation that will give them assignments that line up with their profession advantages. The agency makes the work of the individuals looking for a nursing job to become easier because they will always get the new job updates from time to time. It has made the people get new openings of nursing jobs that match with their requirements easily at all times. A person will always feel comfortable when they get the job that desire in their life, and they will give good results at all times.
People can know when there comes a job opening in their sector because the agency will notify them. A person should always know when the job openings arise so they can apply for them at all times. In this way the intrigued hopefuls will apply for the activity they find to fit them. One should utilize once and sit tight for the outcomes from the businesses. One should compile all their certificates and the amount of money they want to get paid and leave the other task of selection to the agency. A person will get rewards when they have many referrals at all times. People will offer the benefits that a person receives when at work at all times.


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Paxeramed
Paxeramed's patient engagement app CarePassport now in version 2.0
Paxeramed released version 2.0 of its patient engagement app, CarePassport, providing users with a single-point to aggregate, store, share and manage their health data. The application is now available for download in the Apple App Store and on Google Play Store.
CarePassport is designed to engage users to take a more active role in their care and significantly improves patient satisfaction, outcomes and health service efficiency. The app enables users to view their care teams contact info, communicate with them via secure messaging and request, change or cancel appointments. Patients can also view their medical images, lab and clinical reports, and share healthcare information securely with their healthcare providers.
CarePassport 2.0 further simplifies the patient experience by allowing users to complete and submit registration forms before arriving to the healthcare facility.The latest version further simplifies the patient experience by allowing users to complete and submit registration forms before arriving to the healthcare facility. The location of the healthcare facility can be viewed on a map and there's also the option to request an Uber drive from within the app. Upon arrival to the facility, patients can check-in using a QR code.
On the other hand, healthcare providers' version of the app, CarePassport-MD, allows caregivers to build quality relationships with patients and increases revenue through fostering patient retention and loyalty. CarePassport-MD features a dashboard that indexes the data content to be easily searched and mined. From the same dashboard, healthcare providers can analyze patients' data, set medical and follow-up notifications, enable patient behavioral detection, and monitor patient risk categories.
"The App provides patients with a complete view of their medical data provided to them across multiple providers — hospitals, physician practices and from their wearables, and enables users to engage more proactively and meaningfully with their healthcare providers," Dr. Shoura, founder of Paxeramed, said in a statement.
CarePassport's backend can run as a stand-alone solution or be integrated with existing EMR systems to help streamline administrative routine tasks including scheduling appointments, registration, and patient reminders.
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Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, napping, again, famous people, functioned, sleep, jackie gleason, ben franklin, attractive
Dogbert lies on his pillow. Dilbert says, "Dogbert . . . Napping again?" Dilbert says, "Don't you know that many famous people functioned with very little sleep . . .? There were Jackie Gleason, Ben Franklin, Napoleon . . ." Dogbert says, "I like to think I'm more attractive than any of those guys."
Sunday December 24, 1989
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, santa, christmas, elves, slavery, christmas morning, presents, gifts
Dogbert: Santa! Santa: Merry Christmas, Dogbert! I'm glad you're up... I'm having a little trouble with your christmas list. In your letter you say you want to be named supreme ruler of earth. Dogbert: Is that a problem? Santa: Frankly, my workshop is more oriented toward small consumer goods... Dogbert: Can I have an elf? Dilbert: Has, G.I. Joe taken up ballet, or is this something I don't want to know about?
Tuesday December 19, 1989
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, rented car, car, sympathy, muster
Dilbert, whose arm is in a sling, says to Dogbert, "I got hit by a rented car." Dogbert asks, "Hertz?" Dilbert replies, "Not any more, but thanks for asking." Dogbert says as he walks away, "That's about all the sympathy I can muster for one day."
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, plastic surgery, elephant man, ivory, spare parts
Dilbert sits in his chair reading the newspaper and Dogbert leans against his feet. Dilbert says, "Hmm . . . Says here that Michael Jackson is considering even more plastic surgery." Dogbert says, "That explains why he wanted to buy the remains of the 'Elephant Man.'" Dilbert asks, "For spare parts?" Dogbert replies, "Well, it wasn't for the ivory."
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, acupuncture, relieve stress, needles, sarcasm
Dilbert and Dogbert sit outdoors. Dilbert says, "I've been considering acupuncture as a way to relieve stress." Dogbert asks, "The theory here is that sticking large needles into your body will help you relax?" Dilbert replies, "It sounds silly when YOU say it." Dogbert says, "Sometimes sarcasm helps us think more clearly."
Tags Dilbert, lunch money, data, diskettes, school, bully, aging
A large man enters Dilbert's cubicle and says, "Yo, Dilbert, give me your lunch money or I'll erase your data diskettes." Dilbert replies, "Touch my data and I'll erase any mention of you from the main payroll computer." Beads of sweat flies from the man's head and he says, "No . . . Please, I'm sorry." Dilbert turns toward the reader and says, "Nothing is more pathetic than an aging school bully." The man says, "I took shop; I can make you some nice bookends."
Tags Dogbert, Dilbert, junk mail, mail, condo, sales, jeep cherokee, emerald
Dilbert reads a piece of mail and says, "Wow! And I thought this was just more junk mail!" Dilbert sits in his chair and says to Dogbert, "All I have to do is drive two hours and listen to their condo sales pitch. I'm GUARANTEED to win a Jeep Cherokee or a valuable mock emerald." Dogbert responds, "That emerald will go pretty well with your mock brain."
Tags Dogbert, Dilbert, light, walk, slower, flies
Dilbert and Dogbert sit outdoors. Dilbert says, "According to Einstein, time slows down as you approach the speed of light." Dogbert asks, "Didn't he also prove that time flies when you're having fun?" Dogbert asks, "So, if you walk slower, do you have more fun or just get more light? Were we finished here?" Dilbert is gone.
Wednesday August 23, 1989
Tags Dilbert, staples, straightened, reused, study it, vision, cc
The caption says, "And while he had just created undoubtedly the finest memo known to man, still Dilbert felt curiously unfulfilled." Dilbert sits at his desk and reads the memorandum. Dilbert thinks, "Maybe it needs more 'CC's.'" The caption says, "Sadly, not everybody would share Dilbert's vision." Dogbert reads the memo and asks, "Do you really think staples can be straightened and reused?" Dilbert says, "I'm just saying we should study it."
