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Krystal Resorts Cancun has determined that scams in the coming year are on-track to be less frequent than any time before in the brand's history.
The New Year is off to a great start and thanks to Krystal Resorts Cancun, scams are set to be less invasive than ever seen before. As a vacation industry leader, Krystal Resorts is resolved to provide the best travel experience to vacation planners all around the world. With a fresh new year as a perfect time to plan a dream vacation, Krystal Resorts wants travelers to know that 2015 is shaping up to be the safest year to travel yet. As a reminder, they are offering the following safety tips for when it comes time to travel this year.
According to Krystal Resorts Cancun, scams and other criminal activity frequently occurs among tourists because travelers have such a care-free attitude that they let their guard down and disregard their financial security while on vacation. It is imperative to always remain vigilant, even when on vacation. There are individuals out there who make a living ripping off vacationers, simply because those travelers are oblivious to their schemes. By being aware of travel scams, it can go a long way towards travelers remaining safe throughout 2015.
Thanks to Krystal Resorts Cancun, scams in 2014 saw a significant drop-off. Through a number of customer service initiatives, they were able to dramatically reduce the number of guests affected by travel issues, including the occasional scam. A common travel issue that many travelers have had occur to them is stolen luggage. Most frequently, luggage is stolen in public places, where it is simply left unattended. Criminals act quickly, so even taking a phone call and turning the other direction is plenty enough time for a swift thief to swoop in and make off with a bag or two.
Due to Krystal Resorts Cancun's initiative, guests can feel safer than ever knowing they are equipped with the information necessary to readily combat the threat of being targeted by a scam artist. Travelers know to never distribute credit card information over the phone to unsolicited telephone calls, and they are aware that it is perfectly fine to ask a caller to verify themselves or to simply call the inquiring company back through a verified telephone number.
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Yoga Teachers: Here's What You're Probably Doing Wrong
So, you're a yoga teacher.
You've discovered a practice that you love enough to teach, and you get to help people at the same time. Lucky you!
You've established yourself and learned how to lead a good yoga class. But what's the difference between leading a yoga class and connecting authentically with your students?
Whether or not these issues stop students from returning, here are eight things your students may not be telling you:
1. You're too serious (and a bit holier than thou).
Can you laugh at yourself? Can you say, "I don't know?" If you make a mistake, or don't know something, use this as material to prove to your students how yoga can make you a flexible, compassionate, and wise human being.
Students can sense if a teacher is covering up to save face. Admitting your weaknesses endears people to you and allows everyone to have a good laugh.
2. You don't seem very inspired.
I know, I know. Teaching 17 classes per week can lead to a lack of enthusiasm and energy. When you turn any passion into a job, you're bound to run into some difficulties.
But teaching yoga is more than a job. It is a calling and an opportunity to help people grow and heal. If you're getting burned out, lethargic, and cranky, perhaps it might be time to look at developing your own growth and healing.
3. You're a bit uptight.
I once attended a class with a very knowledgeable and experienced teacher. Her practice was gorgeous. I expected the very best when I attended her class for the first time.
But she spent the whole class running around trying to catch her breath while trying to juggle demonstrating, adjusting, and speaking. On top of that, she was hurrying us through a sequence that was too long for our allotted time. It was stressful!
She may have had a lot of knowledge, but it got lost in translation because she wasn't modeling how to move with ease and grace.
Teaching yoga is an opportunity to share insights from your own experience. This teacher's flustered presentation made me question the depth of her own practice.
4. Your boundaries are unclear.
We've all heard of teachers who abuse their power or otherwise confuse students by accepting or bestowing favor for service. Healthy boundaries are a good way to keep your energy clean.
5. You need to deal with your baggage.
Obviously a student may not tell you this, but students show up with psychological baggage. If you pay attention, you can read these signs and respond appropriately.
Which raises the question: Have you addressed your own psychological garbage?
As a yoga teacher, you're responsible for guiding your students into new physical and psychological terrain. It's a big responsibility.
6. You're a little insensitive.
I once had a teacher adjust my posture and criticize me in front of the whole class when I didn't do it correctly. I never went back to her class. The experience was so jarring that I vowed never to put a student in that situation.
When you push too hard to make the student do a "perfect" posture, the risk for injury is not just physical.
The only time I was ever injured during a yoga class was when a teacher pushed me too far. I wanted to make the teachers happy. Surprise! I couldn't do it and my hamstring snapped. Or my shoulder dislocated. I wanted to be part of the group and ignored my own boundaries in favor of pleasing someone else.
Can you meet others where they are, imperfections and all? Or are you stuck teaching postures? Rather than having an agenda for what your students will experience, let them have their own.
7. Starting and ending class late is not cool.
People are relying on you to maintain the boundaries of a yoga class so they can practice. Be professional and courteous and your students will respect you.
8. It confuses me when you bash other teachers or systems of yoga.
Certain systems of yoga have strict guidelines about how yoga should be practiced. But when you are too rigid about sticking to your particular system, the human element gets lost.
This "my view is better than your view" attitude reflects more poorly on you than the ones you are bashing.
Yoga is not a one-size-fits-all package. Can you accept other teachers and traditions and the fact that some forms of yoga are not for everyone?
We're all making our own ways through this treacherous terrain called life. We're doing the best that we can. If you have found a spiritual path that helps you, that's wonderful. Respect others' paths as being valid for them.
Teaching yoga is an advanced practice. Be grateful for the opportunity to teach and to learn from the experience. Because the things your students won't tell you directly are probably the things you most need to hear.
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In the past 12 months I've been doing a lot of work on the feminine and finding balance. Most of the work has been done in courses online with Leyolah Antara from Kundalini Dance (www.kundalinidance.com) and I can't recommend it highly enough for both men and women. If I had enough funds, I would have gone to Bali earlier this year to complete the teacher training, but alas, it is clearly not the right time yet, the money hasn't arrived. So, instead, I dutifully listen to the recordings, practice the breathing and dancing and reflect deeply and release all that no longer serves me. If I look back on the past few blog entries, they too are reflective of my place in my unfolding of the divine mother and the goddess within me and my progress through the latest course.
Before the first lesson last year, I had gone in feeling very stale and unsexual and lacking any libido or care for sex (which is somewhat not my normal healthy state – is it for anyone?). After the first recording, I kid you not, I felt beautiful, sexy and so very juicy (Gee, I hope my parents aren't reading this!). Since then, I feel like I've gone from strength to strength and today, my trainer at the gym called me a Goddess! Excellent, that's what I'm aiming for! She said that I had undergone a transformation in attitude and it very much feels like it. I no longer take any crap, I am not willing to accept just anyone in my life and while I haven't mastered it yet, I return to my centre, my womb space when I get stressed to find my place of stillness.
This week is solar plexus chakra week (if you don't know what chakras are, please just google them), and therefore the third week of the course and already stuff has come up for me in regards to balancing the masculine and feminine. I feel completely alive in the feminine and feel like I am on-track to feel like a goddess, but this morning, again, fear of the masculine came up again. Yet, within each of us there is a balance of masculine and feminine, the masculine is the DO-ing and the feminine the BE-ing. And I wonder how often as a single mum I've had to be in the masculine, DO-ing…well…everything and in the absence of a regular lover, I've been my own amazing lover (and it keeps just getting better). In the BE-ing space, I feel soft, sexy, sensitive and gentle, nurtured and nurturing. I feel open to receiving and love very much from the heart space. In the DO-ing space, it's very cerebral and active, but also for a very indecisive person like myself, the masculine space is decisive and it too comes from the heart and throat area. I suppose everything is different for everyone, but this is how it manifests for me.
