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At an event in Delhi, India, Nokia today launched the Nokia 2. The cheapest handset from the company till date, the Nokia 2 is also the first low-end Android device to make use of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 212 chip.
The Nokia 2 sports a 5-inch 720p LTPS display at the front which is protected by Corning's Gorilla Glass 3. The phone features a polycarbonate back with a metal frame machined from a single block of Series 6000 aluminium for a premium in-hand feel.
Keeping its cost in mind, the handset lacks a fingerprint scanner as well. Inside the Nokia 2 is Qualcomm's Snapdragon 212 chipset which is paired with 1GB RAM and 8GB of storage. The chipset is not particularly powerful but since the Nokia 2 runs on a stock build of Android Nougat, its performance should be pretty smooth. Nokia is also promising the Android Oreo update for the device. Lastly, there is an 8MP shooter at the rear and a 5MP shooter at the front.
The handset is powered by a 4100mAh battery. There is no fast charging but the beefy battery allows the Nokia 2 to offer 2-day battery life — or at least that's what Nokia claims in its marketing. Other features of the Nokia 2 include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack, VoLTE, and dual-SIM connectivity, and a microUSB port. The handset will be available in Copper Black, Pure Black, and Pure White.
Nokia 2 goes on sale from mid-November for 99€.


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas prosecutors have dropped domestic violence charges against former middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor after his accuser halted contact with authorities.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Taylor was scheduled to stand trial on a felony terroristic threatening charge and a misdemeanour domestic battery charge. But on Monday, prosecutors said they haven't been able to find or contact the woman who levied the accusations.
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Police in the Little Rock suburb of Maumelle arrested Taylor in July 2017 on a disturbance call. A woman alleged that Taylor bit her on the arm and face and threatened to kill her.
Taylor was a professional boxer until a 2011 boxing match left him severely injured. He's currently serving a six-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty in 2015 to nine charges, including shooting his cousin in the leg.
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Brian Cushing is the all-time leading tackler in Houston Texans history, but he was known almost as much for his offseason work as his on-field work. That was true in both a good way — he's been known for an intense weight room work ethic since high school, when he worked out with the great trainer Joe DeFranco — and in a bad way, as Cushing was twice suspended for violating the league's PED policy.
Now Cushing will have a new role with the Texans, joining the team as a strength and conditioning coach.
"I'm excited for the opportunity," Cushing told the Houston Chronicle. "I'm very passionate about the Houston Texans, the city of Houston and I'm ready to get back to work. I spent my entire career here. To be around the sport and still be here, it's very motivating. The things I learned over the years, it's a very mentally and physically tough game. I learned a lot in almost a decade. Anything I can pass down and let them know what to expect. A lot of guys come in bright-eyed and don't really know what is going on in kind of all facets of life. It's very exciting to pass on any knowledge and experience I have and try to help them. I want them to grasp the opportunity they have and realize how unbelievable a job you have."
After his playing career ended, Cushing wanted to do something that would allow him to stay around the sport he loves.
"It's obviously been my passion for my entire life, but I kind of came to a realization that this is something I would have to adjust to quickly," Cushing said. "I wanted to be back around the game as quickly as possible. I had gone back and forth on my thoughts and options. You know when something just feels right."
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In the aftermath of a leaked entry test conducted by the National Testing Service (NTS) last month, the Sindh government has decided to hold pre-admission tests for all government universities and colleges in the province under the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
A probe was launched after a questionnaire of the pre-admission test for medical colleges in Sindh was leaked on October 21, a day before the exams, allegedly in connivance with NTS staff.
A notification issued by the provincial government on Tuesday said that those appeared in the October 22 test will not be charged any extra fee for a new entry test for admission in medical colleges.
About 21,000 students from across the province are estimated to give the test prepared by Dow University of Health Sciences.
Despite protests and demands by students of accepting the results in a bid to avoid prolonging the admission process, the provincial government had annulled the results, directing to retake the exam within the next 15 days on November 11.
The decision was taken on recommendation of a five-member committee formed by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to investigate allegations of irregularities in the test.
The Sindh High Court had also issued notices to the NTS chairperson, the HEC and provincial health authorities over the matter earlier this month.


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Facts about Residential Sprinklers
According to FEMA, fire kills more people in the United States than all natural disasters combined. On average 4,000 people perish in fires each year. Tens of thousands are seriously hurt, coping with burn and smoke inhalation injuries for the rest of their lives. Of those will die in their own homes. Fire does not discriminate. Leading causes of fires in both old and new homes are directly related to human behavior, such as:
- cooking (both attended and unattended)
- heating fires (including space heaters)
- careless smoking
- children playing with matches and lighters
If one sprinkler goes off, don't they all go off?
That is Hollywood's version. Only the sprinkler over the fire will activate. Sprinklers in each room react to temperatures individually; usually between 155 and 165° F. So, fire in a kitchen will activate only the sprinkler(s) in that room and 90% of fires are stopped by a single sprinkler head. A home fire sprinkler system is like having a firefighter on duty 24 hours a day. Residents have more time to escape while fire sprinklers limit the growth and spread of fire, heat and toxic smoke. Is there any chance the sprinklers will go off accidentally? The modern systems that are used are manufactured and tested to the highest standards and are designed to be installed in the home. The chances of an accidental actuation have been estimated at 1:16,000,000 (one in sixteen million).
Why do I need sprinklers if I have a smoke detector?
Smoke detectors will save lives by providing a warning of smoke existence, but they can do nothing to extinguish a growing fire. Too often, battery operated smoke detectors fail to function because the batteries are dead or have been removed. Detectors must be maintained in good working order to help save your life. The combination of smoke detectors and sprinkler systems can reduce the loss of life by 98.5%, which is an increase of 48.5% over smoke detectors alone.
Do sprinklers cause water damage?
Sprinklers are designed to start putting water on a fire while it is still small, in the early stages of development, before it gets to the flashover point. If the fire can be extinguished in the early stages, not only will it reduce the water damage, but it will reduce the fire damage too. Not nearly as much water is required a residential sprinkler flows 10 to 25 gallons per minute. The fire department uses hoses that flow 250 gallons per minute or more. The property loss in a home with residential sprinklers is only a fraction of the loss in a home with no sprinklers. If I burn the toast and the smoke alarm goes off will the sprinkler activate? Sprinklers are activated by heat. Smoke from any source including cooking will not activate the sprinkler. Smoke, cooking vapors or steam cannot cause the sprinklers to activate sprinklers only operate in response to the high temperature of a fire.
Aren't sprinkler systems ugly?
Sprinklers can be neatly concealed with no more than a 3/4" cap showing. Custom caps and covers are available in a range of colors. Ceiling and sidewall mount sprinkler heads blend into your home decor, and yet are effective fire protection.


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Structuralist analysis of Aztec murals, and the site plan of the 'Sun' and 'Moon' pyramids and maze of buildings at Teotihuacan, reveals the usual five layers of subconscious structure at several levels of scale. Treasures found in the cave starting under the Rain god's temple, add mythic and ritual features to the layers of archetypal structure.
