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Our phones are getting smarter, helping us manage our e-mail and calendars, as well as enabling us to make and receive calls. The latest smart phones come with multiple gigabytes of memory and storage–most of which are probably underutilized for business purposes. For many busy executives, the BlackBerry is by far a more important communication tool than either the desk phone or the computer.
Yet, most of the talk about unified communications–technology that seeks to move voice, e-mail, instant messaging, telepresence and videoconferencing onto a common platform–has focused on a wired environment that includes a desktop PC, a desk phone, and perhaps a laptop and a Wi-Fi network. If we're going to truly unify the means by which employees communicate, we're going to have to bring mobile devices into the fold and think about how to make the cellular network behave as an extension of the enterprise network.
This is sometimes referred to as mobile unified communications (mobile UC), which in turn encompasses a related concept known as fixed mobile convergence. FMC includes a variety of schemes for making a mobile phone act as part of the corporate PBX, meaning that the mobile phone shares an extension and a common voice mailbox with the employee's desk phone. In some cases, it may mean that the desk phone goes away, and the mobile phone becomes the primary device for that phone extension.
FMC may also include the use of dual-band cell phones that can be programmed to take advantage of the corporate Wi-Fi network as an alternative to the cellular network. And there are phones designed specifically to operate in a voice over WLAN environment. Some enterprises may even deploy their own in-building cellular antennas to enhance mobile phone coverage within their walls.
These trends are in their infancy. However, convergence in this area has many dimensions: convergence of wired and wireless infrastructure, convergence of different types of wireless, convergence of voice and data, and so on. So it's possible to tackle the unification of some aspects of the mobile and wireless environment without insisting on an all-encompassing solution.
Still, the reason unified communications has emerged as a top issue for CIOs is that employees (including just about everyone from the CEO on down) are looking for technology tools that make them more productive. They want to get the right information in the most appropriate mode at the right time, without unnecessary redundancy or confusion. That objective is undermined by details such as having multiple phone numbers and voice mailboxes, instead of having them unified.
So mobile UC is a goal CIOs should be working toward. Even if their organizations don't want to risk being an early adopter, CIOs may be able to identify individual technologies that are relatively mature and worth piloting in some departments. It starts with understanding what's most important to your particular organization.


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Stroke Awareness Month: Good Stroke Recovery Care
A stroke is a devastating emergency. It calls for quick medical intervention and professional care, without which the situation could get out of hand. But how do you deal with the situation in the subsequent days or weeks after you or your loved one has suffered a stroke?
Sometimes the recovery process may be slow since different patients respond to treatment in different ways. Although recovery may vary from one patient to another, understanding the recovery timeline and the best stroke recovery care is important. It helps you understand how stroke recovery works under different circumstances. It also helps you know what to expect if your loved one has suffered a stroke.
Recovery After Stroke
After a stroke experience, the first step to recovery is always the initial treatment. You or your loved one will most likely be admitted into emergency care to assess your condition and determine the type and magnitude of your stroke. For instance, if you suffered an ischemic stroke caused by clotting of blood, then the doctors can administer clot-busting medication to mitigate the long-term effects of the condition.
Depending on how severe your condition is, the doctors might suggest a few days in intensive care. Typically, you could be out of danger after around seven days in intensive or specialized care. This is also dependent on whether you received the correct stroke diagnosis and treatment.
As you embark on your journey to recovery, the following are common effects of stroke you might experience and, which could make the idea of going for rehab more important.
- Severe joint pains.
- Numbness or painful sensations.
- Difficulty with chewing and swallowing food.
- Inability to control bladder and bowels.
- Depression
- Speech Problems: You may experience trouble controlling or eloquently expressing your emotions.
- Memory Problems: It's normal to develop problems with thinking, attention, awareness, judgment, and memory lapses after a stroke.
- Paralysis: Paralysis is the inability to move certain parts of the body, such as the neck or arms. You may also experience weakness on one or both sides of your body.
Once you've received the necessary treatment for stroke, rehabilitation is an important phase in stroke recovery. Typically, you should begin rehabilitation as soon as 24 hours after a stroke.
A team of neurologists, psychiatrists, physical therapists, and speech or language pathologists together with their nurses should conduct the rehabilitation treatment. Every hour, for the two to three days, they will administer some form of therapy, assess your condition, monitor your progress, and recommend new treatment options that may be deemed necessary.
Why Rehab is Important for You
The goal of rehabilitation as part of stroke treatment and recovery is to help you improve your physical or cognitive bodily functions. It is aimed at helping you relearn whatever skills you have lost or help with your memory problems.
Typically, you should begin rehabilitation as soon as 24 hours after a stroke.
Overall, rehabilitation enables you to regain and improve your quality of life and go back to your normal independent self. Recovering from a stroke may take time. However, recent studies have shown that early, and effective rehabilitation treatments can significantly speed up recovery. Therefore, knowing this, your stroke rehabilitation journey will most likely begin as soon as your condition has stabilized and continues until the day of your discharge.
Importance of Skilled Nursing Care
Since a stroke is a delicate situation, it calls for professional care to ensure a smooth and successful recovery. Having skilled nurse care for you or your loved one after a stroke may be beneficial in the following ways.
Knowledge And Experience
When dealing with a stroke patient, it's vital to know the impact and normal side effects of stroke. A skilled nurse is better placed to properly prepare for any potential side effects that may arise. The nurse will be able to assist the patient professionally and efficiently.
They will also ensure the patient has the right medication and necessary tools to mitigate the side effects from escalating. Skilled nurses are available to care for the patient at any time, so this can assure you that your loved ones are in safe hands and will get better.
How to Tell if Stroke Recovery Care is Good
After some time in rehab, you might want to be certain that your loved one is receiving proper care and is on the right track to recovery. Here is how to tell if the stroke recovery care is effective and good for your loved one:
- Notable progress after a few weeks of rehabilitation
- Increased independence with daily living activities. For example, the patient might not request assistance to visit the toilet after some time in rehab
- Ability to cross legs within the first few weeks of rehab care
- Improved quality sleep and increased appetite
- Improved emotions and reduced signs of depression
Benefits of the AlterG! Anti-Gravity Treadmill™ in Rehab
Anti Gravity treadmill, otherwise known as the AlterG®, is new equipment designed for everyone recovering from a stroke or surgery. It helps improve the body's natural mechanics, among other benefits. The benefits of an Alter G machine in rehab for stroke treatment include:
- A minimum of three hours a day of uninterrupted rehab with psychiatrist services and physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
- 24-hour access to nurses and doctors. This ensures quick medical response in case of emergencies.