I have been indecisive for as long as I can remember and my kids will attest that every couple of weeks or months I start looking for new places to move to, new adventures to have and looking for new jobs. I have trouble committing to things and I think I've finally figured out why. The masculine is the DO-ing, it is decisive. As a single parent, I am ALWAYS DO-ing things for the household, for the kids and so when I start to look for new things, seeking new adventures, it means that my masculine is out of balance. I've overdone it. I haven't created space for the nurturing pulse of the deep feminine. For me, I suppose that to get that balance, I've dropped back into my feminine in receiving masturbation and self-pleasure, but I have also spent so much money and time on courses and workshops that I could probably successfully run my own self-help workshops without much planning or thought. But I wonder if there is another way to get the masculine in balance?
In my experience the feminine has been felt as an energy that rises from deep in the Earth and the masculine comes down through the crown where they meet in the root chakra and together they intertwine and work their way up to the top of the palate of the mouth. It's a place where you can press your tongue. This is my experience and in no way do I say that this is the right way, it is the way it is for me. Modern spiritual books and tantric texts call it divine union – that is the healthy balanced union of the masculine and feminine within the one body; within the self. In this space I have had such ecstatic orgasms (yes, on my own) that transcend time and space and language to describe the feeling. Ecstasy is defined by dictionary.com as "rapturous delight", yet it doesn't seem adequate. It's more than physical. It's I suppose what religious folk would describe as being touched by God, yet, it's more than that too.
In many ways, when we seek a partner, we are seeking someone who embodies the matching polarities of our own masculine and feminine; someone who has just enough feminine and masculine to balance. (Just to be clear, the sex or sexual orientation of the person makes no difference). But, if we are out of balance, how can we possibly have a fully-functional relationship with another person? I suppose, plenty of people have functional relationships every day, but for people who are soul-driven like myself, I want more. I want to maintain the divine union within me, but also to find another person who is in complete balance (or can identify when they are out of balance and realign) and their own divine union and share that energy together. I think to maintain balance, there needs to be an awareness of BE-ing and DO-ing and realise when we are not respecting both the masculine and feminine parts of ourselves. For me, I will be more fully present when doing the dishes, hanging the washing and completing the tasks that a parent needs to do to care for their children, but also create more time for me to just BE in stillness and receive things like massages, cuppas from friends and the time alone that is so rare for parents.
I've sort of come into this spiritual realisation, as all of my realisations on my own, and then I discover an author who has already written about it. I think I like the self-discovery aspect of it, I would rather come to some self-discovery than have someone tell me how it "should" be. I remember in my teenage experience with astral travelling in meditation and had no description for it and I was told that I was crazy, and then I picked up a book and there it was, in print, my experience that had already been described. As I was writing this piece I literally came across author David Deida (www.deida.info) and can't believe I haven't come across him before, but as with all of my learnings, it validates that my process of self-discovery works and while I'm not the first to discover this, I know that for me, I have learned it first and know it to be truth for me. I know that I'm on track for my divine union both within and without. May you find balance within yourself today and every day.
©Alyssa Curtayne, 2015
Living an authentic life
Today, I had an experience which flashed me back to my high school days when I was told that I was gullible or naïve for believing stories that people told, that turned out not to be true. At the time, admittedly I was a very sheltered child and I thank my parents daily for protecting me from some of the truly monumental crap that people out there do. Yet, my siblings weren't naïve or gullible. Maybe because I'm the eldest and I saw the world through a child's eyes for so very long. I have long believed in the goodness in all people, in the wonder of the world of the fact that I tell the truth and am always honest, yet somehow, expect other people to see and interact in the world in the same way.
I didn't have many friends in primary and high school. I grew up in a small town and never really clicked with anyone in the way that I have as an adult with my best girlfriends. A girl who I thought was my friend betrayed me in a way that I cannot forget, I can certainly forgive, but what she did to me was appalling, even by today's standards. Our families were very good friends and we went camping together and spent a lot of time together, then when I was about 10, she moved to a town an hour away. We continued to see them over the years and in year eight, I was invited over to stay with her for a few days. In the meanwhile, she had made a new friend, who I instantly disliked, but thought I should give her the benefit of the doubt because my friend was her friend.
My friend's mum and brothers went out for a few hours and their plan was to do a nudie run around the house. I was to go first. So, I stripped naked and they pushed me out the door and I ran around as we agreed. When I returned, they wouldn't let me in. I could hear them giggling on the other side of the door and I vividly remember sitting on the cold steps outside wondering what I could do, or if there was a window open or if I could beat them at their own game. Alas, I couldn't. I never imagined in my wildest dreams that she would betray me like that. It was cruel, and, yes, her betrayal still hurts. After I had my first daughter ten years later, she came back into my life and I thought it would be a good opportunity to mend some of the hurt. So after seeing her at a family event, I went to see her at her workplace. Carrying my daughter in my arms I had hoped to see if she wanted to catch up for a cuppa or something. As soon as she saw me enter the building, I saw her dive under her desk and pretend that she didn't see me. About 18 months later an invitation to her wedding arrived and my mother couldn't figure out why I wasn't going. As you can understand, I never want to see this woman ever again.
She was my first best friend. And she betrayed me. She abused my innocence about the world and it left me with trust issues around friendships that I still carry today. Obviously, as a 40 year old with three daughters of my own, I can see that she really wasn't my friend, but showed her true colours when it was asked of her. Which brings me back to my naïveté, was I naïve, or did I go into the friendship with an open heart and expecting the same in return?
Today's event was a disclosure of some information by my eldest child about her life and her past. I am not angry at her for what she did, it was a choice that she made – despite my best advice and parenting skills about the issue to prevent it from happening in the first place. What I'm upset about, is why I didn't see it at the time. Am I so blindingly naïve that I can't even see things going on in my own child's life and the changes that it brings in her? Am I too self-involved? Do I only choose to see the light and potential in someone and aren't realistic enough to see what's in-front of my own eyes. According to www.dictionary.com naïve means to "have or show unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality". Am I so simplistic that I see the true nature of people without seeing what they put up as their "mask" that they show the world? Do I love my daughter so much that I'm blinded by the masks that she wears? Is it a bad thing to see the absence of artificiality? Is it a personality flaw that I carry to wander through the world expecting the best and the authentic truth from other people, only to be disappointed by their artificial ways? Or is it a strength?
Dictionary.com also uses the words: "unsophisticated; ingenuous and; having or showing lack of experience, judgement or information; credulous." I don't think I'm unsophisticated, but I suppose in many areas of my life, I do lack experience, yet I'm hardly what you would call "street smart". I didn't get drunk until my late teens and my first real sexual experience was around the same time. Does that make me naïve? Or does it make me a good judgment of what works for me? I remember in high school, kids telling stories, and I would listen attentively and my face would obviously show shock, or despair or sadness, and then the storyteller would sit back and go, "you're so naïve, you'd believe anything." To me, that's somewhat inauthentic, and yes, artificial. Is there something wrong with believing in the goodness of other people? In-fact, in my teaching job, that personal quality has led me to help many of the "unteachable" kids that society throws away. I'm very good at that role – planning and assessing and all that other stuff, not so much, but seeing the goodness, the humanity, the real pain and suffering of traumatised kids – I'm good at that. Even yesterday at work, I was told that one of the students was "playing me". Was I being played? Or was I being a compassionate being, catering to his needs and hearing his voice?
