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Unless you’re writing an autobiography (and you kept a very thorough diary) a little research is, alas, pretty much unavoidable, so here’s a little guide to researching your novel.
I did zero research for the novel I’m currently writing. I raced through the first draft and got it finished-ish. And the kicker is… I needed to research. My story is set in an alternate universe and is a fantasy, but isn’t too out there.
Here’s the thing is though, had I not gone through the process if whizzing through the first draft I wouldn’t have had a clue what I needed to research. The moral of that little story is that even if you’re pretty sure you don’t need to do any research, it may be a way into your writing that you discover that you need more than a little knowledge of, for example, mining practices of the 1700s, the basic anatomy of a cat, or how long it’ll take you to get from Johannesburg to the largest of Saturn’s moon if you’ve only got £300 and a donkey.
Why are you researching your novel?
1. Er, so you know what the hell you’re wanging on about.
Ever read one G.R.R. Martin’s books? They are bloody well researched. Everything from what the soldiers wore in a battle to the livestock that would have been available to what was traded where and by whom.
But why? Westeros is a fictional place. It’s also chock full of dragons, wizards, and ridiculously intricate updos, so who cares what the soldiers wear?
As it turns out, a lot of people. Keeping the background details familiar and accurate ground the story, and make it more…believable?
2. It can help you write your story
I’m not a planner or a pantser. I write out little biographies of the characters, a general story and then I write. For the novel I’m currently writing, I didn’t do any research bar reading novels in a similar genre.
I didn’t have any idea what I needed to research. One day I was reading a blog post about unusual places to set novels, and one of them really stuck with me. Turns out I know NOTHING about salt flats, and salt in general.
Had you told me before I started my novel that I would need to know quite so much about salt, I’d have been very confused indeed.
How do you research a novel?
1. Google it
Obviously. I don’t actually recommend this though, because, Jesus, you can find yourself down some wormholes. I feel like I shouldn’t really recommend Wikipedia, but tbh I’ve found it very useful in the past. I mean, I’d recommend you check the references, but it’s a great place to start.
I have multiple boards on Pinterest that I use for general inspiration, but it’s great for helping you visualise your characters and locations. Some of the fan art and photography is so good and super inspiring.
3. The library
Or books in general. Check their credibility if you’re researching something controversial or even just something that changes a lot. For example, if your story is set in ancient Egypt, check the book you’re using as research is fairly up to date, and hasn’t been widely refuted.
4. TV shows/fiction books
Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it doesn’t have an element of truth in it. These are great for researching your genre. Enjoy this kind of research, it’s the best. Writing a fantasy? Spend the afternoon under a blanket reading Harry Potter. Writing a dystopian novel? Watch the Hunger Games! Writing a detective story? Curl up on the sofa and watch endless repeats of Poirot on Itv-Encore. I do this one anyway. Banking a bit of research for if I ever write a detective novel.
5. Ask someone
If you’re writing about a farm, ask a farmer if you can interview them. Or a nurse. Or someone that lived through the war/in a cardboard box/up a tree. You get it.
I feel like I should end this blog post by saying that I am the laziest researcher EVER. The pantser in me just refuses to do any kind of research until it becomes clear that I know so little about a subject I’m writing about that I can’t get any further. Luckily my inner planner does recognise the need to do the research, so it does get done. Eventually.
If you have any tips for researching, please let me know, especially if you know of any websites called, for example, everythingawriterwilleverneedtoknowaboutanything.com


