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The Sacred Monkey Sanctuary is home to 300-600 spirited long tailed macaques that live in three distinct troupes. The dense forest, one of Bali’s most revered for its Taksu, or spiritual power, encompasses 115 different species of trees, and none more impressive than the colossal Banyon Tree that leads to The Holy Bathing Temple. Actually, the tree and its hanging root system is so large it shelters an ornately carved Naga or Dragon Bridge that spans a deep gorge cutting through the heart of the forest.
There are many additional noteworthy facets of the Monkey Sanctuary. There are three principle temples, the oldest dating back to the 14th century, hundreds of moss covered expressive sculptures, grand trees and plants, and even a primate cemetery.
The mysteries surrounding the monkey cemetery are compelling. It is known that scores of the monkeys pass away each year, but only a small percentage of their bodies are actually recovered. No one is quite sure what happens or where they go. Numerous studies have been conducted with no definitive results. For the departed monkeys that are recovered, the human caretakers thoughtfully create a carved headstone reflecting their personality, their name and year of expiry.


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Comfortable, clean, good breakfast, convenient location, very friendly and helpful receptionist at the front desk - I believe Susie is her name. Excellent cost-benefit! We were orinally staying for only one night and then moving on to Monterey, but decided to take a day trip to Monterey and go back to Carmel for two more nights! Best thing we did!
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Shopify Online Store 1.0 Shopify Online Store 2.0 NOTE: These integration guidelines are limited to Shopify Online Store 1.0 only. Like most of the Shopify apps, we also offer automatic theme integration. It works for almost all the themes available in Shopify.Please ensure to integrate the theme with your store's duplicate/staging theme to avoid conflicts.Follow the steps for theme integration:With Online Store 1.0Theme Integration, it is necessary to manually add the snippets in the theme files to display the Trust and/or Payment Badges in the Shopify storefront.The location of the badges is a subjective choice, and choices differ in deciding the ideal location to place the badges in the store. Hence, we have given app users to set the codes in the theme files at their preferred location.Adding the Trust Badges1. Access the Shopify store admin and navigate to Themes > Choose the theme > Actions > Edit Code2. In this example, we are adding the Payment Badges below the Add to Cart button in the Product Page of the Shopify Store.3. Copy the code <div class='hulkapps-trust-icons'> </div> (this code can also be found at the bottom of the Trust Badges configuration page.)4. Find the code of the Add to Cart button in the store’s theme template and place this snippet just below the Add to cart Button code. And save the template.5. Check the product page and you’ll observe the badges displayed below the Add To Cart button.Guidelines mentioned above also applies for the Payment Badged placement.Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme doesn’t require any code placement. The badges can easily be enabled and placed right from the theme customization in the Shopify Dawn theme.Check out the steps below to understand how Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme works with the app :1. Navigate to the Online Store section of your Shopify store and under the Themes page look for your preferred Shopify 2.0 theme that is compatible and click on the Customize.2. On the Theme Customization page, click on Theme Settings on the bottom left corner.This enables you to customize the new Shopify Dawn theme.3. Click on the App embeds tab on the right side of the page under Theme settings block and enable the Add Badges and Icons option and Save the settings.4. Now, click on the Add section option on the left side of any customization page. And select the Payment Icons/Trust Badges option and Save the template. 5. Preview the Shopify storefront by selecting the View button from the Action menu available in the top menu and find the badges on the page its added to.NOTE: You can drag and drop the section to adjust the position of the badges as per your preference.


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Product designers and development engineers in a wide range of industries routinely turn to extruded aluminum components to solve product challenges. Historically, extrusions have been found in major applications, including in construction, transportation, consumer durables, and recreational products.
Today, engineers are looking to extrusions to help meet the challenges of restoring our infrastructure, advancing medical therapies, and reducing the carbon footprint of vehicles. This webinar will explore the unique attributes of the aluminum extrusion process and how they contribute to effective product solutions. It will also offer tips on designing and specifying extrusions to ensure the performance you need in a cost effective manner.
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- Key attributes of aluminum extrusions
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Dubai: Off-spinner Graeme Swann has said that having left-arm spinner Monty Panesar as a partner in the Test squad would benefit England tremendously.
“In fact, I hope England pick two spinners. I would love to have Monty Panesar wheeling away at the other end when the First Test begins on Tuesday,” Swann writes in an article for The Sun.
“It would great if Monty played. He is certainly in form, after taking eight wickets in our win over the Pakistan Cricket Board XI. I love playing with another spinner at the other end. I like the rhythms of the game with men round the bat and a lot of banter with the batsmen,” added Swann.
“We can bowl in tandem or give each other a break from bowling. First, though, we will need to look at the pitch. If it plays similarly to the one for the warm-ups, I think two spinners might be a real possibility,” Swann says.
How we fit Monty in — drop a batsman or a seam bowler — is another matter. And these are the sorts of problem I do not have to wrangle with.

