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September 3, 2022
Do leftists really expect us to vote to destroy the country?
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Do Biden and his Bolsheviks expect a commie tsunami after they've tacitly admitted that they want to destroy the country?
Anti-liberty leftists are masters at propaganda. For the last few weeks, they've been busy in their Ministry of Truth pushing the same old August-September psy-op polls. They are working like madmen to divert our attention from the sheer disaster that is the Biden regime.
Never mind that the whole "choice" question is being returned to the states and the people. Anti-liberty leftists want you to forget about that in a flurry of Orwellian double-talk because that's all they have to cling to power. They're using any excuse to bring it up because all they have are perverse comparisons with freedom.
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They don't care if our society is being destroyed as long as they can kill a child 5 seconds from birth. We're not sure why that's a priority for them when the world is coming apart.
It's evident the "Democrats" are the party of projection. "President" Biden tweeted that "[i]n this moment, those who love this country — Democrats, Independents and mainstream Republicans — must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving America than MAGA Republicans are committed to destroying America."
Let's take that apart and look at it closely.
Can you recall a time in the past few years when ruling-class Democrats have been "committed to saving America"?
It's been just the opposite: they have been doing all they can to destroy the country.
After all the anti-liberty left has done over the past year and a half, is there any doubt that was the left's intention all along?
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It all started with Biden canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and reducing U.S. arms, always a nice gift to our enemies. Then the CDC worked with the teachers' unions to keep the schools closed because of the COVID emergency, the gift from Wuhan that keeps on giving.
Who can forget that they went all authoritarian with vaccine mandates and passports? "Ihre Papiere, bitte!" Show me your papers. And so they cruelly forced people to be fired in the middle of the horrible economy they created with their vote-buying.
We also kept hearing more about Hunter Biden's exploits. We know now that the FBI pressured Facebook to suppress that story. But it's no big deal; the FBI says it "routinely notifies" social media companies of potential threats following the Zuckerberg-Rogan podcast. Polling shows that the laptop could have swayed the election, so nothing to see here, move on!
Do you remember how the Brandon bunch is conspiring with the socialist social media giants to protect us of the great unwashed from "dangerous" ideas like freedom, individual civil rights, and firearms? Heaven forbid we hurt ourselves defending our liberty from the tech tyrants and the ruling class.
Then there is the illegal invasion over the open southern border, with 4.9 million crossing since Biden took office and the Border Patrol seizing enough fentanyl just in July to kill every American.
Who knows what else is crossing over?
Anti-liberty leftists weren't satisfied with screwing things up domestically. Who can forget the bureaucracy-based disaster that was the Afghanistan withdrawal? You have to hand it to them for being equal-opportunity bunglers around the world, being sure to humiliate the people who protect them while leaving billions of dollars of high-tech weaponry in the hands of our enemies along with people who trusted us not to leave them behind. That also hasn't stopped them from sending billions to Ukraine to be wasted once again while cueing us up for WWIII.
Meanwhile, the administration's genius moves to return us to energy dependence meant skyrocketing gas and diesel prices. But that didn't matter much; you had to worry about that only if you drove a car or a tractor or semi–tractor trailer or needed anything from a farm or anything that had to be transported.
Maybe we should ask: why is it that Biden was not to blame for prices going through the roof, but he got the credit when they came down a tiny bit?
Somehow, those geniuses don't understand the concept of a Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is supposed to be for a war emergency and not a gimmick to bring down prices before a crucial election.
Prices on food and other essentials were climbing out of sight, so it didn't matter if the shelves were empty because you weren't able to afford the goods anyway. Ah, the wonders of socialism. If this keeps up, we won't have to worry about shortages of toilet paper, since we'll have plenty of extra currency lying around. Plus we can use it to heat and light our homes during the inevitable blackouts.
Did we forget to mention that crime is out of control? Somehow that seems to happen when you don't punish criminals and you obsess over disarming the innocent. This is an actual headline from the L.A. Times: "Violent crime is spiking in Trump's California." The nation's socialist media are desperate to blame anyone but the left, even going so far as to blame President Trump.
Take a look at the nation's propaganda organs of the liberticidal left and how much they avoid mentioning Biden or the Democrats.
We are in the throes of the ravages of socialism — inflation, supply shortages, the beginnings of a police state, and yes, the oppression of a nation under such a system.
But aside from lying that their socialist national agenda has utterly failed, as it always has down through history, or even mentioning the s-word, anti-liberty leftists are cruelly blaming their mistakes on others and desperately trying to divert attention.
The national administration of that socialist state has admitted by projection that it wants to destroy the country. We have shown how these people have been doing that for the past year and a half.
Now for the inescapable question everyone must answer this fall: Why would any sane person vote for this?
D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, the director of communications for a Bill of Rights organization, and a longtime contributor to conservative websites. Find him on Substack.
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THE STREETS OF NORTH SELETH were quiet again, according to all the folks at the Keller Cove Constabulary House. But that was a lie.
Lieutenant Jarret Covrane knew that quiet was really a low murmur, a teapot ready to boil. Despite being told that the neighborhood wasn't his problem, he made a point of walking his own patrol in North Seleth each evening. Almost no constables from Keller Cove bothered going west of Evans, save those being punished with a posting at the waystation, and none from the Seleth house went north of Elk. And the folks in the Benson Court Constabulary House weren't worth talking about.
So he made the walk every night, uniform coat crisp and buttoned to the collar, despite the heat. Summer had been brutal, and even though it was now autumn, the heat hadn't broken. Even now, with the sun going down, there was little relief.
He waved amiably as he passed the lamplighter crew—two young boys and old Missus Terrendill. They diligently lit the streetlamps each night, even though within the next hour, half the lamps would be snuffed and robbed of their oil. That's how it went every night.
A handful of young men spotted him and scurried into Nander's Pub. Crease Knockers, by the look of them. There were handfuls of these little gangs popping up around the neighborhood. Crease Knockers, The Potato Boys, The Three-Fingers. He had lost track. The Scratch Cats ruled the roost right now, and he heard that Bessie's Boys were gone. The rumors were that Miss Bessie was killed in the Election Riots, but Covrane didn't take those seriously.
He turned the corner onto Kenner Street, which was still fairly busy, even with most of the shops locking up for the night. He wondered how many people were crammed up in the apartments above each one. Rents were getting higher, people were making less, and half the shops in the neighborhood were abandoned. After the fire, the riots, the squeeze from the gangs, the people who could leave did, and few people were opening new shops in this part of town. One new business, however, was one Covrane made a point of visiting each night on his rounds.
"Wondering if you were going to make it before I was done," the proprietress said as he walked up. Helene Kesser pulled shut the wrought-iron gate that protected her cheese and charcuterie shop. "You running late?"
"Paperwork," he said. He leaned in as he approached. "Too late to get a nibble of something?"
"I'm afraid so, constable," she said with a wicked smile. Closing the distance, she added, "You'll have to settle for this." She kissed him, quick and fierce, and then pulled away.