- An inpatient rehab facility can be within a large health facility. This proximity ensures unlimited access to any medical service.
Why Skilled Nursing is the Best Option for Stroke Recovery
In certain circumstances, skilled nurses can be a better option for you or your loved one who's recovering from a stroke. Here's why.
- Caring for a stroke survivor can be emotionally draining, time-consuming, and mostly need specialized care.
- A skilled nurse can effectively take the worry and burden off your hands as you focus on other important areas of life.
- Nurses have professional skills to detect potential future outcomes and risks and prepare for them accordingly.
- Skilled nurses can effectively monitor and measure their progress to tell if they are on the right recovery path.
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We understand that all users of our site are quite rightly concerned to know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not fall into the hands of a third party. Our policy is both specific and strict. If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do please tell us.
We do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at this site. If this policy should change in the future then we shall provide notification in advance and the opportunity for all users to indicate whether or not they would prefer that we do not provide the information to third parties as proposed.
Here is a list of the information we collect, and why it is necessary to collect it:
such as your name and contact details. This information is used:
1.1 to provide you with the services which you request;
1.2 to maintain our accounts;
1.3 for billing;
1.4 to enable us to answer your enquiries;
1.5 for verifying your identity for security purposes;
1.6 for marketing our services and products;
1.7 to help make our web site as useful to you as possible;
1.8 information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service.
are recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded. This information is used:
2.1 in a collective way not referable to any particular individual, for the purpose of quality control and improvement of our site;
2.2 to send you news about the services to which you have signed up;
2.3 to tell you about other of our services.
for a particular purpose, for example a personal profile, survey, job application form, or contest. This information will be used exclusively for the purpose for which you have provided it. Information is disclosed to third parties only where the third party concerned qualifies in whatever way the web site page requires. We will make absolutely clear on the face of the page, any intention to publicise the name of a winner.
This is information given to us in the course of your business and ours as you have applied to join our affiliate scheme. Such information is retained for business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship.
This information is used:
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4.2 for billing;
4.3 to enable us to answer your enquiries;
4.4 for verifying your identity for security purposes;
4.5 to send you news about the services to which you have signed up;
4.6 to tell you about other of our services.
This is information given to us in the course of your business and ours, such as in relation to your application to partner with us or advertise with us. Such information is retained for business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship. It is not used for any other purpose. We expect you and any partner to reciprocate this policy.
and their agencies. We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
At any time you may review or update the personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by contacting us. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.


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Who is Connected Sound?
Connected Sound was founded by a team in the Los Angeles area that is passionate about Barbershop music in general and Sweet Adelines in particular. There is clearly a great need in this community for affordable websites and related marketing materials. Harnessing some great technology, we have put together a comprehensive system that is fabulously easy, and super-affordable.
Which costs are recurring, and which costs are one-time setup fees?
All costs for our features and services are one-time setup fees, with the exception of monthly hosting ($29.99 per month) and Community Builder ($5 per month).
Is there a yearly contract involved?
Hosting is paid monthly, so you are not locked into a year-long contract. Please see our Terms and Conditions for more information.
If we don't order a business card or Community Builder or any other feature at the time of purchase, can we order later?
Yes, every feature that we offer can be purchased at any time. However, because it is much easier for us to install those features at startup time, we offer steep discounts if you order those features with your website.
How much space do we get?
We have a flexible limit of about 1 GB of storage space per website. To conserve space on your site, we recommend that you upload most video files to a video storage website like YouTube. You can still embed the video in your web pages, while the file is saved elsewhere.
How do we get our initial content onto our site?
We will get you started with a ready-made menu and set of relevant pages populated with sample text and pictures, which you can rewrite to suit your needs. Your site will have an Under Construction message on the home page until you are ready to officially launch your site. This gives you a chance to shape the content of each page to your satisfaction without the public seeing your unfinished work.
Can we add and remove pages?
Absolutely. We give you a Page Management tool that makes adding, deleting, moving, publishing, and unpublishing of pages all point-and-click easy. You have complete control over which pages are visible or hidden from public view, you can add as many pages as you wish, and you can rearrange the order of links in your menu all from your Page Manager.
Editing content on a website sounds difficult and scary. Can we get assistance?
First of all, editing the content on your website is as easy as editing the content of any word processing document. If you can type, and click save, then you can edit your site! But just to be sure, when you login to your website, you will find a wealth of a easy tutorials, video tutorials, and other material that will help you with most issues. Of course, if you have any difficulties that you are unable to sort out after consulting the help material, you can absolutely e-mail us, and we will respond to your issue usually same day.
Can we request changes to the color scheme?
Yes. A comment box is provided at the last step of the selection process, where you may request color changes to background, foreground, and text colors.
How flexible is the design process?
While we cannot make structural changes to the design (as that would require changes to the code that renders the layout in web browsers), based on your feedback we can create a unique look that reflects the essence of your church.
We have a logo for our website. Can that be worked into our design?
Yes. When you choose your design we'll ask if you have a logo you want incorporated into the header of your site. If you have a high-resolution copy of your logo, preferably on a transparent background, that is ideal. But we can work with any format.
If at some point we want to change the picture that appears in our header, can we do that?
Yes. We offer a "Swap our Header Picture" service wherein you may request changes to your header - such as replacing a photo, changing your name, etc. The first swap is FREE, while subsequent swaps cost $10.
If at some later point we decide we want to change our web design, can we do that?
Yes you can. You have the ability at any time to swap to a completely new design. One of the great things about our system is that you can change your design, all the content that you have developed on your site, including text, images, and navigation structure, remains untouched and perfectly in place.
We have our own design that we like. Can we give you that design and still use your system?
All of our designs are tightly integrated into our editing system. This is what makes our system so easy and so affordable, and it also means that we can only offer our own designs. However, as you look through the Design Gallery, you will find that all designs offered by Connected Sound are of the highest quality, and will give you a completely professional and unique look.
Will you be adding more designs?
Yes. We are continually expanding our design gallery.
Community Builder
How does Community Builder work, do I have to do anything special?
Community Builder provides you with an amazing set of tools, that don't interfere with anything until you're ready to use them.
