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The war against Yugoslavia is over. Now comes the battle inside the Pentagon.
With budget shares and weapon programs at stake, the Air Force is squaring off against the Army over the lessons to be drawn from the Kosovo conflict. Did it presage a lasting change in how U.S. forces will fight? Or was it an air power anomaly?
The Air Force, newly energized by the success of its stealthy warplanes and precision weapons, hopes to translate its performance into more money for radar-evading fighter jets, precision-guided bombs and reconnaissance drones.
The Army, which fumbled the deployment of AH-64 Apache helicopters to Albania and was kept out of the fight, remains determined to assert its relevance and hold on to its heavy armor and all 10 of its divisions. At the same time, Army officials acknowledge that they need to speed development of smaller, lighter units that can be deployed more quickly.
For now, the services are marshaling arguments to turn the lessons of the war to their advantage in after-action reviews, upcoming congressional testimony and budget battles due to heat up in the fall.
"It's already started, the elbowing of each other in the building," a senior defense official said. "They're using the Kosovo conflict as a jumping-off point for making their cases."
In several key respects, the operation against Yugoslavia was different from the kind of all-out, regional war against an adversary like Iraq or North Korea that the U.S. military has prepared for since the demise of the Soviet Union nearly a decade ago.
It was a limited conflict, relying largely on NATO air power. It was motivated not by a direct threat to U.S. national interests but by humanitarian concerns for ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and a desire to sustain NATO's credibility. And it was the first attempt at coalition warfare by a NATO alliance that acts on the basis of consensus and, in this instance at least, imposed extraordinary demands on commanders to minimize casualties among pilots and innocent civilians.
If this sort of measured war is the wave of the future, Air Force advocates contend air power is likely to play a more dominant role. Using B-2 bombers, satellite-guided munitions, Predator surveillance aircraft and other advanced weaponry, the Air Force was able to hit more targets more precisely and with fewer planes than ever before -- and suffer no combat casualties.
In the Air Force's view, the Kosovo conflict demonstrated for the first time that a gradual application of air power -- without benefit of closely coordinated ground forces -- can defeat a foreign dictator. Which is not to say the Air Force is ready to disband the Army or do away with traditional notions of applying overwhelming force. Even the most staunch air power advocates still believe that airstrikes work best when delivered massively from the start and when ground troops can help spot targets and drive enemy forces into the open.
But Air Force strategists say the Yugoslav experience should trigger a rethinking of conventional military doctrine.
"The whole policy of gradual escalation is back," said retired Air Force Col. Phil Meilinger, a leading expert on air power who teaches at the Naval War College and initially was a vocal critic of the NATO campaign. "Something very different happened in this war, and to simply pass it off as being an aberration is dangerous. I think we need to think through it."
Senior Army officials, on the other hand, are reluctant to view the Kosovo operation as a model for future wars or a turning point in the use of force. They say the United States still needs to be ready to fight a wide range of enemies on varied terrain -- from Middle Eastern deserts to the Korean peninsula -- and so must maintain a large land army with heavy armored units as well as lighter infantry divisions.
"We must be a full-spectrum force," said Gen. Dennis Reimer, who stepped down yesterday as the Army's chief of staff. "We cannot automatically redesign the Army in response to some specific area, whether it's Kosovo or some other place, with every crisis that crops up."
Army officials also are quick to point out that while the NATO operation eventually forced Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to yield, it was not without significant shortcomings.
The airstrikes, for instance, failed to stop the slaughter and expulsion of ethnic Albanians. And in the early weeks of the campaign, alliance warplanes were easily foiled by bad weather.
Yugoslav troops, once entrenched in Kosovo, were able to hide tanks and artillery from high-flying aircraft. At times, they mixed civilians with military convoys, prompting NATO planes to hold their fire for fear of causing civilian casualties.
The air campaign only began to decimate Yugoslav forces in late May, about two months into the fight, when Kosovo Liberation Army rebels attempted to open a second corridor from Albania into southwestern Kosovo. By drawing Yugoslav armor and artillery out of hiding, the rebels provided easier targets for A-10 "Warthog" planes and B-52 bombers. In the final two weeks of the war, NATO warplanes struck twice as many tanks, four times as many armored personnel carriers and 10 times as many artillery pieces in Kosovo as they had during the previous eight weeks, according to the Pentagon.
