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As he drives around San Francisco for Uber, the startup company that uses mobile apps to connect passengers with drivers for hire, Ramzi Reguii tells me about his job. He loves the flexible hours, he's so glad to have this opportunity, he's even impressed with Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick's corporate vision.
Then he tells me that Uber changes its commission rates at a moment's notice, cutting into drivers' incomes, that the company doesn't insure drivers when they're doing what he is right now — looking for a fare.
"It's just snowballing," he says. "The public won't do anything, the regulators won't do anything. The only way it can be changed is by uniting the drivers together."
Reguii recently launched the Drivers Network, a loose-knit union of drivers for Uber and Lyft (another car service) that currently boasts more than 1,000 members. "Travis Kalanick came up with an idea to change an industry that longed to be changed," he tells me. "Guess what? This is the same thing."
Uber's disruption of the cab industry has been welcomed by nearly everyone except those who rely on the cab industry for their livelihoods. It's arguably made on-demand car rides easier, cleaner, safer, more accessible and, in some cases, even cheaper.
Indeed, such disruption is overdue. The high prices of regulated taxi medallions have kept a small number of bosses in control, while drivers pay high gate fees in order to access their cars and wages. Uber is right that the traditional system is not well suited to drivers' or customers' needs.
But the new boss is not so different from the old boss. Uber's revolution is not actually its technology but its market power. It has disrupted the cab industry in ways so many others can only dream of by leveraging the labor of thousands of workers who are exceptionally underprotected. That it did so at the expense of a flawed business is cold comfort to drivers like Reguii.
Only four years after the service debuted in San Francisco, Uber drivers nationwide are getting organized and demanding better treatment. And this could have huge implications for the trajectory of the peer-to-peer economy. As work changes, so will the ways workers seek to protect themselves and their livelihood.
In 2010, when Uber was barely getting its footing in San Francisco, cabbies nationwide were already knee-deep in their own attempts to disrupt the taxi industry. In the fall of 2011, the National Taxi Workers Alliance officially affiliated with the AFL-CIO — the first such contract the country's largest labor union had forged in nearly 50 years.
"We were just getting somewhere with taxi drivers," says organizer and labor researcher Veena Dubal, who works with the NTWA. "The taxi industry has always been at the cutting edge of problematic shifts in work."
In San Francisco, many cabs now sit in parking lots at peak times, and taxi drivers in Uber's major markets report making significantly less than they were just a year ago. One cab company president said he'd be surprised if the local industry survived the next 18 months under current conditions.
Yet Uber is creating new jobs — pretty good ones, by drivers' own accounts.
"A lot of immigrant drivers embrace their independent contractor identity," says Dubal. "I think this is why Uber and Lyft are so much more appealing on an individual level, even though it's worse from a regulatory standpoint."
Many cabbies are moonlighting for Uber, or quitting their old jobs altogether. But they're finding that their new positions are more precarious than they'd first imagined.
Uber calls its drivers "partners," but the relationship is hardly a partnership. While drivers have some of the trappings of power — they can rate their riders, they can set their own hours — they are still very much on unequal footing.
Drivers bear the brunt of larger customer service issues, such as when Uber increases prices during high-demand "surge" periods. Riders leave their drivers ratings based on whatever they might feel like. There's no control for discrimination. Drivers are automatically "deactivated" — fired — if they receive average ratings of less than 4.6 stars out of 5, but Uber doesn't tell riders that they essentially control their drivers' employment.
Regardless of their own local knowledge, drivers say they are required to use GPS or ask their passengers to direct them. Even while they are left to pay for their own insurance, maintain their own vehicles and schedule their own work, Uber strips drivers of their agency, right down to their own knowledge of their cities.
Uber exerts control, but it does not take responsibility for the workers from which it profits. It even openly resents them.
At a tech conference last month, Kalanick hinted at a cheaper, worker-free future made possible by self-driving vehicles that would eliminate the real expense of Uber: "the other dude in the car."
Those other dudes heard Kalanick loud and clear.
In Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities, Uber drivers are organizing with the local Teamsters to form the App-Based Drivers Association. In San Diego, Lyft and Uber drivers have reached out to their competition at United Taxi Workers for help. And a class-action lawsuit seeks to redefine Uber drivers as employees.
In the twilight of traditional organized labor power, we've seen unlikely grassroots organizing efforts pop up at Walmart and fast-food restaurants nationwide. But Ramzi Reguii is adamant about creating a new kind of worker network completely outside of old union institutions and without member fees. His Drivers Network has grown simply by word of mouth. Uber drivers didn't have official physical or virtual meeting places, so they created their own on closed email lists and Facebook.
So far, they're getting results. When Uber told San Francisco luxury black-car drivers that they would be required to purchase new vehicles or face price cuts, the Drivers Network sprang into action. It organized a protest of about 200 drivers and made concrete demands. Uber backed down.
Reguii says he was inspired by his participation in the Arab Spring in his home country of Tunisia.
"We walked out into the streets. It was as simple as that," he says. "I want my movement to be just as simple as that."
Reguii's fight will, of course, not be as simple as that. Post-recession piecemeal work is here to stay, and many Uber "partners," Taskrabbit "taskers" and other peer-to-peer-economy workers say they're just happy to have some income at all. Why risk it?
