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West Ham have completed the long-awaited signing of Lazio winger Felipe Anderson for a club record fee, believed to be around the €40m mark.
The 25-year-old has been linked with a move to the London Stadium ever since Manuel Pellegrini took charge of the club back in May. The deal is finally signed, sealed and delivered though, with Anderson signing a four-year deal with the club.
We've got #ThatFelipeFeeling! pic.twitter.com/QbaxJI3ZP5— West Ham United (@WestHamUtd) July 15, 2018
Announcing his signing on their official website, a West Ham statement said:
"Anderson's undoubted creative ability was a key factor in the Club moving for the 25-year-old – the Hammers' seventh signing of the summer so far after the arrivals of Ryan Fredericks, Lukasz Fabianski, Issa Diop, Jack Wilshere, Andriy Yarmolenko and Fabian Balbuena."
Anderson made 137 appearances for Lazio during his five years in Serie A, returning a healthy 25 goals in the process. The Brazilian, who has one senior international cap to his name also, spoke of his joy at finally getting the deal over the line, revealing he can't wait to get started.
"I feel really happy and fulfilled to join West Ham United," Anderson told whufc.com. "West Ham is a club with a lot of tradition, lots of great players have played here, like Bobby Moore, Carlos Tevez and Di Canio.
"They were great players and idols here, and I'm aiming big, who knows, maybe I could hit their heights and be a legend here too. I'm really happy to be here. It's a dream come true.
"I want to thank the owner, David Sullivan, because he made a big effort to bring me here. I know how difficult it was, so I have to thank him a lot, and I hope I can repay his faith in me on the pitch with goals and winning games."
"We believe that we have signed one of the most exciting talents in European football. Felipe has shown a fantastic level of performance at Lazio in recent seasons and we believe that he will now bring that quality to the Premier League. He is also a player very suited to the style of Manuel Pellegrini.
"For West Ham United this is a very big statement, a club record, so we must thank the owners for their support and work in making this transfer possible.
"It is a negotiation that has taken some time but it is a very good sign that Felipe was determined to become a West Ham player, and we feel very confident that he will become a big success at London Stadium."
Joint-Chairman David Sullivan said: "Felipe was a main target of the manager so we are delighted we've been able to bring him to the Club.
"We're very pleased with the business we've done so far and I hope the supporters are just as excited as we are about the squad we are building here at West Ham.
"The deal sees us significantly break our transfer record and we feel it's a real statement of intent."
West Ham United are delighted to confirm the Club record signing of Lazio attacking midfielder Felipe Anderson! #ThatFelipeFeelinghttps://t.co/67szkpMLG6— West Ham United (@WestHamUtd) July 15, 2018
Anderson's arrival continues a summer of unbelievable spending at the London Stadium, with West Ham's complete overhaul of their squad continuing to pick up pace.


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Memorial Day is almost here (yay!!) and I want to share one of my favorite new recipes that'll allow us busy moms to spend less time in the kitchen this holiday weekend and more time with family and friends. My new friend, Eileen, recently sent me the recipe below for Orange Rolls and, I'll go ahead and tell you, you'll want to memorize it, pin it on Pinterest, email it to yourself, whatever – this will become one of your absolute favorite breakfast/brunch dishes after you make it just once!
Using only four ingredients, these Orange Rolls take just minutes to assemble, but look and taste like you spent hours in the kitchen. When they've finished cooking, your house will smell heavenly and you'll wonder "Did I really make this?" as you admire the flaky layers of dough topped with the jewel-toned sauce. Best yet, these Orange Rolls can be served warm or at room temperature, all you have to do is set them out and let everyone else dig in!
So, whether you're headed to the lake or just lounging poolside and grilling this Memorial Day weekend, these delicious Orange Rolls are a perfect way to start your family's day! Enjoy!
Orange Rolls
2 cans biscuits (10 to a can)
2 large oranges
2/3 stick butter, melted
2/3 cup sugar
Grate rind of oranges and add orange zest to sugar. Juice oranges (should yield about 1 ¼ cups juice) and add to melted better. Keep orange zest/sugar mixture and butter/orange juice mixture separate.
Dip biscuit first in butter and juice mixture, then in zest and sugar mixture. Arrange in layers in tube pan.
Pour any remaining juice and sugar and bake at 375 degrees F for 35 minutes. To serve, turn pan quickly upside down on serving platter – be careful, as excess syrup may splash.
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To descend gently sloping ice, simply face directly downhill, bend the knees slightly, and walk firmly downward {pied marche). Plant all bottom crampon points into the icc with each step. Hold the axe in the cane position {piolet canne).
As the descent angle steepens, bend your knees more and spread them apart, with body weight over your feet so all crampon points bite securely (fig. 14-31). Thigh muscles do the bulk of the work. For greater security, plant the axe perpendicular to the slope in the cross-body position (piolet ramasse), as shown in figure 14-32.
Fig. 14-30. Traversing vertical ice
Fig. 14-31. Flat-footing on descent, with ice axe in cane position (piolet canne)
Fig. 14-32. Flat-footing on descent, with ice axe in the cross-body position (piolet ramasse)
For the next level of security, use the axe in the support position (piolet appui), as shown in figure 14-33. Here's how to do it: grasp the axe near the middle of the shaft and hold it beside you as you descend. The axe head points uphill, with the pick down and the spike downhill.
As the slope steepens, switch the axe to the bannister position (piolet rampe), as shown in figure 14-34. To do this, grasp the axe near the end of the shaft. Swing the axe to plant the pick as far below as possible. Walk downward, sliding your hand along the shaft toward the head of the axe. It's important to maintain a slight outward pull on the shaft to keep the pick locked in the ice. Keep moving down until you are below the axe head.
Then push the shaft against the ice to help release the pick, and replant the axe farther down.
On a slope too steep to safely descend facing outward, turn sideways and descend diagonally. Your footwork changes to the same flat-foot technique used to ascend diagonally. Use the axe in the anchor position (piolet ancre), as shown in figure
Fig. ¡4-34. Flat-footing on descent, with ice axe in the bannister position (piolet rampe)
14-35. With your outside arm, swing the axe out in front and plant the pick in the ice, take hold of the head with the other hand in the self-arrest grasp, and then flat-foot diagonally down below the axe. The shaft rotates as you pass below it.
It's often tiring and ineffective to try front-pointing down a gentle to moderate slope. A climber tends to be bent over, facing the moderate slope, and to vacillate between flat-foot and front-point technique.
On steep slopes, front-point and hand-tool techniques are generally the same for going down as for going up. But just as on rock, downclimbing is more difficult. There is a tendency to step too low, which keeps the heel too high, so front points may
shear out or fail to penetrate in the first place. It's awkward to plant the ice tools because they must be placed closer to your body, so you lose the power of a good full swing. You don't get a good view of the route on a descent (although descending on a slight diagonal will help).
Climbers don't often front-point a descent, but it's still a valuable skill for occasions such as retreating from a route. Downclimbing ability also builds confidence in ascending.
Ice climbers often descend on rappel, sliding down a doubled rope attached through an anchor, just as in rock climbing. They use natural anchors whenever possible, of course, because snow flukes or other manufactured anchors used for rappelling usually must be left behind, a costly way to go.
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As Craige Ingram climbed the stairs of the derelict building, that peculiar stench of a dead body hit him. It was the same smell no matter where—SpecOps SEAL encounter gone sour, or in a vacant, roach-infested apartment. Inside, his SEAL buddy-turned head of Buckingham Parish Homicide's Investigative Support Division, Grayson MacGerald, was huddled with the coroner next to a swollen decaying corpse that was days old and hardly more than oozing dead meat.