"What you had, in effect, was the KLA acting as a surrogate ground force," said one Army general. "It was a confirmation, of sorts, of our joint doctrine, which calls for using air and ground forces together."
Although the U.S. Army would prefer to think of NATO's air campaign as a special case, many defense specialists see the conflict as underscoring the fading prospect of large land wars and the growing likelihood of smaller conflicts in remote locations -- with growing political emphasis on taking no U.S. military casualties. This does not bode well for the Army's cumbersome armored divisions.
Army leaders say they are taking steps to create a more agile, rapidly deployable and high-tech force.
They have begun slimming down Army divisions -- the service's basic organizational building blocks -- from about 18,000 soldiers to 15,700. They are experimenting with a "strike force" concept that would quickly assemble infantry, armor, aviation and other elements under a single headquarters for specific missions -- much as the Apache task force sent to Albania was organized. And they are developing the Army's own unmanned surveillance drones and precision-guided, unitary warheads for the long-range ATACM artillery system.
"We must restructure the Army," Reimer acknowledged. "We want to make our heavy divisions more deployable and our light divisions more lethal, give them more punch."
But Reimer insisted that the pace of change cannot be rushed and must avoid disruptions to current operations. With an active-duty force already down by one-third, to 480,000 soldiers, since the Cold War, the Army contends it barely has enough troops to handle mounting peacekeeping demands -- such as the new mission in Kosovo -- and still be ready to fight major regional wars.
For the Air Force, the conflict against Yugoslavia also raised questions about whether it has sufficient resources to fight one war while remaining ready for a crisis in another part of the world, as U.S. policy requires. The 11-week operation nearly exhausted stocks of some precision weapons, strained the Pentagon's limited fleet of electronic jamming aircraft and left Air Force operations elsewhere underequipped and undermanned.
"As a result of Kosovo, I'd expect there'd be more careful scrutiny of some heavy systems that hardly ever seem to be taken to war these days, and hopefully a little more respect and appreciation for those Air Force capabilities that get there quickly, are easily integrated in coalition operations and provide only fleeting or invisible targets for enemy guns," said retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Link.
Still, having watched the military services battle over strategy and budget shares before, some defense analysts, including John Hillen, remain skeptical that the Yugoslav experience will make much difference. "Historically, very little ever changes in terms of the way they split up the budget," he said.


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I DO NOT support the Milford School system building another High School. The school administration claims that the only way to cope with future rising student enrollment is to keep building more schools. I say there are other ways and the Milford School system is ignoring any other way.
The existing high School and Charter School has administrative staff & many offices. These facilities have health facilities, cafeterias, gyms, auditoriums and massive power plant facilities. More than likely there are other facilities that non-school taxpayers do not know about.
I say add classrooms on to existing schools and do not duplicate the current support facilities and functions. Using intellectual formulas to derive how much school capacity will be needed based upon unknown, but projected population growth, is too risky a device to have the Milford School system taxpayers shoulder the projection costs of almost $70,000. This huge amount of money is also assuming that there will be no changes or cost overruns.
But what is NOT presented, is the additional annual costs of running this new school. How many millions will be added to the current tax system that we all will have to shoulder in addition to our current tax load.
What we do not hear from the school district is a reporting of much how the taxpayer's money has been spent on new classroom costs over the past two to three years. The use of tax funds for all school systems is from the taxpayers whether it comes from local taxes or through state taxes, ITS ALL FROM TAXPAYERS
The possibility of Delaware's senior citizen's losing all or some of their Senior Citizen property tax deduction is reason enough for seniors and others on a fixed or limited income to vote this proposed referendum down.
School officials-make your case or face another defeat at the polls.
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So here are the final finds from my recent San Antonio thrifting adventure. I'm quite the lucky gal to get to spend days thrifting with my mom and aunt. Twins, yes, and both of whom were uber stylish ladies in their time. What am I talking about...It's still their time! And they're still quite stylish!
My favorite is the Catholic sailor blouse which is actually fit for a kiddo. If I were to keep it, I'm pretty sure it would be making a weekly appearance in my wardrobe. Anywho, enjoy the finds. They'll be up in the
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Last month, David Hayes showed you how to manipulate your photos using the iPhone photo apps "Simply B&W" and "Photo Toaster." Here he offers another tutorial using the "Picture Show" iPhone photo app.