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He did what many other bright and brilliant Indians were doing at the time for such a passage. “In the 70s, 80s and much of the 90s, the only way to emigrate to the US was higher education,” he says. “Many of these students, without even knowing a whole lot about academic careers, joined PhD programmes in the US—these programmes paid full scholarship.”
A generation or two later, after achieving academic brilliance, after establishing professorial presence, after operating on the vanguard of research, that Indian wave is reaping another kind of return in the past few years: leadership at the best of international universities.
Last week, when Rakesh Khurana was appointed as dean of Harvard College, one of the undergraduate schools in Harvard University, it was another reminder of how Indians are swarming to the top echelons of higher learning, especially in the US, and to a smaller degree in the UK and beyond.
It’s across disciplines, but the abundance is the most in management schools. “This ‘proliferation’ of Indian-origin academics heading top academic institutions in the US is a very new phenomenon,” says G ‘Anand’ Anandalingam, currently the dean of Imperial College Business School, London.
Anand recounts that when, in 2008, he became dean of the B-school at the University of Maryland, near Washington, there were two other Indian-origin deans in the top 25 American B-schools: Dipak Jain at Kellogg-Northwestern and Mahendra Gupta at Olin-Washington University in St Louis.
The list has since grown: among others, Nitin Nohria at Harvard Business School, Soumitra Dutta at Cornell University, Jaishankar Ganesh at Rutgers-Camden, and Kothari is the deputy dean at MIT Sloan School of Management (See box: Class of India).
They are all in their mid-forties to late-fifties. They are all supremely talented and accomplished academicians.
Theirs is a rich palette of exposure and experience. “Every top institution would appoint the best overall candidate,” says Ajit Rangnekar, dean of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. “All these people were chosen because they deserve to be deans, irrespective of their country of origin.”
Law Of Numbers
Yet, their country of origin mattered in that India did not offer these fertile, imaginative minds enough to hold them back, especially in the pre-liberalisation decades. “It was almost a tradition for academic toppers in India to go to US and pursue their PhDs,” says Rangnekar.
Being the crème de la crème of the talent pool from India, many of them naturally become successful— in industry and in academia. “Over the past five to 10 years, this crop of Indian immigrant students has reached an age that is suited for leadership positions," adds Kothari. Jaishankar Ganesh, dean of Rutgers School of Business– Camden, puts it down to “the law of numbers”—more Indians in the academic pool. Data is not available on the share of Indian faculty in American universities. But, according to Ganesh of Rutgers, about 5% of faculty in American universities is of Asian descent; this number triples in B-schools.
For some of his ilk, the India connection played a part, says Sunil Kumar, dean at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. “For some of us, the experience of growing up in India and then having an academic career outside India helps provide a perspective that serves us well in managing our institutions, which have faculties and student bodies from across the globe and have global impact.”
Fluency In English
Being a dean is a multi-faceted assignment— inward facing but also outward looking, managing internal expectations while forging external relationships. It is as much about managing relationships with staff and students as it is about cultivating donors, alumni, media and the business community. “The role of a dean is to closely listen to faculty, students and staff to help develop a shared vision of our future, and then provide them the direction, resources and support needed to make that vision a reality,” says Khurana, dean of Harvard College.
Besides technical talent, Indians have the advantage over immigrants from other nationalities of being fluent in English. “Academic (or industry) leadership positions call for a combination of skills— technical, soft, managerial and administrative, and communication,” says Kothari.
“English comes quite naturally to Indians, which positions them well for deanships.” According to Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School, Khurana’s selection is a testament to his ability to work with others, his willingness to be both a careful listener and a probing questioner, and his passion for enhancing the undergraduate experience at Harvard.
“He’s a prolific scholar who is wellrespected in his field, a beloved teacher in every setting, and a wonderful, generous colleague and mentor,” says Nohria. “He also manages to combine vision with practicality and execution.”
Globalisation is changing the operating environment for American B-schools. They are becoming more multi-cultural in their student, staff and stakeholder construct. “Indians fit in well with the global community they live in,” says Naina Lal Kidwai, director, HSBC Asia-Pacific, and the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School. “In many cases, the deans are elected by board members and the attitude and approach of academicians of Indian origin are much liked and they fit well.”
Many among this set of Indians grew up in a multi-cultural and multi-lingual environments, and so dealing with diversity comes easier. They also came from modest backgrounds, and learnt the virtues of hard work and diligence at an early age. “Indian academicians bring a valuable global and multi-cultural perspective along with their academic credentials,” says Soumitra Dutta of Cornell University. “This makes them very attractive for top US institutions, which are seeking both academic excellence and an open leadership mindset.”
They are also seeking emerging market understanding, amid growing concerns that management education is lagging business, especially in the US. In recent years, a challenging economy has led to a drop in demand for MBA programmes at many schools. Also, recruiters are demanding qualitatively different standards of talent. “All global institutions have a strong interest in emerging economies, but that is not a sufficient reason to appoint Indians,” Rangnekar of ISB, said.
This quality finds expression in, for example, constructing programmes. Wendell Pritchett, chancellor of the Rutgers–Camden Campus and a member of its selection board, says a good professional education must provide students with a solid scholarly foundation and the practical skills. This was a consideration Rutgers made while appointing Ganesh. “Jai Ganesh has an extraordinary record of success in developing the type of programmes that will expand opportunities for our students, and opportunities for Rutgers to serve New Jersey’s business and economic growth,” says Pritchett.
Anand of Imperial College would like to see universities in the UK follow US ones in elevating people of other nationalities. “US institutions have been willing to let merit rule the day, and hire Indian origin academics to become deans and presidents,” he says. “Imperial is the first top-tier UK institution that has decided to hire an Indian-origin dean of its business school. It is likely that UK institutions are also on the way to change.”
At the same time, experts are cautious of this trend sustaining. The pool of Indian students from elite institutions going into PhD programmes have diminished dramatically in recent years as graduates are able to obtain well-paying industry jobs internationally. “The lure of going to the West to better themselves off financially through a PhD, as was the case in the 1970s, 80s and 90s has diminished considerably,” says Kothari. “Whether this will affect the frequency with which Indian-origin deans will be seen 20, 30 years from now.”
For now, Indian-origin deans are here to stay. “We well know that we cannot take anything for granted,” says Anand. “Academics of Indian origin strive much harder to make a success of the positions that they have managed to attain.
Six Indians who are currently steering the best of global B-schools
Soumitra Dutta, 50, Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Management, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.
EDUCATION: B.Tech in electrical engineering and computer science from IIT Delhi (1981); MS in business administration (1989) and PhD in computer science (1990) from University of California.
PAST WORK: Professor and deputy dean at Insead, France, for over two decades before joining Cornell in 2012.
APPROACH: Believes constant and effective communication with key stakeholders is essential to create an enabling environment for all—faculty, staff, students and alumni—to contribute to the betterment of the institution and society.
KNOWN FOR: Personal values, willingness to listen and learn from others, belief that service is a key part of leadership.
G ‘Anand’ Anandalingam, 59, Dean of Imperial College Business School, London.
EDUCATION: BA and MA from Cambridge University; PhD from Harvard University.
PAST WORK: Faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. National Centre professor of resource and technology management and a professor in both the engineering school and Wharton School.
APPROACH: Teach students well to make them do great things, promote excellence in research and forge strong external engagements. Create staff consensus around a common set of goals, by continuously communicating the B-school’s strategic direction and vision.
KNOWN FOR: Bringing a global perspective, and developing strong relationships with donors and industrial partners.
EDUCATION: Graduation in Physics from Loyola Autonomous College, University of Madras; BTech in instrumentation engineering from Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University; MBA and PhD from University of Houston.
PAST WORK: Associate dean for administration and executive education, University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Business Administration. Has taught undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and PhD classes at UCF and the University of Houston.
APPROACH: Actively seeks new ideas and opinions of faculty, students, staff, alumni, and business leaders. He is eager to analyse, test and apply out-of-thebox thinking.
KNOWN FOR: Seen as energetic, focused and creative. Also known to be an exceptional administrator and scholar
Nitin Nohria, 51, Dean, Harvard Business School.
EDUCATION: B.Tech in chemical engineering from IIT Bombay and PhD in management from Sloan School of Management, MIT.
PAST WORK: Previously, in Harvard, he was the co-chair of the leadership initiative, senior associate dean of faculty development, and head of the organisational behaviour unit. Has co-authored or co-edited 16 books. Sits on the board of directors of Tata Sons, and has advised several large and small companies across the world
APPROACH: Building on input from faculty, students, staff and alumni, he has identified five priorities for HBS: innovation in educational programmes; intellectual ambition that advances ideas with impact in practice; continued internationalisation; culture of inclusion; and fostering a culture of integration within HBS and across Harvard University that encourages entrepreneurship.
KNOWN FOR: Overhauling the school’s world-class MBA programme. His intellectual interests include human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance.
SP Kothari, 55, Deputy Dean, Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management.
EDUCATION: BE in chemical engineering from BITS Pilani; MBA from IIM Ahmedabad; and PhD from University of Iowa.
PAST WORK: Global head of equity research at Barclays Global Investors. Previous academic stints include heading the department of economics, finance, and accounting at MIT Sloan, and teaching at Harvard Business School. Also works with several law firms as an expert in litigation matters and advises start-ups in the US & India.
APPROACH: Still active in teaching and engaging in research collaborations with colleagues and students. His much-cited research focuses on financial reporting and valuation, asset allocation, diversity in international accounting practices, use of employee stock options for compensating executives, among other areas.
KNOWN FOR: Promoting management education across the world and understanding of Indian economic policy issues.
Sunil Kumar, 45, Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management, Chicago Booth.
EDUCATION: BE from Mangalore University in Surathkal; ME in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore; PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
PAST WORK: Faculty at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs
APPROACH: Broaden and strengthen the school’s intellectual footprint. This includes hiring more faculty, supporting increasingly diverse student aspirations, expanding the reach of the school’s programmes globally.
KNOWN FOR: Co-developed a widely-used factory simulator for teaching operations management. The simulator, ‘Littlefield Technologies’, has been used in classes at more than 50 business and engineering schools. He has also been an operations consultant to several companies.
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Less than a month after approving a $1,500 monthly stipend for Harrison Police Chief Anthony Marraccini for performing the additional duties of police captain, members of the Harrison Town Council reconvened on Aug. 29 to formally rescind their decision.
The stipend—which would’ve equated to an additional $18,000 per year—was initially authorized by the council following an executive session meeting on Aug. 1 to compensate Marraccini for serving a dual role.
Based on the 2013 town budget, Marraccini is expected to earn an annual salary of $164,457 for fulfilling his duties as chief of police.
Harrison police have not had anyone serve the role of captain since Marraccini was appointed chief three years ago. As the manager of the department’s daily operations, the chief does not earn overtime, something that the stipend sought to address for his additional efforts with the police department.
According to Harrison Mayor Ron Belmont, a Republican, the vacant captain position has often resulted in an undue workload for Marraccini.
“This board was in the mindset that a stipend was appropriate so long as the double duty continued,” Belmont said. “Upon further deliberation…it is my opinion a stipend is not appropriate at this time.”
After the council rescinded the stipend, Marraccini acknowledged it was the right thing for the council and the community.
“I know there are other department heads that are working very hard out there, that I work with on a daily basis, and I appreciate them,” Marraccini said. “I work so hard because my men work so hard for me and this community, and I could not do it without the support of not only the board, but the men and women of the Harrison Police Department, who work for us on a daily basis.”
For members of the Town Council, its initial decision was the result of more than a year of internal debate concerning compensation for Marraccini working overtime hours.
Republican Councilman Joe Cannella said that the council’s decision to rescind the stipend stems from the town’s current economic situation and unresolved union issues, which have not been addressed for more than a year.
Apart from the Harrison police union—which renegotiated the terms of its contract last year—the town’s four remaining labor unions have been operating under expired contracts since Dec. 31, 2012.
“At this time [the council] didn’t feel it’s right, even though it’s just,” said Republican Councilman Fred Sciliano.
However, former Harrison Mayor Joan Walsh, a Democrat currently seeking re-election after two years out of office, said the stipend should not have been approved in the first place since the department could appoint a captain. She added that, through the addition of a $1,500 monthly stipend, the town would ultimately add to the chief’s pension.
“Being the chief of police, the chief executive of the department, is a full-time job and it is expected that he or she will be on call 24-hours a day,” Walsh said. “We have enough capable and well-qualified officers to share the duties of captain.”


