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Did you know that 90% of startups fail within the first few years of business? There are numerous challenges that can affect your career as well as your business. Nine out of 10 startups will fail, including yours, which is a hard truth that you must learn.
The most common reasons why most 90% of startups fail is because of the following:
- There's no market for their product.
- They fail to create user-friendly products.
- Around 25% to 35% of startups fail due to not hiring a virtual team.
- About 25% of these startups ended because they ran out of money.
- They don't have a clear business model.
These are just some of the most common mistakes made by entrepreneurs. You have to learn from these mistakes to avoid failure. Many startups have started and failed ever since the Internet gained popularity.
Most new companies are having trouble finding a business plan that works for them. Another reason why these startups fail is that of a financial error that most entrepreneurs make in their lives. They spend more on marketing and hiring before having a growth strategy.
These problems lead to bankruptcy early on their carers. The latest trends in the modern business model formation have made it easier for entrepreneurs to find an online model that works for them. Some of these trends have been growing and changing every day. It's up to entrepreneurs to be able to keep up with them.
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These trends have been changing the way that small businesses and startups looking for new clients online. Here are some of the latest trends in the modern business model formation that you should look out for.
1- Online Crowdfunding & Fundraising
Most startups need a substantial amount of capital to get started. Many of them have used online crowdfunding and fundraising sites the help them raise money. Unfortunately, some individuals have abused this business model. Thankfully, the latest trends in this industry are tackling this problem.
Crowdfunding and fundraising sites are cracking down on the users who abuse their services. While these online services are mostly used for charitable products, a large number of for-profit startups have used them to their advantage. These companies will consider using monthly donations as a payment towards a product or service that consumers want. This has turned many worthy projects into successful companies.
2- Blockchain-Based Business Model
Online payments made with a debit card or credit card would take several days to process. A cryptocurrency is a digital asset that's used to secure online transactions and verify the transfer of money. All online transactions are made instantly. Starting a blockchain-based business model makes it easier for startups to process payments online.
Once startups focus on the transaction side of their business, they'll see tremendous growth. Online retailers and e-commerce sites are using blockchain-based business models because all of their transactions are processed in real-time. This reduces the risk of never getting paid for their products and services. All of the information about the transaction is safely stored, so there are very little disputes about whether a customer received something.
3- Shared Economy Business Model
The shared economy business model is a collaborative approach to providing products and/or services. It's a hybrid model that uses an online platform and real-life interaction. Some transactions are made via online services or mobile apps. Thanks to companies like Airbnb and Zipcar, this business model is made possible.
These businesses run on par with car rental services and hotel chains. Uberization is the nickname for this business model, due in part to the popularity of Uber. Freelance work-at-home opportunities are now made possible due to its success and outsourcing seems to be on the rise, globally. This business model only works for a business that requires a physical exchange of goods or services.
This business model is only geared towards entrepreneurs who want to run their own business out of their home. Online auction sites and redistribution sites have filled this niche. There's still room for another concept that alleviates the problems of larger companies while making it feasible for aspiring entrepreneurs.
4- On-Demand Service Dispatching
On-demand service dispatching used an online platform to send an individual to wherever their services or skills are needed. One big advantage of this business model is that it's completely scalable and allows businesses to send independent contractors where they're most needed. Companies like Lyft and Uber have thousands of individuals who use their cars to provide ride-sharing services. Since this business model doesn't work with most industries, other businesses need to step up to add to this trend.
5- Drop Shipping
Drop shippers are notorious for running out of merchandise. That's because they rely on merchandisers and wholesalers that help them fulfill orders and restock as needed.
Businesses who used this business model had to pay for a list of companies who provided them with merchandise before they could find the products they need to sell.
They're turning to no-fee drop shipping directories to avoid those necessary fees. This has attracted the interest of small businesses and startups with small budgets that are interested in drop shipping. These firms use bloggers and site aggregators to keep them informed about the merchandising industry.
6- Monetized Open-Source Software
Though open-source software is free, the developers who make it still have to make a living somehow. Monetized open-software software has been created from the open-source software market. While most programs are free to use, some companies are providing subscription services or are receiving online donations.
This trend is changing the way that the tech boom is doing business. Developers who aren't comfortable with releasing their entire code are turning to monetized open-source software. It allows them to develop new programs as they make an honest living.
7- Subscription-Based Sales Models
Many corporations and large companies are offering free versions of their products and services. This is similar to the shareware business model, but these subscription-based sales models are only used online. Small businesses who have a tight budget have provided their services in the subscription-based sales model since the updates are made automatically within the package.