The app, Picture Show, is one of those little gems that sits patiently with all the other apps that I have on my iPhone4….waiting for me to rediscover the power it has to create a dynamite image in only a couple of steps. In this tutorial I would like to show you how I used Picture Show to take a fairly mundane snapshot of an old wrist watch…and turn it into a great abstract image.Here's the image I started with…not a great snap!! My first thought was to hit the delete button…but…I had a moment to play so I decided to see what I could do with it in Picture Show.
When you first open Picture Show, you will get this screen. Since I was going to work with an existing image, I clicked on the "Photo Library" button…went to my Camera Roll and selected the watch image.
It then opens in the "Original" screen. The first thing I wanted to do was to crop in tight to the watch face. I selected the "Transf." button…
Clicking first on the "Crop" button on the lower left corner, I then selected the 1:1 button (A) to set-up my crop ratio. Using the crop points, I moved in tight around the watch face. This done, I clicked on the "Done" button (B) to move on.
Now it's time to put Picture Show through its paces!! In this screen use your finger to move the image up or down…each time will bring up a new filter effect. Make sure to go through them all!
I finally settled on "MultiExposuresBlack" as my working filter. Next…some fine-tuning. I clicked on "Special" button (B) on the bottom tool bar.In this screen, I selected the "HDR" button (A) to activate this effect. Using the slider bar (B), I adjusted this effect to about 0.5. Finished here, I then clicked on the "Done" button (C).
Time to go for some "Style" points! Click on the Style button…
When this screen comes up, click on the "Vignet" button (A) and use the slider bar (B) to adjust how much you'd like. In my case, I went all the way to 1.0. Finished here, I again clicked on the "Done" button (C) to return to the main menu.
Wanting to continue to use the "Style" menu, I clicked here again…
This time, I clicked on "Frame" (A)…and using the slider menu, chose "Burned" (B). And…clicked "Done" (C).
Okay! I was all done with this image!!! So it was time to save it to my Camera Roll. Click on the "Share" button…
Once in this screen, you can share your image and/or save it to your Camera Roll… which I did!
Here's a neat little feature. If you click on the heart symbol in the upper left corner before you close your image, you can save your settings as a preset for future use. You'll be asked to give it a name…and then you click save. This is a nice reference point!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful. I would appreciate any comments and/or feedback you might want to give…it's good to hear from you!!
I would also like to mention the collaborative project that I host each month on my blog, Clearer Reflections. Although it is on summer hiatus until September, each month participants post their images and the "recipes" on how they created them. This is a great chance to share…and to learn from each other. I invited you to check out the details at The Recipe Book Project …and join in beginning this September!
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The Pastoral Council exists to serve in a leadership role as advisor to the Pastor for the purposes of assessing the current vision of the parish and its' ministries and establishing a vision for the future of the parish. Each council member is a liaison to a commission.
The Council attempts to gather the thoughts and ideas of the parish community in order to reflect and discern on setting the parish vision.
Meeting agendas and minutes are posted to keep the parish informed. If you have a particular item for Pastoral Council to get involved in please contact any member. Guests are welcome to the council meetings, however they should contact the Secretary to be placed on the agenda.
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STORAGE, STORAGE, STORAGE. If you need a home with lots of storage space or if you enjoy entertaining friends, this is the home for you! Price is negotiable. Five (5) walk-in closets and three (3) outside storage areas plus a Golf Cart Parking Garage. Because of the open design and the large Texas Room, this home comfortably handles forty (40) people for dinner or card parties. Three (3) nice size bedrooms, two full bathrooms; one Glamour bath includes large jacuzzi. Both bathrooms has full-size showers. Off living room is a spacious dining area with beautiful cut class cabinets above counter. A Sunny Breakfast Nook is off the kitchen. Kitchen is spacious with plenty of wood cabinets and an Island in the middle. Stainless appliances included with dishwasher, double door refrigerator, and ceramic electric stove. Laundry Room with washer and dryer. A lovely corner lot with a large front and side deck and wheel chair ramp. Two concrete parking areas on lot. Ceiling fans in all rooms and partially furnished. You won't believe the potential this house has for you. A great price for approximately a 2200 sq ft home. Price is negotiable. It is a MUST SEE..