"We're seeing freelancers connecting and engaging with each other in ways we couldn't have imagined even a few years ago," says Dan Lavoie, the director of strategy at the Freelancers Union. But Reguii's network isn't a co-working space, a weekly gossip meet-up or a group buying club for health insurance. In that way, it represents an old-fashioned attempt to leverage the power of workers. If Uber drivers can collectively organize in a new grassroots way, it could present a new paradigm of unionizing for a new age of freelance work, and an example to independent workers in other industries.
Organized labor was on the steady decline even before the rise of the "gig economy." But just like entrenched taxi companies, old unions have problems of their own. They're longing for disruption.
The market has already redefined "job." It's time the workers redefined "union."
Editor's note: A previous version of this article misidentified the taxi-driver union that San Diego-area Uber and Lyft drivers are working with. We regret the error.
Susie Cagle is a journalist and an illustrator in Oakland, California. She has reported on politics and technology recently for The Guardian, Medium, Wired.com and other publications.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera America's editorial policy.
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Schleich Farm World – Farmer and Goat Set
We have been sent Schleich Farmer and Goat set to review!
The farmer has some fresh apples from the garden for his goat. It is crazy about the juicy fruit. While it happily chews away, the farmer can grab his pitchfork with his moveable arms, clean the stable and then milk the goat.
RRP:- £8.99 and aimed at ages 3 to 8 years
In this set contains:-
Pitch Fork
I have always known Schleich products to be high quality, the figures we have received are lovingly hand-painted with really high attention to detail, this detailed modelling allows children to learn as they play.
Schleich figures are all about imaginative play and children's imaginations are instantly inspired by these detailed figures I knew when I received these that Jake and Grace would take an instant likening to this Farm World set as they love little figures to play.
Children can play imaginatively with Schleich figures on their own, or combine them with other Schleich sets or their own favorite toys for even more hours of fun! Grace has enjoyed playing with this Farmer and Goat set alongside her dolls
house pretending that she has a farm "in the garden" and her little ponies come out to play with the goat.
Schleich have even payed attention to detail on the box and packaging as the insert inside the box Grace really enjoyed the back drop of it being in a real farm so she sat her goat on the field and the farmer next to him. This is a great way to not chuck away the packaging and actually getting to re use it over and over again!
The farmer has moveable arms you are able to insert his pitchfork into the gap in his hand for the farmer to do his duties.
In the Farm World range there is also available a Dog & Kennel set RRP:-£14.99
Grace and Jake both really enjoyed playing with this set together and I love the quality and know that this set will last quite along time due to its excellent quality.
You can find more of the range on the Schleich website here
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So we clamored about San Francisco last week, chasing the sunshine and any historic-looking building we could sight from the heights we climbed.
We ate a lot of bread, sold quite a few secondhand clothes, and continually gasped at the beautiful homes we passed by.
Urban Outfitters' set-up is cool, too, until we found some soft and old looking crewneck sweatshirts in a corner of their store.
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Canadian Team Trials
The Canadian Bridge Championships concluded in Toronto in early June. In the three team events (Open, Women and Seniors) teams competed to earn the right to be named "Team Canada" in the upcoming world championships, an honour that also includes a small subsidy.
How we determine our representatives in world championships is often a subject of great debate. This is not unique to Canada as when it comes to choosing their representatives, countries generally follow one of two methods; a selection process, or a "winner takes all" style team trials (the autocratic and democratic methods as John Carruthers called them).
In the autocratic selection method, a committee or an individual is elected or appointed to select the team. This method is utilised by countries such as Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Israel and Japan. Since players/pairs have to demonstrate consistent high performance over a significant period of time, serious partnerships are motivated to participate in as many high level events as they can to build a resume of achievements. This in turn elevates their game and increases their experience level against top competition. A major advantage of the autocratic method is that it provides for team stability as the core of the team stays the same from one year to the next, thus allowing a small group of players to accumulate valuable experience at the world championships. On the other hand, this method relies heavily on the subjective judgement of an individual or a committee, and many safeguards have to be implemented to avoid possible conflicts of interest which can arise when prospective players are also involved in the selection process.
The democratic team trials method is used by several countries including the US, Canada, India and South Africa. It relies on the assumption that in a sufficiently long contest usually the best team emerges as the victor. Therefore this method selects the best performing team at the time of the trials. However, that does not mean that the team consists of the country's best pairs as stronger partnerships may have been members of other teams. To overcome such deficiency, some countries use pair trials instead of team trials. The main argument against pair trials is that they create teams with no chemistry or where pairs may not get along.
I personally favour our current team trials approach, especially after the Canadian Bridge Federation eliminated the geographic restrictions on team composition (previously teams qualified to the national final as representatives of one of the six CBF zones, and the majority of the team members had to be residents of the zone they represented). The current trials are open, fair and rigorous. They avoid conflicts of interest, favouritism and politics. Having said that, I would like to see us try pair trials at least in one or two of the 4 year WBF cycle (e.g. for the World Knockout Teams also known as the Rosenblum, McConnell and Rand Cups). A sufficiently long pair trial would adequately minimize the luck factor that is inherent in IMP pair events. For example, if we replace the 8-day open team competition with an 8-day IMP pair event (with elimination after the 3rd and 6th days), the top three pairs at the end would have truly earned their position, largely on ability, having passed a test of 400-500 boards against their peers.


