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How To Be Creative
Einstein said that we’re all born geniuses - gently suggesting that a lot of us must therefore have been educated into mediocrity.
We know from small children that there does indeed appear to be a native spark in them which too often dies out in adults. We are not naive about some of the good reasons why this is: adult responsibilities and duties are crucial.
However, too often something of genuine importance has been lost, which can be usefully captured by the word 'creativity.' In this class, we wonder where creativity goes once childhood ends, and what we might do to recover the best and most useful aspects of it.
The class employs a range of experiments to help us gain practical access to our latent creative selves. We discover how to boost a key ingredient of creativity: confidence. We explore why intuition, play and daydreaming are essential to innovation. We find out how blocks and boredom can, paradoxically, become creative triggers. We take an honest look at what motivation we need to sustain us, and examine ancient and modern wisdom on how to handle failure and setbacks - all in the name of unearthing our intelligent and mature creative potential.
18.00 Welcome & Class commences
19.30 Break (times vary)
21.00 Class finishes
'It was great. It was comforting to know that others feel the same as me with their creative blocks.'
Heather Whitely Robertson is a creator, educator and imaginist. Most recently she was Director of Audiences and Creative Learning at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and previously worked across a range of internationally-leading cultural institutions including Tate Modern, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Open House in London; and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Currently she is a writer, maker, mother and Head of Activation and Learning at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Our classes have been designed to give useful insights around the big themes in life. You’ll be challenged to think deeply about the issues that matter most, and provided with a space to share your thoughts, ideas and experiences with other curious, open-minded individuals.
These sessions are designed by experts and taught by members of our faculty. They include a mix of lecture and group activity and conversation. Optional homework is provided for those interested in further study.
TSOL is a safe, community space for the exploration of significant human concerns. Some of these concerns are of course of a deeply personal nature and if you feel negatively affected by any content or conversations then please approach our faculty member or host who can provide support and guidance.
Buy tickets for
How To Be Creative
Monday 18 September 2017 6 - 9pm
The School of Life, 370 Bourke St Surry Hills, Sydney NSW 2010
Full price: $80.00
(+ $2 booking fee and 1.5% CC fee)
Valid concession cards include a Health Care Card, Seniors Card, Pensioner Concession Card and current student cards.
Please note that we are unable to offer refunds or transfers with less than 7 days cancellation notice before the original class date.
For ticketing and box office enquiries please call 0481 263 041 or email firstname.lastname@example.org


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Sometimes, when we get unbelievably busy in a day, it is only natural that we tend to eat food that are easy to eat with zero preparation and often, zero nutritional value. Although we know that our cholesterol count is important, we sometimes disregard its value over the need to be full. Quantity over quality.
To recover our health and keep our bodies fit and strong, we need the “cholesterol busters“. They are fruits with a purpose and that’s to kick bad cholesterol out of your system. Here are the top fruits under this category:
- Prunes– it’s common knowledge that prunes are one of the best sources for pectin. This is the soluble fiber that coats your intestines and acts like a sieve to gather the cholesterol from the food you ate.
- Oranges- studies have shown that drinking 2 to 3 glasses of orange juice in a day can lower the HDL levels by 21% and LDL levels are decreased by 16%.
- Avocados– rich in mono-unsaturated fat, the avocado can lower your LDL by 17%.
Aside from eating these fruits, you should continue to exercise and get plenty of sleep to manage your cholesterol levels. What do you think of them? Let us know below or join our discussion on Facebook.

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You’re Invited: A Local Film That Asks the Question, “How Do You Solve Homelessness?”
By Rj Walters
When you encounter a homeless person or someone in need in our city, do you tend to lean in or look away?
Sometimes homelessness feels like such an insurmountable challenge to tackle—and yes, it is complex and never ending—but Lakeland-based non-profit Gospel Inc. is ready to show you what hope looks like, through the faces and the stories of fellow Lakelanders.
Gospel Inc. is inviting the public to a free event at The Polk Theatre on Thursday Nov. 2 for an exclusive screening of the documentary “Gospel Village: A Story of Hope” that takes you on a heartbreaking, yet also heartwarming journey into the reality of homelessness locally and what Gospel Inc. is doing to help alleviate it.
This cinematic film, created by The Collection Media, asks questions like: “Can homelessness be solved?” and if so, “What is the solution?”
“Homelessness is a real social issue rooted in challenges most are unaware of,” said Gospel Inc. Executive Director Ray Steadman. “The film demonstrates a radical concept that moves our homeless neighbors off the streets into a community by fostering relationships and healing, first presented by Jesus to ‘love our neighbor, as ourselves.'”
The Lakeland City Commission and Mayor Bill Mutz have been working closely with local agencies and nonprofits for several years to develop solutions to homelessness, including the creation of more affordable housing—and the opening of and growth of Gospel Village has coincided with that focus.
The documentary not only shares wisdom and experiences from those working to serve our community, but also puts you up close and personal with beautiful people with trying stories that often end with redemption.
In the trailer for the film, Polk County Commissioner and local businessman George Lindsey shares the impact Gospel Inc. has made by shining a light in often dark places.
“They’ve never had someone who expressed a real passion for their personal welfare and safety, and this is a gem that recognizes that everybody has worth,” he said.
The event will take place from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on November 2nd, and free tickets can be claimed at the link below.

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Zombozo is an evil zombified clown who first appears in Last Laugh.
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He has whiteface paint with purple lips and a big blue nose. He has long spiky red hair and a black hat with a blue circle on it. He wears a blue and black striped jacket with more blue cirlces on it and he has blue pants. He is also wearing black gloves..
He uses a machine called the Psyclown that connects to him and allows Zombozo to drain out all of the laughter from people keeping him alive. He is able to create different illusions and can control what people see. He can teleport by using exploding confetti.
He makes his first appearance in Last Laugh where he has the Circus Freak Trio working for him. He is seen being the master of the circus and get his entire audience to start laughing. By doing this his Psyclown machine is able to drain out all of the happiness from them leaving them with nothing. When he found out that Ben escaped the circus and defeated the Circus Freaks using Wildmutt, Zombozo showed up easily knocking Wildmutt down. He then kidnapps Gwen as a power source because her laughter is enough to keep him strong for a long time. When Ben finds Zombozo, Zombozo uses illusions to mess with Ben leading him into the circus reveiling that Gwen has had all of her happiness drained. Zombozo feels he is unstopable until Ben turns into Ghostfreak to scare him. After a few punches from Ghostfreak, Zombozo uses his confetti and teleports to another location while is Psyclown gets destroyed.
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Zombozo returns in Hit 'Em Where They Live. He leads a team. He orders them to try and kill Ben's parents but he is defeated by Gwen at the end.
Ben 10: Omniverse
He returns in Special Delivery where he leads Fistrick to get the Dwarf Pixel.