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Another milestone….. yes, believe it or not, today is my 60th birthday! Do I feel 60? Nope! Okay, well some days. Today is going to be a day of reflection and probably some tears. I am blessed to celebrate waking up this morning. No matter what the day may bring, I know it will be WONDERFUL! I’m determined to be positive and make the most of it. I’m excited I get to spend the day with my mom.
Birthdays are milestones in our lives. As children, they are a day (or sometimes a week or even a month) where the focus is on us. Filled with presents, parties, family, friends and of course cake and ice cream. As the years go by, life “happens” and things change.
The past year has been filled with ups and downs. Ongoing health challenges, giving up my JOB to work my business full-time, more memory loss and most recently the loss of my dad. Through it all I believe every day is a gift from God with a blessing to be found.
Truth be told for many years “birthdays” were just another day when low self-esteem and lack of confidence and those nasty inner gremlins made me feel like I didn’t deserve a celebration. I have always been great at giving but I’m not very good at receiving. Today, I am looking at them a little differently – have I grown up? Don’t count on it! My dad was all about living life to the fullest and his passing is probably one of the reasons why TODAY is the day I stop saying “it is just another day”. Today is a gift from God to be able to spend another day with family and friends. The celebration doesn’t need to be big, it doesn’t need to have lots of presents (maybe just one or two)
As a child, one of my favorite celebrations was the annual trip to New York City to see the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus. This annual tradition was a treat from Edythe and Elsie. It included the circus and dinner in NY. I always felt so grown up! Both of them are now our guardians angels in heaven and the circus performed for the last time last month.
I have to admit the tears are starting to flow, tears of joy mixed with some sadness:
- I grateful for my daughter, Belinda. She has grown into an AMAZING woman who I am proud to call my friend. Life was not always easy but she turned adversity into a learning lesson. God could not have given me a greater gift then to be her mom.
- To my mom….thank you for always being there. We are not just mother and daughter, but we are friends. The miles may separate us but I know you are only a phone call away or a short drive to Mays Landing. You are always one of my biggest cheerleaders.
- To my dad….who is now watching over me from heaven. It was a rough year but through it all, you encouraged and supported me. You taught me to embrace life, living it to the fullest every day and to chose JOY, even on a bad day so everything will be okay. I miss you daddy!
- To my bestie, Stephanie. Who would have thought when our daughters met in pre-school, became best friends – we would be besties? I am so blessed to have you in my life. We have been through good times and bad but through it all, we were there to support and encourage each other.
- To my Thirty One family. An amazing group of women who have loved and supported me in my darkest days. My team is AWESOME and they inspire me daily. My hostesses and customers are so much more than just “orders”, building friendships with many of them. They all hold a special place in my heart. It is with their help and support I am able to work my business full-time.
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When the American journalist, I.F. Stone, published The Hidden History of the Korean War at the height of the military conflict in 1952, its message did not find a warm welcome at home. In a period of unhinged anti-communist fervor, mainstream media took little or no notice of such an iconoclastic work, and whatever impact it had would have to wait for a later time, when the Vietnam War encouraged more skepticism about the motives underlying U.S. war-making. Even so, mainstream receptiveness to critical analyses of US war-making in subsequent decades has not substantially improved, and Stone’s book has spent far more years in out-of-print oblivion than in ready availability.

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Sold out in Small Ed including APs, almost sold out in Medium. This XL Edition limited to only 3, one sold. A young woman reclines in a revealing black negligee. There is an old-fashioned phone receiver, the cord of which protrudes improbably from the mouth of a large mask. This image superimposed from Peter Paul Rubens, Head of Medusa, from 1617. Multiple snakes slither and coil around her. Beauty meets absurdity describe Miss Aniela’s, Message to Medusa. The British artist is drawn to Surrealism, the female form, and the juxtaposition between real and manmade.
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Mixing fine-art and fashion photography, Miss Aniela’s mastery of traditional production, sets, dresses and make-up is notably prominent in the advancing age of AI. Over the past 2 years Miss Aniela's artworks have amassed over $3 million in global sales. Her work centres on a fusion of traditional imagery and digitally enhanced motifs, interweaving in a surreal composition whilst maintaining traditions of photography. Miss Aniela's Surreal Fashion collection is where beauty meets absurdity and couture meets chaos, in a series of fine-art/fashion-fused photographic tapestries. Twice named Saatchi’s ‘One to Watch’, award-winning British artist Miss Aniela is at the forefront of avant-garde art photography. From first being noticed as a student in 2006 invited to exhibit internationally and speak for Microsoft, her work of 14 years since has fused contemporary fashion with classical art history to create an intricate balance of contemporary creativity. Miss Aniela was spotlighted in Saatchi Art’s ‘Invest in Art’ 2018 and ‘Refuse to be the Muse’ report on the growing power of women in photography.
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Oppo F19 Pro, Oppo F19 Pro+ and the Oppo Band Style have officially launched in India. The F19 Pro and F19 Pro+, both feature Super AMOLED displays, quad cameras, fast charging support and have a similar build
Oppo F19 Pro, Oppo F19 Pro+ and the Oppo Band Style have officially launched in India. The F19 Pro and F19 Pro+, both feature Super AMOLED displays, quad cameras, fast charging support and have a similar build. Alongside the new phones, the Oppo Band Style has also been announced with features such as SpO2 monitoring, heart rate monitor, water resistance and more. Here’s a look at the price, specifications and availability of the Oppo F19 Pro, F19 Pro+ and the smart band.
The Oppo F19 Pro is priced starting at Rs 21,490 for the base variant with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage and Rs 23,490 for the 256GB storage option. Meanwhile, the F19 Pro+ is priced at Rs 25,990 with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage.
Oppo will start selling the F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ from March 17 in India but the maxed-out variant of the F19 Pro with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage will go on sale from March 25.
The Oppo F19 Pro+ measures 7.8 millimetres in thickness and weighs 173 grams while the F19 Pro weighs 172 grams. The F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ feature 6.43-inch Full HD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) resolution Super AMOLED screens with a punch-hole notch cutout for the selfie camera. The display is also home to an in-screen fingerprint sensor but does not support a high-refresh-rate or has Gorilla Glass protection.
The F19 Pro+ is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 800U processor with an octa-core CPU and Mali-G57 GPU. This is paired with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage with an option to increase storage by microSD card. It runs on ColorOS 11.1 based on Android 11.
As for the F19 Pro, it is powered by the MediaTek Helio P95 processor with an octa-core CPU and PowerVR graphics. This is paired with upto 8GB RAM and 256GB storage options to choose from. Like the F19 Pro+, it also has a microSD card for storage expansion and runs on ColorOS 11.1 out-of-the-box.
The Oppo F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ both have quad cameras on the back that consists of a primary 48MP camera with an f/1.7 aperture, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera with a 119-degree field-of-view, 2MP macro camera and 2MP depth sensor. The rear cameras can record in 4K UHD at 30FPS and 1080p at upto 120FPS. On the front, there’s a 16MP selfie camera housed within the punch-hole cutout.
The Oppo F19 Pro series is equipped with a 4,310mAh battery with the F19 Pro supporting upto 30W fast charging while the F19 Pro+ supports 50W fast charging.
The Oppo Band Style features a 1.1-inch AMOLED display that is protected by a layer of 2.5D glass. It features a SpO2 sensor that measures blood-oxygen levels. The tracking band also has 12 extensive workout modes including outdoor run, indoor run, fat burn run, cycling, rowing, swimming and more.
Oppo’s Band Style tracking band is also 5ATM certified making it resistant to upto 50 metres underwater. Oppo also claims that the tracking band is capable of lasting 12 days on a single charge.
The Oppo Band Style is priced at Rs 2,799 and is available to purchase from Amazon India.