Monday August 07, 1989
Tags Dogbert, Dilbert, shower, egg, lassie, rin tin tin, benji, big, furry
Dogbert stands on a stool and looks in the bathroom mirror. He asks, "Do you think I look more like Rin Tin Tin or Lassie? Maybe Benji?" Dilbert stands in front of the shower with a towel around his waist. Dilbert replies, "I dunno . . . Maybe a big furry egg." Dogbert says, "With that little inspiration boost, I believe I am ready to attack the new day."


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Elevate Security set to solve the human element of cybersecurity
Elevate Security announced that it has raised $8 million Series A to develop the first fully integrated Security Behavior Platform, to change employees' habits while giving Security teams unprecedented visibility into security readiness.
Defy Partners led the financing, with existing investor, Costanoa Ventures, participating. Elevate has raised $10M to date and will be using this new capital to expand the team, open a new engineering hub in Montreal, and accelerate go-to-market for its platform.
According to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 93% of all breaches are the result of attacks targeting people — namely, employees. Traditional security awareness training has not reduced this risk, leaving employees uncomfortably numb, concerned but un-empowered. Leveraging the latest advances in behavioral and data science, Elevate is providing a sorely needed new approach to motivate, enable and reward employees for making good decisions, while providing CISOs and awareness practitioners visibility and insight into employee behavior and risk.
In order to develop the platform to make people-powered security attainable for all companies, Elevate has hired Jean-François Gailleur as vice president of engineering. Jean-François has held key leadership roles at AppDirect, SAP and RadialPoint, in addition to lecturing at École de technologie supérieure in Montreal. Gailleur is charged with building out Elevate's engineering team in Montreal.
The funding will also be used in part to accelerate the go-to-market strategy of the Elevate Platform, which measures, motivates and rewards employee security behavior change.
"Sending more content to our employees just wasn't moving the needle on risk prevention," said Elevate customer, James Hong, Sr. Manager, Security Engagement, Autodesk. "Elevate is helping us change the game and take our program beyond awareness to readiness by giving us and our employees visibility and insight to know how we are doing along our journey to employee-centric risk reduction."
"The vast majority of hacking breaches have to do with taking advantage of people," said Trae Vassallo, co-founder and managing director from Defy. "Elevate founders, Robert and Masha have combined their knowledge and expertise in cybersecurity to help transform employees from potential weaknesses into security assets."
"We're really proud to be building an inclusive security company, and partnering with Defy and Costanoa is enabling us to do that in a powerful way," said Masha Sedova, co-founder and chief product officer. "Our company is 50% female, engineering included, and we have an all-women outside board. The culture we're building internally is just as exciting as what we're building externally for our great customers."
As part of this financing, Trae Vassallo and Martina Lauchengco have joined the board.
Robert Fly, co-founder and chief executive officer, said, "For too long, companies have treated their employees like the weakest link. We knew we could help customers empower their employees to be security superheroes against threats. I'm excited to build a team to make this a reality for more and more companies."
Elevate Security


We heard Brad repeating his comment about letting Monica win the tarp and Marissa calling him out for it.After saying their goodbyes, the new tribes were forced to vote out one of their own, drawing first blood in front of their loved ones.
The game wasn't over for Laura and Candice: Redemption Island was back in play and Blood versus Water was put to the ultimate test.
Rupert gave up his life in the game while John decided to let his wife fight her way off Redemption island.
At Galang, Colton was working on repairing his image.
We heard Monica saying that he was a villain and asking if zebras changed their stripes.
At Tadhana, Brad, the former NFL player, hit the ground running, putting together a majority alliance of men.
Galang got off to a slow start at the immunity challenge (We heard Jeff saying that Gervase was slowing his tribe) but when Katie struggled, they pulled off the victory. After Gervase's excessive celebration, the men's alliance targeted his niece, Marissa but Katie's struggles at the challenge were hard to overlook.
At Tribal Council, the men chose vengeance over keeping the tribe strong by voting out Marissa.
Besides showing that Jeff isn't completely into this season (!) it was interesting to note how much he talked about Katie's struggles because she wouldn't be a target in this episode. It only served to remind us of her presence and maybe set the stage for a comeback story.
Marissa arrived and needed to introduce herself to Candice and Rupert. Her confessional was placed here while the scene in camp continued with Marissa explaining the Gervase incident. Rupert had a confessional about his fear of seeing Laura get voted out and then we heard Candice saying that Marissa was really voted out because of her comment about Brad.
Marissa was pissed about being the first one but Candice corrected her, saying she was third.
It could mean nothing but since Rupert would soon be the first to leave, but I wonder if Marissa stays one more round and gets to throw her buff in the fire during episode 4. It would give double meaning to what we heard Candice saying and editors love to include sayings that have double meanings when they find them. Marissa's elimination had been explained in the recap and didn't really need another interpretation but Candice reached a different conclusion. That showed the viewers that she's sharp.
The music was very joyous and light while an army of ants was making its way on a tree trunk. The ants have been predominant up to now and we will soon have a shot of a group of them tearing a large beetle apart. That suggests a group of players might tear up the strong ones before the season ends. Who are the ants? In this episode, the ants first appeared while we were in Galang but the group that quartered the beetle was shown during Tadhana's scrambling scene and the strong practically have to be Brad and his alliance. If we are to speculate on the meaning, we'd say that Cierra and Katie will use the help of Galang's alliance to bring down the all-male alliance.
Tyson, Laura M., Laura B., Kat, Tina and Aras were standing one in front of the other, massaging each other's back.
Colton started telling conflicting stories: He first talked to Aras, Gervase and Tina, saying that Laura Morrett was throwing Tina under the bus. Aras didn't want to hear it because they didn't need to at that time. Colton said he didn't care since he'd volunteer to go to TC. That really caught Aras and Tina's attention. Gervase shut him up by saying they didn't need to talk strategy. Aras' confessional was inserted here and then we heard Tina telling Colton that she was ready to talk about anything except Survivor. For effect, the last part of Colton's confessional was heard just before the commercial break.
It was fascinating to hear Monica telling Colton that Survivor required patience considering that just last week we heard she had told Brad to hit the ground running. We have Brad playing fast and Colton being impatient on one side, Monica showing restraint and Aras, Gervase and Tina calming the situation on the other. This gives us such contrasting game plays that we have to consider it a Theme for this story. Our first impression is that Brad and Colton's approach is bad, that it is better to stay calm while playing the game. If that is the correct interpretation then Colton's "We are stupid" was really addressed to himself and indirectly to Brad instead of Galang.