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Romelu Lukaku reunion tough for Everton as Koeman's men limp on
Alongside the many issues hampering Everton after five matches without a win, addressing results away from home remains a priority amid a worrying slump that has quickly wiped out preseason optimism.
A trip to Old Trafford sees the Toffees on the brink of some unwanted history, having won just one away match in 2017. Anything less than three points on Sunday and Everton will be winless in 11 league games on the road for the first time in 13 years.
Combine that with three successive defeats, eight goals conceded and none scored, and a match against Manchester United and reunion with former striker Romelu Lukaku is the probably the last thing Everton need. Lukaku has scored more goals and had more shots on target than all of his former teammates combined in the first four league games.
In defeats to Chelsea, Tottenham and Atalanta, manager Ronald Koeman has seen his team face 21 shots on target while returning a paltry four attempts on goal in return. Each damning statistic emphasises the importance of putting words into action, as there has been a lot said by Koeman and his players since the Chelsea loss but precious little response in matches.
Koeman accepted the blame for the Atalanta debacle, but raising his head above the parapet counts for nothing if this responsibility does not translate to the pitch, because at present, there is disconnect between what Koeman says and how he sets his team up. Talk of attacking football and dictating matches is at odds with the stifled and one-paced formations used so far. The wing-back system favoured against the top teams often features seven defensive-minded players (goalkeeper not included).
Similar problems afflict the narrow 4-2-3-1 setup witnessed in most other matches, with the overuse of similar players in midfield making possession football impossible. The continued insistence on shoehorning central players into wide roles has seen both Tottenham and Atalanta gleefully expose the lack of pace and width on the flanks while overworked full-backs crumble under the workload.
Alongside defensive troubles, there is no creativity. No Premier League team has recorded fewer dribbles or shots on target thus far. In each of the four league games, goalkeeper Jordan Pickford or a central defender has attempted the most passes. No team plays a higher percentage of their football in their own half than Everton (33 percent), while only three teams play less football in the opposing final third (25 percent). What little passing there is takes place in all the wrongs areas.
After the so-called reaction against Atalanta failed to materialise, Koeman has rightly called on his team to show some aggression against United, but it is difficult to see how this can come to fruition due to the chronic lack of pace among his preferred group of players. If the press is beaten high up the pitch, Everton lack the recovery pace to reorganise and risk leaving their already creaking defence further exposed. It leaves Everton sitting back and allowing opponents to control the play.
This speed shortage showed up on an attempted counterattack on Thursday. The move resembled an army of slugs advancing across a back garden. So much time spent defending due to a failure to retain possession leaves a slow midfield unable to cover the extra distance required to support their isolated lone striker.
Too many players struggle to get up and down the pitch. Watching Wayne Rooney toil out wide and spend long periods of a match almost as a second full-back benefits nobody. Meanwhile, energetic and expressive players such as Tom Davies and Ademola Lookman remain on the periphery.
Plan A and B are being exhausted to the nth degree despite neither the narrow 4-2-3-1 or wing-back system nor the personnel within them offering a viable solution. If the definition of insanity is attempting the same things and expecting different results, the phrase was tailor-made for Koeman at present. A summer of heavy but lopsided spending seems to have fostered a stubbornness to persist with new signings, even if their presence does not fit the chosen formation.
They say football is a simple sport that gets overly complicated. Rather than forcing individuals into ill-fitting systems that do not work, the system should exist around the players. Play players in their proper positions and go from there, instead of shuffling the same square pegs into slightly different round holes.
Everton have no identity, no obvious style of play. Recent matches show a collection of individuals aimlessly going through the motions. There is a glaring need for some new ideas and an injection of pace and energy into the team.
There has to be a plan beyond throwing new signings onto the pitch and hoping something clicks. Buying a player should not provide a free pass to the starting XI. New players need time to gel, but a team still requires a basic setup that suits its players and a style of play offering attacking threat. Koeman has to find both.
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There are a lot of customizations you can do with Quick Steps to make managing your email a lot easier. The cool thing with Quick Steps is you can assign multiple actions to each step.
You can also create your own Quick Step. Under the Home tab click Create New from the Quick Steps box.
Now you can choose actions for your new Step, create a name for it, and add text that will displayed when you hover over the new Step.
For example here we want to copy an email to a specific folder and flag it. You can add multiple actions to your custom Quick Steps which can make managing your email easier.
Here is the final selections for our new Quick Step. We named it Copy to our misc folder, flagging it, created a shortcut key, and included a Tooltip text. When you're finished click Finish.
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A THIRD of employees say the technology in their workplace is increasing job stress rather than reducing it.
The survey of staff in the south west found 56 per cent blamed unreliability of the tech as the main reason, while 46 cited an increasing workload.
The research, carried out for advice and broking firm Willis Towers Watson, also found that 28 per cent of staff thought tech meant less human interaction, 24 per cent said it brought tighter deadlines and 22 per cent said it was excessively complex.
Toby Pestridge, creative director at the Bournemouth digital agency Createful, has previously said wellbeing would be improved if some computer processes ran more slowly. He said he was not surprised by the research.
"It's what we've known anecdotally for some time. Technology has always been something of a double-edged sword," he said.
"On the one hand we benefit by saving time and doing the same tasks more efficiently. On the other, we need to train people to use new systems and software, and be careful of replacing all workplace tasks with a digital equivalent.
"There are times when non-digital interactions are actually better. No one would argue for a move back to physical paper ledger books over using something like Excel, but walking across an office to have a quick face-to-face conversation instead of using email or Slack benefits everyone.
"With more than a quarter of people surveyed quoting 'a lack of human interaction', businesses need to take a good look at themselves and make sure they're adopting tech responsibly."
Andrew Knowles, director of digital marketing agency Sprida and past president of Weymouth and Portland Chamber of Commerce, said: "The analogy I use for digital tech is that of using a car 100 years ago – back then a car often broke down and to get the best from it meant understanding how it worked and how to fix it. Today the ideal car is massively reliable and 'just works'. I don't want to ever see the engine of my car.
"Digital tech is stressful right now because we haven't reached the stage where it 'just works'."
Verity Woodgate, owner of Dorchester-based Zenna Wellbeing in the Workplace, said: "Employees are under more pressure to keep up with changes in systems and programs, often without being trained or offered support. Even those who do undertake training can feel additional stress at having to take time away from their work responsibilities to retrain and keep up with an ever-changing landscape.
"In addition to this, unpredictable computer crashes and system errors can cause additional stress through loss of work documents, reports and research which can take time to resolve, leading to longer working days. This report has also highlighted that technology can see employees spend less time interacting with other people throughout the day."
She said more effort was needed to create an "atmosphere of transparency", where those facing challenges from the new technology were able to voice their frustrations and receive support.
"Putting in place steps where there is additional training offered, or a buddy-system where more confident users are able to support colleagues should help to foster a friendlier and more supportive atmosphere which reduces stress caused by workplace technology," she added.
Mike Blake, wellbeing lead at Willis Towers Watson, said: "Technology can be a considerable force for good with the potential to act as a catalyst for smarter, more efficient and more flexible working. Despite offering a wealth of opportunities to improve our working lives, however – simplifying and, in some cases, eradicating many mundane or laborious tasks – these findings highlight that, in some cases, it can be both a blessing and a curse.
