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"Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my papers." (Robert Solow)In Morsi's Moment Thomas Friedman got some things right.
In other words, is Egypt ready to sacrifice the Camp David peace, U.S. aid and economic development to support Hamas's radical, pro-Iranian agenda, or not?The answer from Cairo was no. President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood's party did not want to get dragged into a total breach with Israel on behalf of Hamas, and instead threw Egypt's weight into mediating a cease-fire.This is just about right for now.
But Friedman can't leave well enough alone.
It is impossible not to be tantalized by how much leverage Morsi could wield in the peace process, if he ever chose to engage Israel. Precisely because he represents the Muslim Brotherhood, the vanguard of Arab Islam, and precisely because he was democratically elected, if Morsi threw his weight behind an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, it would be so much more valuable to Israel than the cold peace that Sadat delivered and Hosni Mubarak maintained. Sadat offered Israelis peace with the Egyptian state. Morsi could offer Israel peace with the Egyptian people and, through them, with the Muslim world beyond. Ironically, though, all of this would depend on Morsi not becoming a dictator like Mubarak, but on him remaining a legitimately elected president, truly representing the Egyptian people. That is now in doubt given Morsi's very troubling power grab last week and the violent response from the Egyptian street. President Obama has to be careful not to sell out Egyptian democracy for quiet between Israel and Egypt and Hamas. We tried that under Mubarak. It didn't end well.Friedman's is one trick pony who believes that all problems of the Middle East can be solved by solving the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Well, no things did not end well for Mubarak, but the peace lasted for more than 30 years. It's interesting too, that Friedman now is so concerned for Egyptian democracy, ten months ago he was cheering on the Muslim Brotherhood. Have Morsi's power grabs actually surprised him? (He compared the Muslim Brotherhood's coming to power in Egypt as following the AKP's ascendancy in Turkey. Why is he surprised now? Oh that's right, he was a cheerleader for the AKP too.)
No doubt Morsi's price for engaging with Israel would be the Arab Peace Initiative — full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem, save for mutually agreed-upon land swaps, and some return of refugees, in return for full normalized relations. If Morsi advanced such a proposal in direct talks with Israelis, he could single-handedly revive the Israeli peace camp.It's important to remember what the Arab Peace Initiative is. It was the brainchild of Thomas Friedman and then Crown Prince Abdullah of the Arab League. It was a public relations stunt designed to undermine international support for Israel's efforts to defeat the "Aqsa Intifada" and shore up support for Saddam Hussein. Who represented the Arab League in those day? Ben Ali of Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt Muamar Qadaffi of Libya. Also Bashar Assad of Syria. In other words the leaders who represent the pre-"Arab spring" were the ones who signed on to the initiative. And of course, one reason any of these despots supported the Palestinians was to misdirect attention away from their own misrule. Cheerleaders like Friedman were more than happy to give them cover.
Do I expect that? No more than I expect to win the lottery. The Muslim Brotherhood has long hated the Jewish state, as well as political and religious pluralism and feminism. Therefore, here's what I do expect: More trouble between Israel and Hamas that will constantly threaten to drag in Egypt. Hamas is a shameful organization. It subordinates the interests of the Palestinian people to Iran (and earlier to Syria), which wants Hamas to do everything it can to make a two-state solution impossible, because that will lock Israel into a permanent death grip on the West Bank, which will be the undoing of the Jewish democracy and will distract the world from Iran's and Syria's murderous behaviors.Is Friedman for real? Hamas is "shameful?" Really. Murderous is a more apt description. But notice Friedman can't even fault Hamas for terrorism, but for "undoing Jewish democracy." Friedman's perspective is completely skewed by his blind worship of the peace process. Is Israel about to cease being a democracy? No. Are the Palestinians about to have a state of their own? No. These are two separate issues. No matter how many times Friedman equates the two doesn't make his perspective any more correct.
Israel left all of Gaza in 2005, and Hamas had a choice: It could recognize Israel, have an open border and import computers, or it could continue to deny Israel's existence, keep the border sealed, and smuggle in rockets. It chose rockets over computers. With each rocket that lands near Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, another Israeli says, "How can we possibly let go of the West Bank and risk our airport being shut down?" That is just what Hamas and Iran want — a permanent, grinding, democracy-eroding, legitimacy-destroying, globally isolating Israeli occupation of the West Bank — and they are very happy to use the Palestinian people as a human sacrifice for that goal. The best way for Israel to undercut Hamas is by empowering the secular Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank to gain greater independence and build a thriving economy, so every Palestinian can compare which strategy works best: working with Israel or against Israel. This Israeli government has failed to do that.