While Cierra was watching, Rachel approached John and told him that she trusted him.
We could think that, by letting "people know that John has an alliance in the tribe", Cierra was actually putting a red flag on herself: The people in John's alliance could see Cierra as being too smart to keep around. However, the rest of the episode won't be going that way so the conclusion to reach from this confessional is that Cierra is a smart observer.
Next, we had John bringing news that it was time for the whole tribe to go to the challenge arena.
Filing in first, Galang looked anxiously towards the entrance, towards Tadhana to see who would be missing. The camera focused on Tina and Laura who had seen their daughters lose the challenge. When Jeff said Marissa had been voted out, Aras patted Gervase on the back to console him just as a grinning Brad made his entrance. Tina was shown drying a tear and Jeff pointed out that 4 of them were crying. Monica and Laura said they were happy to see them safe.
Candice gave John a nice wink when she walked in and we saw his relief.
The camera went immediately to Brad, making him Gervase's direct target even if Marissa hadn't mentioned him.
That whole exchange made Candice laugh.
Jeff had just said that the challenge required speed and dexterity when he noticed that Rupert was throwing caution to the wind and blowing through the contraption.
Could this be another hint that going too fast isn't good in this game? It certainly seemed to resonate with what we had heard before. When Rupert lost his first spool, Jeff even said it didn't do any good to rush. Add John's advice to go "slow and steady", Gervase's recommendation to "take your time" and we definitely have a recurring theme.
Candice gave the idol clue to John.
We're noticing that an investment is being made in Candice. The work ethic she showed in camp last week, the emotions expressed by John and the wink she gave him which was replayed in slow motion at the end of the scene as if we were watching Sports Center, were meant to have us root for Candice…at least for now. It could be that she will be the one to root for only until a bigger favorite gets sent to RI but it could also mean she outplays everyone there and comes back in the game. We just have to see if the investment continues to grow like it did with Matt.
Immediately, we saw John's shock.
He didn't say that to the tribe and the talk went to the idol which he said he would use at the merge to get numbers.
The intensity of the music suggested that this was the wrong direction for John.
Just then, we had an image of water splashing in Colton's face, which could be a sign that he will be the one surprised because Tina and Kat were heard comparing notes about Colton.
The trouble for Colton is that Tina didn't say a word while others heard his rant.
This was another reference to playing the game with calm. Staying out of the drama was the theme that led to Vee's victory. In a season where "Cleopatra", "McGyver", the "Godfather", the "General", "Tinkerbell" and "Malcolm X" all stood out, Vee remained calm. Could we be revisiting the same story? I suppose it could be something similar but with a few twists added.
We heard someone saying that Tina was fine, telling us that Colton's rant was directed at her also even if it was Kat that was shown crying.
That's pretty ironic considering most of "these people" have had more experience in Tribal Council than the guy that asked to be taken out of the game during One World.
By the way the camera showed Tina looking at him, I'd suggest that Colton didn't understand that the game can be played without drama or chaos and that it can be played at his expense.
Colton asked Monica if he was in trouble and she reassured him, adding that she would keep her ears open.
Just then, we saw the skin of a snake that had been shed, suggesting that, indeed, we were in front of a new Monica.
That's when we saw Tyson talking to Aras, Gervase, Monica and Tina, saying that Colton's whole game is to get people to turn on each other. He added that they shouldn't listen to whatever he says about targeting any of them but that they should compare notes instead.
Monica told the group that Colton asked her if everyone was still on Kat or if they were on him.
Aras said that Colton was a bully but that they didn't have to be afraid. He added that Colton was a gay Russell Hantz.
I also feel really good about this alliance. It used to be that alliances revealed don't succeed but we've seen quite a few endure to the end lately. The fact that it includes all the players that are associated with the theme of playing the game calmly makes it even more promising.
As the tribes walked in, the camera focused on Cierra who gave a thumbs up to her mom Laura.
Let's file this away as a possible important connection. Neither are in the main alliances as we have seen them so one of them could be sent to RI at one point or they could eventually join to flip the game.
The reward, as usual for episode 2, was fishing gear.
Kat was the designated cheerleader for Galang but we only saw her in the background a few times as she encouraged her team.
Laura was slightly faster than Katie at first but Tadhana made up their deficit at the last station, giving Hayden a slight lead.
Even if it was very much like a Big Brother challenge and he had a 3-1 lead, Hayden lost to Gervase who had "a nice touch going" according to Jeff. With a 6-4 win, Gervase did get a chance to rub more salt in the Loved Ones' wound, like he promised. He dedicated the win to Marissa, screaming for everyone to hear!
Hayden could only stare at the board and we saw Kat looking troubled.
Brad winked at Monica when Jeff gave her the idol.
The Returning players left with their reward and it was time for Hayden to wink at Kat.
There are quite a few winks and signals going on, players reassuring their loved ones that they are safe. Are any of those gestures significant? For now, I'd say that the wink Candice gave John, because it was replayed, and the thumbs up Cierra gave Laura, because it was out of the blue, are the most intriguing ones. The others were "in the moment" so they probably don't have any long range implications.
Brad was furious against Gervase, asking if he could be as stupid as he looked and promising to body slam him out if they ever get a physical challenge.
While Katie was saying that, we saw the ants moving together. The ants could be symbolizing Katie's drive to victory…or the guys decision to boot the girls because we saw them immediately after.
Vytas said Tyson would still be weakened if he doesn't swap.
John continued in his defense of Rachel.
Something worse was happening to the beetle right then; it was being torn apart by a group of red ants. Note that Katie's ants were black. Animal imagery can be fun and confusing at the same time. One thing for sure, the editors chose to include the beetle being torn apart right after Vytas expressed doubts in his alliance. It has to be a bad sign for the 5 guys. They probably won't last as a group and the next scene went right back to Katie who chose the perfect words to make Vytas and Hayden doubt John even more.
Vytas was telling Katie that it was going to be Rachel, asking her for her thoughts.
Katie said that she'd have a tough time believing he'd write her name down.
Hayden and Katie concluded that it didn't matter what John did but then Katie reminded them of the idol: "What if he saves her?
Vytas was taken off guard but he quickly recovered, saying that they didn't think he had found it yet. He told Katie that they would tell Rachel that the vote was against Cierra.
While the ants were carrying their prey, Katie talked to Cierra about what Vytas and Hayden had told her.
Cierra told Katie about her fear of being bounced by the idol.
