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TRANSMISSIONS Year End Edition (2/3): "Cringecore"
In yesterday's installment of our year-end TRANSMISSIONS column, we tagged along with Jordan Richman to parties in Doha and Los Angeles before landing in New York – where our columnist was mentally preparing to fly to Florida for the hotly anticipated, crypto-crazy, post-lockdown "return" of Art Basel Miami Beach. Amid Covid-19 infection spikes and, one imagines, some heavy jet lag, Jordan vowed not to go out in Manhattan for a couple days ahead of his next jaunt – but, as you will soon read, he failed. Keep scrolling for reports from NYC and ABMB, via flashbacks to Paris Fashion Week (and season one of Emily in Paris), for the crystallization of a new theory of "cringe."
Text: Jordan Richman
I arrive in New York with paranoia about the rising Covid-19 cases. I swear to myself that I won't go out before leaving for Art Basel in Miami. My will power lasts until the second night, when my friend and I leave her high-rise apartment on Midtown's Billionaires Row for the Miu Miu Club party where various "ambassador" acquaintances have gathered. Party crashing is becoming a lost art, as it's now more challenging given Covid-19 and the negative tests required to enter events. The Miu Miu PR girl does not have my name on the list. I name drop Lotta [Volkova] and Verde [Visconti] before some unknown higher up texts them with clearance. We've already been rushed to the basement of 70 Pine where they're only doing tests for 5 more minutes, as it's almost 11pm. As always, it's a relief the test comes back negative. On the way up to the event, I run into Rowan Blanchard and Miu Miu girls Dove Cameron, Emma Corrin, et cetera. We head out to the terrace on the 64th floor. With the city twinkling in the background, we make "paparazzi" style Instagram videos, pretending to fall down drunk like Miu Miu starlets of yesteryear (think Lindsay Lohan).
In the middle of the night I dream I'm on a date with this guy I've met up with a couple of times in real life. As we're kissing, my teeth start to fall out of my mouth. I wake up terrified from the psychological trauma and just as I start, with dread, to apply Freud to my nightmare analysis I feel an incredible pain in the back of my mouth. My bottom wisdom tooth is throbbing, and I am in anguish. I take a handful of Advil and the pain barely lifts. I call my dentist the moment the office opens. She tells me I need to schedule surgery to have the tooth extracted – after which I won't be able to travel for about a week. Unwilling to miss the hotly anticipated return of Art Basel Miami Beach and the added crypto craziness expected this year, I put off the oral surgery. The following day, I spot a meme in my feed of a tooth with cavity. The text reads: "That back tooth watching you buy a Telfar bag."
Committing to further research into cringe … I confirm my attendance to Art Basel Miami Beach.
Cringing from pain, I think about how 2021 is the year in which "cringe" was truly weaponized. I had hypothesized this weaponization more than a year ago while watching the first season of Emily In Paris, but it's something I became certain of after walking the red carpet at Balenciaga's Spring 2022 fashion show. Stoned on shrooms, I arrived late to the Théâtre du Châtelet to a sea full of thousands of screaming fans. I was on the verge of paralysis when I saw an equally panicked Suzanne Koller. We are safely escorted by security past the barricades and onto the red carpet. I was briefly asked to "do a picture" before being shoved out in front of a hundred shouting paparazzi and their blinding flashes. The ordeal was over just as quickly as it began, and soon I was taking my seat in the balcony of this surprisingly ornate venue. Projected on the screen were celebrities, models dressed in the new collection, and sundry fashion insiders walking the same red-carpet circus I had just escaped, soon to be magically transported into the theater to take their seats as well. Realizing everyone present in the theater had also witnessed my red carpet moment, I sunk down deep into my seat, flushed. The humiliation was compounded as texts started to come in – screenshots of the livestream taken by friends all over the world. After the red carpet, Balenciaga famously premiered its Simpsons episode collab, in which Homer and company fly to Paris and meet with an animated Demna and team. It was very funny – replete with jokes about how fat, stupid, and uncultured Americans are – and when the screen went black, there was a standing ovation. In this moment, we achieved peak cringe.
I have written before that "in order to survive in the future, fashion brands will have to become fully fledged media platforms" – and Balenciaga has certainly excelled in that. But nothing, as we learned from the Facebook Papers, powers platforms more than outrage. In late 2020, with Emily In Paris, entertainment executives acquired a data set that established television programs can get more impressions by being cringe than they can by being virtuosic – a turning point that will no doubt turn out to be culturally similar to when television executives of yesteryear realized news broadcasts could be profitable. Welcome to the era of cringecore.
Over Facetime I tell my friend Katharina Korbjuhn about my definition of cringecore, before she dismissively states she is "post-core." I smile, that sentiment being part of the logic behind the name. In 2021 alone we've been exposed to And Just Like That, the metaverse, the gossipy Daniel Lee Bottega Venetta breakup, "incellectuals," Bennifer 2.0, Martin Margiela's Lafayette Anticipations exhibition, and Senator Blumenthal asking Facebook to "commit to ending Finsta" – to say nothing of the countless improbable brand mashups, all the NFTs, and the rise of Ella Emhoff. I'm most alarmed by how quickly our immunity to cringe, presumably through repeated contact, has already been built up. My chicest friends binge-watched the second season of Emily In Paris within 24 hours of its drop this month.
Committing to further research into cringe – and avoiding the tooth issue – I confirm my attendance to Art Basel Miami Beach. The plan is to go with my collaborator Sean Monahan, previously of K-HOLE. But the morning of Sean's flight he tests positive for Covid and is grounded.
PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 02: Guest poses on the runway during the Balenciaga Womenswear Spring/Summer 2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week at Theatre Du Chatelet on October 02, 2021 in Paris, France. (Photo by Peter White/Getty Images)
On my first night in Miami, we arrive super late at the notorious gay club Twist for the Loewe party. Outside there's a line of a hundred Miami regulars complaining about the club being closed for a private event. They drop names of drag queens, circuit queens, and past Grindr hookups to the Loewe PR to no avail. We're spotted by Danny, the famous and improving-with-age Paris door girl, and are pulled inside. The first person I see is Alex Israel. Since Qatar, Alex has become my own personal Forrest Gump, his similarly charmed life leading him to turn up in every chapter of the social diary. Alex tells me about his Snapchat show at the Bass Museum, which I missed as I wasn't in town yet.
Cecile Winckler grabs me and we do a lap around the incredibly crowded party. My friend's British ex is complaining about the hand fans Loewe has scattered around the bar for social media impressions. The accessories' greatest offense, he says, is that they don't "clack." I think the real missed opportunity is that the fans only have Loewe logos on them, missing an opportunity to include Club Twist branding as well. I guess Loewe has yet to fully realized that Paula's Ibiza boho vibes are passé, and that this decade is about early-2000s American trash culture. It's 4.00AM and Loewe's Jonathan Anderson and his posse have returned to the dance floor for Madonna's "Like A Prayer." The Twist dance floor really gets going.
Later, I'm trapped in the horrid Miami causeway traffic with my friend Tobias Rauscher, the global influencer marketing lead at Google. He shares one of the biggest corporate commandments at Google: be modest. The crypto companies clamoring for attention at Art Basel are actually the diametrical opposite. They're shouting for attention with enormous Burning Man style parties and hired headliners – Erykah Badu and Azealia Banks, for example, are playing for an event hosted by a crypto-something called Friends With Benefits. Although something of a Luddite, I seek out Azealia in the hopes that she can teach me about web3.
Friday night is the Chanel dinner on the main land. I, of course, arrive late, and find myself seated at the influencer table – with my name misspelled on the seating card. So much for Chanel no longer being mad about the time I compared their last couture collection to Love Shack Fancy. The industry tends to think of Balenciaga as the provocateurs of the fashion world, but I think Chanel is thee true edge lord. (Never forget: Coco Chanel's Nazi collusions; Karl Lagerfeld's numerous assaults.) Perhaps unsurprisingly, the brand recently hired as their global head of arts a woman who left her former position at Serpentine following outrage against her ties to cyber weapons companies. The coup de Grace of the Miami dinner is a Rosalia performance atop an installation designed by Es Devlin for Chanel, in the shadow of Rosalia's recent cancellation for cultural appropriation. Everyone agrees that the chocolate mousse dessert is delicious.
I throw a party in my massive suite at the Ritz Carlton on my final evening in Miami. Poolside, we pass around a bottle of Ritz spritz – our hip new nickname for a nasal spray bottle filled with Ketamine. A gay Belgian couple in our group is hooking up in the pool and spill their poppers into the water as their gallerist, who is wearing an American flag print bikini, warns of the dangers of these inhalants. She herself once got a bad chemical burn across her face from accidentally splashing the liquid around while whiffing on a rowdy dance floor. It's roughly 3.00AM when I retire to my bedroom. There are mints on the pillow as well as a piece of Ritz stationary with a note: "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde"
Rosalia for Chanel
Hungover – after the most debauched night of Basel – before my late afternoon flight to NY, we head to the Versace mansion for a farewell lunch. This is the temple Gianni built thanks in part to America's obsession with luxury trash in the 1980s and early 1990s. It's also where the designer was tragically gunned down, and event best relived in Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story by Gary Indiana, a writer whose life I once happened to save. Versace's Mediterranean revival manse seems held together by leopard nostalgia and gold-painted spackle. Naomi Fisher, a Miami native, points out all of the changes that have been made since the property changed hands and left the Versace family – which she knows all about, having attended parties there in the property's truly gilded and heady hay days. Seated outside by the pool, we and our appetizers get drenched from the tropical rain that starts pouring on our table. I quip that this is the second worst thing that has ever happened at the casa. One too many Bloody Marys before lunch, with my stomach already weak from the festivities of the night before, I excuse myself to the bathroom. And, like Kristen Stewart in one of the many pro-ana scenes from Spencer, I throw up into a gold bidet. Carved, fat baby angels gaze and point. Hunched over, I am quite aware of just how much we've gorged on glamour after being starved of it for the nearly two years of the pandemic.
Post-Miami I have dinner in LA with my friend Marta Fontolan, both of us having been too busy during the fair to spend time together, except for my brief pop in to her home base – the Sprüth Magers' booth – during the preview. Over venison and Bolognese we exchange Basel post mortems, and I share some of my cringe findings. Marta studiously mentions Susan Sontag and "camp." The difference, I respond, is that camp is un-self-aware. It's a sincere appreciation and representation of vulgarity. Cringe is now corporate strategy and marketing, its assigned value ambiguous – and, like those of crypto and AI, its function is still being defined.
COME BACK TOMORROW – DECEMBER 31, 2021 – FOR THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF TRANSMISSIONS: a communicable and speculative sociological research column wherein JORDAN RICHMAN traverses the globe, immersing himself into perceived moments of relevance to mine the fields of fashion and culture – extracting thoughts, encounters, and foreshadowings. Conclude another turn around the sun with reports from festivities in Doha, Los Angeles, Paris, Miami, New York, and the metaverse (kind of) – now through the end of 2021.
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Welcome to the first edition of our Sunday Art Brunch series, where every week we will be bringing you the latest and most exciting developments in the art world. From new exhibitions and artist interviews to market trends and industry insights, we've got you covered. So sit back, relax, and join us for a curated selection of art news to start your Sunday off right.
The most expensive art works of 2022
The 10 most expensive works of 2022, from Magritte to Basquiat and Van Gogh, breaking the $100 million mark. Artsy describes the ranking, stating that most of sales come from Paul Allen Collection, the most expensive auction in recorded history.
The first work is Andy Warhol's Marylin which went to auction at Christie's with an estimate never seen before: $195 million grabbed by Larry Gagosian. It is the top od 2022.
The second one, Les Poseuses Ensemble by Georges Seurat, 50 years after its last auction, was sold for $149.2 million again during an auction at Christie's in New York. This result is aided by the reference to Un dimanche d'été à l'Île de La Grande Jatte, the artist's most famous work, "incorporated" in the painting beyond the chain of illustrious former owners, from Alphonse Kann to John Quinn, all the way to Microsoft co-founder, tycoon and philanthropist Paul Allen.
The third work auctioned is by Paul Cézanne, La Montagne Saint Victore, defined by Christie's "as the talisman of his most intimate self", sold during the sale dedicated to Paul Allen Collection, with a growth equal to 250% compared to 2001 during Philips auction.
The fourth, also from Paul Allen Collection, is Verger aver cyprès, sold in Rockefeller Center for $117.2 million.
The Tahitian women, the paradisiacal environment, the clear fields of color, all the best of Paul Gauguin's research is present in the masterpiece awarded in November by Christie's in New York. Maternité II from 1899 now holds the title of the artist's most expensive work sold at auction, with a new milestone of $105.7 million.
Another sale for over $100 million, the last one in 2022. It is The birch forest by the Viennese Gustav Klimt, exhibited during the exhibition Klimt: Secession, in Vienna, already in 1903.
In New York, again against the backdrop of the collection of philanthropist Paul Allen, Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau) of Lucian Freud – inspired by Watteau's work Pierrot Content (about 1712, at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid) – flies to share $86.3 million. A new record for the Berlin artist.
It's a double for the King of the Pop: beyond the portrait of Marilyn, Andy Warhol's White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) also finds space in the top 10. Sotheby's sold it in November, in New York, for the stratospheric sum of $85.3 million.
Jean-Michel Basquiat led Phillips' 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale last May. 5 meters of length and an exhibition curriculum that have made Untitled the highest paid piece of the maison in the last 12 months. Untiltled was awarded for $85 million.
At Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in March in London, Magritte's Empire of Lights tripled the artist's latest finish, coming in at $79.2 million.
NFTMe coming soon on Amazon Prime Video: a new documentary TV series about art and technology
Courtesy of Cointelegraph
The TV series, as Cointelegraph tell us, features artists, collectors, and industry professionals across the world sharing their experiences with NFTs and how the merger between art and technology has positively affected their daily lives. In six 30-minute episodes, NFTMe introduces 50 pioneers in the NFT space from four continents, including American singer Susaye Greene of The Supremes; Queen Diambi Kabatusuila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Refik Anadol, a digital artist for SpaceX and NASA; Peter Rafelson, a music producer for Madonna; and Cheryl Douglas of Portion, who launched NFT collections for the Black-Eyed Peas. "NFTMe intends to be the MTV of NFTs, providing the default go-to for information on NFTs in a clear, understandable, and effective way, enabling viewers to absorb the plethora of terminology, diversity, and opportunity in the Web3 realm, whilst experiencing the culture, the mood, the style, and the energy", Tech Talk said in the official announcement.
168 spectacular new Nazca geoglyphs have been discovered in Peru
Courtesy of Yamagata University
A team of archaeologists has discovered 168 new geoglyphs in the desert area of Nazca, in southern Peru: ART news shows that the drawings represent birds, cats and humans and date back to a period between 100 BC. and 300 AD.
Although the exact function of the Nazca geoglyphs remains unknown, one of the most accredited hypotheses is that they had a ritual purpose, in relation to astrology.
The exploration campaign was led by Professor Masato Sakai of University of Yamagata, Japan, and Peruvian archaeologist Jorge Olano. The team used aerial photographs, some captured by drones, to decipher the lines. Most of the newly discovered figures are relatively small, less than thirty feet, and many were drawn on hillsides.
Germany returned 21 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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21 Benin Bronzes of the public collections of German museums have been returned to Nigeria, during an handover ceremony in the administrative capital of Abuja.
More than a thousand artifacts from the series Benin Bronzes, as The Guardian tell us, ended up in German museums following their purchase by British traders, who had stolen the precious artifacts during a violent raid on the Kingdom of Benin in 1897. Over a century later, the works are returning to Africa.
The city of Cologne has confirmed that they started the procedures for the repatriation of 92 bronzes, 40 of them will remain in the country for the time being. The United States has also done its part, returning the bronzes from the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
An exhibition dedicated to female sexual pleasure in Portugal
Courtesy of The Great Wall of Vulva
Artribune writes about an exhibition that explores the theme of Amor Veneris (the clitoris) from an artistic and scientific perspective, seeking to provide an educational, provocative and irreverent experience. Amor Veneris — A Journey into Female Sexual Pleasure also aims to lead the public to reflect on the relevance of female sexual pleasure, and on fundamental issues such as consent, sexual violence against women, and the female sexual response, among other concepts that are inseparable from the experience of sexuality. Alongside the presence of numerous national and non-national contemporary artists, the selection of the works makes use of international names known for genre poetics, such as Louise Borgeois, Anette Messager, Ana Mendieta, Laura Prouvost and an original body of bibliographic research, Cliteracy. The message of the exhibition is provocative and enlightening: female emancipation finds its way only through awareness of the importance of one's own pleasure.
Open unti March 8, 2023
Amor Veneris. Viagem ao Prazer Sexual Femnino
Museu Pedagogico do sexo
Palàcio Anjos, Lisbon, Portugal
https://musex.pt/
Sunday Art Brunch: from the Pompeii's fast food to the influnce of Britney Spears
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Sunday Art Brunch: from more on the NFT craze to an underwater exhibition in France
This Sunday Art Brunch week has a summery taste to it with the Porquerolles exhibition but you will find also many insights on the world of NFts and other interesting news.
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Since we've been back in the UK we've been revelling in the British food scene, privately and professionally. For those who don't know, my husband is a Chef and is loving working in London's top hotels again. Great food is easy to find in restaurants and in the shops, local markets being a particularly good place to find quality produce and lovingly-made local products.
On Saturdays we visit Twickenham Farmers Market for tomatoes and gourmet breads, on Sunday we may wander along the Thames in the opposite direction to Richmond's Duck Pond Market to pick up some jumbo organic goose eggs, a new favourite. For a special treat, we take the tube into the city for what is billed as Britain's finest market, Borough Market. Look, shop, taste, eat, it's a great place to hang out in the city.
Borough Market at London Bridge.
Traditional British meat stall nestling under the bridge supports. You'll find plenty of old London favourites at Borough Market.
Since the 11th Century, London Bridge has been a market place, an area where traders gathered. In the 13th Century traders relocated to nearby Borough High St and in 1755 Southwark residents got together to buy the triangle, the site that has remained the core of Borough Market to this day.
The fish and shellfish on sale at Borough were incredible. I have a friend back in Port Douglas who used to be a professional scallop diver, braving icy Shetland waters every day to gather a quality product like this.
London's oldest fruit and veg market now has over 100 stalls, each selling top quality products. High quality is essential to qualify for a pitch at Borough. The atmosphere is great, the stall holders are friendly and the food is sensational.
Speciality mushrooms, I've not seen anything this impressive since the street markets of Luang Prabang in Laos.
If you need more reason to visit Borough Market, it's right outside London Bridge Tube Station, you could hop off here and walk along London's stunning South Bank all the way to the London Eye. There are endless attractions, dining opportunities, and street performers along with a few kids' play opportunities and scenic views to provide you with a complete day out while you're in town.
Best Blog Read Now! Ripley's London. Expect the Unexpected.
A treat for the kids. A lovely lady helped us out with finding an ice cream for my dairy intolerant son. Sensational goat's milk ice cream, apple pie flavour is the business.
From this part of the city you can enjoy views of Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, the Houses of Parliament and of course the London Eye towering above you. Attractions on the South Bank include the Tate Modern, (currently of interest to bird watchers as the RSPB have set up telescopes to observe the resident peregrine falcon), the Clink Prison Museum, the London Aquarium, Drake's Golden Hind and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
A treat for mum. The best coffee I've had in a very long time and hand made chocolate produced on site, from pod to finished product.
The full market opens at 10 am Wednesday to Friday and 8 am on Saturday. Closing time is 5pm except of Fridays, when you can stay 'till 6. At other times the market may be partially open for lunch, best to check their website for full details, the link is above.
We think Borough Market is a must-do in London for anyone with an interest in food. British food has an undeserved dull reputation, something I've never been able to fathom. An Australian friend once told me that Britain doesn't produce fresh fish, there are a lot of myths like that out there that deserve busting, check it out for yourself, it's really quite stunning.
We always find something to be impressed with wherever we go, if you seek you will find and there are always interesting surprises in the world of food. It's one of the reasons we travel, we just love our food!
One last reason to visit Borough Market, it's always Pimm's o'clock.
How lovely to have a husband who's a chef! Bet all food – not just British food – tastes great when he cooks dinner for the family :-). And it looks like you can pick up some really tasty supplies at the Borough Market.
Wow, that coffee alone has sold me! We are in Cork, Ireland at the moment and can't find a decent coffee to save ourselves! I'm from NZ so I know good coffee and everything here is standard single shot and milky, ugh! Anyway we have a week in London booked next month so I must check out Borough Market. I'm also loving reading all your other tips as we are travelling with our 2 year old. Once I get over the price we paid for our AirBnB apartment for a week I think we are really going to love London! Thanks.
You're going to be very busy Emma! Too many things to do in London, we're giving it months and I know we'll leave having missed a few things, lots of free attractions to make up for the sky high accommodation prices though. I'm off for another of those coffees soon and the chocolate was incredible. I think the shop was called cacao, but I'm trying to check.
Oh British food soooooo rocks!! One of the many reasons I am a total Anglophile. Drooled all the way through this post…. loved the Pimm's finale! Thank you!!