Teotihuacan mountain stream mural
Structuralist analysis of an apparently random or chaotic Aztec mural at Teotihuacan, reveals the usual five layers of subconscious structure. Several types are expressed by two characters on the same axis, and by extra adjacent axes (notably types 5a and 5b, here labelled Aq5,20 and Aq5,21). The four Heart axes are in the mountain stream, a conical but watery hill with waterfall and cave. In the site map below, see type 2 Builder (here labelled Ta2 for Taurus2), as Feathered Serpent (bird) pyramid, over a cavern (cave) with many offerings (cluster). See the Underworld notes below. Types 11 Womb and 12/13 Heart (here Vi11, Le12, Le13) are in the centre of this watery caved hill. In the site map (below), type 11 Womb is at the centre of the 'Moon' pyramid, and types 13 Heart (Le13) are at the centre of the 'Sun' pyramid. As usual, structuralist correspondences are not consciously intended, but arise from archetype.
Leo sun and Virgo moon on Teotihuacan pyramids avenue
The sequence of archetypes in Teotihuacan pyramid field is (noting globally recurrent, archetypal features with analogous calendric labels):
1 Builder or Taurus1; Feathered Serpent (bird) temple's east forecourt.
2 Builder or Taurus2; Feathered Serpent (bird) pyramid, over a cavern (cave) with many offerings (cluster. See Underworld notes below).
2c Basket; Feathered Serpent's court.
3 Queen or Aries3; Feathered Serpent's west temple.
4 King or Pisces4; Feathered Serpent's west forecourts, four rectangles.
5a Priest or Aquarius5,20; Very large court (large).
5b Priest or Aquarius5,21; A temple or palace.
6 Exile or Capricornus6; Small pyramid, far from the centre (ingress /egress).
7 Child or Sagittarius7; A quartered cluster.
8 Healer or Scorpius8; North complex.
9 Healer or Scorpius9; Palace of Quetzalpapalotl annexe.
10 Teacher or Libra10; West temple of 'Moon' pyramid.
11 Womb or Virgo11; 'Moon' pyramid core (womb).
12 Heart or Leo12; Palace of Jaguars (felid).
13 Heart or Leo13; 'Sun' pyramid core (heart).
14 Mixer or Cancer14; 'Sun' pyramid south temple, near the invisible axial centre (ingress).
15 Maker or Gemini15; Double structure (doubled).
15g or Gate; Moat (path, water) or boundary.
Axial centre; On the central avenue edge (juncture), at the 'Sun' pyramid enclosure SW corner (juncture).
Galactic axle (pG and pGs); Diagonally across the middle part of the central avenue (which is 15.5 degrees east of north), at about 19.5 degrees east of north. These angles derive from tetrahedral and spherical geometry, involving the irrational fraction pi.
Midsummer or Celestial Pole, pC; On the 'Sun' pyramid corner (juncture), about due east-west ('horizontal') from the invisible axial centre. This polar marker places the structuralist abstract 'summer' between types 13-14, in the sector of the half-type 13c Basket Head, analogous to Leo-Cancer months (labelled Le13 and Cn14). Thus 'spring' and the time-frame is in Age Taurus-Aries (always 90 degrees before midsummer), indicating BC 1500, before the work as usual. This subconscious 'dial' at the fifth level of subconscious archetypal expression, is always approximate, particularly when expressing Age transitions. In Aztec myth, the Fifth Sun manifested at Teotihuacan. More study of site features, as they are revealed by excavation, could reveal or contradict some archetypal features.
Underworld in Teotihuacan's Rain Bird cave
A tunnel under the Feathered Serpent pyramid (see type 2 Builder in the list above) has thousands of treasures left as ritual dedications about 17m underground (Chavez 2004). Items include crystal eyes, spiral shells, metal spheres, and a miniature mountain landscape model with tiny pools of liquid mercury representing lakes as a kind of underworld. The walls of the tunnel were rubbed with powdered pyrite (fool's gold) to imitate galaxy stars. A cluster of items is typical of type 1 and/or 2 Builder, analogous to the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters in Taurus, due to the common archetypal origin of cultural media. The tunnel passes below the nearby great plaza, from type 2 Builder, which recurrent features include caves (see the Appendix. See the Seven Sleepers cave of Ephesus in the Europe chapter). The tunnel also runs under type 2c Basket of Mysteries, which is often expressed as a hidden container, a secret, or delayed revelation. One end of the tunnel has three chambers with many items (cluster), including four greenstone figurines carrying bundles of objects, pendants, and pyrite mirrors, probably calendar characters. Watermarks confirm that the plaza above was flooded to imitate the sea of re-creation, with pyramids as metaphorical mountains re-emerging. Some theories (see http://lostscienceoftheandes.com/) propose that surface ponds may have acted as quake and volcanic detectors, since earth tremors resonate best at latitudes north or south 19.5 degrees.
In the Feathered Serpent pyramid (type 2 Builder, or Ta2), above the surface, were remains of about 100 warriors, kneeling with hands bound behind their backs, probably sacrifices (type 2 features include twisted postures). In the tunnel are many fragments of Storm god figurines, typical of type 1 Builder or Ruiner (labelled Ta1), perhaps ritually smashed to imitate or to cancel his destructive element. His features include lightning and underground waters, perhaps including volcanic lava (while the adjacent type 2 Builder more often expresses rain and mud-brick or adobe building). These cultural features may support Mayan geology science theories of ponds used as seismographs.


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Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), recently uncovered a controversial 1968 study funded by the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) and have compiled a new paper based on their findings.
The 1968 study, titled Project 259, studied the effects of sugar on rats. According to the historical documents the researchers uncovered, preliminary findings revealed that ingesting large amounts of sugar may be associated with heart disease. Shortly after these findings were uncovered, the ISRF pulled funding from the study.
"All we know is that the plug got pulled and nothing got published," Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at UCSF and a co-author of the new paper, told CNN.
Glantz continued, explaining that very little is known about what the researchers themselves were allowed to do with the data they compiled in that fateful 1968 study.
The study, which seemingly provides hard evidence of the negative effects of ingesting too much sugar, was never published. Countless studies have proven that sugar, as well as other factors, have an effect on oral health. Age, for example, affects oral health in that 70.1% of adults 65 years and older have some form of periodontal disease. There's no reason to hide this information. So why hide the effects of sugar on other health issues?
According to an analysis published by the same UCSF researchers in JAMA International Medicine last year, it's been suggested that the ISRF later sponsored a study that concluded fat to be "the dietary culprit" in heart disease and related health issues.
The ISRF, now called the Sugar Association, contested the analysis brought forth by UCSF researchers.
"[It's] not actually a study, but a perspective: a collection of speculations and assumptions about events that happened nearly five decades ago, conducted by a group of researchers and funded by individuals and organizations that are known critics of the sugar industry," a representative told CNN.