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Best Buy is one of the largest retailers in America. With more than 1,800 stores across the country, it’s hard not to find what you’re looking for at Best Buy. One of the things that consumers love most about Best Buy Hacks are the incredible discounts they offer. These discounts come in a variety of forms, such as a loss-leader or buy-one-get-one free sale. But if you’re like me and plan ahead, here are some ways you can use hacks to take advantage of best buys discounts when it comes to your purchase.
What You Should Know Before You Buy
Before you buy anything, it’s important to know what the Best Buy store’s return policy is. Many Best Buy stores offer a 30-day return policy, where they do not charge any restocking fees on returns. If you’re unsure about the policies of your local Best Buy store, you can visit their website to see what their policies are.
You can also ask an employee for help if you run into any issues with your purchase or return.
Every Best Buy has a price match policy and some even have an extended price match policy. This means that if you find an online retailer selling the same item at a cheaper price, they will match the price and give you a coupon to use in-store.
For example, let’s say that Amazon sells a 50 inch TV for $1,000 and Best Buy sells it for $800.
One way to take advantage of this would be to go to the cheapest available option on Amazon and then get the free coupon from Best Buy for $200 off your purchase (plus taxes). Or, if you don’t have time to wait until Amazon has stock again and just want something now, buy from Best Buy and then just ask them to refund your money when you get your next paycheck!
External Factors Affecting Price
If you want to take advantage of a discount at Best Buy, it’s important to know that there are external factors affecting the price.
There are many different types of discounts typically offered by retailers, but some of them are more popular than others. The most popular type of discounts is a loss-leader sale, which is when the retailer sets a price for its products and then offers an additional discount on top of it. One example would be if Best Buy was offering $200 off on a new TV for $699. They would charge you $599 for it and give you an additional $200 discount, making the total cost only $399. This is one way they could boost sales while ensuring they still make profit on each sale. Another common type of discount is buy-one-get-one free (BOGO) or buy-one get-one half off (BOGOH), which is when the retailer sells two products and offers them with a steep discount such as 50% off or 75% off.
Make the Most of Your Best Buy Reward Points
Best Buy’s reward program allows members to earn points for shopping at their stores. You can then use these points to redeem your next purchase. So, how do you take advantage of this? Well, Best Buy rewards offer a lot of perks, not the least of which is the ability to avoid paying sales tax on purchases made from their stores.
With Best Buys reward points, you can put your money towards something big like a TV or gaming system without having to worry about taxes. This way, you get more bang for your buck!
Another hack is using the reward program to pay off gift cards. For example, say that someone gave you a $50 Best Buy gift card and you wanted to buy something expensive with it. Instead of swiping the card and paying cash out-of-pocket, simply use the gift card as credit towards your purchase at Best Buy. The person who gave you the gift card will get their rewards points in return! There are other ways that members can earn more best buy reward points: buying electronics in store or online; buying certain brands; visiting certain locations; etc.
The Best Buy Bucks Program
Since its inception in 2010, the Best Buy Bucks program has been one of the most beneficial sales programs for consumers. It’s a reward system based on how much you spend at Best Buy and rewards you with a certain amount of “Best Buy Bucks.” You can then turn these Best Buy Bucks in for gift cards or store credit.
The best part about this program is that it doesn’t require any type of loyalty card to take advantage of the program. So if you’re looking to save some money by applying discounts, look no further than the Best Buy Bucks Program!
The Best Buy Gift Card Program
The Best Buy gift card program allows you to purchase a gift card for someone else. This is a fantastic way to save money when purchasing something for yourself, or even your significant other. When you’re at Best Buy, the cashier will ask if you want to add a gift card on the spot. This can be done for up to $500 in total value.
When filling out the form, make sure that you put your billing address as where you want it sent as opposed to where it will be redeemed.
In addition, select your desired denomination of the gift card so that it’ll be easier for the person receiving it and they don’t have to worry about selecting a value.
Finally, enter in the number of hours you’d like the recipient’s credit card charged back and choose whether or not they’ll get an email with the instructions on how they can use their newly-purchased gift card.
The Best Buy Return Policy
The Best Buy return policy is straightforward. If you aren’t happy with your purchase, you can return it within 14 days of the delivery date or within a year from when it was delivered.
This policy makes Best Buy a great place to buy gifts for the holidays.
If you are looking for a particular item and find it on sale at a different store, use their return policy to get the discounted price and then take advantage of your Best Buy gift card in case they don’t have what you’re looking for in stock.
If you find that an item has been discontinued and isn’t available anymore, use their return policy to get the current sale price on the item, then turn around and sell it on eBay or Craigslist with no cost of listing fees.
The Best Buy Return Policy for Savings
One of the most popular items that Best Buy offers are the price-matching guarantees. This means if you find a lower price for an identical product at another retailer, then you can return it to Best Buy and get the difference back in credit.
A few other things I’ve found helpful when it comes to shopping at Best Buy are their return policy, which allows you to return items within 30 days from the purchase date (but with a $10 restocking fee), and their price match guarantee.
However, sometimes these hacks don’t work as well as we’d like them to. One of the best ways to maximize your savings is by taking advantage of Hacks For Best Buys With These 9 Tips:
-Take advantage of coupons and discounts that have no expiration dates or limited quantities
-Check out clearance and markdowns
-Shop online instead of going into one of their physical stores
-Sign up for email notifications on products that are in your cart and check those emails before checkout
-Share deals with friends or family via social media so they can take advantage of these savings too
Getting a Refund on an Item.
If you’re not satisfied with your purchase, you have the option to return it within 90 days from the date of purchase. This can be a great way to get a refund on an item that didn’t work for you or just wasn’t what you expected.
But if you don’t want to take the chance that your refund may be denied, there is another option. You can trade-in your item for store credit at any time during the first 30 days of your purchase. This means that you can use your store credit to buy something else and if returns are denied, then you still have an opportunity to get something new!

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It was reported last week that the U.S. had considered new sanctions on Iran. Today, the U.S. has implemented new sanctions to disrupt the funding of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo announced these sanctions in his remarks at the Royal United Services Institute in London, the United Kingdom.
In Adeyemo’s remarks, he says, “I’m pleased to share that today, the United States is announcing new sanctions targeted at Hamas financing and meeting with our U.K. colleagues today to expand our efforts.” (Adeyemo). As new sanctions are released, organizations will be required to run updated sanctions list checks.
Adeyemo said, “Our goal is to cut off those financial resources while ensuring humanitarian aid can continue to flow to the Palestinian people in Gaza” (Adeyemo).
To achieve this goal, there are three initiatives:
- Increase Financial Sanctions.
- Collaborate with global partners and allies to enhance information sharing and combat terrorist financing.
- Involve stakeholders, such as financial institutions, to prevent illegal financial flows to these groups while allowing lawful humanitarian aid.
According to U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Adeyemo, in total, the United States has focused on nearly 1,000 individuals and entities associated with terrorism and the financing of terrorism by the Iranian government, along with its affiliated groups, including Hamas, Hizballah, and other terrorist organizations aligned with Iran in the region.
In the remark given by Adeyemo, he says, “Our expectation is that financial institutions and digital asset companies and others in the virtual currency ecosystem will take steps to prevent terrorists from being able to access resources. If they do not act to prevent illicit financial flows, the United States and our partners will” (Adeyemo).
How Truth Technologies can help with Sanction List Checks:
Sanction List Checks are essential for legal compliance, global security, mitigating risk, and upholding ethical business practices. It plays a crucial role in preventing the misuse of financial resources and contributes to a more secure and stable world.
Truth Technologies ‘provides software solutions that help organizations adhere to sanctions regulations and requirements by automating and streamlining various compliance processes. Contact us today for a free demo and see how we can help identify at-risk countries and which organizations or individuals may be associated with those countries.


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Already now we can briefly inform you of some work done on the Coordinator sector. We have information from some of our clients who are ready to conclude an agency agreement and formally represent the company in information centers in each country.
Currently, the Coordinator section is under development; our lawyers are also working on contract documentation. This will be an international partnership agreement between the legal entity L7trade Incorporated and the individual according to the document on registration of the current tax status in the country of registration.
The official representative will work on information issues, have telephone communications, conduct consultations and gatherings of clients of the platform of his country.
L7trade Incorporated provides the necessary support, covering the costs of maintaining the premises, pays for the work from its own revenues for each country - this will be a percentage of the company's income for providing services in the country where the information center is located.
Thanks to this, our customers will be able to: check with competent specialists questions by telephone or visit L7trade in their country with a personal visit.
The tentative start of the work of the Coordinator section and the first information centers is scheduled for September 15, 2019.
We have several appeals in several countries and these clients are already awaiting the conclusion of agency contracts. We want to show one of these video calls from Brazil in this news. The client is ready to work as an official representative of L7trade Incorporated in Brazil and organize an information center in this country.
According to this principle, applications will be accepted for signing the agreement and work in information centers by an official representative.
Have a nice day everyone. Thank you for being with us!

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There are a few ways for you to snag yourself a piece of Jack Attackk Clothing.
Jack Attackk Clothing
122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA 01851 | Studio 223
Hours: By appointment, Open Studios (December 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 11th) from 12 – 5 pm
You can shop Jack Attackk Clothing in person at our studio in Western Avenue Studios in studio 223. Here you can see our full selection of fashion show samples and ready to wear items. We also have a selection of accessories like tote bags and jewelry.
122 Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA 01852
Hours: Monday – Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 12-5pm
Check out COOL Place for a seriously cool experience. COOL stands for the Cultural Organization Of Lowell. Their mission is “to foster engagement in arts and culture and increase the visibility and vitality of Lowell’s creative community.” I’ve been extremely lucky to have my t-shirts available there among the works of many other talented Lowell artists.
You can also shop Jack Attackk Clothing online with our Etsy. Here you can find a selection of some of our most popular fashion show samples along with our selection of t-shirts.
You can also shop Jack Attackk Clothing at a number of local markets year round, so check back regularly to see if we’ll be in a town near you!
Our upcoming events for the holiday season include:
December 8th: COOL Place Trunk Show at 122 Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA. Enjoy Holiday shopping with myself and Walk on the Moon jewelry as we’re featured in this event hosted by COOL Place. It’s a great way to get gifts that will stand out, or a great way to reward yourself for all of your hard work during the busiest time of the year!
Want to bring Jack Attackk Clothing to you and your friends? Email us at email@example.com to inquire about having your own personal trunk show at a location of your choosing!