"The drive to introduce new technology is inevitable as businesses search for more efficient ways of working, but these findings should act as a call to action to ensure it is adopted strategically, and deployed with appropriate levels of support, training and consideration to the mental wellbeing of users."


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Patients' ratings of hospitals tally with objective measures of the hospital's performance, according to an independent study published today in Archives of Internal Medicine.
Since 2008, patients have been able to post comments on and rate hospitals using the NHS Choices website, in the same way as they might rate a hotel on Tripadvisor. The system's proponents suggest that it helps patients to choose the best services, but no previous study has investigated whether these online ratings are related to clinical measures of healthcare quality, such as mortality rates and incidence of hospital-acquired infections.
Researchers at Imperial College London examined 10,274 ratings of all NHS acute hospital trusts in England submitted on NHS Choices in 2009 and 2010. They found that hospitals with better patient ratings tend to have lower death rates and lower readmission rates. Hospitals rated by patients as being cleaner have lower rates of MRSA infections.
"There are a lot of data available to the public on hospital performance, but people rarely use conventional measures and often find them difficult to understand," said Dr Felix Greaves, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, who led the study. "Our results suggest that NHS Choices ratings may provide useful and relevant information for patients making choices about their care."
When the 25 per cent of hospitals with the best ratings on NHS Choices are compared with the 25 per cent rated worst, mortality rates were 5 per cent lower and readmission rates were 11 per cent lower in the more highly-rated hospitals. The 25 per cent of hospitals with best cleanliness ratings had a 42 per cent lower rate of MRSA infections than the 25 per cent of hospitals with the worst cleanliness ratings.
"The match between online ratings and other measures is far from perfect – it's possible for an individual hospital to have good ratings on NHS Choices but a high mortality rate, or vice versa," Dr Greaves said. "However, the general trend is that where a hospital's overall performance on clinical measures is good, patients seem to rate it highly – and vice versa.
"In our article we compare these findings to James Surowiecki's book, The Wisdom of Crowds, about how collective judgements result in better decisions than individuals can make by themselves. We suggest that, at least to an extent, the crowd of patients appears to be wise."
The results also showed that the majority of ratings were positive, with 68 per cent of respondents saying they would recommend their hospital to friends. "This means it's not just used by people wanting to complain about their care," Dr Greaves said.
Data for the study were provided by NHS Choices but the research was conducted independently of the NHS, with no specific funding for the project.
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By Jane Kent
By the time animals or wildlife products are placed in the hands of the consumer, they have made long journeys through forests, rivers, over land and sea before delivery to dealers and clandestine markets. Wildlife trafficking operates through a vast web of players: poachers, human 'mules,' retailers, exporters, local villages and corrupt officials – all connected globally through organized crime networks.
International illegal wildlife trade was worth an estimated USD19.1 billion annually in 2014, with dozens of agencies and experts continually identifying the Middle Kingdom as the key destination, according to the 2013 report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). And demand is growing.
"Ten years ago, less than 10 percent of confiscations in the Global Confiscations Database were in China. Now, China accounts for 80 to 90 percent," says Dr. Li Zhang, an associate professor of field biology at Beijing Normal University, who has studied wildlife consumption for nearly 20 years.
The dramatic economic growth in the last few decades and the ease of Internet sales has manifested unprecedented demand. "Many Chinese can now afford luxury products – some of them being wildlife products, illegal and legal," Dr. Li explains.
Part of the difficulty of monitoring and enforcing this market stems from its incredibly diverse list of uses and motives. As demand increases, it is no surprise that parts of China's borders are now known internationally as "wildlife hotspots," especially those shared with Laos and Myanmar.
"They are so long, and with such complicated topography and social-economic situations, it is impossible to control the border lines as compared to airports and seaports. So, the land borders easily become the main trade route for trafficking wildlife," explains Zhang Sheng, Campaign Program Manager at Traffic China.
"Guangxi, Guangdong and Yunnan are major destinations of wildlife from southeast Asia smuggled into Guangxi and Yunnan at key border ports, based on our research," says Dr. Li. A common route begins at the Myanmar border in Ruili, Yunnan, snakes through Guangxi and finishes in Guangdong.
Another begins in wildlife-rich Qinghai Province and moves down through Sichuan and Guangxi, ultimately ending again in Guangdong. Ultimately, the southern province is where the highest prices are fetched – Dr. Li reports that 85 percent of wildlife smuggled through Guanxi from various routes will end up in Guangdong.
"Frankly speaking, China has invested a lot of enforcement along the border with these countries and it is not easy to observe open sale of illegal wildlife products in the markets on China side," explains Zhang.
"But all these neighboring countries deal with a much weaker law enforcement situation [lack of staff, equipment, and knowledge] and even corruption." Both Traffic and Dr. Zhang's work involve improving capacity for enforcement by training customs officers on species identification, smuggling methods and conducting inspections.
These threatened species, many still tenuously alive, don't have far to float—just ten meters across the river and into China.
However, many smugglers never even have to sweat it through customs. The long shared borders mean trade can occur without even risking interactions with enforcement agencies. In a 2013 paper for Wildlife Conservation Society, Scott Roberton did hundreds of hours of surveys over three months, focusing on the trade of all products along the Ka Long River in Mong Cai City, Vietnam.
"The cargo that gets unloaded into rickety boats on the Vietnam side of the Ka Long River includes wild tigers, elephant tusks, pangolins, rhino horns and wild turtles," reports Roberton. "These threatened species, many still tenuously alive, don't have far to float – just ten meters across the river and into China." His analysis found that "over 90 percent of all products (both legal and illegal) traded in Mong Cai between Vietnam and China are passing through illegal crossings."
With low-risk routes like Mong Cai, high profits and weak penalties, it is no wonder wildlife smuggling is an attractive endeavor to people from all walks of life. As IFAW's President Azzedine Downes notes, profits "have surged to levels once reserved for legally traded precious metals." Revenue in illegal wildlife trade now matches profits from drugs and arms trade – and many are positing that wildlife trade should be acknowledged as an increasing threat to global security.
The decimation of species is the obvious concern, but the connection to security is not as readily apparent. Smuggling animals has become a more "structured and well organized crime in recent years," says Zhang. Many links are required from animal source to consumer, since "it is usually impossible for one single person to complete all these processes. International organized crime groups have been involved in this crime to make money, even terrorist groups to support their terrorism activities."
A 2014 bust in Guangdong uncovered more than 1,000 frozen pangolins en route to dinner tables.
Governments and agencies around the world are seeing the effects of global crime syndicates lubricating the mechanisms of smuggling at all levels. Militias and warlords in Africa arm poachers and use profits from selling illegal ivory to fund terrorist acts. The entanglement easily overlaps with other illegal trade operated by organized crime. "Wildlife is being increasingly used to import drugs," reports INTERPOL. With the same routes and methods being used, animal trafficking can obfuscate drug crimes and weak and inconsistent penalties mean lower risks. Geographically it's not difficult to see how the two crimes became intertwined. Heroin is processed in Southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle," and cocaine in the Amazon – both areas rich with rare and exotic species.
The IFAW argues that addressing wildlife issues will improve economic security in unstable, developing countries and even public health. Smuggling cases are believed to be ground zero for some new health threats in recent years – a civet cat being smuggled in China has been identified as the likely animal-human transmission point which birthed SARS in Guangzhou.
China's appetite for animals and wildlife products is not an isolated threat to conservation, but one part of the shadowy black market trading that crosses real and invisible borders worldwide. In order to begin to shrink the role wildlife trade plays in organized crimes, the IFAW urges it be elevated to the same level of crimes such as drug and human trafficking in the hopes that this gives rise to a global coordinating prevention network.