Even if I think about my adult relationships, both with friends and lovers, I always go in expecting the best, seeing the best, encouraging the best. But like one of my dearest friends once said to me, "You really don't know what another person is thinking of you." And that's both positive and negative, yet, I always hold friends and lovers at an arm's length, never quite opening right up, because this little voice in my head, in my body, remembers my best friend's betrayal at 13. It remembers the childhood woundings of being openly lied to and then laughed at when I couldn't believe I was lied to.
No, I don't think being innocent, or naïve is a flaw, it is a strength. And if I am the only person on this planet who is authentic, deeply honest and not afraid to speak my truth, well, so be it. I would rather a world where everyone speaks deeply from the heart and sees the world with childlike wonder, than to play these silly games with people's emotions and to wear a mask of artificiality. From my open heart to yours,
©Alyssa Curtayne, 2015
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Weddings on the brain? Whether your ceremony is next month or many years down the road, there's nothing wrong with a healthy helping of inspiration where your big day is concerned. It is a fairly important event, after all, and what's more pivotal than feeling like yourself and beautiful in your own skin? (Vows aside, of course.) Call us hopeless romantics, but we'd be happy spending hours on end sifting through the prettiest products and makeup ideas to inspire our one-day makeup looks, and lately, we've been especially mesmerized by radiant, natural bridal makeup looks—think fresh, dewy skin; a fantasy-like flush; and super-subtle lips.
So, eager to discover the best products, tips, and tricks for creating a natural bridal makeup look, we reached out to two celebrity makeup artists: Monika Blunder and Chauntal Capri Lewis (both of whom have a knack for natural, incandescent artistry where makeup is concerned). From skin prep to lips, we're breaking down all of their wisdom on the topic of natural bridal makeup application.
For Prep
It's no secret that makeup will only look as glowy and beautiful as the skin underneath it. Therefore, prepping the complexion so that it will be at its prime should not be underestimated (or neglected.)
"When it comes to bridal beauty prep (especially if you're going for a natural makeup look), it's important to remember that less is more. Skip your smoky eye and play up feelings of romance with a soft, dewy makeup look. That being said, it's hard to achieve this natural glow the morning of, and brides-to-be should start adopting a proper skin regimen months before the big day," Blunder tells us.
First will come exfoliation. (Team Byrdie is obsessed with the Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel, $88, followed by a brightening serum like the SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic, $166.)
Blunder also recommends twice-weekly use of a savvy device like the Silk'n Titan Skin Tightening & Lifting Device ($269), which helps to rebuild collagen and elastin skin fibers—without the stress and invasiveness of a cosmetic procedure.
For Skin
"Nothing makes me happier than watching a fresh-faced, natural, glowing bride walk down the aisle," Capri Lewis explains. "For nearly every bridal look I create (unless advised otherwise), I'll go with a soft, naturally pretty finish." Her intention with natural bridal makeup is for skin to be light and dewy (but not shiny) and full coverage (but not cakey). After all, the makeup needs to last all day and night, and Capri Lewis shares it really comes down to the products and techniques you're utilizing.
"Hands down, the combination of La Mer Soft Fluid Foundation ($120) and Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation ($42) is my ultimate foundation cocktail for brides, and they complement one another perfectly. First, I'll use the La Mer, which will provide a flawless finish and lasting, full coverage, followed by the Armani to leave a soft, silky texture just like true skin."
Both Blunder and Capri Lewis recommend incorporating a liquid highlighter into the mix, and for an amazing cast of radiance, Capri Lewis suggests applying Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Liquid Highlighter ($41) over the entire face before applying your foundation (though you can definitely tap it onto the highest points of the face post-foundation, if you so choose).
For Eyes
"For the eyes, I love the look of neutral, earthy tones applied first in the crease and then softly dusted under the outer corners of the eye," Capri Lewis shares. "My go-to palettes are the Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance Eye Shadow Palette ($42) and the Bobbi Brown Nude Drama Eyeshadow Palette ($59)."
She continues, "For natural bridal makeup, I like to keep the lid and inner corners of the eyes bright and awake by using champagne tones and a light application of luminous sparkle in the inner corners." (She recommends Stila Glitter & Glow Liquid Eyeshadow in Kitten Karma, $24.)
And then last but certainly not least, false lashes: "With this natural look, the lashes will really make the eyes stand out. I almost always use individual lashes across the entire eye, starting with medium lashes and then switching to a shorter length depending on the shape of the eye."
For Lips
Capri Lewis tells us that when it comes to lips, she likes to keep it pretty standard with a demure combination of lip liner, lipstick, and gloss to top it all off. "I typically go with MAC Lip Pencil in Whirl ($18), Nars Audacious Lipstick in Anita ($34), and Buxom Full-On Lip Cream in White Russian ($21) as it offers a nude wash of pink but is still bright enough so that the bride's lips won't disappear."


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We returned from three weeks in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia to find Mussoorie in the midst of monsoon – one that has been, we're told, fairly light and mostly raining in the nights rather than during the days. This is a grateful reprieve from the daytime rains we were expecting – but monsoon's been here for less than a month, and isn't due to recede until September-October, so we're enjoying the sunshine… Read More
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Knower served as the third president of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Albany. He was active in the bank's management from 1817-1834, a total of 17 years. Knower also served as the Secretary of the Treasury of the State of New York from 1821 until 1824. Knower was well-respected in the business community by his contemporaries. One man, Gordon A. Worth had this to say about him in his work "Random Recollections":
"There was still another class, not less active nor less important, in a business point of view. I allude to a then comparatively new or recently established body of mechanics of which Benjamin Knower was confessedly at the head. Mr. Knower was indeed a man of strong mind and persevering energy of character. Through his influence the charter of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank was obtained and the mechanics of the city of Albany rose in consideration and respect, personal and political, to a length which they had never before reached."
Knower's financial acumen was, in fact, instrumental in the building of the Erie Canal. Benjamin Knower contributed generously to the fund that was collected to help defray the expenses of both building the canal and staging the huge celebration in Albany that was planned for when the first boat travelled across the state from Buffalo and was locked down into the Hudson River. On July 1, 1825, Knower took part in another major event. In his old age, America's Revolutionary War ally Gilbert du Mortier, Marquise de La Fayette revisited the country he helped liberate. When La Fayette visited Albany, Knower was among the men he had dinner with. The village (or, at least the post office) was named Knowersville in his honor after his death in 1840. It would be renamed Altamont in 1882.
Knower's various connections extended beyond the realm of business and into his own family. New YorkState governor William L. Marcy was married to Knower's oldest daughter Cornelia. Marcy was 38 years old and serving as state comptroller at the time. Marcy would also eventually serve as a U.S. Senator and Secretary of State of the United States.
Upon his death in 1839, an Albany city newspaper had this to say about Benjamin Knower as both a businessman and as a man:
"Benjamin Knower died at 64. Although he began life as a mechanic, he soon entered upon extensive commercial transactions. His career was distinguished for enterprise and public spirit, and he passed through it with a reputation for integrity unsullied and for business capacity unsurpassed. He was a long time connected with and took an active part in the management of the M. & F. Bank of which he was President. In 1821 he was solicited to take the office of State Treasurer, which he held until the fall of 1824, when he resigned. Mr. Knower was a hatter by occupation and having many apprentices, most of them as a matter of iccourse were without pecuniary means or friends able to assist them. He seemed to regard it not only as a duty but a source of personal gratification to extend to them a helping hand at this critical moment in their lives. His place of business was a few doors below the corner of Hudson avenue in Broadway on the west side."