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Experimental ARKit version of the brand new RR mug, in case you want to try it out around your favorite drinking spots. Looks terrific. Doesn’t hold beverage anywhere nearly as well as the real thing.
You can try it out here:
Experimental ARKit version of the brand new RR mug, in case you want to try it out around your favorite drinking spots. Looks terrific. Doesn’t hold beverage anywhere nearly as well as the real thing.
You can try it out here:
Some of the rumors swirling around the next version of watchOS this June or the next Apple Watch this fall — or both — concern mental health.
Since its inception, the Apple Watch has been getting better and better at helping with physical health. From preventative fitness like activity rings and workouts, to warning systems like low, high, and irregular heartbeats and ECG, to emergency features like international SOS and fall detection.
There have been crossover features that offer some benefit to both mind and body, like the breathing app, and some behavioral assistance — the nature of the Apple Watch makes it not just impractical but impossible to get lost in social networks or games for minutes or hours on end, for example.
But this is the first time we’re hearing about features specifically for mental health, and, as usual, I’m really curious how that may play out.
So, I asked one of the smartest people I know, who also happens to be a licensed psychotherapist, Georgia Dow, to help me figure it out.
You can find Georgia's work at:
MacBook Pro RAM upgrade pricing is now exactly the same as MacBook Air RAM upgrade pricing. So, my very strong guess is that it was somehow “discounted” at launch and has now returned to “normal”.
Nothing to do with component cost/availability, or anything else.
(Apple should honor previous orders at the previous pricing.)
My brand new store has just gone live and there's a brand new mug to go with it.
Yeah, a mug. Because coffee. Also because I really wanted it to be something practical, something useful, something that could bring comfort right now. Even if you choose to fill it with tea or hot chocolate instead. There’s no wrong beverage here.
To make it even better, anyone who gets the mug also gets a month of Nebula, absolutely free. (I you already subscribe to Nebula, you’ll get the free month added to your existing subscription.)
Rumors are making the rounds that the iPhone 12 or iPhone 13 — one of the upcoming iPhones — will finally increase the megapixel count on the camera system to a number greater than 12. With 64 being the flavor of the week.
I’m doing a whole series on the future of the iPhone. So, hit subscribe to make sure you don’t miss any of it.
Now, megapixels are all about quantity. They don’t always help, and can even hurt, image quality. So what is Apple even thinking?
Camera sensors are made up of pixels, just like screens are. But, instead of displaying images to you, these are all about capturing them for you.
A megapixel is just a million pixels. In other words, when you multiply the horizontal number pixels by the vertical number of pixels, the result is higher than a million.
For 12 megapixels, the current iPhone camera spec, it’s greater than 12 million.4032 x 3024 = 12,192,768 to be specific.
Now, more megapixels aren’t necessarily better. Because you also have to factor in the size of the sensor.
See, the more you chop up a sensor, the greater the number of pixels — and megapixels — you get, but the smaller each of those pixels becomes. And the smaller the pixel, the worse it performs when it comes to capturing light. Which mean, the worse photos it takes.
In other words, they’re super high resolution, they’re just super low quality at the same time. You get more but the more sucks.
What you really want to do to improve image quality is increase the sensor size, which increases the pixel size. Not pixel count. Pixel size. That way, each pixel can take in more light. That’s the kind of more that sucks less.
Within reason. End of the day, you want the best balance possible given the size constraints of the device, and the distortions and aberrations you can get if you push anything too far in any one direction.
And, for the last few years, Apple figured the best balance was holding the count at 12 megapixels while slowly improving just about everything else.
Now, some other phone makers have been really aggressive about increasing megapixel counts instead, especially in markets where they feel people care more about having the highest possible number on a spec sheet.
Recently, Samsung even put a 108 megapixel sensor in the Galaxy S20 Ultra. To keep those pixels from being too tiny, Samsung is using a fairly massive sensor. But, they’re also using pixel binning.
That’s a process where a group of pixels are averaged together to try and get a result that’s better than the sum of the individual parts. In this specific case, binning 9 pixels down to 1, or 108 megapixels back down to 12.
Same with things like quad Bayar filters, which means the pixels are color filters — red, green, blue, green — in 2 by 2 grids.
You can shoot the full 108 megapixels if you really want to, and in extremely bright, outdoor, well lit situations, you’ll get usable results, but for indoors or lower light, that binning and that filtering will kick in, hard.
What Apple — and for that matter, Google — have been doing instead is something called image stacking.
Instead of shooting a ton of pixels and binning them down, the iPhone shoots a ton of exposures in rapid succession and then the image signal processor, the ISP on the A-series chipset, churns through them, pixel by pixel, and picks the best parts of each and every exposure, for each and every pixel.
It started with simple high dynamic range — HDR. Take a photo, take an over exposure, take an under exposure, combine them together and you get a photo with more detail in both the highlights and shadows.
But now, thanks to machine learning, the ISP can detect textures like clouds and ropes, even faces and parts of faces, and then process everything slightly differently to render out the best possible results for each and every element in the scene.
The advantage to pixel binning is speed. It’s doing less work on more data. The ISP is fast, but it’s still doing way more work but on less data.
It’s not hard to imagine that if Apple did both, bin down 4 to 1, from 64 to 16, or something like that, and then apply Smart HDR staking, semantic rendering, tonal mapping, and all the rest of the machine learning, they could potentially get even better results faster.
The second part of the iPhone camera rumors involves zoom, which is something I’ve been complaining about for a while.
Huawei and Samsung have added periscopes to their camera systems to greatly increase optical zoom. Basically, because phones just aren’t think enough for traditional zoom lenses, inside of having them stick half an inch out of the phone, they lay them on their sides, trading depth for width. Then they use mirrors to redirect the light. Like a periscope.
Google, by contrast, took their HDR+ image stacking technology and souped it up to make better digital zoom. Pretty much using the minute movements of the phone while taking a photo to capture extra data, and then computing the hell out of it to make the zoom look way sharper, and the colors way more accurate, then anything the sensor could capture by itself.
Apple could do something similar and adapt Smart HDR into Smart Zoom for the wide angle camera. Then, they could use a better telephoto, not even a periscope because that’s probably overkill when it comes to return on optics with current technology, and add Smart Zoom on top of it. That could work out to 3x optical, much better 10x digital on the iPhone 12. Maybe even 5x optical, even good 20x or more digital on the iPhone 13.
That way you could capture your kids playing sports, your pets in the park, all the sights when you’re traveling — you know, when we can do all that stuff again. One day.
And like I’ve said numerous times before, it’s an area where Apple is currently behind, and not just other camera phones, but cameras in general.
The last of the most recent iPhone camera rumors involves a completely new kind of camera. Not a 2 megapixel macro, sorry Marques!
No, an anamorphic lens.
Now, there are historical reasons for why anamorphic lenses exit but it’s safe to say they remain in use today primarily for the way they look. They’re not round and so the bokeh they capture — the blurry lights in the background — aren’t round either.
And the lens flares you can get… well, if you’ve ever seen JJ Abrams’ Star Trek movie, you know all about the lens flares you can get with anamorphic.
So, if anamorphic lenses in the modern age are less about practicality and more about artistry, why would Apple of all companies include one?
Maybe, maybe I say ever so trepidatiously, so could an anamorphic camera. Think about it, if Apple of all companies is planning or even considering an anamorphic lens, it would be precisely for the artistry.
I mean, just close your eyes, can’t you just imagine the keynote demo?
Maybe it could be done computationally as well, and on the main wide angle camera, but either way, it’d be something incredible fun to see.
The original iPad mini was never something Steve Jobs wanted. When tiny Android tablets started coming out, Steve snarked that you’d have to file down your fingers just to use it.
I’ve talked about similar stories before. Hit subscribe so you don’t miss any of them.
Then, Eddy Cue, senior Vice President of internet services, read an article about all the reasons a smaller iPad made the same kind of sense, he picked up one of the Android half-tabs, came to the same opinion, and convinced Steve to do it.
That, by the way, is one of the biggest differences between Steve Jobs and almost everyone who tries to be the next Steve Jobs — he hired smart people and then, more times than none, he even listened to them.
That’s how Apple got the iPhone and not the Fire Phone.
But, this isn’t about Steve Jobs.
This… is about the iPad mini and where it goes next.
The folks who run /r/iPhone on Reddit were kind enough to ask me on for an AMA. We did it on Discord and it worked incredibly well. Thanks to everyone in the community for their time and for all the questions!
Over the last couple of posts, I’ve talked about why Apple would make Glasses, basically a face-mounted computational display — and what could actually get people like you and me to buy a pari. Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the rest of this series.
One thing I haven’t talked about yet, though, is the developer story… apps.
When the original iPhone launched, it came with only the apps Apple had given it. Including the last-minute addition of YouTube.
Henri Lamiraux’s software team had just finished a forced march, a marathon of sprints, to get version 1 ready to ship, only to have to turn around and start another for version 2, this time to get the frameworks ready for the SDK event and the App Store ready to launch.
Umpteen millions of apps and billions of dollars later, it literally made apps as mainstream, as popular, as music and TV.
So, it should have come as no surprise that when the original Apple Watch launched, it had not only the apps Apple had given it, but kinda… sorta… an App Store as well.
Back then, on that first version, the App Store lived on the iPhone and so did the app logic. Only the interface and interaction layers were… projected… onto the Watch. All based on Apple’s pre-existing Extensibility frameworks.
Now, thanks to their own forced marches, Apple got app logic onto the Watch in version 2 and brought the store on-device in version 5.
Sure, it’s fair to say that, while there are some legit terrific Apple Watch apps, wrist-based apps in general just haven’t proven as popular or as critical to the Watch’s success as they were the phone’s. Subject for another video. Let me know in the comments if you want to see it.
But, that same process, the process of projectables, could prove even more critical and more valuable for Apple’s next small thing.
I’m Rene Ritchie and this… is the potential for Apple Glasses apps. Please don’t call them glapps.
There’s this common misconception that iOS doesn’t multitask well. It does. Go back to the very first demo when Steve Jobs plays music, surfs the web, checks email, takes a call, and the music comes right back just to see how well it multitasks. Because of course it does, it’s built on the same UNIX underpinnings as macOS.
The difference is that Apple has always tightly controlled when processes can and can’t multitask on iOS. And they did it because they were paranoid about battery life.
Only Apple’s own apps had any kind of background access at first. Then only a tiny handful of specific functions, like streaming music and turn-by-turn navigation. Then things like background refresh. And now, while it’s still by no means a wide open, wild-wild-west of multitasking madness, pretty much every kind of app can persist in the background… at least for a while. RIP bloated, cross-platform social and gaming apps.
iOS always had the potential to handle headless apps as well. That’s where interfaces and feature sets, could pop up as remote views in the system and inside other apps. Because, again, same Unix underpinning as macOS.
The difference here is that Apple didn’t even start porting that functionality over until later. Because they were even more paranoid about security.
Then came iOS 8 and Extensibility, which I’ve often called one of the most important developments in iOS since… well, iOS.
With it, apps maintained their secure sandboxes but direct user action, things like tapping a button, could poke a small hole in them, just big enough to bring up a Share sheet, or widget, or photo filter, or custom keyboard, or document provider, or… you get the idea.
When that happened, iOS would pull the interface and data from the container app, and then present it to you so you could quickly, easily send a photo to Twitter, swipe down a calculator from anywhere, or get your bitmoji on.
All while never letting it mingle with the host app, so no one could try and trick you into giving them your personal, private information and content.
Now, this wasn’t some test bed for Apple Watch apps. It wasn’t part of some master plan. But, when the Watch team was trying to figure out how they could get third-party apps to work on a device as constrained as the original Watch, and realized they’d have to decouple app logic from app interface to do it, wow was Extensibility handy.
Same thing in principle for AirPlay, even CarPlay.
Just like websites were broken down into web services that could exist on any site, binary app blogs were broken down into specific functions that could be called from anywhere.
Google, which values cloud the way Apple values local, has been doing something similar with app fragments for years as well. Because a good idea is a good idea.
