Former Obama campaign staffers parlay innovations into start-ups
WASHINGTON — As chief technology officer for President Obama’s reelection effort, Harper Reed oversaw the development of projects such as Narwhal, an intricate platform that linked the campaign’s myriad databases and allowed officials to plot strategy with new precision.
The heady and exhausting 19-month gig convinced Reed, former technology officer for the online T-shirt retailer Threadless, that he should launch his own venture.
“When you go from building T-shirts to software for a presidential campaign used by a cast of millions, it’s pretty easy to think, ‘OK, we can build something pretty big,’” Reed said.
He and his business partner, Dylan Richard, the campaign’s former director of engineering, now are “looking to do something large” with their new business software start-up, he said. They’re not the only ones.
Obama’s 50,000-square-foot campaign headquarters on the sixth floor of a Chicago office tower also served during the campaign as a business incubator, which now is generating new ventures that seek to parlay its innovations into private-sector enterprises.
Some are classically political. Last month, senior field staffers Mitch Stewart and Jeremy Bird launched 270 Strategies, a political consulting shop offering clients the kind of data-driven organizing model that helped Obama win.
And Katie Ingebretson and Karine Jean-Pierre, who helped run campaign operations in battleground states, opened a communications and government relations firm in Los Angeles last year.
But the new ventures go beyond political consulting firms. Some of the Obama team’s top technologists and data crunchers, including former chief analytics officer Daniel Wagner and product developer Mari Huertas, are contemplating their own tech start-ups.
Their business projects are still in the planning stages, but the new entrepreneurs already have a receptive audience in Silicon Valley.
“The credibility earned by being part of the core Obama campaign team couldn’t be higher,” said Chris Sacca, a venture investor and Obama fundraiser who has backed companies such as Twitter Inc., Uber Technologies Inc. and Bitly Inc.
“Point to another company that goes from zero to $525 million raised digitally in less than two years,” he wrote in an email.
The initial products that Obama campaign veterans pitch may be less important than their pedigree, said Scott Weiss, a partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He already has had informal talks with some former staffers.
Weiss, who co-founded the Internet security firm IronPort Systems Inc. in San Bruno, Calif., noted that the campaign offered a rare opportunity to build “a system that had to hold so much load and be so bulletproof in a short amount of time.”
“If you think about the pressure cooker of putting the smartest people together to fix a hard problem like that, it’s almost like going through Navy SEAL training together,” he said. “Of course they are going to come up with a lot of innovative, creative things.”
The keen interest in the nascent start-ups speaks to how a presidential campaign functions as a testing ground for new ideas — as well as a potentially lucrative calling card for political operatives.
“There is something inherently entrepreneurial about a presidential campaign, if you’re doing it right,” said Joe Rospars, a founding partner of Blue State Digital, the go-to Democratic digital consulting firm that emerged from Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential bid.
“It’s such an interesting challenge to build an organization from scratch that you know is going to go out of business,” Rospars said.
Obama’s two presidential bids offered particularly ripe environments for out-of-the-box thinking, starting in 2007 when he was running as an underdog first-term U.S. senator.
“We just had to be innovative,” said Stewart, who started out as the campaign’s Iowa caucus director.
Dan Siroker, a Google Inc. product manager who took a leave to volunteer on Obama’s first bid, had the idea to run what are called A/B tests on the campaign website, a tactic that measures the effectiveness of different design elements. The resulting product led to a surge of email sign-ups on the homepage and got him hired to run the analytics team.
His experience inspired Optimizely, a website optimization company he co-founded in 2010. The company now has 3,500 clients, including Starbucks Corp. and Walt Disney Co.
In Obama’s second bid, a premium on innovation was built into the campaign, which attracted more than 50 engineers from companies including Google and Twitter to create in-house technology and analytics departments.
The heavy presence of Silicon Valley veterans at the Chicago headquarters contributed to an atmosphere that resembled that of dot-coms, complete with the requisite office pingpong table.
“I don’t know that we created a start-up environment; I think we embraced a start-up culture,” said Michael Slaby, the campaign’s chief integration and innovation officer.
Key to that was Reed, an accomplished hacker and tech guru with hipster credibility who had helped make Threadless a vibrant social hub. Slaby recruited him with an easy pitch: “Let’s build some kick-ass technology for the leader of the free world.”
Along with Narwhal, Obama’s tech and digital teams developed several significant innovations, including Dashboard, an organizing platform for volunteers, and Quick Donate, which enabled contributors to authorize donations via text.
Those applications remain the property of the campaign, but former staffers said they held onto an even more valuable asset: how to use technology in service of a purpose.
“The kind of myth after the campaign was that if you had a piece of technology and the right data, that was the secret sauce,” said Bird, the campaign’s national field director. “The real secret sauce was the integration of all those things. You can have the best data in the world and if you don’t develop relationships on the ground, you’re not going to accomplish your goals.”
It’s an approach he and Stewart are now applying to a project in Texas, which aims to make the state competitive for Democrats within a decade by organizing around voter registration drives, redistricting efforts and local political races.
But it may not just be Democrats who gain an advantage from enterprises started by Obama campaign veterans. In the last election, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s campaign hired Optimizely, the company co-founded by Siroker. The move caused no small amount of angst within the Obama organization.
“They were not pleased,” Siroker conceded. “At the end of the day, I have personal political beliefs, but our company is apolitical.”
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Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself. This fantastic roller-coaster ride of hilarious adventures was both written and directed by Terry Jones, who also plays the central role of Mr. Toad. Alongside three former Pythons are a gallery of well-known faces all bringing wit and wonder to a feast of colourful characters. An absolutely charming film to delight children and adults alike, The Wind in the Willows is a perfect updating of Kenneth Grahame’s well-loved children’s classic.
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Tagline:Go wild in the country!
Duration: 84 Min
Cast:Antony Sher, Bernard Hill, Bernard Padden, Don Henderson, Eric Idle, Graham McTavish, Hugo Blick, John Boswall, John Cleese, Julia Sawalha, Keith-Lee Castle, Michael Palin, Nicol Williamson, Nigel Planer, Richard James, Richard Ridings, Robert Bathurst, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Sarah Crowden, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Terry Jones, Victoria Wood

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Let’s assume that, as many analysts assume, Trump’s election does indeed mean that NATO suffers, and that, in turn, the European Union is made stronger. A priori this seems like a good scenario, but let’s go even further. This might seem an inappropriate forum for this opinion to be published, (...)
Britain is on its way out of the EU, but Scotland voted to remain. At this point, there are three options for Scotland’s future relationship with the EU. Either Scotland’s arrangement will be the same as that of the rest of the UK, Scotland gets a special status or Scotland becomes an independent state.
The 24th June will go down in history as the first time European integration reversed. Integration has slowed down and even came to a halt, but it has never been reversed. “Brexit is Brexit,” has said Theresa May said of the referendum results, but the question everyone is asking themselves is: “is it really fair that a meagre win of the 52 % should dictate the future of the 48 % after a campaign that was solely based on lies from the Leave-campaign?”
The United Kingdom is not only very unique EU member state, which has own international currency but it is also de facto the union within the union. Especially after adoption of Scotland Act 2016  and the upcoming Wales Bill 2016-2017 , Scotland and Wales have a higher degree of sovereignty than any state in the Federal Republic of Germany, and high enough to run their own referendums on EU membership.
Thursday night I was unable to fall asleep, I lay awake watching in disbelief as my compatriots voted to leave the European Union. The next morning I woke to find thousand messages of WhatsApp and Facebook from my family and friends, conversations which just showed the shock we were all going through. No one could believe what was happening, but could it all just be a joke? Since then I have been feeling as if I was breaking up with my boyfriend, I have been feeling confused, sad and angry and I have been checking my phone every 20 minutes in case there are news or some error has been discovered, I have been having false hopes which eventually do not come true. In reality, this feeling is worse than what you feel when going through a break up, because it affects all of us as we are now living on the edge, knowing that we are going to break up with each other, but neither knowing when or how it is going to happen, nor what life will be like afterwards.
Despite growing claims from the mainstream and many right-wing politicians across the EU arguing that Islam does not belong to Europe, it is not as foreign as it seems, as Muslim communities have already existed in Europe for several centuries. Bosniaks, Albanians, and some Greeks and Slavic Bulgarians, are native Muslim Europeans whose ancestors, through interaction with Arab and Ottoman-Turkish civilizations, converted to Islam. Islam was also recognized in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even Adolf Hitler tried to find sympathizers of Nazi racist ideology among Bosnian Muslims. Nowadays, the mosques of immigrant communities in Western Europe already converted tens of thousands of people of native descent.
Facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, with the arrival of thousands of asylum-seekers and migrants onto its soil, the European Union ought to use all resources at its disposal to welcome them while respecting human rights. Could European territorial cooperation, an instrument of the EU’s Regional policy, improve the “migrants”’ situation in Europe?


DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Before taking the green flag in the upcoming DAYTONA 500, several NASCAR® stars will get their engines started in a completely different way. They’ll take to one of the world’s most famous racetracks on foot, joined by thousands of fans, to kick off Coca-Cola Family Track Walks – a season-long program designed to encourage active family fun.
Fans can get moving by taking the first lap of the day alongside some of their favorite NASCAR® drivers on the legendary racing surface at Daytona International Speedway.
Coca-Cola Racing Family drivers Jeff Burton, Clint Bowyer, Elliott Sadler and three-time DAYTONA 500 champion Dale Jarrett will be on hand to lead the inaugural event, which takes place prior to “The Great American Race” at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday, February 14 (registration begins at 8 a.m. at Gate 7). Following the walk, fans can enjoy activities for the whole family, such as games, music, racing simulators, motivating lifestyle tips and Q&A sessions with drivers. The free event is open to all ticket and credential holders for the 2010 DAYTONA 500.
Coca-Cola Family Track Walks will be held at several other venues this season, including Atlanta Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Richmond International Raceway and Chicagoland Speedway. All of the events will provide fun opportunities for fans to get active by offering access to some of the most popular tracks on the circuit, top NASCAR drivers and entertainment for the whole family.
“Coca-Cola Family Track Walks will tap into the passion of NASCAR fans, the energy of the sport, and the uplifting refreshment of Coca Cola to bring families together for some active fun,” said Caren Pasquale Seckler, Assistant Vice President, Coca-Cola Brand and Trademark Strategy, Coca-Cola North America. “By giving fans and their families exclusive access to walk on a real racetrack where NASCAR drivers will compete later that day, we’re offering them a simple and fun way to celebrate their favorite sport.”
Away from the track, fans can visit www.MyCokeRewards.com throughout the year for more information on upcoming events and tips, sweepstakes and exclusive content featuring their favorite Coca-Cola Racing Family drivers.
“I love how Coca-Cola Family Track Walks makes getting active exciting and easy for NASCAR fans. To me, striking a healthy balance is all about the little things in life – staying motivated, making smart choices and spending time with family and friends,” said Jeff Burton, driver of the No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet. “It will be great to be out on the track with fans to get a jumpstart on race day.”
The Coca-Cola Racing Family is a group of top drivers that includes Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Bobby Labonte, Joey Logano, Ryan Newman, David Ragan, Elliott Sadler, Tony Stewart, and alumni drivers Kyle Petty, Michael Waltrip, Dale Jarrett and Ned Jarrett. Coca-Cola is the Official Sparkling Beverage of NASCAR® and has been involved with stock car racing for more than 40 years.
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- Lexus Team Featuring NASCAR Champion Kyle Busch Opts Not to Qualify Due to Engine Change
- 58th Rolex 24 At DAYTONA Takes Green Flag at 1:40 p.m. Saturday
1.22.2020While you explore the Rolex 24, here are a few things you'll want to bring to your DAYTONA experience!
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- Wayne Taylor Racing Defending Rolex 24 Championship With Revamped Driver Lineup
- NASCAR Flavor Also Evident in Friday’s BMW Endurance Challenge Race
1.21.2020Two-Time DAYTONA 500 Champion Denny Hamlin To Participate in Special DAYTONA 500 Ticket Package


Firefighters Hope For A Cool, Lightning-Free Weekend
Northwest forests are extremely dry, but so far the wildfires haven't been as bad as in 2014. Fire officials count 79 large fires at this point a year ago. This season, there have been 65 fires of at least 100 acres.
"Even more telling, last year at this date, we'd burned 758,000 acres in Oregon and Washington," said Tom Knappenberger, spokesperson for the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center. "And this year, we're at 237,000, even though the conditions are a lot more volatile out there."
Knappenberger said there have been fewer lightning strikes, and recently, milder weather.
Officials are optimistic that they could make progress on the region's big wildfires, thanks to mild weather in the forecast.
Oregon's largest fire, the Stouts Creek fire in Douglas County, has burned more than 18,000 acres. Washington has the Wolverine Fire, which has scorched more than 25,000 acres.
Knappenberger said those are burning in tough terrain, and will be hard to extinguish.
"The big fires that are going to be with us for a while are the Stouts Creek Fire down in Kalmiopsis area down in southwestern Oregon, and the Wolverine fire up there on Lake Chelan," said Knappenberger. "That's in tough country, so they're just going to burn for a while. We'll see, hopefully the weather will be cooler and damper this weekend, and we'll get some of these wrapped up, and make some progress on the tougher ones."
Responders are tracking 14 major wildfires in Oregon and Washington. The Lime Hill fire started on Wednesday in eastern Oregon, and has already grown to 4,500 acres. More than 200 firefighters are battling the Highway 8 Fire, not far from the small Columbia River town of Roosevelt, Washington.
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What is your favorite Brad Pitt movie?
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February 6, 2010 4:51am CST
I fell in love with Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black. The way he distinctly portrayed two different role. One who is so innocent and the other one is very commanding being 'Death' himself. He was younger then and had a clean-cut for his hairdo. Sigh! I have a dvd at home so I can watch it and fall in love, over and over again! How about you?
7 Feb 10
I used to think he was so hot,but now he's gotten OLD (literally!)There's gray in his beard/goatee thing (not sure if that's supposed to be attractive?)Anyway, my all time favorite Brad Pitt movie is Mr and Mrs Smith. He was very cute as the bumbling secret agent.
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I'm not really a fan of Brad Pitt. I'm not sure why. He was born in my state, Oklahoma. I had a professor in college who used to brag about going to school with him. She'd pull out her old yearbook from when she lived in Missouri, and show us his old school picture. I don't dislike him, but I don't like him. He's a good actor, I admit. I guess of all the movies he has been in, my favorite is Ocean's Eleven.


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When: Sunday, May 4, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets, Lawrence
Age limit: All ages
Description: This long-time Lawrence tradition features over 150 artists, musical performances, and children’s activities. This—the 47th annual event, sponsored by the Lawrence Art Guild—is a great opportunity to support area artists and perhaps select that perfect Mother’s Day gift.
I’ll have a booth with my acrylic on plexiglass artwork. Stop by and enjoy the fun atmosphere because the weather is suppose to be great!
I am in the process of creating a colossal 8′ by 4′ piece of artwork to hang in the waiting room of the Family Service and Guidance Center’s new Child & Family Academy building.
This piece of artwork will be comprised of over 35 smaller plexiglass paintings created by myself and some of the children and associates of the center. The process began with a painting session for the children where I taught them my painting style. That night was so successful, we decided to do another class for Family Service and Guidance Center staff members to paint over their lunch break.
After all of the plexiglass panels had been created, I starting working with Josh Pattie to assemble the painting. And with Mike at Creative Signs on the donor panels that will be surrounding the artwork.
Want to check it out? Stop by the ribbon cutting on Wednesday, April 16th starting at 4pm to celebrate the opening of the new facility and get a first look at my largest piece of art to date!