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DAILY MORNING NOTE | 23 February 2023
Singapore shares declined on Wednesday (Feb 22) along with major regional markets, after Wall Street saw its largest single-day fall in 2023 overnight. The Straits Times Index (STI) fell 0.2 per cent or 6.82 points to 3,300.04. Across the broader market, losers beat gainers 304 to 246 after 1.7 billion securities worth S$1.3 billion changed hands. Major Asian markets were in the red on Wednesday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.3 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index shed 0.5 per cent and South Korea’s Kospi declined 1.7 per cent.
Wall Street stocks finished a choppy session mostly lower on Wednesday as markets assessed the significance of minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting, which revealed that nearly all policy makers favoured a smaller interest rate hike. But since that Feb 1 meeting, January inflation and employment data have suggested that pricing pressures remain acute, stoking fears that the US central bank’s rate-hiking cycle could be prolonged. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 0.3 per cent at 33,045.09. The broad-based S&P 500 shed 0.3 per cent to 3,991.05, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index added 0.1 per cent to 11,507.07.
Stocks to watch: UOB
UOB’s 4Q2022 results were slightly lower than expectations with normalised net profit of S$1.40bn vs our estimate of S$1.59bn. This was mainly due to net interest income growth of 53% YoY (S$2.56bn) and other income growth of 62% YoY (S$285mn) offset by net fee income dipping 16% YoY (485mn) and higher allowances of S$184mn (+65% YoY). 4Q22 dividend is up 25% YoY to 75 cents, total FY22 dividend at 135 cents (+13% YoY). More details to follow after the 10.15am analyst call.
Shares in Sats fell as much as 4.4 per cent on Wednesday (Feb 22) after the inflight caterer and ground handler said it will issue 363.1 million new shares at S$2.20 apiece to raise around S$798.8 million via a renounceable underwritten rights issue. The number of new shares to be issued represents around 32.3 per cent of all existing issued shares. The counter tumbled to a low of S$2.63 – down S$0.12 from its previous close of S$2.75 – after Sats called for the trading halt to be lifted around noon. It regained some composure to close at S$2.72 on Wednesday, down 1.1 per cent or S$0.03, after 10 million shares changed hands.
The certificate of entitlement (COE) price in the Open category hit a record high of S$118,001 in the tender exercise that closed on Wednesday (Feb 22). The commercial vehicle COE also set a new record price of S$87,790, and the premiums for all other categories went up. The price for Open COE at S$118,001 represents an increase of 12.4 per cent from S$105,002 in the last tender exercise. This breaks the record of S$116,577 set in November 2022.
Local public transport operator SBS Transit, a 75%-owned company of ComfortDelGro, announced that its FY2022 ended Dec 31, 2022, earnings have increased by 31.7% to $68.0 million from $51.6 million a year ago. This comes on the back of a 15.6% y-o-y increase in revenue to $1.5 billion from $1.3 billion last year, with revenue contribution from both public transport services and other commercial services seeing growth. Revenue from the public transport services business, which comprises bus and rail services, increased by 15.8% y-o-y to $1.5 billion. This was due mainly to higher fuel indexation from higher oil prices, and higher rail revenue from increased ridership.
Healthcare services provider TalkMed Group’s net profit for the second half (H2) rose 28.7 per cent, thanks to higher revenue from more oncology patient visits in Singapore. Net profit for the six months ended Dec 31, 2022 rose to S$18.4 million, from S$14.3 million in the corresponding period in 2021. This was mainly due to an improvement in patient numbers – who came from around the region – following the easing of pandemic measures in Singapore last year, TalkMed said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday (Feb 22).
Google Asia-Pacific will give up part of the space it leases at Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust’s (FLCT) Alexandra Technopark property from Feb 20, 2024, the real estate investment trust (Reit) manager said in a filing on Wednesday (Feb 22). The manager said the tech giant has exercised its contractual right to surrender a portion of its premises that it leases. The premises to be surrendered constitutes approximately 1.7 per cent of FLCT’s gross rental income (GRI) for the month ended Dec 31, 2022.
The manager of United Hampshire US Real Estate Investment Trust (United Hampshire US Reit) on Wednesday (Feb 22) posted distribution per unit (DPU) of US$0.0297 for the second half ended Dec 31, 2022, down 2.6 per cent from DPU of US$0.0305 the previous year. Excluding one-off top-ups and stipulated damages, adjusted DPU for H2 FY2022 would have been 5.7 per cent higher than the previous year. The H2 DPU of US$0.0297 will be paid on Mar 31. Distributable income rose 5.2 per cent to US$16.8 million in H2, from US$16 million in the year-ago period.
Boustead Singapore will raise the offer price to take its mainboard-listed real estate subsidiary Boustead Projects private to S$0.95 per share from S$0.90 previously, with the revised offer price final, Boustead Singapore said in a bourse filing on Wednesday (Feb 22). The announcement comes after investor protests on undervaluation. In a letter to Boustead Singapore on Feb 16, the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) (Sias) called on the engineering services provider to raise its offer price, citing the discount to asset value then as “simply too large to ignore”.
Baidu announced a US$5 billion share buyback after reporting better-than-expected revenue, reflecting how its cloud computing service is offsetting an advertising lull during China’s economic downturn. Its shares gained 6 per cent in pre-market US trading. Sales slipped to 33.1 billion yuan (S$6.43 billion) for the three months ended December, compared with expectations for 32.1 billion yuan. Net income came in at almost 5 billion yuan during the quarter, when China made a U-turn on its Covid Zero policy that disrupted parts of the world’s No 2 economy.
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms is planning a fresh round of job cuts in a reorganisation and downsizing effort that could affect thousands of workers, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday (Feb 22). The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Last year, the social media giant said it will let go of 13 per cent of its workforce, or more than 11,000 employees, as it grappled with soaring costs and a weak advertising market.
Amazon.com says it has completed its purchase of One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare, sealing the US$3.49 billion acquisition after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) declined to challenge it. The deal gives the e-commerce giant a network of primary-care doctors, Amazon’s biggest move to date into the health care industry. One Medical operates more than 200 medical offices in 26 markets in the US. Customers pay a subscription fee for access to its physicians and digital health services.
Intel, the biggest maker of computer processors, slashed its dividend payment to the lowest level in 16 years to preserve cash and focus on a turnaround effort. The company will reduce it’s quarterly payout to investors to 12.5 cents a share for holders payable Jun 1, the chipmaker said in a statement on Wednesday (Feb 22). Intel’s current quarterly dividend is 36.5 cents and was projected to cost more than US$6 billion in 2023. The new payment resets Intel’s dividend to a level not seen since 2007.
Tesla has begun assembling batteries in Germany but will focus cell production in the US in light of Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives, a spokesperson said, one of the first firms to declare a strategy shift prompted by the package. The US electric-vehicle maker is also preparing to produce cell components such as electrodes, some of which will be sent from its site in Gruenheide in the state of Brandenburg, to the United States, the Tesla spokesperson said on Wednesday (Feb 22).
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The official Geeks Geek, as his weekly column is titled, Avram Piltch has guided the editorial and production of Laptopmag.com since 2007. With his technical knowledge and passion for testing, Avram programmed several of LAPTOP's real-world benchmarks, including the LAPTOP Battery Test. He holds a master’s degree in English from NYU.
Regarding Windows Blue – Microsoft has not denied the reports.
>So, for Windows Blue to launch even as late as Q4 of 2013, Microsoft would have to announce a developer preview or public beta at the
>beginning of the year.
They won’t be playing around with that this time around. Blue is coming as either an update or a massive service pack. Think of it this way: Microsoft is in a mad dash to converge Windows Phone, Windows Desktop, Windows RT and to some degree X-Box. To put it a more cynical way: they know their only hope in mobile is to leverage their existing monopoly (desktop) to create another (mobile), which has been the singular business tool MS has employed since the days of DOS. The OSes will be interlinked. To have a mobile phone/tablet OS that only updates once every three years is certain suicide. Windows Phone will need yearly updates and this will mandate Windows Desktop updates too.
There won’t be the giant 3+year roll-outs anymore. Think Apple and its more incremental yearly updates. This will be the new Microsoft approach. Whether it’s called a new version of the OS, a service pack, a “.5″ release, etc. is to be determined, but it is coming and there’s no way MS can finish integrating its product line without this release schedule change. Further point: Sinofsky, the Windows architect, infamous for wanting complete control of his division and anything that touched Windows, was canned a few weeks after Win8 shipped. All the reports said that his need for control was not going to work when the MS strategy was going to be to integrate the desktop, mobile and game divisions. If the next step in integrating is worth firing the man who was once talked about as the next Microsoft CEO, yearly Windows updates are hardly a major change in comparison.


Motorola Bluetooth Home Stereo Adapter DC800
The Motorola Bluetooth Home Stereo Adapter DC800 is the latest in Bluetooth technology. With Bluetooth A2DP Streaming Music Profile, your Motorola Bluetooth Home Stereo Adapter DC800 can stream music from your home stereo to your Motorola Bluetooth Stereo Headset HT820 or other Bluetooth stereo headset device with A2DP support. Or, you can stream music from your A2DP-enabled Bluetooth phone to your home stereo. You can keep the tunes flowing wirelessly throughout your home! Plus, with Class 1 Bluetooth support, you can connect wirelessly up to 300 feet away with other class 1 capable Bluetooth devices. Includes 2 RCA to RCA cables, 1 RCA to 3.5mm cable, power supply, quick start guide and 1 year Motorola factory warranty.
Tune in and keep talking.
Enjoy your favorite tunes upstairs and down (up to 30 feet away from your stereo) without making a sound or missing a call. With the Motorola Bluetooth® Home Stereo Adapter, you'll be wirelessly listening to your favorite tunes through your headset in no time. Play music from your PC or wireless phone through your stereo speakers. Easy to use, one-touch pairing allows your home stereo to connect wirelessly to all your music whether stored on your PC, laptop or wireless phone.
Listen to music through your wireless phone headset without missing any calls
What's in the box
Motorola Bluetooth Stereo Gateway DC800 unit RCA to RCA Cable (2) RCA to 3.5mm Cable RCA to 2.5mm Cable Power Cable Quick Start Guide
Motorola Bluetooth® Stereo Headset HT820
Rid your life of wire clutter!
Music can now be streamed from your phone, stereo or PC to your headset for wire-free listening enjoyment. Music will automatically pause when a call comes in. When the call ends, the music resumes play. Eliminates the clutter of wires between devices.
The neat stuff
Integrated noise-canceling microphone Integrated volume, call and music controls 3.5mm jack connection
High-quality stereo audio
What's in the box
Motorola Bluetooth Stereo Headset HT820 3.5mm headset jack and accessory cable User documentation
Ready to move with your music? Just combine your Bluetooth Stereo Headphones with your computer, home stereo or MP3 player and either a Bluetooth Home Stereo adapter or Bluetooth PC adapter. The headphones come complete with easy-to-use controls for hours of hands-free listening. And with a Bluetooth-enabled phone added to the mix, you can answer calls right from your headphones.
High-quality Audio Whether you're listening to a favorite tune on your PC or talking to a friend on your phone, you'll hear it all in crisp, clear audio.
Intuitive Controls From cranking the volume on a favorite tune to taking a call from a loved one, you can control two different devices at the touch of a finger.
Lightweight and Comfortable Taking your music with you just got easier and more enjoyable. Simply pick up your headphones, put them on and go with the flow.
2-in-1 Music Device Music automatically mutes with each incoming call. After you finish your conversation and hang up, the music continues