We’ve come a long way since Thomas Edison and General Electric created the first substantial power grids in the 1880s. But one thing hasn’t changed much: work stops when the power goes out.
South Africans have endured front-row seats to this reality as load shedding causes real damage and consequences to the economy. According to the CSIR, load shedding costs the country at least R700 million every day of blackouts, and Alexander Forbes places Stage 6s daily losses at R4 billion. PwC estimates load shedding has cost SA a staggering three percent of GDP growth in 2021.
Some of the losses resulting from stunted manufacturing and industrial output. But a significant portion stems from the long-tail of operational productivity lapses among corporates and SMEs.
Power failures have stimulated business generator sales and further entrenched hybrid/remote working as employees seek out places with working power outlets. More organisations also realise they have access to a technology that can help reduce the risks loadshedding poses to productivity – Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
“We’re seeing sign-ups from customers who want cloud software because it gives them more flexibility,” says Sandra Crous, MD of SaaS payroll provider PaySpace.
“They see value in software that is available at any location with an internet connection and that won’t lose data when the power goes out.”
SaaS vs. Loadshedding
South African companies are increasingly adopting SaaS applications – cloud services hosted in data centres. Users connect to the applications through browsers, and there is rarely a need to install software on the client machine.
The best SaaS applications are single-instance and multi-tenant, meaning one platform can scale to serve multiple users. Office365 and Gmail are examples of multi-tenant SaaS.
Companies have been adopting SaaS for peripheral services such as email or collaboration. But many are starting to replace their core business applications, including ERPs and payroll software, with SaaS alternatives.
Obstacles such as the Covid pandemic and load shedding encourage the trend, says Crous:
“The main challenge with a traditional application is that when the power goes down, so does the application. The only way you could avoid that was to host the application at a data centre, but that becomes very expensive for hosting costs and human resources. Until the arrival of core business solutions in the cloud, you either stopped working or you paid a lot to keep working. SaaS costs less because you pay for consumption, not hosting, and you aren’t limited to using one device, so it’s more productive. That amount of flexibility around costs and where employees can work is very attractive to companies navigating load shedding schedules.”
SaaS applications are helping companies manage load shedding risks in several ways:
- Device freedom: Employees can use any modern device with a browser to access a SaaS application, and the data is stored at a data centre. If someone’s laptop runs out of power, they can switch to a mobile device, tablet or another PC and pick up where they left off.
- Location freedom: SaaS applications work across an internet connection. If the office’s power disappears, employees can work from home, or anywhere with internet connectivity.
- Data protection: There are two consequences for data when a device loses power. First, no power means no access. Second, a sudden loss of power could corrupt files and even the operating system. But since SaaS applications store data in the cloud, loss of files or access aren’t concerns anymore.
- Better cost management: The best SaaS applications charge according to usage – a major departure from traditional business applications that expect set and inflexible license fees. Power losses don’t erode the value of what you pay for SaaS applications, and companies can use consumption-based billing for more flexible budget management.
The core business revolution
SaaS is a powerful tool for every organisation, which explains why the International Data Corporation predicts South Africa’s SaaS market will grow from $370 million in 2018 to $1.7 billion by 2024. But companies had been reluctant to adopt SaaS for more critical business services. The belief that you should control such software has held firm. Why are attitudes changing?
“It’s the typical situation where a company thought they were okay until something went wrong,” explains PaySpace’s Co-founder and Director, Warren van Wyk.
“One of our recent customers changed to SaaS because they had a series of power failures during their payroll processing days. It ended up causing a lot of problems, such as incomplete information, lost spreadsheets, inability to pull net payment reports or bank files, and eventually failure to pay their people on time. To add salt to their wounds, they had a hosted payroll solution but the power cuts made it a nightmare for their workforce to connect to the software. Their IT staff had to stop working on other projects so they could get the payroll administrators going again.”
Too many South African companies can recount similar tales of disaster. They are migrating core applications such as payroll, accounting, ERP, and procurement to SaaS-hosted replacements, mitigating the risks surrounding on-premise and hosted software during power failures.
“SaaS is definitely becoming a big way for organisations to keep going even through power disruptions. It’s one of the most prominent and accessible ways to reduce operational risk from load shedding,” says Crous.