For example, your Members Only area will be there for you, but exactly when to have your folks (staff, depending on how you want to make use of it) start signing up is totally up to you. Similarly, with the Podcast player, all the functionality is there for you to use as you get your site going. But you can bring them onboard gradually as you choose.
All the functions in Community Builder are incredibly easy to manage. As daunting as some of the ideas may sound, the fact is we designed everything for the non-techie person. Almost all of our chorus have office people (NOT trained tech people!) managing everything.
What if we only want one of the features offered in Community Builder?
At this time we only offer the full package. But you will find if you're using one of the tools, almost invariably you will start to use the other functions as well.
We know nothing whatsoever about Social Networking, how much do you help with that?
If that's true, you've come to the right place! Even if that's NOT true -- i.e. you have an established facebook and twitter presence -- we work with you to get just the right communication between the various media and your website. But if you haven't yet ventured into it, or are just under way, we will set up everything for you, Facebook page et al., and connect it to your site for you. Then we explain fully in a number of video tutorials that you'll have access to, how to use this powerful new medium, not only to bring fresh new faces into your chorus, but also to connect those already there in new ways.
On the Podcast Player, do we upload the audio to the site? And if so, is there a limit as to number and length of the audio?
If you can get an mp3 file of the latest chorus on to one of your computers, you're a few clicks from having it online for the world to hear. The management and deployment of podcasts is point-and-click easy, and you have a choice of podcast players. You have room for up to 50 hours of audio on your site.
Can we have multiple people be bloggers?
You sure can. There is a member setting that you can elevate any member to, which gives them blogging privileges. The place where you add a new entry has a very simple interface, and archiving of older articles is done automatically.
Chorus Store
What is CafePress?
CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products. When you order a CafePress store, Connected Sound sets up your account, creates the artwork to be printed on your merchandise, and builds the interactive catalog into the Store page of your website. Actual transactions, printing, and shipping are handled by CafePress. Learn more at www.cafepress.com..
When you say that we can sell CafePress products "from a page on our site," how does that work exactly?
Our storefront programming finds your catalog at CafePress.com and channels the items into the Store page on your website. Users can browse your products without ever leaving your site. Only when they are ready to purchase, will they be taken to CafePress.com to finish the transaction..
How does pricing of products work?
CafePress has set base prices for all their products. You can set the price of any given product to any amount greater than that base price. So for example, if there is a T-shirt that has a base price of $11, and you set the price to be $25, you will make $14 on every sale of that product..
How do we get our money?
Periodically CafePress will send you a check with the proceeds from the sales of products. Because they offer a full 30-day money back guarantee for their customers, you will typically receive a payment for an item about 45 days after it was sold..
Are you saying that without doing anything, we could be raising money for our group?
Well, you do need to attract visitors to your website, and encourage your family, friends, and fans to buy products. But yes, this has the potential to be a phenomenal fundraiser for your chorus or Quartet..
If we already have a CafePress store, may we use that?
Absolutely. When you sign up for the service, we will give you an option to send us your store URL. The setup cost remains the same, as we still need to integrate your catalog into your site..
If you set up our store, will we have access to it?
Not only will you have access to it, but you will own it, and be able to log in to CafePress.com and manage it in any way you wish..
Do we manage our products from our Connected Sound website?
All management of your store takes place at CafePress.com. Your actual store web address will be www.cafepress.com/YourStoreName. To manage your products, you will go to that address, login (we will send you your username and password), and use their management tools to get your products just right..
Can we upload our own images to add to the ones you've created?
Yes. CafePress offers a reasonably easy interface to upload as many images as you would like and place them on any product you wish..
Do you have any tutorials on how to manage products in our CafePress store?
Yes we do. When you order the Connected Sound store package, we will provide our own online resources and tips to help you understand how to manage your store..
Will product changes that we make on our store be reflected automatically on our website?
Yes, any product additions are subtractions, new images that you may upload, or any price or description changes, will be automatically reflected on the CafePress page on your site.
Business Cards
Can we get reprints of our business cards and when our first batch runs out?
Absolutely. We keep your business card design on file as long as you remain with us, and at any time can send you another batch at a discounted price. See our pricing page for details.
Can we get different business cards for multiple members of our group?
At this time we only offer one card design per client. We find that this is more than adequate, as groups generally tend to want to have a single point of contact anyway. If we hear from the community that multiple business cards per group would be helpful, we may at some point offer that service.
Can I use your designs and print them myself?
We have a very streamlined and integrated system that enables us to give you a very affordable business card that also looks great. We do not at this time offer access to the raw design files.
Do you use a good printer?
While developing the service we sent the same business card to a number of the top online printers available. We found one print shop, which turned out to be very local to us, who beat everybody on turnaround time and quality of final product. They're not just good, they are excellent.
What if we're not happy with the print?
Before your card is sent to the printer we will get a proof to you for final approval of the text. In the extremely unlikely event that upon receipt there is anything amiss with your cards, we will of course rush a replacement set to you free of charge.
Meet Connected Sound
Connected Sound is based in Burbank, CA, in the greater Los Angeles area. Here are a few of the faces that make up our dynamic and dedicated team. We emphasize the personal touch with our choruses, so you will undoubtedly get to know some of these people as you develop your site.


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UK Development Studies Courses
Introduction to Development Studies
Development Studies is a branch of social science which examines issues related to developing countries, especially concerning social and economic development. Peace studies and conflict resolution both aim to identify and analyse the violent and non-violent behaviour that causes social conflict with a view towards creating a more stable world society.
Development Studies involves the study of anthropology, globalisation, economics, environment and international development, while Peace Studies looks at international politics, arms control and proliferation, human rights, politics of the global environment, democracy, religion and politics.
Graduate Development Studies Careers
Development Studies graduates will find employment in non-governmental organisations, charitable institutions, local or international government, research, teaching and advisory organisations. These careers can entail extensive travel, providing you with the opportunity to devise strategies for raising the condition of developing countries and working towards world peace.
Development Studies UK Entry Requirements
- Typical International Baccalaureate requirements: 34 points.
- Typical A-levels requirements: AAB.
- Typical IELTS requirements: 6.5 overall, with no lower than 6.0 in any one component.
Please note that entry requirements vary for each UK university.
Where can I study Development Studies in the UK?
To learn more about the best Development Studies courses in the UK, find details on the top ten ranking Development Studies universities in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021 below:
- University of Sussex
- University of Oxford
- London School of Economics
- SOAS, University of London
- University of Cambridge
- University of East Anglia
- University of Manchester
- University of Edinburgh
- King's College London
- University of Leeds
Study Development Studies in the UK
If you are interested in applying for a Development Studies course in the UK, arrange your free consultation with SI-UK today.