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Hospitals and cancer wards are never the happiest of places to be; with so much hardship around it can be difficult to stay positive. But one mom managed to bring happiness and positivity to the Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, North Carolina, when she sat down to play the piano in the foyer.
1-year-old Lincoln Tanner may only be tiny, but he’s had a lifetime of pain in his short life. Lincoln suffers from a rare form of epilepsy called Malignant Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy (MMPSI). The poor baby can have as many as 200 seizures in a day. Unfortunately, his condition is terminal.
Despite his tragic condition, Lincoln has a supportive and loving family who do all they can to help him through his condition. This includes his adoring mother, Abby. Abby does anything she can to make him laugh, including entertaining him by singing to him. It was during one of her moments of entertaining her son that she touched the lives of so many people.
When Abby sat down to play the piano to Lincoln, a nurse caught the moment on camera and uploaded the emotional video to the Facebook page for the Duke Cancer Institute. Playing and singing the song ‘Never Enough’ from recent blockbuster ‘The Greatest Showman’, Abby performed beautifully for her ailing son.
Abby had taken Lincoln for a neurology appointment that day when she saw the piano with the words ‘Play Me’ on a piece of paper. (She clearly didn’t need to be asked twice.) She knows how Lincoln loves to hear her voice and feel the vibrations of the piano, so she parked his pram up next to the piano and worked her magic.
Since the video was uploaded to the Facebook page, thousands have shared the video and praised Abby for her angelic performance. The video has helped to raise awareness of MMPSI and Lincoln’s difficult journey. We wish them all the health and happiness possible in their journey to living as happy a life as possible.

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We all love rain—until we are ready for some sun! This joyful ode to rain for kids 2 to 6 explores a child's many emotions when it comes to wet weather.
In this charming picture book, a young child's conversation with the rain poetically captures the ever-shifting feelings we have when it comes to drizzles and downpours. She thanks the rain for helping the strawberries and carrot seeds to grow, and delights in splashing in the puddles with her little brother. Then, she asks the rain if it could take a vacation so she can play in the park and go lightning fast on her scooter. Eventually, it's too hot for sidewalk chalk and catching frogs, and she begins to miss it.
Welcome, Rain! encourage kids to:
- Get outside to explore and play, even in the rain
- Understand why rain is important, from helping plants grow to bringing cooler temperatures
Cycling through the four seasons, this adorable picture book is a celebration of our feelings for the rain—how we wish it would go away, then long for it when it's gone—and the necessary role it plays in our lives.

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Kedma is a social venture founded and run by a young woman, Tira-El Cohen, who decided to re-energize the Zionist value of relocating to, and living in, a rural village along Israel’s borders – in the south and north.
She established groups of students who were keen to combine study and living in a rural setting. Since she initiated her vision, Tira-El and her organization Kedma have established 16 student villages across the borders in the south and north of Israel. The students live and work in the village while studying at a nearby college and receive a scholarship from the program based on their volunteer commitment to the village/community.
Galila has connected with Kedma in the establishment of a new border student village at Kibbutz Misgav Am –an isolated, veteran community situated on the Israel-Lebanon border. The students have injected new life into this remote community and are hugely beneficial to the multi-factor needs of this Kibbutz.

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"Always bought Makita gear but decided to have a change. This bit of kit is awesome, its light and super fast 2000 rpm on gear two. My Makita's will be sitting at the bottom of the tool box for a while. If your looking for a drill then stop know, you've found it...Buy it."
"My first De Walt Drill. Awesome power and performance so far (only got it at Christmas) need to have good quality drill bits to make the most of its power on masonry, assss it is too easy to blunt cheap ones. No hesitation in reccomending."
"This is the third DeWalt cordless drill I have bought and they get better each time. This one is particularly light to hold but heavyweight in performance. It does everything you would expect from a premium drill. A nice touch is the light which remains on for a limited period after releasing the trigger."
"I recently purchased one of these drills while on a trip to the usa but it came with only 1 battery so I decided to purchase drill and battery over here as a kit and oh boy this is a brute,and so light weight seems very robust go on buy one you wont be dissapointed!"
"amazing power and speed, its the only drill iv ever used where iv needed to use the tourqe settings. very very fast for driving screws. its better than my impact driver! plenty of low gear torque to really force a 38mm bit through a work top or joist. not as much torque as my 3 speed makita but theres easily enough for the job and with the 1.5ah batteries its compact enough fot the kitchen units but still has a nice heavy weight to it. battery holds a decent amount of charge and because its a german brand it should be quite strong and even if it breaks it has a 3 year garuntee, not warranty, a garuntee. and to top it all off the bit holder is a flat magnet so u can stick any bits to it u want. very nice touch"
"This DeWalt DCD785C1 Cordless Drill was bought for use while on ladders, I've found it easy to reach for on any task. It has good torque which is adjustable; Sits in the hand very comfortably, is very good when used as a screwdriver and the quick charging time (about 30mins for full charge but will work after 10mins or so) means you can survive with only the one battery. I have only had it for 4 weeks so can't honestly comment on durability."
"I hummed and hared about wether to get this drill or not. But I am pleased I did. I works like a dream. It has a little light to show where you are drilling or wherever you shine it. The drill has great power for my needs."
"I did a lot of research on a number of websites before buying this drill for my husband. He previously had a Black and Decker that had lasted decades but was a dinosaur in the world of drills and I thought he deserved something better. I wanted a lightweight (lithium ion) cordless including a light, that would last well and had all the features a competent diy-er was likely to need (from outdoor work to carpentry). This fitted the spec, was very well reviewed everywhere and the Screwfix deal was the best I could find from a company I knew from previous experience to be reliable. The drill arrived very quickly and as a bonus has a sturdy case to keep everything together. My husband is very pleased with it and the only reason I have only given 4 * to performance and reliability is that he has not yet had the chance to fully try it out or test its reliability. The only other thing to add its that I find the search facilities on the Screwfix site excellent, plus the product descriptions are sufficiently comprehensive to be confident of choosing the right product."


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E-planning is the e-government concept applied to urban and regional planning. It is the widespread use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet, in the planning system. A planning portal is the access point in the Internet, frequently in the context of a public digital city project. E-planning allows the municipality to carry out a new set of activities or to implement traditional procedures in a new form, due to geographical information systems, computer aided design and database systems, among other tools mentioned, for example, in Mohamed, Meng, and Abdullah (2003), Budthimedhee, Li, and George (2002), Campagna and Deplano (2004), and Harrison and Haklay (2002). E-planning corresponds, therefore, to the passage from a paper-based urban management system to one based primarily on electronic means of information and communication. But it must be seen as more than a simple transfer to a computer system of the traditional paper based routines (Mohamed et al., 2003; Parsol, 2004), requiring also the re-engineering of procedures, the development of a fully integrated ICT back office and, as Harrison et al. (2002) suggest, changes in the nature of the planning process itself. The aims of e-planning, such as more generally all the other components of e-government (for example, OECD, 2003; Pascual, 2003), are to provide better public services, more efficiently, with lower costs and, at the same time, to do that through more participative, transparent and more accountable decision-making processes. In its more basic level, the e-planning system only offers information and is, therefore, easier to implement. In its more advanced versions, where all or most of the planning services are delivered electronically, its implementation and daily management is not only a more complex task but it also involves more investment, as Couclelis (2004) notes for digital cities. According to the standards of e-Europe, the European Union (EU) initiative for the information society (CEC, 2000, 2002), the availability of public services online can be measured in relation to a framework of four levels of e-government maturity (CEC, 2004). Applying this scheme to the planning sector, we can consider that the first level—information—consists only in the publication of digital information through the Internet, with few or no capacities to interact. In the second level of maturity—interaction—users of the system can communicate directly with the planning department by electronic mail (one-way interaction); it is possible to download planning applications, for example. In the third level—transaction—users and the planning department communicate electronically with each other (two-way interaction); it is possible to process planning applications and to authenticate them. In the fourth level—integration—there is a full electronic handling of all planning functions.