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The new urban crime wave. Do you know where your mother and grandmother are? Sadly, I might know where mine was. Every Tuesday night she disappears for hours with her knitting. Could she be one of the the knitting guerillas?
How about you, have any of your loved ones taken up yarn bombing? At the moment I'm looking for a support group for my mother.


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I think life on the Costa is very very nice!!
it is now the ..........Madridians, have gone back home.(ooo, they r ruder that the germans). i know how the people in Blackpool must fell when its "jock" fortnight
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Well Baz, for that price you could find something where you can swing a cat but it would bang its head on all 4 walls!!!!
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Asif Ali gets a legal notice
Actor Asif Ali was given a legal notice for eviction from the property he had taken on rent in Panampilly Nagar to run a food joint 'Waffle Street' for not paying the rent.The notice issued by the owner asked Asif Ali and three others to vacate the building within 15 days and also pay the rent amount of Rs 6.34 lakh and damages to the tune of Rs 1.50 lakh. Brijeesh Mohammed, partner of Asif Ali, claimed that they had not willfully committed any default or any violation. They had made an investment of Rs 80 lakh and all of a sudden the building owner planned to evict them from the premises, he said.
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19° F and No Heat
Since Texas Gas Service had to turn off the natural gas to basically the whole town of Jacksboro, much of the town has ground to a halt. Some local businesses had to shut their doors for the time being, since they have no way to turn on the heat. Over 1000 homes are having the same problem. On a day when the temperature in town is only 19° F, the folks who were not prepared are struggling to keep warm with no heat. Stores sold out of electric space heaters right away.
What is your plan to keep warm if the power or gas went out to your house? Do you have a back up heating system? Are there enough blankets or sleeping bags to let everyone "camp out" and not freeze? The time to check is now, while you are still warm and the problem is easy to fix.


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For decades, prisoners in California have protested the torturous conditions they are subjected to. Now a nurse has come forward who worked in a California prison and can speak to personally witnessing some of these horrors perpetrated by some of his colleagues at the California Men's Colony State Prison in San Luis Obispo. Paul Spector was fired from his job for speaking out. Check him out in his own words …
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Imagine you were framed again by prison gang officers using a tattoo you got as a child and a symbol in a birthday card to "validate" you as a "prison gang associate" and label you "worst of the worst" and placed in segregation in a Security Housing Unit, or SHU, for years on end. That is what happened to my childhood best friend and husband, Robbie Riva.


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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Existential Mess
I hate this:
I wait too long to feel anything other than empathy towards other persons, especially if I believe I will fall in love with them. I stave off instincts of human thought such as admiration, infatuation, obsession. I sandbag against the rising tide or fill buckets of uncomfortable emotion, pooling it up in my conscious mind, as it drifts a top the dark sea below. I toss it over the side once more, over and over again, until it is too late and I sink.
It is too late. I procrastinate.
I have no stake in this emotional claim. I should have nothing to feel when the news drops. I am intellectually prepared for this news, but when I hear it, when I know it, when I understand it in my mind, my body drops out.
My stomach drops and I curl slightly, trying, always trying to fight it, but the rest of my body still gives a little to my stomach when it drops in a way I thought it would never do again. I struggle against collapsing into a fetal position. Resisting fetal position is a very human and adult thing to do even when my body is telling me the is no other option: defiance to reality.
I can still think somewhere in my mind it is all in my head.
There is so many important things to dwell on and this is what I fall apart about?
What an asshole.
Another dream lost, it seems. I have so many dreams and visions, but losing one always hurts. I do not think it is impossible to find again, but I know I need to mourn. I hope this does not last very long, though I am aware it can. Doing this streamlines extended arbitrary mental suffering and it can ripple and rub other people, other persons, the wrong way due to limited imagination or perception of reality. BLAH BLAH BLAH!
Retreating to the fetal position is inevitable.
Oh, my pregnant head.
There is a reason to care
even if I am disappointed.
There is a reason to care
especially if I am disappointed.
It is okay to be angry.
Do something constructive with it.
Also, listen to Moondog.
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Welcome to the page that allows you to download every one of the 19 circular walks. And thank you for purchasing my book!
All you need to do is enter the password as provided in the book which will allow you to download the walks. This means that you don't need to take the book with you on the walks so it can stay in pristine condition.