It is so shortsighted. But Hamas makes it easy for Israel to get away with that by ignoring what we know from history: that whoever makes the Israeli silent majority feel morally insecure about occupation, but strategically secure in Israel, wins. After Sadat flew to Jerusalem, Israelis knew there was no way morally that they could hold onto the Sinai and strategically they no longer felt the need. When King Hussein of Jordan and Yasir Arafat did the same, they each got land back. Today, nothing makes Israelis feel more strategically insecure and morally secure with occupation than Hamas's stupid rocket attacks, even after Israel has withdrawn.Ten years earlier Israel withdrew from most of the West Bank, shedding responsibility for 90% of the Palestinians. What happened? Did Arafat create the institutions of a functioning state? Or did he take the territory he was handed and use it to encourage terror against Israel?
The dysfunction of the Palestinian Authority under Arafat continues to this day. Israel can't empower Abbas; they have no real constituency to make peace. The culture Arafat and later Abbas presided over places a premium on resistance and denying legitimacy to Israel. Friedman argues that the perfectly reasonable Israeli fear of terror is "democracy eroding." Somehow, though, the ideology that advocates terror as long as one's demands are not met is not illegitimate.
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The New York Times reports, U.S. Election Speeded Move to Codify Policy on Drones:
Partly because United Nations officials know that the United States is setting a legal and ethical precedent for other countries developing armed drones, the U.N. plans to open a unit in Geneva early next year to investigate American drone strikes.
The attempt to write a formal rule book for targeted killing began last summer after news reports on the drone program, started under President George W. Bush and expanded by Mr. Obama, revealed some details of the president's role in the shifting procedures for compiling "kill lists" and approving strikes. Though national security officials insist that the process is meticulous and lawful, the president and top aides believe it should be institutionalized, a course of action that seemed particularly urgent when it appeared that Mitt Romney might win the presidency.
"There was concern that the levers might no longer be in our hands," said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity. With a continuing debate about the proper limits of drone strikes, Mr. Obama did not want to leave an "amorphous" program to his successor, the official said. The effort, which would have been rushed to completion by January had Mr. Romney won, will now be finished at a more leisurely pace, the official said.I don't have a problem with drone strikes against enemies, but does the Obama administration feel that it is uniquely qualified to define targeting criteria? Never mind, as the article noted, the even the United States isn't comfortable with Israel's targeted killings of terrorists.
There is an irony. If the United States was more forceful in its defense of Israel's right to self-defense, it might not find itself be questioned as severely when it pursued the same strategy.
According to the article the New York Times is a party along with the ACLU seeking more information about the drone program. The Times also cited Gregory D. Johnsen, who recently wrote an op-ed for the paper criticizing the policy. It would seem that administration's strategy of killing terrorists is one area where it cannot expect the unquestioning support of the New York Times.
According to the Long War Journal, since 2006 American drones have killed 2431 terrorists and only 139 civilians. (h/t Jim Roberts)
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28 March 2006
CSUN 2006/Cyrano
The Cyrano Communicator is one of the new AAC devices based in the Pocket PC. The Pocket PC (Microsoft Windows based PDAs) offers a dramatic change and upgrade for those dependent on assistive speech. They are no longer tied to large, limited function communication boards, nor are they tied to big, heavy laptop computers. The carry anywhere, highly powerful, wireless and bluetooth equipped Pocket PCs weigh just 6 ounces.
The Cyrano has some especially nice features. The built in camera allows you to easily build multi-level photo menus for speech, and for text input there are four options:
"Keyboard Input- This is a conventional keyboard displayed on the screen. The keys are small, and the method is slow, but it is easy to learn and very accurate.
Transcriber- The Transcriber is the most natural of the four input methods. Just write your words anywhere on the screen using any combination of cursive and block letters. The program translates your writing into letters in the text box. This method is fast and easy to use, but not very accurate. If your handwriting is neat, this may be a good option for you. The computer can learn your writing style after a while, so prediction becomes better with use.
Block Recognizer- Block Recognizer is similar to the interface used on Palm™ machines. Short keystrokes, called "graffiti" style of writing, produce letters."
... or you can connect a bluetooth keyboard. Giving you plenty of ways to get thoughts in, and thus out, and because of Cyrano Shorthand - a great little abbreviation utility, building complex messages out of three and four letter combinations is easy.