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Considering the long list of WRC trophies that the Impreza line has racked up since hitting the rally scene in the early 1990s, it’s hard to believe that the 2011 Subaru WRX STI (like its predecessors) started out life as a regular Impreza. Of course, the WRX STI name means that the Subaru has been stuffed to the gills with rally-inspired technology, including the turbocharged 2.5-liter horizontally-opposed “Boxer” motor producing 305 horsepower and 290 foot-pounds of torque channeling power through a slick 6-speed manual transmission. Other than a healthy power output, what sets the STI apart from its lesser Impreza brethren is an advanced version of Subaru’s Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive system with Driver Controlled Center Differential, which allows the driver to optimize the AWD front to rear power distribution for optimal handling in any conditions. The driver is also in control of the engine’s electronic throttle mapping through Subaru’s SI-Drive, which in “Sport” and “Sport Sharp” modes allow quicker throttle response for ultimate acceleration. Subaru’s has pulled the new STI lower to the tarmac, bolted up thicker front and rear stabilizer bars to reduce understeer, and fitted new wheels that save four pounds per corner. What it all adds up to is the best-handling STI ever and, as always, this Subaru is a lot of rally-bred performance for very little coin.
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Len Blavatnik, the richest man in Britain and owner of Warner Music Group, might be about to go up in your estimations.
The billionaire’s Access Industries directly donated over $1m to an anti-Donald Trump GOP group in February, it has emerged.
Blavatnik was one of many seven-figure donors to the Conservative Solutions PAC group last month.
He contributed towards a $25m total monthly sum which also included money from poultry magnate Ronald Cameron and ex-AIG boss Hank Greenberg.
Access Industries also gave Conservative Solutions PAC a further $250,000 in December 2015.
February’s $25m donation was primarily used to back the campaign of Marco Rubio, Trump’s rival for the Republican nomination.
Rubio stood down from the leadership race earlier this month, having been doggedly attacked by Trump-funded advertising.
Trump remains firm favourite to go up against the Democrats’ then-leader – Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders – in the US Presidential elections this November.
Blavatnik’s money won’t have all gone to waste, however.
It is estimated that Conservative Solutions PAC has spent $4.8m on anti-Trump messaging, with the rest of its cash going on promoting Rubio’s campaign.
The ‘super PAC’ has been attempting to shoot Trump down following his primary victories in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina in February.
However, Trump swept ‘Super Tuesday’ on March 1, winning the Republican nomination in seven out of 11 states.
Conservative Solutions PAC reportedly raised another $17m for March, but Blavatnik’s involvement in that round is unconfirmed.
The Sunday Times’ annual Rich List reported last year that Ukrainian-born Blavatnik had amassed a personal fortune worth £13.17bn.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON (SCE) AGREEMENT FOR THE ACQUISITION OF STREETLIGHTS
Amend the 2016-17 Capital Improvement Program to add a project for the Acquisition of Streetlights from SCE.
Appropriate funds in the amount of $2,751,200 from the General Fund Unreserved Fund Balance to the Capital Improvement Project Fund for the acquisition and transfer costs.
Authorize the City Manager to prepare and execute an agreement with SCE for the purchase of streetlights.
SCE owns, maintains, and leases streetlights to the City. The cost for this service has been rising substantially over the years and has reached over $740,000 annually.
In 2012, a group of Southern California cities formed a coalition for the purpose of encouraging SCE to sell such streetlights to the respective cities. As a result, SCE provided a limited window of an opportunity for the cities to request a valuation of their streetlight systems and enter into a purchase agreement with SCE.
The City of Chino Hills applied for and eventually received a valuation of approximately $2.7 million in May 2016. SCE has proposed selling an estimated 4,446 streetlights with an average annual fee of $155.16 per pole. Once the City obtains ownership, the cost will drop to an estimate of $108.26 annually. This equates to annual savings for the City of over $208,000 for the system. Without considering avoided rate increases, the straight-line cost recovery period would be approximately 13 years.
The future sale of the streetlights to the City is conditional upon the City entering into an agreement with SCE by May 2017. Staff evaluated this opportunity and presented the findings to the Public Works Commission on January 4, 2017. The Commission was highly supportive of the action. Therefore, staff is recommending that Council authorize the City Manager to enter into this agreement with SCE committing to purchase the streetlights within the City.
With the execution of the agreement, SCE and City staff will field verify the exact quantities and locations of the streetlights and, after PUC approval, the transition will occur. Transition costs, estimated at $50,000, will include a City identifier and digital mapping of each pole. Once the infrastructure is owned, the City will have an additional opportunity to upgrade the lighting with LED, which will result in further savings. Staff anticipates this upgrade to occur shortly after the turnover of the streetlights.
ENVIRONMENTAL (CEQA) REVIEW:
The proposed project is categorically exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Title 14 California Code of Regulations § 15301 (h) as a Class 1 categorical exemption (Existing Facilities). The project involves maintenance of existing facilities and is not anticipated to have any significant impacts with regard to traffic, noise, air quality, or water quality.
This project was not anticipated in the 2016-17 CIP budget and will reduce the General Fund Unreserved Fund balance by $2,751,200 for the initial investment. Once ownership of the street lights has been transferred, the General Fund will be reimbursed for the initial investment through internal charge back to the appropriate cost centers on a pro-rata share basis (i.e. Gas Tax and the various Landscape and Lighting Districts). Staff projects an annual city-wide savings of approximately $208,000 due to lower street light maintenance costs. It is anticipated that the city-wide savings will offset the initial purchase price in 13 years.
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A Murder Mystery trope.
The victim and the attacker are both actors, rehearsing or acting out a scene with a prop weapon. Unbeknownst to either, a third party has switched out the prop weapon for a real weapon, and the attacker kills the victim before realizing the switch.
For the Real Life version of this, please see Fatal Method Acting.
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Played straight in the Kindaichi Case Files: One case got kicked off as an actress died from drinking a glass of wine that has been poisoned. Later averted when in the same case, a prop has been switched with a murder weapon that was about to be used but the would-be victim blocked it in time.
Toyed with in Detective Conan. An otaku shoots himself in the head with a real gun in public, apparently thinking it was a fake one. For worse, he had just shot a cosplayer under the same belief. This is intentional: the cosplayer who was shot is the one who tricked that otaku into first shooting him (he was wearing protection as a part of his outfit) and then shooting himself, in revenge for having caused the death of his younger brother.
In The Maze Agency story "The Death of Justice Girl", the actress playing Justice Girl is killed when the murderer swaps out a pistol loaded with blanks for one loaded with live ammo.
In The Clones of Bruce Lee, the gold-smuggling director's yes-man suggests using this to kill the Bruce Lee Clone they suspect to be a secret agent. As Spoony pointed out in his review, this is very badlyHarsher in Hindsight, since Bruce's son Brandon was killed on the set of The Crow by a weapons malfunction.
Happens in the Elvis Presley film Frankie & Johnny with a prop gun that's been loaded with real bullets.
In Shaun of the Dead, not only is the rifle displayed at the Winchester pub real, it's also loaded.
In The Prestige, Borden emphasizes that a bullet-catching trick where the (bulletless) gun is fired by an audience member is still dangerous, because the volunteer can slip something down the barrel and fire it for real. Guess what happens.
This is the central plot point of Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star.
Animal House: As a prank, Bluto and D-Day get Flounder to shoot Marmalard's horse in Dean Wormer's office, the two formers assured that there are blanks in the gun. Flounder doesn't have the heart to shoot the horse so he aims it in the air and fires. The horse promptly dies of a heart attack. Bluto and D-Day panic when they hear the horse fall with a thud and see it dead on the floor (D-Day: "Those were blanks!!")
The Polish book Dwie "Kobry". A character in a TV show is supposed to be killed by a faulty electrical socket, but the socket turns out to be a real one and the actor is actually electrocuted.
The initial murder in Witness in Death is accomplished in this manner during a stage production of Witness for the Prosecution. It's subverted when it turns out that the actress who did the stabbing was the one who switched the prop knife with the real one, and knew very well what she was doing when she stabbed him.
Caroline Graham's novel Death of a Hollow Man has the actor playing Salieri in a performance of Amadeus fatally injured when someone removes the protective tape from the blade of the prop razor that the character cuts his throat with. This stayed the same when the story was adapted into an episode of the Midsomer Murders TV show.
An episode that was written by author Caroline Graham. Hence why the episode follows the book so closely.
In Enter A Murderer has a prop gun used for an on-stage killing loaded without the actors' knowledge.note This was a rare fictional work to acknowledge the real-world hazards of blank ammunition: because of the very close on-stage range of the shooting the pistol wasn't meant to be loaded with anything and the bang would have been provided by an off-stage sound-effect.