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Discussion in 'iOS Programming' started by DennisBlah, Feb 25, 2016.
Have you come across Core Bluetooth Background Processing for iOS Apps, yet?
In addition to allowing your app to be woken up to handle read, write, and subscription requests from connected centrals, the Core Bluetooth framework allows your app to advertise while in the background state.
There's some goodies in there that I suggest you look into, but that should guide you to what you need unless you have any other questions.
It's not PC to device, but it could give you a starting point.
The code works on both sides.
But from iPhone to iPhone works straight forward, but from iPhone to Mac it doesnt want to connect.
/** This callback comes whenever a peripheral that is advertising the TRANSFER_SERVICE_UUID is discovered.
// Ok, it's in range - have we already seen it?
// Loop through the newly filled peripheral.services array, just in case there's more than one.
/** The Transfer characteristic was discovered.
// Again, we loop through the array, just in case.
// Once this is complete, we just need to wait for the data to come in.
/** Call this when things either go wrong, or you're done with the connection.
*  This cancels any subscriptions if there are any, or straight disconnects if not.
// Don't keep it going while we're not showing.
// ... so build our service.
// Is there any left to send?
// There's data left, so send until the callback fails, or we're done.
// Was it the last one?
/** This callback comes in when the PeripheralManager is ready to send the next chunk of data.
I don't know much about Mac programming, but I hear it's very much the same as iOS. If you know how to do phone to phone, I'd look into the mac programming. Maybe jump over to that forum.
I think Big Nerd Ranch has a book on that, but I'd try the other forum 1st.
I'd guess there is some sample code out there, maybe on GitHub?
Once its connected once, the app should be able to go to background and reconnect when its near again.
Ok so you did get it to connect once.
Does it see the other every time?
Id look at all the parameters and see if this is an issue of using a different typing system.
Look at the long, int, etc and see if this is an issue of 32 bit vs 64 bit. Then look at the outcome of any methods (functions) and the parameters to them as well as the output.
Then look for something that gets converted blindly. That's a type that is converted to another type for compatibility reasons without you knowing it's been converted.
Also, look the making sure everything in on the same version. Is the machine using the same version of BT?
I don't really understand your questions.
I reviewed and cleaned up my previous message with a full copy-paste solution.
If I put the central to an iOS app, using the CoreBluetooth and iOS peripheral, it works fine.
Ok is there no configuration in BT? I didn't see anything about BT version or settings in there, did I miss something?
How do you know that your PC has the same version of BT as the phone?
Where is it getting to, you have a bunch of NSLogs, at what point is the program failing to work properly?
You mentioned it sees the other device and gets the ID, but doesn't connect, is that correct?
Does BT have setting in Xcode where you set flags and stuff?
Is there some kind of "handshake" that happens?
I just put in a bunch of NSLogs to quickly see whats going on, and I know it's trying to connect and subscribe for the iOS service to receive feedback.
Hopefully someone can help out here, I just need to connect, so then the iOS app can rest in the background and the mac is able to find it when I'm near again.
I want to use this as being a 'key' for my mac, when I walk off that my screen will be locked, and when I'm back it will be unlocked again.
Ok, you have to slow down a second. You didn't answer all the questions.
So at this point the PC is trying to connect to the phone. Does the phone see it or not?
I need to know where in the code each program gets stuck.
The PC gets to the point when it is connecting and then it waits?
The phone doesn't see the PC or it does see the PC?
List out what EACH device is doing when it gets stuck.