Companies who use subscription-based sales models tend to get a larger number of leads than those who don't. This removes the need to determine which market segments use a certain type of equipment. Game developers have also used their model as part of their startup launch. That hasn't stopped gamers from claiming that it's unnecessary for this market.
The Bottom Line
The future of startups and online businesses depend on these trends. Predicting the future of business models is complicated even for most experts because of how quickly the e-commerce industry moves. One advantage is that these trends aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Startups and small businesses should look to adopt one of these business models before they crash without a goal in mind.
But you shouldn't feel like you should follow someone else's business plan without modifying it. Don't be afraid to come up with som e of your own ideas. Add or make changes to your business model as needed, and you may end up in next year's list of online trends.


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Over 60% of surveyed Americans say yes
That's a 9-point climb in Fannie Mae's HPSI measurement
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index, a composite index designed to track consumers' housing-related attitudes, intentions and perceptions, increased nine points in June to 76.5. Although the HPSI is down 15 points year-over-year, June's gain marked the second rise in HPSI since April's almost record low.
According to the report, 61% of Americans now believe it is a good time to buy a home – an increase of 9 percentage points from May's 52%. The share of respondents who say it is a good time to sell also increased to 41% from 32% the month prior.
"The share of renters who say it's a good time to buy a home is now at its highest level in five years, suggesting favorable conditions for first-time home buying, consistent with the recent rebound in home purchase activity," said Doug Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist of Fannie Mae.
Despite predictions by CoreLogic that home prices will decline 6.6% by May 2021, the number of HPSI respondents who say home prices will go up in the next 12 months increased in June from 26% to 34%, whereas the percentage who said home prices will go down decreased from 35% to 25%.
HPSI respondents who say mortgage rates will go down in the next 12 months decreased in June from 25% to 17%, while the number who expect mortgage rates to go up increased from 25% to 32%. Last week, Freddie Mac reported the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 3.07% – the lowest in the series history.
While initial jobless claims sat at 1.43 million at the end of June according to the Labor Department, the percentage of respondents who say they are not concerned about losing their job in the next 12 months fell from 75% to 74%. Those who are concerned increased from 24% to 26%.
"Survey respondents' persistent, substantially elevated concerns about job security in the face of record unemployment remains a key takeaway, particularly among renters and homeowners with a mortgage," Duncan said. "We believe the continuing uncertainty regarding the coronavirus' containment suggests an uneven and potentially volatile course toward economic recovery."
In April of 2020, the HPSI sat at 63 points, the survey's lowest record since November of 2011. However, June's 76.5 point sentiment continued to climb towards March's 80.8 points, which occurred at the beginning of COVID-19.
Depending on the extent to which it can be attributed to consumers having chosen to delay or to accelerate home-buying plans due to the pandemic, Duncan predicts this activity may cool again in the coming months.

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Ask A Mom (Who Is Not Your Mom): Breaking My Vow of Purity
Have an issue that could use a mom's-eye-view? Our new advice column features a real live mother of three who is ready to discuss any of your burning questions judgment—and baggage—free. Email [email protected] with the subject line "Dear Mom." Please include your first name or nickname and where you are from. Questions may be edited for clarity and length.
Dear Sarah,
My mom and I have always had a very close relationship. When I was 13, I made a purity vow and promised not to have sex until I was married. Part of the reason I did it was because I knew it would make her happy—and she was beyond thrilled. When she was in high school and college, she was very casual about sex and she's often told my sister and me how much she regrets that. I've always felt comfortable talking to her about sex and relationships, but now I'm 20 and thinking that abstaining isn't for me anymore.
In the past, I asked my mom how she would feel if I decided to break that promise and she said she would support me no matter what—but it was hypothetical because I had never even kissed a boy. Now I have a boyfriend who I've known as a friend for a few years. He knew going into the relationship that sex would never be a casual thing for me. We've fooled around, and it has always been consensual. I feel that sex is just the next step for us.
I want to broach the subject with my mom so I can get her opinion and help with birth control and gynecological appointments. I know that she will always love and support me, but I don't want to have to face her disappointment or have her think that I'm just doing this because this is my first real relationship. How can I bring up the subject gently?
—J.J. from Minnesota
Dear J.J.,
Each of us makes decisions about our lives drawing on our personal experiences. Your mom's attitudes about pre-marital sex were shaped by what sounds like a rough time when she was not emotionally ready to be sexually active. She may have also fooled around with guys she didn't have genuine feelings for. It's not surprising that she has wanted to protect you from doing over what she sees as her painful mistakes. However, you are now in a very different place than she was. You are a thoughtful young adult who feels ready to make informed decisions about your own sexual life. You have a supportive, caring boyfriend.