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# And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you."
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by. #
The famous song Dooley Wilson sang in Casablanca may have got it wrong. For the age-old romantic story of "Boy meets girl" has surely become an awful lot more complicated now the internet has come along.
At least, that's what male computer users in Singapore are discovering.
We've warned readers before about some of the dangers involved in finding love online. Such as the true story of the Facebook blind date that turned into a supermarket robbery.
Now, people are being warned about another risk of finding love in the online world – webcam extortion.
But it's not the familiar headline of perverted hackers blackmailing young women into stripping in front of the camera.
This time the tables have turned, and it's *men* who are being victimised by *women*, in a peculiar twist on traditional webcam extortion.
Singapore's Police Force has warned of femme fatales befriending potential victims on sites such as Facebook and Tagged.com.
The women enter steamy webcam conversations with their prey, where they strip and encourage their male victim to do the same.
What the man doesn't realise, as he feverishly rips his clothes off and agrees to engage in various sexual acts in front of the camera, is that his female love interest is secretly recording everything that's going on.
The male victim is then blackmailed for money by the woman who threatens to circulate the compromising photographs and videos.
Ouch! That must put a dampener on the evening.
Here is a video of a Singapore TV programme which reconstructed just this kind of crime. (Warning: The acting is a bit cringeworthy)
The Singapore Police Force says it has seen a five-fold increase in the number of reported cases of such web extortion – over 50 in 2012, compared to 11 the previous year.
Here is a summary of their tips to avoid you becoming the next man to be duped in such a fashion:
- Always be wary of strangers befriending you on social networks. If they're suddenly showing a romantic interest in you, ask yourself honestly if it's likely that they've selected you for online love out of the billions of other internet users.
- Never put yourself into a compromising position on your webcam. In short, keep your clothes on.. as you can't be sure if the person at the other end isn't making a video recording. At the same time, you shouldn't give away too much personal information to someone you don't really know.
- If anyone does ever attempt to extort money from you online, don't pay them. Contact the police instead. You may be embarrassed about the mess you have got yourself into, but the authorities are the right ones to investigate and (hopefully) bring the culprit to justice.
The threat doesn't just lie with webcam blackmail either. You can imagine how a man, believing he is being seduced online by a sexy woman, might be all too eager to click on a link she suggests or run a malicious program on his computer. Before he knows it, his computer could be under the control of a hacker.
Be careful out there, and keep your trousers on chaps.
Webcam and female silhouette image from Shutterstock.


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US retail sales are expected to rise 0.4% in tomorrow's March report vs. the previous month, according to The Capital Spectator's median econometric forecast. The prediction represents a slightly faster rate of growth over the previously reported 0.3% gain for February. Meanwhile, the Capital Spectator's median projection for March is well below three consensus estimates based on recent surveys of economists.
Here's a closer look at the numbers, followed by brief definitions of the methodologies behind The Capital Spectator's projections:
R-2: A linear regression model that analyzes two data series in context with retail sales: an index of weekly hours worked for production/nonsupervisory employees in private industries and the stock market (S&P 500). The historical relationship between the variables is applied to the more recently updated data to project retail sales. The computations are run in R.
ARIMA: An autoregressive integrated moving average model that analyzes the historical record of retail sales in R via the "forecast" package.
ES: An exponential smoothing model that analyzes the historical record of retail sales in R via the "forecast" package.
VAR-6: A vector autoregression model that analyzes six time series in context with retail sales. The six additional series: US private payrolls, industrial production, index of weekly hours worked for production/nonsupervisory employees in private industries, the stock market (S&P 500), disposable personal income, and personal consumption expenditures. The forecasts are calculated in R with the "vars" package.
TRI: A model that's based on combining point forecasts, along with the upper and lower prediction intervals (at the 95% confidence level), via a technique known as triangular distributions. The basic procedure: 1) run a Monte Carlo simulation on the combined forecasts and generate 1 million data points on each forecast series to estimate a triangular distribution; 2) take random samples from each of the simulated data sets and use the expected value with the highest frequency as the prediction. The forecast combinations are drawn from the following projections: Econoday.com's consensus forecast data and the predictions generated by the models above. The forecasts are run in R with the "triangle" package.


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AVM Content
File formats supported by the media server
The FRITZ!Box Media Server can transmit music, image, and video files as well as internet radio stations and podcasts in different file formats (such as audio, video, and container format) to playback devices or software in the home network. This way you can access a central media collection from all computers and many other devices in the FRITZ!Box home network such as televisions, smartphones, and wireless music systems.
Note:Not every playback device or software can play all file formats. Refer to the manufacturer for information on which file formats are supported, for example consult the manual.
FRITZ!Fon can play music files in MP3 and WAV file format as well as web radio stations and podcasts in M3U, MP3 and PLS format.
The FRITZ!Box media server supports the following file formats:
Important:If the FRITZ!Box cannot interpret the TAG information of a particular media file (marked with an asterisk in the table), then the playback device or software only displays it in the view "Folder" and "All tracks", "All videos" or "All images" (depending on the file type).
Type | File format | |
Images | BMP*, GIF*, JPEG, PNG, TIF* | |
Videos | 3GP*, ASF, AVI* (including Divx3/4/5/6 und Xvid), DVR-MS*, Flash*, M1V*, M4V*, MJPEG*, MKV*, MP4*, MPE*, MPEG1*, MPEG2*, MPEG2-TS*, MPEG4* (including H.264), MTS*, M2TS*, OGM*, Quicktime MOV*, Real Video*, VDR*, VOB*, WMV | |
Music | 3GP*, AAC*, AC3*, AIF*, ASF, FLAC*, Karaoke CDG/BIN*, LPCM*, M4A*, MKA*, Monkey Audio* (APE), MPA*, MP1*, MP2*, MP3, Musepack Audio* (MPC), Ogg Vorbis*, Real Audio*, WAV*, Wavpack*, WMA | |
Playlists | M3U, PLS, WPL | |
Internet radio stations | M3U, MP3, PLS | |
Podcasts | M3U, MP3, PLS | |
Table: Supported file formats | * The media server cannot interpret tag information for this type of media file. |


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Even SuperHeroes Get Diabetes
Kelvin loves all things "Superhero". His days are spent battling imaginary villains and disasters. One day his fantasy world is shattered by the reality of getting diabetes. A mysterious doctor discovers that Kelvin has superpowers. The boy becomes 'Super K', and the story reveals a new superhero who uses his superpowers to help children with diabetes. This book empowers kids to find their own superpowers in the face of illness or adversity.