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I was thinking about happiness and how I could find it without spending any money or leaving my house.
1. Well one thing I know for sure that would make me happy is if I successfully organize all my stuff and get rid of clutter. Organize it all so well that I know where everything is when I need it and there's nothing that is just sitting there occupying space and collecting dust because for some reason I can't bear to let it go. Sentimental value is a good reason to me. What I mean is those manuals that I never refer to but which I absurdly think I might need one day. Or those boxes my hard drive comes in. It's ridiculous that I keep stuff like this when I hardly have enough room as it is. I have never quite achieved this clutter free success but somehow having this task and the promise of achieving it makes me happy. It's like my special monumental project that I will one day get done to perfection.
2. It would make me happy to discover an unread book or an old favourite and actually read it. That would give me tremendous satisfaction.
3. I hate exercise, but sometimes I feel really good after I've had a physically strenuous day. Especially when I don't even realize I have been moving about so much. The best kind of movement is when you're playing with kids. So much joy and at the same time you tend to move a lot as they have so much energy. You use your brain a lot too as they often want you to tell them stories constantly and you need to think to come up with new ideas.
4. Listening to music and singing terribly. That's a pretty joyous thing too. I found myself singing badly to 'Love of a Lifetime' by FireHouse the other day and I was wondering why Glee hadn't used this amazing 80's rock ballad yet.


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name: 19-layer model from the arXiv paper: "Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition"
caffemodel: VGG_ILSVRC_19_layers
caffemodel_url: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/very_deep/caffe/VGG_ILSVRC_19_layers.caffemodel
license: see http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/
caffe_version: trained using a custom Caffe-based framework
gist_id: 3785162f95cd2d5fee77
The model is an improved version of the 19-layer model used by the VGG team in the ILSVRC-2014 competition. The details can be found in the following arXiv paper:
Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition
K. Simonyan, A. Zisserman
Please cite the paper if you use the model.
In the paper, the model is denoted as the configuration
E trained with scale jittering. The input images should be zero-centered by mean pixel (rather than mean image) subtraction. Namely, the following BGR values should be subtracted:
[103.939, 116.779, 123.68].
Caffe compatibility
The models are currently supported by the
dev branch of Caffe, but are not yet compatible with
An example of how to use the models in Matlab can be found in matlab/caffe/matcaffe_demo_vgg.m
ILSVRC-2012 performance
Using dense single-scale evaluation (the smallest image side rescaled to 384), the top-5 classification error on the validation set of ILSVRC-2012 is 8.0% (see Table 3 in the arXiv paper).
Using dense multi-scale evaluation (the smallest image side rescaled to 256, 384, and 512), the top-5 classification error is 7.5% on the validation set and 7.3% on the test set of ILSVRC-2012 (see Tables 4 and 6 in the arXiv paper).


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Pannonhalma, letter of privileges of Pannonhalma
A Benedictine monastery, founded by Chief Prince Géza in 966, by settling down Czech Benedictine monks. His work was finished by King Stephen issuing a letter of privilege in 1002. Its first abbots known by names were Anasthas and Mór. At the end of the 11th century the Hungarian dignitaries held a meeting in the monastery, where they accepted the resolution of King Ladislaus's so-called Second Act. King Coloman received the ministers of Gottfried Bouillon, the leader of the crusaders marching through the country here in the monastery. By 1137 Abbot David had the burnt down church rebuilt and invited the king to the consecration ceremony. Among the 13th century abbots, Uros was outstanding, who directed the monastery for a long time (1207-1241), he even fought against the Tartars to protect the monastery. Abbot Uros had the people of the abbacy inventoried, had a special signet made for the convent besides his own one, he increased the number of charters and land possessions of the monastery (there were seven times more chareter issues during his directorship than earlier), and the Pope reassured the community of their privileges several times. He accompanied King Andrew II to the Holy Land, and travelled to Rome five times. He also participated in the IV Lateran synod. At the end of his life he remembered the years spent in the monastery in his will. After 1240 the discipline of the monks loosened, fewer and fewer people left their possessions to the monastery. Abbot Favus tried to help, but the chaotic situation at the end of the 13th century urged the decline of the monastery. In the age of the Árpád dynasty the monastery was an important scene of literary creation. Around 1090 eighty codices and around 200 pieces of literary work could be found in the library. Among them were the Ernst codex, and around 1240 the Liber ruber was prepared here in the scriptorium. St Stephen's larger legend and the St Emeric legend were also written here, and starting from the age of King Stephen, historical records were made here.