John was in the ocean with Rachel and that made Hayden, Caleb and Vytas talk.
Cierra and Katie need to be watched in the future.
As they entered Tribal Council the camera focused first on Cierra and Katie, then John, Vytas and Rachel came one after the other on our screen.
While it is easy to understand why John, Rachel and Vytas were shown as the ones to watch in this council, Cierra and Katie didn't need to be shown. Their inclusion gives us a hint that we need to keep an eye on those two.Jeff first looked at the tribe's gender imbalance.
Cierra said that they see the men talking together and that it makes them feel vulnerable.
Hayden smiled at that while Brad looked uncomfortable.
Jeff noted Hayden's smile and asked him about it.
Interesting considering his Big Brother alliance, the Brigade, was successful mainly because it remained secret all along.
Jeff turned to Katie, asking her what could be done.
With a smile and a glance at Cierra, Katie simply said: "I think we are still trying to figure all this out.
That goes directly to the theme of being patient.
Jeff pointed out that John had a clue to the idol and asked Caleb if that put an X on his shoulder.
Caleb said that, historically, the idol does put a target on the one that has it.
There was a hint of a menace in Brad's last sentence that had to make John feel uneasy but the topic changed to the upcoming Redemption Island challenge and that the booted player would be facing Candice.
John mentioned that there was also a twist: The loved one could take their place.
Hayden said that it was twisted, that they could weaken their tribe by their own vote.
The music's crescendo showed that this answer pleased Jeff who pointed out that there were more layers to votes this season than they ever had.
It was already time to vote.
Rachel (who wasn't heard saying a single word during TC) went first, John looked over in Brad's direction but the ex-NFL player didn't return the stare, bowing his head instead.
We saw that John went with the guys, voting against Rachel while Cierra was shown voting against John.
We had another exchange of looks between John and Vytas this time.
Jeff first revealed two votes against John and the camera showed him looking at Vytas and Brad as if they were guilty even if we were shown that one vote was from Cierra and guessed that the other had to be from Katie.
After sending Rachel to Redemption Island, Jeff told Tadhana that they had to win the next challenge. Cierra, Brad and Katie were on screen at that moment, while Hayden appeared just before they stood to pick up their torches.
Is Monica playing fast or slow?
We have been presented with two conflicting ways to play the game. Some want to play hard and fast while others want to be patient and avoid the drama. What's the most fascinating aspect of this duality is that both come from advices given by Monica. She told Brad that he had to "hit the ground running" but she also told Colton that Survivor requires patience since it lasts 39 days.
Our impression of the first two episodes is that it is preferable to play calmly. We heard that Rupert was throwing caution to the wind and he was the first eliminated. Jeff was heard saying it didn't do any good to rush so, while he was talking about the challenge, it resonated as a theme to the whole story.
Even the music suggests that Galang's general approach is preferable. In episode 1, the music that accompanied Galang was adventurous while it was joyous in this episode. Tadhana has been accompanied by tense music even in their scenes before they knew they had a date with Jeff. Therefore, we will look at the players according to the pace that they have shown.
Brad: While he had some good moments, the fishing trip in particular, he continued to be seen as Tadhana's ruler and the leader usually falls first. The bully is just below the surface as we see him smiling when Gervase saw that Marissa was voted out and we saw him avoiding John's look at TC after making a veiled threat about the decision concerning the idol. As the head of the all-male alliance, the one that wants to eliminate the Cochrans and all the weak women, I see him being pictured by the big insect that was torn apart by the army of small ants. The only question is the timing.
Vytas: He is shown as a cold calculator, the one at the center of Tadhana's main alliance. While he is going against the main theme of playing slow and steady, he still appears as a possibler winner because we see him as a smart player. It should be quite an episode when his intensity is confronted by Aras' calm. That could be when the season's outcome is determined.
John: It seems that John's main problem is thinking too far ahead, making him worry about all the possibilities. That has caused his own alliance to doubt him which isn't good this early. A better course of action would have been to open up about his reason to keep Rachel and to let the 4 guys know about the clue. An idol isn't very good when everyone knows about it. While he is given a strong portrayal, showing us all his emotions, it seems that his confessionals serve more to build up Candice's story than his own. It was her wink that relieved all his anxieties and, while her win gave him hope, she also gave him all the troubles that followed. Despite their present situation, Candice could outlast John. Wouldn't that be a surprising result. It seems that John's fate depends on what the guys think of his vote against Rachel. Will they see it as a sign of loyalty or will they feel that John didn't have a choice?
Colton: He was talking about Galang when he uttered his "We are stupid" remark but he is the stupid one. He thought Galang wasn't playing the game but they were already talking about eliminating him. Galang isn't as stupid as Manono's misfits, so they are more likely to give the boot to the bully than handing him the reins.
Gervase: Even if he's in the group of players that are playing calmly and he told Marissa to take her time, Gervase is quickly putting a target on his back. The format of the season probably means there won't be a swap so Gervase, being in the main alliance, should make it far. Wouldn't it be a complete circle if the player with the most charm in season 1, the one that thought he could win this game on charm alone, becomes the goat of season 27? Now that would be a story!
These players had a good start but haven't done anything in episode 2 to follow up.
There seems to be something of with Hayden.
Hayden: While he still has a good presence, there seems to be something off about Hayden. The guy won Big Brother mostly because his alliance remained secret for 3 months but he had no problem letting everyone know about his new Brigade 6 days into this game. He also agrees to weaken Galang by voting out Rachel but he doesn't realize that Galang's reply would be to boot Kat. I was tempted to say it was a good sign that no one blamed him for the challenge loss but then he wasn't given the opportunity to tell us how he felt about it either. The impression was more that it was forgotten than it was an attempt to preserve his good image.
Caleb: He only had one benign intervention during TC and that was interrupted by Brad. After a strong premiere, Caleb faded in this one. He certainly can turn it around but, for now, he appears to be only a number in an alliance that could be on the verge of collapse. His role is more about being Colton's partner and that should soon come to the forefront. Nothing associated with Colton appears to be long term right now.
Laura B: While she could be irrelevant, Rupert's wife still receives some nice moments. Seeing her in the row of people massaging each other's back, it's possible that Galang has another, secret, alliance with Tyson, Aras and Tina playing in both. For now though, I assume that Laura is mostly shown to appease Rupert's army of fans, giving them hope that she will avenge their favorite. With Rupert out of the game, there is no reason for Galang to keep Laura except for her vote and that won't be necessary if the alliance of 5 remains loyal. Her only hope right now is that Galang is up in numbers, that Colton is Colton and that Kat could be used to turn Tadhana's strategy against them.