Cyrano comes with five voice personalities - 2 American men, and a British man, a British woman, and an American woman, and comes fully loaded with software for about $1200 (US). Options include SD Memory cards - available anywhere, the above-mentioned Bluetooth keyboard, and an incredible waterproof tough-case (built originally for surveyors) that's just a hundred bucks.
- Ira Socol
27 March 2006
CSUN 2006/Tango - New in AAC
This year the CSUN conference had many wonderful Augmentative and Alternative Communication devices, especially excellent Pocket PC-based systems that I will get to in a few days, but one device just stood out - especially for elementary/primary educators - the new Tango from Ablenet.
Tango is a beautifully designed device that even those with significant dexterity issues could easily carry with them everywhere. It has brought the simple connectivity of contemporary handhelds (auto-detecting switch ports, USB-ports, memory-card slots, built in camera) to this type of device. It has a wonderfully brilliant interface that allows users to get to the communications they need quickly and easily. And best of all, it features "voice-morphing," which, among many other capabilities, allows the user to speak in "their regular voice," or to whisper, shout, or even whine.
Yes, your ten-year-old can now complain, "I'm soooo bored," in the appropriate voice.
Tango appears to be truly liberating technology. The range of capabilities will really enhance the user's communication - and learning. The simplicity of how it works, how new content gets loaded, the ability to record, say, a female voice and morph it into a male one (or vise-versa, for appropriateness), the simplicity of taking pictures and installing them ("No, I want the Arsenal away shirt."), and the connectivity systems will make life much easier for educators.
Check this one out. They promise that starting sometime today, 27 March 2006, they will have a simulator up on their web site.
back in cold Michigan - Ira Socol
25 March 2006
CSUN 2006/Reading... Universal Access
That latter group includes Freedom Scientific's WYNN 4 and Kurzweil 3000, and those will be the topic of the next blog. This one is devoted to what I might call the "UDL class," although the first one here comes very, very close to crossing over between categories.
First though, I need to address a huge issue in this area of Assistive Technology. This is the negative impact of the "solutions" from Premier Assistive Technology. All through the conference I've heard complaints about how this is being "sold" (almost given away) to schools. How it simply doesn't work. How it both gives AT and digital literacy support a bad name while giving school administrators an excuse to not really make their schools accessible. Students report that it does not work. Teachers report incredible frustration. Trainers report that it is often hard to get teachers or students to try anything else after struggling with it. Steve Timmer, who founded Premier, is a nice guy, but he is doing some real damage to this field.
OK, enough of the negative. Here's the positive. Let's start with Text-Help's Read-and-Write-Gold v.8. This is an extraordinary literacy support suite that runs, primarily, as a tool-bar allowing you to read in other applications. Because of this, because it does not change "the look" of the computer screen, it seems easier to teach students to use. It is not quite as "robust" a literacy-in-education tool as WYNN and Kurzweil (a brilliant young man that met here, Izac Milstein Ross, notes that it lacks the true study supports of the others), but it might be the best UDL solution to ever appear. Not only does it work consistently and cleanly (great code writing), but imbedded with it are a "fact mapper" (like Inspiration), a great scientific calculator, voice-to-text capabilities, and much, much more. All in one package that costs less than either WYNN or Dragon alone (much less Kurzweil). There is also a test-maker for teachers and great pdf reading capabilities.
A really nice feature is the ability of the teacher to create "user groups" with specific features (supports) in use or not. There is also - as in WYNN and Kurzweil - the ability to convert the text directly into mp3 files (or other audio formats) and transfer this directly to CD or iPod. And there's a unique thesaurus structure called Word Finder. I could really see this applied to every computer in a school, and open to every student - without diagnosis. It is a set of solutions that perhaps 70% - 80% of students would find useful at one point or another. Read-and-Write Gold is a UK invention (from near Belfast), and has achieved a great deal of acceptance in Europe, from primary through university. In the U.S., Kentucky has chosen it as their primary state literacy support and testing solution.
Another low training solution is Plustek Book Reader. Plustek isn't a "total" solution - it has none of the "bells and whistles" of WYNN, Kurzweil, or Read-and-Write, and won't help you with math or science type books, but it is an inexpensive text-to-speech reader that comes with a great, fast scanner that doesn't make you "press-down" to get properly scanned text. "SEE (Shadow Elimination Element) Technology, for any book can be placed completely flat against the scanning glass and will result in a perfect scan with no book spine shadow or distorted lines of text." - This really is a "throw the book in" and start reading option, that has excellent low-vision applications and that could help in literacy.