Luckily, you know your mom will love you no matter what. Perhaps because you are so close, it's especially difficult to do or say something you think will upset her. Some kids—and adults—are "people pleasers" and spend their lives trying to make others happy. Speaking to your mom about breaking your purity vow may not be warm and fuzzy. But part of growing up is asserting yourself to your parents, even when you know your attitudes differ. There may be conflict, but it's a hugely important lesson when you discover that, although you won't always agree on everything with your family and friends, the foundation of love remains strong. You'll gain confidence to speak your mind and take risks in many different areas of your life as you grow up and become an independent woman.
Take a deep breath and explain to your mom that her guidance is incredibly valuable to you. Respectfully let her know what your plans are with your boyfriend and why you are ready to take that step. If she's not comfortable with helping you visit a gynecologist and obtaining contraceptives, you can do that with your boyfriend or a girl friend. If you are old enough to have sex, you are old enough to research birth control and get your self to a doctor's office.
Oh—and let her know how much you love her. Moms like that.
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Cyber security and risk management
Read at least two (2) academically reviewed articles on Cyber Security and Risk Management and complete the following activities:
(Wikipedia articles will not be accepted. Professor may check originality of all posts. Avoid copy-and-paste.
1. Summarize the two (2) articles in 300 words or more. Please use your own words. No copy-and-paste
2. Base on your article review and the assigned reading, discuss the relationship between cyber security and risk management.
3. As an IT manager, discuss how you will use the concepts discussed in the four articles in the management of IT risks within your company.
4. Dashboards are used in thousands of businesses every day. Review this dashboard and discuss how the government, hospitals and others could benefit by something like this: https://ncov2019.live/map . Be sure to go to the top of the page and look at both data and map.Discuss how risk management comes into play here.
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November 1–11, 2012
CPH:DOX—Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival—opens on Thursday November 1 with a programme of film screenings, talks, lectures, and performances centering on contemporary documentary practice. Now in its 10th year, CPH:DOX has gained international recognition for a daring programme profile that borders on visual art, performance, and hybrid genres between fiction and nonfiction.
NEW:VISION competition for film and video works
NEW:VISION Award is CPH:DOX's competition programme for film and video work in the field between documentary and artistic practice. The programme consists of works from both the worlds of cinema and visual art. The selection includes more than 20 works by Simon Starling, Luke Fowler, Keren Cytter, John Menick, Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström, Hito Steyerl, Mariam Ghani, Jesse McLean, and others. The NEW:VISION programme is screening throughout the festival from November 1–11.
Guest Curator: Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon joins CPH:DOX's previous lineup of guest curators: Harmony Korine, Animal Collective, Nan Goldin and Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, and has curated an exclusive film programme which will be screening on November 5 & 6. Gordon, who won the NEW:VISION Award at CPH:DOX 2006, will be present at the festival to introduce the screenings, and to give a special Surprise Show on Tuesday, November 6.
Artist in Focus: Willie Doherty
CPH:DOX and the National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst) present this year's Artist in Focus, Willie Doherty. Doherty's latest work Secretion, which was commissioned by Documenta (13) and is nominated for the NEW:VISION Award, can be experienced in the X-Room at the National Gallery from November 1 thru February 24, 2013. And during the festival a curated selection of Doherty's works from the past 15 years is screening in the museum's cinema.
ART:FILM symposium and pitching forum
Now in its second year, the ART:FILM symposium is presented by CPH:DOX in collaboration with International Film Festival Rotterdam and the British artists' film platform LUX as a forum and a meeting place with a mission to facilitate meetings and partnerships between artists, filmmakers, producers and other professionals working in the field between film and visual arts.
The symposium takes place on Friday, November 9, and is divided in two parts: a case study with filmmakers Ben Rivers and Ben Russell at 11am, followed at 1pm by a panel, where representatives from the art world discuss what works, how their funding structures work, whom they support and what their approaches are to the field. Panelists: Sally Berger from MoMA, Stuart Comer from Tate Modern, Isabelle Gaudefroy from the Cartier Foundation, Teresa Hoefert de Turegano from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and Rose Cupit from Film London.
On November 7 and 8, the CPH:FORUM is hosting a financing and co-production forum, where new projects are pitched to financiers, sales agents, museums. distributors and other film and art organisations in three categories: Cinema, Fictiononfiction, and Art. Included in this years line up of 26 new projects, we are proud to have amongst others, Ulrich Seidl, Ben Rivers, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Šejla Kamerić as part of the selection.
CPH:FORUM and the ART:FILM symposium take place at the Cinematheque / Danish Film Institute, Gothersgade 55, DK-1123 Copenhagen.