Please note that the walk directions and the map are on separate PDFs.
LATEST NEWS: I suggest you avoid Walk 13 for the moment - unless you walk it over a weekend. There is work going on at the sewage plant which means the footpath there will be closed in September and October. I shall try and find out whether the footpath will be fully restored come November.
Note also that the Wildlife Watch notes are not, as in the book, on a separate page. Instead, they have been inserted in the walk directions at points where the various flora and fauna may be found.
Just one more thing: I am assuming you are a good egg and will not pass on the password to anyone. Rather, I hope you will encourage any fellow walkers to buy the book - which they can do here online.


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Monday: May 10, 2010
- Video of Conan O'Brien at Google for those who haven't seen it already.
...ribbing Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra about the company's infamous aloofness: 'You guys are so power mad here at Google, You're such entitled A-holes. Hey, Conan's in the area, make him come by... Do a dance.'
Monday: April 12, 2010
- Conan O'Brien headed over to TBS for brand new late-night talk show.
Said O'Brien: 'In three months I've gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I'm headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.' O'Brien will host his hour-long, yet-to-be-titled show Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m. (ET/PT).


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What VoIP equipment is needed to be successful?
We all heard about the Voice Over IP service (VoIP for short), the new technology which permits the delivery of voice communications and various multimedia features over the Internet Protocol (hence the name). But not all of us are familiarized with the kind of equipment we will need if we decide to opt out for such service.
VoIP is a very different technology when compared to your regular phone system because it relies on the Internet in order to make communication possible.
So, first things first, you will need an Internet connection, preferably a high-speed (or broadband) one, like DSL, T1 or a regular cable service. Obviously, a fiber link connection is the best there is, but it may get expensive, so a cable broadband or T-1 Service is the best low-cost alternative.
Now, with the Internet connectiontaken care of, the next best thing is to ask your VoIP provider about the equipment. Some of them don't require anything special, except for a PC and a pair of headphones with a microphone (if you are using a softphone) or a handset and premise if you want. In other cases, you will have to use their own special adapters that will allow aVoIP connection over your high-speed modem and they will let you use their service.
The Most Common Devices Used in Voice Over IP Services
- ATA or Analog Telephone Adapters, these are used as the hardware interface between your "old school" analog PSTN telephone connection and the "high tech" VoIP line. This will be necessary only if you choose a monthly Voice over IP service, in the regular "PC to PC" VoIP you don't need the ATA.
- Handset – The VoIP telephone sets may be required, depending on the type of service you have chosen. They are basically the hardware interface between you and the service.
- VoIP Routers are key elements which enable you to connect to the Internet. You will need an ADSL router if you're using a broadband connection, in your home or at your place of business.
- PC Handsets look like regular telephones but they are connected to your PC via USB ports or via your sound card. They are delivered with dedicated software which makes it easier for you to use the VoIP service.
- PC Headsets are basically a pair of headphones with a microphone; this piece of hardware will enable you to receive audio input via theVoIP service and also to transmit your voice, via the microphone.
- Data Switch, you will need a data switch which has Quality of Service (QoS) and Virtual LAN capabilities. This is very important to ensure you have a quality VOIP service experience.
Based on your needs, you don't have to be freaked out by these technicalities. Working with a qualified VoIP Installation partner will lead the way and ensure your VOIP Service experience is an excellent one.
Clarus Communications will conduct a VoIP assessment to understand your business needs. This review will determine your current situation and inventory your current equipment to determine if you are a great candidate for VoIP. Once you pass our initial review, the team at Clarus Communications will provide you with a free estimate so you can compare providers. We shop the carriers saving you time and money. We have helped hundreds of companies nationwide save thousands of dollars on their monthly telecommunications bills through VoIP. Use your Internet connection now to contact us.


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'The Simpsons' will soon be fully online
July 22 , 2014
All episodes of The Simpsons will soon be online.
"Simpsons World," being launched by FXX in October, will enable viewers to access every single episode of the series through their computers or other online devices.
Authenticated FX viewers can get instant access to the series on iPhone, iPad, Xbox One, and other tablets and devices.
Viewers can even search specific quotes, make their own playlists, and share clips and quotes.