This isn't the first time a large industry or corporation has attempted to cover up potentially harmful findings, either. Glantz has compared the ISRF's actions to those of big tobacco, calling them "manipulation science."
Another such instance of manipulation came in 2015, when The New York Times reported that Coca-Cola had paid scientists to muddle the link between high sugar content and obesity. In addition, The Associated Press discovered that candy makers had funded skewed research in 2016.
These studies can make or break a big industry, which helps, in part, explain why big players might not want the results getting out. But at the same time, research that reveals the health effects of certain foods is critical to shaping federal dietary guidelines.
"Industry-funded research often shows results that are in line with the sponsors' interests," Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, told The Verge.
When it comes to medical research, facts such as "99.7% of adults believe a healthy smile is socially important," and "one in five Americans doesn't have an ideal bite," are rarely disputed because the public trusts in the validity of the scientific findings there. It appears the food industry may be another story altogether.
"This wasn't about science. This was about marketing," Nestle concluded.


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While Andrew has a huge following on social media, including YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, his background is film editing, having won several international awards for his craft. Ever since his first series in 2006, the shows are made primarily for TV, then re-edited and presented on YouTube and Vimeo. All the content on 4xOverland is ours. We hold all rights to the footage and completed programs.
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New technologies have made it possible to have thousands of people to collaborate almost instantly. For instance, CrowdFlower, a rising startup in this sector, worked with several NGOs and telcos to provide a way for tens of thousands of people in Haiti to send emergency text messages, have them translated and classified, and sent to the correct aid agency in a matter of minutes. Another crowdsourcing platform, Amazon Mechanical Turk, assisted in a massive search operation to locate Jim Grey, a computer scientist who was lost at sea, breaking up satellite photos and quickly distributing them to thousands of anonymous volunteers.
In this session, we'll look not only at how these new crowdsourcing technologies are being applied to social problems but to business problems, too: how large companies are now outsourcing significant parts of their supply chains to "casual workers." We'll cover a growing trend in online games where game players are being paid by companies in virtual money for doing real-wold tasks: taking surveys, verifying business listings, searching for copyright violations, and in some cases doing shadier things like sending letters to congress against health care reform.
Lukas Biewald is the founder and chief data scientist of Weights & Biases, a data enrichment platform that taps into an on-demand workforce to help companies collect training data and do human-in-the-loop machine learning. Previously, he led the Search Relevance team for Yahoo Japan and worked as a senior data scientist at Powerset. Lukas was recognized by Inc. magazine as a 30 under 30. Lukas holds a BS in mathematics and an MS in computer science from Stanford University. He is also an expert Go player.
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Craig Schroeder is an expert metallurgist with over 20 years experience in both experimental and analytical engineering of materials.
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Craig Schroeder is an expert metallurgist with over 20 years experience in both experimental and analytical engineering of materials.
Craig specializes in failure analysis project management and training on carbon & low alloy steels, stainless steels, aluminum alloys, cast iron, titanium, and nickel and their application in such processes as metal casting, heat treating, plating, welding, forging, corrosion evaluation, and quality assurance.
He regularly provides support to the Aerospace & Defense, Transportation, Power Transmission, Foundry & Forging and Mining sectors.
Craig is experienced in management of both large and small projects. He is experienced in launching product lines in the automotive and aerospace industries, evaluating problems using techniques such as 8D and Kaizen and has earned a green belt.
Craig also has over 13 year experience in analyzing failures and is an expert in fractography, metallography and materials testing to help establish root causes for component failures.
Published Works
"Metallurgical Failure Analysis of a Fractured Steam Control Valve Stem." ASM and Springer, Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, June, 2015.
"Your Medical Device Has Failed – Now What?" UBM Canon: Medical Device and Diagnotics Industry (MD+DI) Magazine Online, December 10, 2014.
"Gear Failure Analysis." Component Failure Analysis. Editor, ASM-MEI. Materials Park, OH. October, 2014.
"Metallurgical Failure Analysis of a Fractured Sleet Scraper Spring." ASM and Springer, Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, November, 2013.
"Ductile Fracture." How Components Fail. Editor, ASM. Materials Park, OH. October 2013.
"The Case of the Fractured Hitch: A Study in Metallurgical Failure Analysis." ASME, ME Magazine Online, April, 2010.
"Metallurgical Failure Analysis Helps Prevent Future Failures." SAE International, Truck & Bus Engineering Online, December, 2009.
"Evaluation of Residual Stresses in Induction Tempered Versus Furnace Tempered Steel Rod.", Master's Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 2002
Schroeder, Craig. Metallurgical Failure Analysis. [seminar] Madison, WI August 24, 2013; Madison, WI.
Schroeder, Craig. Metallurgical Failure Analysis. [seminar] Madison, WI May 2012; Madison, WI.
Schroeder, Craig. Coatings for Corrosion and Wear Resistance. [seminar] New Berlin, WI January 2011.
Schroeder, Craig. Failure Analysis. [seminar] Society of Mechanical Engineers. West Allis, WI May 2007.


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The second annual Whistleblowing Symposium in Brisbane this year will outline what organisations need to do to meet new requirements for effective whistleblowing policies and programs, informed by Australia's world-leading 'Whistling While They Work 2' research, led by Professor AJ Brown of Griffith University.
Supported by research partner the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, you will hear what ASIC's expectations are under the Corporations Act rules at this symposium, and receive the first public briefing on ASIC's new regulatory guide.
But while it is now finally time for the practical application of sound whistlelblowing policies in all companies, the recent Australian Federal Police raids on ABC and News Ltd journalists confirm the need for further reform governing whistleblowing by public servants.
International best practice and standards will help us understand how we fare in relation to the US & EU when it comes to whistleblowing protections, and discuss why public interest disclosure protections have never been more important in Australia.
Professor A.J Brown
Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University, Director, Transparency International & Member, Commonwealth Ministerial Expert Advisory Panel on Whistleblowing
Sylvain Mansotte
Co-Founder & CEO, Whispli
Kirsten Trott
CEO, Moken Consulting
Warren Day
Victorian Regional Commissioner and Executive Director, Assessment and Intelligence, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
Louise Rosemann
Principal Advisor, Public Interest Disclosures, Office of the Queensland Ombudsman
Professor Peter Greste
UNESCO Chair in Journalism and Communications, The University of Queensland
Lauren Witherdin
Director, Forensics, KPMG
Elizabeth Ticehurst
Director, Law, KPMG
Dr Kath Hall
Associate Professor, The Australian National University
Dean Newlan
Senior Consultant, McGrath Nicol
David McGowan
Group Integrity Lead, ANZ
Catherine Maxwell
Executive Manager, Policy & Advocacy, Governance Institute of Australia
Nathan Lynch
Manager, Regulatory Intelligence | Asia-Pacific, Thomson Reuters
Sally McDow
Partner, CPR Partners & Yourcall Whistleblowing Solutions
Dennis Gentilin
Director, Governance, Regulation & Conduct, Deloitte
John Rothwell
Executive Director, Commercial Construction Unit, ACCC
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Trip Overview
Love Lake is in northern Wisconsin near the Minn. border. It is about 1 1/2 hours drive north of Minneapolis on I-35. The lake is part of a chain of lakes with river-like waterways between them. The current of these 'rivers' is almost non-existent so paddling back and forth between lakes is easy. Other lakes on the chain of 7 are Gull, Minerva, and Cranberry. These lakes are busy as they all allow Jet-skis and ski-boats.