For full programme and more information on how to attend:
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Gapless playback & auto volumizer
A while ago I wrote about my player jumping into the first bars of the song. Every time I change playlists I have to reset the playback & volume equalizer, if it's a long playlist it starts jumping again & truthfully the volume is up & down.
I fully understand covid etc has taken it's toll & my thoughts are with you all & I hope you are safe & well.
Thanks for your time
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How to Produce Soda Soap in Nigeria: Complete Guide
Soda soap commonly known as sica is an easy and cheap soap to make, so many people patronize it especially low-income earners and even the rich which means there's a huge demand for it. Learn how to Produce Soda Soap in Nigeria.
It is very easy to produce and its ingredients can be gotten from any chemical shop around you. This soap can be used for washing dishes, clothes, and even for bathing especially for people with skin infections as it has powerful skin cleansing properties but be careful with it as it could be harsh on some sensitive skins.
How to Produce Soda Soap in Nigeria
In this post, we'll teach you how to produce soda soap and how to market it, if you're a fan of DIYs and you've always wanted to produce soda soap on your own, this is just the post for you. Let's get you started.
The creation/making of soaps dates back to the creation of clothes and fabrics and over time, we've had an evolution of soap making as more procedures and techniques are bound to come out. However, the overall goal of soaps hasn't changed as it is to fulfill the rite of cleansing and meet hygienic needs. This is the case with bar soaps and soda soap is no exception.
Read Also: Bathing Soap For Chocolate Skin in Nigeria
Soda Soap Ingredients
To make soda soap, you'd need the following ingredients:
- Oil (palm oil or P.K.O)
- Colour
- Fragrance (optional)
- Caustic soda solution
Soda Soap Production Procedures
It is advisable first of all to dissolve the caustic soda and let it stay overnight to enable you to achieve a smooth consistency and finish. Also, let your oil bleach very well if you're using palm oil. Fry the oil till the color changes and the foaming disappears.
Take the measurement of the chemicals you need, mix the palm oil with caustic soda solution, add other ingredients as you so desire, and mix thoroughly until a smooth finish is achieved. Pour into measuring containers and allow them to cool down. Viola!! Your soap is ready.
Please keep this mixture out of the reach of children and infants.
Why Consider Soda Soap Production Business
It is Quick and Easy to Produce
From the steps aforementioned, you can see and tell that soda soap is very easy and quick to produce, it can only be strenuous when mixing but the end product and profit are absolutely worth it.
The production of soda soap doesn't take too much time if you know exactly what you're doing and you've dissolved your caustic soda previously. It shouldn't take up to an hour to produce it and that makes it easy and quick to produce.
It is Cheap To Produce
Soda soap doesn't require tons of ingredients to produce, you need just a few ingredients that matter and you'll be on your way to owing bars of homemade soda soap. The cost of production is also very low and the chemicals needed are easy and cheap to buy compared to other soaps.
It Foams Better
The caustic soda as its main ingredient makes it easy for the soap to produce lather, it is often believed that the more lather a soap makes, the higher the tendency of it cleaning dirt. Soda soap foams very well and that's why people like it, do a good product and you'll win the hearts of people who will turn out to be your loyal customers.
It is Pocket Friendly
Soda soap is pocket-friendly as it concerns the producer and as it concerns the buyer. You don't need to break the bank or tear your pocket to be able to afford its ingredients and because the price is cheap and affordable, it makes it easy for everyone and anyone to be able to get it.
No Qualification is Needed
You're not limited by educational constraints because you don't need any form of qualification or educational background to be able to produce soda soap. You don't even need a certificate for it, all you need to know is your accurate measurement and how to mix them, the steps are actually very easy as explained stated above. That's all the qualifications you'll need to produce soda soap.
Easy To Market
Now you've known how to produce the soap, it's important to know how to market it so it's not like you produced it for yourself. Count and sell it out to retailers in a way you'll both make a profit.
You can also find out from shop owners around you how many and how much they get it from other producers, add one soap to yours and supply it or supply the same quantity but at a reduced rate that will also fetch you a profit of course and you'll see that you'll have more shops to supply to at the end of the day, that equates more sales and more money.
You can also market your soap to restaurants and fast food joints, they use this soap to wash their dishes, supply it to them at a subsidized rate and you'll be surprised at how many restaurant owners would rather buy from you.
Read Also: How to Start Liquid Production Business
An additional tip is to harness the power of social media, don't say "it's just soda so why would I take it online?" get on social media and advertise your soap there, you can even give it a good packaging with a sweet brand name, you'll be amazed at how people would patronize your soda brand.