Swing Brother Swing uses a sneaky variation of this. It's suggested that a musician was murdered during an on-stage gangster routine by a dart, not a bullet, being loaded into a blank-firing pistol. But actually he acted the death as planned but was surreptitiously stabbed to death afterwards while playing dead before the scene ended, so everyone thought the on-stage killing had been real.
Light Thickens has a loose variation, in which the fake severed head of Macbeth is replaced on the end of a pole with the head of the decapitated murder victim.
Happens in the Joanne Fluke/Hannah Swenson mystery Cherry Cheesecake Murder, when the director of a movie shoots himself with a supposed-to-be-not-loaded prop gun, to attempt to demonstrate the emotion required in the scene to the actors.
Inverted in Wyrd Sisters, when the Duke loses his mind and begins stabbing people, including himself, with a prop knife. No one is hurt, but he's convinced that everyone he strikes is dead, and even insists he's now a ghost to Death himself. The discrepancy is soon resolved, when he attempts to use his ghostly powers to fly.
In There Was an Old Woman by Ellery Queen, one man challenges his brother to a pistol duel, so friends replace all the bullets with blanks, but somebody else puts bullets back in the gun before the duel.
John Dickson Carr'sThe Peacock Feather Murders involves a person being badly burned by a blank fired at close range.
Done by accident in a Selby the Talking Dog short story, where Selby accidentally glues up a retracting knife and then has to save Mrs. Trifle from it.
Psych has used this plot, during a telenovela episode. Until Shawn is able to prove otherwise, everyone is convinced that the actor with the knife was obviously completely responsible (and dumb enough to stab someone in the chest on live television). In true Psych fashion, proving his hypothesis almost resulted in Shawn's own death by not-fake prop weapon, this time a nail gun.
Monk also did it. The weapon was switched after the victim had already collapsed, due to peanut oil on the apple he had eaten. The actress accused of murder rightly points out that she would have been able to feel the difference in weight and balance between the prop knife and the real one.
Done in Oz during the prison production of Macbeth, though with a shank.
In the new Twilight Zone episode "Yellow," a soldier caught deserting is told by the general (who is his father), that the firing squad will use blanks, the soldier can play dead, and escape when the army leaves. At the last minute, when the soldier sees his father look away, he finds out this trope is in effect.
In the 1980s version of the series V, when an alien member of La Résistance is sword dueling with a human, the leader Diana turns on the plasma swords, making them lethal.
Another time this is played with when the murderer modifies an actual prop gun to fire bullets.
And another one earlier in the series, also with a real gun but the shooter didn't know there was a bullet in the barrel.
An episode of Bonanza has Hoss get framed for murder when the blank rounds from a prop gun get switched for real bullets and the blanks turn up in his saddle bag.
A Smallville episode had someone put live ammo into a gun that was going to used to "shoot" the lead actress in a movie filmed in the town. The would-be murderer learned about Clark's powers when he somehow saw him catch the bullet.
One 1000 Ways to Die clip has a magician killed this way while performing the bullet catch illusion.
Used in an episode of the 1994 revival of Burkes Law, entitled "Who Killed the Starlet?" A woman is the bath while listening to some music, when a killer sneaks in and drops her boombox into the bathtub, killing her. It turns out that the killer and lady are merely actors on a movie set, and they're filming a murder scene. Then it turns out the boombox had been plugged into a live outlet by an unknown party, and the actress in the bathtub really is dead. But the boom box was plugged in after the murder; the victim was actually poisoned.
CSI NY had a case that bore a few similarities to the Real Life John-Erik Hexum case. An [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_(game) Assassin]-esque game was going on around New York in which people eliminated each other from said game with water guns/balloons. One player, an aspiring actor, got extremely annoyed because the eliminator used a fake casting agency setup and made him go through the whole interview, thus humiliating him. He got back at the guy by hoping to scare him with a gun loaded with blanks. He didn't know that a blank gun fired at point blank range can be as lethal as a gun with real bullets.
Rizzoli & Isles: In "No More Drama in My Life", the Victim of the Week is an amateur actor killed when the killer packs ball bearings into the blank round being used in a prop gun during rehearsal.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: In "Framed for Murder", the killer swaps the prop knife being used in a movie for the real knife used for taking stills. When the director demonstrates to the actress how he wants her to stab the leading man, he stabs himself in the heart.
The Honky Tonk Man almost killed Jake Roberts when the prop guy got a real guitar instead of a prop.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: In "The Adventure of the Notorious Canary Trainer", a criminal plans to fake his suicide so he can disappear. However, his partner double-crosses him and replaces the blanks in his revolver with real bullets.
The stringent safety protocols employed on most productions when using firearms were largely developed in response to famous real life examples of this trope. On the other hand, it's very hard to have a real life example using a weapon other than a firearm - the action required to stab someone with a knife is totally different from the action used by an actor to stimulate a stabbing with a fake weapon for example. Stabs, slashes and blows with weapons are generally faked in the same way and for the same reason as punches, slaps and other bare-fisted stage combat. After all - you can't really hit someone forty takes in a row, and the bruises wreck havok with continuity.
A Real Life tragedy without the malice. On October 12, 1984, actor Jon-Erik Hexum was filming a scene for the CBS TV series Cover Up. In the scene, he had a .44 magnum revolver loaded with blanks. After several takes, filming of the scene was delayed. As the cast and crew became more annoyed, Hexum decided to relieve the tension by performing a little joke. He grabbed the prop gun, put it to his temple and squeezed off a round. (People on the set later said that they believed that Hexum had assumed that the prop master had unloaded the gun between takes.) The blank — which was made up of a standard bullet casing and a standard powder charge, but with a "projectile" that had the consistency of a piece of blackboard chalk — crushed Hexum's temple. The blunt-force trauma was similar to that of being hit by a baseball bat swung by the hardest-hitting Major League-level home run slugger. Six days later, the 26-year-old actor was declared brain dead and, following to the wishes of his mother, his organs were harvested for transplant.
Bruce Lee's son, Brandon Lee died during the shooting of The Crow, when he was shot with a real gun. The gun was loaded with blanks, but a previous scene had seen the use of improvised dummy rounds by the second unit crew - real cartridges with the powder poured out - allowing for a shot of bullets in the revolver's cylinders when the weapon was aimed at the camera. The primer had just enough force to push the bullet into the barrel, but nobody checked the weapon properly before loading blank rounds for the actual murder scene. The blank round pushed the stuck bullet out of the barrel and Lee was really shot in the chest.
This trope can also apply to blunt instruments. In the non-fiction book The Art of Coarse Acting by Michael Green, which sounds like it ought to be a guidebook for starring in an Awful British Sex Comedy but is actually a combination memoir and Affectionate Parody of amateur dramatics tropes, author Michael Green expounds on the importance of viewing realistic-looking coshes and blackjacks supplied by the props department with grave suspicion.
In the Hitman: Blood Money mission "Curtains Down", Agent 47 has the option of switching a prop World War I pistol for a genuine one in working condition to kill a target, who is to be executed in the play Tosca. (At the time you first gain access to the level, this will be the only method of completing the mission with a Silent Assassin rating, since you won't have access to a suppressor for your rifle yet.)
Subverted in the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game, done to distract the player. The victim is killed with a large prop used for the TV show he co-starred in. Phoenix tries to argue that if it's a prop, it shouldn't have worked, but we realize that the blade itself is actually reasonably sharp. Subverted further in that the prop wasn't the murder weapon, it was a really sharp fence the victim fell on.
A case in a CSI: Crime Scene Investigation game involves an actress being killed on stage, supposedly by a prop gun. However, there are several inconsistencies: the man in charge of all props made the bullets and loaded them himself; the actress firing the prop weapon never actually pointed at the murder victim. It turns out the killer was the dead woman's husband, who found out that she was having an affair with the other actress. He fired a rifle from a balcony at the moment the prop gun was to go off.
Inversion: In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Gordito's father is killed during his gunslinger circus act because PETAsabotaged his guns before the performance. Had the PETA assassin UNLOADED Gordito's father's guns, the veteran shooter would have noticed the weight difference and presumably halted the act or loaded them. He sabotaged the guns so they were fully loaded, but incapable of discharging.
The Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoon "People Are Bunny" ends with a passel of hunters in a TV studio opening fire on Daffy. Bugs assures us that they always shoot blanks on TV. Daffy shows up afterwards, his bill swiss-cheesed as he spits out the rifle ammo.
Daffy: Blanks, he says. Here. Have a handful of blanks! (tosses them in the air) Sheesh!