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Last year Botox was the beauty trend that everyone was talking about. And although its popularity isn't going anywhere soon (let's face it, the results speak for themselves), a new trend is starting to emerge on the beauty scene…eyelashes! Longer lashes with more volume are expected to be this year's big beauty trend. But before you reach for the extensions, consider Latisse, the first FDA approved medicine that helps grow eyelashes longer and fuller naturally. You simply dip an applicator and paint on the base of the eyelashes. It's a great, affordable option to compliment your post-surgical results.
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Building a website is hard. The level of brain strain can feel more like brain warping as you try not to think too hard about how these little codes go all the way to space and go all over the world the second you post something. It's a truly amazing world and time that we live in. Building my blogsite was, and continues to be, an adventure. I was genuinely surprised by how much I learned in the process. Here are 10 of my favorites.
1. People are astronomically generous with their hard-earned wisdom.
If you are ever in one of those "people are selfish and they suck" slumps, google anything you want to learn more about doing with "tutorial" on the end of it. People are spending countless, unimaginable amounts of hours and years of talent to make a video, or a site, or a page that helps you learn how to do whatever you want to do.
Did I know there were tutorials on the Internet already? Yeah, duh, how do you think I learned how to play guitar and make travel earring cases out of shotgun shells? But, this was on another level. This was flailing helplessness in the most confusing arena I've entered since I became a parent. And, there they were. Person after person, male and female, young and old, hipster and church pastor alike, just showin' me how to do it. It's beautiful, and amazing, and I find it romantic. But, moving on....
2. If you are a newbie who has no plans to go into mastermind global hacking, just use wordpress.
It's just so darn easy and it's free. And it's kinda cute. I think it's cute.
3. If you are just starting out, stop trying to understand everything. Cause you can't. Find someone who already does instead.
Internet is hard. It's super complicated and if you get hung up on trying to understand the why of everything at every step along the way you will overwhelm yourself and die. Ok, you won't die. You will overwhelm yourself, and your website will die. Dead in the water because couldn't just do what the nice person in the tutorial told you to do. Find a good complete site building tutorial with high ratings and start watching it. Have two screens, or tabs, open. One screen with the youtube video and one on your site editor, or wordpress. Follow the instructions step by step, pausing the video as you go. You won't have to remember anything that way, and if you're a mom like me, you can't remember anything anyway. You can mess around, customize, and change up your theme later.
This is the tutorial I used and really liked it, right here.
4. Build up content before you start telling everyone you've ever met about your site.
It only takes checking out something once and having it be lackluster to make someone never check it out again. And they won't care when you relaunch. I mean, they may, but probably they won't. It's so little effort to click on someone's page but the reality is they just won't care. That's not great but it's also true. Try to get it least kinda right where you want it, where you're proud of it, and be patient with it before you start adding the link to every social network you utilize.
5. Your friends and family will be really happy and totally impressed and supportive.
Or, at least, act like they are. At least, mine did. It seems only natural to be thrilled for someone when they dedicate hundreds (feels like infinite millions) of hours building something to spread the word about something they are passionate about. Maybe it's a site to sell your amazing cute little handmade and designed brilliant things or maybe you have a lot of information about fish hatcheries and you want all your knowledge available to untold millions who may be a little curious. My friends and family got that, I hope yours will too. If they don't, just let me know what your site is and I'll be so excited for you. It's a big thing. I'm proud of you!
6. Quitting is an option and no one has to know.
There are a million easy excuses to just quit. You can even taper off and let your site die off, fade off into the un-updated website afterlife where it can hang out with all the other abandoned playgrounds in the virtual ether. No one even has to know either. Starting a website is extremely affordable on even modest budgets. Somewhere between $100 and $200 will get you a very decent setup so you won't need loans or financial support. It's not like opening your own downtown consignment boutique. You could just give it a shot and when it gets a little hard and a little too confusing you can just call it an A for effort and never log on again. Besides ignoring the occasional WordPress updates email, it could be like it never happened.
7. Quitting isn't an option.
I mean, it is. It's an option as in a choice that you have but just don't do it. If you get stuck, use all those glorious tutorials available free of charge from all of those people who have been there and done that. You can overcome any hurdle. I know you can. I have never done anything like this, the closest I've gotten is a shelved facebook fan page that I keep meaning to focus more on. But, this. I built this. I update it. I'm proud of it. It's not perfect and it's going to change a lot a million times but I am so happy because of this accomplishment. If I can do it I know you can too.