Knower House still stands on New York Route 146 in GuilderlandCenter just outside of what is now the Village of Altamont. A historical marker stands by the roadside signify the importance of the house and the man who built it. The village of Altamont may no longer bear Benjamin Knower's name, but his influence is not forgotten.
Begley, Alice C. Historic Markers in the Town of Guilderland, Albany County, New York. Guilderland, New York: Town of Guilderland, 1994. Print.
Gregg, Arthur B. Old Hellebergh: Scenes from Early Guilderland.Albany, New York: Guilderland Historical Society, 1975. Print.


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Dehomag was a German subsidiary of IBM with monopoly in the German market before and during World War II.[1] The word was an acronym for Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen Gesellschaft mbH (English: German Hollerith Machines LLC). Hollerith refers to the German-American inventor of the technology of punched cards, Herman Hollerith.
Under Nazi Germany, Dehomag leased and maintained the Nazis' collection of card punch machines. The use of this technology increased the efficiency of the Final Solution. IBM in New York established a special subsidiary, Watson Business Machines, to deal with railway traffic in the General Government during the Holocaust in Poland. The German Transport Ministry used IBM machines under the New York-controlled subsidiary in Warsaw, not the German subsidiary. Dehomag general manager for Germany, Hermann Rottke, reported to Thomas J. Watson in New York. It was legal for IBM to service the Third Reich directly, but only until America entered the war in December 1941.
The technology of punched cards dates back at least to the 18th century when it was used for mass production of woven textiles and later used as a recording and play back system in player pianos. The use of punched cards for recording and tabulating data was first proposed and used by Semen Korsakov in or about 1805. In 1832 Charles Babbage proposed using similar cards to program and store computation by his calculating engine. Punch card technology was further developed for tabulating and data processing purposes by Herman Hollerith, dated back to the 1880s. It was used for the 1890 United States Census and for the census work of several foreign governments. Willy Heidinger, an acquaintance of Hollerith, licensed all of Hollerith's patents in 1910, and created Dehomag in Germany. In 1911 Hollerith's company merged with several others, forming Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR). In 1923 CTR acquired 90% ownership of Dehomag, thus acquiring patents developed by them.[2] In 1924 CTR was renamed IBM.
In the following years, Dehomag, obeying the direct orders of IBM and Thomas J. Watson, became the main provider of computing expertise and equipment in Nazi Germany. Dehomag gave the Nazi party the means for a large census of the population and for searching its data.
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- ^ Edwin Black on IBM and the Holocaust
- ^ Aspray (ed.), William (1990). Computing Before Computers. Iowa State University Press. p. 137. ISBN 0-8138-0047-1.
[edit] Further reading
- Black, Edwin (2001). IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation' ISBN 0-609-60799-5
- Anita Ramasastry. A Swiss court allows Gypsies' Holocaust lawsuit to proceed. CNN, 2004-07-08.
- Dehomag D11 tabulation machine exhibit in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


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If you need a last minute Halloween treat which is easy to bake this is the right recipe. Just bake some chocolate brownies and dress them up with royal icing monsters.
For the monsters you can use store bought candy eyes or make them yourself. I would recommend this because they are more individual. You can also store them for later use very easy. Just prepare some royal icing (250g powder sugar, 1,5 tablespoons Meringue Powder and 50-70ml water should be enough for the eyes and the brownies as well). Just pipe little drops of white icing on a sheet parchment paper and put a little black sugar perl on the icing. Let it dry in your oven on convection setting without heat. A detailed description how to make the eyes you can find in the monster cookies.
If you made out of a quarter of the Icing eyes you can divide the rest in three parts and dye them with Wilton icing colors in green, violet and orange. Depending on how much color you used you might need to add more water which I do with a little spray pump for easy dispensing. Before I decorate the brownies I cut them in pieces because this is easier without the icing on which gets hard and difficult to cut without breaking. To create the monsters I distributed the icing with a spoon on the brownies, put some candy eyes on the right places and let them dry again (with a little gap between the brownies to not stick together) in the oven. And finished are your Halloween treats to impress on every party.


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Elektra recording group Milo Greene has unveiled details for their much-anticipated fall tour supporting English indie-rock band Bombay Bicycle Club. The cross-country trek will kick off on October 1 at Soma in San Diego, CA and include stops at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles (October 3), the Warfield in San Francisco (October 5), Terminal 5 in New York City (October 22), and more – see below for the full schedule. Get tickets here.
Milo Greene is currently working on their second full-length album with acclaimed producer Jesse Shatkin, known for his studio work with Foster The People, Twin Shadow, The Shins, and more. Shatkin also co-wrote and co-produced Sia's new single "Chandelier," whose official music video has already amassed nearly 16 million views online. Milo Greene's forthcoming, as-yet-untitled collection is the follow up to the band's self-titled debut album, which entered Billboard's Heatseekers chart at #1.
Milo Greene's atmospheric, indie-pop sound and mesmerizing live performances has earned the band high profile slots at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands as well as supporting roles on tours with like-minded artists like The Civil Wars, Cold War Kids, and The Walkmen. Co-produced by the band and Ryan Hadlock, their 2012 debut album "MILO GREENE" received a raft of critical acclaim including The Associated Press who praised it as "a tapestry of richly reverbed guitar, inventive drum work and something sorely missing amid today's morass of arrange-by-numbers rock music – a beautifully delivered concept." Nylon hailed Milo Greene as the "feel-good band of the summer" while Consequence of Sound noted, "there's no real front-person, not even a lead singer, and it works to an impressive advantage.


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In February 2013 Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer was emerited. The Rector of the University of Duisburg-Essen has immediately awarded him a Senior Professorship for Politics and Society in China in order to provide a platform for the continuation of both his expertise in Chinese studies and his research projects. Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer also continues to be a part of the DFG Research Training Group "Risk and East Asia", sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Current research projects include a scientific research program titled "New Political Representative Claims: A Global View (Brazil, China, India, France & Germany)" sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and follow-up research on strategic behavior of Chinese private entrepreneurs in the aftermath of the 'Competence Network' "Governing in China: Prerequisites, Constraints and Potentials for Political Adaption and Innovation Capacity in the 21st Century". Cooperation with national and international partner organizations is crucial for our research projects. Of special importance are our relationship to the Chair of Greater China Studies at the University of Tuebingen and various Chinese universities and research institutes.
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An enduring New York mystery is the sheeplike behavior of Broadway playgoers who line up by the hundreds outside theaters long before the curtain goes up. They have assigned seats. There is no reason for them to stand out there like robots. Nothing about this ritual makes sense.
"It is a conundrum," Paul Libin agreed over lunch at Orso, itself an enduring theater district feature, on West 46th Street. Mr. Libin is the executive vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters and has produced plays on and off Broadway going on 60 years. Figuring out audiences is his vocation. The pointless sidewalk queues elude him, though.
"Sometimes people come at 5 in the afternoon," Mr. Libin said with a touch of incredulity. "Most of them come a little later. But they do stand in line."
Not that the phenomenon is necessarily bad from his perspective. Mr. Libin, 82, remembers the epic lines that formed outside one of Jujamcyn's five Broadway houses, the St. James on West 44th Street, after "The Producers" opened there in 2001. "I loved it because it was a great way of advertising," he said.