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Okotoks’ population is young and growing rapidly meaning the need for additional recreation facilities has become a hot topic among candidates vying for a spot on town council and with sports groups and parents who are calling for more space.
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Very expensive lipstick, for an arena-sized pig.
Or as Ken King himself put it, like dropping a new engine into the hull of worn-out jalopy.
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The NHL team has examined several locations for a new facility throughout the city, according to sources, and has had architects draw up designs. There has been speculation the Flames are so far along in the process that they could conceivably leave the Scotiabank Saddledome and be in their new building before the Edmonton Oilers skate into their new $601-million arena and entertainment complex sometime in 2016. Ron MacLean of CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada even said last weekend that the Flames will be unveiling their arena plans in the next “three to four months,” which further ignited excitement about the potential for new digs.
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Back in business.
The return of NHL hockey has meant a revenue rebound for some Calgary businesses just a couple weeks after the much-delayed debut of the season.
“It’s been unbelievably busy,” said Paige Lambert, a manager at Jamesons Irish Pub in Sunridge.
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The NHL owners locked out their players in September and after more than 100 days the labour dispute ended on Jan. 6. As a result, either 48 or 50 game schedule is expected to begin in about 10 days.
Jordan Hick, general manager of Boston Pizza in Okotoks, can hardly wait.
He said he estimated the sports bar and restaurant has lost thousands of dollars every week as a result of the NHL lockout.
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EDMONTON – The end of the NHL contract fight could help spark an agreement on building a downtown Edmonton arena, city councillors say.
“Not having a season really went against the idea of a new arena. Psychologically, this might get people excited again,” Coun. Tony Caterina said Monday.
“People will feel more excited about it because the game is on again. That will go a long way.”
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EDMONTON- In recent days and weeks, Oilers owner Daryl Katz or his employees have insulted their best customers to the core, making open threats to move the team to Seattle and thinly veiled ones to move the squad to Markham, Ont.
This comes in the wake of Katz’s surprise demand for a $6-million annual subsidy to run the new downtown arena, then his attempt to justify it with self-serving statements that are simply not true, namely Katz’s contention that Edmonton is one of the “smallest of small” NHL markets.
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Just days after announcing it is opening an elite hockey training program the Foothills School Division is already considering a proposal to develop an elite school for lacrosse and soccer players.
During meetings between the MD of Foothills and the Foothills School Division (FSD) it was suggested a school could be built at the site where construction is underway on an indoor fieldhouse near Aldersyde.
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Check out the new, mobile-friendly WineSpectator.com!
October 15, 1995 Top Chefs Produce Napa Valley Feast Culinary arts and wine history were honored recently in Napa Valley when the James Beard Foundation held a benefit dinner featuring top chefs from across the country.
For the full article, check out the new issue of Wine Spectator, on newsstands October 15, 1995.
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It’s been weeks since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom released, but players are still discovering tons of amazing secrets, Easter eggs, and lore tidbits throughout the game. His one of the most intriguing and huge of these secrets has to do with the depths, and it took players until recently to fully reveal how deep the rabbit hole is (heh).
WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Depths’ layout and location. If you haven’t explored a good portion of the map yet, read on at your own risk.
Early on in Tears of the Kingdom, we might start getting hints about what’s really going on in Depth. For example, you might notice that deep light routes seem to correspond to the location of shrines on the surface, and that their names mirror the names of the shrines in reverse. In other words, the Mayachin Shrine on the surface of the earth is the Nichayam Light Route in the depths. Neat, right?
But it goes much further. In fact, Depth literally looks like a dark mirror above, with all its major locations and landmarks corresponding to those on the surface.
a Recent Reddit Threads has cataloged many of these similarities, and IGN was able to confirm them to be true. For example, the Surface Goddess corresponds to the Abyss Negotiator, and the City corresponds to the Grand Mine. Surface forests are deep groves, and surface Leviathan skeletons line up with dark skeletons below. The similarities are striking. Some Redditors have suggested that at least some boss locations are consistent between the two maps.
In addition, the terrain also appears to reflect itself. High mountains on the surface look like deep valleys with mines deep inside. Do giant walls that keep hitting underground tats hinder progress? They tend to line up with rivers and other bodies of water above ground. Basically, to navigate the depths, you can use your surface map to note shrines that correspond to light routes that light your way, and generally avoid rivers that impede your progress.
The level of detail here is truly incredible. This means that Nintendo created the “Dark World” version of Hyrule as essentially a link to the past, but underground rather than through a mirror. It’s a really amazing secret once you figure out what’s really going on.
If you need a little help getting to the depths in the first place, check out our guide on depth quest camerawork. A guide to getting there.
And for all your help with Tears of the Kingdom, check out our Tears of the Kingdom walkthrough and our guide to getting through Hyrule. In fact, you can start here.
Rebekah Valentine is IGN’s Senior Reporter. you can find her on her twitter @duck valentine.


Farmers Market at the Square
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Local farmers, food producers and hot food vendors from all over the region fill Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland’s downtown living room, each Monday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. until Sept. 28.
Sponsored by KINK, Portland Farmers Market at the Square opened this month to bring locally grown and produced items from dozens of vendors offering everything from berries and greens to flowers to baked goods. The abundant hot food options featuring locally sourced ingredients make this market a popular lunchtime destination.
New to this season’s market are fresh-baked French-style breads from Phillipe’s Bread, authentic Southwest Chinese food from Money Bowl, tempting pastries from Decadent Creations and refreshing hard cider from Atlas Cider.


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PURPOSE: Echocardiographic parameters of the right ventricle (RV) in the post-cardiac arrest (CA) patient are not yet well described. We also seek to determine if the etiology of arrest predicts RV dysfunction.
METHODS: This is a retrospective case series performed in two academic inpatient facilities between 2010 and 2013. A comprehensive database of all inpatient resuscitative events is maintained at these institutions, including demographic, clinical, and outcomes data. All patients identified as having successful resuscitation following CA that had a technically adequate echocardiogram within 24 hours were included. Arrests were categorized by etiology (circulatory, respiratory, or arrhythmia). Parameters evaluated included RV fractional area change (RVFAC), longitudinal strain (LS), and tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE). Reference values were obtained from the most recent guidelines published by the American Society of Echocardiography. We defined right ventricular dysfunction as the presence of an abnormal RVFAC, TAPSE or LS. Statistical methods were used to determine any difference between etiology of arrest and RV dysfunction.
RESULTS: Between 2010 and 2013, 57 subjects were identified that met inclusion criteria. Eighteen had CA from a circulatory etiology, 22 from arrhythmias, and 17 from respiratory causes. Average measurements included: RVFAC of 32.0 (< 35 abnormal), TAPSE of 1.23 cm (<1.6 cm abnormal), and longitudinal strain was -15.9 (< -20 abnormal). Fifty of 57 patients met our criteria for having an abnormal echocardiogram. There was no statistical difference between the etiology of CA and the presence of RV dysfunction (p = 0.106).
CONCLUSIONS: RV dysfunction is present in the majority of post-CA patient regardless of the etiology of arrest. Further studies are needed to investigate if there are relationships between echocardiographic findings and survival and to assess temporal findings of RV function post-CA.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Assuming that RV dysfunction may be attributable to a select few causes of cardiac arrest (i.e. massive PE) may lead to erroneous management as RV dysfunction is present in the majority of cases of post-CA patients.
DISCLOSURE: The following authors have nothing to disclose: Gabriel Wardi, Rebecca Sell, Khushboo Kaushal, Teri Dittrich, Daniel Blanchard
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One thing we can all relate to is hater.
Hater: A person that simply cannot be happy for another person’s success. So rather than be happy, they make a point of exposing a flaw in another person. Houston emcee & OTOS Leader, Stockz aka Stockzilla is familiar with these types of people. Stockz has release several critically acclaimed works, such as Breathing Room (2011) and MylesDEEP (2012), and is gearing up for a huge follow-up with his concept EP, “IGNORANCE” set to be released Summer 2014. Addressing the aforementioned “haters”, with his lead single off of ‘Ignorance’, “Luv It”, Stockz has teamed up with Houston’s Swagged Up & Killing Rai P and track-whipping-super-producer, Bro_Dini for a summer smash for the ages.
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Four bouncers to choose from. Scarlet the Ladybug: Ages: 2 - 5 years. Use Zone: 15' x 17' Weight: 120 lbs. Meets ADA guidelines. Lola the Snail: Ages: 2 - 5 years. Use Zone: 14' x 17' Weight: 80 lbs. Nectar the Bumblebee: Ages: 2 - 5 years. Use Zone: 16' x 18' Weight: 125 lbs. Two seat spring rider. Gallagher the Grasshopper: Ages: 2 - 5 years. Use Zone: 14' x 17' Weight: 135 lbs. Two seat spring rider.
6 - 23 months. Versatile design is easily rearranged to meet your needs. Encourages social interaction and dramatic play. Available in natural or primary colors. Optional surface mount and in-ground mount available.
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She married Edmund Clifford Carpenter on 24 Apr 1937 in Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma. He died 24 Oct 1973. She later married H Monroe Martin.
Children of Johnnie Belle and Edmund Carpenter are: Belinda Belle Carpenter Charles Phillip Carpenter Cynthia Ann Carpenter Russell William Carpenter Clifford Cody Carpenter Francis Henry Carpenter John Edmond Carpenter Daniel Lee Carpenter