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Visit the Çeştepe Lighthouse Tower which is 200m long and was built in Hellenistic age. It's located on the north side of Karadeniz Ereğli.
See Crispos Temple that was built in the memory of Egyptian pandomima actor Crispos.
Visit Halil Pahsa Residence that was built on Yalı Street in lately 19th century.
Buy Devrek Bastonu which is the most popular hand-made product of Devrek region and can be found in Bastoncular Çarşısı (Baston Bazaar).
Buy Miners' statues as souvenirs.

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Black Friday chaos goes global: Topless feminist trashes Ukrainian sweet store as shoppers in Brazil and Greece join in the frenzied struggle for bargains
- Radical feminist protester hijacked Black Friday sales at a Kiev sweet shop by throwing items around topless
- In pictures from a shop in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, huge crowds can be seen battling for big-screen TVs
- One worker can be seen standing on a stack of TVs attempting to marshal the chaos by using a vuvuzela horn
- In Athens, meanwhile, queues are already starting to build as shoppers in Greece strike out in search of deals
Black Friday is well under way around the world – with a topless feminist protester appearing in a Ukrainian sweet shop and frenzied bargain-hunters battling for deals in the likes of Brazil and Greece.
Photographs from the Ukrainian capital show a woman from radical feminist group FEMEN throwing confectionery while screaming in protest.
Before being taken away, the woman – who also had the words ‘Black Friday’ painted on her torso – managed to cause a considerable mess in the store.
A topless activist of the feminist movement FEMEN bearing the slogan ‘Black Friday’ raids a shop in Ukraine this morning as consumer madness spreads around the world
Before being taken away, the woman – who also has the words ‘Black Friday’ painted on her torso – managed to cause considerable damage in the store
The shop – owned by Roshen – was named after former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. Here the protester can be seen throwing tins of cakes
The activist trashed the shop in Kiev by throwing chocolate bars and sweets in the air. The Roshen Corporation, which owns the shop, is the biggest confectionery retailer in Ukraine
The radical feminist protester was eventually taken away so genuine Black Friday shoppers could take advantage of the day’s sales
The shop – owned by Roshen – was named after former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko.


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Searching in vain for items of interest this quiet morning, I stumbled upon a video presentation of winners in the Washington Post's annual Peeps Show, a contest to create news-related dioramas from Peeps, the familiar Easter candy. Above is this year's winner, depicting the Chilean mine rescue. It includes a rescued miner greeting both his wife and mistress and another miner meeting a newborn child for the first-time.
Who says newspapers are irrelevant?


FUUSN Musicians Concert (Benefit for the UU Urban Ministry of Roxbury)
Come and hear the wonderful musicians of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in concert on Sunday, February 10, 3pm in the FUUSN Sanctuary. This year’s concert is a fundraiser for the UU Urban Ministry – the social service organization located at the First Church in Roxbury. You’ll hear renowned pianist Lois Shapiro, professional saxophonist and composer Geoff Wadsworth, and the intrepid FUUSN Band. There will be a fantastic array of musical styles and moods: classical works, traditional fiddle tunes, original jazz and rock compositions, and more. We’ll continue our new tradition of Cookies at Intermission!, and there will be a reception following the concert. The concert is free and open to the public. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the UU Urban Ministry (www.uuum.org).
Snow date: February 17, 2019.