"That's all for now?" he asked.
"Definitely all for now," she said. "But maybe you can knock on my door around ten bells, once Julien is asleep."
"I'd like that," he said. "I should probably finish up my rounds."
"Yes, you should," she said. "For all the good it does."
He chuckled ruefully and continued down the alley. Helene Kesser, she was—she was exactly like this neighborhood. He was certain she had a crooked past—she knew far too much about crossbows for him to believe otherwise. But despite the dirt on her soul, she had a decent heart and wanted a simple, clean life. Surely some chicanery was involved in her going from slinging goxies to running her own shop with her cousin, but whatever that was, she seemed determined build a better—and honest—life now.
That was the case all over North Seleth. Covrane knew there were hundreds of Helenes. He would help keep their lives better and safer for them. He saw no need to dig up the past of people who were clearly on a path to reform their lives.
"Evening, constable," a pudgy man said with a tip of his round hat as Covrane came out of the alley. Simple man in a simple suit, probably working an honest job at the docks or a counting house. "Good to see you about."
"Good evening to you, sir," Covrane said with a nod. Respect for these people, for this neighborhood. Covrane would bring it, even if he had to do it all on his own.
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Hal Elman was pleased to see a constable strolling the street as he made his way from the office. First to the bakery to fetch his wife, and then home, and hopefully another quiet evening of the two of them. Quiet evenings were, it seemed, starting to be the norm again, which Hal deeply appreciated. After the fire had uprooted Lian's sister's family, followed by weeks of madness and danger, things had settled. Maybe soon Lian would be willing to walk home from the bakery on her own again. Not that he minded, it was a pleasant nightly ritual of fetching her and walking home, but he didn't like that she was always so frightened. Despite that, she had insisted of continuing to work in the bakery with her sister, Raychelle. He was proud of her for that.
But the bakery itself made him nervous. Possibly because Raychelle's husband had "inherited" the place under mysterious circumstances which Hal had never fully understood or believed. And, to be honest, Verci Rynax smelled of trouble, and his brother, Asti, even more so. Disreputable, to say the least.
Not because they're Kieran, Hal said to himself. There were plenty of fine folks who were Kieran. Some very respectable businessmen. Hal was not like his boss, Mister Bradford, who would spit and mutter, "Stinking greasy piries" all the time. But he understood why some of them—like that Asti Rynax fellow—made people nervous.
There were plenty of people who mad Hal nervous, of course. The new folks who moved into that Magic Circle house on the corner of Ullen and Holver Alley, for example. One of them was walking by right now: a striking woman with sharp, drawn features, standing out even more because she wore trousers, waistcoat, and thin-brimmed hat of burning yellow and orange. Hal had seen her and a couple of the others on a few occasions on his way home from work, but he had never found the courage to even say hello.
They were neighbors, after all. But, mages. That was a bit frightful. He didn't know anything about magic. He had never met a mage in his life. In his University years, there was the one chap who lived on his dormitory floor who was supposedly a magic student, but he turned out to be a chemist or something who later was kicked out.
Still, Hal couldn't help turning his head to watch her as she passed by. Something mysterious and poised and even regal about the woman really—
"Oof, watch it!"
He had plowed into some kid on the walkway.
"I'm so sorry, young man," Hal said. "I wasn't—"
"Yeah, I know what you weren't," the kid said. "Stop being such an oaf!" He darted off.
Hal shook his head. He needed to be more careful, especially on these streets. Half the people here would rob you as much as look at you.
Suddenly realizing, Hal checked his coat pocket. His coin purse was gone. Again. And that kid was well out of sight.
He sighed. Fourth time in as many months. He needed to wise up and stop letting that happen, if he and Lian were ever going to save up enough to get out of this neighborhood. He had a feeling they needed to do that soon.
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The fat man in his stupid hat was always an easy mark. Enick had stolen his coin purse at least four times in as many months, and the fool was never any wiser. Enick almost felt bad for him, but that guy clearly had enough to eat. He dashed down the alley, went around the back of the tenement, and climbed the iron back ladder to the crash flop.
"Enick decided to show up," Mister Pent said. He was, as usual, half drunk on turned wine and walking around in his skivs. Peeky and Telly were sitting on the floor—the part of the flop where the wood wasn't so rotten you'd fall through—counting coins.
"Yeah, I been running about, getting things done," Enick said. He didn't like Cobie Pent, but for some reason Peeky and Telly latched on to him. Sure, he had escaped from Quarrygate and, when he was clear-headed, told them some pretty smart things. Not that there was much anywhere else to go. Bessie's Boys were no more. Jede was dead, Tarvis was in the air, Conor was in with the Scratch Cats and Lesk's crew. Peeky and Telly were all Enick had left. They needed a place to crash, and this flop with Mister Pent was as good as any. That one time a Crease Knocker had chased them here, Mister Pent thrashed him solid, cut open his throat, and got rid of the body in the night. Even Enick had to admit, Mister Pent was good for protection, didn't beat any of them, and mostly just wanted food and wine while he stayed hiding in the flop.
There were worse arrangements.
Enick dropped his takings on floor. "Doing all right. Was able to walk right into Porky because he was eyeing some bright skirt walking by."
"Nice," Peeky said, counting the coins out. "So that's two crowns eighteen and nine pence today."
"That's good work it is, boys," Mister Pent said. "All right, you take that, get to the bakery and get a couple loaves." He looked out the window. "Sun's down, so the cheese shop is shut, same with the butcher. Split up and get to the grocer if you can."
"We know the play, boss," Telly said. He was the oldest of the three of them, nearly twelve. He was the oldest, Peeky was the fastest, and Enick had the hands. "Bread, onions, cheese, ham, and wine."
"And tea. And cream if they got it."
"The cream'll be spoiled by morning, boss. Ain't like the ice truck drops off to us."
"Right," Mister Pent said. "Sorry, kid. Being dumb. I'm hungry. Scat."
Telly scooped up the coins and scrambled out the window, and Enick tagged behind him. When they hit the dirt, Telly dropped a few coins in his hand. "You get the bread, Peeky and I will go to the grocer."
Enick ran over to the Junk Avenue Bakery. He always wondered why they would steal money but never just steal bread from the bakery. Mister Pent said that wasn't done, especially that bakery. "Treat it with respect."
He reached the bakery as the lady was blowing out the lamps inside. But still, she hadn't latched the door.
"Closing!" she said as he came in.
"I just need whatever loaves you got!" he said. "I got money!"
The baker lady squinted at him. "Do you?" She walked about around the rack to behind the counter. Moving like she wanted to keep something between him and her. "Let's see."
He held out the coins.
"I have three loaves that I'll give you for six ticks," she said. "How's that?"
"Deal, Missus Junk!" he said, putting the coins on the counter.
"I'm not—" she shook her head. She grabbed the loaves off the rack and wrapped them up. "Be safe out there, hmm?"
"Always am," he said, grabbing the bread. Still, she looked like she meant it, unlike most of the other shopkeeps on this street. Maybe that's why Pent respected the place. Maybe this bakery was special.