Then there is ClaroRead. ClaroRead, ClaroConcepts, and WordRead are all elegant text-to-speech solutions, but they lack the kind of word and sentence highlighting that helps students learn. But they are inexpensive and stunningly easy to use. If price is your only consideration, and your staff won't convert documents into the free Microsoft Reader, then this would surely beat anything from Premier.
None of this is to suggest that Microsoft Reader and Firefox FoxyVoice (or the more complex FireVox) should not also be on every computer in your school. They are 100% free, and not having them really means that your school isn't trying.
As promised, I'll look at WYNN and Kurzweil, and how they are being used in "best practices" as soon as I can.
from Los Angeles where the beach - at Manhattan Beach - was just lovely today... Ira Socol
24 March 2006
CSUN 2006/Eye Gaze
A new system called "ERICA" may have finally broken through many of the barriers that interfered with adoption and successful use of "eye-gaze" "eye-tracking" as computer control. I literally spent less than 30-seconds prepping the system before I could start to type successfully, and it only took that long because I'm not good at keeping my head still (eye-gaze and ADHD may never go together).
All you do to set this up is to aim the firewire camera, and look at five spots on the screen. One for focus, then four corners (much like touching the four points on an Interactive White Board). And then you're off and running.
The system is built on a tablet PC, so full touch-screen capabilities are built in, making it perfect for ALS, for other degenerative issues, or simply because "you might have good or bad days."
This level of technology was way over $20,000 (US) just a few years ago. Now it's about $7,000 (US) complete.
from Los Angeles - Ira Socol
CSUN 2006/Illinois and Web Accessibility
As a Michigan State guy maybe I shouldn't be promoting Big Ten rival University of Illinois, but these folks are working on important inventions in improving web accessibility.
This is a huge issue. Despite all the laws, most U.S. educational web sites (educational web sites!) remain really difficult for disabled students (and parents) to use.
I've done accessible web training, and it is difficult and time consuming, and faces unfortunate resistance from self-taught web designers, but UIUC has worked on some solutions.
First, an Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office (not free, but very cheap) that automates accessible document conversion. There is also the Web Accessibility Visualizer which gives you "see it now" feedback on accessibility errors in html instead of just the line-by-line code of more familiar tools like "Bobby." Finally their Accessibility Extension for Mozilla/Firefox offers wonderful capabilities for web developers interested in reaching everyone, without disability discrimination.
from Los Angeles - Ira Socol
23 March 2006
CSUN 2006/Speech Recognition
I'm a big fan, and long time user of Speech Recognition - Voice-to-Text technology. I've never liked Dragon much, generally finding it hard to train, unforgiving of vocal variation, clunky in interface, and too expensive - but all that said, I know that there are huge fans out there. I do use ViaVoice very successfully, and have used it with second-graders, tbi clients, people struggling with ms, and many, many other difficult situations (I use the Pro-USB 10 version). I'v also had some luck with the speech recognition software included in Windows XP, though this hardly is the solution for everyone.
Wednesday at CSUN I saw two new exciting options. One, SpeakQ, from Quillsoft, which makes the word prediction software WordQ looks like something you need in your "toolbox." It is not just simple, the youngest child could master it, but it is the first of these software packages to allow a non-reader or very weak reader to train themselves - without a whispering helper or a tape recorder. The software simply says, "say this," and the user repeats the phrase. Brilliant! SpeakQ is an add-on to WordQ, and costs more than ViaVoice (though still half what Dragon costs) when purchased together, but it's a lot of tool for $350. (US)
I also saw a preview of the accessibility features in the new Microsoft Vista operating system. This needs to become the standard for schools and governments - many which still use the Windows 2000 system, a very poor choice for those with access issues. In
The biggest change is in the Speech Recognition/Voice Command program that is built in. This has been improved dramatically, and now features a brilliantly simple interface: "There are two major types of commands you can use with Speech Recognition: 'Say what you see,' and 'Click what you see'. In addition, for times these commands might not work, like if you don't know the name of a certain toolbar button, you can say 'Show numbers.' Numbers will then appear over everything on the screen and you can say those numbers to click the object under them." Look at this report, download the pre-release user guide here. Look at the speech commands here.