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By Georgiana Murariu, on 26 March 2021
Since I joined the ASSA project as a public dissemination officer in late 2019, I’ve spent a lot of time discussing WhatsApp with the researchers in the group. Unsurprisingly, a lot of this discussion was actually on WhatsApp. The messaging service is probably the main way you communicate with your parents, siblings, and friends too, that is unless you live in China or the US, where the messaging app is not yet dominant. More than a quarter of the world uses WhatsApp, in fact – a few months ago, the Economist reported that the app was used by nearly 3 billion people. This is likely to continue going up as a result of COVID-19 moving more communications online.
WhatsApp is a key component of the stories, theories, and analysis contained in the monographs that will come out of the ASSA project, simply because it has become absolutely essential to communication between family members and is sometimes the primary reason for buying a smartphone in the first place, especially among those who are first-time smartphone users.
It is, as the ‘Global Smartphone’ book suggests, the heart of the smartphone alongside LINE and WeChat which are the dominant apps used in Japan and China respectively.
In this post, I want to reflect on some of the things I have learned about the messaging service through the first-hand ethnographic evidence coming out of this project and discuss its future direction of travel a bit, especially in light of two recent developments: attempts to better monetise the app, and the perceptions that the privacy of its users is becoming compromised.
A few months ago, our colleague Marilia Duque forwarded us an article in the NYT that suggested that changes being made to WhatsApp by its owner, the Facebook corporation, could be an important hint as to the direction the internet was going in.
WhatsApp was purchased by social media giant Facebook in 2014, two years after it completed its purchase of photo sharing app Instagram. Since Instagram has become Facebook-owned, it has, over the years, introduced pretty radical measures for extracting revenue out of the app. Inextricably tied to influencer culture, the app has also recently placed the ‘shops’ feature front and centre and is generally known for favouring beautifully-designed, professional looking accounts in its algorithm. WhatsApp, however, is a challenge for Facebook, because in and of itself, the app does not make a lot of money (its initial £0.69 annual cost was dropped in 2015). WhatsApp operates without ads, in contrast to platforms like Instagram and Facebook. In many of the markets it operates in, especially if we are talking about countries where many mobile phone users have cheap, constant access to data, it has all but rendered SMS services redundant.
As it stands, Facebook owns a gigantic messaging service that a large part of the world’s population uses, which gives it a lot of potential power. However, it also owns a service that it can’t technically monetise in the classical sense. The goal was initially to have Whatsapp users communicate with banks, airlines and other businesses, and for WhatsApp to charge these businesses a certain fee to provide customer service infrastructure for them.
There have been attempts, here and there, to extract more revenue out of the app, including ‘WhatsApp Business’, a version that helps businesses interact with customers via chat, like in the example below, from the WhatsApp website. Although this feature is used in Brazil and India, it is not exactly globally successful (even if Brazil and India are big markets), and certainly not how the majority of customers would think to communicate with a business they’re buying from.
This does not mean that the concept would not work if scaled up, or that users would reject it – indeed, the ASSA project found that in many fieldsites, WhatsApp use went well beyond communication with family and friends, and was used in very diverse settings, from setting up care for a relative, to helping oncology nurses in Chile orient patients and give them the information they needed to cope with the complexity of navigating oncology treatment.
Marília Duque, our researcher who did 16 months of fieldwork São Paulo, Brazil, has written about the potential of the messaging app to be used in healthcare settings – both between healthcare professionals, and healthcare professionals and patients. What she proposes is a response to the reality that in many countries, doctors already use WhatsApp in hospital and clinical settings, though not always openly. This has been happening in the UK for a number of years – WhatsApp is seen as a seamless way to get information across, eliminating the need to communicate through what are sometimes seen as ‘archaic’ NHS systems, though for now, this question is still surrounded by data-sharing concerns, especially because it involves patient data.
When it comes to businesses featuring on the platform in a more professional capacity, many are likely going to be treading carefully (although again, this varies country by country). The reason for this is that WhatsApp is already a large number of users’ people’s preferred app because there are no ads on it and for some, because it is end-to-end encrypted (though I am not suggesting everyone cares about this) and therefore its message contents fairly private. Being in this intimate space and meeting the user ‘where they are’ in an era in which people are increasingly less likely to visit a company website is desirable for many organisations/businesses, but it has to be well-calibrated to users’ preferences, and there is good reason to believe many WhatsApp users are resistant to advertising. While one might prefer to resolve an internet issue with a customer service agent over WhatsApp, certain commercial services might not be as ‘wanted’ in the same space where one shares news and details about their life with their family and friends.
Meeting users where they are and privacy concerns
There is another factor that influences people being on WhatsApp – at a certain point, it is no longer solely about the app’s features or how intuitive its user interface is, but about the momentum of mass adoption. In business terms, an sms-style app has the potential to make money through exponential growth: one person vouches for the app so the rest of the members of the group download it to keep in touch with that person. This then keeps happening until the app becomes indispensable to its base of users. In more ethnographic terms, the ASSA team often found that some research participants were more or less forced to get the app – whether due to family pressure, or because everyone else was using it, or because their friends simply wouldn’t invite them to things as often if they weren’t on WhatsApp. This happened across several fieldsites. It has been common in the recent history of media for companies to first focus on growth prior to finding a route to commercial success.
WhatsApp has become a conduit to more intimate, private conversations, having become the platform of choice for both those who are tech-savvy, as well as those who are just getting used to their first smartphone. In some cases (including personal anecdotes I’ve been privy to), WhatsApp extends digital literacy to people who are not necessarily very good with email: it is not uncommon for a recent smartphone user to say they will WhatsApp something, while at the same time finding attaching it to an email difficult. But is this because the app is particularly user-friendly to use? Or is it because, forced by circumstance, for example if working or living in different countries, users were forced to be on it because most of their friends were on there, which has imposed a sort of digital literacy on them? And what happens when media reports surrounding the new terms and conditions proposed by WhatsApp causes a significant drop in users, so much so that the company has been forced to postpone their implementation due to backlash? Although Whatsapp has said that the contents of its messages will remain end-to-end encrypted, many users have interpreted the prompt on their phones asking them to accept the new terms as a sign that parent company Facebook will be able to access the content of those messages. What WhatsApp will be able to collect, however, is meta-data about its users: who they message, how frequently, and at what time (but without having access to the content of those messages). Alternative messaging apps such as Signal and Telegram are perceived as having benefitted from the fact that users tend to be more suspicious of WhatsApp due to it being owned by Facebook, as well as due to a general atmosphere of suspicion towards Big Tech.
As much as there is some talk of users moving to apps like Signal or Telegram (both plagued by their own problems, related to potentially being used by extremist political groups to organise), WhatsApp has become the medium through which a large proportion of the world communicates privately. This encompasses not just messages that set up meetings between friends or help people keep in touch with family members, but much more than that. WhatsApp chats have been used in court to present evidence (and such evidence is precious when the accuser/victim has not backed up their claims via another, more official channel, like email), to organise shifts in professional settings (sometimes disadvantaging those not using the platform), and even to provide the members of political groups with a place to organise operations.
It is hard to predict the future, but at the same time, it is difficult to believe that in a short space of time, users whose lives are effectively currently stored on WhatsApp will make the move to alternative apps (that is, if they even care about what data is collected about them in the first place). Adopting a new communication channel, if the mass momentum isn’t there – is just not worth it. As it stands, I currently have two friends on Signal and if I were to choose to move away from WhatsApp, I would have to persuade my entire family to join me. As we know, getting large amounts of users, not all of whom are tech-savvy, to download and install a new app is not without its hurdles.
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Dan Luke & the Raid’s debut album, Out of the Blue — whose spirited video for the track “Exoskeleton” is premiering exclusively below — is happening a bit differently than the Bowling Green, KY, rock troupe had planned.
The album, due out Oct. 11, was recorded with frontman Daniel Shultz’s older brother Bradley Shultz of Cage the Elephant and previewed during triumphant performances at this year’s South By Southwest festival. But a few weeks later guitarist Dylan T. Graves was killed in a work-related accident, leaving the remaining trio of Shultz, bassist Anthony Joiner and drummer Kendrick Don-Reid Brent shocked and grappling with the decision to go on.
“It’s just difficult,” Luke tells Billboard, noting that the “Exoskeleton” video was filmed in Graves’ hometown of Franklin, KY, and includes a tribute to the guitarist at the end. “Never in a million years would you have expected for this to happen. It was just a huge shock, and we didn’t know what to do.” It didn’t take long for Shultz, Joiner and Brent to figure it out, however.
“Dylan loved music. Music was his baby,” Shultz says. “Just remembering that helped us to heal and to grow. We felt like Dylan would be pissed if we didn’t keep going. But it’s still hard. It will always be hard, I’m sure, but I know we’ll always have the things we made together, and in that way a piece of him will be with us.”
Even before the tragedy, Shultz and company were already grappling with big issues on the 10-track Out of the Blue. The frontman says the set is “about a post-coming of age crisis. We’re in our early to mid-twenties. We went through the whole teenage thing fine and dandy and then just started getting into some partying and dark places, and deep down I didn’t want to be in those places and had to figure a way out of them.” Shultz, at least, had some help with that from brothers Bradley and Matt, Cage the Elephant’s frontman. “They’re my brothers before they’re Cage the Elephant, and we tell each other stuff,” Shultz notes. He recalls some special musical guidance as well from Matt, while the two were watching Elton John perform at the 2014 Bonnaroo festival.
“I was, like, 18 or something and we were in the middle of the crowd, just watching,” Shultz says, “and (Matt) pokes me and says, ‘Look around at these people. Don’t do it for yourself. Do it for them.’ That was really a special moment. I’ll always remember that.”
Bradley Shultz, meanwhile, proved to be a perfect producer for the Raid’s first release. “I really love it ’cause it’s such an honest relationship in the studio,” the younger Shultz says. “We can tell each other exactly how we feel about something; Being brothers made it pretty easy. He’d be like, ‘No man, that sounds like shit,’ and I’d do the same. That was great.”
As it prepares for Out of the Blue‘s release, Dan Luke & the Raid — whose members do landscaping in Bowling Green when not on the road — has “some on and off shows” scheduled and is working on a more extensive tour plan. “It’s exciting,” Shultz says of the impending release. “When we released (the singles) ‘Black Cat Heavy Metal’ and ‘Golden Age’ a couple years ago, that was the first time we’d ever put out anything like that; everything else was local release kind of stuff. Now we know what to anticipate, to some degree. We’re ready, for sure. We’ve been waiting for it.”


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This year’s fun packed summer fiesta is underway with more pedal powered cycle cinema showings and big finale still to come…
The family fun day at Peterborough’s East Community Centre on Padholme Road, is just one of a number of free events and activities taking place through until Saturday September 5, all celebrating sustainable travel options across Peterborough.
The big cityc entre bonanza hits Cathedral Square on Saturday August 29 with stalls, fun and and games and demonstartions from 10am – 5pm.
Cllr Nigel North, Peterborough City Council’s cabinet member for communities and environment capital, said: “The Travelchoice team always put a great deal of time and effort into organising a fun, varied calendar of activities during the summer showcase event. All of which are free to attend.
“This year looks like no exception and there will be something for everyone to enjoy over the fortnight, whether it’s watching The Lion King under the shade of Central Park’s trees, listening to live music, or trying out a range of different bikes in Ferry Meadows.
“While there is an emphasis on having fun, the Travelchoice team will share the message of the importance of reducing the need to travel by car and using sustainable transport. As well as being a more convenient, enjoyable, healthy and economical way to live, it matches our aspirations in creating the UK’s Environment Capital.”
The next events are…
Thursday August 27– Electric car day – Cathedral Square – 10am to 4pm. Electric vehicles are becoming more popular. Find out why from the experts at this free open day and electric vehicle display.
Saturday August 29– Travelchoice city centre bonanza – Cathedral Square and St John’s Square – 10am to 5pm. Free activities for all ages including a pedal powered sound system, Zumba, a freestyle BMX stunt champion, live music, bike marking and a children’s playbus.
Wednesday September 2– Cycle cinema – The Penguins of Madagascar – Serpentine Green Shopping Centre, Hampton – 10am to 4pm (the film starts at 1pm). In addition to the film there will be free fruit smoothies and a chance to win prizes.
Thursday September 3– Cycle cinema – The Lion King – Central Park, Peterborough – 7.30pm. Listen to live music from Tallawah and have your face painted as Simba in readiness for the free pedal powered film classic at 8.30pm. There will be free popcorn available, or bring along a picnic.
Saturday September 5– Travelchoice Summer Fiesta Finale – Ferry Meadows Country Park – 10am to 5pm. A celebratory finale of all things to do with cycling. Try out a range of bikes from trikes to cargo bikes. There will also be lots of children’s games, a bouncy castle and bike marking with Dr Bike.
Encouraging sustainable transport is a core aim of the council’s Creating the UK’s Environment Capital action plan. Find out more at https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/council/campaigns/environment-capital/

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February 29, 2024
AUSTIN – Austin Regional Clinic (ARC) is planning to redevelop a property next to two existing ARC clinics at 3816 and 2828 S. First St.
The new medical office will rise at 708 W. Ben White Blvd. following the demolition of a building that was constructed in 1979.
ARC’s new office includes a roughly 62,500-sf, two-story medical office building and a four-story, 98,000-sf unattached parking garage on the property’s north side.
The building’s first floor will have an ambulatory surgical center, and there will be “various specialty clinical spaces” throughout the building.
The property is owned by Austin Medical Properties LLC. Lawrence Group Architects of Austin is the project’s designer.
Construction of the new office is expected to begin Sept. 1 and wrap up by Dec. 1, 2025.