Give your brand a facelift; you could identify yourself as the only digital soda maker, just anything to build your brand on. Create a logo, create flyers and give tall talks about the soap and if you're consistent, someone might order the soap to see how different that particular one is and just like that you've made sales.
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White chocolate peppermint popcorn from Gary Poppins. Photo by Saidi Granados | THE NIBBLE.
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Today's popcorn lovers can enjoy much more beyond the basic plain, salted or buttered varieties. There are dozens and dozens of flavors, from anise to watermelon. Here's a sampling:
How far does it go? Popcorn Palace has 27 flavors of popcorn, including Cookies & Cream, Spiced Apple and Sour Cream & Chives.
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Last Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Departs Bath Iron Works
USS Lyndon B. Johnson, the third and final hull in the Zumwalt-class destroyer series, has departed Bath Iron Works. The vessel has not technically been delivered: her hull, mechanical and electrical systems are complete, according to BIW, and Ingalls Shipbuilding will finish the installation of her weapons systems.
The previous two hulls, USS Zumwalt and USS Michael Monsoor, were accepted for "special" delivery without weapons systems, then fully crewed and transferred to San Diego for a years-long process of weapons installation and commissioning. This unusual construction strategy will not be used for USS Lyndon B. Johnson; instead, the service will wait to take delivery of the vessel until it is close to a finished state.
The Zumwalt-class is built around several unique features: a tumblehome hull, an integrated electric propulsion system and a pair of unique 155mm cannons. The cannons were designed to take a special precision-guided ammunition round for shore bombardment, the Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP). However, when the class was pared back to three ships due to excessive cost, the price per round went up, ending at nearly $1 million for each shot. The Navy opted not to move forward with buying the ammunition due to the unjustifiable cost, making the cannons unusable.
In future years, the Zumwalt class will likely have at least one cannon and magazine removed in favor of vertical-launch tubes for the hypersonic Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile system, which is currently under development. The Navy believes that CPS will "enhance U.S. conventional power projection through longer range, shorter time of flight, and higher survivability against enemy defenses." It has budgeted $230 million to support CPS integration aboard the Zumwalt class beginning in FY2025.
The Zumwalt series may be finished, but several features will live on in the next-generation DDG(X) destroyer design. USNI reports that the Navy plans to incorporate a Zumwalt-style integrated power system (IPS) in DDG(X) to provide the electrical power for directed energy weapons, like high-wattage lasers. The CPS capability will be featured as well.


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Retail analytics firm, dunnhumby, hosted its first Hackathon in India
Dunnhumby hosted its first Hackathon in India for students and professionals who are passionate about data. The mission at hand was to help a failing retail business identify ways to transform into a profitable venture by leveraging the power of data. Participants competed for the grand prize of Rs 250,000 using pure brain power and data analytics tools.
"dunnhumby India's first Hackathon was a great success. Every time I visit India and our teams here, I get to experience abundance of passion and creative energy and this event was no different. This was a great opportunity for us to bring together the best data science minds in the Delhi-NCR region and see what they can achieve in a time-pressured environment as they seek to creatively resolve complex data science challenges." said Yael Cosset, Chief Information Officer, dunnhumby.
"This has been a great learning platform for college students like us, who are passionate about data and enjoy number crunching. We focused on encrypting the database application, to help build data security. We had a lot of guidance from the dunnhumby data experts who were present and the day was very well organised. It's been fun!" added Abhishek Sharma, a student participant.
After 10 hours of hacking, number crunching, intense discussion the winners were finally announced amid reverberating applause. Abhishek Sharma, Archit Gupta and Gaurav Anand were announced as the runner-ups, with Jaydeep Chakraborty, Raghav Shantanu and Gurleen Sabharwal taking the winners title.


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Qumulo (pronounced cume-u-low), a stealth storage startup out of Seattle, announced a $40M Series B investment today.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) with participation from existing investors Highland Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners.
Company co-founder and CEO Peter Godman says the founders cut their teeth in the early 2000s at Isilon, a storage company sold to EMC in 2010 for $2.25B (not a bad payday). A couple of years later, the crew decided to get the band back together and start a new company, but they realized their storage expertise had become dated and they wanted to figure out exactly what to do before they proceeded.
In November, 2012, the company grabbed a healthy $24.5M Series A round and promptly went quiet. Godman says this quiet period was purposeful. They needed to decide how to proceed.
"A lot of startups have a technology vision. We had a vision of how to create products people wanted," Godman told TechCrunch. So before they wrote a line of code or built anything, they decided to go into research mode and talk to customers, lots and lots of potential customers.