We found that the people are very respectful of kayaks and will slow down so not to make a wake. There is a regulation of no jet-ski's in early morning and in the evening - perfect paddling time!
The water is extremely clear and you can see the bottom near the edges and many schools of fishes below the boat. The lake is surrounded by private cabins but covenants have preserved the wilderness feel of the lakes. On the east shore of the lake there are no houses allowed and there are sand bars on which to relax and play.
Fishing on the lake is great and many large fish for the taking. Bass-Muskie-Walleye-Crappie & Bluegill. Wildlife we saw were Geese, ducks, deer, black bear and the loons who sang every evening. It's really not as busy as it sounds - even at the height of summer season when we visited there were less than 10 boats encountered on the weekend. This lake is great for the inexperienced paddler or those who paddle for relaxation.
There is Houman's pub near the boat dock for food and drinks. Houman's has a bar on the dock too, just around the corner and under the road from the public put-in -- but never drink while boating! Danbury has a casino/hotel, also nice motels in nearby Webster.
No permits or fees other than boat and fishing licenses
From Danbury go south on WI HWY 35,about 1/2 mi cross bridge & take immediate left. Follow road until a T intersection - take a left onto Hayden Lake Rd. Follow until another T intersection - take a right onto CCC Rd. Go down hill and on the right 1/2 mi there is a public boat dock and parking.
Burnett Co. lakes map
Trip Details
- Trip Duration: Day Trip
- Sport/Activity: Kayaking, Canoeing
- Skill Level: Beginner
- Water Type: Flat/Sheltered Water


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THE RELUCTANT LEADER, Part IV
By Chuck Violand
February 16, 2015
I'm afraid of succeeding.
Most of us are familiar with failure. We know what failure looks and feels like. Some of us even have advanced degrees in it! But many owners are unfamiliar with the face of success, and unfamiliarity can make us fearful of what success might bring.
The whole concept of fearing success might sound strange to some, but I've seen this fear debilitate owners far more than the fear of failing. The fear of success is much more subtle, so it can be harder to identify than the fear of failure.
We may have the fear of leaving behind those we've come to know and love if we grow professionally or climb the socioeconomic ladder faster than they do. This can include not just falling out of touch with them physically (moving to a different neighborhood, company, etc.) but also losing their approval. Success could label us one of "them"— people who've become high and mighty or too big for their breeches.
Some fear that if they become successful they'll lose their sense of self: their personal values, direction, and self-image. We spend our entire lives formulating our self-image. In business, it manifests itself in the industries in which we choose to work, in our leadership abilities, and in our sense of fairness, discipline, and purpose. So it follows that some fear achieving success might tempt them into becoming someone they're really not. A rudimentary scan of the professional sports or entertainment landscape provides abundant examples of this happening to other people, so perhaps this fear has some merit.
If the picture of success we describe with our words exceeds the picture of ourselves that we've painted in our minds, we'll engage in whatever activities are needed to bring them into alignment. Sometimes this means that we'll kick things in the rear end to catch up with our self-image, and sometimes it means that we'll pull back on the reins until they come back into alignment. Either way, when our company's success is out of alignment with the image we've painted of ourselves, something has to give.
Another form of fearing success is when we fear the unknown world that might be out there if we succeed. This is not the same as choosing not to grow because we're aware of the increased challenges and we deliberately choose not to go there. This has to do with not knowing what threatening things might be out there and being paralyzed by this fear. This is similar to the child who quickly jumps into his bed at night and pulls the covers up over his head because he's afraid of the bogeyman who might be lurking in his closet or under his bed. Covering himself with his blankets is similar to a business owner retreating to the familiar and comfortable confines of his smaller business.
A good question to ask ourselves is, when we reach the end of our working career, what things will we feel we've left undone? Rarely will the answer be completing the next job or closing the next sale. Instead, it will probably involve doing the things we could have done and being the person we could have been.


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Man, Hollywood is getting weird.
Step into The Argyle Hollywood, a new split-personality haunt with high-tech dancing above and some marshmallow-related cocktailing below, going the friends-and-family route tonight and officially opening Tuesday. (See the slideshow here.)
If you're planning an evening involving curious cocktails with an assortment of rather stunning subterranean-Hollywood-cocktailing types, this is that kind of joint. Feels like a stately old library in Europe somewhere, with gold-colored tin ceilings and a mad genius from the Roosevelt's Library Bar handling the marshmallows. We mean cocktails. Sometimes the cocktails are marshmallows down here.
But if it's a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night, and you're planning on a wild club situation later… you'll want your name on some kind of list. And if you're really going for it, just know that there's one "table" that's really two levels, with its own private balcony. But wherever you start, it won't take long before you're all on the floor under a striking LED ceiling that undulates like the Bellagio fountain.
Or the Grove fountain.
But the Bellagio fountain sounds more apropos here.
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Bond Outlook by bridport & cie, January 26 2011
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Note well what King of the BoE is spelling it out, echoed by Trichet: an income squeeze in the West is unavoidable. No such recognition by Bernanke in the USA.
Perhaps it takes a central banker, unencumbered by changes of government, to spell out what politicians on both sides of the Atlantic seem so wary of articulating, viz. that the crisis was brought about by overspending and can only be solved by lowering the standard of living in the countries concerned. Mervyn King of the BoE assumed the task this week in a major televised speech. He used the expression income squeeze, defined as wages and salaries rising more slowly than inflation, as one of the steps to the UK regaining its international competitiveness, with unavoidable cuts in public spending and a lower Pound also helping to rebalance the UK economy.
He expressed sympathy for countries in a similar position to the UK, but without the option of a weaker currency (for them only greater cuts in salaries can work), and also for savers and people living off the return on their savings. Clearly a return to normal levels of interest rates is desirable for the Monetary Policy Committee. Yet King also justified keeping rates low, even at the cost of exceeding the 2% target inflation rate, by spelling out that the BoEs remit included letting inflation exceed the target in exceptional circumstances. For him, the crisis and the rise in commodity prices are clearly exceptional.
Whether the MPC will raise rates in March remains unclear, but undoubtedly the decision will be better informed at that point in time (when we will know whether yesterdays announcement of a collapse in 4th quarter GDP numbers was indeed an aberration, largely attributable to the British weather!) . Nevertheless, a modest rise in bank rates seems likely.
Trichet of the ECB is saying much the same thing as King. The rate of inflation may have exceeded the 2% target because of external cost rises, but the key thing is to avoid secondary effects, i.e. allowing wage rises to keep up with inflation. That is the same message as Kings, albeit it expressed in a different manner.