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Lucent Technologies last week announced its latest customer service offering designed to enable customers real-time interaction with call centre agents while surfing company Web sites.
Described as a supplement or enhancement for e-commerce transactions, the CentreVu Internet Solutions suite enables companies to deliver customer service via e-mail, Internet text chat and voice over IP, in addition to traditional telephone call centre operations.
Carl Borchardt, Lucent's regional call centre offer manager, said: "CentreVu Internet Solutions lets customers browse a business's Web site while simultaneously speaking to agents using 'text chat' or voice, all on a single phone line. The solutions give customers choices in how they can contact a business."
Borchardt said the function is similar to "press 0 for operator" options on telephone voice-response systems. By using CentrVu Internet Solutions, customers can easily contact customer service agents by simply clicking an icon on the Web site.
According to Borchardt, this latest customer service offering is more flexible and scalable than previous versions. Companies are now able to offer e-mail and text chat options rather than just voice over IP, as well as escort browsing functionality and enhanced collaboration, he said.
While this version only runs on other Lucent call centre solutions, Borchardt said future versions will run on independent platforms.


- A review last year looked into whether HS2 is on budget and value for taxpayers
- Results given to senior civil servant and spending watchdog, but not the public
- Ministers are under pressure to publish the findings amid claims HS2 could end up being most expensive railway per mile in the world
Ministers were under fire last night after suppressing a key report into HS2 overseen by the country’s most senior civil servant.
The review assessed whether the UK’s biggest ever infrastructure project is on budget and provides value for money for taxpayers.
It was led by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, which reports to the Cabinet Office, led by Sir Jeremy Heywood.
A report into whether HS2 is on budget and provides money for taxpayers was concluded last summer, but the results have been kept secret (pictured, artist’s impression of HS2 terminal at London Euston)
The review was concluded last summer, before the legislation required to build the first phase of the high-speed railway, between London and Birmingham, received Royal Assent.
But although the key findings were relayed to Sir Jeremy Heywood and the government spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, the report has never been published.
Sir Jeremy was nicknamed Sir Cover-Up after preventing the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War from seeing letters and records of phone calls between Tony Blair and George Bush.
The Government was last night under fierce pressure to release the findings after a rail expert warned that the London to Birmingham phase will cost £403million per mile to build, making it the most expensive railway in the world


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Barcelona reach agreement with Benfica for Portuguese right-back Nelson Semedo
- Benfica's Nelson Semedo will have a medical with Barcelona on Friday
- The 23-year-old will reportedly join for a fee in the region of £26million
- Semedo made 46 appearances last season as they won a league and cup double
- The deal could mean the end of Barca's pursuit of Arsenal's Hector Bellerin
Barcelona and Benfica have reached an agreement for the transfer of Nelson Semedo, pending a medical on Friday.
Spanish media reported on Thursday that the Portuguese right-back would be joining the Catalan giants for a fee in the region of £26million.
A deal for the 23-year-old could mean the end of Barca's pursuit of Arsenal's Hector Bellerin, who left the club's academy as a teenager and was reported to be their number one right-back target despite the Premier League being unwilling to sell.
Barcelona and Benfica have reached an agreement for the transfer of Nelson Semedo
Semedo broke into Benfica's first team in 2015 and made 46 appearances last season as they won a league and cup double.
He has six international caps but was sent off in this month's Confederations Cup third-place play-off match.
Barca will hope signing the attack-minded Semedo can fill the gaping hole at right back left by the departure of Dani Alves in 2016 after the limitations of converted midfielder Sergi Roberto in the role were exposed last season.
The 27-year-old Aleix Vidal, who can fill in at right back or on the right wing, missed three months of the campaign with an ankle injury suffered in early February.
Semedo made 46 appearances last season as Benfica won a league and cup double
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Coupang Play responded to the complaint of Anna's director Lee Zoo Young about the major editing the show had gone through without asking her advice.
In a statement, the streaming network aired its side of the story and explained what really happened that led to the major change in the series. After giving its reasons, Coupang Play promised to release the director’s cut of Suzy’s Anna.
Coupang Play Responds to Anna Director Lee Zoo Young’s Complaint
In a statement via Korea Joongang Daily, Coupang Play claimed it used to be “very supportive” of Lee Zoo Young and the production team.
However, it was later learned that the director’s editing direction dramatically differed from what they initially agreed upon.
Coupang Play revealed it made several requests to the director to edit the show according to what they both decided to do so.
“The director refused to do so over several months,” it said. “With the consent of the producer and in accordance with the rights stipulated in the contract, Coupang Play edited the work to match the original production intent.”
From their own editing works, the streaming platform claimed that Anna turned out to be a great hit and even received critical acclaim from the viewers.
But in respect for Lee Zoo Young and her editing direction, it promised to release the director’s cut of the series, dropping all of its original eight episodes this August.
“The series will be released as soon as a review by the Korea Media Ratings Board is completed,” it stated.
Director Lee Zoo Young Complains About Changes in Suzy’s Anna
Lee Zoo Young released a statement through the law firm Siwoo on Tuesday, August 2, claiming Coupang Play put her on the sideline after changing the editing direction of Anna.
It also criticized the streaming service for making the series shorter, only releasing six episodes of its original eight episodes, and ruining its structure and scenes order that “interfered with its narrative, filming, editing and intention.”
She said the show that premiered on June 24 was far different from the Suzy-starrer series she made, making it “unrecognizable” from her version.
With that said, she demanded Coupang Play apologize publicly to her and her staff, who worked hard on Anna and to delete her name from the edited six-episode version the platform aired.
The show’s editor, Kim Jeong Hoon, who also worked on Lee Zoo Young, said in a post on Facebook that the current version of Anna that fans saw wasn’t the work he and the director did day and night.
“I also demanded that Coupang Play remove my name from the credits, but it’s still in there,” he wrote. “I can’t stand seeing my name on the work that I didn’t even work on.”
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Republicans Play Ageism Subtly Against Hillary
They forget that they’re last few presidential candidates were’t exactly millennials.
Questions of health and fitness for the presidency dogged two former candidates of a similar age, Bob Dole in the 1996 election and John McCain in 2008, each of whom was 71 at this point in the race. Time magazine featured Dole on the cover asking whether he was “too old” for the job. McCain was so determined to show that he was healthy that he often put in back-breaking campaign days…
While eschewing direct attacks, some of the Republican presidential hopefuls have found other ways to strongly hint that Clinton’s age should be an issue for voters. They have repackaged the issue as “generational” and suggested she is a product of the politics of the 20th Century. That argument will grow more vivid should Clinton face a candidate who could be a generation younger than her in the general election.
“When you look at Hilary Clinton’s age, it becomes an issue in a general election if she’s running against a 40-something new face as opposed to Governor Bush,” said Schmidt. Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, is 62.
Rubio, a quarter century younger than Clinton, referred to her as a “leader from yesterday” when he announced his candidacy last month.

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Whether comforting a friend with AIDS or pointing a powerful finger at Trump, Pelosi exemplifies the humble nobility of servant leadership
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He has a history of right-wing extremist short videos including a harassment campaign against an Arizona wig shop that serves cancer patients
The tributes to Dole poured in from every segment of government, political, public & personal reflecting his lifelong career of public service
Tshibaka supported group that pushed “conversion therapy” and she said homosexuality was caused by “sexual molestation during childhood.”