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A historic oil market crash is hardly registering because of coronavirus
Sure, the oil industry is in historic turmoil, but with an entire world gripped by the coronavirus crisis, social media users are gravitating to other topics.
Driving the news: Social media interactions on stories about oil and gasoline prices have consistently ranked relatively low during the past month as the coronavirus crisis choked oil demand and wreaked havoc on the industry, according to NewsWhip data provided to Axios.
The big picture: The pandemic is upending the lives of virtually everyone on Earth and throwing nearly every industry into chaos. Sectors that are more consumer-facing, like restaurants, see the most social engagement online.
The intrigue: One of the direct repercussions of this unprecedented oil-industry turmoil is rock-bottom oil — and therefore, gasoline prices. Here’s the rub:
- People hardly dwell on cheap gas prices in normal times, but that's even more the case now as most of us aren’t driving or flying nearly as much.
- Only when energy is expensive or gone do the masses really pay attention.
- This makes it especially hard to convey the sector’s struggles to the masses — and President Trump, who loves cheap oil.
Where it stands: Stories on oil and gas prices saw the highest engagement in early March, right around the time a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia broke out and prompted a big drop in oil prices.
Flashback: Benedict Nicholson, head of research and editorial at NewsWhip, notes that oil news in general received more engagement at the end of July 2019, right when the Green New Deal was receiving a lot of media attention.
Yes, but: Engagement online is just one narrow — but influential — barometer of attention.
Go deeper: Oil is America’s other economic crisis

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The Clydeside Distillery
The Clydeside Distillery, the first whisky distillery on the banks of the River Clyde in over 100 years, offer a top class visitor experience and unique space for private functions.
200 St Vincent Street is a dynamic concept in conference and business facilities located in the heart of Glasgow’s bustling commercial Centre.
1599 - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Fifteen Ninety Nine is a unique venue located within the historic building of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, offering a collection of rooms, function suites and lecture theatres.
Trades Hall of Glasgow
Situated in the Merchant City in the heart of Glasgow, the Trades Hall is one of the most important historic buildings in Glasgow.
St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art was the first museum in the world to look at all major religions together. It features objects of great beauty.
The Pearce Institute is an iconic Grade 'A' listed civic centre owned and managed by the people of Govan providing a range of meeting and small conference spaces.
House for an Art Lover
House for an Art Lover, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, combines over 12 years experience as an exclusive conference and meetings venue with a professional team of people who are dedicated and meticulous in event planning.
Metropolitan Cocktail Bar & Restaurant
Set in the historic Merchant Square, site of the famous Victorian Candleriggs market, Metropolitan dominates a covered courtyard with two balconies and a ground floor terrace area.
Located just off Sauchiehall Street at Charing Cross, the Mitchell Complex sits at the heart of Glasgow's commercial district. With rail, coach, air and motorway connections close at hand, the venue is conveniently situated for all transport requirements.
The Garage is the musical beating heart of Glasgow’s newly transformed Sauchiehall Street. An the iconic entertainment complex featuring 3 flexible venues.
The Corinthian Club is one of Glasgow's most elaborate and richly decorated buildings both internally and externally.


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Preparation of an iced coffee drink is very simple: just add ice to coffee of any brew style or type, sweeten to taste, add cream or milk if desired and enjoy. Some cafés make coffee "ice" cubes by freezing prepared coffee instead of adding the water ice. A cold-dripped extraction method is the best way to make an iced coffee since heat ruins coffee beans, which results in high bitter acid concentration in the beverage (80% higher than with the recommended method). An interesting fact is that coffee is brewed stronger if it is expected to be consumed iced rather than when it is expected to be consumed hot. The reason for this is not a lesser amount of coffee consumed due to the ice; it is just the way it goes.
Iced coffee can be either served already chilled or hot on the equal amount of ice cubes; in the second case remember to brew it double strengthened. It is important to remember that sugar doesn't dissolve well in cold water, so you have to either add it to the cold base, or make sugar syrup beforehand by mixing sugar with a little amount of hot water. However, artificial sugar substitutes like aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet) or sucralose (Splenda) will dissolve completely even in cold water.
Iced coffee is a name for rather different drinks in different countries. For example, in Australia iced coffee is not just chilled or cold-brewed coffee, but flavored milk beverage similar to American Frappuccino; it is often served with ice cream and whipped cream and compared to a milk shake. Commercial varieties of the drink can either contain real coffee or not. Iced coffee is sold in Australia since the late 19th century. Originally it was in the form of syrup, but now it is sold in ready-to-drink form. The drink is extremely popular in Australia; iced coffee beverage of one of the brands is the biggest selling 600mL drink in South Australia.
German iced coffee or "Eiskaffee" is very similar to the Australian variation of the drink and is served in most coffee houses and ice-cream parlors ("Eisdielen"). However, it is rarely available in German supermarkets. Nevertheless, variety of brands offers their canned versions of the beverage with flavors like Cappuccino, Espresso and others.
In United Kingdom the situation is similar. A great variety of canned coffees is available in most supermarkets; however, they are placed on tea/coffee isles instead of being chilled (customers are expected to chill the drink themselves at home). Nevertheless, a brand named Café Met produces iced coffee in glass bottles; this product has to be kept chilled at all times due to fresh milk contained in it.

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Nick Jonas, 28, and Priyanka Chopra, 39, looked very much like a couple in love during one of their latest outings. The husband and wife joined friends for a lunch date at Beach Blanket Babylon restaurant in London, England on Aug. 12 and couldn’t help but show off a lot of PDA, including a sweet kiss while sitting at the outdoor table. They also enjoyed a lot of laughs while having sitting in front of food and drinks and held hands while walking outside of the restaurant.
During the outing, Nick wore a white jersey top and black pants while Priyanka donned a gray and tan long-sleeved patterned button-down top with matching pants. The singer added white sneakers and sunglasses to his look and the actress also added white sneakers and sunglasses to hers. She topped of her fashionable outfit with jewelry as some of her long locks were down and some were pulled up into a high ponytail.
Nick and Priyanka’s London lunch comes a week after they were seen staying close while leaving the Crown London Aspinalls Casino. They held hands as they flaunted fashionable outfits, including a blue patchwork sweater and gray pants for Nick and a long-sleeved black dress for Priyanka. They also both wore black face masks to keep safe.
When Nick and Priyanka aren’t spending time on outings, they’re sharing their love for each other on social media. They both posted photos from the day they got engaged back in 2018 to celebrate the three-year anniversary of the romantic occasion on July 19. Nick’s showed them sitting at a table by the water as they smiled at the camera and Priyanka showed off her incredible diamond ring, and Priyanka’s also showed off her ring in a close-up of them holding hands.
“My everything.. 3 years today. Seems like a blink and a lifetime at the same time. I love you ❤, she wrote in the caption.

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Crown Prince Haakon completes Botswana tripNov 17, 2009
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Crown Prince Haakon of Norway has completed a three-day visit of Botswana where he met with officials, addressed students on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and visited a biodiversity project.
Crown Prince Haakon met the Vice-President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, hailing the country’s development achievements. In his meetings with Vice President Mompati Merafhe and other Government officials, the Crown Prince discussed the effects of the financial crisis on the economy. The officials underlined the importance of international cooperation for continued development.
Crown Prince Haakon then traveled to the Okavango River Basin, in the North of the country, where he visited a UNDP-supported biodiversity project funded by the GEF and other partners.
The Okavango river is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for 1,600 km (1,000 miles). The Okavango river delta is the largest inland delta in the world.
Called BioKavango, the project is designed to preserve the area’s immense biodiversity while linking up communities and the government with lodges and tour operators. The Crown Prince also toured the village of Samochima, where he spoke with local fishermen to learn how fishing communities, in collaboration with UNDP, are negotiating with tourism concessions for access to rich fishing grounds. The project is building the livelihoods of 120,000 Batswana who rely on the delta’s resources.
BioKavango is implemented by the University of Botswana under the aegis of the Ministry of Environment.
Throughout the visit, Crown Prince Haakon emphasized the importance of striking a climate deal in Copenhagen.
The Prince ended his Botswana visit by giving a lecture on the Millennium Development Goals at the University of Botswana. Speaking of Africa's capacity to acomplish the MDGs, he said "there are still challenges but Africa could make it if Botswana could provide a good example".
About Botswana and the MDGs
Thanks to democractic governance, smart policies and sound management of natural resources revenues which have been invested in people, Botswana has come a long way when it comes to reaching the Millennium Development Goals. Children have access to education, people have safe drinking water and antiretroviral treatment is provided to people living with AIDS.
However, despite its success as a middle income country, Botswana still faces challenges the Goodwill Ambassador learned.
3 out of 10 Batswana are left behind by development and still live in poverty. The diamond-based ecomony needs to be diversified. HIV/AIDS-prevention is still a great challenge. And Botswana is not spared of the effects of climate change.