Thus far, our expectation that the European authorities would successfully contain the sovereign debt crisis is proving justified. The need for a long-term solution, by revamping the workings of the Euro zone, remains, but is being addressed. Until recently, we could only describe investing in peripheral country debt as a punt, whereas now the entire risk/reward balance, and choosing the most attractive maturities, lend themselves to more conventional analysis.
In many ways, the situation in the US has startling parallels to that which existed before the crisis: the stock market is rising and the GDP expanding. Our own questions also remain largely unchanged, as do our concerns that this apparent recovery is not based on solid fundamentals. Where are the real investments? Has the housing crisis been solved? Is the Federal Government facing up to reducing the deficit? Is the low cost of money a reflection of its huge supply through continued quantitative easing? Why is unemployment so stubbornly high, and ultimately can a country, even a super-power, spend its way out of a crisis which it created by excess spending?
We believe the answers to these questions to be very obvious, and we have often rehearsed them here. Yet the answers to two other questions continue to elude us:
Why is the United States yet to see the inflation emerging elsewhere, and when will it?
When will QE be reversed, and what will happen at that point, when government debt begins to be sold on the open market?
When pondering these issues, we cannot help but note that the practice of a central bank buying the debt of its own government has always led to high inflation (and sometimes, to hyper-inflation). In due course, we still see the USA being forced to accept a European solution. We might then see Americas Central bankers, rather than just its movie going public, gain an appreciation of a Kings speech!
Market Focus
January 26th 2011
Dr. Roy Damary


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Know Your Water Rights: Ensuring water security is paramount; an important part of this is down to allocation. Who gets water and how much?
To get a grip on this, we sat down with Professor Jia Shaofeng, Deputy Director of the Centre for Water Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He shares his views on water rights in China - who owns them? are they "traded" between provinces/ between industry & agriculture? what would a market trading system look like?
We also have commentary from European & Chinese water policy experts Martin Griffiths & Cheng Dongsheng on the challenges ahead in reforming China's water permitting system. If you don't know anything about this, check out our overview on how to get water in China and risks associated given these impending reforms.
It not just rights that are "traded" across provinces, but virtual water flows through the trading of goods. A study of virtual water flows embedded in products across 30 sectors and 30 provinces reveals that Beijing, Shanghai & Tianjin maybe contributing to China's water depletion. Study authors Professor Klaus Hubacek & Dr. Kuishuang Feng explain how a provincial ecosystem quality tax could be the way forward. A good governance framework is also key, especially for sharing limited water resources within a region. Independent consultant Kris Hartley on a new proposed governance framework for water sharing between Guangdong & Hong Kong.
With rights come laws. Professor Patricia Wouters, Founding Director of the China International Water Law Programme at Xiamen University shares her expert views on the region's water treaties. Can water laws & rights help keep the peace on Asia's transboundary waters? Given President Xi Jinping's recent commitment to swap out of fossil fuels in favour of cleaner energy sources such as hydropower, water rights & laws are increasingly topical... so know your rights.


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So my good friend Danny is just waiting to pounce, adding on to his epic fish slap the fact that my predicted Romney landslide did not take place. There was no landslide. There wasn't even a Romney. The post was: Romney in a Landslide, if the election is fair. I stated my reasoning in that article, but it is worth addressing some points again with the benefit of hindsight.
In 2010, the Dems were routed. In liberal WI, the Dems were not only routed, but routed again when the Republican Supreme Court Justice David Prosser won, and again when Walker and most of the recalled senators kept their spots. In the meantime, in the days leading up to the election, polls had Americans firmly wishing for the repeal of Obamacare by 15 points. In this election, the GOP not only held the house, but held it in commanding fashion, yet Obama somehow wins the White House. I'm having trouble wrapping myself around the idea that there are millions of Americans who voted for a GOP candidate and simultaneously voted for Obama, but if indeed the election is fair, that is what happened. That the election was not fair is a plausible explanation. More plausible then millions voting for GOP candidates and voting for Obama, in my mind.
Something that came onto my radar over the last couple of weeks were the existence of more people voting protest or not voting at all than I realized. I myself was severely disappointed that Romney was my alternative to Obama. I surprised myself somewhat by voting for Romney. I saw it as a protest vote, and could not bring myself to campaign for Romney. There may end up being a lot more people feeling the same way as I do, except they didn't even cast the vote for Romney. I'm not blaming them, mind you. I'm fully sympathetic. But it would be another plausible explanation.
As more data emerges, we may find some answers to this. I believe it needs answers, if the phenomenon is genuine, and I hate giving Danny more fodder to thwack me with for being wrong (again), but I hate worse being right.
As soon as the phenomenon became apparent last night, I remembered that I had spoken to this two years ago after the Tea Party routed Liberals throughout the country. The post was: The election should make me happy, but it doesn't. In that post, I address the phenomena of a landslide route of the Dems in 2010 following a landslide route of the GOP in 2008.
It was only two years ago that the great mass of swing voters, so called independents and moderates, scurried over like lemmings to vote for Obama and the Democrats. That any of them might have been surprised at what Obama and the Democrat congress actually did hints at a serious problem. No doubt many of these people voted against Obama this year- but did they do it because they have more carefully deliberated on their principles and the lessons of history?
I think it is clear that many of them did. Nonetheless, I am certain that a lot didn't, and the fact that millions and millions still happily cast their lot with Obama and his socialist-by-another-name agenda shows that many people didn't really move at all.
For a populace to swing wildly back and forth every two years is a madness that indicates there our mass of citizenry that is rocked back and forth on the waves of change, without anchor, without direction, without guiding principles grounded in fact and the realities of the universe.
I say:
The only difference between a dog and a human is that when a dog returns to its vomit, the dog knows what it is eating. The human puts salt and pepper and garnish on it and imagines its new and thanks the chef- until he gets sick and dies, at which point he is at a loss wondering how he came to be in that predicament.
As it seems to me, the American people still haven't figured it out. The repudiation is not emphatic enough and the reasons and rationale of the American people at large are ambiguous. Americans will never figure it out given what is arrayed against them. The only hope for long lasting return to the Constitution and the principles that made America special is for the American people to suffer in darkness and despair for twenty to thirty years, wondering if ever they can emerge from it, and increasingly certain about how they got into the situation in the first place.
Thus, a GOP victory only delays the Great Loss that will bring about the only kind of victory that can last- that one that is based on knowledge of principle, understanding of the past, and the witness of experience. We need a citizenry that understands that when you play with fire, you'll get burned. If the fireman keeps rushing in before you get scorched, the message doesn't get through.
In short, people haven't yet put 2 and 2 together, and my view is that our only hope is that we endure "the Great Loss" because otherwise no lessons will be learned.
The reason for my pessimism then and now has much to do with the fact that no matter who we elect at the 'top' the bottom layers are saturated with people who work to undermine the conservative worldview left and right.