The Cobra II bust in February 2014 demonstrated the need for an international approach. The operation was led by China and had participation from 28 countries. The global crackdown netted more than 3 tonnes of ivory, 1000 hides, 36 rhino horns and many other wildlife products.
While enforcement is strengthening around the world, "no single approach can decrease wildlife trafficking," says Zhang. As long as demand exists, suppliers will try to meet it. As the Chinese fuel consumption, "increasing public awareness about this issue and changing consumer behavior" is going to be a crucial step for the Middle Kingdom.
This article first appeared in the June 2014 issue of That's PRD and That's Shanghai. To see more Throwback Thursday posts, click here.


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By now, most marketers have come across the statistics supporting the fact that more and more people are opening their email on mobile devices. That comes as no surprise to those of us surgically attached to our phones.
The sharp rise in email consumption on mobile devices has had a profound impact on all aspects of email marketing, from subject lines to design. It also invites the possibility of a future where the desktop environment takes a back seat to mobile.
But is that truly the case? Will the desktop soon be overshadowed? Should marketers and designers focus solely on optimizing their email campaigns for mobile users?
We turned to our data from 2013 to help us answer those questions. Now, after reviewing 780 million mobile opens from 2 million campaigns sent to nearly 2 billion email addresses, this is what we have learned.
First, if users open an email on a mobile device, they are more likely to open it a second time than they are to click from their phone or tablet. Overall, 8% of people who opened an email on mobile clicked right away, while 23% opened it again later.
Second, if the subsequent open happens on a desktop, users are more likely to click. Indeed, 12.9% of later opens from a desktop converted to clicks, while only 7.8% of later opens from another mobile phone or tablet converted.
So, clearly, you can't count the desktop out just yet.
Let's go one step further and take a look at how people interact with their email based on which mobile device they use to first open it. Together, iPhone, iPad, and Android account for 99% of emails opened on mobile devices.
iPhone users represent our largest sample size – 61% of the 780 million mobile opens. And as it turns out, iPhone users are more likely than iPad users or Android users to make a second open from a desktop. There's clearly something to be said for larger screens!
(There's also some evidence of crossover between mobile devices for iPhone and iPad users. They both are more likely to open their email again from another mobile device than Android users.)
The increase in click-through rate for iPad users who open a second time from a desktop vs. their iPad (the original mobile device) is less pronounced compared with other mobile devices. Users are 14% more likely to click through when they move from iPad to desktop vs. 56% for iPhone users who move to a desktop vs. 264% for Android users who move to a desktop.
(iPad users who open their email again from a different mobile device have the lowest click-through of all second opens.)
Of the 780 million mobile opens, 12% were on Android. Note that Apple devices automatically load images and therefore register opens by default, whereas Android doesn't, so the activity attributed to Android is skewed low. But we've still got a sample size of 93.6 million opens on Android to analyze.
Of all mobile readers, Android users are the most likely to open a second time but the least likely to make that second open on a desktop. Still, people who first open their email on Android and then go on to open again from their desktop have the greatest likelihood of taking action: one out of 5 will click.
What Does This Mean for Email Marketers?
- Don't ignore mobile. If your emails aren't already responsive, make it a priority.
- Aim to get a second open from mobile users. People are less likely to click from mobile devices.
- Don't ignore desktop and webmail clients, even for mobile readers. If users open your content again from their desktop, they're far more likely to click.
A Note on How This Data Was Compiled
To find out what email service someone is using, the user needs to open the email with images enabled. Some email services (like Outlook and Gmail) block images by default and require an action by the user to enable them. Other clients (like Apple Mail and the iPhone) do not. This can skew the market share upward a little for those services that show images by default.
Please note that email services that aren't capable of displaying images, such as older Blackberry models and other mobile devices could not be included in this study.
About the Author: Agata Celmerowski is Head of Marketing at email marketing software provider Campaign Monitor. More than 100,000 designers, agencies, and amazing companies of all shapes and sizes around the globe rely on Campaign Monitor's software to run their email marketing. For more information on today's post, check out Campaign Monitor's report Email Marketing Trends: Email interaction across mobile and desktop.


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A host of economic data released over the last month provides some closure to FY2017 and offers clues regarding what lies in store for the new fiscal.
The April 2017 data calendar kicked off on a subdued note, with the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), which is released with a six-week lag, contracting by 1.2 per cent in year-on-year (YoY) terms in February 2017.
However, several volume-based indicators tracked by ICRA, spanning mining, electricity, manufacturing, trade, transport and financing, recorded a YoY improvement in growth in March 2017, relative to the previous month, in the most broad-based uptick since the note ban.
Core sector growth improved to 5.0 per cent in March 2017 from 1.0 per cent in February 2017, with double-digit growth of coal and steel output. In contrast, cement volumes continued to contract by 6.8 per cent in March 2017, signalling that construction activities are yet to fully recover from the note ban.
Auto production registered expansion across passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles and two-wheelers in March 2017, as well as a sequential improvement relative to the growth performance in February 2017.
Both merchandise imports and exports posted multi-year high expansions of 45.3 per cent and 27.6 per cent, respectively, in dollar terms for March 2017, partly reflecting higher commodity prices. Within the transport and logistics sectors, the pace of YoY expansion of rail freight, consumption of diesel and of ATF improved in March 2017, relative to the previous month, although growth in petrol consumption and passenger traffic by domestic airlines displayed moderation.
In terms of financing, commercial paper outstanding recorded a sharp YoY growth of 52.9 per cent on March 31, 2017, up from the paltry 4.7 per cent at the end of the previous month. Moreover, the YoY growth of non- food credit improved slightly to 5.8 per cent on March 31, 2017, from 4.8 per cent on March 3, 2017. However, bank deposit growth eased to 11.8 per cent from 12.7 per cent, respectively, as remonetisation dampened the seasonal surge in deposit accretion.Will the show hold up?
The question persists whether this pick-up in volume growth will sustain, going into FY2018. The uptick in March 2017 can partly be attributed to the recovery engendered by remonetisation, which is likely to prove relatively sustainable.
However, an attempt to meet year-end targets may have resulted in channel stuffing in some sectors in March 2017, given the somewhat weak performance in January-February 2017. Such sectors may record a slide in growth in Q1 FY2018.
Additionally, with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to be implemented from July 1, 2017, ICRA expects industry to pare inventory levels during the transition, mildly dampening production in Q1 FY2018. Moreover, Q2 FY2018 and Q3 FY2018 are likely to witness temporary disruption, as the assessees get used to the new compliance procedures. The positive impact of GST on economic activity is likely to be visible from Q4 FY2018 onwards.Monsoon and inflation
The India Meteorological Department's (IMD) first-stage forecast for 2017 has estimated the volume of South-West monsoon rainfall to be 96 per cent - plus or minus 5 per cent of the long period average (LPA). Current reservoir storage, at around 27 per cent of the full capacity, exceeds the level in 2016.
However, it may not prove adequate to shield the crops and rural incomes, if the rains are weaker than the IMD's initial forecast, as was the trend in the last three years.
Notwithstanding the modest contribution of agriculture to the overall economic activity of around 15-16 per cent, the monsoon outlook will impact consumption sentiment for non-durables and big-ticket items such as agri-inputs, motorcycles, tractors, etc.
Regardless, a likely rise in minimum support prices (MSPs) for various crops and automatic stabilisers such as the rural employment guarantee scheme, will support rural consumption to some degree.