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Researchers seeking adults 18-50 for walking study
Vanderbilt researchers are conducting a study to determine the "normal" distance that healthy adults can walk in six minutes.
You may qualify if you:
-- Are 18-50 years old
-- Have no prior history of heart disease or lung disease
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-- Performance of a six-minute walk test along a 30m indoor track -- A brief post-test survey
Participants will be compensated with a $5 Gift Card.
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The 4 Moroccan Cookbooks to Have on Your Shelf in 2022
As a Moroccan who loves cooking, I get asked all the time about my Moroccan cookbook favorites. Throughout the years, I’ve accumulated a good number of these Moroccan cookbooks and tried enough recipes to decide which ones I really like. And there aren’t many, to be honest. Having a good background in Moroccan cooking makes it easier for me to define what’s a true Moroccan cookbook, and what’s just marketing. So let’s dive right in, shall we?
1. Paula Wolfert’s The Food of Morocco Cookbook
Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised by Paula’s The food of Morocco cookbook. It made me travel across Morocco and remember some traditional recipes that my mother and grandmother used to make back in the time. It’s the perfect cookbook if you are an epicure and if you LOVE Morocco and Moroccan cuisine. You will learn the culture and tradition behind many Moroccan recipes through absolutely amazing photography.
You will find in Paula’s cookbook a wide range of recipes, from easy to complex. They can be as easy as the creamy Moroccan semolina soup or quite technical like the couscous – which we make in Morocco from scratch. All recipes I tried respect the traditional way of making Moroccan food.
While you might occasionally have trouble finding some ingredients – which is normal as the recipes are very authentic – if you live in the US, Canada, UK, or Australia, you can check this page where I list my favorite shops to get Moroccan ingredients.
You can find Paula’s The Food of Morocco cookbook here.
2- The Modern Tagine Cookbook by Ghillie Basan
Another Moroccan cookbook favorite is the Modern Tagine Cookbook by Ghillie Basan. This cookbook focuses on Moroccan tagine dishes and shares some traditional recipes along with more modern and revisited ones. If you already know how to cook traditional tagines and are ready for a little fun and creativity, this tagine cookbook is the one you should go for.
My husband – who is a traditional brazier-cooked tagine aficionado – was quite skeptical at the beginning when I told him about my duck tagine with pears and cinnamon. Well let me tell you, he loved it! And he also loved the other tagines I made from this cookbook.
You can find Ghillie’s Modern Tagine Cookbook here.
3- Little Moroccan Things Digital Tagine Cookbook
If you are looking for a Moroccan cookbook in a digital / pdf version, either to print into recipe cards or to have with you all the time, this digital tagine cookbook is a perfect choice.
It focuses on Morocco’s most popular and loved recipes – tagines, pastries, and salads – and shares them in a recipe-card format that you can print and use in your kitchen. You won’t have as many recipes as in regular paper cookbooks, but there is still enough and for the price, it’s totally worth it. It also shares some very great tips for using a traditional clay tagine pot and protecting it in the long run.
You can get Little Moroccan Things’ Tagine Cookbook here.
4- Vegetarian Tagines & Couscous by Ghillie Basan
When you know Moroccan people you know that the vast majority of them is into meat, poultry, and fish. And most famous Moroccan dishes incorporate these ingredients. For someone who is looking for Moroccan plant-based recipes, it can feel limiting at first.
But what most people don’t know is that Moroccan cuisine has also some very delicious and hearty vegetarian dishes. In fact, most Moroccan salads and side dishes are vegetarian – and they are as emblematic and essential in a Moroccan menu as are the tagines and couscous dishes.
If you are looking for amazing vegetarian inspiration, Ghillie’s Vegetarian tagines and Couscous cookbook is great. It encompasses most of Moroccan cuisine’s vegan options along with some modern variations. It’s the perfect cookbook for vegans, but also for anyone who wants to reduce their weekly meat intake and consume more veggies and fruits.
The recipes are also very easy to make, making it a great cookbook for beginners.
You can find Ghillie’s Vegetarian Tagines and Couscous Cookbook here.
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There are many on the quest for forehead wrinkles treatment. When we envisage getting wrinkles at a later age and start to feel concerned that we may see them creeping through, our eyes are usually drawn almost immediately to our foreheads – but why?
Well, a lot of expression is in our foreheads so it seems only natural that this would be the first place that we would acquire them; however, some people do start to see wrinkles creeping in this area from as early as 16 years old. This is more prominent in males and is usually the horizontal forehead lines as opposed to our frown lines which are positioned just in between the eyebrows. Although both sets of wrinkles can be a visible factor, a lot of people are not really concerned at this stage as the wrinkles would be slight in appearance.
In the 70s and 80s when we acquired these forehead wrinkles, we most likely would not even have paid them any attention whatsoever; the gravity of such a finding would bear no significance on our state of mind. I would guess that in the 2000’s it’s no different, but being slightly above the age bracket it would be impossible for me to comment.
Below I will talk a little bit about forehead wrinkles treatment.
Forehead wrinkles in our 20s
When we reach our 20s, there is a small possibility that we have some forehead wrinkles. These may be visible lines of expression but when the face is at rest, they may be almost invisible. If when you are at a relaxed expression you are beginning to see the line is fixed on the forehead, then this may be a sign that light applications of Baby Botox could be a treatment solution for you.
What is Baby Botox?
I think in order to explain this properly, I need to talk in a little bit more detail about how Botox® is administered. The strength of Botox® remains consistent, however the volume of Botox® applied per injection can differ. This is why you may see slightly different appearances post treatment; one patient may appear completely frozen without the ability to use much expression at all, and that would be the result of a large quantity of Botox® administered within specific areas of the face.
You may not be able to notice some patients have even had Botox® at all as they still are able to maintain expression but don’t show any or many signs of ageing on their face due to sun damage. Again, this would be down to the quantity of the product that is placed within the specific areas of the face that is allowing patients to maintain some lines of expression, although the lines are significantly reduced in appearance.
Baby Botox essentially relates to this side of the forehead wrinkles treatment. Far lighter applications in more areas enable the face to maintain expression and not to overdo it, as they say. If you are having Botox® in your 20s Baby Botox will almost certainly be the right treatment option for you.
Forehead wrinkles treatment in our 30s and upwards
“I’ve got these lines, so many lines, why do I have so many lines?”
After the age of 30, the amount of collagen that the body reproduces begins to slow down. The amount of times that we may have smiled will (hopefully) be in the millions at this point, so it will seem only natural that with hundreds and thousands and millions of expressions and smiles throughout our lifetime, that we might leave some form of record of it – and that is exactly what this is.
We are ageing; we knew it was coming. Professional people are starting to look considerably younger. The TV show that is still on the telly now like when you were a child houses main characters that seem to be a quarter of the age of the characters featured when you were a child.
Fortunately for us, when we are in our 30s we know more; we have experienced more, and we have the ability to take action so having wrinkles at this stage is much better than having to be in our teens. I doubt anyone’s mother will be paying for their teenagers forehead wrinkles treatment.
At 30, lines may now be apparent without expression and it’s at this stage that, if we wish to maintain a youthful glow, we might want to explore slightly higher quantities of Botox® within those areas in order to assist.
Botox® has been used widely in the cosmetic industry for many years now and is the number one treatment for reducing the appearance by relaxing the muscle that creates the wrinkle. There is no other treatment that can provide such a result and therefore it remains – and probably will always remain – the number one treatment for wrinkle prevention.
Dermal fillers most certainly work as well, only in a slightly different way. Dermal fillers would treat forehead wrinkles by placing HA filler under the surface of the skin which in time, retains water that will be able to plump up the skin and smooth out those wrinkles. This is a treatment that is often used in conjunction with Botox when treating wrinkles at PHI.
Other forehead wrinkles treatment options
There are many other treatments that can plump up the skin, reduce wrinkles and reduce ageing of the skin. At PHI Clinic, we have the largest collection of medical devices in the UK and a number of these treatments can be used to stimulate collagen, tighten skin, and reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles.
Radio-frequency technology and needle based radio-frequency technology can work to tighten the skin and to stimulate collagen.
Ultrasound technology can target the deeper structures of the face while stimulating collagen and reducing the appearance of wrinkles.
Fractional and ablative laser resurfacing
Resurfacing treatment targets the skin cells and destroys them, encouraging new healthy skin cells to grow within specific areas. Not only can this type of treatment reduce wrinkles, but it can also work to treat scars and burns. Dr Tapan is regarded as an international expert and his team at PHI Clinic have performed hundreds of forehead wrinkles treatments.
So, in the quest to target the forehead wrinkles there most certainly are a lot of options for you; just ensure that you check the credentials of the practitioner performing the treatment; ensure they are CQC registered and can show you before and after images of patients they have treated in the past.
I hope that this is in someway helpful to you and if you would like to schedule a confidential consultation at PHI Clinic, please contact us on 0207 034 5999.