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By now, everyone has heard about the Ticketmaster fiasco with Taylor Swift concert ticket sales. On November 14, Ticketmaster opened a Verified Fan presale registration, allowing registered Taylor Swift fans to buy tickets before general sales opened. Approximately 1.5 million fans were pre-selected at random, leaving out about 2 million others who had already registered.
Problems ensued with the payment and processing of these ticket sales, prompting Ticketmaster to cancel the general sale slated for November 18, leaving tons of fans with no way to purchase tickets. According to the company, they received 3.5 billion system requests, many from bots, causing its app to crash.
It is unclear just how many tickets were actually sold, and at the time of the general sale cancellation, Ticketmaster was unsure how many tickets were left for sale.
Among the many issues sparked by this event, Ticketmaster's failure to prepare its network for heightened demands is at the forefront of the discussion among networking specialists.
What is Capacity Planning and Why Is It Important?
Capacity planning involves determining the needs of an organization to meet changing needs in demand for its products or services. In terms of information technology, this involves determining the storage, hardware, software, and connectivity infrastructure resources that demands will require. Periods of heightened demands will require extra resources to handle the increased demands.
There is perhaps no better recent example of how important capacity planning is than the Ticketmaster fiasco with Taylor Swift ticket sales. Ticketmaster chose to blame her popularity and the fact that she had not had a concert since 2018, when this glaring fact should have driven them to have the extra resources in place to handle an unprecedented demand.
The resulting chaos has not only generated widespread fan frustration and distrust, but now congressional hearings are being scheduled to discuss monopoly concerns about LiveNation, the parent company of Ticketmaster.
Creating a Plan for Spikes in Traffic
Aside from the Ticketmaster fiasco, holiday shopping is now in full swing and its essential for e-commerce sites, warehousing, and logistic facilities to plan accordingly to handle the high traffic for the 2022 season. Amazon recently had an outage amongst more than 12,000 customers who were unable to checkout. Previously, such outages and malfunctions typically costs the major online retailer about $1.2 million per minute.
Capacity planning involves several steps to evaluate current resources, estimate future demands, and create a plan to handle traffic spikes and eliminate congestive risks.
Determine Your Current Network Status — Benchmarking
Evaluate your current network topology and available capacity/bandwidth across the key points of your network. What is your maximum capacity? What about the applications running on your network? Measure latency and other slowdowns. Remember to consider the capacity needs of any new devices, software, or equipment you plan to add to the network in the near future. This information provides you a baseline or benchmark from which to begin your planning.
Inventory & Map Your Network
This inventory should include a complete listing of all your network equipment and measurements of the data throughput of each piece, specifically including network links uplink and downlink rates. A network management tool can be helpful to highlight data usage, allowing you to easily spot possible areas of congestion.
Understand Your Average and Peak Usage
Actively monitor and record your network activity over a predetermined period of time to discover peak times of usage for each day, week, and month. Digital tools are available to capture "net flow" measurements that make this easy to determine, allowing you to better identify potential bottlenecks. An important part of this step is to determine which applications use more bandwidth and could be better utilized for network efficiency. An example of this would be scheduling resource-heavy applications to run at different times.
Estimate Future Capacity Demand
With an understanding of your current capabilities, you can now make estimates for future demands and if your current network capacity is capable of handling any spikes. Where do you foresee increases in demand? What network additions (handware, software, storage, bandwidth) are needed to prepare for increased demands? How soon can these be implemented, tested, and verified before the anticipated demand occurs?
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Some suggested remedies for alleviating congestion include:
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- Prioritizing a reliable internet connection that is easily scalable to meet rising demands
- Having redundant internet and networking systems for backup capacity
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Scottish Care is working in partnership with Luminate - Scotland's creative ageing organisation - and are planning to create a Dementia Inclusive Choir network throughout Scotland. This network aims to ensure that people who are living with dementia, along with their carers, are able to sing in choirs in their local area.
An exciting opportunity has came up for community music training opportunities in Stornoway and Dumfries that may be of interest to activity coordinators at local care venues, especially if they lead singing activities and would like to develop their musicianship skills. Whilst many working in healthcare venues may feel the dementia inclusion training is not needed, in Stornoway the training will be split so people can just attend the community music training.
In Dumfries they are piloting an integrated approach so it would be a mix of both types of training plus group management training led by Making Music over a full day.
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This dementia inclusive singing event will feature an exciting mix of different songs and styles. This is a chance to sing together with community choirs, singing groups and individual singers. There will also be an opportunity to meet new people and enjoy refreshments after the event.
Dementia Inclusive Training
The Dementia Inclusive Training sessions are designed for choir leaders and organisers, community workers and professionals working in the care and healthcare sector. This enables leaders to develop new and stronger skills and knowledge around choral leadership and dementia-inclusive practice, with the aim to increase the accessibility of choirs and singing opportunities across Scotland to people living with dementia and their carers.
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Legal Aid sets free clinic for Monday
Legal Aid will be holding a free Legal Aid Clinic by phone for residents of the agencys eight-county district on Monday, January 18th. That district includes Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson, Rush, and Shelby counties.
The Legal Aid Clinic uses local volunteer attorneys, to offer free legal consultations to low-income individuals. You can expect to receive a brief consultation over the phone to answer general questions, to offer legal information, or to receive other assistance or advice.
Although the clinic will be from 3 to 5:30 p.m., you must first register between noon and 1:30 p.m. on Monday, by calling Legal Aid at 812-378-0358.


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Integration crop-livestock under conservation agriculture system
Intégration culture-élevage sous agriculture de conservation
1National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Laboratory of Genetic, Animal and Food Resources, University of Carthage, 43 AV.Ch. Nicolle, 1082, Tunis, Tunisia
2National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia, University of Carthage, Laboratory of Animal Productions and Forage, Hédi Karray street, 2049 Ariana, Tunisia
Abstract – The increase of population and the low production represent a big problem in many countries, especially in arid and semi-arid regions of the Mediterranean basin. The climatic changes as well as environmental phenomena are the cause of low productivity. To deal with this situation, the soil quality in terms of organic matter must be improved which need to leave a permanent soil cover on soil surface. Livestock can be integrated in conservation agriculture system and competition between crop and livestock for residues can be solved by many solutions. In this context, the implementation of conservation agriculture is becoming a real challenge for farmers and presents an alternative to traditional system based on tillage.
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Saint Viktor zu Heltzer is a figure from Kurzick legend. According to the stories, he slew Shiro the Betrayer at Kaoya Zun Temple after Shiro had assassinated his master Emperor Angsiyan.
In reality Viktor was one of the trio who combined forces to defeat the vastly powerful Shiro. After Vizu disarmed Shiro, Viktor and the Luxon hero Archemorus each took up one of Shiro's Blades and slew him, releasing the infamous Jade Wind, which killed all three heroes as well as devastating Cantha.