a home where His father and eternity abides.
to hear His teaching and wisdom found.
the Father's glory shone about His face.
who carried our sin and carried our shame.
Footnotes: The life and history, stories, miracles and words of Jesus's teachings can be found in the first four books of the New Testament Bible known as the gospels. They are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.


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B.C. Green leader calls for mask mandate to protect children as viral infections rise
Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, a pediatric heart surgeon at B.C. Children's Hospital, says children across the country have had a significant increase in viral infections, with some requiring hospitalization
Cindy E. Harnett
B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, at the B.C. legislature press theatre Wednesday, says the earlier mask mandate was brought in when vaccination rates were low, but "we are in a much different situation now." DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST
Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau called on incoming premier David Eby Wednesday to reinstate a mask mandate in indoor public spaces to protect children.
"We're calling on this government to make the decision to ensure that people are wearing masks in school, in public areas and on transit," Furstenau said at a news conference at the Laurel Point Inn, where she was joined by Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, a pediatric heart surgeon at B.C. Children's Hospital and clinical professor of surgery at UBC School of Medicine
Furstenau said wearing a mask takes minimal effort but protects others.
Gandhi noted the combination of multiple respiratory pathogens and changing immunity has resulted in a significant increase in viral infections in children across Canada, including B.C., with some requiring hospitalization.
Combined with the primary-care crisis and hospital staffing shortages, that has created a perfect storm, he said, leading to "precarious" capacity for pediatric hospital emergency rooms and inpatients, and elective surgery being postponed.
"We must do whatever is necessary now to change the trajectory," said Gandhi.
But despite calls from Furstenau, Gandhi and others for masks to be mandatory in schools and other public places, Dr. Bonnie Henry said at a news conference at the B.C. legislature on Wednesday that it's not necessary.
"I don't believe we need that heavy hand of a mandate to send a clear message that masks are an important tool that we can all use during this time," said the provincial health officer.
Henry says the mask mandate was brought in when vaccination rates were low and gathering restrictions were in place. "In that context, masks were necessary in a wide range of situations. We are in a much different situation now."
As influenza circulates in the province along with several other respiratory viruses, and the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Henry suggested carrying a mask to use in situations "where it makes sense," such as on crowded public transit or indoor public places. (Masks and vaccination are required throughout the respiratory-virus season in all health-care settings.)
On Tuesday, in an open letter to Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix and Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside, groups including Protect Our Province B.C. and Safe Schools Coalition B.C. similarly asked for "universal masking in all indoor public spaces, including schools."
The groups said the mandate is needed to manage the triple threat of COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV.
Henry said schools are not high-transmission environments and monitoring of ventilation systems is ongoing.
"Right now, I don't see the need for a mask mandate by itself," said Henry, adding a mandate could be considered if "an entirely new virus for which we don't have immunity" begins circulating.
"It's really important to get vaccinated for children," said Henry. "That's one of the best ways we protect them, even if they're not going to get that sick."
Henry said COVID daily cases, deaths and hospitalizations have been decreasing since the most recent peak in May, with the majority of cases continuing to be among those who are unvaccinated.
However, hospital and doctor visits due to respiratory illnesses, primarily influenza, in those age five to 15 are on the rise. The province is offering free flu vaccines that work well in children over the age of six months and are available in nasal-spray form, said Henry.
As of Wednesday, 1.2 million people in B.C. have had flu shots, "twice as much as this time last year," said Dix. Most are in the 65 and older age group.
Ninety per cent of people age 12 and older have had at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccine and more than one million have had booster shots through the fall bivalent booster program. Uptake is highest in the older age groups.
So far, 51 per cent of eligible kids age 5- 11 have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, a number the province would like to see increase.
Eighty-six per cent of British Columbians age five and older have received two doses of the COVID- 19 vaccine and 57 per cent of those five and older have received a COVID booster shot or third dose.
Henry said about 90 per cent of people in B.C. are protected against COVID due to vaccination or infection or both, "but we are also learning that our immunity is complex" and wanes over time.
In an earlier news conference, B.C. Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon said he agrees with Henry's stance that a mask mandate is not required.
"I think you know, frankly, it would be very, very difficult to enforce," said Falcon. "Whether we like it or not, I think a lot of the public is just really tired of all this."
More important, said Falcon, is that anyone should have the right to wear a mask to protect themselves, "and I would hope that the public will be generous and not be critical of those that make those decisions."
A total of 335 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are currently in hospital.
ceharnett@timescolonist.com
> Online: gov.bc.ca/getvaccinated