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Although we are thousands of miles away from the mainland, 9/11 changed Guam just as much as the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Sept. 11, 2001, brought about profound changes to Guam, as our tourism industry tanked, recovered, and is now down again due to COVID-19. The military, which had previously been downsizing on Guam, suddenly realized our island’s strategic importance and bolstered its forces here.
Our sons and daughters in uniform all played a vital part in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq that resulted directly from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It has been said that when measured in terms of the ratio of our relatively small land area, our region has perhaps lost the most number of sons and daughters in the war against terror.
Since 9/11, the U.S. embarked on two major wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, aside from the less conventional intelligence and special forces war conducted against terrorists worldwide.
Twenty years after Sept. 11, 2001, America seems to have won the fight, for there has not been another terrorist attack or attempt in the U.S. of 9/11’s magnitude. Osama Bin Laden, the architect of the attacks, is now dead and from all indications, al Qaeda is now on the run.
Still, it is the nature of this new form of warfare that terrorists will always try to find a way to hurt the U.S. and its allies. In this new asymmetric war, traditional concepts of victory mean nothing for if a single terrorist succeeds in inflicting harm, they will have won.
It is for this reason that despite its successes in the war against terror, the U.S. military continues to adopt the doctrine of “permanent war” – the idea that America will always be fighting someplace, whether conventional or unconventional, a kind of perpetual war if you will.
Guam plays an important role in this new military posture.
The two military bases on island played pivotal parts in the Middle East wars America has been involved in, serving as the staging area for troops, supplies, and equipment sent to the combat zones.
Moreover, Guam, along with Diego Garcia, has given the U.S. the ability to project airpower to any crisis location in the Middle East and Asia, providing the military with the ability to deploy to any hot spot at a moment’s notice.
We have also become the tip of the U.S. spear in the Asia-Pacific, as the so-called “rogue states” in the region continue to exhibit threats to U.S. interests, and a resurgent China continues to rattle its sabers.
Whether we like it or not, we are now enmeshed in the war against terror because of our ties with the U.S. and our strategic location.
This is something to think about as we continue to deliberate our own relationship with the military in terms of the military buildup on island.
It is good to look after our interests with regard to the military buildup, but we must also look at the vital role the military on Guam is playing in protecting U.S. and regional security. For better or worse, we are now involved in this “permanent” war.


Growing up, I dreamt of having the ability to talk to animals. Maybe it started with my admiration for Eliza from The Wild Thornberrys or perhaps it stemmed from Snow White.
Either way, I longed to connect with animals in the way those two characters did, but it seemed out of the realm of reality.
While we can’t actually talk to wild animals and have them understand what we’re saying, one grandmother is pretty close!
Erika Michelle (@erikamichelle9) recently took to TikTok to share about her Snow White-like grandmother.
In the video, she shows her grandmother outside passing out a bowl of seeds and calling “Supper Time.” The deer in the woods around her home come running to eat!
However, when the deer saw Erika filming, they stopped short. In true Snow White fashion, the grandmother went on to reassure the deer that was alright and they responded!
Erika shared the video on TikTok with the caption: “My grandma is literally Snow White. Wait until the end!!”
Check out the sweet moment below:
@erikamichelle9 My Grandma is literally Snow White 😂 Wait until the end!! #SupperTime #snowwhite #grandmasoftiktok #ohdeer #fyp #foryou #foryoupage ♬ original sound – Erika M
If you’re familiar with Snow White, it’s hard not to make the comparison!
Just check out the Disney clip from Snow White below to see for yourself:


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The number of foreclosed homes sold at sheriff's auction in Washtenaw County jumped from 102 in August to 110 in September, the county clerk and register of deeds offices reported Friday.
That compared to 85 homes sold at auction in September 2007. Through the first nine months of 2008, 1,103 foreclosed homes have been sold at a sheriff's auction, up from 741 at the same time last year.
In Livingston County, 131 foreclosed homes were sold at sheriff's auction in September, up from 96 in August. Year to date through the end of September, 1,093 foreclosed homes were auctioned in the county, up from 364 at the same time last year.
The foreclosure rates in both counties are at historical highs.