In the present the Kurzicks honor their most famous champion's memory by keeping the Urn of Saint Viktor, which contains his ashes, in the Cathedral zu Heltzer.
- He appears to wear a ghostly version of Warrior Elite Kurzick armor.
- A better image of him can be seen in the Guild Wars Factions trailer.


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Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Aspect category detection (ACD) in sentiment analysis aims to identify the aspect categories mentioned in a sentence. In this paper, we formulate ACD in the few-shot learning scenario. However, existing few-shot learning approaches mainly focus on single-label predictions. These methods can not work well for the ACD task since a sentence may contain multiple aspect categories. Therefore, we propose a multi-label few-shot learning method based on the prototypical network. To alleviate the noise, we design two effective attention mechanisms. The support-set attention aims to extract better prototypes by removing irrelevant aspects. The query-set attention computes multiple prototype-specific representations for each query instance, which are then used to compute accurate distances with the corresponding prototypes. To achieve multi-label inference, we further learn a dynamic threshold per instance by a policy network. Extensive experimental results on three datasets demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms strong baselines.
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When things tend to get rough .. and your life bottoms out .. we all run from those times .. but in what direction do you go?
Do you know the secret of Christians who lead full lives, seem full of vitality .. and always productive for the kingdom of God? .. It's not that they never face opposition, dissappointments, failures or challenges .. Their secret of success is that when they do, they return to God. They just keep going back .. and back .. and back again to God for guidance, encouragement, wisdom and strength.
Moses was following God's precise instructions when he went to Pharaoh and asked for the release of the Hebrews so that they could worship God in the wilderness. But Pharaoh's response wasn't what Moses anticipated. "If you have enough time to worship," he said, "you've got more time than I thought. From now on, I'm holding you to your production quota of bricks, but you've got to gather all your own materials, too."
Moses was in a real jam – He had done God's will, yet he was boxed in by Pharaoh's edict and his own people's anger. Forty years before, he would have run away – This time, he ran to God.
When your life bottoms out .. it's okay to want to run from it .. But run in the right direction. When we run to God, whether we are crying, questioning or complaining, we've come to the right place.


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Who is Lali Esposito dating? 'Sky Rojo' star sparks romance rumors with director David Victori
Lali Esposito may be a huge star in her native Argentina, but it is with her role as Wendy on the Spanish thriller 'Sky Rojo' that she truly shot to international fame. It seems like the series has not just brought her luck professionally but has also reportedly brought her love.
Rumors have been swirling for a while that Lali is dating the director of 'Sky Rojo' David Victori. But when Lali and David were actually spotted out on a date, fans were still surprised. Not just had Lali publicly announced that she was single, but she had also come out of a four-year-long relationship with her long-term boyfriend and sound engineer Santiago Mocorrea. This was a breakup fans never saw coming, considering how close Lali and Santiago were on social media. If shows like 'Sky Rojo' interest you, then you will probably also enjoy series such as 'Money Heist', 'Narcos' and 'Somos.'
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However, Santiago and Lali seemed to have managed a more than amicable breakup. In September 2020, when Lali tweeted that the two were going their separate ways, she wrote in Spanish: "I want to tell you from my mouth, to avoid any misunderstandings or misinformation, that Santi and I have decided to separate. We love each other and respect each other deeply. This is our decision today."
Quiero contarles de mi boca,para evitar cualquier mal entendido o desinformación,que con santi decidimos separarnos. Nos amamos y respetamos profundamente. Esta es nuestra decision hoy❤
— Lali (@lalioficial) September 28, 2020
Santiago responded to this tweet with a heart emoji. However, Lali reportedly didn't remain single for too long and was soon spotted on dates with 'Sky Rojo' director David. A star and her director dating may sound like the biggest cliche but let's face it, it's a combination that also has potential for some serious romance. But before you start building castles in the air for the 'Sky Rojo' actor and director, Lali rather refreshingly is candid that she and David aren't exactly in a very serious space at the moment.
In an interview with Teleshow about her relationship status with David, Lali said, "We are friends, we are partners. And he's the best. Of course, we love each other a lot and I'm not going to hide anything... That would be stupid. We are living in the moment, with a lot of affection. But we are free people."
You can catch more of Lali as she plays Wendy once again on Season 2 of 'Sky Rojo' which premieres on Netflix on July 23. Catch the trailer below.


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Teppinek VII
As Teppinek and G-Fish made their way further inland, the hail and rain continued to pummel them from above. Soon they found shelter under a fefflemat tree. The large waxy leaves of the fefflemat protected them as they sat.
Some time passed and the storm began to slightly diminish in strength. Off in the distance from where they had come they could see a mass amongst the rainfall, unclear in definition. By this time the wax of the fefflemat's leaves naturally began to melt, creating the natural wax cocoon around the perimeter of the tree, creating a semi-transparent wall in which Teppinek and G-Fish could hide - I mean - "position strategically" behind.
Through the wax wall, Teppinek could make out the shape of a large low-lying creature. It seemed to lumber forward slowly, as if wounded, and seemed to drag an enormous tail behind it.
"What be dat?" inquired G-Fish.
"Shh," stated Teppinek, "I don't think I've seen a creature like it before, we must be quiet as to not startle it, it may be dangerous."


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RECENTLY, I asked an individual how she was. Her response was "there are so many things going on in my head. I am overwhelmed by the office politics at my workplace."
Maybe you have heard or maybe you were the one making comments such like, "I can't deal with all the office politics in my company." "It's not what you know, it's who you know." "To get ahead, you have to be constantly playing the right games and aligning yourself strategically."
The reality is those assertions are true and if you have echoed them – you are right.
Several years ago, as a young professional, I was put off by blatant strategic moves of office politicians in the company I worked with. I thought it was so unfair and I wanted to have nothing to do with the players and with office politics.
One day, in conversation with my boss, he said to me, "fussing over office politics would not change the price of eggs nor would it help you.You need to become a politician too. Becoming a politician does not mean that you must play dirty, but it takes you out of a position of being influenced by political moves to being the influencer. It moves you from a position of guessing what is going on to a position of knowing what is going on. From a position of being controlled to being the controller." My boss said sometimes you must pretend that you are a fan of people you detest.
However, it was through experience that I truly understood the dynamics of office politics. I discovered that I couldn't escape it and that it will take an interest in me whether I took an interest in it or not. I also discovered that office politics meant knowing how to pick my battles determining which battles could be won and at what cost, who to challenge and how often should I put up a challenge. It meant that I must recognize the players within the organization and their areas of influence. It meant I understood the advantage of relationship building and nurturing. After all, "Office politics is not what you think I am doing; it's why you think I am doing it." Inside Out – people performance.
Last week we looked at office politicians as identified by Accountemps and shared their suggestions on how to best manage them. Today, we draw from Lucio Buffalmano's article on The Power Moves, titled "7 Steps to Master Office Politics: A field Guide."
Buffalmano concluded that office politics and politically savvy career strategies are crucial to your career succession. One of the steps shared was "know who matters:The org Power Chart."