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Q: Consuming web services that ColdFusion does not generate I'm a newbie to web services. I'm using ColdFusion 2016 and want to make a call to this service url: https://apitest.authorize.net/xml/v1/request.api. This service is written in C#. How can I call a service, from ColdFusion, which is written in other language?
One more thing, I want pass the below xml data as input. How can I do this?
<createTransactionRequest xmlns="AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd">
  <merchantAuthentication>
    <name>API LOGIN ID</name>
    <transactionKey>TRANSACTION KEY</transactionKey>
  </merchantAuthentication>
  <transactionRequest>
    <transactionType>authCaptureTransaction</transactionType>
    <amount>139.94</amount>
    <payment>
      <creditCard>
        <cardNumber>5424000000000015</cardNumber>
        <expirationDate>1220</expirationDate>
        <cardCode>999</cardCode>
      </creditCard>
    </payment>
    <order>
      <invoiceNumber>INV-12345</invoiceNumber>
      <description>Golf Supplies</description>
    </order>
    <lineItems>
      <lineItem>
        <itemId>243</itemId>
        <name>Golf Bag</name>
        <description>Blue wheeled golf bag</description>
        <quantity>1</quantity>
        <unitPrice>129.99</unitPrice>
      </lineItem>
      <lineItem>
        <itemId>42</itemId>
        <name>Golf Ball</name>
        <description>Long Drive II Balls</description>
        <quantity>5</quantity>
        <unitPrice>1.99</unitPrice>
      </lineItem>
    </lineItems>
    <customer>
      <id>39432</id>
      <email>customer@example.com</email>
    </customer>
    <billTo>
      <firstName>John</firstName>
      <lastName>Doe</lastName>
      <address>1234 Main St</address>
      <city>Pecan Springs</city>
      <state>TX</state>
      <zip>44628</zip>
      <country>USA</country>
    </billTo>
    <shipTo>
      <firstName>John</firstName>
      <lastName>Doe</lastName>
      <address>PO Box 3432</address>
      <city>Pecan Springs</city>
      <state>TX</state>
      <zip>44628</zip>
      <country>USA</country>
    </shipTo>
  </transactionRequest>
</createTransactionRequest>

A: I found a solution for this.
  <cfsavecontent variable="strXML">

  <createTransactionRequest xmlns="AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd">
  <merchantAuthentication>
    <name>API LOGIN ID</name>
    <transactionKey>TRANSACTION KEY</transactionKey>
  </merchantAuthentication>
  <transactionRequest>
    <transactionType>authCaptureTransaction</transactionType>
    <amount>139.94</amount>
    <payment>
      <creditCard>
        <cardNumber>5424000000000015</cardNumber>
        <expirationDate>1220</expirationDate>
        <cardCode>999</cardCode>
      </creditCard>
    </payment>
    <order>
      <invoiceNumber>INV-12345</invoiceNumber>
      <description>Golf Supplies</description>
    </order>
    <lineItems>
      <lineItem>
        <itemId>243</itemId>
        <name>Golf Bag</name>
        <description>Blue wheeled golf bag</description>
        <quantity>1</quantity>
        <unitPrice>129.99</unitPrice>
      </lineItem>
      <lineItem>
        <itemId>42</itemId>
        <name>Golf Ball</name>
        <description>Long Drive II Balls</description>
        <quantity>5</quantity>
        <unitPrice>1.99</unitPrice>
      </lineItem>
    </lineItems>
    <customer>
      <id>39432</id>
      <email>customer@example.com</email>
    </customer>
    <billTo>
      <firstName>John</firstName>
      <lastName>Doe</lastName>
      <address>1234 Main St</address>
      <city>Pecan Springs</city>
      <state>TX</state>
      <zip>44628</zip>
      <country>USA</country>
    </billTo>
    <shipTo>
      <firstName>John</firstName>
      <lastName>Doe</lastName>
      <address>PO Box 3432</address>
      <city>Pecan Springs</city>
      <state>TX</state>
      <zip>44628</zip>
      <country>USA</country>
    </shipTo>
  </transactionRequest>
</createTransactionRequest>

    </cfsavecontent>

    <cfhttp
        method="post"
        url=" https://apitest.authorize.net/xml/v1/request.api"
        result="objGet"
        >
        <cfhttpparam
            type="XML"
            value="#strXML.Trim()#"
            />