In order to truly change the tide… well, a lot of things have to happen. Churches need to get on board. I mean, they really have to begin transmitting the faith in an effective way, instead of churning out future secular humanists. They need to act on the faith that they express with their lips. Our school system, public and otherwise, needs to be infused with the sort of education that actually exposes students to something other than the progressive worldview. Our victory is temporary indeed when the progressives still control the education of our children. In sum, we need to go further than just putting 'our people' in positions of government authority. (Half the time, 'our people' are indistinguishable from liberals… another big problem). We've actually got to persuade people of the wisdom and rightness of our view and lay brick after brick in the foundation of a person's mental framework that leads them to be 'conservative.'
That will be a tough task, given that that foundation has been dismantled brick by brick for more than a hundred years right underneath our noses.
Even so, unless this be done, this victory is temporary, and the next time the wind changes and some charismatic fellow comes along promising the stars, the lemmings will leap… and maybe this time we'll all fall to our deaths on the rocks below.
I was right: Our victory is temporary indeed when we leave the education of our youth to those who undermine our values and do not stand for truth within our churches. Sorry, Catholic Church, but drawing the line at the HHS mandate is not just too little, too late, but well after the cows have left the barn. In their defense, our defense, my defense, the cows left the barn decades ago, before most of us were even born.
This election was just the symptom of a deeper problem, and the 2010 election was itself a symptom of that problem. The "Great Loss" hasn't entirely arrived. Miraculously, the GOP held the House. I'm not sure that that is a good thing, because it gives the Democrats and the topsy-turvy population someone else to blame when things go bad. Or, perhaps we'll prevent the bad from happening, which delays the "Great Lesson" that is necessary. It would almost be better for them to step aside, step down, and hand things over to the Democrats so that there can be no doubt who is to blame as America continues its descent into Greece, Spain, and England. Almost. They are duty bound to fight the good fight. We are duty bound to go down fighting.
But I do not doubt that in fact we are going down.
My recommendation is not to be like Lot's wife, who looked back.
And, as I urged yesterday (in the case that Romney actually wins),
A change in the law is just one small part of the issue, because laws reflect the activity of representatives, who are elected by people in their local communities, who are led to believe certain things in their churches and schools. Moral of the story: be vigilant, be principled, and be courageous.
May I also suggest for further reading this post, urging an 'orderly retreat' in the culture wars, since it is evident we are losing, or have lost in that war.


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Makeup mistakes are bound to happen because we learn while we apply. It's easy to learn how to fix and to avoid them as long as you master the art of makeup.
Makeup is a great way of expressing and projecting colors on your face or enhancing your features. Whether you're an avid user or not, we do makeup mistakes when we first start using it. After a while of experimenting, we start learning how to fix them or to avoid them in general. We see that our the skin tone of our face does not match our neck, or our eyeliner gets smudged quickly.
Sometimes, the makeup mistakes we make can age our skin and destroy our cells. They can dry our skin or the opposite, make it oily. We've all had our fair share of laughs when we look back at our old photos and see how we did our makeup back then. Luckily, we have more than enough tips to cover a large part of how to fix and avoid makeup mistakes.
Makeup mistakes to avoid and how to fix them #1: The essentials and basics
- Washing your face is the most important part of your makeup routine. It helps clean the excess dried skin, makeup, etc. But as the saying goes, too much of everything is harmful. If you wash your face too much, your skin becomes dry and flaky when you apply foundation. To avoid this, one should ideally wash their face twice a day: when you wake up and before you go to sleep. Using too much soap washes off the natural skin oils that are essential to keep your skin young and fresh.
- Speaking of dry skin, when you apply foundation on dry skin, you're committing one of the biggest makeup mistakes. This makes your skin look cracked, wrinkly and old. The first thing you have to do before applying foundation is moisturizing. This hydrates your face and smoothens it. Makeup artist Barbara Guillaume advises exfoliating your skin once a week to avoid applying foundation on dry skin. "Applying foundation onto the dry skin will accentuate flakiness, and it will sit on the top of your face instead of blending in."
- It's important to remember how long you have to wait before applying makeup to your moisturized face. If you wait too long, your skin might dry out. But if you apply too soon, your makeup could thin it out. The ideal time to wait to apply makeup after moisturizing is 5-10 minutes.
- Another big makeup mistake which doesn't take much to learn how to fix is the usage of dirty, old, unwashed brushes and sponges. Cleaning your makeup tools is important in order to avoid breakouts and have your makeup sit on your face flawlessly. It is advised to wash your brushes with a mild shampoo or a brush cleaner. You can even make your own brush cleaning pad with household items. Replace your sponges regularly or buy washable silicone sponges.
- Putting your makeup products in the bathroom makes sense because it's where most people get ready. But with all the showers and baths you take, the humidity destroys your products, dries them out and makes them more prone to collecting bacteria. To avoid this makeup mistake, the best place to store your makeup is in a cool, dry area. It saves your product and avoids bacteria.
- Never forget: makeup has an expiration date. Moreover, you can't use the same product all year. When you notice that your makeup is melting quickly and running, it's time for a new product. Most foundations last from 6 months to a year. How to fix this? When your skin looks cakey no matter how well you apply it, it's time to switch to a new foundation.
Makeup mistakes to avoid and how to fix them #2: Foundation
- You want your foundation to look as natural as possible. When buying foundation, people tend to test it under unnatural lighting. This makeup mistake becomes a problem when you apply it later in natural lighting and see that the color does not match. Use a foundation that works best for you in the best lighting to avoid having double skin tones.
- When using products like foundations, concealers, contours simultaneously, you'll have to blend it out properly. Even if you use only one of these, blending it correctly is essential to have it sit on your face smoothly. Badly blended makeup looks cakey and unnatural.
- What goes first: concealer or foundation? Both are possible, but the logical sequence would be the foundation first. When using the latter first, keep in mind that applying it too much on your dark circles will make you look older. Keep the area as fresh as possible. Once you move on to the concealer, once again, do not apply it all at once. Do one layer at a time to give it a natural look. Having a thick layer of concealer highlights your wrinkles.
- Keep in mind that you don't always have to use foundation all over your face. If you're opting for a lighter look, you can use them on certain areas instead of your entire face. Some even use it instead of a concealer. Your foundation must match your skin tone: going for a lighter tone will highlight your blemishes. Do not forget to apply it on your neck to have a smooth transition.
- Why do people buy the color foundation and how to fix this makeup mistake? It's because people usually test it on the wrong area. When testing on your hands, you might notice that they have more redness than your face. The best thing to do is to test in your jawline.
Makeup mistakes to avoid and how to fix them #3: Eyes
- It's the era of eyebrows. The most important part of your face is having eyebrows on fleek. Thick, luscious eyebrows are in trend now and they seem to be staying with us for a while. Unfortunately, thick eyebrows are sometimes misinterpreted as unnaturally drawn eyebrows. First and foremost, the eyebrow pencil must be used to fill in. You must avoid drawing harsh lines on your eyebrows at all costs. Harsh lines are only natural when drawn at the end of your eyebrows. The inner part should be lighter than the outer. When you draw your eyebrows entirely instead of naturally filling them, it gives you a comic, clowney look. We want everyday makeup to look as natural as possible.