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Special Issue "Recent Innovations in Post-harvest Preservation and Protection of Agricultural Products—Series II"
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2023 | Viewed by 3188
Interests: food and nutrition security; post-harvest engineering; grain quality; non-chemical protection technologies; post-harvest loss reduction
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
The global food supply chain relies on engineered systems, operational practices, and logistics to preserve, protect, process, and deliver agricultural crops along complex supply lines from farmers in low-, middle-, and high-income countries to markets around the world. Food and nutrition security is compromised by post-harvest losses (and food waste) that have been estimated to be as high as 20% in durable and 40% in perishable crops. Preserving crops using technologies and practices such as timely harvesting, evaporative cooling, cold and frozen storage, drying, dehydrating, and protecting crops using technologies and practices such as damage-less handling, controlled- and modified-atmosphere storage, non-chemical heat and gas treatment, plant-derived protective films for individual fruits and vegetables, and improved packaging containers are critical to preserving nutrients, improving livelihoods, and realizing an efficient food system.
This second Special Issue aims to cover recent progress and innovations in science, technology, engineering, operational practices, and logistics related to the post-harvest preservation and protection of durable and perishable agricultural crops. It seeks contributions that improve effectiveness, efficiency, reliability and sustainability in post-harvest handling of crops from field to end use that preserve product quality and result in foods and feeds which are nutritious and safe for human and animal consumption.
Key topics in this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
- Novel methods to preserve end-use quality, shelf-life, and nutritional value of harvested durable and perishable crops;
- Novel methods to protect stored crops from insect pests, fungi, and other spoilage agents;
- Novel sensors and measurement technologies to quantify end-use quality, shelf-life, and nutritional value of harvested crops;
- Automation, monitoring, and control of crop storage technologies and systems;
- Best practices to reduce and prevent post-harvest losses;
- Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle assessment of engineered systems, operational practices, and logistics to preserve, protect, process, and deliver agricultural crops.
Prof. Dr. Dirk E. Maier
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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
- post-harvest drying, handling, storage
- stored product protection
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- post-harvest loss reduction
- crop end-use quality sensors
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A fire broke out Monday on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Japan Airlines at Logan International Airport in Boston.
According to this report from the Boston Globe, the aircraft was parked at its gate when the fire broke out, and no crew or passengers were on board at the time.
The fire appears to have started in the avionics section in the plane’s cargo hold.
The aircraft arrived earlier in the morning from Tokyo.
No information on the exact cause of the fire or the extent of the damage was immediately available.
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has had its share of problems with the new 787 Dreamliner, which has been in service a little over a year.
The company’s CEO recently said, however, that those problems — like on any new airplane — were normal and that Boeing was working through them. The comments came before Monday morning’s fire.
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The Martello Tower at Crockness in North Walls, Hoy, Orkney bears witness to the strategic importance of the island and of Scapa Flow in several wars. It stands on the shore just around from the Ruff of Crockness, near to Towerhouse, the farm name undoubtedly deriving from the monument.
Why was it built?
The tower in Crockness and its counterpart in Hackness, South Walls, were built in response to the threat to the Baltic trade from American privateers in the 1812-14 war between Britain and the USA.
The Baltic trade was important to Britain, not only because she valued every outlet for her manufactured goods and colonial produce, but because British supremacy at sea depended on naval stores (timber, pitch and hemp) from the northern countries.Fereday, RP (1971) The Longhope Battery and Towers. Stromness, Orkney: Private publication printed by WR Rendall. p.23.
As Fereday goes on to explain, ships from west coast ports sailed north around Britain on their way to the Baltic ports rather than risk the Channel. They would wait at Longhope for a warship to convoy them across the North Sea. Convoys sailed every three weeks or so, April to October, on dates fixed by the Admiralty and widely advertised. The 40 plus ships anchored in Longhope were thus an obvious target for American privateers. Hence the decision to build a Battery to guard the entrance to Longhope with a barrack for the gunners. The map below should help with locations and the strategic importance of the anchorage. The Pentland Firth is to the south and west. More modern map.
By July 1813 work on the Battery at Hackness in South Walls was underway. That same month Major James Carmichael Smith, Commander of the Royal Engineers in North Britain, recommended construction of a round tower with a gun on top to defend the Battery. He advised a second Battery and Tower should be built at Crockness “with a view to the complete defence of the valuable convoys which assemble at Long Hope Sound”.1Fereday p. 27
Work on the two towers had begun by late 1813. Hoy sandstone quarried at the Bring Head and carried by boat along Scapa Flow to the beaches by both sites.2Fereday p. 29. The actual building work seems to have been carried out in late 1814 and completed by August 1815 though only a Tower was built at Crockness. The peace of Ghent was signed with the USA on 24 December 1814 and the war declared to be at an end on 14 February 1815. Thus the defences were too late, but who could have predicted the end of the war?
The Towers are 10m high and 47m in circumference, with a much thicker wall on the seaward side. The entrance is about 4m above ground, on the landward side, with ladder access originally. The first floor provided living quarters for an NCO and gunners. It also gave access to the gun platform on the top of the Tower, where a wheeled gun platform carrying a 24 pound cannon was mounted, as well as to the basement where stores were kept.
Historic Environment Scotland’s Canmore site has many photos of the Crockness Martello Tower. (There are some photos of the Hackness Battery and possibly the Hackness Tower there too.)
After the 1812-14 War
The Towers and Battery remained in the ownership of the military authorities but little was done with them until a perceived threat from the American Fenian Brotherhood in the mid 1860s. Modern gun mountings were added to both Towers and considerable changes made to the Battery but they saw no action. By the early 1880s only two artillerymen were stationed at the Battery. Neither Tower was part of they system of World War One forts to defend Scapa Flow. Overall the Crockness Tower probably had a quieter life as there was no adjoining Battery and barracks.
The Hackness Martello Tower and Battery are now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland and open to visitors.
Until late 2020, the Hackness Battery was home to John Cload, grandson of William Cload, an artilleryman from Hemyock, Devon, stationed at Hackness. William married Mary Anderson from the neighbouring croft and after retiring from the army returned to Hackness as caretaker. The family bought the Battery from the War Department after the First World War, using the officer’s quarters as the farm house.
In North Walls, my one-place study, I have so far found one marriage with an artilleryman. Jessie Robson, North Crockness (possibly Bluerocks?), married Daniel Hollingsworth, Royal Artillery, on 5 October 1876 in Walls. They moved to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area where she died in 1934.
More on Martello Towers
Over 100 Martello towers were built between 1804 and 1812, mainly to defend the south and east coast of England against the threat of invasion by France, then under Emperor Napoleon, with at least a further two in Wales. Only three were built in Scotland, one at Leith and these two in the parish of Walls. See https://martellotowers.co.uk
Written for the Society for One-Place Studies January 2021 prompt “Landmarks”.


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There's an event scheduled on short notice and it is themed on the phrase "LIVE or DIE." Given that Vertu, the company, was liquidated... they said it.
The luxury phone producer is liquidating its assets to pay back a mountain of debt. Much has been lost, but it could all be your gain if you'd like.
Jacklyn Dallas is our guest for this week's show as we dish out some fried chicken, gem-encrusted phones and blackberries of a mobile sort.
The luxury phone maker put leather, alligator skin, gold and jewels to its phones to sell to a richer-than-average crowd.
The OEM behind many BlackBerry and Alcatel products of late has agreed to bring its "innovative technology" to Vertu's luxury smartphones.
Founded by Nokia back in 1998, sold to EQT in 2012, then Godin Holdings a couple of years ago, Vertu is now property of Baferton Ltd.
In addition to a super-snazzy design, the 2017 edition of the luxury Vertu Constellation smartphone brings pretty great internals to the table.
If you thought the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and iPhone 6s were expensive, take a look at the Lollipop-powered Vertu Aster Chevron collection.
Swedish-owned luxury device manufacturer Vertu will soon move under new Chinese management, which may have its sights set on an encrypted Android-based OS.
The new Vertu Signature Touch model is hands down the company's highest-specced luxury smartphone to date, retaining the iconic opulent services and design.
Read what one CEO has revealed about Apple's plans for a sapphire iPhone screen.
Find out why Vertu may have shied away from the idea of a luxury Windows Phone 8 smartphone.
From modding a Galaxy S III to jailbreaking an iPhone 5, from interviews with Sailfish-maker Jolla to speculation about the HTC M7, we talk about it on today's Pocketnow Weekly podcast. Give us a listen!
Hear about the underwhelming hardware inside the new luxury Android.
Vertu was Nokia's luxury handset division -- before it got sold -- but that doesn't stop the Windows Phone 8 operating system, allegedly pictured above, to identify this handset as a Vertu phone.