    </cfhttp>

    <cfdump var="#objGet#"/>

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Every March or early April, Lisa and I go to an annual 4-day travel conference arranged by our fantastic host agency, Largay Travel, the gateway to all those Virtuoso amenities clients receive including complimentary hotel room upgrades and breakfasts, shipboard credit on cruises, spa treatment freebies, meals, and much more. Largay celebrated 50 years in the industry at the latest bash, so all the finest hoteliers and suppliers came out to introduce themselves in 15-minute meetings throughout the event. In this month's ActiveTravels newsletter, we present the trips that left us most excited from the event, including seeing the monarch butterfly migration with Natural Habitat Adventures, a South African safari on a budget, and active yoga trips with Backroads. April is also a wonderful time to visit Portugal, especially Porto, with its excellent restaurants and port wine tastings on the banks of the Douro River. Please have a look!
Have a Happy Easter and Happy Passover!
In 1891, the city of San Antonio held a single parade to honor Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and the other heroes of the Alamo and the battle of San Jacinto. Fiesta has since grown into a 10-day event starting today that features live music, art fairs, and a slew of parades including The Texas Cavaliers River Parade. I had the good fortune of going to Fiesta in 2012. As soon as my flight landed, I took a taxi to Market Square, the largest mercado north of Mexico to take in the festivities with the crowds. There were bands playing, churros cooking, and a frenzied crowd dancing and drinking margaritas under the hot sun. I made my way to Mi Tierra, a beloved Mexican restaurant on the square since 1941, found a seat next to the mariachi band and ordered enchiladas with a sweet and spicy mole sauce. One bite and I was happy to be back in town. Stay in my favorite neighborhood in the city, The Pearl. Home to the San Antonio branch of the Culinary Institute of America, James Beard award-winning restaurants, and a chic boutique hotel built from the remnants of the Pearl Brewery called Hotel Emma. The hotel is featuring a Viva Fiesta package that includes a half bottle of Moët & Chandon, smoked salmon toast with avocado and caviar, and two Hotel Emma Fiesta medals upon arrival.
We met Marcy Forman, co-owner of Valesa Cultural Services, one of our preferred ground operators for clients headed to Spain, at the lobby of our hotel, Gran Hotel Inglés. Marcy has lived in Madrid for over 20 years and one of her favorite things to do is bring friends on an authentic Madrid tapas crawl. We started at Casa Toni, known for its crispy lamb tripe, an older specialty that's hard to find in town these days. After downing the tender meat, we strolled around the corner to my favorite stop of the night, Casa del Abuelo, known for their tasty garlic shrimp. The dish comes out sizzling with a hefty chunk of bread, and is best paired with a short glass of sweet wine. Then it was off to La Campana, known for its fried calamari served in a large bun, bocadillo style. Next stop, the splashy Mercado de San Miguel, Madrid's main public market, serving everything your heart desires, from acorn-fed Iberian ham to razor clams to fried croquettes, all washed down with sangria or cerveza. Our final stop was Chocolateria San Gines, in operation since 1894 and known for only one item, fresh out of the oven churros. Order a half-dozen, thin or fat, and it's served with a steaming hot coffee cup of chocolate that many customers drink after dipping the churros. Sublime! We had so much fun with Marcy that we took our daughter, Melanie, on the exact same tour the next night.
We loved our penthouse room at Corral del Rey, a boutique property in the old quarter of Seville, where rooms are located inside a former 17th-century estate. We had a large outdoor patio with views overlooking the Gothic Cathedral, plunge pool, bath built for two, fantastic shower, and a heavenly mattress. It's no surprise it was our favorite hotel of our entire stay in Spain. We took full advantage of the room, polishing off a bottle of Tempranillo with our nephew, Micah, who's studying in Seville this semester, before strolling over to a hole-in-the-wall tapas joint with outdoor tables, Estrella. The place is popular with flamenco dancers, guitarists, and singers who perform at the nearby Museo del Baile Flamenco, as we would soon find out when seeing an hourlong flamenco show. The guy I just met at the bar was the guitarist for the show, and wow, was he good, along with two soulful singers, and three incredibly talented flamenco dancers. We made the wise move of booking the VIP show, where only two rows of audience view the show in an intimate setting inside a former wine cellar. The performance was so moving that I looked over at Lisa and saw tears rolling down her cheek.
All it takes is a 5-minute stroll from our spectacular hotel, Corral del Rey, on the winding, narrow cobblestone streets to reach the largest Gothic cathedral in Europe and its massive bell tower. When that clock tower lights up at night, Seville is truly magical. Built along the river, protected from the pirates that attacked the southern coast, Seville flourished in the 1500s and the 1600s, when gold and other wealth from South America arrived on its shores. It's a wonderful city to bike, as we did on a 3-hour ride with SeebyBike's Ivan, a recent graduate of art history from the city's large university. Ivan provided a great overview of Seville as we crossed the river into the neighborhood of Triana, visiting two historic churches that will be the starting point of parades this week as the city celebrates Easter with Holy Week festivities. We biked along the river and downtown on bike paths, visiting Parque de María Luisa to see the roses, lilies, and peonies in bloom. At nearby Plaza de Espana, flamenco dancers and singers were performing while rowboats fought for space on the manmade canal. Afterwards, we grabbed lunch at one of Ivan's favorite spots in the city for tapas, Baratillo, known for their delicious pork cheeks, grilled artichokes, and roasted chick peas.
We were picked up promptly at 9 am in Granada by Damir, a driver and guide for a company we've been working with more and more in Europe, Daytrip. We could have rented our own car and made the 3-hour trek from Granada to Seville, but it's so much more relaxing to have someone else drive, especially when you want to stop and visit another town along the way. Two hours later, after sitting in the back of a comfortable Mercedes sedan and peering out at the rolling hills and mountains of this bucolic region of Spain, we arrived in Ronda. Damir guided us around the town, walking along the edge of the famous gorge, touring the oldest bullring in Spain, the one Hemingway wrote about when he lived here (it's also the town where Orson Welles retired and died), and the historic Moorish settlement at the bottom of the hill. After a lunch of tapas, we arrived in Seville around 4 pm. One of the most relaxing days of the trip.
After an hour flight from Barcelona, we arrived in the peaceful mountainside city of Granada. We dropped our bags off at Hotel Palacio de Santa Paula, a Marriott Autograph Collection property. Nondescript from the outside, once we entered our superior room with a towering wooden ribbed ceiling and peered out onto the courtyard of this former 16th-century convent, you realize its charm. Breakfast was served in a spacious sunny room, and we also took advantage of the hamam, the resort's steam room. The hotel is located in a great location for seeing Granada. We strolled the Romantic Road, Carrera del Darro, a narrow cobblestone street alongside the river, lined with tapas bars, boutique shops, and acoustic guitarists. Then we climbed the hillside past the blooming wisteria into the upscale neighborhood of Albaicín, where we had cervezas at El Huerto de Juan Ranas overlooking the buildings of the Alhambra and the snowcapped peaks in the distance. Such a magical spot that we returned to this outdoor patio the next day to watch the sunset.
The following morning we took a 3-hour tour of the Alhambra with Antonio, a guide that works with one of our preferred tour operators in Spain, Madrid and Beyond. Not only did Antonio grow up playing at the Alhambra when there were few visitors, he has led more 1200 private tours of this magnificent Moorish palace the past 15 years. He knew every nook and cranny of the buildings, including graffiti from a 16th-century Friar found behind a column, to translating every Arabic saying. And, wow, is there a lot of Islamic calligraphy on the walls along with the famous symmetric tiles, the Moorish arches, and fascinating ceilings that looks like bird's nests from a distance. Add gardens in early spring bloom with irises, pools of water reflecting the arches and you have a dazzling aesthetic well worth the effort to get here. We soaked up all the history, then soaked up the octopus and fried calamari with fresh bread at Los Diamantes at the bottom of the hill. Perfect!
We stayed in the heart of the Gothic Quarter at the Hotel Neri, down a twisting alleyway from a recently excavated 4th-century synagogue. The bed was incredibly comfortable, especially after a long day of sightseeing, and Lisa especially enjoyed the outdoor tub. The highlight, however, was breakfast, where we would dine on our perfectly poached eggs and look out the floor-to-ceiling windows at the many families dropping off their young children at the school behind us. Kids would arrive hand-in-hand with grandparents, on the front of bikes with mom and dad, and holding onto dogs far larger than them. It was a wonderful voyeuristic look into the lives of families in Barcelona.
Strolling the narrow streets, we would stumble upon opera singers belting out "Ave Maria" from behind the historic cathedral, art students selling their impressive wares at art fairs, and a hole-in-the-wall bakery where the guy made the strongest and best café con leche on the trip. So good, in fact, that we went back three afternoons in a row. Our daughter, Melanie, who's studying abroad in Barcelona, made reservations at her favorite restaurants in town, all within easy walking distance of Hotel Neri. They included the delectable tapas found at La Luna, and sublime sushi and sangria at Ikibana. Friends in Barcelona also suggested another winning choice, Elsa y Fred, though it's hard to go astray in this foodie destination.
You can thank architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner for the fantastic Catalan Modernism movement that swept the city of Barcelona in the latter part of the 19th century. Utilizing colorful mosaics, stained glass, and ceramics, he allowed a congested and often polluted city to bathe in the beauty of his nature-based designs, a joy to behold to this day. We started with a 40-minute tour of the Palau de la Música Catalana, the concert hall Montaner started to build in 1905. One look at the stunning ceiling and its floral motif, dotted with roses, and you can't help but be impressed. The building is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with Hospital de Sant Pau, which would be the start of a 3-hour Context Tour on Modernism the following morning. Once a working hospital, the 8 buildings that surround a courtyard are now open to the public and are worth a stop to see the walls plastered in colorful tiles and glass. A 10-minute walk from Hospital de Sant Pau is the masterpiece of the Modernism movement, Gaudi's Sagrada Família. Still under construction for over 100 years, there is hope that this sensational church will finally be complete in 2026 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Gaudi's death. The interior is just as magical as the exterior, with twisting columns that climb to the arching ceiling and our guide, Mariana, gave us the perfect introduction to Barcelona's rich history in architecture.
While I found the Picasso Museum to be somewhat of a disappointment (it skips from 1901, the last of his formative years in Barcelona straight to 1917 with barely a word about his breakthrough early Cubism works), I found the Fundacio Joan Miro to be an utter delight. Inside the more than 20 galleries, you'll find many of his whimsical large-scale paintings, sculptures, even a tapestry. Located in Parc de Montjuïc near the 1992 summer Olympics diving venue, we accessed the museum by first walking down to the beach to take a cable car up over Barcelona's port. It was a wonderful way to view the sailboats and cruise ships plying the waters of the Mediterranean below. Once we arrived in the park, we walked 10 minutes to find the museum. Inside, you'll find his colorful dots, lines, and familiar symbols, even some anguish-filled works during the time of the Spanish Civil War, all donated by his family and a top collector from Japan. Then venture outside, atop the museum, to see his works of sculpture and the city below. A real joy.


GEDERA, Israel, Tuesday, May 24, 2011 --- TAT Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: TATT - News), a leading provider of services and products to the commercial and military aerospace and ground defense industries, reported today that its Board of Directors had elected Ms. Anat Hollander as an independent director and a member of the Audit Committee.
Ms. Hollander (age 47) has been, since June 2010, the head of the Credit Sector at Amitim senior pension funds. From September 1989 through June 2010 she served in various financial positions with Bank Leumi, most recently as a Senior Relationship Manager of the Aviation and Industry Section in the bank's business division. Ms. Hollander holds a B.A. in economics and international relations from Hebrew University and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University.
TAT also holds approximately 37% in First Aviation Services, a world-wide distributor of products and services to the aerospace industry and a one-stop-shop for MRO services (wheels, breaks, propellers and landing gear) for the General Aviation Industry.