8. Other bloggers are extremely supportive and encouraging.
We want you to succeed. The more blogs the better! That can seem kinda topsy turvy because of how we assume business works, but you will get it once you're in it. The more sharing, and ad using, and product reviewing, and blogger on other blogger viewing, the better. It's a very supportive, encouraging community. There are even conferences! There are awards and all sorts of interoffice drama, but really it's a lot of passionate, independent, creative, motivated people that have something to share. That's why there are so many tutorials. They want you to know how to do exactly what they do!
9. Use Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter.
All the time. Pin to group boards when you're invited to them, tweet @ people, and share pictures of your Starbucks cup in the foreground of your city street shot. Utilize it. Be a good neighbor and you'll find good neighbors. Like, retweet, share, favorite. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Be supportive and kind. Leave comments. It's a great way to get to know people, increase traffic, and pick up priceless tips and lessons that can save you countless hours of digging yourself out of a coding hole.
10. Be Yourself.
Don't pick out a character to play, unless that's your whole thing. Be genuine, and pick a topic, or cause, or craft you're passionate about. We've all read a lifetime of news articles and factual reporting, we want personality and perspective. In Almost Famous, one of my favorite movies, my favorite line in the whole thing is "the truth just sounds different". Sure you could start a business site that functions perfectly and has robo names for everything if that's the kind of site you're building, but if you're blogging people really like to see your true colors. Look at the popularity of reality tv and lifestyle vlogs. We're all curious and excited to see how people really are. It's scary to just be yourself, but you can do it. Whether you are a teen boy into My LIttle Ponies or a retired woman who loves wearing purple hats, just be you. Really, when it comes down to it, when you do anything new you learn more about you. This process is especially beneficial in this department. It's a wonderful thing.
If you would like to share your blog link in the comments and maybe a short backstory or some tid-bit or something you learned in the process, I think that would be really fun.


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This year I opened the debate around the impact of robots and artificial intelligence on jobs and work with a post titled "The places where you don't expect to meet a robot and the future of work".
I received a mix of comments, mainly pertaining to two opposite positions. Some say automation, robots and artificial intelligence are going to erase human jobs in the near future. Others embrace positively those technologies, because they can replace humans in boring, repetitive, dangerous or heavy tasks, freeing up valuable time for people. They are both wrong and I'm telling you why.
As I'm an economist, I thought that a supply – demand law type of investigation could help. If the worldwide workforce is shrinking, we need more robots to fill the gaps; if new workforce is coming in the market and robots are competitors for jobs, yes we have a problem. The question (if robots won't take our jobs) is simple, unfortunately the answer is a bit more complex.
There are tons of official statistics around the web and sometimes they look after number one. First of all, the labor force is growing. From about 3 bn people in 2005 to 3,3 in 2013. Labor force, according to the International Labour Organization, comprises people aged 15 and older capable to supply labor for the production of goods and services. Do we have an answer now? Not at all. Mainly for three reasons. First, because it includes both the employed and the unemployed. Second because this tells us nothing about the geographic differences. Third because we want to have an outlook of the situation in 10 or 20 year time.
The general consensus is that future demographic trends represent a risk, because there will be regions with chronic labor shortages and other areas with big labor surpluses. Although the global working-age population is expected to grow by 900 million units by 2030, the situation around the world is not uniform and some of the current surpluses will turn into massive shortfall by that time.
For example, Germany will see a shortage of up to 10 million workers by 2030. Brazil forecast is terrible, reversing from current surplus into potentially more than 40 million workers missing in 2030. Italy and Canada will have moderate shortfalls. Russia is and will be in a deficit position. US and UK may maintain the current moderate surplus. Some can argue that those situations will be more than compensated by China, India and other developing countries. This is only partially true. For example, China current huge surplus, may turn into a shortage of more than 20 million workers in 15 years. Before any consideration on if and how the shortages will be off-set by something else, please keep in mind, the impact on economy is huge. According to some sources, China has reached today in 2015 a point where the surplus of workforce coming from the rural areas is exhausted, so salaries will begin to grow, generating inflation rates capable of slowing down (if not stop) the Chinese growth. The global growth will be driven by Sub-Saharan Africa and South-Central Asia.