Like some Amazing racers that can't start their car, these players can't start their game.
Rachel: It was quite telling that Jeff didn't even address her in her final Tribal Council. As we had seen in the first episode, Rachel was irrelevant to the story. Like quite a few before her, (Jenny in Cook Island and Michelle in Fiji come to mind) being the victim of a twist meant having a poor edit so that the viewers wouldn't connect with her and be outraged that she was "robbed". Since I've already said Marissa has to leave in episode 4 to finish 3rd and that Candice should last a while then it follows that Rachel loses this week.
Marissa: One more win and she will finish 3rd like Candice said.
Kat: She had to be considered the weakest if she was Galang's first sit out. That isn't a good sign if Galang decides to adopt Tadhana's strategy. There is nothing in Kat's edit suggesting that she will have an important role in this story but she still has time to find one.
Laura M.: We didn't hear from the ex-Galu player and while she was in the barrel for the winning team, it seems her main scene was that exchange with Cierra at the challenge. It's too early to make anything of that except that we were meant to remember their connection. It should play a part in the story at some point.
These players know that it's a long game. The winner is likely found in this group.
Monica : She's the one that gave Brad the advice to hit the ground running and told Colton to be patient because Survivor lasts 39 days. That makes her the fulcrum of the story, the one that will tip the outcome one way or the other. While she could be used by Galang to put Brad in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between his own game and hers, she appears to be safely ensconced in Galang's main alliance…with Gervase! The Vytas-Aras conflict could decide the outcome of the game but it will be interesting to see how Monica and Galang handle the Gervase-Brad situation. Tina, Tyson and Aras could conceivably sacrifice Monica at some point so maybe that is why we saw them hanging with Kat and the Lauras.
Neither being set up to win.
Candice: Although her situation tells us she isn't going to win, there is a story being built around Candice. It could be set up only to keep us interested in the arena challenge until an important player gets there but it feels more like a concerted effort to rehabilitate Candice. Instead of the love-sick Dumb Blonde that mutinied "only" to join Adam and that sealed the fate of the Heroes by flipping to the Villains, we see a strong, determined player that took her time and went slow and steady to win her first duel. I can see Candice lasting a long time on RI as her confidence builds with each win. I wonder if, after Rachel's comment, she will say something to John to let him know that he should change his approach with the idol.
Cierra: She was shown as a smart player throughout this episode, as she was the first to notice the bond between Rachel and John. It appears that she could be in danger because Tadhana only has 2 women remaining but, as Rachel said, it's going to change now. There is an interesting story growing around Cierra but it seems tilted more to her partner, Katie.
Katie: We heard her confessional where she said "I have to do what I have to do to win" and we took notice. Considering she was the one that confirmed the guys' worries about John and Rachel and that she was shown coming up with the plan to split the votes then we are in the presence of a smart player that could go far. It was a good sign that she was the "girl in the barrel" for Tadhana because it meant she wasn't afraid of stepping up and the tribe was willing to give her a second chance. Her subtle smile at Tribal Council when she told Jeff that we were still trying to figure things out fit marvelously in the theme of the story and that bodes very well for her.
Aras: With Tyson and Tina, Aras could be in the middle of two alliances on Galang; the one with Gervase and Monica that was revealed and the one with Kat and the Lauras that was suggested. Either way, the former winner is in a great position and his stance against Colton's bullying tactics puts him in line with the theme of the story: Players don't have to create drama and chaos by bullying people and Aras said it best: "I want a peaceful camp and I want to win." This is also a possible winning quote so it is a great sign for Aras.
Tyson: His presence was so marginal that he could be placed in the "stuck in the mud" group but he was included in the new alliance and he had a confessional about Colton's behavior so that keeps in with the players that made slow and steady progress in this story.
Tina: While her role was small in this episode, her intervention went directly to the theme of the story. Survivor has become quite the drama but you don't need drama to last 39 days. With her inclusion in the alliance, Tina can take over just like she did in the Outback and even if she doesn't want to talk about Survivor, I think everything she says is aimed at winning Survivor.


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Jenese Harris, Reporter/weekend anchor
Tags: News, Elections, Duval County
Letter encourages veteran to register to vote, but he's been dead for 6 years
Be Registered among many groups sending out this type of mail, SOE says
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An organization called Be Registered is sending out letters encouraging people to register to vote, but one of the recipients is a deceased Vietnam veteran, his widow said Monday.
How can that be? Is the group affiliated with the state? Is it a scam?
Duval County Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan said first of all, the letter is not an official document from the state.
When asked about what her first thought was, upon seeing the mail addressed to her husband, the widow of C. Mitchell said, "That someone messed up really bad, because he had been gone for some years."
Her husband died six years ago.
Hogan said Be Registered isn't the only group sending around letters such as this. Many organizations do the exact same thing, he said.
"I would call them organizations that may be attached to a particular party, so they are trying to boost registration," Hogan said.
Anyone who receives such a letter, or who wonders about his or her voter status, is encouraged to take the following steps:
Go to www.duvalelections.com.
Click on "My Voter Status."
Answer three questions and the site will tell you your status and precinct.
The Vietnam veteran's widow said she is throwing out the letter and hopes to be reminded of her husband only through beautiful memories and photos.
The mailings can look official, but the pamphlets are not. The supervisor of elections has complained to the state about such mailers, with no success.
It appears the groups are gaining access to people's addresses through a public records request, which is legal.
The Florida Department of State spokesperson told News4Jax on Tuesday that they do not work with third-party voter registration groups to send mailers and they do not send out mailers on our own.
"It is common for third-party voter registration groups to send mailers encouraging voter registration, especially during an election cycle, and we are aware that these types of activities are on-going," the spokesperson wrote in an email.
Click here to search a database of registered third-party voter registration groups.
Jenese Harris
Reporter, weekend anchor and movie reviewer.


Snowfall Thursday night into Friday morning could be as much as 3 inches, making the morning commute nasty.
We're still enjoying the fall colors and haven't even rummaged through our garages to pull out snow shovels and ice scrapers.
A wet, slushy snow is forecast to begin falling around midnight Thursday in southeastern Wisconsin and could drop up to 3 inches before ending on Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
That will likely mean a nasty Friday morning commute especially since motorists don't have their winter driving legs yet.