They proceeded to conduct what he called, "relentless and seemingly endless research." Along the way, as they gathered their data, they began writing code and building a modern storage appliance that's supposed to solve today's storage issues.
"We live in a part of the storage landscape that is difficult to build. We used the large Series A money to build out the technology," he said.
Taking me on a storage history lesson, Godman explained that in the 1990s, the big storage problem was scalability. Storage was expensive and difficult to implement. By the 2000s, companies like Isilon had begun solving those problems, but it was a bit too successful because instead of a terabyte and millions of pieces of data, we were storing petabytes and billions of pieces data.
Godman said that volume has produced a whole new set of problems around findability and just understanding what you have. Figuring out how to manage that volume has become today's big question mark, and these are the issues Godman says, his company was hearing about again and again as it conducted its meticulous research over the last several years.
He said the research also revealed that the traditional role of storage administrator had been supplanted by a new role of data administrator. They found the prize they were shooting for all along — to build storage that was "fundamentally better at managing large volumes of data."
For the first generation product, the company has built a cost-effective storage appliance from commodity hardware. "We buy and sell appliances whose bill of materials you could write on a napkin and build yourself, but [which] scales reliably as an enterprise storage platform," Godman explained.
Eventually, the company is aiming for an all-software solution down the road and the new cash infusion should help them get there.
Even though the company remains in stealth mode, at least in name, the product has been generally available since the third quarter last year and they have customers. In fact, one customer has been using the appliance for over a year.
The next step is scaling out their go-to market strategy, and with $40M in the till, they have the resources to do just that.


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These quartets for four C flutes are appropriate for intermediate flutists and also work well for casual classical gigs, sight-reading and adult amateurs. All are published alone and range in style from Baroque (Scarlatti, Corelli), Neo-Romantic and Neo-Classical (Gossec, Koepke). Complete publishing information can be found below.
Tracks for each piece below are available separately as high-quality mp3 files.
Or, download the entire set (single zip file): Flute-Quartets-Vol.-1
Archangelo Corelli (1653-1713) When we study Corelli we find a composer, teacher and music director who made a virtue of discipline when it came to teaching his violin students and ensembles – so much so that his techniques provided the model for other teachers. He also made an entire career as a composer writing only instrumental music and only in the forms of solo sonatas, trio sonatas and concertos.The research trail for this arrangement led to a publication of the Complete Violin Sonatas and Trio Sonatas, edited by Joseph Joachim and Friedrich Chrysander, Dover Scores (thanks to OhioLink and Case Western Reserve Kelvin Smith Library). Corelli's Op. 5 are miscellaneous works, officially titled Preludes, Allemandes, Correntes, Gigues, Sarabandes, Gavottes and Follia, Op. 5, Part 2, published in 1700 and dedicated to Electress Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg. These two movements are from two different sonatas in this collection. The Sarabande comes from Sonata VII, Op. 5, Part 2 and the Gavotta is found in Sonata X, Op. 5, Part 2. By the way, do you know that "follia" (also spelled "folia") are early 18th century chord progressions over which musicians improvised, very similar to our blues progression? All of the follia in this collection have the same chord progression as described in the Wikipedia article for "later folia". I see some Corelli-jazz fusion in my future.
Sarabanda: I love, love, love improvising ornamentations on slow Baroque melodies, so as you listen to this, I hope it inspires you to try it yourself. Here's how:Step 1 - Get to know the music very well without the ornamentation. This is to assure that when you are comfortable with the music you can add the ornaments without disturbing the core rhythm and melodic line.
Step 2 - Listen to some model recordings of flute players ornamenting Baroque slow melodies. I cut my teeth listening to Rampal's recordings of the Handel Sonatas (on vinyl!) over and over, so my repertoire of 18th century ornament vocabulary was ingrained in my musical brain. For Corelli, I found "Corelli: Sonatas for Strings" by Robert Woolley, Jakob Lindberg and the Purcell Quartet to be excellent.
Step 3 - Just experiment on your own. You can always transcribe my ornaments but you may have even more fabulous ones, so try a few different ones to see what sounds good to you.
Step 4 - Make sure your notes work with the chord underneath. If you have a pretty good musical ear, it will tell you what sounds right but you can also look at the chord under the melody for what notes will work. For example, there is a G7 in m. 9, so adding a b-natural is correct, since a G dominant 7 chord is spelled G-B-D-F.
The only other thing is to make sure your ornaments and trills are S.O.P. (my flute teacher at FSU, Charlie Delaney and the U.S. Army's acronym for Standard Operating Procedure). That means, the ornaments are added on the 2nd time through the repeated sections and start the trills from above. Since the 1st player is having all the fun, you might try to switch parts at the repeats and let everyone have a chance to play the ornamentation.