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Cisco Bug: CSCus63934 - CIMC memory leak observed in C-series managed by UCS Manager
Jan 09, 2019
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Known Affected Releases
1.5(4) 2.2(1c)C 2.2(1d)C
Symptom: A Cisco UCS C-series rack server may experience a break in communication between the Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM) and the Cisco CIMC in the rack-server. This may be reported as a Inaccessible alarm in the UCSM. Conditions: A Cisco UCS C-series deployed in a integration topology (managed by UCSM). If the rack-server CIMC is running 1.5.4 software and the Cisco UCSM running 2.2(1c), then a memory leak may occur in the CIMC that leads to a disruption in communication.
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Polish Border Guard Agency announced on Saturday, the arrival of 27,100 refugees from Ukraine in the past 24 hours.
This brings the total number of Ukrainians fleeing to Poland since the beginning of the Russian military operation to more than 16.7 million refugees.
"Radio Poland” mentioned that 28,000 refugees returned to Ukraine on Monday.
Early October, Warsaw and Kyiv reached a breakthrough since the diplomatic dispute between both countries after Poland imposed a ban on imports of Ukrainian grain.
The government in Warsaw said the embargo targeted to protect local farmers against a collapse in prices.
Various Ukrainian grains that will be exported to world markets will cross through Poland without facing any quality checks at the Polish border.
Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telus said: "We have agreed on an important question."
"From tomorrow, grains that transit (to world markets) via Lithuania will undergo checks at a Lithuanian port and not at the Poland-Ukraine border."
On its side, the Ukrainian agriculture ministry revealed that the deal would "speed up transit through Poland".
It added that Ukraine and Lithuania "support this control mechanism and consider it to be a constructive step."
Ukrainian exports that cross through Poland to world markets will remain authorized.


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Woody Hayes would have understood, wouldn't he?
Hayes, the legendary football coach of Ohio State, who is buried near the campus in Columbus, saw his career end in 1978 after he sucker punched a Clemson linebacker who intercepted a Buckeye pass in the Gator Bowl.
George McPhee, the general manager of the Washington Capitals, visited the Ohio State campus last Saturday night and took a page out of the Hayes playbook.
Angry at the Chicago Blackhawks for their rough play, McPhee punched the Hawks' coach, Lorne Molleken, outside the Chicago locker room after the game. Molleken sustained a black eye and a lump on the side of his head.
In response, Hawks players and team aides jumped McPhee, leaving him with a torn suit sleeve.
McPhee also lost his watch, which was retrieved by security guards and the police after they put away the cans of spray they had drawn and threatened to use.
McPhee now has plenty of time to contemplate that melee. Gary Bettman, the National Hockey League commissioner, yesterday suspended McPhee for a month without pay and fined him $20,000.
McPhee's behavior, like a scene from the movie ''Slap Shot,'' is thought to give a black eye to the sport, particularly in a city like Columbus, which will have an expansion team next season.
''No one, especially an N.H.L. club executive or general manager, is free, even in the emotion of the moment, to engage in conduct that is clearly inappropriate,'' Bettman said. ''Actions such as these engaged here by Mr. McPhee will not be tolerated.''
McPhee said the suspension ''feels harsh,'' but added he would accept it.
''I have a lot of respect for Gary,'' McPhee said. ''An executive should not be involved in a physical confrontation. I'm sorry for the incident, but I will never regret standing up for the organization or for what I think is right for the league.''
McPhee said he thought the Blackhawks were dressing too many aggressive players for too many exhibition games. He asked the Hawks not to do so Saturday, he said, and kept tough guys out of his lineup to avoid fights.
''I tried to defuse the situation,'' McPhee said. ''But the game still got out of hand.''
Chicago's Dave Manson was suspended for one game for cross-checking a Washington player.
McPhee's confrontation with the coach ''started in a civil manner,'' he said, ''but got out of hand.''
McPhee will not be allowed to attend games or practices for the first month of the season, which begins today. He will not be able to conduct team business or even enter the team offices. In addition, the league also fined Ron Wilson, the coach of the Capitals, and Bill Wirtz, the owner of the Blackhawks.
Wilson was hit for $5,000 after being quoted as having said he wished he had known that McPhee was confronting the Blackhawks because he and his players would have trailed in support. Wirtz, who will turn 70 tomorrow, was fined $3,000 for saying that the top brass of both teams could settle things by locking themselves in a room, turning out the lights and swinging away.
Thank goodness the commissioner is enforcing decorum before these things escalate and pay-per-view operators get involved. Fighting remains quasi-legal in the sport, as long as it involves two consenting adults, in uniform, trading punches during the game before they rest in the penalty box for five minutes and feel the appropriate shame. It is the outside-the-lines stuff that cannot be tolerated.