"We're getting a trough of low pressure which brings cooler air from Canada. That's bringing this push of cooler air and it will stick around for the next several days," Sarah Marquardt, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Sullivan, said Wednesday afternoon.
Snowfall totals are forecast at half an inch to 3 inches from Racine and Kenosha counties north to Port Washington while Sheboygan could get half an inch to 4 inches.
Temperatures Thursday night are expected around 30 in the metro Milwaukee area and mid-20s for counties away from Lake Michigan. Highs on Friday will be in the low 30s.
If it seems early for snow, it is. The average first inch or more of snow in Milwaukee doesn't come until Dec. 2.
"Flurries it's typical to see this time of year but it's early for the first inch," Marquardt said.
The earliest recorded first inch or more of snow is Oct. 17 set in 1896, when 1 inch fell in Milwaukee. The average first measurable snow — 0.1 inch or more — in Milwaukee is Nov. 14.
So this season is punching above its weight, snow-wise.
Winds are projected to be light Thursday night but by Friday afternoon could gust from 15 to 20 mph. Since the snow will likely be wet, though, the likelihood of blowing and drifting is minimal.
The ground is still warm but with temperatures Thursday night expected to drop into the 20s, the snow could stick around instead of melting.
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Premium Car Maker Volvo has announced plug-in hybrids will be introduced across its entire range. With a fully electric car by 2019.
As the space for electric cars powers up, the Swedish company says it is expecting electrified vehicles to account for 10 percent of its car sales in the not too far future.
The process for Volvo had already begin with the launch of the XC90 T8 Twin Engine. This car is one of the cleanest and most powerful 7-seater SUVs on the market, delivering over 407 horsepower equivalent and just 49 g/km CO2, plus a pure electric range of 43 km, an industry leading 2.1 l/100 km in fuel economy and reaching 100 km/h in just 5.6 seconds.
Next on the list will be plug-in versions of its 90 series and 60 series larger cars. With the interesting introduction of a new front wheel drive twin engine hybrid version and by 2019 the fully electric Volvo.


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Serena Williams: Should she be seeded at Wimbledon?
As Serena Williams makes her return to the sport, a difficult question about how best to assist that return has been posed to the game's chiefs.
She should be seeded
But is a seeding actually the right move?
RealSport's verdict
(Photo credit: Roberto Faccenda)
Serena Williams, and to a lesser extent, Victoria Azarenka, are presenting the WTA Tour and the Slams with a very difficult question at the moment. Both are currently making their comeback to the game after a lengthy period away from the court due to pregnancy. The problem is not whether to award wildcards to them, a problem the sport's tournament directors did have to contend with last year after the return of Maria Sharapova from her ban for meldonium.
Serena Williams can use her protected ranking to enter tournaments, which for Williams is #1. Besides, there would be little controversy were either awarded wildcards and rightly so. After their achievements in the game, they deserve to be given every helping hand on their way back into the sport. But, as Serena Williams pointed out, a pregnancy is not an injury, the situation in which the protected ranking system is usually used.
Without a seeding, Williams faces a much tougher road back. For example in Miami, she was drawn in the first round against Naomi Osaka, who had just won in Indian Wells, and was unusually also unseeded. In the third round a week before, in Miami, Williams had faced her elder sister Venus in Indian Wells, the only other tournament she has played this year. If Serena Williams still had her seeding, she'd typically be protected from these early challenges. In a sense, it feels as though Williams is being penalised for her decision to have a child.
The sport's chiefs do appear to be listening, which is an encouraging sign. It may well be so that it should not have required someone of Serena Williams' stature to start this conversation, something that we followers of the game are just as guilty of. But that doesn't change the fact that it is a step in the right direction. Wimbledon announced that it was considering awarding a seeding to Williams. Other players have also been supportive, including Simona Halep, who opined that Serena Williams should be top seed at the Championships.
The only problem with the arguments in favour of Williams being seeded is that they don't give much weight to the state of her game. Serena Williams return in Indian Wells and Miami was not an easy one. Though she did beat one seed, Kiki Bertens, who recently won the Charleston Open, it was a tight match. Her other win came against Zarina Diyas, a 24-year-old outside the top 50. She lost to Venus and Osaka, without winning a set in either match.
It would be premature to pass judgement over Williams' return on the basis of four matches. But it would surely be even worse to do the same without even considering them. Williams is only human, her comeback from a pregnancy, that was not without its complications, was never going to be an unbroken string of successes. Expectations should be tempered by probable realities. There is every likelihood of future triumphs for Williams, but they're not likely to arrive immediately.
The top seed is surely, in essence, considered the most likely player to win the tournament. The top seed at Roland Garros and Wimbledon is surely effectively considered the very best player in the world. Is that Serena Williams at the moment? Wimbledon is still nearly two months away, much could have changed by the time it arrives. But if the game is where it is now, would it be right to make that claim about Williams?
Serena Williams is right to say that it is not fair to effectively penalise her for her pregnancy. But its also not clear whether it would be fair to demote other players to award her a seeding because of it. There really isn't any fair way to resolve this. Returning from maternity leave often presents challenges even outside the sport's world, but the challenges are multiplied by the physicality of modern sport, particularly in individual sports.
At the moment, the question as to whether or not Serena Williams is playing the tennis of a top seed or a seeded player at all hasn't been answered. After her withdrawal from the Madrid Open, the wait for the answer will go on. Williams has more than earned the right to take as long as she needs to give it, but until she does, it's too soon to be awarding seedings, both for the game generally, and probably, Williams herself.
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I feel sorry for those who are complaining about BUBBLEWS. I am with you guys because it also happened to me. I haven't received my first redemption and I know how it feels.
I started bubbling last November 2012, that time I am still in doubt with BUBBLEWS(see story here). Even if I am a bit skeptical with the movement; I did not complain and I don't contact BUBBLEWS regarding my FIRST REDEMPTION. I continue writing and posting articles in different categories they have, and to think positive that maybe somehow they will notice my writings.
PATIENCE with TRIALS and HARDSHIP really pays. And I agree, after 1 month I made my 3rd redemption from BUBBLEWS.
Yesterday morning of January 30 I REDEEM my $26.14 USD. Then before the day's end, Paypal sends me email confirming that BUBBLEWS sent me money.
So that's it, I have my money now on my Paypal.
Isn't it GREAT? Thanks so much BUBBLEWS and I am happy to be part of your movement too.