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Top Healthcare MBA Programs
Jared Lewis
Projections by the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics indicate that the number of jobs for health and medical services managers will grow by 16 percent through 2018. This is a rate that is better than the average rate for all other professions. A master of business administration (MBA) degree from at top MBA program with a healthcare emphasis can give you a leg up in this job market.
U.S. News & World Report last ranked the top MBA healthcare programs in the United States in 2007. The leading institution in their rankings was the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Michigan is generally considered to be one of the top academic universities in the nation. It also has a well-established business school, nursing school and medical school; it should come as no surprise that Michigan is one of the leaders in producing top healthcare administrators. The healthcare option at Michigan comes via the pursuit of the the MBA and a second degree in public health. Michigan offers of 20 of these different joint-degree options and the requirements for most of the programs are basically the same, with the curriculum varying by degree. The program generally takes about three years to complete as students work for one year each in both the MBA program and the Master of Health Services Administration, while taking courses from both programs during the third year. A Master of Public Health degree is another possibility for those pursuing a second degree along with the MBA. Students must be accepted to both schools separately in order to pursue these options.
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor School of Public Health 109 Observatory St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 734-763-9900 sph.umich.edu/hmp/
Second to the program at Michigan, the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health offers a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) degree as part of a joint degree program to be pursued in conjunction with the business school's MBA. Like the program at Michigan, the Minnesota program requires separate applications for both programs. The MHA degree is offered as a full-time program that requires 60 credit hours. Students take courses in human resource management, health and health systems, health finance and operations research and quality in healthcare, among others. The MBA program requires courses in financial accounting, strategic management and marketing, among many others. Both degrees can be completed in the three year time frame.
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities School of Public Health 420 Delaware St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-6151 hpm.umn.edu/mha/
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The third highest rated program in healthcare and business administration on the U.S. News & World Report rankings list in 2007 was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). UNC, like Michigan and Minnesota, offers its program as part of a joint-degree effort between the business school and the school of public health. Students must apply and be accepted to both programs separately as well. The MBA program offers concentrations in corporate finance, sustainable enterprise, marketing, management consulting and several other areas. The MHA program is a 60 credit hour program that requires courses in statistical methods, environmental problems, epidemiology, health economics for healthcare policy, leadership and management of healthcare organization, along with several other areas of study.
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Department of Health Policy and Administration CB 7411 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 919-966-7355 sph.unc.edu
University of Michigan Department of Health Management
University of Minnesota: Health Policy and Management
UNC School of Public Health
Jared Lewis is a professor of history, philosophy and the humanities. He has taught various courses in these fields since 2001. A former licensed financial adviser, he now works as a writer and has published numerous articles on education and business. He holds a bachelor's degree in history, a master's degree in theology and has completed doctoral work in American history.


BEIJING - China's State newsagency, Xinhua, reported today that a delegation from Sichuan province is visiting northern California, looking to collaborate with the region's high-tech and business communities for its own regional development.
Since 2014, Sichuan has been building the Tianfu New Area from Chengdu to Meishan, focussing on high-end technologies and manufacturing. www.webershandwick.cn (ATI).


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Nuno Bettencourt – Population 1 Review
Some may claim that Nuno Bettencourt's Population 1 was created solely for the purpose of demonstrating his technical prowess on the guitar. Those who make such claims obviously haven't taken the time to listen to this album. It's a Bettencourt project, so you can expect some great guitar playing, but this album isn't merely a riff-fest. There would have been less musical and therefore less satisfying ways of accomplishing that goal, which is clearly not what Bettencourt was aiming for. Take a listen to the opening track, "Flow", and you will be enlightened.
When Nuno came out with Schizophonic, he was beginning to incorporate more alternative influences in his music. Suffice to say, it also carries over into this project. What makes this album different from any of its predecessors is its experimental nature. "Rescue" is an alternative rocker that segues into a Spanish guitar solo, "Stiff" is a dark and dramatic electronic track, and "Sick Punk" is dripping with industrial rock influences. All told, there's enough variety to keep the listener entertained throughout.
On the flip side, songs like "Stiff" – clocking in at six minutes and 37 seconds – may not have much replay value. Music is a matter of taste, of course, and some people may enjoy this sort of thing, but it isn't exactly a listener-friendly track. Fortunately, most of the other tracks stand up to many listens.
Some of the highlights include the infectious alternative rocker "High", the dynamic "Rescue", the contagious but short "QPD", and the aforementioned "Sick Punk". Most of the songs have very pop-friendly melodies, making them both memorable and listenable. "Flow", for example, seems like an unlikely opening track (it's a ballad), but it works well as the introduction to this disc.
Imagination & Creativity: 9/10
Sound & Music: 8/10
Variety: 8/10
Virtuosity: 9/10
Writing & Premise: 7/10
Overall: 41/50
Nuno may have borrowed liberally from alternative, grunge, and various other types of music, but in almost every instance he makes it work. He proves that he isn't just a one trick pony, as most of this disc probably never would have worked (musically) with Extreme or the Mourning Widows.
Some of the music is going to sound dated. Nuno didn't jump on the alternative wagon until late in the game, but if you like the Foo Fighters there's no reason why you wouldn't enjoy this.
There's a great deal of variety on this disc, and as such, most people will probably find something they like. In this case this also means that some people are going to find a few skip-able tracks along the way.
Nuno is a superb guitar player, and if that wasn't enough he plays all the instruments on this album. There's nothing on the album that sounds amateur, and Nuno does a great job through and through.
Like the Mourning Widows albums it's not always clear what Bettencourt is writing about. Although songs like "Ordinary Day" and "Unhappy B-Day" have a direct and personal message, the rest of the songs aren't so forthcoming. In some cases it seems as though the writing wasn't as polished as it should have been, but if you pay heed to the lyrics, you will know that Nuno has a knack for extended metaphor. If you enjoy discovering and deciphering the message for yourself, your enjoyment of this disc will also increase.
On the one hand this album is exactly what fans have been waiting to hear, because it answers the question "what would Nuno Bettencourt do if you let him loose in a studio?" On the other hand, the more experimental sections of this album may turn some people off; namely those who would rather hear a focused and cohesive rock effort. If you were expecting just another rock album, you came to the wrong place.


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Q: PyQt QMediaPlayer Framing Forward With Some (Not All) Video Files I'm having an issue with video frame-by-frame movement in a custom video player I created using PyQt QMediaPlayer on a Wndows platform.  I want the video to advance one frame frame forward or backward and then pause whenever I click a button.
Videos can come from various camcorders, including SD, HD, and 4K.  Some of the videos frame forward or backward without any issue.  However, I have videos from two different camcorders where the video stutters when framing forward or backward.  Video files from one camera have a file extension of .MOD and the other has a file extension of .MTS.  These videos remain paused when framing forward or backward for 14-16 frames and then the video jumps to the current frame, which I assume is a key frame.
The getMetaData method in my instance of QMediaPlayer and VLC Codec information provide slightly different values for the codecs in these two videos.  Herename are the codecsvalues from both:

File Extension
QMediaPlayer
VLC

.MOD
MPEG-2 Video
MPEG-1/2 Video (mpgv)

.MTS
Unknown codec
MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (h264)

Videos I have that frame forward and backward without any issue are:

File Extension
QMediaPlayer
VLC

.MP4
H.264 Video
MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)

.mp4
MPEG-4 part 2 Video (M4S2)
MPEF-4 Video (mpv4) (h264)

Is there a solution so that my script can I can frame forward and backward correctly?  Here is my method that frames forward within my within my video player class.
def frame_forward(self):
    if self.player.state() == QMediaPlayer.PausedState:
        now = self.player.position()
        self.player.setPosition(now + self.msecs)
        self.player.play()
        self.player.pause()