And one last solution... A company called Talk Technologies is selling "Voice Sylencer," a microphone that will allow voice-to-text users to operate their systems in noisy, and non-private environments. It is "soundproof" microphone you can speak into in office cubicles, in classrooms, perhaps on trains and planes, and may solve the "you can't take notes with this" issue in voice-to-text. It also has great possibilities for "echoing captioners" working in classrooms and meetings (more on that technology soon). (less than $200 US for the USB mic system).
from sunny Los Angeles... Ira Socol
07 March 2006
ICT and Primary Literacy
I recently presented on Primary Literacy and ICT at the Michigan Council for Exceptional Children Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, demonstrating assistive technology systems and discussing how technology can impact literacy throughout the school experience. Here's an excerpt. - Ira Socol
How can technology help?
With simple personal computer based solutions teachers can use technology to increase "read-to" time, allow students to work with sophisticated stories that might hold their interest, engage them more actively in the world of books, and improve student access to informational text and thus content learning. Technology can also provide skill-building support for phonological awareness, word shape recognition, and the understanding of how sounds in English translate into English spelling.
The classroom computer, properly equipped can "multiply" the teacher, by providing "non-staffed" support in these situations.
What types of technology will help?
Technology can dramatically increase "read-to" time: WYNN, TextHelp Read and Write Gold, Microsoft Reader, Kurzweil 3000, all allow a book to be read to students. The student sees and hears the specific word as it is read (the word is highlighted, in WYNN and Kurzweil the sentence can also be "sub-highlighted"). This reinforces reading skills just like "mom" sitting with the child and reading to them. Any book can be scanned in to WYNN or Kurzweil (complete with illustrations), any Word document can be converted into Microsoft Reader – a more limited, but wonderfully effective and completely free software package.
Technology can enhance the connection between word shape and word sound: WYNN, TextHelp Read and Write Gold, Microsoft Reader, Kurzweil 3000, by linking the word's shape-image to its sound builds this essential reading skill and allows dramatic improvements in new vocabulary acquisition. WYNN, and to a slightly lesser extent Kurzweil, also add in dictionaries, thesauruses, and other grammatical tools.
Technology can offer direct confirmation of the connection between sounds and spelling in English: ViaVoice, an IBM voice-to-text solution, allows a student with low phonological skills to dictate to the computer and watch the words appear. Thus, saying a word will reveal its spelling. The software does require unique voice training for every student, but may offer the possibility of dramatically improving language understanding.
Technology can offer content, information-reading, access to non-readers, pre-readers, and weak readers: WYNN, TextHelp Read and Write Gold, Microsoft Reader, Kurzweil 3000, all provide students with book reading possibilities that might otherwise be out-of-reach. This can allow students to not just keep up with content-area learning, but to investigate informational texts that match up with the student's unique interests.
Technology can offer sophisticated story access to non-readers, pre-readers, and weak readers: WYNN, TextHelp Read and Write Gold, Microsoft Reader, Kurzweil 3000, allow student reading groupings based in affinity instead of specific reading capabilities. This also allows students to work on comprehension issues as they work on decoding issues.
Technology can offer full web access to non-readers, pre-readers, and weak readers: WYNN, FoxyVoice (in the Firefox browser), and other tools allow students to engage in web research and web-based communication at levels equal to their classmates with stronger reading skills.
Technology can provide testing accommodations: WYNN's Test Talker can read tests and record student answers. WYNN itself, through it's notetaking component can do the same. So can TextHelp Read and Write Gold. Even Microsoft Reader can, if tests are converted from Word, allow notes to be added, thus providing testing possibilities (though Reader cannot accept spoken answers the way WYNN and Test Talker can).

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Adium 1.5 released
Thursday, March 15th, 2012We are very happy to announce the release of Adium 1.5. This release includes user interface improvements, bug fixes and many changes under the hood – a year and a half of development effort by volunteers new and old.
Changes under the hood
This release requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 and an Intel Mac. It is the first Adium release to feature 64-bit support. This means that you will need to update any plugins you have installed (notably Skype). As always, these can be found on our xtras site.
New icons
Bogdan Mihaiciuc contributed a great set of icons which you will notice all across Adium: in the preferences, in the chat window and in the Transcript Viewer.
Improved Transcript Viewer
The Transcript Viewer was polished to look native on modern versions of OS X. "Next"/"Previous" buttons were added for highlighted search terms within a transcript (similar to Safari). Stephen Holt completely rewrote the log indexer making indexing faster and searching more accurate.