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text: December is 17 and she has two younger sisters. Her parents keep fighting and are in the middle of getting a divorce. Her mother is never home cause she never wants to be around her husband but what she doesn't know is when she leaves to go work late shift is that her husbad lets out his anger on December. December never tells her mother about the abuse she gets not wanting to bother her. December must help take care of her 14 and 6 year old sisters, Which becomes a giant challenge and soon December meets Eli a boy who is badass and might save her as she tries to save everyone else.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Still in New Zealand
Looks like McMurdo is clear!! But they had to clear the runway and road so we will not be leaving until tomorrow.
Another day in Christchurch…
What to do??
Murphy and I decided to go over to visit Lou Sanson at the New Zealand Antarctic Center and he guided us to the International Antarctic Center. We spent over and hour and a half going through. They had a simulated "cold, storm room" which only reached 17degrees F and a -1 degree wind chill,
Quite balmy compared to what we are going to. I think McMurdo is 9 degrees today. Not bad. It looks really beautiful and clear.
We then went to a 4D Antarctic theater equipped not only with 3D visual effects but waves and seals spraying water on us, seats vibrating as we hit the icebergs and snow falling on us as we went through storms! The center is quite informative and a good way to begin to understand the complexities and beauty of Antarctica.
Lou dropped us at the city center where we saw the devastation caused by the last earthquake and the temporary containers set up as shops.
After lunch we walked through Hagley Park…ancient exquisite trees, Azaleas, fields of flowers, swans and ducks.
We then went to the Antarctic Installation, "Icefest" - pretty interesting. And finally headed back to find that we are scheduled to leave at 6:30am tomorrow. Unfortunately, we cannot go on the C17 (Cargo aircraft) because the ice is not firm enough so we will have to fly on the airbus. But if it stays clear we will have an amazing view as we land tomorrow!!
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England to face Holland ahead of crucial qualifiers
England will open what they hope will be a glorious 2009-10 campaign with a friendly against Holland in Amsterdam on 12 August next year.
Fabio Capello's men conclude their World Cup qualifying campaign in the two months afterwards with key encounters against Croatia and the Ukraine.
And the Italian views Holland, who reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2008, as ideal warm-up opponents.
England last played in Amsterdam a couple of years ago, when Wayne Rooney netted in a 1-1 draw.
As part of the deal, Holland will come to Wembley in August 2011, with Under-21 fixtures being played before each senior international.
Next year's game will be broadcast live on ITV, with Setanta screening the return.
The announcement means the 2009 fixture calendar is almost complete as friendlies will also be played against Slovenia and Slovakia in March and September respectively.
Aside from the November dates, which would be required for World Cup play-offs, the only one still to be filled is 12 February, when England are expected to play Spain.
Although the fixture itself has been agreed, the FA are still waiting to hear where their Spanish counterparts would prefer to play.
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We have been waiting ever so patiently but it’s finally here. The new single from Wolf Alice and an album release date!
Wolf Alice are back with a brand new track entitled The Last Man On Earth and it’s everything we could have dreamed of and more. Beginning with the beautiful voice of Ellie Rowsel accompanied by a soft piano track, the new track can only be described as a sweet lullaby. The track crescendos at the bridge with a hypnotising drum beat bringing out the familiar rock sound we know and love. Honestly, this track was definitely worth the wait.
Blue Weekend is the name of the new track and is set to release 11th of June, and we can’t wait to hear more from the band!
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BioShock director Ken Levine's next stop? The Twilight Zone.
The critically acclaimed game creator says he'll write and direct an interactive live-action film based on the classic sci-fi anthology series, one that will "explore the spaces between movies and games." Technology from the media company Interlude will allow viewers to determine what the characters do, probably leading to a twist at the end---just like the show, and Levine's best-known games.
"Playing my games, you can probably tell Twilight Zone is something I grew up with," Levine says. "They speak to a larger truth. They're morality plays, fables, and often they're about a character who is going through an experience that's central to their life but also speaks to a larger part of the human condition. I don't think [Rod] Serling, at the beginning, set out to be a science-fiction writer. But he found that this is a great medium to do metaphor."
Interlude, founded by Israeli musician Yoni Bloch, made its name with small-scale applications of its interactive video technology, which lets users seamlessly move between multiple streams of video. It used that trick in an interactive video of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and Coca-Cola's Hulk vs Ant-Man Super Bowl commercial.
The strength of these projects has allowed Interlude to attract top talent from gaming and filmmaking. Nancy Tellem, erstwhile head of the ill-fated Xbox Entertainment Studios, joined Interlude as chief media officer. More recently, Sam Barlow, the acclaimed creator of the live-action game Her Story, signed on as creative director and will produce a digital short based on the WarGames.
And now Levine, creative director of BioShock and BioShock Infinite, dives into the talent pool. He's keeping his regular gig at BioShock publisher Take-Two Interactive, where his team is "working diligently" on its next game. Interlude, he says, is a side project. "Most people spend time with their kids or go on vacation," he says. "I do stuff like this."
The "stuff like this" he'll do at Interlude is new to him. "I've been a writer my whole life and I haven't had the chance to direct a live-action thing before," Levine says. "I've done a lot of directing with voice actors, and back when I was younger, I used to direct stage plays. [Bloch] was like, 'we want to see you carry this thing through from start to finish---write it, direct it.' And then he said, 'Twilight Zone.'"
"What am I going to say? No?"


An Art Science and Technology project brought art to life in a recent local festival.
The European Art Science and Technology Network (EASTN) featured at this month’s Made in Roath Festival, which took place in Cardiff M.A.D.E during October 16-18 and in CF24 Project between 17-18 October.
During the three day festival, EASTN, comprised of 40 artists, five institutions and creative organisations, showcased a selection of these artistic works around the theme ‘tangibility’.
EASTN aims at making creativity and digital artworks more accessible to society, by promoting the development of a deep and collective awareness of the current artistic trends and technologies.
During the festival, several areas of artistic creation were represented, including music, animation, multi-sensory arts and interactive projects and performances.
Alexandros Kontogerogakopoulos and Olivia Kotsifa, academics in the Cardiff School of Art and Design (CSAD) at Cardiff Metropolitan University, are the UK partners in the EASTN project and were behind organising the events.
Alexandros said: “Tangibility is at the core of a current major evolution in artistic creation. The exhibition explored new ways to interact with information and digital media, which rely more on the role of senses and gesture to establish links between real and virtual worlds.
“Both venues were packed with academics, students, professionals and the general public – it really was a big success and we’re looking forward to collaborating with other local events in the near future.”
For more information on the European Art Science and Technology Network and the work they carry out, visit www.eastn.eu