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I just did what no startup founder is ever supposed to do.
I gave up.
It wasn't even one of those glorious "fail fast and fail forward" learning experiences. After seven months of hard work and two weeks before we were to start fundraising, we had a good team, glowing praise from beta users, and over $250k in handshake commitments. But I pulled the plug.
My team and most of my investors are pissed, but I'm sure I did the right thing. At least I think I'm sure.
The business had what I considered to be an unfixable flaw. My investors and my team wanted us to take the funding and figure out how to fix the problem before the money ran out. I've started four companies in the past with a mixture of exits and bankruptcies, so I understand that this is what startups are supposed to do, but I just couldn't do it this time.
This article is in part my explanation to the various stakeholders, in part self-therapy, and in part a call to other founders and investors to let me know what they would have done in my situation.
I began work on ContractBeast, a SaaS-based contract lifecycle management offering, last October. Unless you've worked in big IT, you've probably never heard of Contract Lifecycle Management or CLM. In brief, CLM covers the authoring, negotiation, execution and storage of both physical and digital contracts with strict access control. It also does things like let you know what contracts are about to expire or automatically renew, and who is responsible for those deals.
CLM is a highly fractured, $7.6 billion global market with over 80 established companies fighting for market share— and that's not counting the dozens of e-signature startups that have popped up in recent years. Almost all of these companies are clustered in the enterprise space, where sales-cycles are long and top-down, and where revenues are driven by consulting and customization.
It's a big market begging for disruption. The mid-market of SMBs is grossly underserved and the enterprise market is grossly overpriced. ContractBeast was going to deliver a low-cost SaaS product with no consulting required. We would focus on the mid-market first, and then work our way up to the enterprise.
Building the Beast
Our target users responded positively to the mock-ups, and many excitedly asked when they could start using it. I was on the right track. I spent the next few months working evenings and weekends developing an MVP and getting feedback on features as they were implemented.
I left my job in January so I could work on ContractBeast 70+ hours a week. The rest of the team kept their day jobs. That was fine. It made my final decision easier.
We started private beta in early March, and things looked solid. About 35% of our users continued to use the system at least three times per week after completing registration. The UI needed work, but our users raved about how ContractBeast would save them time and worry in the future.
The team was excited. Our potential investors were excited.
But something was wrong. It seemed trivial at first, but it bothered me. Despite glowing praise, our users were only using ContractBeast to create a small percentage of their total new contracts.
I spent the next two weeks visiting our beta users, looking over their shoulders as they worked, and listening to them explain how they planned on using the product. Pressing them directly on why they were not using ContractBeast to create all their contracts resulted in a lot of feature requests.
Now, talking with customers about features is tricky. Often you receive solid and useful ideas. Occasionally a customer will provide an insight that will change the way you look at your product. But most of the time, customers don't really want the the features they are asking for. At least not very badly.
When users are unhappy but can't explain exactly why, they often express that dissatisfaction as a series of tangential, trivial feature requests. We received a lot of ideas like integrating alerts with various messaging platforms, using AI to analyze contract content, and building more sophisticated search features. These aren't necessarily bad ideas, but they had nothing to do with why they were not using ContractBeast more extensively.
I might write another article on how to tell these tangential feature requests from useful feature requests. Your customers mean well, but implementing these kinds of features will not make your users any happier in the short term. In any event, I was overwhelmingly getting these kinds of tangential, trivial feature requests.
I couldn't sleep. My users told me they loved the product, and that they planned to use it extensively. But weren't really using it much, and I had no idea why.
Sipping decaf coffee at 5:00 AM on a cool May morning, I was re-reading forty pages of notes, user feedback, and profanity. The fatal flaw jumped out at me. ContractBeast provided huge gains in accuracy and efficiency, but those gains came after months of use. It didn't provide a significant immediate benefit.
I was fighting human nature and losing.
Everyone swears they will eat right and exercise, but most don't. Everyone agrees they need to spend less to be financially secure later, but most won't. Our users were telling us they would use ContractBeast to achieve those long-term benefits, but most weren't.
When I looked at the contracts the users were creating, I found most of them were ones in which a particular feature provided a clear and immediate benefit. Usually involving contract review and approval.
Human nature sucks.
Saving the Beast
There were two solutions to this dilemma, we could either change the go-to-market strategy or change the product.
Changing the go-to-market to a top-down, consultative sales approach rather than individual adoption and self-service was an obvious fix. While individuals will rarely make a short-term change to achieve a long-term goal, CIOs have no problem directing employees to do so. It's a big part of their job.
Unfortunately, top-down sales is much more expensive than content marketing and SEO. Running the numbers convinced me that we would have to raise prices to a point that would push us out of the mid-market and into competition with more established, better funded firms. Since we lacked an overwhelming advantage in this market segment, this was a non-starter.
That left us with the option of finding a way to delight our customers in the short term. We started searching for something that would provide that instant gratification. Almost no SMB views contract management as an urgent problem. Unless we found a way to get people actively using ContractBeast during the free trial, converting them to paying users would be difficult.
We reviewed all of the feature requests we received from our users. Some of them were excellent, but none addressed the problem of providing a significant, consistent and immediate benefit. It would have been pointless to implement them.
Weeks of brainstorming and dozens of hypotheses later, we had nothing. Not a single, plausible way of providing our users with the instant gratification their cerebella so desperately crave.
With no clear path forward, investors ready to wire funds, and the team ready to quit their day jobs, I decided to pull the plug.
Killing The Beast
The team and some of the investors insisted the smart move was to take the funding and pivot our way into solving these problems before the money ran out. That's the way the game is supposed to be played, and I fully understand why other stakeholders are upset that I am simply taking my ball and going home.
Perhaps we would have figured it out before we ran out of funds, but weeks of brainstorming had not produced a single plausible approach. It would have been different if we had been debating which plan among several to implement or how to shore up specific weaknesses, but we had nothing.
I am not particularly risk-averse, but I pay attention to risk and reward. As an investor, I probably would have told me to take the money and try to make it work. But the risk-reward equation for investors is different than it is for founders.