- Eyeshadows are great ways of getting creative. You can go crazy blending multiple shades of the same color with glitter and shimmer. But keep in mind: using the same dark color all over your eyes makes you look tired and even lazy. When applying a darker eyeshadow, avoid using it on the inner part. Opt for a lighter or a different shade in the inner part. The darker tone must accentuate the arch of your eyes.
- When using eyeliner, people tend to stretch their eyes and draw them. This is a common makeup mistake that is easy to avoid. All you have to do is line your eyes without stretching the sides so your eyeliner isn't smudged. If you're having trouble, you can place a tape to draw a perfect line. According to beauty expert Toby Fleischman: "If your eye isn't relaxed when applying makeup, you could end up with a horribly uneven line."
- Sometimes, we get carried away with using an eyeliner. The main purpose of the eyeliner is to the define the eye. When we use it on both top and bottom lash lines, it gives the impression that the person has larger eyes. But, we must not forget that overlining is a big makeup mistake. It creates an unnatural, black look and makes your eyes look smaller with a thick ring around it. And how to fix this if we want to line our eyes all the way through? Simply use a lighter color eye pencil or an eyeshadow on the bottom lash line.
- Mascaras are probably the most used products in everyday makeup. Unfortunately, people tend to use waterproof mascaras on a daily basis which damages your eyelashes. Moreover, people use old mascaras which give a clumpy look. Even when using a newly bought mascara, applying more than two coats also gives a clumpy look.
- Using mascara on your lower lashes the same way you do on the top is a makeup mistake. On your bottom lashes, use the mascara wand vertically to avoid having spider leg lashes.
Makeup mistakes to avoid and how to fix them #4: Lips
- Fuller lips and overlining are in trend thanks to Kylie Jenner. Using a lip pencil is the quickest and easiest way to overline your lips naturally. But, people forget to match the lip pencil with the lip gloss/lipstick, creating an unnatural, unblended and mismatching two-toned lips. Opt for a lip pencil that is closer to your lip gloss/lipstick. If you're going for ombre lips, do not forget to blend. Harsh lips lines are so 2000s.
- To make your lipstick last longer, apply lip liner all over your lips prior to lipstick. Usually, lipsticks fade away and lip liners stay. This helps to maintain the color of your lipstick throughout the day.
- Speaking of the 2000s, lip gloss used to be applied all over the lips. In the 2010s, lip gloss only goes in the middle of your lips to avoid looking tacky. Applying it to the middle part of your lips brightens your complexion and gives the impression of having whiter teeth.
- A big makeup mistake is applying lipstick on dry skin. How to fix this? Never forget to exfoliate your lips before applying lipstick. This helps to remove dead skin. After exfoliating, apply lip balm before moving on the lipstick. This is especially important if your lipstick is matte.
- Sometimes, when testing a lipstick, the color looks more different on your hand than on your lips. To have the exact color you bought, apply foundation on your lips prior to applying lipstick. This gives you the exact color you want.
The biggest makeup mistake to avoid is sleeping with your makeup on. Always remember to wash your face before going to bed!
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The Gist
What do testers like most about the 2019 Tecnica Mach1 LV 130 (aside from a consensus that it skis like a weapon of downhill domination)? They like that this narrow fits like a narrow! Meaning, there's an obvious differentiation between the fit tension (squeeze factor) of the medium-volume MV and this narrow class LV. The anatomical shaping for the wider points of the foot's anatomy is still here in the LV, just slimmed down to grab a hold of the foot and leg with the death grip of a zombie reaching up through the dirt. And testers said that's a good thing!
The Fit
Most testers had a few minor hotspots at the typical locations, depending on their particular fit issues—and they made mention of these mainly in the form of praise. Meaning, they cited the boot's tightness as a virtue, and agreed that in the narrow width group, some bootfitting should be needed for all but the most slender of kangaroo feet. Fit scores were evenly arranged along the tight side of the spectrum, however, indicating that the anatomical shape is right, with curves where they belong to better match the shape of the human foot. More than a few testers mentioned that the tongue and flex feel is firm against the shin—not in a problematic way, they said, but they cautioned that the boot is not for sissies.
Strong like bull. Sports car flat cornering. Pure polyurethane power. Testers loaded their test cards with comments like these about the Mach1 130 LV. Many mentioned that this boot drove the ski on hard snow as strongly as the race-bred boots of the Frontside category, but managed off-piste junk with ease and forgiveness. Virtually all testers approved of its stance angles for athletic skiing. The way this boot skis justified it's tied-for-first-place position in the category, testers said.
Cool Features
The Custom Adaptive Shape (C.A.S.) bootfitting features are the same here as they are on all the Mach1 boots for men and women—the C.A.S. shell is dimpled in common fit problem areas to aid with heat stretching and the C.A.S. liner is both heat moldable and grindable. In addition to these helpful fitting tools, the Lift Lock buckles are handy—they stay locked open when pushed to their end stop and the Power Lock power strap hook-in-loop connection sidesteps having to thread the strap webbing through a cam-lock buckle every time. These top-shelf niceties are found on the Mach1 MV 130 as well.