The letter of privileges of Pannonhalma
St Stephen's only charter which survived in a seemingly original form, and at the same time it is the earliest Latin diploma from Hungary. There are a lot of assumptions about it among scholars, since at the beginning of the 12th century or at the turn of the 12-13th centuries a Benedictine monk enlarged the text of St Stephen's charter and he copied the original one so skilfully that modern scholars identified his handwriting with that of Herbert C, a German clerk, who fled to St Stephen's court from a German chancellery after the death of Otto III. In this letter of privilege St Stephen assured the Pannonhalma monastery of the same rights as the Benedictine ancient colony, Montecassino had. He took it from the legitimacy of the county bishop (at the beginning he might have placed them under the power of the archbishop), he guaranteed the free election of the abbot, the consecrating and the abbot-Benedictating bishops; he gave liturgic privileges to the abbot, besides those of the church government, enabling him to do the service in sandals as a bishop, since the chapel (portable altar) marched in front of him. The so-called immune privilege was a significant one at that time, since it declared that secular officials could not make judgements in matters belonging to the monastery without the permission of the abbot. The composition of the charter is not homogeneous: one part is written in the first person singular, other parts are written in the first person plural. According to certain experts the text in the first person singular is a later interpolation, while the text in the first person plural was composed by Heribert C. In connection with the narrative text in the first person singular, it was suspected that it preserves the traces of a heroic song from the age of Stephen. Concerning the interpolation, there are two opposing views: one dates the birth of the charter to the 11-12th centuries, the other puts it to the turn of the 12-13th centuries. King Coloman's signet was attached to the charter later.


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The Bakkt platform has just announced that it will now allow any institutions to use its Bitcoin custody solution. Previously, only those trading the platform's Bitcoin futures contracts had access to the Bakkt Warehouse.
The news comes as Bakkt futures look on track to set another all-time high. After a rather dismal start to trading on the platform, interest appears now appears to have picked up.
Bakkt to Offer All Institutional Clients Access to its Bitcoin Custody Warehouse
According to a blog post by Bakkt, the company is opening up its regulated Bitcoin custody service to all institutions. The Bakkt Warehouse actually went live prior to the launch of the platform's futures contracts this September. However, it was previously reserved for clients wanting to trade the physically-settled Bitcoin futures.
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) recently granted Bakkt permission to offer custody services to global clients. Already taking advantage of the service are Pantera Capital, Galaxy Digital, and Tagomi. Bakkt says that it is in the process of onboarding additional clients for its Warehouse service.
In the post, Bakkt's Adam White describes custody as "perhaps the critical link" needed for institutional adoption of Bitcoin. He adds:
"Safely storing digital assets demands a comprehensive approach to custody. Institutions and sophisticated investors… require proven infrastructure, robust operational controls, and independent oversight."
White also describes some of Bakkt's procedures to ensure clients' digital assets remain secure. He mentions the platform's $125 million insurance policy, its segregation of personal duties, the auditing process it undergoes, and a host of other features aimed at protecting customer funds.
Interest in Bakkt's Futures Continues to Heat Up
Despite a highly underwhelming debut, interest in Bakkt's Bitcoin futures is finally starting to pick up. On Friday November 8, the platform smashed its previous all-time high. The daily session saw the trading of 1,741 Bitcoin futures contracts. The total dollar figure was almost $15.5 million.
ICYMI: Friday's Bakkt Bitcoin Monthly Futures:
📈 Traded contracts: 1741 ($15,486,195) (New ATH 🚀)
📅 Day before: 834 (+109%)
🚀 All time high: 1741 (11/8/2019)
*bleep blop* tip sats for server costs https://t.co/TF6sNUwWpO 🤖 pic.twitter.com/Yfi75Zm0MM
— Bakkt Volume Bot (@BakktBot) November 9, 2019
Although these figures are still insignificant when compared with other cryptocurrency exchange trading volume, considering that month following Bakkt's launch saw only figures between $200,000 and $1.9 million trade each day, the current volumes are a sizeable increase.
Today, Bakkt again looks on track to set a new all-time high. Traders had already exchanged 1,018 Bitcoin futures contracts at just a third of the way through the current session. The Bakkt monitoring Twitter account Bakkt Volume Bot (@BakktBot) projects a total daily volume for today of 2,031 contracts. This would be equivalent to more than $17.75 million.
∙ Today's volume so far: 1018 BTC ($8,899,865)
∙ Last traded price: $8,743
∙ Trading day progress: 34%
∙ Current daily Bakktarget™: 2031 BTC ($17,758,622)
— Bakkt Volume Bot (@BakktBot) November 11, 2019
Related Reading: Why Bitcoin Needs to Flip $9,700 Into Support to Support Bull Case
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|June 2023
Seven CUHK Students Awarded the Innovation and Technology Scholarship (Jun 2023)
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A MBTE undergraduate student has received the Rhodes Scholarship to study D.Phil in Zoology at Oxford, commencing in the academic year 2016–17.
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CUHK SLS undergraduate student has received the Alexandre Yersin Scholarship to study MSc in Sustainable Management of Pollution at Université Catholique de Lille, commencing in the academic year 2015–16.
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The CUHK Genetic Engineering Team won Gold Award at Boston
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CUHK MBTE Student Wins the Innovation &
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CUHK Undergraduate Students Win Silver Medal
CUHK Students Win Gold Medal at iGEM Asia Again
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CUHK Undergraduate Students Win Gold Medal at iGEM Asia
Heading to US Next Month for World Championship
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Biochemistry Students Win Gold at MIT Competition for Proving Bacteria DNA as Device for Information Storage
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Enter Oras, a sculptor of mobiles on a scale a little more suited to a home. These things are beautiful and they take me right back there. Check them out! Reasonably priced, great art --why not?