I was deciding whether this venture was worth committing to another year of 70+ hour weeks. I need a higher level of certainty than investors do because my time is more valuable to me than their money is to them. Investors place bets in a portfolio of companies, but I only have one life.
Eulogy for the Beast
Over the past few weeks the initial shock has worn off, and the other stakeholders have come around. While still a bit disappointed, everyone now agrees that shutting down was the right call.
I also feel a bit better about my decision than I did when I started this article. I'm not sure if you've ever been in this kind of situation, but if you have I'd love to hear how you handled it.
Cutting your losses is easy to understand intellectually, but gut-wrenchingly difficult to do in practice.
But sometimes it's best to leave the money on the table.
About the Author
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Earth generates its own solar wind
Earthly source Scientists have discovered that Earth produces its own version of the solar wind - a finding that confirms a 20-year-old theory.
The study in the European Geosciences Union journal Annales Geophysicae, has found a 'plasmaspheric wind' of ionised particles flowing from inside Earth's atmosphere into the outer magnetosphere.
In 1992, researchers predicted the existence of a wind caused by an imbalance between the various forces which govern plasma motion. But this is the first actual direct detection of such a wind.
"It was definitely one of the nicest surprises I've ever had," says the study's author, Dr Iannis Dandouras of the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France.
Dandouras identified the newly discovered wind in data collected by the European Space Agency Cluster mission which was launched in the year 2000.
Cluster is a constellation of four satellites flying in formation and studying the interaction between Earth's magnetosphere, and the Sun's solar wind.
The magnetosphere is generated by Earth's magnetic field, forming a bubble and helping shield the planet from solar wind radiation.
Dandouras found plasmaspheric winds are continuously flowing from the upper atmosphere into the magnetosphere.
In the process, they migrate through the plasmasphere, an equatorial doughnut-shaped reservoir of cold, dense, charged particles which encircles the Earth inside the magnetosphere.
Dandouras estimates the winds are pushing almost 90 tonnes of plasma daily at speeds of over 5000 kilometres per hour.
According to Dandouras, plasmaspheric wind material plays a crucial role in governing the dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts, which effect satellites and astronauts travelling through them.
He says similar winds should exist on other planets and bodies that rotate quickly, and have both an atmosphere and magnetic field.
Furthering knowledge
Discovery of the plasmaspheric wind helps us understand how the Earth's magnetic field interacts with the solar wind, says Dr David Neudegg from the Bureau of Meteorology's Ionospheric Prediction Service, which monitors space weather.
"[The discovery] shows how interconnected different layers of the atmosphere are in protecting Earth from solar wind," says Neudegg.
"It demonstrates how particles can travel from the ionosphere into the plasmasphere, and this wind they've just discovered and measured, takes it further out."
Neudegg, who was involved in the early phase of the Cluster program, says it's good to see another result coming from the mission.
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Star-filled galaxies like the Milky Way are not just randomly scattered across the Universe, they are found in groups or clusters. For example, our Galaxy is a member of the Local Group along with around 30 other galaxies. Galaxy clusters are simply much larger versions of groups.
If you imagine that galaxy groups are like towns, clusters are cities and galaxy superclusters are the countries that these towns and cities lie within.
But the story doesn't end there. All of the galaxy superclusters in the Universe form what we call the 'cosmic web'.
An artist created this picture to show a section of the cosmic web. Like a spider web, you can see that it has a delicate lace-like pattern that criss-crosses over the entire cosmos, where each dot is a galaxy like our Milky Way.
A new study of the cosmic web has revealed secrets about its role in the history of the Universe. A long time ago, when the Universe was just half its current age, galaxies caught in the cosmic web began to speed through their lives much faster than those found elsewhere.
Astronomers think this happened because of peer-pressure from near by galaxies. Galaxies clustered along the arms of the cosmic web would interact in ways that caused them to use up their gas to make new stars and rushed them towards the end of their lives!
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If the Milky Way galaxy was a sesame seed, then the cosmic web of the observable universe would be the size of Great Pyramid of Giza.


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Benefits of Baby Wearing
Have you heard of the term "baby wearing"? Have you wondered exactly what it is all about? I remember when I first heard the term and I wondered myself, "um, ok". Well after some research, it turns out it is a very beneficial thing to do for the new mom. Don't be afraid to do it. Here are some reasons to begin your "baby wearing" experience with that beautiful new baby of yours.
It's Convenient
When you have your baby strapped to you it makes life a little bit easier. It frees your hands to do other things. For example, doing the dishes or folding laundry. Maybe you work from home and need to type. If you are out and about and need to do some errands you can put your baby in the carrier and actually push the shopping cart or hold your basket at the farmers market. More and more baby carriers also double as a blanket, nursing cover or even a changing pad. This definitely lightens the load and allows you to remain productive even when you have a newborn.
When you have your child so close to your skin all the time this helps to promote breastfeeding. In some cases, which a few of the carriers I have seen you can even feed your baby in private while walking around. This is awesome, live your life and your baby is content also.
Cognitive Development
Babies are extremely observant. When they are worn up right, they are right in the action and it keeps their wheels turning. It allows them to witness everything you do throughout your day. Whether you are cooking, folding laundry, taking a walk, or grocery shopping, your baby is constantly in observing mode and soaking it all in. Babies who are worn are also being constantly talked to by their parent or guardian versus a baby who is pushed around in a stroller and in front of the parent. This allows you to have more interaction with your child and in return creating a stronger bond. All of this encourages learning and brain stimulation in your baby.
You might be experiencing all kinds of new feelings after you have your baby. There are several things that are probably on your mind one of them being getting back into shape. When you utilize baby wearing you are able to get those daily exercise workouts in. Wearing your baby will distribute their weight a little more evenly, allow you to go in places where you can not take a stroller, and even enable you to boost up your workout and burn more calories.
Some new moms even experience postpartum depression. When you are wearing your body it allows for you to get in those extra little snuggles and kisses that will help you to beat the depression. This allows you to bond even more with your baby without feeling burdened with life's day to day tasks.
The benefits are endless, and here we have only named a few. So put that baby carrier on your registry, and begin your baby wearing. It's all worth it!