What if I told you that you could do 80% less work, spend 80% less to rank your keywords, and actually generate exponentially higher revenue?
If you're doing keyword research for new sites and you're not applying the 80/20 principle, you're missing an opportunity to potentially 10X your business while doing less work and spending less money.
20% of your actions, inputs, or products or services will create 80% of what you want.
Note: A more flexible way of expressing this principle is that a small % of your input will create an exponential % of your output i.e. a power law.
In my experience, SEO often follows the 80/20 distribution as well. 20% of the keyword groups you target (I say groups, because ranking for a shorttail keyword means you rank for many of its longtails as well) will often result in 80% of your results. 20% of your pages often generate 80% of your site's revenue. And 20% of your projects often generate 80% of your income.
Doing accurate and comprehensive keyword research is easily the biggest leverage point in all of SEO. I'd rather target a great keyword that converts well and I can rank for effortlessly, than be given a bunch of high authority links from CNN, Forbes, BusinessInsider etc., but be forced to optimize for a horrible keyword that's hard to rank for, has little traffic, and doesn't convert.
In this post, I'm going to show you how I use the 80/20 framework to laser target profitable keywords right from the start of a project, so I can minimize the resources wasted on the 80% of keywords that will end up generating little to no revenue.
A couple years ago, I did a case study on Lifed.com, which sold for $205,000 on Flippa.
What was really interesting about the sale was that even though the site had 125 published articles at the time of sale, the vast majority of the traffic - both organic and social - was coming from just 2 articles.
2 / 125 articles accounted for the vast majority of the site's traffic, which means 1.6% of the input generated 80-90% of the output!
You'll see there were 13381 pages that received traffic, but a large % of these pages are auto-generated pages that pull from a stats database and many of them are no-indexed. I won't count them in our 80/20 analysis since the cost to create those additional pages was negligible.
In total, about 300 of the pages have actual unique content on them.
.33% of the pages generated 17% of the revenue.
3.33% of the pages generated 40% of the revenue.
Not an exact 80/20 distribution, but pretty close. Its safe to say there's a power law in effect here: a small % of the input resulted in an exponential % of the results.
If you check your own sites, you'll frequently see that a small % of keyword groups end up driving the majority of your traffic and earnings.
The question then is: how do we take advantage of this so we can generate more revenue using fewer resources? What's a practical way to implement the 80/20 rule in your SEO campaigns to get more bang for your buck?
At this point, you might be wondering why my keyword research process looks different than the one Hayden teaches here.
Hayden's method uses the same 80/20 principles to identify low hanging keywords that will be profitable and that you are likely to rank for. Hayden's keyword research method can make very specific predictions because it makes certain assumptions about the type of site you're building (small niche sites with a PMD domain) and the strength of the PBN network you're using to rank the site.
If you're building a really tightly focused niche site, you want to be especially precise in selecting your keywords - if the main keywords you choose aren't profitable or you can't rank for them, you won't make any money. If you're building small niche sites, the Thirst method taught here is a great framework for identifying low hanging fruit.
The method I'm sharing here is a looser framework which helps you cast a wider net with the goal of building a broader site that can be grown into a niche-dominating authority site. You can follow it step by step, or just pick and choose the tactics you like and apply the overall framework to launch your next project more efficiently.
If you're building broader sites, then you do have more room for error on a micro level (e.g. picking individual keywords) since anything you do that increases your overall domain authority will increase your ability to rank for more difficult keywords down the road.
Focusing less on the micro-details lets you focus on other aspects of site building like user experience and content quality, which can pay off in very important but less quantifiable ways - like making it easier to generate "earned" links, getting social shares, email opt-ins, increasing asset valuation, and creating more SERP stability.
Even though these types of sites aren't as focused on ranking for a handful of "main" keywords that will make or break the site's success, targeting high ROI keywords as early as possible is still mission critical. You can learn a bit more about my overall approach to building web properties here.
I will be following up over the next few weeks with articles touching on other aspects of my process as well.
Understanding what you're optimizing for is extremely important. I'll go ahead and assume your end goal is to make money, not simply to simply to rank #1 in Google as a vanity metric.
In either case you're really optimizing for revenue, but if your business model revolves around selling CPM ads, then more traffic = revenue.
If we're optimizing for traffic and our goal is simply to prioritize our keywords, we can usually ignore SERP CTR at this stage, and simply look at volume.
For all other businesses, you should optimize for revenue potential. This means not just looking at search volume, but your visitor values as well.
Since we're launching a site and don't have this data yet, we can look at CPC and Advertiser Competition as proxies for visitor value.
The first 3 metrics are what we will use to project a keyword's revenue potential relative to other keywords. This lets us identify the low hanging fruit.
Note: Those metrics aren't enough to project how much the keyword would potentially earn - to do that you need to factor in SERP CTR and Ad CTR (if you're running display ads) or conversion rate if you're selling a product. If you really want to get laser targeted, you would also factor in your Highest Attainable Rank based on your keyword difficulty analysis, but we're not going to dive into any of that in this article in the interests of keeping things simple.
Keep in mind there may be intangible reasons to target high volume keywords w/ low revenue potential. Low commercial intent keywords can be used to create useful informational content that solves user problems. This type of resource content is often useful as a target for "earned" links and social shares. In some niches, they also help add balance to your site so it isn't just a spammy affiliate site targeting only commercial "buying" keywords.
Users searching for informational keywords may be higher in the sales funnel than someone searching for high commercial intent keywords, but if you capture their information (the content upgrade method is great for this) you can convert a certain % of them into buyers or readers as well. Optimizing your funnel will increase the ROI of everything you do.
Applying the 80/20 rule, I want to find the high volume/high profit keywords that will give me the most return for my minimal backlinking efforts. I've found the simplest way to do this is to reverse engineer what other sites in the niche are doing.
What keywords are the authority sites ranking for in this niche?
More importantly, what keywords are the lower authority sites ranking well for in this niche?
Using this method to gather keywords will also give you keyword ideas you don't always get via Google Keyword Planner.
Using this data, it's pretty easy to reverse engineer the highest traffic/highest revenue potential keywords. Additionally, by analyzing what smaller, lower authority sites are ranking for, it's easy to pick out the low competition/high value keywords.
Use the Alexa toolbar/SEOQuake plugin for this exercise, the combined stats let you quickly scan the SERPs and see if a site actually has authority/traffic. If it does, you can quickly plug it into SEMRush.
With Google, we'll find sites in our niche that are already ranking for popular keywords, and we'll create a seedlist of about 4-7 authority sites in the niche, as well as 4-7 smaller sites that look like affiliate/niche sites (if applicable).
We'll then run each site through SEMRush one by one.
For each seed site you run through SEMRush, filter out all keywords that don't meet your minimum requirements. These requirements will vary based on your goals, the type of site you're building, and your ability to rank.
Optimizing for traffic: Filter out anything w/ 2000 or less volume. This can be higher or lower depending on your niche/ranking ability/revenue goals.
Optimizing for revenue: This depends completely on your niche, but if you're doing typical affiliate stuff, its usually safe to filter out anything with less than 200-300 search volume at this stage. However, if you have a high value product (e.g. lead generation referrals to local personal injury lawyers) you may want to adjust.
You can add filters to remove keywords with low CPC and Advertiser Competition.
Sort "descending" based on Search Volume. Do a quick eyeball check and delete (or tag) the keywords you'll obviously never try to rank for - usually the ultra high volume, single word "head" keywords.
So far we've collected a list of our competitor's keywords and we've filtered out keywords that have metrics which are clearly too low to help us meet our goals.
One key variable that we haven't looked at is SERP competition for our keywords. How difficult will it be to rank? Without understand this, we can't truly complete our 80/20 analysis.
We want to find keywords that are not only profitable, but that will be relatively easy to rank for. The "sweet spot" will be high revenue potential keywords that require minimal effort to rank.
I'm not sharing this as a shameless plug (ok, maybe a little...), but mainly because I think doing effective keyword research is way too much of a manual process at this point, and you probably do as well.
At the moment I'm using a keyword tool I'm developing with Han to scrape keywords from multiple competitor sites, while simultaneously analyzing keyword competition in bulk. We're also building features to quickly analyze the profitability of a keyword, sort by opportunity, and to help you generate more related longtails.
If you're interested, we'll be opening up a limited round of beta access in late January, and another limited round in mid-late February, just request access here.
At this stage, you can use any keyword tool that has a "Keyword Difficulty" metric that you trust - ideally one that lets you do bulk competition checking (I've used TermExplorer with good results, though lately it does return some errors).
If you don't have access to any paid tools at the moment, you can sign up for a free trial at Moz and use their keyword difficulty tool (use the following link for an extended 90 day trial - not an affiliate link). However, its far from ideal for bulk analysis, since you can only check 20 keywords at a time and it doesn't take into account on-page factors unless you run the more detailed SERP analysis.
For the purposes of this guide, you can use the keyword difficulty from Moz since it has a free trial and is fairly popular, but I'll be using TermExplorer as an example since its publicly available, I still have a subscription, and its way better than the Moz tool for bulk analysis.
By next week, we should be offering up limited beta access to AuthorityMetrics.com, which (in my totally biased opinion) will make the keyword research process I'm sharing here a whole lot easier.
If you've learned the Thirst method through the NoHat internships, you can apply that as your prioritization method. If not, here's a quick way to prioritize your keywords, no matter which system you use to analyze keyword difficulty.
As I mentioned, I've been working on a keyword tool that calculates these metrics automatically, but for now you can also do something similar with a spreadsheet. In your SEMRush keyword spreadsheet, add columns for each of these metrics.
Keyword Difficulty - Use the metrics you pulled from your favorite keyword competition checker.
Use the following formula if you're using Moz's Keyword Difficulty Tool or any tool that scores out of 100. : =(1000-(E2*10)).
If you're using a tool like TermExplorer that scores out of 10, use this formula =(100-(E2*10)).
Paste the formula into the first cell of the column, and drag the corner of the cell down to the last row.
Note: The Opportunity metric isn't an earnings projection, the goal here is simply to prioritize the highest opportunity keywords.
You might note that this is exactly what the Thirst metric is designed to do - prioritize keywords with high potential. However, Thirst was tailored specifically for small niche sites powered by PBNs. If you don't fit that use case, you might want a more generally applicable metric to prioritize your keywords. I call this the "Opportunity" metric.
Now, sort the entire sheet by Opportunity score, in descending order. (Instructions: Excel / Google Spreadsheets). You should now have the highest Opportunity keywords at the top of your spreadsheet. But there is still one more step we need to take.
Lastly, we want to filter the spreadsheet based on keyword difficulty, so we don't end up targeting overly competitive keywords. Use the "Filter" function on your spreadsheet (Excel / Google) to filter out any keywords that you don't think you'll be able to rank for early on.
The threshold you set here will depend a bit on your linkbuilding ability, but generally under 40%, or even under 35% on the Moz difficulty tool is appropriate. If you're using TermExplorer, you might want to choose under 4 or under 3.5. Of course, you can set the threshold even lower if you want.
If you're more confident in your linkbuilding ability, you have a powerful PBN, or you're applying this framework to find keywords for an existing site with age and authority, you can set the threshold higher.
And there you go! The keywords with a nice balance of search volume, commercial value, and low keyword difficulty will be showing up, and all of them should be under your maximum keyword difficulty threshold.
Now, go through the top results. Highlight the top 10-20 keywords that you think should go into separate articles, making sure you skip over and delete any irrelevant keywords you come across.
E.g. If you have the keywords "keyword research software" and "best keyword research software", you can just highlight "best keyword research software" since this will naturally target both keywords.
Now we're going to group related keywords together. Go through your list and find other keywords related to the 10-20 keywords you highlighted and cut+paste those rows so they're sitting under the related highlighted keywords.
Finally, you want to dive deeper to find more longtails you can work into your content, you can use Google Keyword Planner or keywordtool.io to scrape a few other related longtails for each keyword group.
Then go ahead and create content based on these keyword groups and launch your site.
While you can do keyword research to maximize your chances of ranking for profitable keywords using minimal resources, its impossible to calculate anything in SEO with 100% certainty.
The best solution for this is to make incremental investments into your SEO. Set up your site, optimize appropriately for your target keywords (being careful NOT to over-optimize), add content to your pages.
The next step is to make small investments into ranking for those keywords, tracking those rankings carefully to see which ones show signs of traction, and focusing your resources on the keywords that start to gain traction.
At the end of the day, Google's algorithm is a black box to everyone but a handful of high level engineers in Mountain View, California. As a result, a big part of SEO is observing the data, creating a hypothesis, gathering more data, then re-evaluating your hypothesis based on new data.
If you have a PBN or you're doing some form of forced linkbuilding, throw a minimal amount of links to each page so you can see how they react.
If you're more into whitehat linkbuilding (i.e. generating "earned" links) and you can't just drip out links in bulk, focus on building awesome cornerstone articles for your most promising keywords and whatever linkbuilding tactics you prefer. Sprinkle in lots of internal links to other pages on your site, and monitor your rankings to see what else starts gaining traction as your domain authority starts to rise.
Once you start to see what's gaining traction, focus your linkbuilding efforts on those pages and if necessary, focus on improving the content to make it easier to earn links.
Look at other content that's ranking for the keyword or getting social shares and apply the Skyscraper Technique to figure out how you can make your content ever better and promote the content to the right sources.
Not only did you focus on the 20% of keyword groups that will likely create 80% of your output, in step 5/6 you are tracking your rankings and applying the 80/20 rule again to focus your SEO efforts only on the best performing 20%.
By focusing your energy and resources into the right areas, you can generate exponential results with less input.
One more big 80/20 productivity hack I've been working on is to automate the entire process described above.
If you're doing the keyword research yourself, you don't get results spending time scraping your competitor's keywords, exporting them to spreadsheets, sorting and filtering them etc. The part that gives you a return on your time is the time you spend using your brain to understand the big picture.
This means understanding SERP competition, understanding searcher intent, knowing how to build a user and Google-bot friendly site, creating valuable content, monetizing effectively, and putting the right processes and people in place to automate your workflow.
By automating the tedious parts of the keyword research process, you can focus on analyzing the stuff that really matters.
Han and I have been working on a tool to handle the most tedious processes in just a few clicks, and we're planning to start a limited beta release in late January. If you're interested, you can request access at AuthorityMetrics.com.
Did you find this helpful? Drop me comment and let me know how the 80/20 will impact your next project.
Really good write up, Nate!
I've signed up for the beta. Sounds like a very good tool.
Thanks for the support Loren. I hope we can live up to your expectations!
another great post! I in the process of setting up a new site in the education niche and will try and apply these tactics to get me started.
Good luck Chris, hope your new site does well.
Great Post Nate. Definitely a lot of good points.
First off – epic tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to put that all together. I love your analytical approach.
I've been using a very similar equation for about the last year now to evaluate keyword revenue potential based on factors like search volume, CPC, and competition. It really is eye-opening how a seemingly good keyword may or may not be as profitable as other ones when you bundle all these factors together.
Thanks. Yeah, its definitely useful to weigh the factors so that they more accurately reflect your goals – there are a lot of ways to slice the metrics in useful ways. Some people like to get even more analytical – Hayden has Thirst dialed into a science for niche sites + PBNs, and I know Nick Eubanks from seonick.net has a really in-depth approach that takes even more factors (e.g. linkbuilding costs, query type, highest attainable rank) into account that are especially valuable if you're doing e-comm/agency work.
Great article, I currently still use the thirst method for my affiliate sites using keywords gathered from Semrush.
Another great Post. Definitely a lot of good points.
Sure do Craig. Can reach me at greg 'at' nohatdigital.com.
Last question . Do you guys usually go for post types in home page or static ? If static , what keywords are you targeting , the lowest competition in all or more like the main topic of keywords?
There's no one size fits all strategy here. Mine usually contain posts and possibly some customization to link to inner resources and make the site more user friendly. I don't really go out of my way to target keywords on the homepage.
Others like to create static pages and target some "main" keyword. If you are targeting a "main" keyword on your homepage, it should be something a little more ambitious and short tail than your inner pages are targeting, but still attainable.