23 September 2008
Mobile means more than a place to gamble in Alabama
Posted by Paul Anater
I can trace my love of the mobile as an art form to a wintry day in the late '70s when I walked into the brand spankin' new East Wing of the National Gallery and looked up to see Alexander Calder's massive Untitled. That's it right here. Look at it! Just seeing a photo of it gets me all hot and bothered again and I haven't been back to the National in at least ten years. Anyhow, as a kid I had never seen anything like it. The idea that a sculpture could move and swallow a space had never occurred to me. An art lover was born that day and since then I've been chasing the same thrill I felt that wintry day when I was 14.
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I don't believe there are any casinos in Mobile. Maybe you are thinking of Mississippi.ReplyDelete
Oras is nice.
You got me. Serves me right for writing headlines in the middle of the night. Please extend my apologies to the great state of Alabama. How about "Mobile means more than a place to go to a Mardi Gras parade in Alabama?"ReplyDelete
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Today Motorola has officially announced the long rumored second generation of the Moto 360. While details are still unknown about the display resolution or some aspects of the internal hardware, there are still a number of things that can be identified based on Motorola's press release and the Moto Maker studio. The first thing to note is that the Moto 360 will actually come in two versions. The first is the standard Moto 360 which has a similar design to the first generation. It now comes in two sizes, with the smaller size having a 42mm watch case and the larger being 46mm. Users who find a 42mm watch to be too large appear to be left out in the cold again, and it'll be...
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Miloš Pjanić
Faculty of Economics in Subotica, University of Novi Sad, Segedinski put 9-11, 24000 Subotica, Serbia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/tmt.2019.291
4th International Thematic Monograph - Modern Management Tools and Economy of Tourism Sector in Present Era, Belgrade, 2019, Published by: Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans in cooperation with the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, Ohrid, North Macedonia; ISSN 2683-5673, ISBN 978-86-80194-29-5; Editors: Vuk Bevanda, associate professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia; Snežana Štetić, full time professor, The College of Tourism, Belgrade, Serbia, Printed by: SKRIPTA International, Belgrade
Abstract: Along with the globalization of the world economy, there is a globalization of the tourism industry,
having a significant impact on the growth of international tourism worldwide. Tourism is one of
the key factors for the growth and development of the world economy and at the same time the new export
industry. Tourism development is a significant source of foreign exchange, influences employment
growth, growth of gross domestic product, improvement of the country's balance of payments structure,
and is a significant factor in overall economic development. Given the accelerated growth and development
of tourism and its increasingly important role in the global market, it has a major impact on other
related industries, both directly and indirectly. The aim of the paper is to point out the financial effects
of tourism as one of the fastest growing industries on the world economy.
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|It's a helping hand unlike any other.
(Image courtesy happaratus.com.)
According to Global Construction Review, a new glove functions as a sculpting aid by shaving down wood or stone just by lifting a finger. The glove was created by Danish designer Morten Grønning Nielsen, who had created a prototype with electric kitchen knives before inventing the current glove, known as the Happaratus.
The Happaratus works like a power tool, with three abrasive pads on the thumb and forefingers that oscillate at different speeds to shape whatever material they are working with. Nielsen's glove uses sandpaper for the abrasion, but he maintains that a stronger version of the glove could be created with tungsten carbide or ceramic steel for maximum material manipulation.
|Personal touches: the refined nature of the Happaratus's ability makes for precise projects.
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The unique simultaneous sculpting/carving nature of the glove can also shave lightly at a surface level, such as for sanding or shaping work that only needs slight modifications. Artists who have used the Happaratus enjoy its level of precision. As the Happaratus website states, the device is intended for "Enabling a seamless workflow for creating and manipulating complex surface geometries", which includes works both for creation and restoration.
The future of art means that you can still work with your hands and have a little digital help. By using this "disruptive" force for traditional tools and workflow, perhaps you could shake loose some new ideas of your own.
|They're not for sale yet, but the possibilities are ponderous...
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Creating a Voice
Your brand probably already has a voice. If not, it is time to create a consistent tone targeted at a specific audience. Your voice needs to be cohesive with other advertising your company does, as well as merge successfully with your brand's look, feel and direction. Your voice should add personality and perspective. You don't want to sound light and carefree if you are a law firm. You also don't want to sound tedious if you are a college – even if you need academically-minded content. If you've already been publishing content, you need bloggers for hire that can add to your existing content without taking you in a different direction.
Nailing the Voice
One of the best ways to help your writer understand your voice, is to provide specific examples of content you have published and loved. You can also provide examples of competitors or other companies with a sentence or two explaining what you like about their brand voice.
One of the most helpful things I've seen clients do to get a writer on the right track is come up with the title and subheads for the very first article. Seeing the wording and direction in such a specific way seems to really help me understand their direction. With future orders, a client might want to have the writer do most of the creative work – some clients even want the writer to come up with Topic Suggestions for content ideas. Nailing the voice is the first step though, and it isn't always an easy one.
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Finishing my Spanish Immersion Courses in Antigua
My 5 weeks of Spanish immersion in Guatemala are over. It was an amazing way to learn a new language. I'm certainly not fluent, and not even really conversational, but I do have a great base of Spanish that will make it much easier to travel in Latin America in the coming months.