Inflation readings for March 2017 provided positive signals, with the CPI and WPI inflation coming in lower than market expectations. Factoring in the IMD's monsoon projection, the expectation of a moderate hike in MSPs, some price resetting post-GST, stable global commodity prices and a modest weakening of the rupee, ICRA expects CPI inflation to average 4.5 per cent in FY2018.
However, this will exceed the 4 per cent level being targeted by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India. Given the hawkish tone of the minutes of the MPC's April 2017 meeting, there is a growing likelihood that the next rate action after a long pause would be a rate hike, something that the industry should prepare for.
The writer is Principal Economist, ICRA Limited


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The national minimum wage (NMW) applies to all workers and is paid at different rates according to age. There is a separate rate for apprentices, and a National Living Wage (NLW) applies to workers aged 25 and over. The current and future rates for the minimum wage (which represents gross pay) are as follows:
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|Rate from 1 April 2018
|Rate from 1 April 2019
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|£5.90 an hour
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The minimum wage rates are reviewed annually and will be updated in April.
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- All workers, except those who are genuinely self-employed, are entitled to receive the NMW/NLW
- Gross pay is used to calculate whether an eligible worker has been paid the minimum wage
- The NMW/NLW is calculated by including most financial awards or payments, but excluding allowances such as regional or on-call allowances, unsocial hours payments, tips and gratuities, or any benefits in kind, with the exception of accommodation up to a specified amount
- Employers can average the hourly rate of pay over the pay period
- Non-compliance can result in an enforcement notice requiring the employer to pay the difference between what was actually paid and what the worker should have received under the NMW legislation. Further non-compliance could result in the issue of a penalty notice and financial penalties.
- The government expects the rate to rise to over £9 by 2020 (a government policy paper explains the thinking behind the NLW).
Recent developments
Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that legislation will be introduced, at the earliest opportunity, to prevent unfair tipping practices by organisations. The aim of the legislation will be to ensure that staff are receiving all tips that relate to their service and outlawing the ability for organisations to make deductions to cover business charges, such as credit card administration fees.
Although the new law has been announced, there are no further details as to how this will apply across organisations or any expected implementation date. Tipping is a complex area in itself, and it will have to be confirmed whether the new law will apply to cash tips, gratuities paid through cards and/or service charges automatically applied to restaurant bills.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that the National Living Wage, currently the highest minimum wage rate, is to increase up to £10.50 within the next five years, which he states would give four million workers a pay-rise. Furthermore, the highest band of minimum wage available will be extended to anyone who is aged 21 and over.
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The German tankman paints the Jagdpanther tank-destroyer in summer camouflage colors.
Jagdpanther is a heavy German self-propelled artillery cannon of a class of tank destroyers of the Second World War.
"Jagdpanther" is designed on the basis of the Panther tank PzKpfw V Ausf. G and has a layout that is close to the layout of the Soviet SU-85 (low body of the perfect configuration).
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Hyderabadi Shahi Mixed Vegetable Curry | How to make Hyderabadi Shahi Mixed Vegetable Curry
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I always make it a point to use fresh vegetables in making this Hyderabadi style shahi mixed vegetables….the fresh vegetables add more taste to this recipe. The key ingredient in this recipe is almond paste….the creaminess and richness in the recipe is from that only... Hyderabadi shahi mixed vegetable curry is a traditional Hyderabadi dish which is prepared with a lot of vegetables. Hyderabadi cuisine is a very sumptuous part of the Andhra Pradesh food. The cuisine of Hyderabad has been influenced by various regional and religious cuisines of India. It has also been able to contribute towards making Indian cuisine popular worldwide. The masala of Shahi mixed veg curry is a rich blend of herbs, spices and condiments, that give this dish a base or what is popularly known as curry. This curry has a creamy texture, spicy taste and is a combination of so many flavors. You can take it as a side dish with rice or roti or any meal. The key ingredient in this recipe is the almond paste, which gives the creaminess and richness to the Hyderabadi shahi mixed vegetable curry. This is a very healthy dish because you can use a number of vegetables to this. You can use the vegetables like red capsicum, yellow capsicum, tomatoes, onions, baby potatoes, carrots, green peas and french beans. Winter is the perfect season to prepare the Shahi mixed veg curry because these vegetables are easily available in this season. It is a nutritious and colorful side dish which you can prepare at your home.
Ingredients to make Hyderabadi Shahi Mixed Vegetable Curry
- 10-12 Baby potatoes peeled and cubed
- ½ cup Green peas I used frozen ones
- 2 medium sized carrots cubed
- 2-3 French Beans cut into 2 inch pieces
- 1 Red capsicum cubed
- 1 Yellow capsicum cubed
- 6 raisins
- 2 tbsp. tomato puree
- 2 tbsp. brown onion paste
- 1 tbsp. roasted cashew paste
- 1 ½ tbsp. ginger-Garlic paste
- 1 tbsp. Red chili powder
- ĵ tbsp. turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp. Garam masala
- ½ tbsp. coriander powder
- ĵ tbsp. cumin powder
- ½ tbsp. cumin seeds
- 1 bay leaf
- ½ cup beaten yogurt/Curd
- 2-3 tbsp. fresh cream
- 2 tbsp. fresh minced coriander leaves
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How to make Hyderabadi Shahi Mixed Vegetable Curry
My Tip:NOTE: I sometimes add shallow fry paneer pieces or sometimes I add soya chunks.
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"I hadn't realised how deficient our relationship had been" says Meryl, mother of 14 year old Toby who, for the first time, held a 'real' conversation with her following the start of a new treatment programme. "It was wonderful. You don't notice these things day to day, but when Toby and I conversed, and I mean properly talked for over an hour and a half, it was magical and something I found that I had unknowingly been craving for a long time."
A simple conversation with their child is something that most parents take for granted, however Toby has always been a very special child, requiring a huge amount of support and attention to enable him to achieve his full potential. Although there is still a long way to go, each day Toby and his family are finding new ways of treating and maintaining the improvements in his condition so he can lead a 'normal' life.
From the day he was born in a peaceful birthing pool in London, it took nine years to begin to get a full understanding and 'label' on the various challenges Toby experienced. As is the way with such conditions, each one is not brought on in isolation: dyslexia, dyspraxia, asthma, eczema and many ADHD and autism behaviours are often diagnosed in clusters.
"I am convinced that Toby's problems started on the day he was born," continued Meryl. "Although he had a drug-free birth in a calm birthing pool, I had a very long second stage labour and when Toby was born, although breathing, he was considered to be very floppy. He was quickly taken to a resuscitation table where he was given air. When he was given back to me he was gurgling, which the midwife didn't think was right, so he was taken to ICU where he was diagnosed with a burst left lung (pneumothorax) and given a cocktail of antibiotics and painkillers, as well as fitted with a tube through his belly-button to check the oxygenation from his aorta. He also had a drain from his lung to support his breathing efforts until he recovered. After four days in ICU he returned to the ward but had developed jaundice and had a sun lamp trained on him night and day."
Thankfully, little Toby made a speedy recovery and was home within a week to start life with his new family; and there seemed no more immediate cause for concern. He suffered with eczema on his face and body from two weeks old until he was around four, but he carried on growing and developing as any baby would be expected to. It wasn't until Toby hit 12 months old that Meryl started getting concerned about his development.
"He could sit up when I sat him up, but not get himself to a sitting position on his own. He was also very behind other children of his age in terms of language development and seemed to have no intention of crawling, let alone walking. Most of this was dismissed as being very common, but we had him tested for glue ear just in case, which was all clear."