At least in theory. If you have to wait for an old school watch app to spool up or app fragment to download, you know never turned out nearly as well in practice.
Except, it kind did. Just not for whole apps or big functions. It’s turned out really great for a bunch of other stuff we use every day, including and especially rich notifications and, on the Apple Watch, rich complications.
Part of it has to do with transmission. Locally, Bluetooth has gotten better but we can still block it with our own, ugly, mostly bags of water body parts. From the cloud, even modern Wi-Fi and cellular protocols can and do fail us.
Part of it has to do with compute power. Even the latest Apple Watch can’t run apps, especially heavy apps, as well as an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Part of it has to do with interface. The Apple Watch screen is so much smaller it makes touch that much harder, and the Digital Crown is basically a scroll wheel minus the mouse.
Apple Glasses will likely be just as susceptible to wireless interference, have far less compute power, and even less interactive potential and precision than an Apple Watch.
Now, that’s not a show-stopper. Far from it. Just take a look at AirPods.
AirPods are just as dependent on a wireless connection, even AirPods Pro and their fancy 10-core audio engine have far less compute power, and when it comes to interface, there’s precisely zero screen and only a capacitive squeeze or several to work with.
Yet they can relay calls, turn-by-turn directions, workout instructions, even incoming messages.
And somewhere in the middle there, somewhere in the land of rich notifications and complications, is where I think Glasses apps will lie. At least at first.
Actually, if you go back to the original Apple Watch, glances would probably be an even better conceptual fit for glasses than complications.
Developers would get the glasses as an extension to the existing APNs Apple Push Notification Service for quote unquote free, where it just works but with some additional effort and customization, it will just work even better.
And also for glances, so, for example, a guided workout app could pull data from the Apple Watch and show it in your peripheral vision so you can see your starts without having to pull up a sleeve, pull down a glove, or take your hands off your ski poles or kettlebells.
Same thing with walking directions, AppleTag detection, and a host of other features that, again, may not be as functional as the watch, much less the phone, but far, far more available. And far less obtrusive and, frankly, rude. Like, you’ll be able to check an event reminder or to do without even having to lift or turn your wrist or reach for your phone.
The reverse will also be true, though: Developers will be able to pull from the Apple Glasses sensors, particularly the LiDAR sensors, to make things like indoor mapping, item location, guided workouts, and other things, maybe even some level of location and spatial-based gaming possible, without you having to hold your iPhone or iPad up for extended periods of time.
And, yeah, there’ll have to be things like Driving Mode which cuts out any and all distractions when the Glasses detect a certain velocity in general and the shape of a steering wheel in front of you in specific. There’s already a crude version of that on the iPhone. But, believe me, no one wants an LL Cool J is going live Insta alert while we’re careening down a highway in a blizzard. Including LL.
Now, maybe one day Apple’s silicon team will have a G4 or G5 system in package powerful enough for fully on-board, always-connected apps like something straight out of an Iron Man movie, with a voice-driven Siri interface that’s finally as functional as never mind Jarvis or Friday, but Google or Alexa.
I have a whole rant brewing on that, so if you want to see that video sooner rather than later, hit me up in the comments.
So, here’s how I think it’ll play out at first — Apple will announce the glasses with support for pulling notifications and glances, pushing sensor data like LiDAR, and fine grained visual verbosity controls to provide information but prevent distraction. Maybe with a cool demo from Twitter, Peleton, Pokemon Go, whatever’s trendy and looks compelling.
But, it will be more of a display than a computer when it comes to third-party apps, at least at first. And then, like the iPhone and Apple Watch, the Glasses will be iterated on and improved over time. Until, yeah, I start to dream of EDITH again.
After a few years and a steady stream of reports, noted supply-chain exfiltrator extraordinaire, Kuo Ming-Chi, updated his, saying he now expected Apple Glasses to launch sometime in 2022.
At that point, the always ascending Jon Prosser of Front Page Tech retorted, saying he’d heard an announcement was planned for as early as this fall’s iPhone event, but may be postponed to next year. Also, that they’d be called Apple Glass and cost $500. Then he went on a plethora of live-streams and podcasts, from the GadgetCast to VypDrive to the CultCast, and added details like they’d have no built-in speakers, but would rely on AirPods, and that there may even be a limited edition version in the shape of Steve Jobs’ famously rounded frames. Think Harry Potter, kids.
Which, of course, set an internet already primed by gold-watch, XDR stand, and Mac Pro outrage once again on fire.
Bloomberg’s biz-prophet, Mark Gurman, who’s also been reporting on the Glasses for years, called the Steve Jobs frames in specific, and the rest of the stories in general, fiction.
Prosser replied that he respected Gurman. Gurman that there were both mixed reality headsets and glasses in the pipeline, which might be confusing. Prosser that he wasn’t confused. And Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac that hahahaha. Sorry, strike that, ahahaha.
Gurman had previously reported that the glasses were coming in 2020, but now that the announcement had been delayed to 2021 and the release until 2022 or 2023. With the headset being the thing coming earlier, but maybe also not until 2022.
Noted code extractor, Steve Troughton-Smith, said he’d laugh at these rumors floating around if not for people taking them seriously.
Troughton-Smith based that on all the glasses software that had accidentally been included in previous versions of iOS, and suggested that a bunch of noise was being deliberately generated to drown out any real signals.
Others suggested alternate sources, different projects, different prototypes, or just bored work-from-homers, and I paraphrase, trolling for the lulz.
Max Weinbach of XDA Developers, who’s contributed some of his own reporting on live streams and the EverythingApplePro channel, seemed to be on the same page as Prosser.
And Prosser, for his part, basically said wait, watch, and see what happens.
Now, I personally try to never fall victim to any of the classic blunders. The most famous, of course, is never bet against a dread pirate when death is on the line. But, only slightly less well known, is never get involved in a rumor war on the internet.
But none of these people are your dad, so no hashtag Jern or hashtag Gurm in the comments, people.
Personally, as you know, the when of the release date and the what of the hardware aren’t even the parts that fascinate me most.
Though the rumors and the reporters being so conflicted right now is, in and of itself, fascinating in terms of seeing how the small, loud, but important social part of the market responds to the idea of the product itself.
Because, while I covered why Apple I think Apple is making glasses last week — make sure you hit subscribe so you don’t miss any of these videos — the bigger question I have right now isn’t why Apple would make them but… why would any of us buy them?
That wasn’t a question with the iPhone. People need phones. Feature phones were already a mature market and smartphones were primed to move from early adopters to mainstream acceptance. They just needed a push, which turned out to be just exactly the iPhone.
It was a big question for the Apple Watch, though. Feature watches, from classic switch to deeply digital, were beyond a mature market but for a variety of reasons, they weren’t at all ubiquitous. Smart watches were also still firmly in the early adopter phase, primed to move not at all.
Would people be willing to even give the Apple Watch a chance on their wrist, either the relatively few who still wore traditional watches for actual time keeping or as jewelry, or the much bigger group that no longer or simply never wore watches at all?
Of course, the ground is now littered with the reputation-corpses of the many pundits who said nope, big old nope, even and especially years after the reverse proved obvious.
Because, it turned out, if you created or nurtured a product with a compelling enough feature set, enough people who switch from traditional watches or go back or start wearing them for the first time. And now, Apple Watch owns that small market and is almost single-productly driving its expansion.
In the case of the Apple Watch, the most compelling features of the set have been health, fitness, and medical/emergency alerts, with a good peppering of notifications and communications thrown in there to round things out.
It works with your phone, does a few general things the phone does, not as in-depth but more conveniently, but it also does a few very specific things that the phone can’t do at all.
But, glasses feel like an even bigger ask. Watches go on your wrist. Glasses go on your face.
Now, unlike watches, a lot of people, myself included, simply have to wear glasses or contacts for vision correction. We’re used to them. We wear them all day, every day. And switching from dumb to smart glasses won’t be a big ask. Basically, Apple will have us at One More Thing…
But, also unlike watches, I don’t think there’s a large group, at least not in established markets, that have stopped or simply never worn glasses at all, ever.
I think most have worn them opportunistically, for safety or fashion reasons. Sun glasses are the biggest example.
Because safety and fashion are also absolutely compelling enough reasons to put on glasses. I don’t want anything flying into my eyes or hurting my vision, or I just want to look all Top Gun Terminator badass. They’re just worn intermittently. Not all the time. So, rabid fanbase and technophiles aside, will Apple need a ton of stuff after the one more thing to win this group over?
Whatever Activity and Workouts and heart rate monitoring and fall detection and international emergency calling and messages are… but for glasses?
Now, I fully realize the dangers of trying to predict this stuff. I barely anticipated half the features that now make the Apple Watch all but indispensable to me. Yeah, when asked by Ford, I just said I wanted more convenient horses.
And that’s where I am with Apple Glasses as well. Currently, I just want more convenient horses.
Like I said in the last video: a Head’s Up Display, a HUD like Tony Stark has in the Marvel movies.
A way to get everything from notifications to information, from messages to walking directions, never mind without reaching for my phone but without even having to lift my wrist.
But, I also want a much more granular, nuanced, less obtrusive system for it, because as we’ve all learned in the age of always-on, notifications can so easily turn into annoyance and information into distraction. Always on the wrist is both better and worse for that. Always on the face… I can’t wait and I couldn’t be more terrified.
We’re flattening compute down from the desktop to the laptop to the palm top to the wrist top to finally the face top. Shrinking the distance between our devices and ourselves. Bringing our external cybernetics, because that’s really what all this is — everything that amplifies our senses and memories and communications — as close as they can possible come to being internal.
But I digress. See, I don’t think Apple will have or even need any of those really compelling things at launch.
And they won’t need mainstream adoption at launch either.
They didn’t have it with the iPhone. It took years to build out the feature set and grow the market there. Same with Apple Watch.
But they had cool stuff that the rabid fanbase and technophiles glommed to, things like pinch to zoom and rubber banding, activities and sketches, that got a lot of attention and made for great, show-offy demos for every early adopter’s more decidedly mainstream family, friends, and colleagues.
And that, combined with new and actually compelling features over the years, be it the App Store or Swim Proofing, iMessage or Always On, increased appeal and removed roadblocks, and step by step, year by year, the products grew and grew.
So, my guess is the Apple Glasses will be the same. They’ll start just as simply, just as crudely even as the iPhone and Apple Watch did. They’ll have a few features that are cool enough to capture the attention of the always hangry media and the wallets of those who just always have to have the next and newest thing.
They’ll provide timely data, like indoor and outdoor walking directions. Critical notifications like who’s messaging or calling you. Things that make it so you don’t even have to look down at your phone or watch, or put down whatever you’re holding or doing to look at any other device.
They’ll be even less capable but they’ll be even more available, and that’ll be good enough to get things started.
Then we’ll get rapid iterations on speed and power, then a redesign, then a lower priced model, and then before you know it I’ll be making a video about how Apple Glasses need to be set iPhone, even Apple Watch free.
And that’s before we even get to the real killer feature — being able to sit on calls or really anything boring at all, and secretly be watching Nebula the whole time.
Beyond the rumors, Apple will eventually announced Glasses. They’ll have a few features that excite us nerds but still be very much a version one device. The potential will be there, though. They’ll get a bunch of coverage, including a ton of articles and videos about how very doomed they are and doomed Apple is for making them, but they’ll be iterated on for the next few years, they’ll grow over the next few years, and within half a decade we’ll have what everyone who blew the initial analysis calls the version Apple should have shipped to begin with. The iPhone 4, iPad Air, or Apple Watch 4 version.
I’ve seen a lot of discussion lately about the iPhone — or just phones in general — being “good enough”. That most of them already do most of the things most of the people need most of the time, and Apple, Samsung, Google, and everyone else should just chill out and stop updating them every year. iPhone 12? Who needs it. It’s exhausting. Enough already.
But… is it? I mean really?
Now, hear me out… Maybe the iPhone, even the hotly rumored upcoming iPhone 12, maybe all current and expected phones this year, are just scratching the surface of their potential. Of what they can be and what they should be doing for us.
Read why in my latest column for OneZero on Medium:


Flintec build a new 1 tonne dead weight test machine for product calibration
At Flintec, our engineers are committed to delivering the very best quality load and force measurement solutions to the market. Each year we invest heavily into research and development to ensure our products meet the highest standards of quality and accuracy.
One such investment has recently been delivered from Flintec UK to our state of the art manufacturing facility in Koggola, Sri Lanka. Our British engineers designed and built a temperature controlled 1 tonne dead weight test machine to calibrate Flintec load cell products.
This equipment was commissioned to provide greater testing accuracy, which is not always achievable when using other means of load application such as hydraulic. Dead weight testing is by far the most stable and accurate means to test load cell performance. This machine will allow Flintec to apply accurately defined dead loads to our mid-range capacity products to measure output ranging between 100Kg and 1000Kg in 5 stages. The weighing modules have been designed using a unique weight transfer mechanism which allows testing up to 1 Tonne capacity in 5 increments using pre-selectable weights within each 200Kg weight module. The machine allows for span, hysteresis, linearity and creep testing between temperatures of 5 40 degrees.
The machine itself is approximately 3.2 meters high and took over 400 man hours to design, build and commission.
For further information on Flintec products contact us today.


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Chairman Pakistan Flour Mills Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Haji Iqbal Sunday said that the Flour Mills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are facing wheat shortage after imposing ban on supply of wheat from Punjab.
This he said in a press statement issued here on Sunday. He said they have left with no option but to announce closing of flour mills from Monday.
He said that Punjab province has imposed unconstitutional ban on supply of wheat to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to which supply of wheat to 180 flour mills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been stopped and none of the mills have wheat due to which it is necessary to close down the flour mills.
He said that due to closure of flour mills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a severe flour crisis has arisen in the province. Haji Iqbal Khan, Chairman Pakistan Flour Mills Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has appealed to Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan to immediately lift the ban on wheat shipments from Punjab.
The ban on flour for the people in this Holy month of Ramadan is not a justified act. The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are suffering due to this severe flour crisis as a result of wheat shortage.
Meanwhile, Member Punjab Flour Mills Association Attock Haji Rehmat talking to newsmen said that flour mills need a stock of wheat for at least three days to timely meet demands of the market but this was not possible because of the policies of the government.
He said if these policies will be towed by the government then there will be shortage of flour in the market and certainly its price will also go up.
He demanded that wheat as per the quota must be provided to the mill owners to keep the mills smoothly running. Haji Rehmat said that so for mills had not been closed by if government will not show any relaxation then the situation will be out of control.