As much as I loved my Spanish teacher, my homestay family, and my study environment in San Pedro on Lake Atitlan, I decided that it was time to move on to another city. The problem was that I had two goals in Guatemala: one was to learn Spanish, and other was to learn to dance Salsa. And, San Pedro was simply too small to offer dedicated salsa classes.
I considered heading on to Xela (Quetzaltenango), a relatively large, diverse, and 'authentic' Guatemalan city. However, there weren't any spots available at the schools I wanted to attend there. So, I headed to Antigua: a very touristy, but also very historic and beautiful, town of 35,000 people. I spent the last two weeks of my five-week Guatemala trip there.
Antigua was once the capital of Guatemala, but it was abandoned following a huge earthquake in 1773. It has since been re-inhabited and listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. A concentrated effort by the city to encourage tourism (largely by becoming the go-to destination for learning Spanish in central America) has helped to become surprisingly safe, clean, well-preserved, and prosperous compared to many other Guatemalan cities. Although it's nearly equatorial, its elevation of about 1 mile means that the temperature is mild and pleasant year-round.
[caption id="attachment_860" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The main street in Antigua, with the volcano Agua in the background.[/caption]
Antigua is famous for its grid of charming one-story buildings, its cobblestone streets, and its backdrop of impressive and ominously close-by volcanoes. Although I wouldn't have wanted to stay too long if were simply traveling, I found the city to be great for relaxing and taking Spanish and Salsa lessons. I particularly enjoyed how easy it was to get around as a pedestrian on the cobblestone streets (which tended to slow down traffic to a crawl). I also loved watching the surrounding volcanoes, which were big enough to create small weather and cloud systems of their own. One night, the volcano Fuego was erupting so strongly that I was able to easily capture it on my smartphone camera.
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Spanish School in Antigua
I spent two weeks at the Don Pedro Spanish School, doing 6 hours per day of classes. The school was a bit less focused on teaching Spanish than the San Pedro school, but it also did a much better job of organizing activities and fostering a bit of community. Overall I enjoyed both, and I'm glad I did them in the order I did.
After five weeks of classes, I feel both surprised at how much I've learned, and amazed at how much is left to learn. For instance, I can hold pretty comfortable and non-stressful conversations about most day-to-day subjects… for instance, shopping; ordering food; discussing my day's plans and the previous day's activities; talking about my family and where I'm from; and talking about places I've been and what they're like. I can talk in the present tense pretty easily, and I can talk in the past and future tenses much more slowly and with more errors. However, it's unbelievable how much more idiom, vocabulary, connotation, and grammar I'd have to know to actually pass as a native speaker. Overall, I think it was a great way to learn Spanish, and I'm eager to continue using it as I go on to travel more in Latin America.
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Climbing Volcán Acatenango
My favorite activity in Antigua was climbing the mostly-dormant Acatenango Volcano to get a great view of the very active Fuego volcano. I went with an organized group of about 24 other people, which meant that we went slowly, but also that I got to meet tons of new people. One of the couples that was staying in the same tent as me even got engaged during the trip. And even though there was a lot of rain, fog, and dampness, we did get some amazing views of Fuego when the clouds cleared. We could hear it erupting the entire night.
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Homestay Family
While in Antigua, I stayed with a great homestay family: parents Renee and Zincrid, and children Stephanie and Reneecito. The parents were in a salsa band that played several times per week in town, but music ran in the blood of the entire family. They were an exciting and interesting family to visit, and their very modern house even had real hot water, a rarity in Guatemala.
[caption id="attachment_864" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Zincrid on-stage with the family's salsa band, with family friend Jorge on keyboards. The dance floor was cleared for the two best dancers I've ever seen.[/caption]
Salsa Lessons
Although I was a bit less serious about Spanish in Antigua than I was in San Pedro, I did get a chance to learn how to Salsa dance. I got to try some group lessons, some private lessons, and eventually I even began to go out at night to the Salsa clubs in Antigua. I loved it - it's a fun, healthy, and interesting way to spend a night out. I hope to continue learning salsa and other latin dances so I can keep it up in a few months when I return to Latin America.
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Video: Salsa dancing lessons with my teacher, Nancy, in Antigua. She's awesome at salsa dancing, and totally tones it down so as not to embarrass me.
For now, though, I'm back in the US to visit with some family, attend a meditation retreat in Santa Cruz, and then to head back up to New Hampshire to do some contract work at Creare for a couple of months. It will be great to see my New Hampshire friends again.


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Mister Jalopy is a mediocre welder, a fair shade-tree mechanic, a clumsy designer, and has never touched a piece of wood that he hasn't ruined. A self described "professional amateur," Mister Jalopy made a conscious decision ten years ago to become handy. "People are not born craftsmen," he says, "they just have the courage to screw things up. Embrace your inner amateur and try everything. There will always be an expert to take your money and fix the mistakes."
Formerly a record industry executive (please don't hold it against him), He operates out of his treasure-filled giant-sized workshop in Los Angeles where he restores bicycles, repairs automobiles, makes functional electromechanical sculptures, and runs an eclectic variety of sidelines. When asked to describe what he does, he gave us the following:
Hooptyrides, Editor
Honest cars for liars. My original blog and still the clearinghouse for my epic projects of grand ambition, modest skills and shallow pockets.