"This boot kicked ass in the heavy choppy sloppy; gripped well. Many tools and custom hardware to help your bootfitter customize as needed. It actually improved with wear and the firmness of the shin fit became a comfort to the carve. Only 840 bucks? That's only 420 a foot, or 84 per toe! Totally worth it." -- Mark Korman
"Feels like going home. Grippy 98 mm fit with just enough spacing to be skiable. Excellent fit tension well proportioned for my meaty foot locked down my foot with no gaps. Every movement was transferred and every ripple felt. Spot on balance—I feel like I could ski this boot blindfolded and know exactly where I am at all times. On par with the best of this category. " -- Jim Schaffner
"Wow, tight and low volume—a race boot fit for all-mountain skiers. Superman strong--the harder you push it the stronger it gets. Frontside power--every turn led to a better one." -- Kevin Gabriel
"It's work to get on and the hooked power strap is a mixed blessing." -- Jackson Hogen


text: Posted by Alan Weckel on December 10, 2018 Tags AI Cloud Data Centers DCI Disaggregation Photonics SD-WAN ...hide ...show 0 2018 set all sorts of records in the data center in terms of port shipments, revenue and the amount of CAPEX spent by the largest cloud providers. Looking forward to 2019, we see a year of technology innovation and rapid change as technology adoption cycles compress further. 112Gbit/s SerDes will begin sampling With 56Gbit/s SerDes just now starting to ship, 2019 will see a host of announcements on next-generation 112Gbit/s SerDes shipments. There will be a lot of design and integration effort in 2019 behind enabling the market to move quickly to 112Gbit/s SerDes. 7nm is the critical technology for 400Gbit/s All announcements through the end of November 2018 for 400Gbit/s switch chips were based on 16nm technology. By the time the industry gets enough optics volume and enters 2020, the market will move quickly to 400Gbit/s chips based on 7nm technologies. Chip design will embrace disaggregation – chiplets will become common The move towards 7nm-based silicon will also start to usher in the chiplet semiconductor architecture, where switch chips and SerDes are developed separately. This will allow for increased product agility and speed and will begin the move towards on-board optics and photonics. DCI spending will explode alongside 400Gbit/s data center ramp One of the first use cases for 400Gbit/s will be in the aggregation/core part of the network. Cloud providers will look at 400Gbit/s and above for connecting their data center properties together. This will cause DCI to become a larger part of cloud CAPEX in 2019 and 2020. Enterprise AI will become more mainstream, and will change network topologies Artificial intelligence will continue to see massive investment dollars in 2019. The impact on the network will be significant and cause a change in how networks evolve in the data center. We'll see more network programmability and increased migration to higher speeds because of AI. Cloud provider architectures will become more proprietary 2019 will see the major US cloud service providers build their own custom server processors, AI processors and network interface cards, increasing the amount of data center spend that is proprietary and purpose built for each company. This will further impact how the supply chain interfaces with cloud service providers and create a mini arms race between them. Enterprise SD-WAN will drive DC buildouts in colocation providers As enterprises move from planning to production on their SD-WAN deployments, enterprises will take advantage of the benefits of putting servers in colocation. This will help drive the colocation market and put pressure on some regional colocation companies to consolidate. OSFP and DDQSP form factors will battle in the market No change from last year – we'll have more than one form factor in early 200Gbit/s and 400Gbit/s shipments. This multi-form-factor purchasing is occurring at more than one cloud customer and with two unique form factors, and it will put significant burden on the supply chain, which will likely need to support two form factors for much of the first generation of 400Gbit/s products. Social media regulation will occur in the US The US will look at regulating part or all of certain social media companies. This will put new rules on data sovereignty and usage for advertising, which does change where and how data centers are constructed. The base case will be European-like rules, with more concrete regulation possible. Tweet Related posts 8 predictions for data center networking in 2018 Gathering speed: Chip consolidation drives AI data growth AI and machine learning: network changes ahead


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People Make Their Own History- WEA Course from January 2015
WEA course 'People make their own History' This is a ten week course of study starting from January 2015, delivered by the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) in association with the People's History Museum. It will look at seven key demonstrations that shaped our social and political landscape. From Peterloo and the Chartists, the struggles over […]
Untold stories: Women anti-war activists Stockport & Manchester 1914-18- Wednesday 26 November 2014, Stockport
Manchester Alternative Remembrance Day- Sunday 16th November 2014
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Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition will be holding an alternative remembrance day on 16th November. 12 noon Sunday 16th November 2014 Piccadilly Gardens. Manchester 100 years on from the 'war to end all wars' the Stop the War Coalition will remember the civilians and the soldiers…


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Phase two of the project identifies bird specie and abundance found at Natural areas ( undisturbed areas). The Juvenile Tawny flanked Prinia specie was found with its Ground nest.
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My experience as a union worker was mostly positive, although the work was grueling and the bosses on my construction sites were as demon-possessed as any bosses ever to walk the face of the planet. Time indeed was money.
I was in the local Laborers Union of the AFL-CIO. The years were 1968, '69 and '70. My primary job the first year and a half was hand-digging ditches, trenches, channels and squares, and scraping foundation holes to within 1/128th of an inch so footings and piers could be sited and poured. My secondary job was to break down the forms made up of wide planks that the concrete for the footings and piers were poured into. That lumber was then cleaned of 60d nails (think crucifixion size nails) and re-stacked for re-use. My third job was generally to clean up the various staging yards and fetch just about anything the skilled labor guys wanted at Mach 2 speed. My fourth job was to take uncensored verbal abuse as one of the "rabbits," the young, mostly college kids who held these summer jobs.
Dozens of my contemporaries held well-paying blue-collar summer jobs in those days. They worked building roads, in small steel mills, as meat cutters in slaughterhouses, in factories that made grinding wheels as big as a house and as small as an eyelash brush. Some painted houses, some put in sidewalks, some drove truck, some did tree work for the county.
Aside from playing into our romantic self-conceptions - we were all in our minds "On The Road" just like Kerouac, Neal Cassady, or even Tom Joad - we earned damned good money, money that could almost pay for a full year of college, plus spending cash, in that era.
I was part of a crew that lived in a motel that was astronaut themed. It was sweaty, nasty, back-breaking work building the Stony Brook University Campus near Port Jefferson on Long Island: dormitories, a library, and two administration buildings. But...
The "rabbits" earned - get ready - $7.14 per hour for straight time. We earned double time - $14.28 an hour for overtime, and $21.42 an hour for any time we put in before 7:30 AM and after 6 PM. Great money for an unskilled man supporting a family in those days, a king's ransom for a college kid. I averaged about $475 per week before deductions over the course of 8 to 10 weeks.
Breaks were union regulated. Twenty minutes for every two hours worked. Forty-five minutes for lunch on top of that. If you worked before 7:30 AM or after 6 PM, the construction outfit bought your meals.
The shop steward made rounds constantly on a little traffic cop scooter. If you were looking a little peaked in the July sun, he'd blow a whistle, point to you and shout out "water," and his "boy," about 14 years old, would run a big tin can of ice water to you. The steward watched you drink it, then rub the ice cubes over your neck, arms and chest. After a stopwatch-timed 5 minutes he blew the whistle, and shouted "work on." And back to work you went.
After a summer and a half of that, I was chosen to learn surveying, the assumption being that someone in college had a strong sense of geometry. What a relief! A little higher pay and almost no shoveling. I started holding the sticks (surveying rods) and eventually did the triple check, peering through the transit level and siting up the sticks after the chief surveyor-engineer had done it twice himself. All the figures had to be spot on each other through each of the three readings. One bad set of numbers and you started all over.
Transit levels - now called theodolites - are very accurate. They measure long lines in fractions of minutes of an angle. At a distance of one mile, one minute of angle covers about 1.5 feet. At a distance of one mile, one-tenth of a second of angle covers about 0.003 feet. Our buildings were 200 to 250 feet on a side, so we would be accurate to .000105 feet. Some serious measuring and squaring up. Of course this is absolutely necessary because if an angle starts slightly out of true, by the time you travel 250 feet it is wayyyyy out of true. The parallelogram effect.
The digging, scraping, trenching, and lumber cleaning gave me an animal appreciation for a 6,800 calorie a day diet. (One which, given the level of physical exertion, allowed me to lose 14 pound over the summer.)
The surveying gave me an abiding reverence for the building of the pyramids and the Roman aqueducts.
The quashing of unions in the last 30 years is a terrible, terrible thing for our country. In another generation we will know the full meaning of this almost cosmic blunder. Meanwhile,
Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leading but get gamblers instead...
- Jagger/Richards