The other considerations for this movement are soon quite obvious. They include intonation, deciding which breaths you need and which you don't in order to phrase together, dynamics, note lengths, and the ritardando at the end. There will be a few short videos on some of these topics that may help, such as the Tuning video, so check them out.
Gavotta: This movement is spritely and perfect for flute players – we can so do spritely. I added a mezzo-piano at the pick up to m. 9 and changed the piano in the 3rd part at pick up to m. 13 to a mezzo-forte in order to bring out the melody. I added a downward mordent at the end in the 1st part, just for fun and because it was a common ending ornament for the style. Speaking of the ending, don't you love the "and many more" tag in the 3rd part? I would have liked to have known Corelli, he has me weeping on the Adagio (flute trio) and laughing out loud on this one.
01-Corelli, Sarabanda, complete version
02-Corelli, Sarabanda, minus 1st part
03-Corelli, Sarabanda, minus 2nd part
04-Corelli, Sarabanda, minus 3rd part
05-Corelli, Sarabanda, minus 4th part
06-Corelli, Gavotta, complete version
07-Corelli, Gavotta, minus 1st part
08-Corelli, Gavotta, minus 2nd part
10-Corelli, Gavotta, minus 4th part
09-Corelli, Gavotta, minus 3rd part
Download all ten tracks (single zip file)
François Joseph Gossec (1734-1829), a French composer, managed to leave us the one famous tune – famous in the U.S. because Carl Stalling, composer/arranger for Loonie Tunes, loved using this Gavotte when Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd or any of the other characters were dancing the ballet. For those sophisticates out there who were Suzuki kids, you know this tune from your studies. In any case, Monsieur Gossec did love to compose: for opera, for the church, for chamber musicians and for his own orchestra (in his own concert series called Concert des Amateurs, as in 'concerts for lovers of music'). He once had a band of clarinets, trumpets, horns, trombones, and eight bassoons placed in a balcony for a requiem mass just to illustrate the verse: "The trumpet, scattering a wondrous sound, through the sepulchers of the regions, will summon all before the throne". Now that's some liturgical show biz! I noticed that Gossec also had many marches and other music for wind band in his repertoire and found that he was actually the director of the Corps de Musique de la Garde Nationale at the beginning of the French Revolution. The purpose of the garde and the other musical groups in France at the time, was to stir up the common folk in support of the revolution. If you want to read more about Gossec and his wind band army, check out this online source for wind band history.The Gavotte is often arranged for piano. It's not clear for what the work originally was intended, perhaps the manuscript listed in his works as the Gavotte in D for flute and string quartet. Here's the link to the piano score.
11-Gossec, Gavotte, complete version
12-Gossec, Gavotte, minus 1st part
13-Gossec, Gavotte, minus 2nd part
14-Gossec, Gavotte, minus 3rd part
15-Gossec, Gavotte, minus 4th part
Download all five tracks (single zip file)
16-Koepke, Danse Capriole, complete version
17-Koepke, Danse Capriole, minus 1st part
18-Koepke, Danse Capriole, minus 2nd part
19-Koepke, Danse Capriole, minus 3rd part
20-Koepke, Danse Capriole, minus 4th part
Download all five tracks (single zip file)
For the Aria, I thought I would leave this recording unornamented (see the Corelli Sarabanda for a lengthy discussion on Baroque ornamentation). The reason for this is both pedagogical – I wanted a simpler version for students – and musical – the 1st and 2nd parts are so closely tied rhythmically that it is perhaps better to leave them both plain. However, cadential trills (trills on the long notes before cadence chords) can be easily added in the 1st part. You may notice that I omitted the breaths at mm. 2, 5, 10 and 21, and as well, moved the breath mark in m. 12 to after the half note and in the 2nd part, m. 15, to before the 'f-sharps'. All the cadences are great opportunities to learn good intonation. On the unison 'g' I chose to take out the vibrato, as an effective way to capture one aspect of the 17th century style.In the Minuet, I was most interested in getting the staccato notes to sound full and crisp but not heavy. Then, in the measures with more lyrical lines, I intended to make the notes graceful and connected. My favorite spot in this one is mm. 17 -18, where the 4th and 3rd parts hand off the eighth-note bass line. Listen to see if you can make it sound like one player.