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The Sex Lives of College Girls Episode 6 Release Date, Time, and Spoilers
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The fifth episode of 'The Sex Lives of College Girls' season 1 opens with Kimberly feeling terrible about something Nico did. Bela, Whitney, and Willow are riled up about the blatant sexism prevalent in their school. Leighton and Alicia realize something important about their dynamic. Our recap section will enlighten you if you missed the television broadcast of episode 5. Now, let's take a good look at what you can expect from episode 6!
The Sex Lives of College Girls Episode 6 Release Date
'The Sex Lives of College Girls' episode 6 is scheduled to release on December 2, 2021, at 3 am ET on HBO Max. The first season has ten episodes, with new episodes releasing on Thursdays. The sixth installment of the season will arrive along with episodes 7 and 8. The first season is set to round up on December 9, 2021.
Where to Watch The Sex Lives of College Girls Episode 6 Online?
Since the show is an HBO Max original, the episodes are exclusively available on the streamer. So, you need to subscribe to the service, and then you can watch the show here. You can either choose a basic monthly plan for $9.99 or opt for the ad-free subscription that comes for $14.99 per month.
The Sex Lives of College Girls Episode 6 Spoilers
The upcoming episode will follow Kimberly, Whitney, Leighton, and Bela, exploring the ups and downs of college life. Kimberly will decide whether to chide Nico for deleting his comment from her social media profile. Whatever the outcome, she is bound to be hurt. Meanwhile, Dalton and Whitney's separation will most certainly cause drama. On the other hand, we will learn more about Leighton and Alicia's new relationship.
The Sex Lives of College Girls Episode 5 Recap
In the fifth episode, titled 'That Comment Tho,' Kimberly is about to show the comment Nico left on her photo to Bela and Whitney until she realizes that he has deleted it. Although Canaan refuses to partake in gossip, Jocelyn advises Kimberly to confront him. Bela, Whitney, and Willow are disappointed to see the perfect color combination for the men's soccer jerseys. Whitney goes live on social media from the men's locker room to fight against the sexism that exists, only to be reprimanded by Coach Woods.
At the Women's Center, the group asks Leighton to come to a drag show, but she declines the offer. Instead, Leighton ends up inviting them to the frat party despite Nico objecting. Elsewhere, Bela attends a Catullan soiree where she struggles to fit in until she spots Ryan. They exchange notes and have a good conversation until he shows her a porn video. Elsewhere, Whitney challenges a male soccer player of their school team for a run on the treadmills and wins.
As Leighton and Alicia are about to start a conversation outside the party, a boy decides to pee near them, which annoys them. This results in a brawl as the boy directs a homophobic slur at Alicia. As Leighton tries to contain the situation, Alicia tells her that it's easier for her since she's straight. However, Leighton kisses Alicia the very next moment to prove her wrong.
Nico takes Kimberly back home, so she finds the perfect chance to ask about the comment. Nico admits he deleted it so that people do not get the wrong idea about them. As for Whitney and Dalton, they part ways because of the meeting with Senator Chase. But both of them agree to keep it a secret from others.
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Minnesota Surpasses 3 Million Jobs For First Time in State History
July 20, 2017 By Katie Elfstrom
Minnesota's unadjusted job count passed the 3 million mark in June for the first time ever, according to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).
Minnesota added 4,400 jobs in June on a seasonally adjusted basis and has gained 77,478 new jobs in the past year marking the biggest annual gain in nearly two decades. State job Growth is up 2.6 percent over 2016, while the U.S. growth rate is 1.5 percent.
Construction added 900 jobs in June and is up 8,022 jobs over last year. The construction job growth rate is 6.3 percent compared to 2016 and is the second highest growth rate for the year among all job sectors.
"The labor market continues to put up impressive numbers, with Minnesota adding 314,261 jobs since the recession ended eight years ago in June," said DEED Commissioner Shawntera Hardy. "All 11 of the state's industrial sectors have gained jobs in the past year, and nine of the 11 are growing faster than nationally."
The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady in June at 3.7 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.4 percent.
In the Metropolitan Statistical Areas, all regions gained jobs in the past 12 months: Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA (up 3.3), Rochester MSA (up 1.9 percent), St. Cloud MSA (up 2.6 percent), Duluth-Superior MSA (up 2.8 percent) and Mankato MSA (up 2 percent).
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