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According to the structure and working principle of the screening machinery, it can be roughly divided into the following categories: (1) Fixed Screen Working part is fixed, the material screening relys on the sliding movement along the working face. More fixed grid screen is a kind of screen that applicated in the concentrator. Which is used for the coarse crushing or medium crushing in the pre-screening. It is simple in structure, convenient manufacture, does not consume power, we can unload the directamente ore to the screening surface. The main disadvantage are the followings: the productivity is low, the screening efficiency is low, which is generally only 50-60%. (2) Roller Screen The working face is constituted by the horizontally arranged rolling shaft, there are plates on the rolling shaft, the fine materials are obtained through the gap between rollers or plates. the bulk materials are driven by the roller to one end and finally discharged from the other end.
The concentrator rarely use this sieve. (3) the cylindrical sieve The working portion is the cylindrical shape. the entire sieve rotate around the axis of the cylinder, in the general case, the cylinder inclination axis is usually not very large. Fed into the material from one end of the cylinder, the finer level materials adopted by the screening of the working surface, coarse-coarse-grained materials cylindrical hole are discharged from the other end of the cylinder. The rotational speed of the cylindrical screen is very low, works smooth, power balance is good.
But the sieve is easy to plug, screening efficiency is low, and the work area is small, productivity is low. The concentrator rarely use it to make the screening equipment. (4) plane motion The sieve body wobbles or vibrates in-plane. According to their their plane motion trajectory, it is divided into linear motion, circular motion, elliptical motion and complex motion. Shaking and vibrating screen sieve (different from the vibrating grizzly feeder) fall into this category. Shaking screen crank linkage as transmission parts. Engine drives the eccentric shaft via a belt and pulley rotation, so the body do the reciprocating movement along a certain direction through the connecting rod. The movement direction Perpendicular to the strut or suspended rod line, duo to the the oscillating motion, the materials on the screening face move towards the discharge mouth at a certain speed, at the same time, the materials get screening. Compared with the above sieves, the shaking screen has the advantages of higher productivity and high screening efficiency. The disadvantage is that the poorly balanced driving force. Concentrator rarely use it nowdays, but replaced by the vibrating sieve whose structure is more reasonable. original link: Primary jaw crusher: Vibrating screen:


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John Perry Barlow (1947-2018), a poet and Internet philosopher, was a cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a member of our Board of Directors from 1990 until his death. Barlow's passion for life, liberty, and human connection brought him in contact with a staggering range of people and made him an inspiration all around the world—and to us. In his work as an Internet activist, he made us all think about what computer networks might be and to approach the digital future with hope.
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It is no exaggeration to say that major parts of the Internet we all know and love today exist and thrive because of Barlow's vision and leadership. He always saw the Internet as a fundamental place of freedom, where voices long silenced can find an audience and people can connect with others regardless of physical distance. He was among the first to note that: "the difficulty of enforcing existing copyright and patent laws is already placing in peril the ultimate source of intellectual property - the free exchange of ideas." and that "[T]he greatest constraint on your future liberties may come not from government but from corporate legal departments laboring to protect by force what can no longer be protected by practical efficiency or general social consent."
Barlow was sometimes held up as a straw man for a kind of naive techno-utopianism that believed that the Internet could solve all of humanity's problems without causing any more. Nothing could be further from the truth. Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter: "I knew it's also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls 'turn-key totalitarianism.'"
Barlow's lasting legacy is that he devoted his life to making the Internet into "a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth . . . a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity."
Here, we collect a portion of his writings and documents about him. There is much ageless wisdom here, as well as commentary that is based firmly in the first legal and moral issues facing the nascent Internet. Enjoy.
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These Models Probably Never Thought They'd Be Shooting Fashion Photos With Whale Sharks
A journalist and a photographer juxtaposed beautiful women with whale sharks in order to raise awareness about the species' plight
Those who love nature know that it's sometimes challenging to inspire others to care. In an effort to raise awareness about whale sharks, cinematographer and conservation journalist Shawn Heinrichs brainstormed a new tactic. He teamed up with fashion and nature photographer Kristian Schmidt and juxtaposed beautiful women—who people never lose interest in—with the sea's biggest shark, creating a striking, ethereal portfolio of underwater images.
"Recognizing that people only protect what they care about, we hatched a plan that would combine my underwater and marine life photography expertise with Kristian's mastery of creative fashion photography," Heinrichs writes on his website, Blue Sphere Media. Their team included a dive specialist and models experienced working underwater. "Our goal was to introduce a much larger global community to the beauty and wonder of these gentle and vulnerable creatures," he said in an email.
In the Philippines, for example, whale shark populations were decimated throughout the 1980s and 90s in order to collect their valuable fins for the Asian shark fin trade. Poaching in the area still continues, though it is done in secret and no one knows the full extent of the killings. Occasionally, a whale shark carcass washes up on the shores of local villages, stripped of its fins and pushed overboard while still alive. "What about all the other ones they didn't find because sharks don't float?" Heinrichs wonders.
In addition to producing the high fashion images, Heinrichs also produces this video, documenting local Philippine communities that seek to protect their natural heritage:
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Earlier this summer, a paper published in the journal Nature captured headlines with a rather bleak forecast. Our chances of keeping global warming below the 2C danger threshold are very, very small: only about 5%. The reason, according to the paper's authors, is that the cuts we're making to greenhouse gas emissions are being cancelled out by economic growth.
In the coming decades, we'll be able to reduce the carbon intensity of the global economy by about 1.9% per year, if we make heavy investments in clean energy and efficient technology. That's a lot. But as long as the economy keeps growing by more than that, total emissions are still going to rise. Right now we're ratcheting up global GDP by 3% per year, which means we're headed for trouble.
If we want to have any hope of averting catastrophe, we're going to have to do something about our addiction to growth. This is tricky, because GDP growth is the main policy objective of virtually every government on the planet. It lies at the heart of everything we've been told to believe about how the economy should work: that GDP growth is good, that it's essential to progress, and that if we want to improve human wellbeing and eradicate poverty around the world, we need more of it. It's a powerful narrative. But is it true?
Maybe not. Take Costa Rica. A beautiful Central American country known for its lush rainforests and stunning beaches, Costa Rica proves that achieving high levels of human wellbeing has very little to do with GDP and almost everything to do with something very different.
Every few years the New Economics Foundation publishes the Happy Planet Index – a measure of progress that looks at life expectancy, wellbeing and equality rather than the narrow metric of GDP, and plots these measures against ecological impact. Costa Rica tops the list of countries every time. With a life expectancy of 79.1 years and levels of wellbeing in the top 7% of the world, Costa Rica matches many Scandinavian nations in these areas and neatly outperforms the United States. And it manages all of this with a GDP per capita of only $10,000, less than one-fifth that of the US.