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Find our about the sorts of Iraqi visas from the links below to ensure that you are applying for the appropriate type of visa.
A visa for Iraqi is a stamp or sticker placed by immigration officials of Iraq on your passport that permits you to travel to Iraq. Iraqi visas are generally acquired through the Iraqi consulate in your country of your permanent residence or nearby Iraqi visa office in the closest city to your normal residential address. Whenever trying to get a Iraqi visa, you can be expected to explain the reasons for going to Iraq. The primary reason for entry to Iraq from Nigeria, usually business, tourism or on a transit to a second country. You will discover different varieties of Iraqi visas available for residents of Nigeria based on your nationality, reason for your several
trip and time-span of your visit.
Generally, you can include dependent children in your visa application if they’re traveling with you on your passport. You might not need to make an application for this visa. Know more
Your passport is an official government document that verifies your identity along with your existing citizenship. The passport permits you to regain admittance to the country of your citizenship and is also a necessity by many nations to gain access to their territory when you want to visit them.
A travel visa is an official government document or stamp that temporarily permits you to be in Iraq. A lot of countries demand a visa to gain entry. The Iraqi visa usually is in the form of a stamp or sticker label placed in your passport and is collected from the embassy of the nation you are intending to visit.
Feel free to express your own experiences with the Iraqi Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria. Whether you’re applying for a visa for going to Iraq or notarizing paperwork or merely just planning to talk with an individual at the Iraqi embassy in Abuja. Let us know by simply submitting it on this site.
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25–28 May 2023, the third edition of Southern Sweden Design Days takes place – Malmö's new international design festival organised by Form/Design Center. During four days, the city is filled with exhibitions, seminars, workshops and festivities with a focus on sustainability, collaboration, development and innovation. This year's theme is dissonance, with the aim to spark creativity and the desire to drive change in an existence that is abrasive.
– Malmö is a city bubbling with energy with pioneering designers, studios, collectives, schools and producers. With Southern Sweden Design Days, we want to create a platform to communicate to the world what the southern Swedish scene has to offer through its open approach. With that, also put the southern Swedish region on the map, says Dorte Bo Bojesen, CEO at Form/Design Center.
Southern Sweden Design Days is open to visitors of all ages and is aimed at a broad public as well as professional visitors. Both national and international participants are welcome to take part.
Each year a new theme is presented with the aim of inspiring, spark creativity and new ideas for an exciting program. The theme for Southern Sweden Design Days 2023 is dissonance. Dissonance is a state of imbalance – a feeling that something is not right. Dissonance can be unsettling, but often gives rise to innovative development in its constant pursuit of harmony. In music, dissonance is a combination of tones that create uneven pitches that do not follow a musical pattern. Intervals that strive to be resolved into a consonance, a tension-free harmony.
– Dissonance is abrasive and creates mixed emotions. At the same time, dissonance can spark creativity and the desire to drive change. Today’s turbulent times require adjustments and adaptations. Overwhelming and uncomfortable facts and events are triggering disagreement and polarization. Nevertheless, dissonance is fundamental for a democratic society and a driving force for discussion, debate, and development, says Terese Alstin responsible for industry development Form/Design Center.
The old railway workshop Lokstallarna in Kirseberg will also this year be a gathering place for Southern Sweden Design Days in 2023 with over 6,000 m² of exhibition space, food court, pop-up shop and a live studio with seminars and panel discussions in front of an audience. During last year's design festival, Lokstallarna had over 10,000 visits.
– This year, we have an ambition to make a special effort in pedagogy and intermediation with initiatives towards children and youth with the aim of strengthening the event's focus on spreading knowledge, says Ann Isler, project manager for Southern Sweden Design Days.
In total, around 160 program activities took place during Southern Sweden Design Days 2022 and over 390 content-creating participants. A total of 124 physical activities were organised, at over 60 different locations in the city, and in total Southern Sweden Design Day's physical program activities had approx. 21,250 visits during all event days.
Southern Sweden Design Days is a new international design festival in Malmö. The festival invites visitors from all over the world to experience the creative and dynamic southern Swedish design region has to offer. Southern Sweden Design Days is an annual event that highlights and builds knowledge about design – focusing on sustainability, collaboration, development and innovation.
Southern Sweden Design Days is organised by Form/Design Center – the main venue for architecture, design and crafts in southern Sweden.
Form/Design Center i Malmö är den främsta mötesplatsen för arkitektur, design och konsthantverk i södra Sverige och en nationell nod för gestaltad livsmiljö. Här kan du ta del av utställningar, workshops, samtal och föreläsningar, eller besöka vår butik och vårt café. Form/Design Center är också en plattform för branschen och deltar i olika utvecklingsprojekt. Form/Design Center drivs av Svensk Form Syd som är en ideell förening med stöd av Kulturdepartementet, Malmö stad, Region Skåne och Statens kulturråd.

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The Fair Housing Act of 1968 (“FHA”) was created to eliminate discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing, and to mandate affirmative actions be taken to develop fair housing throughout the United States. Numerous scholars and practitioners have lamented both the failure of the FHA to enforce its sections calling for government entities to affirmatively further fair housing, and the narrow interpretation of the FHA. This narrow interpretation has effectively rendered the FHA useless when a plaintiff claims that environmental ills have reduced the value and livability of homes, because these “non‐housing” claims are too far removed from the acquisition of housing. The Office of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) has set forth a Proposed Rule for assessing their compliance with section 3608 of the FHA by outlining a comprehensive data collection and reporting process. This Article suggests a benefit of the Proposed Rule left unexplored by HUD: this Proposed Rule both supports the cognizance of non‐housing cases under the FHA and will provide the statistical evidence necessary for a plaintiff to make a prima facie case.
Courtney L. Anderson,
Integrate and Reactivate the 1968 Fair Housing Mandate,
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Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_race_poverty_law_journal/vol13/iss1/1


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Tamanna tied her hair back along with flower with defined eyebrows and light make-up.
Sonam Kapoor was seen in Chennai for the launch of Kalyan Jewellery Store in Chennai. She was wearing a Pink Silk Saree embellished with motifs and embroidery and zardosi work giving a bridal look. Saree was designed by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla.
Sonam Kapoor visited the Chennai as a brand Ambassador of Kalyan Jewellers wearing two neckpieces and chand balis with a gajra in her hair.
Shilpa Shetty flaunts her new trendy Blouse from her wardrobe and Blouse Collections of 2016. Black sleeveless Blouse with high neck and embellished with heavy embroidery work. She wore it with a two shaded Black-blue Saree designed by Roshni Chopra.
Shilpa Shetty Designer Blouse along with Amrapali Jewelry with a fishtail braided hairstyle made her look glamourous.
Designer Purvi Doshi who is famous for her Indian Contemporary Designer now launches her Online retail store. She is very creative when it comes to fashion. Her latest collection includes Indo-western, Long Dresses,Stylish Sarees, Short dresses, Ethnic tops, Tunic tios, Kurtis, Suits and more.
Most I liked were the embroidered collection of Sarees and full length dresses on white.
Sonam kapoor chose to wear a Narendra Kumar Ahmed transparent cream Bengali Style Saree with gold and red embroidery across the border along with a heavy golden zari work full sleeved blouse with a stylish high neck.
Sonam kapoor looked awesome in this attire with Sunita Kapoor Jhumkas, red lipstick and hair tied in braided bun style.
Saree has a white border with golden triangle shaped triangles. The Saree was designed by Ashdeen for Ekaya.
She wore a silver jewellery with pink lips and a nice hair tied up at the back for the event.
She styled herself in choker style necklace with hair tied like a bun with flowers and maroon lipstick. With sleeveless blouse she looked stunning in this Sabyasachi Saree.
Silk Saree Blouse Designs 2016-2017
South Indian women prefer wearing Silk Sarees for Wedding, Birthdays, functions and almost all the events they attend. Bridal Silk Saree for Brides are more stylish with Pure Silk outfits.
Silk Saree which made by Silk yarns are of Pure Silk and are names in India by different names like Banarasi Silk sarees, Kanchipuram Silk sarees, Bandhni sarees, Thanchoi sarees, Patola sarees, Paithani sarees, Pattu Silk Sarees and more.
Pakeeza Anchal Presents you Top 20 Silk Saree Blouse Designs & Patterns form their design Catalogue
From Bridal Silk Sarees to Cut work Sarees you will get all Sarees in Silk. Sarees makes more sense when it has Stylish Blouses to wear with. Wedding Silk Saree Blouses comes in different Patterns and Styles.
Bridal Saree Blouse Designs, Pattu Saree Blouses embellished with embroidery, Kundan work with different Neck Designs, Back Styles which comes in different length from Short sleeved to elbow length, full sleeved and sleeveless Blouse designs to be worn on Wedding Silk Sarees for Brides just make a woman look more attractive and stylish.


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We are excited to share that auditions for LMVGs Absolutely Frozen, the Pantomime, have now been announced! All are welcome, and everyone should come prepared to show us your talents!!
Location: Our Lady’s Parish Centre, Old Hill, Leixlip
Date: Sunday 29th September 2019
- Juniors (ages 7-12) – registration from 1:45pm, auditions from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
- Seniors (ages 12-18) – registration from 4:15pm, auditions from 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: LMVG Prefab, Grounds of Scoil Mhuire, Green Lane, Leixlip
Date: Thursday 26th September 2019
Audition pieces and character details will be available on the night…
- Absolutely Frozen, the Pantomime will be in St Marys, Green Lane Leixlip, for 10 performances over two weekends: Fri 24th Jan – Sun 26th Jan and Fri 31st Jan- Sun 2nd Feb 2020.
- All successful auditionees will need to be available for these two weekends.
- During production, a small rehearsal fee and costume fee will be expected from all successful auditionees.