The current challenges to increased penetration of wind power are grid integration, forecasting of wind availability, public attitudes and visual impact. For offshore wind energy, a major challenge is cutting costs. The variable nature of wind electricity makes it difficult for wind to fully displace other electricity sources. When wind turbines constitute only a small fraction of generation capacity, their inter-mittency is hardly noticed by system operators, who are used to adjusting output to sudden changes in demand. At high penetrations, however, the marginal value of wind energy is equal only to the cost of the fuel and other marginal operating costs of power plants that are displaced. But if wind energy could be efficiently stored, wind power could compete economically with other types of electricity generation.
There is a wide range of technologies now available for storing wind energy, but choosing the appropriate one depends critically on the duration of storage required. For small turbines and at durations of only a few seconds to minutes, battery storage is a cheap option, along with flywheels and ultra capacitors. For longer durations, large-scale storage technologies such as pumped hydroelectric storage and compressed air energy storage are available at much lower costs per kWh of stored energy.
Another storage option is to combine back-up generation or integration with existing facilities such as gas turbines or hydro power. The back-up would be used when wind power generation is low. In extreme cases, wind turbines would simply be turned off when wind generation exceeds demand. More typically, the generator would try to maximize wind turbine output and shut off back-up sources of power. At least in the near term, this may be a more cost-effective strategy than large-scale energy storage.
Improved site assessment and identifying new locations, especially offshore, are important challenges. A 10% increase in wind speed will result in an energy gain of 33%. Improved assessment and siting require better models and measurements. Better measures are also needed to predict extreme wind, wave and ice situations. This may eventually make it possible to design site-specific systems that can utilize cheaper, lighter and more reliable turbines.
Several tools have been developed to overcome the aesthetic impacts of wind farms. Mapping of the zone of visual influence is used to show how many turbines will be visible from various locations. Photo-montage and animation techniques are employed to view potential wind parks from various angles. There has also been a great deal of research into the effect of wind turbines on the routes of migratory birds and on sites of special significance to bird populations. Sensitive siting has been found to avoid most of the problems.
Expensive undersea cabling and foundations have, until recently, limited the attractiveness of offshore wind energy. But new approaches in foundation technology, together with multi-megawatt-sized wind turbines, are at the point of making offshore wind energy competitive with onshore wind, at least at shallow water depths up to 15 m. Offshore wind turbines generally yield 50% higher output than turbines on nearby onshore sites because of more favorable and stable wind conditions.
Offshore wind turbines in deep water will become more economic with advances in floating platforms and continuing reductions in undersea cable costs. Recent studies have examined the technical feasibility of using floating platforms that are tethered to the ocean floor at depths of 180 m. Today, these installations are more expensive (USD 0.08 per kWh) relative to shallow installations (USD 0.05-USD 0.06 per kWh). Deep-water wind costs are projected to decrease to nearly the same level as shallow water costs by 2015 and to reach USD 0.04 per kWh by 2025 .
Although wind power is already competitive at many locations based on electricity production costs, the additional costs related to grid integration and back-up capacity must be considered as well. With government support for its development, wind power may become generally competitive with conventional technologies between 2015 and 2020. The deep-water offshore share in total wind power will increase, particularly if shallow sites in the United States and in Europe are exploited fairly quickly.
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The scent of blood drew her. She had been sitting on a tussock surrounded by the excitement and chirp of night swamp-song, watching the mottled reds and oranges of sundown, when a touch of iron floated by on the cooling breeze. Curious, she slid into the water and adopted.
A small island of land was hidden away among the many reeds, and to it clung a tree, half-dead and sun-bleached. The large roots burrowed like splayed fingers into the mud, and a darkish ring stained the brittle wooden the place the stale water touched it. By way of the display of reeds, she noticed him huddled in opposition to the trunk. A person. She thought he may already be useless, however he curled up tighter, ribs heaving. Mud and algae had dirty his clothes, and his arms cradled his chest and gentle vitals. He should be bleeding there.
There have been snakes within the swamp, longer than 5 males have been tall. After they slithered throughout the waters, it regarded like wind taking part in within the reeds. But when a snake had caught him, he could be useless, wrapped in scaly coils and dragged into the water to drown, disappearing into the chasm of an unhinged, scarlet mouth.
She reduce by the darkish water to the shore, silently and leaving no ripples in her wake. The water tasted of his blood.
The best hazard of the swamp was a mere buzz within the air. Tiny flies crawling into eyes and ears, or gnats with venomous bites, and the bloated our bodies of their victims floated by the reeds till the fish and birds picked them away to nothing, and the bones sank into the muck. The person’s pores and skin was darkish, however it wasn’t veined black or crimson. It wasn’t the swamp that had harmed him.
When the person regarded up, he scrambled again. A ineffective gesture of worry. The tree was at his again, and he or she now blocked his path into the water. His arms shifted, and he or she caught a glimpse of crimson on his shirt.
“Let me see,” she stated.
His drawn face smoothed in shock. He hadn’t anticipated her to talk.
“Your wound,” she stated, nodding to it. “Let me see.”
He cautiously drew his arms away to disclose torn material and a crimson slash of open flesh. It was the mark of a weapon, a wound by males. Their our bodies got here into the swamps generally, already useless and reduce aside by their very own type. They floated, eyes large to the sky, till the mud and water mercifully embraced them. The individuals of the swamp stored away.
“You fled right here,” she stated, and he nodded. “From whom?”
“Thieves.” His head sagged again in opposition to the whitened bark.
It was curiosity that drew her out of the murky waters onto his small island. Curiosity and the peace of mind he couldn’t hurt her. He was in her territory, weak and wounded, and he shrank away from her. Even nice bears have been powerless and terrified within the deep waters and maze of reeds. The strongest predators on dry land have been helpless right here. The swamp ate them and swallowed their bones.
“What did they need?” she requested.
“Something. All the things,” he stated with a hole chortle. “I used to be touring. They took my provides, however it wasn’t sufficient. They have been offended I didn’t have extra and tried to kill me. So, I ran.”
She watched him with unblinking eyes. “If it’s valuables you’re nervous about, you’re protected right here. The swamp desires solely your life.”
He pulled his knees to his chest and hugged himself once more. His gaze stored flickering to her, attempting to look at her, attempting to not stare, and he lastly requested the query she had felt him holding again. “What are you? I imply, who. Who’re you?”
“Rsska,” she stated, and he winced barely at her hiss. “That’s the who. As for the what, we’re the individuals of the swamp, simply as you’re the individuals of the land.”
He examined her overtly now, her stringy hair and webbed palms, her thick pores and skin and naked physique.
“I didn’t know there have been individuals within the swamps,” he stated eventually.
The darkness of evening had fallen. Frogs creaked and groaned within the reeds. Rsska pointed to scattered flames dotted the swamp, flickering behind the tall reeds. “These are our fires,” she stated. “Have individuals on land not seen them?”
His face twisted right into a crooked smile. “Now we have, however we name them marsh lights. And legend says they’re fires set by false spirits to lure us to our deaths.”
She laughed, a brief barking chortle. “Land persons are smarter than they appear.”
His mouth stayed curled right into a smile. “Have you ever seen land individuals earlier than?”
“Sure. Typically.” She regarded away. By no means alive, however she stayed silent.
“It would amuse you then to know that we even have names. And mine is Erkin.”
“Your type are killers,” she stated calmly.
His darkish eyes met her yellow ones in silence.
“Sure,” he stated lastly. “A few of us are. And a few of us are killed.”
Rsska examined him earlier than she reached into the water and scooped up a dripping mass of black mud with one webbed hand. She had thought she may let him die, there on the small island. There had been a wierd thrill in the way in which he cowered within the shadow she solid within the final crimson rays of the setting solar.
“It would seal the wound,” she stated as he tried to tug away from her.
He let her fill the gash with the black muck, groaning by gritted tooth. It took three extra handfuls earlier than she was happy. The mud would dry, strong and arduous as rock.
“Thanks,” Erkin stated softly when she had retreated to the water’s edge.
“Will you return?”
“I’ve to. I’m not…” He regarded out on the murmuring swamp, dim within the moonlight, and wrapped his arms round himself. “I’m not such as you. I can’t reside right here.”
Rsska nodded. His pores and skin was gentle and skinny, his eyes clear. He was made for open air and lengthy distances, not murky waters. “Within the morning, I’ll take you to the shores the place it’s protected.”
His darkish eyes have been nearly black within the starlight. “Why are you serving to me?”
To the south, the swamp joined the forest. The bushes stood in silent rows over a flooring of plant-coated water. Finally it turned to mud, the reeds to open fields, and the water to clear rivers. Rsska longed to discover the lands past the boundary of the swamp, however her pores and skin dried and cracked with out water. She was bare with out reeds to cover her, and terror and starvation drove her again to the mud. Erkin lined his nakedness with clothes, however the swamps would rot any coverings she wore. The waters have been her clothes.
“Will you inform me of your life?” she requested. “Of the locations on dry land?”
They lay below the flickering stars, he tucked between the tree roots, she submerged within the water with solely her face displaying. He advised her of grassy plains stretching past the horizon, of forests towering into the clouds, of speeding rivers and nice oceans with waters that tasted of salt. He advised her of the vessels of hewn bushes that sailed the open waters, and he or she thought with coldness of once they may do the identical together with her waters. He advised her of wars and devastation and the divisions of males. His voice lulled her into weird, half-waking goals till he fell silent, and he or she realized he was asleep. Round them, frogs chirped, and the wind whispered by the reeds.
Rsska woke as soon as when the moon had arced by the sky to the horizon. Silver mild glinted on the rippling water. A blunt head had appeared on the fringe of the reeds, quiet and nonetheless. Its tongue flickered out, tasting the water. Her fingers dug a pointy rock out of the mud and clutched it, realizing the snake would style her willingness to struggle. Her pores and skin was more durable to pierce.
She may maneuver quicker, drag it to the depths, bloodying it together with her crude weapon. After a second, the snake turned and slithered into the evening. She let the rock slip from her fingers. Erkin was loud night breathing, an arm throughout his wounded waist, and he or she fell into an uneasy sleep.
The solar had crept into the sky when she woke to Erkin splashing, washing the dried and cracking mud from his waist. The wound had closed right into a jagged crimson line. Rsska dove into the waters to tug up roots and confirmed him methods to strip the tender core from the sinewy reeds along with his tooth. From his expression, he discovered them powerful and distasteful, however he didn’t complain.