According to Buffalmano, you need to know who matters around you and where you stand in relation to others.You are always at the centre of your personal chart and it's important for you to know who you should be networking with, who you should be careful around and who can give you the opportunities that will change your career for the better.
Buffalmano recommended that you personalize the organizational chart and start there. He said, "What you need to keep in mind when drawing your power map is that not all job positions are created equal.
"And the momentum of the people filling those roles is paramount. Some people are stationery, some others are on the upswing, while some others are going downward -or are on their way out.
As a general rule, the ones who are going down, no matter their position, not only are useless, but are actively harmful. They are going down because they 'pissed' someone very powerful. It can take years to recover from a demotion, and most never recover. Just to be on the safe side, don't get too close to them. Instead, you want to associate with those going up. They are the winning faction, those who are friends with those still higher up, and those who can soon bring you up as well."


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Emily, my youngest, who lives in D.C., is coming for the weekend. I need to vacuum and plan menus, change the sheets in the loft, scrub the guest bathroom, and yet, I have a manuscript to edit, a workshop to teach, and a column to write. It's so hard to demonstrate love and write about love at the same time.
On the stair landing, I pause, suddenly arrested by a framed essay in which I not only anticipated this dilemma but chose it. It is a decision I made many years ago and make again in small ways every day.
They tell me to breathe, to ride the contraction like an ocean swell, cresting it in rhythmic control. But I barely hear them, diving deep beneath the pain. There is less movement in the depths, less distance to the shore.
"She's crowning," they call out. "Push harder! Again!" I comply just to please them. This child intends to never be born.
"It's a girl," the doctor proclaims, and the pain suddenly stops. I hear a cry, but I am briefly detached. For nine months, we have enjoyed the mystery of this child's identity. Not knowing whether it was a boy or a girl, the baby became both in our minds. The nursery was decorated a non-committal yellow, and with the choosing of names, "baby" became Adam/Emily. In the last months of pregnancy, I imagined myself holding and dressing newborn Adam one moment, infant Emily the next, and both seemed real.
Now, the wondering is over, and as delighted as we are to greet Emily, a faint loss accompanies the revelation. Because there is an Emily, there will never be an Adam. The memory of this fantasy child fades as Emily claims her place in reality.
Peace floods my body at last. It is deep, complete, thorough. A nurse covers me with a warm blanket, and I sleep.
Someone is shaking my arm. I awake in a dimly lit room on the maternity ward where I have been moved. A curtain partially shields from view another bed, where my roommate, whose child is only a few hours older than my own, is also rousing from a few precious hours of stolen sleep.
"It's 1 a.m.," the nurse tells us, "And the babies will be brought from the nursery for feeding in a few minutes. Wake up. You must be alert before you handle the infants."
We struggle to sit upright for the first time since giving birth, sharing a few tentative words in the dimness. During our brief stay, this waking will become a nightly ritual. We will hear the squeaking wheels of the hospital bassinettes as they are rolled one by one down the hall, bringing each infant to its mother. Each night a nurse will herald the coming procession, calling softly into the darkened rooms, "The babies are coming! The babies are coming!" Years later, I will still remember the hushed breathlessness that filled the ward as we waited.
I brush my hair, hold a cold, wet cloth to my face for a moment, and prepare for the arrival of my tiny daughter. She is rolled in, lying on her side, tightly swaddled. Only her face is visible in the folds of a white blanket, her eyes bright with hunger.
I pick her up, and she stares directly at me. She looks intelligent, demanding. The nurse retreats, and I feed her, relieved when she surrenders her fierce concentration to the comfort of my arms and closes her eyes. I am temporarily released from her stoic scrutiny.
In a little while, the nurse returns, and the tiny bundle is put back in her bassinet for the return trip to the nursery. Although I cannot see her as the door closes behind them, I picture her staring in regal intensity at her attendant as she rides down the hall—a tiny Cleopatra on her barge, sweeping down the Nile.
We are home and she has smiled at me. She has also smiled at the blank, quilted side of her crib bumpers and some memory in her dreams. But it's too late for me. I stay within the orbit of her cradle hoping to glimpse another smile, though they are as predictable as shooting stars.
She is not my first child. She is my last. Every touch, every moment with this child is more precious, more intense, because I will not pass this way again.
I had meant to begin work on a novel this spring—to have a real schedule, to live the life of which book jacket bios are made: "Ms. Oliver is a critically acclaimed novelist who lives in Annapolis, Maryland." But you can't write about life without participating in it.
Emily, her brother, and sister, all the people I love and those I've lost, are the richest colors, the teachers and tenderizers for the substance of my work, my life.
I will always long for uninterrupted afternoons of creative concentration. There will never be enough mornings spent at my desk in which to harvest these years. But even now, as I seek the heart of an essay I must set aside (Emily is coming! Emily is coming!), I remember a friend saying, "Consider the interruptions holy."
And so I have. And so I do.
Laura J. Oliver is an award-winning developmental book editor and writing coach, who has taught writing at the University of Maryland and St. John's College. She is the author of The Story Within (Penguin Random House). Co-creator of The Writing Intensive at St. John's College, she is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction, an Anne Arundel County Arts Council Literary Arts Award winner, a two-time Glimmer Train Short Fiction finalist, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her website can be found here.


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Stories about East Asia from April, 2006
China: Truth penetrates firewall
In 'China Good News Vol. 3', the Laowiseass blogger posts a letter from a reader: "I just saw a PBS documentary about what happened in Beijing in the summer of 1989 with my roommates. The three of us were shocked by not only the bloody, barbarian event, but also the...
China: Blogger still held
With help from her father and friends, Nina Wu—older sister of illegally-detained Beijing or Bust blogger Hao Wu—has become a one-woman lobbying force as seen in today's post 'contact'.
East Timor: Update from the streets
Things have quietened down in Dili, the East Timor capital. Blogger at Dili-gence drives around the streets of central Dili to look at the damage. A largely peaceful protest by sacked soldiers turned violent on Friday when gangs of unemployed youths joined in started looting.
Riots and panic in East Timor
Violence broke out in East Timor's capital Dili earlier today. Dili-gence says The usual press outlets have already reported 2 dead and 21 injured. We received a phone call from a Timorese in the current hot area Comorro. People are scared and people have seen smoke rising from the general...
Hong Kong: Incentives for local musicians
This week on n8ma's Xanga site: "news of a new orchestral fellowship for string-playing graduates of the Central, Shanghai, and Hong Kong Conservatories that will help curb the mass emigration of Chinese musicians to more promising and lucrative employment in American orchestras."
China: Blog closed for birth
Last week Chinese blogger Bing Feng abruptly closed down his blog. Today he says why.
Taiwan: A Chinese Africa
In 'Hu charms Africa', Taiwan-based American blogger Richard at The Peking Duck links to a story on China's "efforts to create a new world order " evidenced by president Hu Jintao's recent visit to Africa. "Score another one for Mr. Bush," Richard writes. "His inane 'War on Terror' is chasing...