In this sense, Costa Rica is the most efficient economy on earth: it produces high standards of living with low GDP and minimal pressure on the environment.
How do they do it? Professors Martínez-Franzoni and Sánchez-Ancochea argue that it's all down to Costa Rica's commitment to universalism: the principle that everyone – regardless of income – should have equal access to generous, high-quality social services as a basic right. A series of progressive governments started rolling out healthcare, education and social security in the 1940s and expanded these to the whole population from the 50s onward, after abolishing the military and freeing up more resources for social spending.
Costa Rica wasn't alone in this effort, of course. Progressive governments elsewhere in Latin America made similar moves, but in nearly every case the US violently intervened to stop them for fear that "communist" ideas might scupper American interests in the region. Costa Rica escaped this fate by outwardly claiming to be anti-communist and – horribly – allowing US-backed forces to use the country as a base in the contra war against Nicaragua.
The upshot is that Costa Rica is one of only a few countries in the global South that enjoys robust universalism. It's not perfect, however. Relatively high levels of income inequality make the economy less efficient than it otherwise might be. But the country's achievements are still impressive. On the back of universal social policy, Costa Rica surpassed the US in life expectancy in the late 80s, when its GDP per capita was a mere tenth of America's.
Today, Costa Rica is a thorn in the side of orthodox economics. The conventional wisdom holds that high GDP is essential for longevity: "wealthier is healthier", as former World Bank chief economist Larry Summers put it in a famous paper. But Costa Rica shows that we can achieve human progress without much GDP at all, and therefore without triggering ecological collapse. In fact, the part of Costa Rica where people live the longest, happiest lives – the Nicoya Peninsula – is also the poorest, in terms of GDP per capita. Researchers have concluded that Nicoyans do so well not in spite of their "poverty", but because of it – because their communities, environment and relationships haven't been plowed over by industrial expansion.
All of this turns the usual growth narrative on its head. Henry Wallich, a former member of the US Federal Reserve Board, once pointed out that "growth is a substitute for redistribution". And it's true: most politicians would rather try to rev up the GDP and hope it trickles down than raise taxes on the rich and redistribute income into social goods. But a new generation of thinkers is ready to flip Wallich's quip around: if growth is a substitute for redistribution, then redistribution can be a substitute for growth.
Costa Rica provides a hopeful model for any country that wants to chart its way out of poverty. But it also holds an important lesson for rich countries. Scientists tell us that if we want to avert dangerous climate change, high-consuming nations are going to have to scale down their bloated economies to get back in sync with the planet's ecology, and fast. A widely-cited paper by scientists at the University of Manchester estimates it's going to require downscaling of 4-6% per year.
This is what ecologists call "de-growth". This calls for redistributing existing resources and investing in social goods in order to render growth unnecessary. Decommoditizing and universalizing healthcare, education and even housing would be a step in the right direction. Another would be a universal basic income – perhaps funded by taxes on carbon, land, resource extraction and financial transactions.
The opposite of growth isn't austerity, or depression, or voluntary poverty. It is sharing what we already have, so we won't need to plunder the earth for more.
Costa Rica proves that rich countries could theoretically ease their consumption by half or more while maintaining or even increasing their human development indicators. Of course, getting there would require that we devise a new economic system that doesn't require endless growth just to stay afloat. That's a challenge, to be sure, but it's possible.
After all, once we have excellent healthcare, education, and affordable housing, what will endlessly more income growth gain us? Maybe bigger TVs, flashier cars, and expensive holidays. But not more happiness, or stronger communities, or more time with our families and friends. Not more peace or more stability, fresher air or cleaner rivers. Past a certain point, GDP gains us nothing when it comes to what really matters. In an age of climate change, where the pursuit of ever more GDP is actively dangerous, we need a different approach.
Teaser Photo credit: Monique Quesada
This essay originally appeared in The Guardian.


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A new study from Nielsen finds that Latino viewers not only love to watch shows on streaming platforms, but they also influence which are the most popular.
Researchers looked at 530 shows that streamed in 2021 and the first part of 2022 in English and Spanish. The study foundnearly half of the shows considered the most "bingeable" had Latinos in front of and behind the cameras, as writers, directors and producers.
"I think that's a really important marker for how Latinos are influencing America's most watchable entertainment," says Stacie de Armas, Senior Vice President at Nielsen.
The study shows that Latino-led content attracted new viewers to streaming platforms, and then they stayed to watch other shows.
"It's important to have Latinos on camera," says de Armas. "But if you also add behind the camera, look at how much higher your binge ability becomes. So it becomes a business case for media companies that are looking to acquire content."
She points to the popularity of Hulu's mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building. Selena Gomez not only co-stars but is one of the executive producers of the show.
Latinos represent 19% of the U.S. population, de Armas says, yet they account for 42% of the country's most-watched content on the streamers. And she says they account for many new subscribers to streaming platforms.
The study shows Latino audiences enjoy crime dramas and 20% of viewers felt best represented by comedies. De Armas says the finding is interesting "because if you look to comedy, actually representation is pretty low on screen," adding there's more work to be done on all fronts.
"I'm curious, as a researcher, about the social science around this," she adds. "How does this perhaps influence identity formation of Latinos and other people's perception of Latinos?"
The study also showed that among the most popular recent shows for Latino viewers was HBO Max's Gordita Chronicles (the coming-of-age comedy about a young Dominican woman in Miami was canceled after its first season).
"It did attract a significant amount of new viewers to the platform just for that show," says de Armas. "Once they came to the platform, they watched Gordita Chronicles. They binged it. They stayed on the platform after the premiere and watched more content. And in fact, about 78,000 or 57% of that new audience was Hispanic."
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Tomorrow, as you surely know if you follow world events, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a day on which all of humanity, except we hope airline pilots, joins together in the vitally important yet all-too-often-neglected task of talking like a pirate for a day. You should also know that Mad Sally Baur, the wife of one of the lunatics visionaries responsible for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, is featured tonight on the TV show Wife Swap. This blog has no doubt that this event will some day be considered the high-water mark of Western civilization.
Meanwhile the pirate movement (thanks to Nightingale) is gaining momentum everywhere, including in the field of ladies' fashion accessories (thanks to Amy).
UPDATE: In case you do not know how to talk like a pirate, here is a useful training film (thanks to Clean Hands).


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