Other various user interface improvements
Our dock icon now uses a shiny round badge when on Lion as well as better looking overlays. The "Get Info" window's appearance was relieved of many visual glitches. The contact list's icon menu has been updated to look native on recent versions of Mac OS X. The "About Adium" window was also updated (credits for its graphics go to Mike Houben & Paul Wilde).
Our iTunes and Address Book integration is more flexible and easier to configure using tokens.
Updated Growl support
Adium 1.5 also includes a change to how we show notifications. The Growl application got a major update (version 1.3) and is available on the Mac App Store for $1.99. But to allow you to still get notifications for free, we have enabled showing Growl notifications even if the application is not installed. This feature is called Mist:
You can fully customize when these notifications are shown. See our documentation on and for details.
However, if you want to use a different skin or use some of the more advanced features of Growl, you will have to either buy the application from the Mac App Store, or get an older and free version from http://growl.info/downloads.
Libpurple changes
We have also updated libpurple to 2.10.0. Regrettably, that means we have had to remove support for QQ. QQ was removed from libpurple as it had not been updated and was known to not work for a long time, which left us no choice but to remove it as well. If you are brave, there is an unofficial plugin available on http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=8226 which aims to bring support back. 🙂
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Madrid, Spain, July 4, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has strengthened its partnership with Telefónica, the Spanish multinational telecommunications company. As tourism restarts around the world, Telefonica deepens its collaboration with the United Nations specialized agency to advance market intelligence in order to accelerate the sector's recovery from the impact of COVID-19.
As it guides the sector through the challenge posed by the pandemic, UNWTO has prioritized innovation as a key means of growing tourism back stronger and better. Additionally, with the global community now left with less than 10 years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals ("The Decade of Action"), UNWTO is also driving tourism's movement towards sustainability. This collaboration with Telefónica, which builds on an existing partnership, is designed to use digital transformation to support sustainable recovery and future growth.
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As UNWTO leads tourism's restart, our partnership with Telefónica will allow us to provide Member States and the sector as a whole the tools they need to accelerate recovery, build trust by guaranteeing safety and promote sustainability
UNWTO and Telefónica will work together to promote the effective use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence across the tourism sector. This will help destinations better understand tourist behaviour, allowing them to market their products more effectively. Management of data will also help destinations better manage tourist flows within the context of the new health and safety protocols being rolled out in response to COVID-19.
UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said: "The digital transformation of tourism will allow the sector to grow back stronger from the standstill caused by COVID-19. As UNWTO leads tourism's restart, our partnership with Telefónica will allow us to provide Member States and the sector as a whole the tools they need to accelerate recovery, build trust by guaranteeing safety and promote sustainability."
Digital-led transformation
Miguel Llopis, Industry Lead of Public Sector in IoT and Big Data at Telefónica, added: "Tourism will return with force but the sector will have to face a structural transformation where new digital technologies, such as IoT and Big Data, will be a differential factor of competitive advantage."
Telefónica and UNWTO have worked together to launch a series of visualization tools within the UNWTO Global Data Dashboard that allows for a better understanding of key performance indicators in tourism.
Also to mark the start of this new phases of collaboration, UNWTO joined Telefónica, Turismo de Portugal, the Tourism Authority of Buenos Aires and the Secretary of Tourism of Chile (SERNATUR) for a special virtual training session for destinations in the Americas. This focused on exploring how the use of Big Data can add value to the tourism sector and lead recovery.


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Hail is one seriously destructive force, particularly when it comes to our vehicles. Cars, trucks, and even boats which we happen to have outside during one of these storms can sustain such damage they are often considered totaled. Insurance or not, there is nothing like the feeling of seeing the harm done to our hard-earned belongings. The cost alone to fix this damage can be staggering to top it all off. Here we will cover a few steps which are highly effective in repairing the dents caused by hail; read on and discover how it can be easier than you think.
Steps to Repairing Hail Damage
The good news regarding this issue is that simple household items and even sunlight can do a great deal to rectify the problem. Depending on the extent of the damage there are actually things you can do yourself to improve or even eliminate the dents made by hail. Below are some simple steps and suggestions to make this frustrating situation better.