China: Culinary journey to the West
In 'The startling truth behind my Xinjiang pilgrimage', Imagethief comes clean on his his real holiday plans: seeking the chuan master. "It is this man who fascinates me. Enigmatic and serene, he is a staple of the signboards of Xinjiang restaurants. A prophet of cheap eats. A sage of savory...
China: Staring happens
Laowiseass' Lalaoshi blogs out the reasons why he gets stared at in some places and passed over in others: "I remember no one stared at me in Zhumadian, a Henan province city where foreigners do not go unless they're journalists trying to sneak into the Shangcai AIDS village nearby."
China: Technorati unblocked
Not that it has much connection to the Chinese blogsphere anyway, but Technorati is back reports Danwei.
Hong Kong: Benefits blogs bring
More meta-commentary from Roland at EastSouthWestNorth in 'Why Blogs Are Better Than Mainstream Media'.
Little East Timorese girl's heart operation a success
Meandarings has a post on Maria Soares, the little East Timorese girl who was operated on to repair a hole in her heart. Doctors at Sydney Children's hospital volunteered to perform the operation after they read about her on an Australian newspaper.
Thai Kick Boxing
Muay Thai or Kick Boxing is very popular in Thailand and regular bouts are held in major cities. Malaysian blogger Kenny Sia blogs about his visit to a Muay Thai stadium.
Filipino boxer faces tough challenge
Jess at The Postman is following the preparations of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao for his upcoming fight with Mexican Oscar Larios. Jess writes "While Larios is bothered by only one thing — fighting the PACMAN — Pacquiao is hounded by several things. Personal matters, off-boxing commitments, showbiz buzzes and profit-oriented...
North Korea: Multiracial Koreas opposed
Antti Leppänen at Hunjangûi karûch'im
Thai horror movie angers Cambodia
Alvin at chlim01 is bored finds the latest Thai horror flick tasteless as it is set in a prison that resembles Khmer Rouge's dreaded concentration camp. People in Cambodia are not too happy with their neighbour. A comment on another post at KI Media is asking the Cambodian people to...
China: Rock festival coming
Friend Gram at Holidarity pulls quotes from the organizer of The Midi Festival—China's biggest each year—to be held in Beijing during the Golden Week holiday next week. "Before you could never do a big outdoor festival," writes organizer Zhang Fan. "We're trying to let the government accept that rock 'n'...
China: AOL arrives
In 'Congratulations and Controversy', AngryChineseBlogger chunlin looks at the arduous road AOL has been down in trying to establish a presence in China. "After months of speculation, anticipation, and a few false starts," chunlin announces, "AOL has this month announced the finalization of a multi-million dollar partnership deal with SMG...
China: Porn's subversive forms
Remember Guangzhou sex blogger Mu Zimei who got shut down and fired in late 2003 after the world took notice? She's in Beijing now, and Jeremy Goldkorn at Danwei has just 'wrapped' an exclusive with her: "She is not writing online any more, but is producing a series of her...
Taiwan: Punks still DIYing
Sack Be Jim at gotmahmojo finds DIY punk ethic, graffiti and a seldom-seen side of Taiwanese society while visiting a collective of artists squatting in an abandoned building in the island's capitol: "I was really excited to see something positive and creative going on in the city, since its been...
Hong Kong: Japanese retailer leaving
With Hemlock's Diary this week comes reminiscing of times gone by with Hong Kong's last Japanese-owned department store, Mitsukoshi, announcing plans to leave the Special Administrative Region. "The name brings back memories of a bygone era—the time before Causeway Bay collapsed under the weight of vehicle emissions and Mainland tourists,"...


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Genesis 16:13
She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me,"
for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me."
It is amazing how God can use our everyday circumstances to show us who He is! I was busy with my weekly grocery shop, and could not help notice a young mother pushing her toddler in the grocery trolley while her little boy ran ahead of her. He must have been about 5 or 6 years old.
He kept taking items off the shelves to throw them into his mother's trolley and she kept taking them out and putting them back. I sympathised with her as she tried to finish her shopping and control her very energetic son. When she put a bag of sweets back on the shelf, he deviously threw it back into her trolley while her back was turned. When he tried the third time to repeat the action she caught him as he was about to take it off the shelf and calling his name, she said "Dylan! I see you!"
This stopped him in his tracks and he looked at her and put the bag of sweets back.
I was struck at how those three simple words "I see you!" was enough for him to respond and obey.
The God who Sees me!
Over the years I have experienced many aspects of God's character as portrayed in His Name. "The God who Provides" (Jehovah-Jireh, constantly revealed Himself to me as we trusted Him for provision. "The Lord who is Peace" (Jehovah-Shalom), was with me as we navigated the different seasons of our lives. I could go on mentioning at least 5 or 6 Names of God that He has revealed to me to show me His character or an attribute.
But that shopping incident opened my eyes to another aspect of God that I had not been aware of. The God who Sees me!
Our Lowest Point
In Genesis 16:1-16 Hagar, the servant of Sarai, met this character of God in the desert at the lowest point of her life.
Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children so she told Abram to sleep with Hagar so she could have children and build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said and when Hagar fell pregnant she began to despise her mistress. Sarah complained to Abraham and he gave Hagar back to Sarah and told her she can do whatever she thinks best. Sarai mistreated Hagar so she fled into the wilderness. God meets her in the desert and gives her a prophetic word about Ishmael the son she was pregnant with and sends her back to Sarai.
Genesis 16:13 NLT Thereafter, Hagar used another name to refer to the LORD, who had spoken to her. She said, "You are the God who sees me." She also said, "Have I truly seen the One who sees me?"
Hagar named the well or spring Beer-lahai-roi "A Well of the Living One Who Sees Me."
In Hagar's time of distress, of being rejected by Abram and treated badly by Sarai, she meets the God who sees her!
"God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value. (Max Lucado)
No matter what we are going through Jesus sees us!
Ladies, God sees us! He sees what we are going through!
Those being mistreated in the work place or even at home ...Jesus sees you!
Those struggling financially, not knowing where the next rand will come from to pay the debts ...Jesus sees you!
Those who do not know where to turn - life is too overwhelming at the moment …Jesus sees you!
Those feeling lost and lonely…Jesus sees you!
Those in a dry wilderness season and cannot hear God…..Jesus sees you!
Those feeling betrayed by loved ones…Jesus sees you!
No matter what we are going through, Jesus sees us!
How do we see ourselves?
We cannot allow our circumstances to define how we see ourselves! No matter what we are going through, who has rejected us or hurt us, what hardships we are experiencing, what pain and anxiety we are experiencing – it does not change how God sees us!
We all struggle in the midst of those times, to see God or even think of how He sees us but it is in those times we need to simply believe in His word. What He thinks of us!
God's Word causes us to become what He desires us to be! If we are wanting to become more like Jesus Christ, we need to see ourselves as God sees us. Someone may have once confessed over our life that we were ugly, stupid or a failure, but we have to rather believe what God says about us! In Him we are always exceptional and special!