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So to make it simple, workforce will grow, but will be in the wrong place. For (western) countries, highly impacted by present and future shortage of labor force, there are mainly two solutions: change immigration policies or increase productivity through technological investment and innovation. I agree that increasing the labor force participation rate of women and the elderly or the number of hours worked per week can help, but I don't see big examples of successes in those areas. Countries like France reduced the number of weekly hours by law.
Now the last point. Can we really think that opening to immigration can solve the issue? The problem is that labor force is highly differentiated in terms of abilities; western countries need specialized labor force, so unless immigration is coupled with relevant investments in education, this model will be not sufficient anyway. As education is mainly in the hands of governments deep in debt, I'm not really confident this is going to work.
This leaves open the door to automation, robots and artificial intelligence. They are necessary. Robots won't take our jobs.
If you want to find good resources and amazing graphs on this topic follow the links below
BCG on global workforce
Future HR trends
Stanford on longevity (.pdf)
Newsletter: robots won't take our jobs… are you sure?
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Arrival Statement :The African Union Deploys an Election Observation Mission to the 3rd and 4th August 2017 Presidential Elections in the Republic of Rwanda
Arrival Statement :The African Union Deploys an Election Observation Mission to the 3rd and 4th August 2017 Presidential Elections in the Republic of Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda 1st August, 2017: Following the receipt of an invitation from the Government of the Republic of Rwanda, the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, His Excellency Moussa Faki Mahamat, approved the deployment of an AU Election Observation Mission (AUEOM) to observe the Presidential Elections scheduled to be held on 3rd and 4th August, 2017.
The AUEOM is led by the former President of the Transition Government of the Republic of Mali, H.E. Dioncounda Traore, who will arrived in Kigali on the 2nd of August 2017 and will interact with key electoral stakeholders before and after the election.
The AU launched its election observation mission in Rwanda on 23rd July 2017 with the deployment of 34 short-term observers (STOs) drawn from 23 African countries , representing institutions such as the Permanent Representatives' Committee (PRC), the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), Election Management Bodies (EMBs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). The short-term observers will undertake the AUEOM's coverage of the last days of campaign and Election Day proceedings including the opening of polling stations, and the voting and counting processes.
The deployment of the election observation mission to Rwanda is in line with the AU's mandate of promoting democratic elections on the continent, enshrined in the 2007 African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance; the 2002 OAU/AU Declaration on the Principles Governing Democratic Elections in Africa; and Agenda 2063,Aspiration No. 3, which aims to deepen democratic values and practices, build confidence in electoral processes, and ensure capable and accountable institutions and transformative leadership on the continent.
The assessment of the Mission will be guided by the principles and guidelines provided forin these instruments, other relevant international instruments guiding international election observation, and the legal framework for elections of the Republic of Rwanda.
The Mission will issue a statement of its preliminary assessment of the elections on 6th August 2017 during a press conference at the Park Inn Hotel in Kigali. The mission's final report will be released within two months of the announcement of final election results.
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People people people that is Covent Garden. The touristy shopping and dining meca in London's West End, at the heart of London's theater land. This neighborhood with the quaint side streets, indoor market, great boutiques and bistro's, entertaining street performers, old pubs and a general carnival atmosphere attracts hordes literally hordes of people from all over the world. I recently spent a day in London while visiting family in Wales and I chose to spend most of my limited time in the city in Covent Garden. I have traveled to many parts of the world but London remains my favorite city, for me it has everything, it is livable, pretty, exciting and fun. During this brief visit there was not enough time spent to write a travel guide but if you are looking for travel ideas then maybe these images of Covent Garden will convince you to visit London, one of the best cities in the world.
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When I owned a clothing boutique I worked briefly with Liz Klafata, who is a stylist and worked part time at the boutique. Liz became very busy and left to pursue her full time job. I did not see Liz for a couple of years until last year when I read in a local paper about Liz renovating and renting out properties in Chicago and starting her own rental company. Firstly, the article caught my attention because it was Liz and I knew her and it was exciting to read about someone I know. Secondly as I rent properties almost everywhere I go, I was excited to know more about the rental properties. I recently googled Liz and came across her company website www.bangtel.com. In a word AMAZING. Bangtel properties are stunningly designed apartments that I just want to move into. I reached out to Liz and it was great to re-connect. I found out more about her exciting new venture. Liz was kind enough to give a fantastic interview.