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Afghanistan National Journalists Union (ANJU) in a report on Saturday said that after the establishment of the Islamic Emirate, 53% of journalists lost their employment and 50% of the media outlets were closed over many reasons, particularly financial issues.
The report is published on the occasion of National Journalist's Day in Afghanistan.
“Most media employees have left Afghanistan. The media community is facing several problems. It faces economic difficulties, and restrictions have been placed on the media's activities in Afghanistan. Besides this, the suspension or closure of the protective laws of the media community is a big challenge,” said Masroor Lutfi, a member of (ANJU).
Several journalists expressed concerns about the lack of information access and economic difficulties on National Journalists’ Day.
Journalists asked the Islamic Emirate to address their challenges, especially in the area of access to information.
“Twenty-seven of Hoot, the Journalist's Day, is celebrated when the lack of information access continues to be considered a difficulty and this community is still dealing with major economic issues,” said Raqib Fayaz, a journalist.
“We ask government officials and related officials to pay serious attention to the problems of journalists and ensure their safety,” said Mustafa Shahriar, a journalist.
But the Ministry of Information and Culture said that it is committed to upholding journalists' rights and that efforts are made to increase facilities available to them.
“We continue our cooperation with the media and journalists, and our effort in the future is to create facilities for all journalists,” said the deputy minister of information and culture for publications, Hayatullah Muhajir Farahi.
Previously, the Ministry of Information and Culture said that the law on the right to access information, with a few adjustments, had been sent to the Islamic Emirate's leadership and would be implemented following their approval, but there has been no update on this.


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How Using some sort of Fuel Saver Can help the Environment
A very few people find that harmful emissions launched by vehicles leads to serious problems to help human health plus the environment. Running at fossil fuels, a vehicles emit dangerous gases whenever the engine is ignited. These gases once released on the atmosphere in intense amounts cause air pollution, which is probably the most dangerous kind of environmental hazard. It but not only affects the environment but also causes diseases like lung cancer, cardio and various health problems. The solution to this environmental degradation would be to completely eliminate using fossil fuels, nevertheless, that is no possibility, considering the way the world is dependent upon it.
Therefore, to help you decrease harmful emissions for an extent, vehicle manufacturing agencies should encourage consumers to make use of fuel additives, commonly known as fuel savers that will minimize the losing of fuels, although still providing sufficiently energy for cars and trucks.
What Are Petrol Additives?
Fuel additives usually are fuel savers and tend to be manufactured with the combination of polyisobutylene polymer along with pure hydrocarbon polymer. Fuel additives were developed a lot more than two decades ago and have absolutely been used to help you moderate combustion charge in jet search engines. Now, they have been introduced for four wheelers to modify fuel combustion. It usually is used for busses, cars, trucks, trains and even boats.
How Will it Work?
Being a high molecular weight polymer, these additives are added in the small amount into the engine. It helps around reducing engine exhaust temperature and for that reason brings a disappearance of fuel emissions. The fuel saver is intended to work in the fuel itself and not just on the generator, therefore its perfectly safe to apply. Available in aqueous form, it is injected or sprayed on the engine and forms solid, elastic droplets that control gas combustion.
How Does it Help The Natural environment?
The main mission of fuel additives is to decrease how much fuel consumption by the engine while as well also decreasing this intensity of fuel combustion. When these two factors are mastered, the vehicle does not reduce as much harmful emissions as will likely be seen. This helps the atmosphere coming from being effected simply by harmful gases. Because of this technology, theres a simple strong control on fossil fuel combusting thus preventing dangerous emissions. Additives themselves are lacking in colors and with toxins, which means likely environmentally safe. Fortunately they are also free of carcinogens and additional caustic materials.
Car manufacturing companies, fuel companies and perhaps end users ought to adopt this solutions and help regulate fuel emissions.
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“There is alot more darkness in this piece”
Ryan Bancroft talks about his love for Zemlinksy’s Die Seejungfrau, which he performed with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in September 22 in Gothenburg Concert Hall.
“This is music at its most romantic, its most expressionist, that it can possibly be. And whats interesting about this piece as compared to Disney’s The Little Mermaid, is that there’s a lot more darkness in this piece.”
Ryan Bancroft grew up in Los Angeles and first came to international attention when he won both first prize and the audience prize at the 2018 Malko Conducting Competition. Since then, his career has skyrocketed: in 2019 he was appointed new Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and after his first visit to Tapiola Sinfonietta, he was offered to become the orchestra’s Artist in Association. He has also had successful collaborations with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In the 2023-2024 season, 33-year-old Ryan Bancroft takes over as the new chief conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm.