It was over two years before Toby walked on his own (he had always been a 'bottom-shuffler') and the family noticed that he exhibited some odd behaviours while at nursery, such as finding it difficult to switch between toys easily and share with other children, and it seemed that bright lights, touch and noise bothered him. It was also around this time that Toby experienced his first asthma attack and was taken to hospital.
At three years old, Toby started at pre-school but despite having been very well socialised as a younger child, was painfully shy around other children. His language started to solidify around this age too, but he was frustrated that he found it so difficult to verbalise his needs as eloquently as others. Again, concerns were raised, but no medical intervention was prescribed as no obvious problems were diagnosed.
"We lived in London which is very polluted, and with Toby's asthma we wanted to give him a better quality of life so decided to move. We had been looking at France as a place to relocate to just before I became pregnant with Toby, so we picked up our plans again, and made the move. Toby was three and half when we went, so he was enrolled in a French maternelle (kindergarten) where he started to learn the language. He seemed to be getting on very well, but efforts to communicate were, so it seemed, heeded by the language barrier, putting Toby on a back foot against his peers.
"It wasn't until he started at a primary school at six years old, that a teacher highlighted to Meryl that she thought he may need some psychological support. Although very eloquent, she had concluded that he was too divided between the UK and France. This was evident in his confusion over 'home', drawing two pictures of where home was."
Toby had a home tutor each Wednesday who concluded that Toby might be dyslexic and require some additional support in certain areas. Although the school agreed to fund a home tutor for Toby, they did not support the idea of a teaching assistant in class to help Toby to learn better. So, after five years in France, the family moved to East Sussex to provide Toby with a better-suited education.
"From day one, Toby was visibly shocked by the noise and sheer number of people at state primaries that we visited. He was totally overwhelmed and so we took the decision to send him to a private school for the remainder of his 'primary' education.
"Due to the fact we had spent time in France and his language skills were not sufficiently advanced, the school placed him in the year below his age category to help him to catch up. It was the intention of the school to move him back up to his year group, however he remained a year lower and at the age of nine, was finally diagnosed with dyslexia and had access to a special dyslexia tutor to give him the support he needed. Due to the provision already available at the school for another child, he was treated as an Asperger's child would be treated, which seemed to help him greatly. Although following tests in this area, his score was not sufficiently high to get a formal diagnosis of Asperger's."
A very sensitive boy who was still very shy and found it hard to make friends, Toby experienced some psychological bullying at his English school. Unable to sufficiently verbalise his frustrations or have the tools to retaliate, he would have 'crises' which would involve running away and panic attacks. Bullying formed a significant part of Toby's early school life and only seemed to exacerbate his condition.
"As the school was originally created as a girls' school, the provision for boys' sport was limited to football; something that Toby hated. He had never been able to catch a ball due to poor coordination, however it was at the school that he was first diagnosed with dyspraxia and again, support was given and an alternative sport (swimming) was introduced, which Toby loved and excelled at!"
With the help of the school, Meryl arranged for a child psychologist to observe him in lessons and at play for half a day; she also tested Toby on a range of cognitive areas. He scored 'poor' or 'low' in almost all of them, apart from 'perceptual reasoning' where he scored in the high 90s. Literacy and comprehension was one of the lowest, scoring only 2-3%. He also tested poorly for social understanding, meaning he struggled to read non-verbal cues and subtleties in the voice. Word-finding, slow processing and social challenges formed part of the same condition. A diagnosis of 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder' seemed to fit him, although no such formal diagnosis has ever been given by the official bodies.
When nearing the end of his primary education, Toby wanted to attend the local mainstream community college, and was accepted on the condition that he missed Year 6 and returned to the appropriate year group for his age. "The college has a fantastic learning support department, one of the best in the country. Toby could attend all normal lessons, but a 'gentler environment' was created for children under the care of the department via their own playground, peg and locker space. They also had their own language therapist, although there was an 18 month waiting list to see her!
"After Toby had been diagnosed with dyslexia, I started buying him some over-the-counter fish oil supplements and gave him some multi-vitamins when he started at secondary school as he stopped school dinners. It wasn't long before I noticed an improvement in his dyspraxia; he enjoyed successfully throwing and catching a ball whilst on holiday!"
In spring 2011, on her ongoing quest for more information to support Toby, Meryl was introduced to a woman in her village who set about a chain of events that would eventually see a turn in the tide for Toby's development.
"She was telling me about the theory of 'retained reflexes' where children who suffer with many of the same symptoms as our children, never lost many of the reflexes that should fade after birth. So I started researching on the internet and came across Dr Robin Pauc and The Tinsley House Clinic. Having read his book, 'Is that My Child?' we decided to get Toby an appointment.
At first, the exercises that Dr Pauc gave Toby to do seemed really strange. They involved balancing on one leg and brushing teeth with your left hand and such like. The idea was to stimulate parts of his brain that were less developed. Later, there was a computer programme for him to use each night to correct the difficulty he had with eye convergence (very common in dyslexia); he also made a clear point that diet was one of the most important factors and that from now on Toby was to have a cooked breakfast each morning, reduced sugars & carbohydrates and where these were eaten they should be whole wheat (brown) carbohydrates and potatoes should preferably be new potatoes, as these were more easily digested.
"Processed foods were to be avoided as much as possible, along with all bad E numbers; to help with this Dr Pauc recommended a fantastic little book, 'What's Really in Your Basket' which lists all the E numbers, their names and effects. I try to always take this with me when food shopping; it's alarming and invaluable. He was to have limited use of his laptop (1/2 hour a day) and the Wii computer, (except for Wii fit and balance exercises which are helpful) and only one TV programme a day. Dr Pauc also recommended that I start Toby on Vegepa supplements as soon as possible, which we did in autumn 2011, when our old pills had run out.
"From the start of secondary school, Toby had been put in the lowest maths group, which we were always unhappy about as we felt his maths wasn't bad, but his sensitivity and difficulty in reading the questions was holding him back and the lower group was a smaller class and had a teaching assistant. We were so relieved and excited when after Christmas, in January 2011, Toby was so improved that he was moved to the middle maths group and is now near the top of that. It wasn't just that his maths and English had improved, he seemed able to cope with the bigger class sizes, no longer needed a teaching assistant and was so much better with noise and touch.
"The turning point for me with the Vegepa supplements, was when Toby ran out of them and didn't take them for a few weeks. His behaviour deteriorated rapidly, and he regressed into some old traits. He became moody and I found him constantly interrupting me when I was speaking to other people. My husband and I wondered whether he was going through puberty and that his behaviour was perfectly normal for a pubescent boy, until one day he had one of his crises, and just ran off. Later that evening he was crying to me and talking of suicide as he couldn't understand what was happening to him.
"We quickly established that he hadn't been taking his supplements for a few weeks; as soon as he was back on them, his behaviour improved noticeably. He talked of his body aching and having pains when not taking his Vegepa which he partly attributed to his behaviour deteriorating."
Meryl concludes, "Parents are having to find all this information for themselves and most GPs and relevant government services are difficult to contact and hold very little up to date information. GPs are not routinely trained in nutrition in this country and those that are, can make diagnoses but not offer any useful treatment. Basically, it's one big struggle and the clock is ticking as the child's brain gradually loses its elasticity. I really think Toby is not able to get the nutrition he needs from his food and that is why the Vegepa is so crucial. I also think whilst he needs much more EPA than DHA, he also needs DHA supplemented. We have been trialling 3:1 EPA:DHA and he has shown further improvements. He is also following the Lumosity brain training programme under the guidance of Dr Pauc.