Psalm 139 : 13, 14
"For You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made: your works are wonderful,
I know that full well."
"I take you at Your word You take me by the hand"
There is a part from the song "My Confidence" by Iron Bell Music that says "In every circumstance
no matter where I am, I take you at Your word, You take me by the hand.
When the days are difficult, we take Jesus at His Word and He will take us by the Hand and lead us through those times! What a comforting thought!
The part we play is to take Him at His Word. We need to believe what He says in His Word.
Positioning for Revelation
· Consider where you are Looking – we cannot keep our focus and attention down on our circumstances, on our hurt or betrayal or difficulty. We need to choose to look upward to the God who Sees me!
· Consider Jesus "…who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. (Hebrews 12:2,3)
· Consider Others – as we reach out to others and comfort them in their difficulty, we ourselves are encouraged and built up.
Questions to Ponder
· Do I know God sees me in every circumstance?
· How do I see myself?
· What does Scripture reveal about what God thinks about me?
· Do I feel encouraged and comforted by the fact that God's eyes are on me in my difficult times?
· Who can I reach out to, to help in their time of need?
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When you think of Jobs, as in Steve Jobs, you typically think of Iphones and turtlenecks, but one member of the tech family is set to change the course of their legacy. Eve Jobs, the youngest daughter of the late Steve, is embarking on a modelling career after recently signing with an agency.
Setting the fashion and modelling world alight, Eve has already been spotted in multiple campaigns and the front row of the Louis Vuitton Fall 2022 show at Paris Fashion Week. She's shaping up to be one to watch, but first, a little more about the young, rising star. Below, everything we know about Eve Jobs.
who is eve jobs?
Eve is the fourth and youngest daughter of late Apple founder, Steve Jobs and billionaire investor Laurene Powell Jobs. She has two full siblings, brother Reed (30) and sister Erin Siena (26). She also has a half-sister, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (43) whose mother is Chrisann Brennan, an early, long-term girlfriend of Steve. The youngest Jobs child has kept a relatively low profile since her father passed from pancreatic cancer in 2011, but is now stepping into the spotlight.
Eve graduate from Stanford University with a major in science, technology, and society. Before breaking into the modelling world, Eve was a talented horse rider who competed in several equestrian competitions. In 2019, she was ranked fifth on the list of the world's top 1000 riders under the age of 25. In 2015, she competed against a star-studded line-up of equestrians including Bill Gates' daughter Jennifer Gates, singer Bruce Springsteen's daughter Jessica Springsteen, and Steven Spielberg's daughter Destry Spielberg at the second annual Longines Masters show.
In 2020, in an interview with World Of Showjumping Eve spoke of her Olympic dreams and her desire to push herself to be the best she can be.
"Being able to compete in the Olympics and World Equestrian Games would be a dream," she told the publication. "I am a competitive person so I definitely thrive on the competition aspect. I like to push myself to do better."
eve jobs' modelling career
While she only announced her Olympic goals in 2020, Eve seems to have already pivoted her career path, signing on to dna Model Management. She's in good company, with Kaia Gerber, Emily Ratajkowski, Imaan Hammam and Doutzen Kroes all signed to the same agency.
Eve appeared in Glossier's 2020 holiday campaign alongside Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney and RuPaul's Drag Race runner-up, Naomi Smalls. The photos showed Jobs in a bubble bath with a glass of rosé in hand, while others depicted her applying Glossier's Lip Gloss in Red while sporting under-eye masks.
She made her high fashion debut during October 2021 at Paris Fashion Week and walked the Coperni runway in the same month alongside industry heavyweights like Gigi Hadid, Paloma Elsesser, and Adut Akech.
"I can't put into words how extraordinary this collection is. It was an honor to be apart of the vision @coperni," Jobs wrote on Instagram at the time, sharing a backstage glance at her runway look and congratulating the designers on the show.
Most recently, Eve was spotted in the front row of the Louis Vuitton Fall 2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week. The budding model wore navy, faux leather pants, a white crop top and black, leather patent boots.
There is no denying that Eve is one to watch in the modelling world, and given her recent signing with dna, we're sure it won't be long until we're seeing her just about everywhere.


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- Storm Reid Looks Mesmerizing in a Sheer Crystal Minidress With a Waist Cutout
Storm Reid Looks Mesmerizing in a Sheer Crystal Minidress With a Waist Cutout
Awards season may have passed, but Storm Reid is here to prove that the season for red-carpet-worthy outfits is never ending. On March 21, the "The Last of Us" star stepped out in a sheer crystal minidress with a glittering hip cutout at the 2023 Fashion Trust US Awards in Los Angeles.
Wearing a look from Jonathan Simkhai's spring 2023 runway collection, Reid posed on the red carpet, turning to display the dress's hypnotic swirl pattern from all angles. Her stylists, Jason Bolden and John Mumblo, paired the ensemble with strappy heeled sandals by Christian Louboutin, diamond hoop earrings, a layered floral bracelet in gold, and a metallic handbag with a chain-link strap.
Reid's dress featured an asymmetrical neckline with crystal straps that beautifully mirrored the chandelier-like detailing along the hem. Across the bust, the dress boasted a shimmering silver design reminiscent of rays of sunshine. And as the crystal pattern spiraled down her waist, the piece split at the hip, revealing a strappy cutout on her right side. Reid's beauty team completed the outfit with metallic eyeshadow and icy pink lip gloss.
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Intel puts single exec in charge of unified mobile efforts
Dec 14, 2011 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsIntel is ramping up its efforts to move into the tablet and smartphone spaces via a reorganization that is bringing together four divisions to create a mobile and communications unit. It will be headed by Mike Bell, an Intel executive who worked on iPhone development while at Apple, according to reports.
Intel is combining four divisions to create a new Mobile and Communications group that will help it better compete in the fast-growing tablet and smartphone spaces. The move was revealed Dec. 14 via an internal memo, according to a Fortune report.
"The ultimate goal is we want to speed up and improve the development process," Intel spokesman Robert Manetta was quoted as saying by Reuters.
The new group will include the four divisions that had overseen mobile communications, tablets and netbooks, mobile wireless, and ultra mobility. It will be headed by Mike Bell (pictured), a former Palm and Apple executive who came over from Palm in 2010 to head up Intel's smartphone efforts. While at Apple, he was involved in the development of the iPhone, among other products.
Bell became head of Intel's ultra mobility group last March, following the departure of Anand Chandrasekher. As we reported at the time, Chandrasekher was considered "father of the Atom" and had consistently stuck his neck out to promote chip in the smartphone space, but to little avail.
Also leading the group will be Hermann Eul, who came to Intel in the chip maker's $1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon Technologies' wireless chip business in a deal that closed in January.
Intel is the world's largest chipmaker, holding more than 80 percent of the global market. The company has done well in its traditional PC and server markets, having several consecutive quarters of record profits and revenues. Still, the company has not yet been able to gain traction in the mobile device space, which is expected to grow rapidly over the next few years.