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And most of all RESPECT OTHERS POST.
Respect is very important. Good thing you were able to redeem the paypal money you're expecting.
Nice ! Glad they paid you !
i experience for i haven't receive my first payment but now i continue to bubblews and make a post .. i will try to redeem again .. :D thanks for the info ..


These words floored me today, they truly left me speechless. This is so personal for me tonight. I'm okay with that, though. I hope you will be, too. These were words uttered to me this morning from my child, my own flesh and blood. My eyes swelled when he spoke those words to me. And here's why: this is one of the first times he has expressed the compassion he's beginning to see in his classmate's words and hearts. These words were spoken to me by my son, a person who is beginning to realize the way the world works and the ways of a country eternally flawed, violent, and hostile toward folks that inhabit the identity he wears visibly; that of a transgender person.
Honestly, as I sit in this coffee shop tonight, I was really intent on writing for the myriad deadlines I have coming up for other important things in my life's work, but I cannot get my mind off the words he spoke to me this morning. They are just so much more important than the things of my life that I label "important." So, I'm going to scrap what I was supposed to be writing tonight in favor of this: to explain to you why it is critical that we, as educators and influential adults in the daily lives of children, get out of the way of their unbelievably wise minds and create the conditions within which they can uninhibitedly express their innately expansive, innovative, and fresh thinking to peers, to adults, and to the world at large. Because really, the creative minds of youth are where we're going to find the answers to everything, in the end.
In our attempt to create the conditions within which children see their hopes and dreams realized, we often stand in the way by silencing these hopes and dreams before they are fully realized, voiced, or even explored, by youth. This seems like a bold or even assertive statement to make, and yes, I acknowledge it may be a bit unclear to you for now, but give me a chance to expand upon the why behind it. And, here's a full disclosure: I was completely guilty of exactly what I'm about to argue against, for so many unknowing years as an elementary classroom teacher with my students and as a staff developer with the teachers I worked alongside. But, as I choose to live my life in daily revision of thought and action, I hope with all my power the shifts I write about tonight express my evolving thinking as an educator and as a human of this world.
Essentially, my argument is this: as we frame the work of writing with our students in such a constricted prepackaged box, even as writing workshop teachers intent on creating a world of choice and independence within which our writers can thrive, even as we religiously follow along with thoughtfully written units of study from many resources, and even as we adhere to the tenants of process writing, we inexcusably limit our students' ability to dream the biggest dreams they can. This sometimes happens explicitly by our actions, but more often, I think it happens subtly through our words. It's something I'm going to boldly label as microaggressions we assault upon our students' expansive curiosity, completely without intent, but as the definition of a microaggression would suggest unintenionality, it's an assault on their ideas nonetheless. Here's what I mean more explicitly: as an educator for nearly twenty years, one that is a faithful believer in the power of a workshop classroom and process approach to the teaching of writing with young people, I think we do a disservice to students when we try to proactively set boundaries for their ideas in an attempt to support meaningful, focused, and tangible writing pieces. Let me build my argument to you here with some concreteness from today and then see if you agree with me. It's worth an attempt. Here's why: to have a trans child, who has been navigating the world visibly for nearly two years now, in a time of our country's unraveling before his very eyes, speak these words of hope to me today, ones that suggest the growing compassion he feels from the classmates that occupy his very learning spaces, it's remarkable, truly so.
Let me make concrete what happened today, in one amazing fourth grade classroom, to support the notion I'm going to argue for tonight. The teacher is creating a speech writing unit of study from scratch, using some ideas borrowed from various resources, but attempting to create something anew. As she wanted to immerse her students in stellar mentors of breathtaking speeches, she had her students listen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous I Have a Dream speech from 1963. She wanted her students to take a constructive approach to unpacking the beauty of speech writing instead of naming all the moves speech writers make; she wanted them to cultivate a growing knowledge of why folks write and deliver speeches. After listening to the seventeen minutes of Dr. King's poignant words yesterday, she asked her students to name what impacted them from his speech. She asked me how I might suggest recording what her students named out, as I often support her in the classroom with her writing workshop. I suggested we jot their ideas in categories that reflected the qualities of writing (meaning, focus, structure, elaboration, voice, and conventions), without naming each category for her students up front, but merely jotting the ideas down in distinct spaces of the whiteboard as they shared their ideas. She loved the idea, so I became her scribe for this inquiry lesson.
As her students reflected upon what moved them about Dr. King's speech, two really big realizations emerged: first, just how moved her students were about the meaning behind what Dr. King spoke of; the want of freedom and justice for all people in the future, especially for children. Second, just how impactful the craft moves or elaboration techniques Dr. King employed as a writer were. After her students shared their reflections from hearing his speech which I scribed on the board, I named out how I categorized the various ideas they shared. You can see how their ideas reflected the qualities of writing.
To make this experience more concrete, I named this notion: one critical reason Dr. King's speech resonated so powerfully with them seemed to be because of the meaning behind his words: the message he was communicating was critical for our collective humanity. It is the notion that we write to say something important, important to us, but more critically, important to others around us. Meaning is paramount as writers. Building upon this, to create a space for her writers to reflect upon their own lives, the teacher presented an opportunity for her writers to engage in a quick write to reflect upon their growing thoughts, centering what their hopes were in our world.
This is where things got very interesting. As her students began their quick write in their writing notebooks, she and I walked around to confer with writers and check-in to research what they were writing about. I conferred with two writers that wrote these profound statements.
The first writer: North Korea and South Korea uniting.
The second writer: Gender doesn't matter.
Me: You know what? I'm tired of opinion units, speech units, persuasive writing (whatever you want to label this type of writing these days…) focused on this: changes to the lunch menu, changes to the playground rules, changes to the littering kids see on a school campus, changes to the hours in a school day, or the time the school day starts, etc. etc. etc. When I taught similar units of study when I was in the classroom, I did this same exact thing that the unit of study you're using as a resource suggested to do: something like "Make sure students choose topics that are in their local school campus, or community, or space so they can see tangible change. Try to support them in picking a thing to change that is close enough to their immediate world that it has a chance of changing. Make is closer to home, smaller in nature." So, in my classroom for years and years and years, I got the thesis statements or claims from my students that centered change around lunch menus, school hours, litter on campus, start time to school, etc. etc. etc. And yes, perhaps these kinds of topics are worthy of needing some change and yes they effect kid's immediate lives and yes, I'm all for healthier school food and yes, for more balls on the playground, or a longer recess and yes, I'm not a proponent of litter and yes, kiddos, I'm not a supporter of homework, long school hours, early start times, etc. etc. etc.