One day, expecting a visit by an influential figure at an influential newspaper (i.e., this one, which had offices then on West 43rd Street), he insisted that people line up single file. That made the queue seem endless. "It went all around 44th Street, down Broadway and past the entrance to The New York Times," he said. "I think it was the last of the great big lines."
Hold on. You did this to impress one person? "That's my job," Mr. Libin replied with a smile.
Naturally, a producer does a good deal more than razzle-dazzle of that sort. Otherwise, Mr. Libin would not be getting a Tony Award for lifetime achievement when the 2013 Broadway honors are handed out on Sunday.
There is virtually no aspect of the theater that he has not had a hand in. For years he was a major Off Broadway force, a longtime partner of Theodore Mann, who was a founder of Circle in the Square and who died last year. Since 1990, he has been a senior figure at Jujamcyn (which, in case you wondered, is a mash-up of Judith, James and Cynthia — children of the Binger family, once the owners of the theaters).
"I like to jokingly say that getting a lifetime achievement award is like owning an old car, where you get an extended warranty but you don't have to pay for it," Mr. Libin said. "Getting a pat on the back after all this mileage is kind of fun."
Lunch at Orso was hardly new for him. On his way in, he stopped to introduce himself to Tom Hanks, who was at the next table (and who has a best-actor Tony nomination for his lead role in Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy"). He identified himself to Mr. Hanks by another hat that he wears: president of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Weeks earlier, the actor took part in a Broadway Cares event, but Mr. Libin did not have a chance to meet him then.
"He raised a lot of money," the producer said later as Mr. Hanks left the restaurant. "He's a real good trouper."
At this meal, Mr. Libin ordered salmon with risotto, and only water to drink. His interviewer chose swordfish with pan-roasted vegetables and olives, followed by coffee. Both skipped dessert.
Not surprisingly, well-known names crept into the conversation. Mr. Libin has worked with the likes of Rex Harrison, Jason Robards, Julie Christie, Mike Nichols, Al Pacino, Vanessa Redgrave, Nathan Lane — the list could go on and on. A particular source of pride for him is Jujamcyn's production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" two decades ago.
But Arthur Miller, more than anyone else, kept emerging in the table talk, almost Zelig-like. For starters, seeing a 1950 production of Miller's "Death of a Salesman" back home in Chicago convinced a 19-year-old Paul Libin to pursue an acting career. This was not an ambition destined for fulfillment. He came to New York and, in 1953, auditioned for a part in "Wish You Were Here," a Joshua Logan musical comedy. He did fine with his spoken lines.
"And then," Mr. Libin said, "I had to sing. I heard Josh Logan say: 'Next!' And that was it."
Four years later, he decided that producing was for him, and he aimed high. His first play was "The Crucible." Arthur Miller again.
"What a producer is, at least in my mind, is putting the parts together and making it work with what you have," Mr. Libin said. But first you need those parts. For "The Crucible," he did not even have a theater. He had to build one. But where?
On his way to the dentist one day, he passed the old Martinique Hotel, at Broadway and 32nd Street.
"I saw a sign that said a ballroom was available," he recalled. "I talked to the manager of the hotel, a Mr. Foreman. A really tough character. Used to carry a snub-nosed .38." He explained his idea, and Mr. Foreman was unenthusiastic. Nonetheless, Mr. Libin phoned Miller's agent and said, "We have the theater."
"Actually, we didn't have anything," he said at lunch, his voice turning almost conspiratorial. "That's what a producer has to do: be very positive about circumstances."
Miller wanted to see for himself if the ballroom could be converted into a theater. He showed up at the Martinique with his wife. You may have heard of her: Marilyn Monroe.
In walked the hotel manager, who somehow failed to notice Monroe. He focused his attention on Miller and Mr. Libin.
"I said, 'I'd like you to meet his wife,' " Mr. Libin said. "When the guy turned, I thought he was going to melt right there. He could hardly speak." By the time the young producer made it back by subway to the Upper West Side, where he worked, Mr. Foreman had left a message for him: "When are we going to sit down and make the deal?"
Skip ahead to 1974. Now teamed with Mr. Mann at Circle in the Square, Mr. Libin embarked on another project with Miller, a revival of "Death of a Salesman." George C. Scott, cast as Willy Loman, proposed that Willy's Brooklyn neighbors be African-Americans. But Miller balked. "That's not what I wrote," he groused to Mr. Libin.
"I said, 'Arthur, the world is changing; it's a powerful component,' " Mr. Libin recalled. Miller stood his ground: "That's not what I wrote."
The producer reported back to Scott. "It's no problem," he quoted the actor as replying. "Don't worry about it. If the family next door cannot be a black family, I won't do the play."
Back and forth it went. "Ted Mann worked on George, and I worked on Arthur," Mr. Libin said. Miller finally yielded to Scott's idea, and the show went on in 1975.
Dueling egos notwithstanding, collaboration is indispensable in the theater, Mr. Libin said. It can take various forms. With that long-ago production of "The Crucible" at the Martinique, he urged Miller not to show up on opening night.
"I said to him: 'Arthur, it's only 200 seats. If you're here with your wife, no one's going to watch the play.' He said, 'I know what you mean.' " The Millers stayed away that night.
That, too, is the sort of thing a producer arranges.


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Armed Forces and Military Strategy
Dec 17, 2018 | Briefing Book br>
Washington, D.C., December 17, 2018 – During the dark days of the Cold War, spying on the enemy often took place in broad daylight. Some of the best opportunities for Western intelligence to get a picture – literally – of Soviet capabilities were presented by the USSR itself at public military parades, where the normally secretive Soviets proudly showed off to the world their arsenal of advanced hardware.
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Washington, D.C., August 13, 2018 – U.S. Cyber Command's strategy for curtailing ISIL's ability to exploit the internet may at least partially be paying off, according to an analysis of recently declassified documents posted today by the nongovernmental National Security Archive. The new documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by Motherboard and the Archive, center around Operation GLOWING SYMPHONY, a USCYBERCOM activity authorized in late 2016 to deny the Islamic State use of the internet.
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USCYBERCOM has put flesh on the bones of its skeletal strategy declaration initially released in February 2018. A month later, on March 23, the Command made public a new, 12-page "Command Vision" that substantially expands on the earlier paper (posted below). Several analysts have already remarked on its significance. For example, Richard J. Harknett at the University of Cincinnati, who was consulted on the new approach, writes in Lawfare that it "marks a significant evolution in cyber operations and strategic thinking."
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The following was published in Survival: Global Politics and Strategy (Vol 59 No 2). War Scare Sir, In 'Able Archer 83: What Were the Soviets Thinking' (Survival, vol. 58, no. 6, December 2016–January 2017, pp. 7–30), Gordon Barrass makes a compelling argument that Able Archer 83 provides 'lessons on how to analyse and respond to […]
Top Air Force Official Told JCS in 1971: "We Could Lose Two Hundred Million People [in a Nuclear War] and Still Have More Than We Had at the Time of the Civil War"Feb 15, 2017 | Briefing Book br>
Washington, D.C. February 15, 2017 – The Air Force chief of staff told the Joint Chiefs at a September 1971 meeting that in a nuclear war the United States "could lose two hundred million people and still have more than we had at the time of the Civil War." The quote comes from a recently declassified and highly revealing diary entry by JCS Chairman Thomas Moorer, published today for the first time by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University. The other chiefs did not challenge Gen.