Is Australia facing a mortgage crisis?
The age-old debate over Australian property has reared its head once again, with some excited market commentary suggesting nation-wide house prices could crash by 50% and bank shares might decline by 80%.
At the same time, there is renewed debate over the taxation treatment of housing and whether both negative gearing and capital tax discounts for property contributed to overly inflated prices.
Investors are right to be nervous, so where does the truth lay?
Let’s start with the Australian Financial Review report of a hedge fund manager roaming Western Sydney claiming many home buyers were signed up to mortgages they can’t really afford using fictitious income levels.
Does this likely happen? Probably so. Is it widespread and so represent a systematic risk to both the housing market and banking sector? I strongly suspect not.
There’s no doubt some households are over their heads in debt, both owner occupiers and aggressive amateur investors. It’s easy to find one or two examples to fill out a newspaper story.
But the evidence suggests such excesses are at worst localised to some areas (such as Western Sydney) and - more likely - limited to a few households in all regions across the country.
Of course, America’s sub-prime mortgage crisis was also limited to a narrow range of home owners and certain regions. But there are several major differences between this blowout and Australia’s current situation.
For starters, in the United States most property lending is “non-recourse” – meaning banks can only lay claim to the property in the event of mortgage default, rather than any other assets that the household might own. That creates a greater incentive to speculate, as in the worst case situation home owners can simply “throw the house keys back to the banker”.
In Australia, banks can take other assets if the value of your property falls below the cost of your mortgage in the event of default – meaning household need to be doubly sure that know what they’re doing. The evidence suggests that on average households are more than two years ahead of their mortgage repayments, meaning they at least have some buffer in the event of temporary unemployment.
Unlike in the United States (and other widely cited home bubble examples such as Spain and Ireland), Australia’s expansion in housing supply has remains relatively constrained despite the lift in house prices. House price crashes often come about when a speculative run-up in prices is met by an avalanche of new supply – this has (generally) not been the case in Australia.
Last but not least, what really turned America’s sub-prime mortgage bubble into a near-death experience for Wall Street banks - and the global financial system - were the billions in derivative “side bets” shorting this relatively small group of mortgages.
It was the inability of investment banks to meet their payment obligations on these huge “side bets” on America’s housing sector that caused the GFC.
Suffice to say there is nowhere near the level of “side bets” on Australia’s mortgage market – and certainly nothing which is being actively developed by Australia’s major banks. Those that fear a local housing crash – typically offshore hedge funds – are still trying to short Australian banks directly. Though this bet is yet to come off.
Indeed, this bet, along with that of shorting Japanese bonds has come to be known as the “widow maker” in the hedge fund industry, because it has so far bled investors dry.
That said, there are patches of the Australian housing market were signs of excess are evident. The high rise apartment building boom across our major capital cities is being funded by small deposit “off the plan” financing, together with a wall of money from China. Even the Reserve Bank is worried that pockets of over-supply are developing, particularly in Brisbane and Melbourne. Outright nominal price declines on these apartments of at least 10 to 20% seem inevitable – so buyer beware.
Labor’s policy to only allow negative gearing for new properties would risk only adding to this high-rise investment bubble.
More broadly, as I’ve often argued, mortgage affordability across the whole country does not seem out of line with historic norms, particularly given the large decline in interest rates over recent years. By international standards, Australia capital city house prices have long seemed relatively high – but only because we insist on working in only a few highly congested cities, and then refuse to improve transport links so that these city workers can commute from more affordable regional areas.
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Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan, United States, to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Due to being born six weeks premature, Stevie Wonder was born with a condition called retinopathy of prematurity, which made him blind. Stevie Wonder, even with this disability, made his landmark to be a pioneer and innovator in the music industry. Stevie Wonder's mother, Lula Mae Hardaway left her husband and moved herself and her children to Detroit. Due to her leaving Lula Hardaway Judkins changed her name to Lula Hardaway and changed Stevie's surname to Stevland Morris. Stevland Morris growing up played various instruments such as the piano, harmonica, drums, and bass. Stevland Morris never played a lot of outdoor activities due to his protective mother. Stevland Morris due to his musical talent was also strongly apart of the church choir. Stevland Morris was originally discovered by Gerald White who often persuaded his brother, soul singer Ronnie White to visit the talented Stevland Morris. Ronnie White after seeing Stevland Morris brought Stevland and his mother to MoTown Records to visit Berry Gordy. Berry Gordy stated he was not impressed by Stevland's singing,or drumming,bongo skills and then he played the harmonica, which astounded Berry Gordy and Stevland Morris in 1961 at the age of eleven signed onto MoTown Records with the stage name, Little Stevie Wonder. The reason why Stevie Wonder had gotten that stage name was because many people were astounded by his ability to play numerous instruments and his ability to sing doing both at the same time, and people called Stevie "A Little Wonder". Stevie Wonder released his first album called,The Jazz Soul Of Little Stevie at the age of twelve followed by an additional album, Tribute To Uncle Ray dedicated to Ray Charles. In 1963, Stevie Wonder released a hit-song called, Fingertips Pt(2). The song reached number one on the Billboard Pop Charts. Stevie Wonder became the first singer to have a number one album and single simultaneously. In the song were several percussion instruments played by Stevie Wonder and this song was added to the album,Recorded Live: The Twelve Year Old Genius. Stevie Wonder was then referred to as the child prodigy. Stevie Wonder in 1964 made in film debut in the movie, Muscle Beach Party as well as the sequel Bikini Beach both directed by William Asher. In this movie Stevie Wonder shows off his musical talent singing the songs, Happy Street and Happy Feeling (Dance And Shout). Stevie Wonder also dropped "Little" from this stage name as his voice started to change and he could no longer sing songs which Clarence Paul had written for him, as they were all written in a higher pitched note. Stevie Wonder then started focusing more on songwriting and came out with genuine hits like Uptight (Everything's Alright),With A Child's Heart, Blowing In The Wind, and a song which he wrote for Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Tears Of A Clown. Several other songs which were smashing hits in the 60's and 70's were I Was Made To Love Her, Signed Sealed And Delivered I'm Yours, which Stevie stated was an idea he had gotten from his mother,and For Once In My Life. In 1970 Stevie Wonder left MoTown and recorded two independent albums by himself. Berry Gordy was shocked to hear this by Stevie Wonder and Berry Gord agreed to Stevie Wonder's demand of more independence and full creative control and rights to all his songs. In 1972 Stevie Wonder returned to MoTown records and signed a thirteen million dollar contract with MoTown Records. This entitled Stevie Wonder to a higher royalty rate and more full creative control and the rights to his own songs, which few artists had gotten at that time period. This contract unleashed Wonder's songs to now talk about controversial issues such as poverty,war,drugs, and politics.Stevie is known for writing and performing political songs such as, You Haven't Done Nothing, which took a political stab at Richard Nixon. The first album he had released with his new agreement with MoTown was, Music Of My Mind in 1972. In late 1972 Stevie Wonder released an album which today is known as a historic piece in music,Talking Book. Which included the number one hit-song, Superstition. This song featured the clavinet which Stevie Wonder was credited pioneer of, he later used the electric amplified keyboard instrument in many of his other albums along with the synthesizer. The song Superstition was seen as a significant contribution to the Funk genre. Talking Book also featured, You Are The Sunshine Of My Life which also peaked at number one. Stevie Wonder also toured with The Rolling Stones in 1972 which contributed to his album's success. Stevie Wonder struck a controversial issue with the album, Innervisions in 1973 with singles such as Living For The City which talked about poverty and was credited to African Americans.The album also included singles such as Golden Lady, and All Love Is Fai
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The Keys to My Memory.
April 21, 2014
A VG Serial: Hills of Eden
At the computer, dreams take shape.
Away from the blessed solitude, only reality. Yet the writer must live in both worlds.
The trigger to dreams is the encounter, physical and mental, with people outside the dreams. This is not a womb here, in front of my computer, but it often feels as if being here might be a return to a more trouble-free existence. Especially in January, when the hunting seasons are over, the lakes too cold to fish, the ground so hard and frozen that even a walk is a femur-jarring experience.
We settled here in Branson after wandering away from the Ozarks for two and a half years. We saw the great country, the enormous, powerful, haunting, magnificent West once again, the desolation and the awesome emptiness, the grandeur of the mesmerizing landscape, with its ghosts, its shifting colors, its mystical spells, its raging sunsets and endless skies.
We began our next phase of Ozarks solitaire in a humble dwelling that we planned to use only for a base while we continued to travel. We wanted to get back to the land we left, to work in peace and solitude, to find again the roots we had tendriled through the Arkansas earth. Just over the border, in Missouri, it seemed an ideal place to rest and take stock.
The old farm we owned in Arkansas was now inhabited by a younger couple and their children, good people who have inherited much that we reluctantly left behind.
I look at the muzzle loading rifles in the gun rack behind my desk, at the burlap calendar on the wall, the poster of a song on the door, a poem about the breaking of morning, a reminder of the first morning and all the mornings after, and begin to wind up my long day. I am grateful for this room, this mobile home in Lake Taneycomo Woods, my family.
It has been a day of scrambling and disorganized effort. I wonder if there is anything significant about it. Probably not. I enjoyed it though, as I enjoy every day.
The sunset tonight was spectacular. Seldom has this Ozarks sky been so red. The horizon was a broad smear of red ocher beyond Table Rock Lake.
A reporter came over from the local newspaper this afternoon to interview me about my first Ozarks book. We talked about a lot of things, but not about the book. He wanted to pin me down to something preconceived in his mind. I had only a mild objection, since it is easy to pin down a writer.
Writers are never seen at work. People see us only when we appear idle. I say “appear” because, like writing itself, this is an illusion. The mind is never idle. The writer’s mind is never very far away from the work. So, you see the reporter, talk to him. He is liable to end up in a book, even if only superficially. He could wind up as a reporter in 1850 or 1866 or at the turn of the century. You can talk to a man in a saloon and he is transformed, one day, into a fictitious character. We writers gobble up people like grave robbers in a cemetery of stereotypes.
Some people are uncomfortable around writers. I can understand why. We have a way of looking beyond conversational patter and digging into a person. We connect people up to other experiences, other personages in other times. We live in the present and write in the past tense. It’s always past tense, even if we write of the future. An idea is born, grows old before our very eyes.
The hum of my computer is comforting. The words appear on the screen in front of me as if they were scrolled there magically. It is quiet in the house. The books that surround me are oddly reassuring. Just to gaze at them brings a solace beyond explication. Someone has been there before, where you are going. I can see into their pages and recall the words that sing there, seemingly forever. At least the words are emblazoned there for as long as I will be around.
I recall the sunset and the sunrise.
Both were beautiful. And part of my habit, my simple creed never to miss either during your brief life on earth. They are just as precious as each breath taken in each day. They are things to recall during times of distress or trouble.
Recollection is a gift. A friend of mine, Jack Agins, was a doctor in Hollywood. He was a specialist in geriatrics. He once asked my advice about a book he wanted to write about elderly people. I did not have much advice since I was a young man in my thirties then. My mother loved elderly people and babies. I told him about her and he asked some technical questions about a book’s organization and the writer’s discipline. I told him how I constructed a book and stuck to it, working easily in harness, using my subconscious to find answers to plot puzzles and scene depictions.
Than I asked Jack what was the most terrible thing that an elderly person faced.
His answer was not what I expected. It was not loneliness, nor neglect, nor the fear and sadness of approaching death. Rather, the most crushing blow to an elderly person is the loss of memory. The horror of old age was being unable to remember the good times, the old times. The times.
I have thought of Jack’s pronouncement a lot since then. Jack was right. Losing one’s memory would be like erasing the chapters stored in the computer, like seeing all the pages of all the books in my room suddenly go blank.
I think I write, perhaps, because I want to leave a record of some days spent here on this good earth. Not out of ego or because my life is so special; it is not. But, because the best times are those shared with another, with someone you love, someone you do not know. With someone you want to know, even though you never will. And, too, I want to remember something before I forget it, forever.
It has been said that a writer must keep a diary or notebooks. There have been times when I felt this was the thing to do. But the practice never caught on with me. There is something secretive about a diary. My notebooks end up cobwebby, damp, soaked with rain, mildewed. I abandoned the practice when I realized that these private notations were not shared. They were cold, subjective, ego-stroking glyphs of no value to me or anyone else.
Instead, I write a lot of letters. These are my notes, my diary. They are keys to my memory. Even if I never see them again, they have gone out to someone, have told them about the day, the night, the pain, the good times, and the bad.
Here, in the Ozarks, there is so much that is memorable. There is so much to see every day, that if you don’t write it down, it will slip through your fingers like the tail feathers of a bird caught on the run.
Hills of Eden will be published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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When Fiat took control of Chrysler on 2009, Americans were promised smaller and more fuel-efficient cars. That was nearly two years ago, and only just now has the Fiat 500 begun showing up in showroom floors.
But despite this ultra slow rollout of Fiat’s first North American car in 25 years, the Italian automaker just announced they will also begin pushing out a second car – a convertible version of the 500.
Dubbed the 500C, it will be priced at $20,000 ($4,000 more than the hardtop), making it the cheapest four-seat soft-top car in North America.
The 500C will only weigh 100 pounds version than the original and the soft top will be able to can retract at speeds up to 60 mph with the simple push of a button. Impressive, since most convertibles require that you're at a crawl or stopped to retract the roof.
The 500C will seat up to four and will be available in 14 exterior colors, 12 seat colors and three soft-top colors. The mini convertible will be powered by a 1.4 liter 4-cylinder with 104 horsepower, matted to a 5-speed manual or 6-speed automatic.
Fiat says the 500C will begin hitting showrooms in May.


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