"I think nutrition is key to the whole thing (further to reading 'Gut and Psychology Syndrome' by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride) and I really think we are on the cusp of a big change."
It is certainly onwards and upwards for Toby, with improvements in his development all the time. Recently he rode a bike for the first time and to celebrate, his grandpa is buying him his very first one so he can continue to practise. Friends are noticing a real change in Toby too, describing him as much more engaged and involved in play and conversation.
It has been a long road for Toby and Meryl and there is still some way to travel, but through the combined and cumulative effects of the broad range of research, treatments and supplements, Toby is on the way to finding a solution that really works for him and will continue to enable him to not only lead a 'normal' life, but develop the tools to converse and communicate – which, as Meryl found out perhaps a little later than most, makes life as a mum so very special.


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What Kind of Reader Are You?
I have a confession to make. Sometimes it takes me months to get through a book. I experience the initial tinge of excitement upon finding a book online or in a store, buy it, and then begin to read. Overtime, if I'm still reading it, I'll see ads for other books, or read a review, and then the book that I'm still reading begins to become something to get through in order to get to other books that had captured my interest.
I have two books I'm reading concurrently, Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Ganet and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. The first book I heard discussed on a podcast and I thought sounded like something I should read, the second was a paperback my mother, who passed away several years ago, had on her bookshelf. I have to admit to enjoying Water for Elephants more than the Ganet, but the Ganet, which I read a few pages of in bed before I go to sleep, stays with me more, it's images and characters linger in my mind. The well-researched and finely drawn narrative of Water for Elephants takes me to another place and makes me feel as if I've been there when I set the book down, the pleasures are straightforward. I read a few pages every few days and don't want to put it down when my minutes for reading are up.
I have two books I've been waiting to read all summer: Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel and Andrew Sean Greer's Less. By the time I finish with the other two the seasons will have shifted deeply into fall.
People who read have a relationship with reading. I which my relationship was more. I'm a slow reader, a distracted reader (A.D.D. – very nineties), a hungry and promiscuous reader. I want to read everything. There are so many great books I've never read; so many classics I'd be interested in, but there are so many great new books coming out. I love all genres, all kind of stories. Like a lot of people I wish I could have, days, weeks, months to read.
I'm not the all-in-one-or-two-sittings reader. I'm not the person who can read 300 pages quickly. I've never been the person with their head always in a book, or the one with the huge stacks on the side of the room. I'm not the angry reader, or the overly critical, or the board reader who demands to be entertained.
I'm just someone who reads books and sometimes writes them.
I'll finish the two books I'm reading now and start the books that are waiting for me. It's important to keep reading, no matter how fast or slow, or well-read or not well-read you are.


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Before coming back to this city, I always tried to visit places I've never been to before. For too long I have only looked at Dubai from the windows of its airport or during these small periods of time of landing and taking off until one day I decided to stop there for a couple of days. I would wander around alone, take a taxi, a metro, different bus lines. I would also go to the beach alone – it felt safe to do that.
Because in Dubai I feel comfortable. I feel good. So good that I want to come back. I love the old towns full of history and people committed to producing real masterpieces, which nowadays I am not even sure that they could be created in the same manner, but I also love the glass skyscrapers in front of which I feel like Alice in Wonderland.
But Dubai is not only Burj Khalifa, the sail, the palms and everything that comes to our minds when we think of this city. Dubai has its own history, old markets, Dubai Creek with its boats, Deira, the market full of cheap and fake things, and plenty other authentic and exotic places. And it is so full of all kinds of things, so it's definitely not enough to visit it just once. Or twice in my case. So I think I will come back.
For the New Year's Eve maybe!?
Always under construction, always different
The color of the sand. The color of Dubai.
No, it's not Disneyland! It is the Palm Jumeirah.
Level 43 Sky Loung. I don't need to say anything more!
With my nose upward
My favorite place – Marina
Oh my Godness!
Fashionable Dubai (For more info: Reinvent yourself by Nicoleta Buru)
Dubai Creek
One of the favorite places for the wedding shooting
Traffic. Sheikh Zayed Road.
Could not miss. Burj Khalifa.
Living in a dream
Kiss and goodbye


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I have given quite a bit of thought to New Year's Resolutions in the past week or so, and I have realized, once again, that I have much I still want to accomplish or enjoy. As a result, I have come up with a new list of changes/new trials/ideas that I will be trying to implement this year.
For the Coming Year (in no particular order):
- I will cut back on impulse buying. I still have some medical bills to pay off, a move to consider, a new job to find, and a bigger life to start living.
- I will try to cook more. I do quite a bit of baking already, but I was given a pair of excellent cookbooks by my brother, David and his fantastic girlfriend, Kelsey for Christmas, and I'd like to actually make myself real meals. I know this would be cheaper and healthier for me as well. It's worth a try.
- I will save money out of every paycheck. I've been terrible about preparing for my future/saving, and it's time to really get that underway. If I could get this going, I would actually have money put aside when the next storm comes.
- I will try to lose 2 lbs or more each month of the coming year. It may not sound like much, but it would be a lot easier to see to the end of that goal each month than to set a huge and crazy goal. This I can do.
- I will try and get the children's book I wrote this past year published. And then I will write another.
- I will pay off all the medical bills I have accrued this past year, and the few I will have before the end of January. This is doable. I just have to plan it out and make it happen.
- I will start paying my father back. I owe him money from when I was putting myself through school and had some insane car problems. My goal for this over all is to pay him back completely by the time I am 30. It's a few years away yet, I know I can make this happen.
- I will practice the ukulele. I was given one for Christmas this year which is a life-long dream come true, and so I am determined that I truly will learn to play.
- I will try harder to get along with my body. I have put my body through a lot this year, and it's done the same. I would very much like for us to be on the same page and getting along finally. I think after all these years, we both deserve a little compassion and to be better taken care of.
- I will practice Radical Honesty on a more regular-esque basis.
- I will give more toasts. Because I can.
- Do something nice for someone else every day.
These goals will not be very easy for me, but I do believe I can make them happen. I also believe they will allow me to be a healthier, happier person in this new year. I'd like to have a go at a better life.
I suppose I should also update my bucket list, so here goes:
- Love and be loved by a good man.
- Finish reading all partially read books.
- Send someone a telegram via telegramstop.com
- Give more away.
- Visit the ocean.
- Make Eric Callaway his long ago promised Green blanket.
- Write a long letter to the pope.
- Buy a sarong.
- Figure out what to do with the video camera.
- Pay back my father.
- Write my own obituary.
- Wine and dine someone who deserves it.
- Have a completed emergency fund.
- Watch all of my RiffTrax at least once.
- Become financially independent.
- Learn to make hats.
- Be me. And love being me.


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The Ouachita Arts Celebration upcoming dates for 2016 have been announced and organizers are particularly proud to welcome 'Doc Hudson' Vintage Tin' to the event. The Vintage Tin Fall Tour will land in Mena November 3rd thru 5th and will feature the famous Doc Hudson car from the Pixar movie, Cars, and will be available to sit in and have your picture taken.
Doc Hudson makes his rounds with The Willys, Overland, Knight Registry Southwest Chapter, who will host their fall meet while in town. The group consists of 'Orphan Cars' (cars that are no longer manufactured) up to 1960, and invite all other 'Orphan Car' owners (up to 1960) to join them. The meet will be headquartered at Queen Wilhelmina Lodge. Registration will be on November 3rd at the Lodge and an ice cream social will also be included along with a 'jam session.' On November 4, the group will take a Fall Foliage Tour on the Talimena Scenic Drive.