Me (still talking to the teacher): But really, this thinking is boxed in. These ideas that kids gravitate to when we, as adults, try to frame writing as centering around only local ideas from the beginning in an attempt that their writing stay focused on things they can tangibly change, limits their expansive thinking. And truthfully, how many times have you successfully followed up this kind of writing with having kids deliver their writing to the intended audience? I always did, right, but then thinking back, did kids ever get a tangible response from their audience and see change happen because of their writing? Maybe, kinda sorta, but actually, not really, not often. This reality was communicated to my students, to many students experiencing this phenomenon, that this writing we were doing was more of an academic exercise in writing in this genre than a true attempt to really change the hearts, minds, and actions of others.
Me (yep, still talking to her): What if we ignored what the unit suggested we do, namely, steer writers to choose topics that were more local to begin with (e.g. debating shorter school days and longer recesses?), and go with what was already in their hearts and minds, go for those big, expansive, innovative, worldly dreams and hopes from the beginning? What if we never mentioned that suggestion of making their topic something local to them (school, classroom, campus) and instead created a space for them to dream big, dream lofty, dream expansively? What would they want to see change about life, the country, the world?
Me (yeah, I know, still talking to her): What if we sent the message that their dreams and hopes for our collective humanity are the most important in the world because they will one day inhabit the world and their thinking should be centered starting now, perhaps, starting like yesterday? And frankly, I want to know what solutions they have to the issues of the world because as adults, we've failed miserably in being innovative enough to come up with solutions of our own. And then, once her students centered their big dreams, big hopes, big ideas, we could support them in finding tangible local ways of offering solutions that might work toward these big goals. Local, concrete, and actionable ways of supporting this change. And that's essentially what I think units of study or other resources argue for, right? Kids seeing tangible ways of seeing their hopes of change actually having a chance to take hold. But I'd argue boxing in kid thinking by making it local from the beginning is not the way to do this. Reversely, it's supporting their big, innovative, expansive hopes and dreams for our world that needs to be centered first, and then, and only then, we can support them in finding local solutions and offering local tangible ways of approaching these big worldly problems. And when we do this, I'd argue, we'll learn immensely from kids' innate fresh, expansive, innovative thinking.
The teacher's response, eyes wide after I finally took a breath and stopped speaking my mind to her, was this: okay, let's see what happens, let's do this. (Yesssss, that's reason #3,675 why I adore her, truly).
North Korea and South Korea uniting. This means a lot to me because my ancestors come from South Korea. And if they do not unite, more death will happen to so many people.
Gender doesn't and shouldn't matter.
Gender equality. Some people think boys are better than girls, but they shouldn't; they are equal.
World War III not happening.
No more smoking or doing drugs.
Walking instead of using the car because gas pollutes the air.
No more killing animals that are wild.
Not wasting electricity and water.
Yes, I want all these things, too, and I hope that you do as well. And you know something, I don't know how to see these things come to reality. So, I want to hear what kid's ideas are, what they suggest we do about these majorly critical hopes for the world, for us all. Don't you?
Racism. I want to know what some of their solutions are locally, things we can begin to do in our communities, for the global idea of "don't be racist" so people like my best friend, whose children are biracial, doesn't have the daily worry that she will not see her husband or two young boys return home due to the grave systemic racism experienced in the brutal form of police violence against black men and boys that has resulted in so many murders in our country.
Bullying. I want to know what kids suggest we do locally about the global systemic problem of bullying. Bullying that results in so much aggression, assaults, and discriminatory acts against some of our most vulnerable members of our communities: transphobia against my trans son and his peers, who are twice as likely to consider suicide as an option due to school-based discrimination and assaults; religious intolerance against people like my dear friend's husband, a Muslim man who is not yet a citizen of our country; classist judgment against children like my own, who receive government assistance in the form of free lunch because, despite how hard we work, being a single mother solely supporting my boys in our grossly expensive society today, I choose to center my life's work around educational justice, and that often does not help our financial ends to meet.
Gender Identity and Gender Equity. I want to know what kids' local solutions are to the global issue of the myth of the binary and the inequity experienced by people identifying a female across this world, in our country, and in our local communities, from the discrimination experienced in the workplace as a woman to the assaults upon the women of this nation, this world, from patriarchal systems of sexism and abuse. What would a nation of children growing up with the belief that gender binary is a myth, pushing back against socialized notions of gender, and fighting against discrimination and assault based on perceived gender be like? I want to know, don't you?
Weapons. I want to know kids' local solutions that we can begin to work toward to the idea of "no weapons" so senseless gun violence, especially in the schools of our nation, is eradicated for good and no more innocent lives are lost.
War. I want to know what we can do to change the hearts and minds when it comes to the hope of "no more war" "no wars" "World War III not happening." I want to know what kind of expansive thinking kids have to convince adults that war is not the answer to conflict and dissent; that peaceful measures should always center first.
Environmental Catastrophe. I want to know what kids' suggestions are for reversing the catastrophic effects humans are having on the planet, what we can do in our local communities to combat this assault on our planet that provides life for us, and what we can do to combat environmental racism. This reminds me of the young eleven-year-old, Gitanjali Rao (link here), who created a device to test the lead levels of water, to lend help to the Flint Water Crisis; an example of environmental racism in our nation that pervades so many other communities across our nation, too.
These expansive ideas, things children want to explore and hope to change in the world, that were expressed by my son's peers, are what lead him to pull me aside after they shared out and tell me this (again, I want his words to resonate here): They have a lot of love. See, mom, they really get it. Did you hear their words? They are full of that love thing you're always trying to do in schools. Yes, my dear child, children in your class, in your community, across this nation, are full of "that love thing" so many revolutionary, equity-and educational justice-seeking educators are trying to work toward in all the realms of their influence. Working for love justice is really the crux of my personhood and my argument, that in our attempt to create the conditions within which children see their hopes and dreams realized, we often stand in the way by silencing these hopes and dreams before they are fully realized, voiced, or even explored, by youth. So, one thing we can do to work toward love justice with the children in our lives? Create the conditions where children dream big, dream expansively, dream globally and then have the space to innovate local solutions that work toward seeing these big dreams become a reality. I seek to create the conditions where a generation children are big global dreamers who seek local solutions, so they work toward peace for all of our collective humanity, as children now and adults one day soon.