Gartner earlier this year predicated that tablet sales would grow to 294 million in 2015. At the same time, market research firm In-Stat is predicting 850 million smartphone sales in 2015.
Intel is taking a variety of avenues into the space. The company is readying its Medfield Atom chips, which will begin appearing in smartphones and tablets next year. At the same time, Intel is pushing its Ultrabook concept of very thin and light notebooks that offer tablet-like features, such as instant-on and always-connected capabilities and long battery life.
Executives expect a flood of next-generation Ultrabook designs based on the upcoming 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge chips. These will feature the company's 3D Tri-Gate transistor architecture, promising greater performance and energy efficiency than the current Sandy Bridge CPUs. (They've been delayed until April, however, according to recent reports.)
And energy efficiency is the key to chips going into these mobile devices, which run on batteries. ARM and its manufacturing partners — including Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics and Texas Instruments — have been building highly energy-efficient chips for years. Intel is coming from the x86 PC and server spaces, where the chips consume much more energy.
Intel in September also unveiled a partnership with Google via which the two companies will work to optimize the popular Android mobile operating system for Intel's Atom platform. Intel executives hope the move will help speed its move into the mobile computing space and give the Atom chips a needed boost. During the Intel Developer Forum in September, Intel and Google executives showed off a prototype smartphone powered by a Medfield chip and running the Android Honeycomb OS.
Jeffrey Burt is a writer for eWEEK.
This article was originally published on LinuxDevices.com and has been donated to the open source community by QuinStreet Inc. Please visit LinuxToday.com for up-to-date news and articles about Linux and open source.


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Chinese chive flowers, for garnishing
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Yesterday I paid our rent bill for January. Back in the US paying rent was as simple as writing a check and dropping it in the mailbox. In Switzerland paying rent is quite the ordeal to figure out, especially if you (still!) don't have a bank account and can't quite speak fluent French.
We received our rent bill in the mail last Wednesday. When we were in the US we paid our Swiss rent by wire transfer, but this time we didn't think that would be best. To wire money costs about $100 worth of fees on top of the bad exchange rate they give you. Furthermore, I think we would have had to set something special up in the US to be able to wire money without physically being in a US bank.
We searched the internet a bit to see how people pay bills in Switzerland, and the easiest method looked like sending an online transfer from our Swiss bank account to the rental company's account. Unfortunately we still haven't been approved for a bank account, and the day after we received the rent bill, a letter from the bank we applied to arrived. It said the bank need copies of our Swiss resident permits before they could open an account for us, which we don't have yet and don't expect to receive until sometime after the holidays (which, coincidently, is after the rent is due). So that ruled out the easy option.
The other common way to pay bills in Switzerland is through the post office. I already had experience with this from paying a bill for some Nespresso capsules we bought on a promotion. The bill paying process started with Nespresso sending us an orange slip with the amount owed and their banking information in the mail. I walked into the post office with cash and the slip, I handed them both to a clerk, and the clerk gave me a receipt saying that the bill was paid. That was that. However, the rental bill didn't come with an orange slip. Searching the internet I found I could still pay at the post office, but I would have to manually fill out all the details on a red slip.
So this Monday morning, promptly at 9AM, I headed to the post office two blocks away, with all the rental company's banking information written down and a copy of the orange bill I paid to Nespresso. I figured I'd find the red slips, look at my filled out orange slip and know where to write all the information. After a minute at the post office I found a red slip. It had different words and spaces than the orange slip… I was completely lost as to where to write anything, so I figured I would just grab a number, get in line, and talk to a clerk about filling it out.
I knew enough French to say, "I need help, I am lost, I would like to pay a bill," then push the slip and bill toward her. However, my French failed me when she started pointing to a blank space on the bill and asking questions. I thought maybe they needed some kind of tracking number, or this kind of bill wouldn't work at the post office, so I was stumbling trying to say I would call the company and ask for the number. Finally, she asked if I spoke English. "Oui!"
She grabbed a different clerk who told me I needed the account number and BIC/Swift number to pay the bill. I don't know why I didn't realize that's what the first clerk was saying in French. I flipped over the bill and showed her where I had written down all the bank information of the company, to which she replied "Oh good, I can fill out the slip for you."
Then we came to the part where I needed to actually pay the bill… I was a little scared that the post office might not accept my credit or debit card, so Sunday I spent some time looking on the internet to see if they say anything about it. I feel like if I had a similar question in America and did a few Google searches I would find thousands of answers. But here, I could find nothing on the post office website, English forums, or even by searching in French. In the end, I figured that since my cards work at all the stores, restaurants, and ATMs, why not at the post office? Well not everything can be that easy, and of course the clerk told me I can only pay with cash or a Swiss post office cash-card then pointed me to an ATM. I was 99% sure they wouldn't let me take out 1400 francs at the ATM but why not try? Unfortunately, as I expected, my daily withdrawal limit was too low to pay for the full rental amount. I apologized to the clerk and went home, but at least I had my slip filled out.
I came up with a new plan. I would just have my bank quickly increase my daily cash withdrawal and stop at an ATM again. I called customer service, finally got through to a person, and told her I wanted to increase my daily withdrawal amount. "No problem, it just takes a couple days for the paperwork for that to go through." That wouldn't work: I only had two days to pay this before Christmas after which we were planning on going on a trip outside the country.
Once again I had to put on my thinking cap. We brought over $1100 American just in case we needed it in an emergency. If I took out 400 francs from the ATM and exchanged our American money, I would have enough cash for rent. We made it exactly 3 weeks before we needed our emergency cash, so that's good right?
Getting 400 francs from the ATM was no problem, then I walked into the Credit Suisse bank branch looking to exchange my money. The Swiss banks are a little different than US banks. The building is multiple stories so there's obviously a lot of people that work there, but when I walked in all I saw was just a small room with two clerks standing at what looked like information kiosks. This was nothing at all like a bank in the US with a counter and tellers. It took a long time to get to the front of the line, and only a few seconds to ask if they exchange money. The clerk said no, and that I could get francs from the ATM, and some other incomprensible (to me) stuff about a bridge and the city center, which were supposed to be directions to somewhere that did exchange money. However, I remembered there being a Western Union at the main train station, so I didn't try very hard to figure out what she was saying.
Onward to the Western Union! The main train station is one metro ride away, almost straight down the hill towards the lake. I figured that since I was already going to lose money on the exchange, I might as well walk and save myself the metro fare. I got to the main station and it took me about 5 minutes of looking around and wondering if I only imagined the Western Union, until I finally found it. The exchange rate wasn't terrible, just 6% over what the internet said, so I exchanged the $1100 USD and got back 1021.70 francs.
I made the long, steep walk back up the hill to the post office, waited in line for another 16 minutes, handed the clerk the cash and already filled out red slip, and got home just before noon with my bill paid. Only 30 more days until I need to pay the rent again….