On November 5, The Willys, Overland, Knight Registry Southwest Chapter will display their antique cars in downtown Mena at the Ouachita Arts Celebration as the "Art of the Car Exhibit." Most of the cars on display will be 1910-1950.
They encourage owners to dress in period clothing that was worn at the time your car was manufactured. "Our hope is to expose the public to cars most have never seen before," said organizers. If there is anyone that has an antique automobile they would like to enter, there will be a $10 entry fee on the day of the event. For more information, call Vintage Tin Restorations at 479-385-5161.


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Regards, a creative female entrepreneur who feels you. This is not going to a long post, because honestly there is still so much I'm learning. Way too much. However, after about 12 months of reading, exploring, & trying a few different solutions - I think I've finally got a few useful tips worth sharing.
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GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, will be enforced on the 25th of May next year after years of preparation and organizations will have to comply or face fines. With the aim to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, GDPR will be directly applicable to all European Union member states and replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.
With discussions of a reform starting at the beginning of this decade, the GDPR 'follows the need to reform the current Data Protection Directive. This was adopted within the European Union in 1995, during the early years of the internet. The GDPR considers the recent technological developments, as well as the implementations on personal data and online security.'
At the moment, the UK relies on the Data Protection Act 1998 that was enacted after the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive, which will be superseded by the new regulation. Without taking Brexit into account, this new legislation means that all data protection rules will be similar across the European Union.
According to ITPro, the EU aims to give people more control over how their personal data is used by companies like Facebook or Google as the initial regulation was enacted in a very different time. As well as this, it is better to simplify the legal environment and as mentioned above, ensure that the entire European Union are operating under the same rules.
Any company that deals with data will have to comply with the GDPR, whether or not they are based in the European Union or not. In October 2016, secretary of state for Culture, Media and Sport Karen Bradley highlighted that 'we will be members of the EU in 2018 and therefore it would be expected and quite normal for us to opt into the GDPR and then look later at how best we might be able to help British business with data protection while maintaining high levels of protection for members of the public.'
While Brexit is still being finalized, in August of this year, a new Data Protection Bill was put forward that has the same requirements as the regulation. 'Once the bill is passed, it will help to clarify the regulations for protecting data once the UK leaves the European Union, by creating a British version of GDPR in all but name,' ITPro explained.
In this respect, the UK is somewhat ready for the regulation to be implemented but like with any regulation, fintechs will have to be or risk being fined.


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2018 Winter Schedule
Techically speaking, it is still winter in Dunedin - though the weather has been mild and there is already blossom about.
The following departures will be offered through the remainder of our winter season (ie. until the end of September 2018): the Vogel Street Walk (which departs from Vogel Street Kitchen at 9am) and the Old Town Walk (which departs from the Dunedin i-Site at 10.30am). These walks are offered daily except Sundays.
Contact us if your group would like to do a walk outside these times - we'll see what we can do.
ProGuides NZ
ProGuides New Zealand is the professional association of tour guides in New Zealand. Members are scattered across this beautiful land, so it was great to catch up with a number of them in Dunedin at the Association's recent AGM.
Here I am leading the crew on the Vogel Street Walk, which showcases the exciting redevelopment occurring right now in Dunedin's characterful warehouse precinct.
Business Innovation Award
Martin McDowall championed Dunedin, through his shop, his promotion of local events and through his contributions to DunedinHOST, our local visitor-industry body. So it meant a lot to me when City Walks won the DunedinHOST Martin McDowall Small Business Innovation Award in 2017.
That's almost a year ago! I've taken a belated photo of the trophy before returning it so that it can be engraved with the name of 2018's winner.
Thanks are due to Martin and Evelyn McDowall.
No walks until Tuesday 5th June
City Walks will hibernate for a week and attend to other tasks. Unfortunately that means there'll be no walks in the meantime.
The good news is that we shall return refreshed, strap our boots on and hit the streets again: our first walk back will be the Vogel Street Walk, departing 9am from Vogel Street Kitchen (76 Vogel Street), Tuesday 5th June.
Also next week we'll roll out our winter schedule. Watch this space!
Vogel Street Walk half price for TRENZ delegates
City Walks welcomes TRENZ delegates to Dunedin.
Dunedin is a great wee city with a whole lot of charm. The best way to explore the place is with us - on foot.
We're offering a special deal to TRENZ delegates this week: TRENZ delegates can do the Vogel Street Walk for just $10/ pax - that's right, half price. Please make a reservation on our Contact page or at the Dunedin i-Site Visitor Centre (corner of George Street and the Octagon). Tickets must be purchased before the walk: your guide can accept cash payment ($NZ please), but EFTPOS or credit card payments must be made at the i-Site.
The walks take 45 mins - 1 hour, starting and finishing at Vogel Street Kitchen (76 Vogel Street). Departure is at 9am, Monday - Saturday. Coffee is not included on the tour, but you'd be silly not to have one, before or after the walk, at Vogel Street Kitchen or one of the several other groovy cafes in Vogel Street.
The walk focuses on the fall and rise of Vogel Street, and recent developments across our characterful warehouse precinct.
Vogel Street Walk starts soon
From May 1st, 2018, we're introducing a new walk, called the Vogel Street Walk. A short walk, just 45 mins - 1 hour duration, it will detail the fall and rise of Vogel Street - and the general (re)development happening across Dunedin's characterful warehouse precinct. Certainly we'll place the area in historical context, but the focus will very much be on recent/ current/ future development down there.
The walks will be offered daily except Sundays, and depart at 9am. We'll start and finish the walks at Vogel Street Kitchen (76 Vogel Street). Coffee is not included, but you might choose to grab one before or after the walk - at Vogel Street Kitchen or one of the several other great cafes on the street.
For a limited time, the walks will cost just $20 (adults)/ $5 (children). As with our other walks, reservations should be made via our Contact page or at the Dunedin i-Site Visitor Centre. Tickets must be purchased before the walk. Your guide can accept cash, but EFTPOS or credit card payment must be made at the Dunedin Visitor Centre (corner of George Street and the Octagon).
No walks ANZAC Day
25 April (Wednesday) is ANZAC Day, the day New Zealanders and Australians set aside to commemorate the sacrifices made during the tragic Gallipoli campaign in World War One.
It's a public holiday, so there'll be no walks happening. There will be a dawn service at Dunedin's Cenotaph (Queen's Gardens), at approx. 6.15am. In fact, there'll be services at dawn, or other times, at almost every settlement across New Zealand. Visitors are welcome to attend these services. Those who attend the Dunedin service may go to Toitu Museum afterwards for a warming cup of tea.
Otago Anniversary and Easter hours
It has been a bumper season so far; thank you for your support. And there's lots coming up in Dunedin, including three Ed Sheeran concerts over Easter. The city will be open, more or less, through Easter, but City Walks will be taking a breather.
Specifically, there'll be NO walks from the afternoon of Friday, 23rd March (there IS a 10.30am departure that day) until the morning of Tuesday, 27th March. Walks resume with the 10.30am departure, Tuesday, 27th March.
The following weekend is Easter. There'll be NO WALKS Friday, 30th April; Saturday, 31st April; Sunday, 1st April or Monday, 2nd April.
Apologies if you had hoped to do a walk with us on any of these days. Our normal schedule resumes with a 10.30am departure, Tuesday, 3rd April.