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Washington D.C., September 30, 2016 – The unilateral nuclear withdrawals announced by President George H.W. Bush 25 years ago this week drew an eager response from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to produce what experts call "the most spontaneous and dramatic reversal" ever of the nuclear arms race, according to newly declassified documents from Soviet and U.S. files posted today by the National Security Archive to mark the anniversary of the Bush initiative.
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Washington, D.C., January 26, 2016 - The National Security Archive mourns the passing of Gen. William Y. Smith, one of the Archive's original board members and longest supporters, on January 19, 2016. Gen. Smith helped form the original advisory board of the Archive in the 1980s, served on the audit committee of the Archive's Board of Directors from 1999 to 2016, and played an instrumental role in multiple Archive projects, including conferences in Havana and Hanoi that dramatically re-wrote the histories of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. As a young military aide, Gen.
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Washington, D.C., April 28, 2015 – President Lyndon Johnson regretted sending U.S. troops into the Dominican Republic in 1965, telling aides less than a month later, "I don't want to be an intervenor," according to new transcripts of White House tapes published today (along with the tapes themselves) for the first time by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org). Johnson ordered U.S. Marines into Santo Domingo 50 years ago today.
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Washington, DC, October 1, 2014 – Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered a series of secret contingency plans that included airstrikes and mining of Cuban harbors in the aftermath of Fidel Castro's decision to send Cuban forces into Angola in late 1975, according to declassified documents made public today for the first time. "If we decide to use military power it must succeed.


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Baptism of Jesus / Feast of the Holy Child
Mark 1:4-11
January 11, 2015
The Rev. Leonard B. Oakes
Just a couple of weeks ago, we celebrated the birth of the baby Jesus in the manger. A week after that, he underwent the Jewish cleansing ritual of circumcision. The next time we heard, he was 12 years old reading the book of the prophet Isaiah in the Synagogue. And now he is in the river Jordan being baptized by John the Baptist in another cleansing ritual marking his ministry to the world.
One might ask, what in the world is Jesus doing in the river Jordan being baptized by John the Baptist? Isn't baptism a cleansing ritual for repentant sinners? Jesus is a blameless person and without sin. Why does he need to go through the process of baptism? John the baptist said, "I baptize you with water but he whose sandal I am not worthy to untie, will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
What then is Jesus doing in the river Jordan being baptized by John the Baptist?
Some of us may join that protest worried about what people might think if Jesus submits to a baptism of repentance. Why on earth would Jesus go out into the wilderness to be baptized with this ritual cleansing of repentance? After all, if Jesus is who we say he is, the Son of God who was "in every way as we are, except without sin,"
There are complex theological responses to these questions. We may well remember that each Gospel writer has his own way of sketching the life and works of Jesus. This particular passage in the Gospel of Mark sets the continuation of the writer's attempt to parallel the differences of John the Baptist and Jesus. At the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, the writer presented to us an Old Testament passage of Isaiah crying in the wilderness to make straight the path of the Lord. Mark presented to us John the Baptist as the forerunner of Christ. He was not the messiah but someone mightier than him is coming. John baptizes with water but Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit. Today's Gospel is a clear fulfillment of that voice in the wilderness. Jesus is the messiah, the Son of God.
We may also find understanding of this event when in the words of St. Paul, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself (2 Corinthians 5:19). To put it in another way: In everything that Jesus says and does, God is at work, showing us how closely and intimately God relates to human beings who do sin, and who do need to repent and turn again. Jesus stands in the Jordan River, just as he lay in the stable as a baby, just as he will hang on the cross of his death, because God is in Christ, identifying himself with us in every aspect of our births, lives and deaths, and in solidarity with us.
On one baptismal occasion where the place of baptism was at a flowing river, a candidate was hesitant in being submerged into the water, he said, "No, No, I don't want to be in the river." The people thought that the candidate was possessed by evil spirits. Nevertheless, the minister asked, "Could you tell me why you don't want to be baptized in the river?" The candidate answered, "There are leeches in the water." "May mga linta sa tubig."
Jesus did not hesitate to join the crowd of repentant sinners at the River Jordan who are repenting and returning to right relationship with God in the framework of covenant and law. No, Jesus does not need to repent. But, by showing his baptism by John, the Gospel-makers show Jesus doing what God in Christ always does" Stands by us, Stands with us, stands for us in our great need for repentance. Jesus would spend his earthly life in the midst of sinners, eating with them, drinking with them, talking with them, healing them, calling them. Why should his baptism be any different? Jesus went under the waters of the Jordan as the others had, under the waters his ancestors crossed after 40 years of wilderness wandering. Historic waters, yet they looked quite ordinary.
That is the Good news of our salvation, and this is why the view of Jesus' baptism includes a "Manifestation of God, Epiphany." It is as though God is, indeed, so excited and joyful about Jesus' first public act of solidarity with sinners; that God rips through the very fabric of creation with the authoritative word of God's voice: "This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased."
Perhaps this teaches us something significant on this feast of the Baptism of the Lord, the baptism of the perfect servant in whom the Father is well pleased, and a baptism in which we all share.
Baptism is about sharing, sharing the love, the joy and the light that we receive from God. Sharing the grace we enjoy to those who are deprived of having them; the poor, the unemployed, the homeless and the uninsured. We are bound to share the blessings of our Health and Wellness Ministry to the rest of the community. Such is the outward visible sign of the inward grace that we receive from God. Baptism is about sharing the stories of those who are lost and bringing them to light. Baptism is about sharing what we have long been hoarding, the love and compassion to others.
The beauty of this feast, which shows us that the Son of God was humble enough to be baptized by a human, compels us to consider the power of God's love in us when we are willing to let go of being the center of attention, and the ones who try to make everything happen our way. This is not an easy way of life. But it is the Christian way of life. We need to be willing to immerse ourselves in what God wants for us. We are immersed in God's life and in the Church. Jesus teaches us by his example to let go of those things which keep us from being the instruments of holiness and love that God wants us to be. Jesus teaches us to be humble enough to let go of all that clutters our life and our vision, and the we just might be able to pay enough attention to hear our heavenly Father tell us that indeed, he is "well pleased."
I believe, just as each of you who are drawn here out of nowhere, believe that you were brought here for a reason and that God introduced you to us or us to you, just as He introduced His Son Jesus to those in the river Jordan, that in each one of us, He is well pleased to bring us here.
I must confess to you my deep belief and faith that the Holy Child Jesus invited us all to come here and see, feel every miracle of love that surround us. Every year as we celebrate the feast of the Holy Child, I see miracles. I remember too well when 10 years ago, just 2 days before Easter. It was 12 midnight of Good Friday, I got a call from our Church neighbor Nolet Mata reporting the Church is on fire. The Vicar then was Fr. Bayani Rico who resides in Vallejo. I learned that our next door neighbor called 911 because he saw the fire coming from the Vicar's Office. At around 1 A.M. When the fire was extinguished, the Fire Battalion Chief took me in to the Church through the main door. All the glass windows from front to the back were dark and smoke filled. The Drape of the cross was all burned down. But I noticed something, the statue of the Holy Child was never touched, melted nor smoked filled. It was standing next to the Piano here where part of the Piano was burned. The Santo Nino stood. That is the miracle that only God can tell.
Yesterday, I spent 1 hour with PG&E pleading that they will send crew to restore power for our feast day today. We have not had power since Tuesday due to the tree cutting activities in our premise. The supervisor on the phone said they did everything but they can only be available next week. I told our Junior Warden Bernard Dayrit to prepare the generator for tomorrow's use. I knelt before the Santo Nino saying, "May it be done to your will." 15 minutes after, my phone rang. It was the PG&E supervisor who said "a crew will be there between 1 PM to 5 PM today. It only took 20 minutes after our conversation and here they come. There's no amount of despair or disappointment will ever hinder the will of God to be among us. God is good, all the time!