Dinosaurs and Robots, Co-Conspirator with Mark Frauenfelder
With the gracious assistance of our kick ass guest bloggers, Mark and I present the most inspiring objects that we find at museums, garage sales and in trash cans.
Coco's Variety, Owner
Imagine a used bicycle store that sells purified water, Mexican hair tonic, oil cloth, new old stock Campagnolo pedals, pocket knives, vintage-style tablecloths that depict California in full tourist splendor, figural erasers from Japan, beach cruisers, cast iron frying pans, fishing tackle boxes, used bicycle parts, pulp novels, old tools, glass 5 gallon water bottles, 1970's road bikes, Lifesavers, WD40, Swatch watches, 1960's dime store trinkets, bicycle tires, porcelain Kewpie dolls, stepper motors, vintage Pyrex and oddball toys from Japan that will make you scratch your head. We sell everything but parakeets.
La Fiesta Lavanderia, Owner
A square deal for a clean wash.
American Maker, Host
I will be in Chicago on September 20, 2008 hosting the new Make Magazine live project. Are you a Chicagoland Maker? Get involved! We want to see your cool stuff!
Make Magazine, Contributing Editor
Even if I were not involved, Make would be my favorite magazine. It is a world changer. Having been in many issues, I am best known for writing the Maker's Bill of Rights article. If you can't open it, you don't own it.
Shared Innovation, Building Blocks of Engagement and the Maker Movement, Speaker
After seeing Saul Griffith's mind blowing talk on the future of energy, I was deeply inspired to redouble my efforts in working with corporations to create collaborators instead of consumers. When companies engage as co-collaborators, they build fierce advocates and create a brand that people care about. Want to join the party? Email me.
Here are some recent articles and interviews with Mister Jalopy:
New York Times, NPR Day-to-Day, AP
Please give a warm welcome to Mister Jalopy!


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It's still a great offer for those of us living outside of the US who don't want to use proxies and stuff.
MonstaMunch: GMG is selling Deus Ex: HR Steam keys for 75% off at $12.49.....
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Edit: Actually, I see you're in the UK. Regardless, it's showing as $29.99 for me.
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text: ONE MORE DAY. Brace yourself, Spidey fans, after this, nothing will be the same for Peter Parker! The stakes have never been higher. At his darkest hours - and he's had plenty - Peter has always had one shoulder to lean on, one person who'd remind him who he is, who he was, and who he can be. Now he's about to lose that person. What would he do...what would you do, if you only had "One More Day?"


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Monday, August 20, 2012
Me, mine. Us, them.
"Huh," I say.
"Yeah, he says. "Taller than anything in SF, San Diego, or even LA."
"Huh," I say. And then an unexpected thing happens: I feel a flash of pride. As if this fact in some way reflects upon me personally, as a denizen of Seattle. As if I had anything to do with it. Which I didn't.
And yet, there it is, the strange little beast, pinging up inside me, poking a little thumb toward its puffed up little chest, wiggling its hips and squeaking: "Yeah, uh huh, we did that! Us! Not them! Fist-bump!"
This, I gather pensively, staring at the tall building, must be what sports fans feel when their teams win: a sort of senseless, tribal delight that has absolutely no connection to anything they have personally accomplished.
We. Us.
Can't argue with how it feels: powerful, compelling, insidious, pervasive -- tribalism. Wikipedia says: "People have postulated that the human brain is hard-wired towards tribalism due to its evolutionary advantages".
Evolutionary advantages. We win.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Could have been so much worse
Signal? Don't be silly.
When this happens there's not much time. You get one reaction, so choose wisely: a defensive move to get your delicate little self out of the way, or using the beep-beep. (It's only a horn if you have an aftermarket add-on. I don't.)
So I swerve left into the shared turn-lane which is, fortunately, unoccupied. Inside my helmet, I yell and swear loudly.
The Oblivious Moron drives forward. Since I'm going that way anyway, I follow, doing what people who've just had a narrow miss with oncoming traffic and the pavement do: I honk and gesture with my best what-the-hell gesture. Not, I hasted to add, the F-you gesture, which doesn't make anyone sorry. Do you really want to pick a fight with someone in a truck when you're on a motorbike in the middle of traffic? No, you do not.
From his side mirror I can tell that Mr. Moron sees me gesturing, but he doesn't look very sorry. So I follow with what I have come to view as the universal reprimand, the gesture that us riders resort to.
The slow, disgusted headshake.
Unmistakable in meaning but not so challenging as the F-you gesture, it is often the only thing that tells people what you really think of their sloppy, life-risking driving.
I wear highly reflective yellow and white protective gear. I stand out, day or night. But when I've just survived some OM's inability to see me, I find myself thinking that the head shake is a pretty weak tool for social change.
Then I remember. Years ago I was a passenger in a sportscar being driven by someone who, usually pretty alert, inadvertently moved into a lane already occupied by a motorcycle, who -- like me -- was forced to move left to avoid us. A minute later the motorcycle pulled up even with us, looked in through the passenger window, and slowly shook his dark, helmeted head.