Put your vehicle in a place where it is warm and the sun is shining on it
The warmth from direct sun will actually cause your vehicle's metal to expand as it warms, which will naturally cause the dents to pop out on their own. If the damage your car or other vehicle has sustained happened during a cold or overcast season simply wait until you have a day that is warm and sunny enough to do this. If you choose this step the vehicle will need to sit in the warm sun for about one week. You will find around 90% of the dents will be gone.
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Best Bakeries in Middle Tennessee
While it feels impossible to sample all that the mouth-watering, creative, and inspiring bakeries in Middle Tennessee have to offer – cheers to trying. We hope your February is full of sweet things, and visiting a Middle Tennessee bakery, or two (or five).
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Trust us, whatever you end up leaving Julia's Homestyle Bakery with in their signature pink box is bound to be delectable. Filled with bright, colorful, perfectly decorated cakes, cookies and other goodies, this bakery is known for their custom designed cakes but loved for all. Bonus? They are able to make most treats Gluten free and have "The Sweet Truck" for special private and community events.
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Like most little girls, I thought my mother was the most beautiful woman in the world. I loved her cat-eye glasses and how her toes turned out when she click-clacked along in her heels, and I tried to imitate that in my white patent leathers. But I especially remember her fingernails, and admired how she'd take out her manicure kit and file them into perfect white crescents.
And in my little-girl imagination, I began to see those fingernails in the sky every time there was a crescent moon. I don't know when I first made that connection, but the image has stuck with me my entire life, never failing to bring the words "There's Mom's fingernail" to my mind. Those crescent moons will always be my mother.
I suppose every child has a fascination with the moon at some point. Moon and luna were among the first words my little boys understood, and they delighted in pointing to the sky and "telling" us everything they knew about the lovely luna. Now, a year later, they are even more obsessed with the moon, pointing and squealing every time they see a picture or the real thing.
Now the moon has brought me a new gift, for however long it lasts. After lamenting the fact that my toddlers don't let me read to them, I cast around for something, anything, that might interest them. But it was my son L himself who told me what he liked: last week, he saw I Took the Moon for a Walk sitting on my desk, and started pointing and reaching and squealing and couldn't get at that book fast enough.
The moon has magical powers, indeed.
So here's a soft nighttime howl to I Took the Moon for a Walk, a book as warm and gentle as a mother's embrace.
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I Took the Moon for a Walk
Written by: Carolyn Curtis
Illustrated by: Alison Jay
Publisher: Barefoot Books (March 2004)
Genre: Picture Book/Fiction
Ages: 4+
Themes/Topics: Moon, Fear of the Dark, Nighttime Plants and Animals, Bedtime
Opening and Brief Synopsis:
I took the Moon for a walk last night.
It followed behind like a still summer kite
Though there wasn't a string or a tail in sight
when I took the Moon for a walk.
Over the hills, through the trees, and past the church, a young boy takes a magical nighttime stroll with the Moon, a tremulous fellow with spindly arms and legs and a pair of red shoes. Following their progress are many silent companions, such as owl and fox and sheep and cows and priest and the man on the bicycle. As the hour grows later, the moon and the boy and all their company make their way home.
Then as we turned back, the Moon kept me in sight.
It followed me home and stayed there all night,
And thanked me by sharing its sweet sleepy light
when I took the Moon for a walk.
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- The book includes two informational pages in the back, also illustrated by Alison Jay. "The Mysterious Moon" shows the moon in all its phases and includes various scientific and cultural facts; "The World at Night" depicts some of the nocturnal creatures and plants featured in the story, along with interesting tidbits of information.
- Scholastic offers several creative ideas, including exploring the illustrations, creating a visual text, playing with rhyme, telling the moon's story through drama, and having a moon festival.
Why I Like This Book: This is one of those books in which the text and illustration are so perfectly matched that it's nothing short of magical. Carolyn's text is lyrical and soothing, with each verse ending in the same comforting phrase "when I took the Moon for a walk." The aaab rhyme scheme and masterful writing lend a subtle lilt that keeps the reader gliding through the pages.
The incredible "crackled" illustrations add just the right touch of nostalgia, but that's just the beginning of their genius. Alison has created a continuous landscape that stretches over the course of the book, with highlighted elements on one page receding into the background on the next, so the reader experiences the walk just as the boy does.
Add to that the countless recurring details in each spread (people and their dogs, various animals, a man on a bike, a playground, bridges and buildings) and some subtle events (the Moon loses his shoe at one point…where does he get it back?), and you've got a short book with a long, engaging bedtime read.
It's a quiet book, and that's a good thing.
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