Friends, miracles continue to happen for as long as we recognize that God is with us, working for us, giving us hope and that we always doing things that will please Him. Happy Fiesta to all.
Viva Santo Nino!!


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What was billed as the first address to congress by the 45th president Tuesday night was, in reality, the first campaign speech of the 2020 election. The media watchword surrounding the speech seems to be "optimism," and to be sure, there was no mention of "American carnage" or sending the feds to Chicago. Instead, viewers were treated to a string of what were meant to be reassuring noises. "What we are witnessing today is the renewal of the American spirit," Trump said. "Our allies will find that America is once again ready to lead. All the nations of the world—friend or foe—will find that America is strong, America is proud, and America is free."
When the first month of an administration is marred by a nonstop torrent of controversy, finger pointing, and general chaos—take, for example, the accusations of a possibly treasonous relationship with Russia or Trump blaming his botched Yemen raid on the "generals" and Navy SEALS—ra-ra vagaries like those offered in last night's speech weren't optimism, but rather pathology. Trump's bottomless reservoir of self-congratulation and vampiric need for attention compelled him to go before congress and brag about his "accomplishments."
In other words, he simply reverted back to candidate Trump. When you're a candidate, there's no need to worry about pesky minutiae like being responsible for American lives, figuring out health care—which "nobody" knew was complicated—or explaining the alarming rate at which taxpayer money has been put towards Trump's weekly sojourns to Mar-a-Lago. When you're a candidate, you can spout hat-ready catchphrases and whip the simple into a frenzy without generating a single plan for the future. Mike Pence said it best on Good Morning America Wednesday morning: "The candidate Donald Trump is the President Donald Trump and he spoke about those priorities."
"Dying industries will come roaring back to life," said Trump during the joint address. "Crumbing infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our very, very beautiful land." He continued, "Our terrible drug epidemic will slow down and ultimately stop. And our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of hope, safety, and opportunity."
The lack of anything beyond inflated, ambiguous boasting illustrated that Trump has no interested in governing; he simply wanted to win an election. The speech was meant to recap the last month of American governance and plan the next steps of his administration, but instead we got more campaigning. He's perfectly content to let Steve Bannon, an unelected official determined to be the Goebbels to Trump's Hitler, dictate specifics for him. But those aren't the kind of plans one reveals during a joint address to congress—they're the kind of plans one reveals as his nemesis is hanging by the ankles over a tank full of hungry sharks.
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Swing Trading combines fundamental and technical analysis to find significant price changes while avoiding idle times.The benefits of Swing Trading are a more powerful use of capital and higher returns. The disadvantages are higher commissions and possible volatility. Swing trading requires skills. The professional traders havemore experience, leverage, information and lower commissions; however, they are limited by the instruments they are allowed to trade, the risk they are capable of taking on and their large amount of capital. Knowledgeable forex traders can take advantage of these things in order to profit consistently
Pre-Market The retail swing trader will often begin his or her day at 6am EST, well before the opening bell. This time is vital for getting an overall impression of the current market, finding possible trades, creating a daily watch list and, checking up on current positions.
Market Overview The first step is to find the latest news and progress in the markets. The best way to do this is via the cable television channels such as CNBC or trustworthy websites such as Market Watch. The trader focuses on three things in particular:
Find Potential Trades Next, the trader scans for possible trades for the day. Usually swing traders enter a position with the so called fundamental catalyst and manage or exit the position with the aid of technical analysis. Below are two good ways to find the fundamental catalysts:
Special opportunities These are best found via SEC(Securities and Exchange Commission) filings and, in some cases, headline news. Such opportunities may include initial public offerings (IPOs), bankruptcies, insider buying, buyouts, takeovers, mergers, restructurings, acquisitions and other similar events. Typically, these are found by monitoring certain SEC filings, such as S-4 and 13D. This can be easily done with the help of sites such as SECFilings.com, which will send notifications as soon as such a filing is made.
The opportunities above are often associated with a large amount of risk, but they also offer rewards to those who carefully analyze them. These types of plays involve the swing trader buying when most are selling and selling when everyone else is buying, in an attempt to "fade" over-reactions to news and events.
Sector plays: These are best found by analyzing news or consulting reputable financial information websites to find out which sectors are performing well. For example, you can tell that the energy sector is hot simply by checking a popular energy exchange-traded fund (like IYE) or scanning the news for mentions of the energy sector. Traders looking for higher risk and higher returns may choose to seek out more obscure sectors, such as coal or titanium. These are often much harder to analyze, but they can yield much greater returns. These types of plays involve the swing trader buying into trends at opportune times and riding the trends until there are signs of reversal or retracement.
Chart breaks are a third type of analysis available to swing traders. It is usually about heavily traded stocks that are near a key support or resistance level. Swing traders look for different types of patterns (see our collection of forex patterns) designed to predict breakouts or breakdowns, such as triangles, channels, Fibonacci levels etc. Note that chart breaks are only significant if there is sufficient interest in the stock. The strategy of the swing trader ism buying after a breakout and selling at the next resistance level.
Watch List The next important step is to generate a watch list of pairs for the day. These are simply pairs that have a fundamental catalyst and a shot at being a good trade. Some swing traders like to keep a dry-erase board next to their trading stations with a categorized list of opportunities, entry prices, target prices and stop-loss prices.
Existing Positions Finally, in the pre-market hours, the trader checks the existing positions. He or she makes sure that nothing significant has happened overnight. This is done by simply typing the pair symbol into a news service such as Google News. If there is material information, you have to analyze it and determine whether it affects your current trading plan.
Market Hours The market hours are a time for watching and trading. Many swing traders look at level II quotes, which will show who is buying and selling and what amounts they are trading. Those coming from the world of day trading will also often check which market maker is making the trades (this can cue traders in to who is behind the market maker's trades), and also be aware of head-fake bids and asks placed just to confuse retail traders.patterns
As soon as a viable trade has been found and entered, traders begin to look for an exit. This is typically done using technical analysis. Many swing traders like to use Fibonacci extensions, simple resistance levels or price by volume. Ideally, this is done before the trade has even been placed, but a lot will often depend on the day's trading. Moreover, adjustments may need to be made later, depending on future trading. As a general rule, however, you should never adjust a position to take on morerisk (e.g., move a stop-loss down): only adjust profit-taking levels if trading continues to look bullish, or adjust stop-loss levels upward to lock in profits.
After-Hours Market The vital element of after-hours trading is performance evaluation. It is important to carefully record all trades and ideas. Performance evaluation involves looking over all of your trading and identifying components that need improvement. Finally, you should analyze your open positions, paying particular attention to after-hours earnings announcements, or other material events that may impact your holdings.
Summary The swing trading is a combination of technical and fundamental analysis. In general, it requires more knowledge and more with the reference to, aay, scalping. The pre-market routine is paramount to successful swing trading. This is the time when trading opportunities are located and the day is planned. Market hours are simply a time of entering and exiting positions, not devising any new plans. And finally, after hours is just a time to review the trades for the day and assess performance. Adopting a daily trading routine such as this one can help you improve your trading and ultimately beat market returns.


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Web Designing Tips To Help You Get Traffic
Businesses that have flocked to the online world thrive on their websites' traffic. So, what can increase traffic to a website? This situation can be likened to buying a t-shirt.