I still feel bad and I wasn't even driving.
So maybe it works. Or maybe it just works on me.
The bottom line is this: I'm mighty glad that I was in good enough shape after that encounter to be able to shake my head at all. It could have been so much worse.
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Playing on the beach Tilda - Simply Magnolia DT card
16 comments:
- koala said...
Hello Louise, this is super cute !!!
I love it !!! Love your coloring and details !!!
- August 11, 2013 at 11:06 AM
- DianeMoneyGoolsby said...
Louise: Your card is very pretty--super cute image! Thanks for entering our challenge.
Simply Create Too Design Team Member
- August 11, 2013 at 4:18 PM
- Bonnie Irvine said...
Lovely layers on this card. I really like the use of Frantage. It gives such awesome texture and really fits the beach theme. Lovely choice of papers and flower embellishments. beautifully coloured image, too. Thanks for joining our All at Sea challenge this week at Craft Your Passion. I look forward to seeing your next project.
- August 11, 2013 at 4:53 PM
- Danielle Champagne said...
How pretty Louise, such a lovely sketch for a cute tilda image. Love your papers and colors very much, so peaceful. and this frantage is spectacular. Hugs.
- August 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM
- Louise @ Mme Boitatou said...
J'adore l'image!!!J'adore tes petits embellissements de plage, j'adore ta carte au complet!!
- August 11, 2013 at 9:53 PM
- Gale said...
Super cute card. Thanks for playing along with us at Simply Create Too in our Photo Inspiration Challenge. We hope to see again real soon. Hugs, Gale DT
- August 11, 2013 at 10:23 PM
- Jessie L. said...
This is one absolutely gorgeous card! Very dimensional and well balanced. Thanks for joining us this week for our All At Sea challenge at Craft Your Passion! Hope to see you again for our newest challenge this week!
- August 12, 2013 at 7:46 AM
- Unknown said...
This is gorgeous! I love all your details and embellishments!
Thank you for joining the challenge with the Creative Card Crew!
By the way, I have some candy up on my blog ;)
- August 12, 2013 at 8:20 AM
- Angelique said...
Gorgeous. Beautiful image and colouring. Love the flowers.
Thank you for joining us at Creative Card Crew
Huggsss, Angelique
- August 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM
- Kirsty said...
such a lovely fun card! x
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- August 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM
- KraftyKoolKat said...
Really cute and just right for our challenge. Thank you so much for sharing your lovely creation with us at Totally Papercrafts.
Cathy DT
- August 13, 2013 at 6:22 AM
- Carole said...
A gorgeous creation Louise, thank you for sharing with us @ Totally Papercrafts this week.
Happy Crafting
Carole xXx
- August 13, 2013 at 3:35 PM
What a cutie, I love the frantage effect
Hugs julie P
- August 15, 2013 at 3:51 AM
- Gerda said...
What a very pretty card! Love the adorable image! Thanks for joining us at "Simply Create Too", hope to see you next time again.
DT-Member SCT
- August 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM
- Shell said...
Gorjuss, thanks for sharing it with us at Fussy & Fancy this week.
Shell xxx
- August 17, 2013 at 10:27 AM
- Jenn Bedient said...
Such a fabulous card! Love the image and your design. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Creative Card Crew. Hope you have a fabulous day!
- Jenn DT
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- August 18, 2013 at 12:48 PM
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If – like us – you are thrifty, it is good to also be eclectic. Our own homes are a mix of old and new, pulled together with things we've inherited, made, scored at thrift stores, or saved up to buy. It is perhaps not by accident that images of rooms we're most drawn to on the web also have a mix of old and new. None of them could be designated wholly mid-century, antique, country, or really anything other than . . . eclectic. There's always a risk that a room intended to be eclectic will veer toward jumbled mess, so we thought we'd take a critical look to see what makes some of our favorite eclectic rooms work.
As we looked at images and talked it over, we realized that the eclectic spaces we love most are often actually quite unified, but with one disparate element. Something that throws the whole look charmingly off-kilter, and that elevates a room from pretty to stylish.
In this room everything is sweet–the pale pink walls, the sloping ceiling, the rose bedding, the ornate vanity. The addition of a space-age tulip chair gives this pretty princess chamber a much needed edge, and makes it a room we love.
Everything in this entryway calls out to us (including the scruffy dog), but what really makes this room sing is the contrast between the sleek modern lamps and the ornate wallpaper and mirror.
This antique filled room is decorated with beautiful furniture and details, but without the quirky touch of the dome-shaped lamp and the zebra cut-velvet upholstery on the couch, it might feel cloying. The modern touches tip the balance from just another beautiful room to being in our all-time favorite top three best rooms list.
This kitchen is another favorite of ours, but here the balance is achieved by adding a single antique piece to an otherwise modern space. The cabinet makes a room that might skew stark into an interesting room with a story.
This kitchen is a bit more industrial, but like the kitchen above it benefits by the addition of the antique cabinet. The curved ornate lines balance out the linear shapes that dominate the rest of the room.
In this room the painted cabinet might be a little shabby chic for our taste, but paired with the upholstered Danish armchair, it drops the shabby and is completely chic.
This chair wears its history proudly, and next to the modern lipstick-colored table it's reinvented as perfectly now.
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