“I got here from that means,” he advised her, pointing towards a patch of bent and damaged reeds. His path had been forceful and clumsy. It was a surprise she had been the primary to seek out him.
“Then we are going to go that means,” Rsska stated, trying in the wrong way. “However they are going to odor you within the waters. We should transfer shortly.”
He swam awkwardly, laboriously, his limbs tangling within the vegetation. Rsska slowed her tempo to his. It was unattainable to see by his clumsy splashing and jerking. She took mouthfuls of water, working it over her tongue to style for snakes and different creatures that may hurt him, however his scent was overpowering, his presence and noise oppressive. Their journey adopted a meandering path between the small oases, submerged bushes or clumps of land, the place he may relaxation.
It was with reduction that she emerged from the reeds. Open water, the beginnings of a river, stretched between them and the financial institution. The forest lay past, inexperienced and vibrant within the daylight. Rsska had introduced him the place the water ran deep to the shore and he wouldn’t must wrestle by mud. They have been midway throughout the open water when Erkin lunged at her.
She barely had time for a gasping breath earlier than he shoved her head beneath the water and pushed her down towards the black sediment. She writhed in opposition to his arduous grip, panicked. He was attempting to pull her farther down. She twisted away, however his hand closed round her wrist, yanking her to him. He was shaking his head, his eyes open and blind at nighttime water. His clenched mouth opened, and bubbles flooded out. By way of their rush, she heard the phrase that made her blood run chilly.
The floor of the water glimmered faintly above her. Her eyes weren’t made for open areas, and if males had been on the financial institution, she wouldn’t have been capable of see them. Erkin was struggling to remain beneath, his head bent and arms working in opposition to the water that attempted to shove him upward. His abdomen spasmed, and in horror, Rsska realized he was working out of air. In his wrestle to maintain out of sight, he had spent an excessive amount of.
The individuals of dry land killed one another with out hesitation; she didn’t doubt they’d do worse to her. She hesitated a second between the protection of the tangled reeds and the open water. In the event that they surfaced, they’d be seen. She may evade them, disappear into the swamp, however Erkin was gradual and clumsy and wounded.
She grabbed his shirt and pulled him towards the reeds. His physique jerked with a wierd guttural sound in his throat. Any second, his urge to take a breath would overtake his will to carry it. She glanced towards the darkish wall of security earlier than she turned again to him, gripping him by the again of the neck and urgent her mouth to his. He gasped in opposition to her, his chest swelling with air. She felt the draw from her provide, however it could be sufficient. His hand touched her cheek. She pulled away, main him by the darkness again to security.
He burst out of the water, gasping and puffing like a bear. Rsska parted the reeds and peered towards the shore, blinking and squinting. There have been obscure blurs on the swathe of inexperienced. They could be bushes, or they could be males.
Erkin was grinning beside her. “Do individuals of the swamp kiss?”
She hissed disgustedly. Her coronary heart was pounding in worry, her ears ringing. “You will have to steer,” she stated. “I can not see.”
They stayed behind the veil of the reeds, following the curve of the shore till Erkin stated the banks have been clear, and so they once more crossed the open waters. The solar had handed its peak within the sky, and Erkin dragged himself, exhausted, onto the grassy financial institution. Water ran crimson from his wound.
“You want extra mud,” Rsska stated, reaching for him, however he caught her hand.
“I do know the forest. There are herbs right here that may just do as effectively.”
Reluctantly, she pulled again and sank into the water. He sat on the financial institution and regarded down at her. “You would include me. See the locations I advised you of.”
She reached out and touched his arm. His pores and skin was streaked black and inexperienced, his palms wrinkled. “The water eats away at you. The air does the identical to me.”
She watched him expectantly. The world past her shores was his, its methods, talents, and mysteries his area. He stood and shook her waters from himself, standing comfortably on the shore and looking over the huge swamp. “I’ll come see you then. However how will I discover you?”
“You solely must get into the water. I’ll hear your crashing a league away.”
He laughed and bent right down to take her hand, arduous and scaly in his gentle darkish one. “Till we meet once more then, Rsska.”
With a last take a look at her, he limped throughout the financial institution into the bushes, leaving her alone within the water on the fringe of her world. She watched him go together with one hand, fingers aching, clutching the tender, inexperienced grass.
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Olga Feldmeier is CEO and co-founder of SMART VALOR, a European digital asset platform for trading, staking and issuance. She previously held executive positions at UBS and Barclays.
The rapid spread of the coronavirus caught most of us completely unprepared, including most of us in finance.
Now is the time for most people to adjust their financial holdings. The flight to safety pushed many to the U.S. dollar. However, the safety of dollar has also been put in question with the announcement of quantitative easing and other money supply increasing measures. .
Having served an eventful tenure as the head of sales at the Wealth Management Division of UBS, the world's largest wealth management bank, I learned that the speed of adjustment of the client portfolio in moments of crisis can have a crucial influence on its overall long-term performance.
The key problem is how to switch. When everything is on fire, it is difficult to see what will save your savings. Everybody is looking for the safe-haven assets negatively correlated to the overall market. Many of us hoped it would be crypto. We hoped "digital gold," bitcoin (BTC), would always move in the opposite direction to the general market. Yet, recently we learned bitcoin could fall from the sky like any other asset. On March 12, it dropped about 50 percent, in line with other financial assets.
Looking at the price development of bitcoin in the last 10 days, to me it looks like the high level of volatility is here to stay. Will bitcoin surge back to $20,000 or more, supported by further money printing, the collapse of the banking system or the halving event in May? Or will it keep crashing like last month with volatility spikes attached?
Nobody knows for sure. But one thing is clear. In times of crisis, holding too much in crypto is not advisable. Even for me, as an outright Bitcoin maximalist, and holding the majority my savings in cryptocurrency, I must say: Now is the time to hedge.
But what does this hedge look like? If it is not the US dollar and real estate, what else is out there for us? The natural answer is gold.
Let’s look at the historic correlation between gold and the stock market. In a crisis, it tends to be negative, meaning that gold’s price rises as stock markets fall. Through wars and the worst recessions – including the Great Depression in the 1930s – we have experienced a massive rise in the price of gold. During the last two recessions of 2000 and 2008, gold protected the portfolios of investors like no other asset. During the Global Financial Crisis, gold’s price grew by more than 200 percent. This is why gold is generally referred to as a safe-haven asset or chaos hedge.
Why now is a good time
The stock market collapse, in which S&P 500 slipped around 30 percent since its peak in late February, has yet to see its counterbalance in the corresponding rise in gold’s price. So far, the gold price is up 10 percent during the last two weeks. Why hasn’t this happened yet? The reason is that during the initial stage of a stock market crash, market participants need to unbundle leveraged positions, liquidating – among other assets – their gold positions. The price is flat on the year-to-date basis, hovering at around $1,500/oz at the time of writing.
Another metric, the total holdings of gold, reveals that investors have been preparing for a shift in the economic cycle for a while now. The total holdings of bullion-backed exchange-traded ETFs are at the record high, having doubled from 1,450 to 2,700 tons during the last four years, according to Bloomberg.
Lastly, there is a rather inverse relationship between the value of the US dollar and gold. The US dollar lost 93 percent of its value over the last 100 years. And this journey is long from over. Looking at the US's massive $23 trillion national debt and the recent monetary policy decisions by the US Federal Reserve, one can expect further devaluation of the greenback in the near future. As a matter of fact, last week, the US Federal Reserve decided to lower the benchmark interest rate from 0.25 percent to 0 percent and relaunched its quantitative easing program and other programs mounting to $2 trillion stimulus package.
The role of blockchain
Today, the predominant way to get gold exposure is through physical gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs). To invest in these ETFs, you either need to have an account in the bank that offers such instruments or open an account on a trading platform offering gold ETFs. This is the old world. Decentralized finance does away with barriers like these.
Both physical gold ETFs and tokenized gold represent ownership rights in physical gold stored at some secure vault. Also, both can be traded on exchanges and represent a relatively liquid asset. The difference between ETF and tokenized gold is that traders can send the token globally, peer-to-peer, in a few minutes to anybody anywhere who has a blockchain address. No bank account necessary.
Tokenized gold can be used not only as a store of value but also as a means of payment, whereas it can travel completely outside of the banking system. It becomes the type of money we used before Bretton Woods did away with the Gold Standard. Should state defaults and bank runs become daily news, it could be the money the world turns to again.
While governments are looking at ways of tokenizing national currencies, and companies like Facebook are working on digital corporate money, all of this might come too late. The world in crisis will need a fast and reliable transfer mechanism for stable money that everyone trusts. This is how the global financial crisis might become that catalyst that catapults blockchain-based digital assets such as tokenized gold to mass adoption.
For this to happen we need three things: token issuers, exchanges and trust. The role of token issuers is to reliably put appropriate amount of precious metal behind each token issued. Exchanges enable trade and provide liquidity. (Paxos was an early pioneer, issuing the gold-backed PAXG token, which is today the only fully regulated gold token that you can redeem for accredited gold bullion bars.) The recent addition is Switzerland-based SMART VALOR, where I'm CEO. Last week it became the first European crypto exchange to embrace PAXG and enable direct on-ramps and trading in Swiss Franc, GPB and EUR via bank wire or credit card payment.
The third component – trust – will be hardest to achieve. In the eyes of traditional investors, crypto exchanges are not a place of trust. You could see this last week as the streets of many European cities were filled with people lining up in front of gold shops. Clearly, they do not trust their banks to hold that gold ETF for them. But many of us in the crypto space may trust tokened or digitalized gold ownership. We trust decentralized networks, we trust the technology and we’re prepared to be early adopters.


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The garments labelled as Committed are products that have been produced using sustainable fibres or processes, reducing their environmental impact. Mango's goal is to support the implementation of practices more committed to the environment, and therefore increase the number of sustainable garments in the collection.
Cropped design, The model is 164 cm tall and is wearing a size S, Speckled jacquard, Recycled polyester blend fabric, Oversize design, Turtleneck, Medium knit.
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