The material and price of the t-shirt are only considered the secondary deciding factors when choosing a product to buy. On the other hand, the design of the shirt is given utmost importance because people get their first impression on something that looks appealing to the eyes.
This can also apply to a company trying to gain Web presence. In this highly competitive market, where eye appeal matters a lot, creating a professional-looking website is very crucial for the success of the business. In order to have the most effective design for a business' website, the owner needs to invest considerably to get the best results.
Yes, online marketing and e-commerce may give businesses an edge, but only if companies know how to make the most out of available Web tools. For one, this can mean hiring the expertise of a reputable Web designing company. The target audience are the lifeline of any online business.
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In order to improve traffic, you need to improve the overall look of the website. Adding a personal touch to your site will make visitors feel at home and most comfortable. To achieve this, you need to make unique sales pitches to different visitors rather than generalised ones.
Make customers feel that you are a friend and that you have their best interests at heart. The minute your customers feel this, it will be much easier to convince them that they need whatever it is you are offering them.
Most people do not have the time or patience to read chunks of text. To effectively send out the message across without boring your visitors to death, put relevant graphics, images, videos or animation to convey the message quicker and easier.
You can feature comments and feedback from previous customers, as this can be more convincing to new visitors. This will be most helpful to those customers who are having second thoughts about purchasing your product. You can also attach bonus items to certain products, but make sure that they are in high quality. It should make the visitor feel that the deal is a steal.
However, there are also things that you need to avoid, as these can drive away your visitors. One would be background music, regardless of what the tune may be. This is because visitors may get irritated with the repetitive music and the length of time it takes to load the page because of the music.
Extra large or small fonts are a total no-no if you want your website to attract visitors. You do not want to strain your visitors' eyes with such extraneous things. Also, do away with pop-up windows. For one, there is already a pop-up blocker so most people will not be able to see what your message on the pop-up window was. This is because people get annoyed with pop-ups.
The Tools for Designing Websites
In this modern age and time, competition has become more intense with the advent of Internet marketing. All types of businesses have flocked to the Web to reach a massive market, not just locally but worldwide, too.
Designing a Website
The most effective thing to attract the larger part of this market is to have an effective online presence. With the many websites today, the design should make the website stand out among the rest.
Here are factors that make a website professional and marketable.
A website that is simple does not necessarily mean dull, nor does a flashy one make it attractive. Choose a design that is simple, streamlined and professional, laid out in a consistent way. When using graphics and images, choose ones that do not clutter the site or make the site difficult to load. It is best to keep in mind that not all consumers have fast broadband Internet so using Flash animations will make the page load longer.
Designate an "About Us" page so visitors can read more about your company. This will give them a hint of how your business came to be and what your vision statement is. Put a clear biography of the company and its owners. Avoid making it too long, as this can bore visitors and drive them away.
Just in case customers want to contact you to confirm their orders or make inquiries, it would be best to put contact information on your site. Have a customer support team readily available to respond to such instances.
It can be an email address, fax or telephone numbers or a snail mail address. The contact page should have a button that will easily take them back to the home page or any other page that customers need to see.
Easy navigation is the most important characteristic of an effective website, but is often overlooked. People do not always have the time to stay long on a certain page to find something that they are looking for.
If people find it difficult to get to the various pages of your site, they will most likely just exit and move on to a competitor's portal. Links should be working properly, as faulty links can deter customers from coming back to your site.
Correct Some Aesthetic Faults in Your Websites Design
Just because you have established your own online shop, it does not mean that you are going to profit from such endeavour right then and there. Sometimes, your page visitors will find their visit visually unpleasant and leave sooner than you know it. It is in this case that you are suffering from the consequences of a poorly planned Web design. Do not worry, however, because you still have a chance to amend such faults.
As a guideline, here are some common web design mistakes you might notice in your page. One of the things to look out for in a website is the font design. Check if it suits the overall mood of the page or not.
There are some font styles that do not suit corporate designs, and there are stoical font types that look odd when paired with kiddie themes. Another important to watch out for is the colour schematics.
Do not use loud hues if it so happens that your URL means business and, similarly, avoid plaintive shades when your site is trying to draw in crowds from the younger age groups.
Why Design Matters to E-commerce Website Like Yours
A primary reason many business owners are tapping the potentials of the World Wide Web is their desire to gain bigger profit. However, if your website is not performing as expected and is more of a liability than an asset, you know that something should be done before it leads to your business' eventual demise. Now, ask yourself— what is it that your page lacks and why customers are not driven into it?
To get the answers to your problem, explore your own site. Does it appeal to you aesthetically? Does it contain killer content in the inner pages that inspires you to see more of it? If you answered negatively to all these questions, it is enough reason for you to seek the assistance of a professional website designer.
Apparently, web design matters that much to your online shop's success. Why? When you provide a visually compelling surfing experience to end-users, it engages potential buyers and actually convinces them to make the most of what you have to offer. In addition, do not forget to ensure that your domain is navigable and not confusing to explore.
Qualities of a Successful Website or Online Shop
If you want your online shop to be a cut above the rest, your website needs to have a certain attribute that gives it a singular identity throughout the Internet. Indeed, if you want your virtual expansion successful, you have to take note of those qualities. Otherwise, your shop will just be like the hundred other online boutiques, making you lose your chance at getting noticed.
One quality that makes a particular domain successful is its uniqueness. With every end-user visiting dozens of websites in a single day, many will definitely be able to sense that your site appears awfully familiar. In the end, it would be best not to look the same as your competitor, right?
Another characteristic that you would want for your website is its relevance and visual appeal. Aside from posting exceptional write-ups, it would do you good if you come up with a Web design that is visually stunning but not too overwhelming.
In addition, you should also keep an eye on your site's performance in terms of its ranking in search engines. Why? This is because the most successful URLs and online shops are search engine-friendly and optimised for maximum "searchability."
Why Business Owners Should Go For Professional Website Designing Companies
There is this notion circulating among small business owners that hosting an exclusive website for their shops is an expensive investment. The issue on cost is probably one reason why they settle with utilising blog sites for their business or approach amateur designers for their cheaper services.
Nevertheless, in the long run, the poorly thought Web design does not fulfill the promise of investment returns. In the process, the site's owner suffers financial setbacks although it is very minimal. Yet money is not a renewable resource and the amount lost is lost forever.
This is why a serious entrepreneur should consider the services of a professional website design company. A reason why the services of these firms are to be considered is because they understand your business requirements and have a better idea at what design suits your best.
Not only that, they also offer other services which may prove useful in your objective of establishing a solid and strong online presence. Examples of these services include logo designing, social media marketing, brochure promotions, and search engine optimisation.
How to Find a Capable Website Designer
Website designing can be a lucrative business. As more and more web professionals are hopping into this particular bandwagon, the search for the qualified website designer becomes a tad difficult but not impossible.
Yet the search for the team whom you can entrust the development of your online platform can be made easier by reviewing your own plans at hand. If you encounter one that meets your requirements without having you run short on financial resources, consider then of making a deal. But what really are the factors to consider when looking for the most capable Web developer?
The most basic facet to look into is the price. Have a mental note of your intended budget and if a certain Web designer can provide you a number of services for a fraction of the cost you have initially expected, you have a potential designer right there. In addition, check if the design team offers prospect clients like you with a portfolio of previous projects.
If so, you can definitely infer that they mean business with whatever they do. Finally, check if the company has good customer service relations since communication shall play a pivotal role in the designing process.