Silver Arrows move within touching distance of 4,000km
Valtteri and Lewis clocked 149 laps between them
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport’s charge ended just 18 laps and 81 km shy of the 4,000km mark on Wednesday as the second pre-season test continued at Spain’s Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton clocked 149 laps between them to take the new W08’s running total for pre-season to 3,919 km – 842 laps and almost 13 full race distances of the Spanish Grand Prix.
Valtteri: It was another good half-day in the car for me
Valtteri kicked off the team’s programme in the morning, focusing on analysis of new aerodynamic parts and further set-up work for the early races, as well as data collection on the 2017 Pirelli tyres.
“It was another good half-day in the car for me,” said Valtteri. “We managed to complete our programme as planned and I have to say that I felt much better in the car today with the changes we’ve made.
“We’re definitely making good progress as a team and I’m feeling more and more comfortable in the car every time I go out on track.
Valtteri: Fastest laps don’t matter in testing
The new Mercedes recruit added 70 more laps to his testing tally and ended the day at the top of the timesheets – his 1:19.310 on the SuperSoft tyre the fastest lap of any driver in testing at Barcelona this year.
“Fastest laps don’t matter in testing,” said Valtteri. “What matters is where you are when you get to Melbourne. I’m just pleased we managed to complete the full programme. I learned so much from today’s running. Now I’m just concentrating on tomorrow.”
Lewis: It’s been a pretty good day, nice and smooth with no issues
Lewis was back behind the wheel of the beast after the lunch break and managed 79 laps - including a 20 lap run on the UltraSoft compound – as he continued the team’s preparations ahead of the trip to Oz.
“It’s been a pretty good day, nice and smooth with no issues,” said the three-time World Champion. “There is still a lot of work to be done but on the whole, it’s been another productive day for the team.
“F1 is always fun. The cars are always amazing. But this car… it’s faster and it’s more of a challenge to extract everything from it. I love that I get to do this.
Lewis: A big shout-out to everyone who came out to support us today
Lewis paid tribute to the team’s faithful fans that were camped out across from the Mercedes garage throughout the day.
He added: “It was really great to see the fans with their banners in the grandstand this afternoon, so a big shout-out to everyone who came out to support us today.”
The second pre-season test continues for a third day on Thursday, with Lewis driving in the morning and Valtteri in the afternoon.
2017 Pre-Season Test 2, Day 2
|01||Valtteri Bottas (77)||Mercedes||70||1:19.310|
|02||Felipe Massa (19)||Williams||63||1:19.420|
|03||Kimi Räikkönen (7)||Ferrari||53||1:20.406|
|04||Max Verstappen (33)||Red Bull||102||1:20.432|
|05||Lance Stroll (18)||Williams||59||1:20.579|
|06||Lewis Hamilton (44)||Mercedes||79||1:20.702|
|07||Nico Hülkenberg (27)||Renault||61||1:21.213|
|08||Sergio Perez (11)||Force India||100||1:21.297|
|09||Carlos Sainz (55)||Toro Rosso||92||1:21.872|
|10||Romain Grosjean (8)||Haas||96||1:21.887|
|11||Pascal Wehrlein (94)||Sauber||59||1:23.000|
|12||Fernando Alonso (14)||McLaren||46||1:23.041|
|13||Marcus Ericsson (9)||Sauber||47||1:23.384|
|14||Jolyon Palmer (30)||Renault||29||1:24.774|


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The food stamp program serves about 42 million people. Trump's budget would cut $200 million from the program, which provides food for pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children up to age five. Farm state lawmakers are already pushing back on proposals to curb agriculture assistance, for instance, and key Republicans are not interested in adding another round of cuts to Medicaid on top of those contained in the ongoing "Obamacare" repeal and replace effort.
HORSLEY: Well, the budget that came out a couple of months ago was referred to at the White House as the skinny budget, and it only dealt with a skinny piece of the overall government spending pie, namely the so-called discretionary spending that Congress has to authorize each year.
("We are not kicking anybody off of any program who really needs it", Mulvaney said.) And there may be some objections among Republican hawks to certain cuts to the State Department and a lower-than-desired defense spending increase.
"In the America of President Trump's budget, children, working families, seniors and people with disabilities will be "fined, ' while the wealthiest Americans will get a 'bonus.' What's so 'great" about that America?" asked Sen. And also it relies on a relatively rosy forecast of what's going to happen with the US economy.
She, her fiancé, and her two year-old son all depend on Medicaid to make it through, but that benefit could all be in jeopardy if President Trump's new budget proposal gets the green light.
Rep. Ben Ray Luján said the budget's priorities don't reflect Trump's rhetoric in the 2016 campaign.
"There's a certain message here and it's from the president of the U.S.to Congress that say, 'look here are my priorities in terms of what I want to spend more and here's the big ticket items, '" Mulvaney said. Tom Udall, a New Mexico Democrat who sits on the Appropriations Committee. That is down by almost 7,000 from the previous February.
More than 75 percent of households who participate in SNAP have worked a job in the year before or after the receive benefits, according to the USDA.
Family leave is a cause embraced by the president's daughter, Ivanka Trump. "The ugly truth is this: You can never balance the budget at 1.9 per cent growth".
The administration released what it calls a "Taxpayer First" budget on Tuesday.
"Trump could be assuming that his tax cuts will not only pay for themselves but generate $2 trillion in higher revenue".
United States military assistance to partners and allies reached $13.5 billion in 2015, or 28 percent of all USA foreign aid spending that year, according to the Congressional Research Service. He added that it's "important to adequately fund the critical programs and services many Americans, like my constituents in California's Central Valley, rely on every day".
"With this budget, the President betrays his promises to many voters who placed his trust in them".
The $1.6 billion is a fraction of the estimated cost of the controversial wall. President Trump's proposal could have a disproportionate effect on Republican-leaning states - seven of the 10 states with the highest food stamp participation supported President Trump.
How? The budget would eviscerate aid to the poor, and it makes preposterous assumptions about future growth.
The budget also appears to rely on some dubious accounting related to the proposed tax cuts.
"Trump's budget would cause disproportionate pain in the rural communities he promised to help - including those in Southern and Southwest Virginia and the Valley - by eliminating the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Economic Development Administration, and clean coal research that could help revitalize Southwest Virginia's economy", Kaine said in a prepared statement. That 3 percent growth rate is stimulated by the lower taxes proposed in the budget.
When asked about the double-counting, Trump's Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said the document was preliminary and would be refined. However, that goal depends not only on the growth projections that most economists view as overly optimistic but also a variety of accounting gimmicks, including an nearly $600 billion peace dividend from winding down overseas military operations.
Most government departments would see steep cuts, particularly the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.


Types of flame:
As we know there are three basic welding flames. These are as follow.
As the name implies, this flame has equal amount of oxygen and gases fuel by the volume. This flame burns fuel completely and does not produce any chemical effect on metal to be welded. It is mostly used for welding mild steal, stainless steel, cast iron etc. It produces little smoke. This flame has two zones. The inner zone has white in color and has temperature about 3100 degree centigrade and outer zone has blue color and have temperature about 1275 degree centigrade.
This flame has excess of fuel gas. This flame chemically reacts with metal and form metal carbide. Due to this reason, this flame does not used with metal which absorb carbon. It is smoky and quiet flame. This flame has three regions. The inner zone has white color, the intermediate zone which is red in color and outer cone has blue color. The inner cone temperature is about 2900 degree centigrade. This flame is used to weld medium carbon steel, nickel etc.
When the amount of acetylene reduces from natural flame or amount of oxygen increases, the inner cone tend to disappear and the flame obtain is known as oxidizing flame. It is hotter than natural flame and has clearly defined two zones. The inner zone has very bright white color and has temperature of about 3300 degree centigrade. The outer flame has blue in color. This flame is used to weld oxygen free copper alloy like brass, bronze etc.
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