21-Scarlatti, Aria, complete version
22-Scarlatti, Aria, minus 1st part
23-Scarlatti, Aria, minus 2nd part
24-Scarlatti, Aria, minus 3rd part
25-Scarlatti, Aria, minus 4th part
26-Scarlatti, Minuet, complete version
27-Scarlatti, Minuet, minus 1st part
28-Scarlatti, Minuet, minus 2nd part
29-Scarlatti, Minuet, minus 3rd part
30-Scarlatti, Minuet, minus 4th part
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Investigators said on 6 January the crash of a Boeing 737-210C operated by First Air has now been classified as a controlled flight into terrain accident but the cause is still unknown.
The 36-year-old 737 crashed 20 August on a hill about 1nm east of the midpoint of the runway at a military base in Resolute Bay, Canada, in foggy conditions, killing all four crew members and eight of 11 passengers.
The crashed aircraft had been involved in a military search and rescue exercise.
In its first major update on the investigation, Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) also revealed that the onboard navigation system has emerged as a "key area" for the investigation.
The crew attempted a go-around 2sec before impact after deciding to conduct an instrument landing system (ILS) approach to Runway 35T, according to the TSB update.
The ground-based ILS equipment seemed to be working properly, as another aircraft completed an approach successfully about 20min later, TSB said.
The 737's Pratt & Whitney JT-8D engines were operating and generating "significant power" at the moment of impact, TSB added.
An examination of the aircraft wreckage also revealed no apparent problems with the aircraft before it hit the ground.
Investigators are now conducting "exhaustive" tests on the 737's navigation systems, the TSB said. Also under review are the crew's training and procedures.
In December, the CEO of the arctic carrier First Air, Scott Bateman, resigned.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news


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Who knew being a shakedown artist ran in the family?
Never mind that the lovely shakedown artist, Dominique Sharpton posted about hiking up a mountain on her personal instagram account only one month ago…
Dominique Sharpton, the daughter of race-baiting, tax-evading Rev. Al, is suing the City of New York for $5 million after spraining her ankle while walking on a sidewalk downtown last year.
As weaselzippers reports, it's just enough to pay daddy's back taxes.
It clearly wasn't a big deal when Dominique took to Instagram to post "I sprained my ankle real bad lol."
She was pictured in a walking boot in the weeks following the tumble, but by December, Dominique was good to go for NAN's Justice for All march in Washington, DC, and for a New Year's Eve jaunt to Miami Beach.
And despite claiming "permanent physical pain" in a breathless notice of claim in December, at around the same time there were social-media shots of her in high heels and fancy dresses and climbing a ladder to decorate a Christmas tree.
But it must have got worse … much worse.
The New York Post is reporting daughter Sharpton and her ankle are currently vacationing in Bali, so they had to talk to one of the Sharpton lackeys.
The membership director for her gadfly dad's National Action Network claims she "still suffers and will continue to suffer for some time physical pain and bodily injuries."
Dominique claims she as "severely injured, bruised and wounded" when she stumbled over uneven pavement.
Falling in the street left her with "internal and external injuries to the whole body, lower and upper limbs, the full extent of which are unknown, permanent pain and mental anguish," she alleges in the court document.
The younger Sharpton is seeking the damages for "loss of quality of life, future pain and suffering, future medical bills, [and] future diminution of income," according to court papers.
If she scores her legal windfall, she might want to give her dad a handout; he reportedly owes $4.5 million in unpaid state and federal taxes.Via: Downtrend
The Instagram account, titled MsSharpton2U is private. Only Instagram users who have already been approved to follow Dominique can view her posts and uploaded IG images, or those who are able to view some of them via her Twitter links to Instagram. The Twitter account, also called MsSharpton2U, links to various Instagram posts, like one posted 19 hours ago that shows Dominique after a successful hike.
"We hiked UP the mountain, over the clouds… into the SUNRISE… One of the most beautiful sites ever. And YES I ALMOST DIED GETTING UP THERE LOL #Balidays we made it, WHEW"
The fact that Sharpton is claiming she endured "internal and external injuries to the whole body, lower and upper limbs the full extent of which are unknown, permanent pain and mental anguish" isn't being met with much sympathy online on Sunday.
The $5 million payment would make up for Dominique's "loss of quality of life, future pain," and other ailments, reads the court filing. Certain photos have been deleted from Sharpton's Instagram account, such as the one that used to reside at the http://instagram.com/p/u9oNtSLDt1/ URL, which was posted on November 3, 2014. Only one month after her injury, the Instagram photo could've provided photographic proof as to the extent of her injuries. Via: Inquisitir


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The Sixth Brethren World Assembly is set to begin this afternoon at the Winona Lake, Ind., Grace Brethren Church (Bruce Barlow, lead pastor).
Focusing on the theme "Brethren Intersections: History, Identity, Crosscurrents," the four-day event happens every five years for Brethren groups descended from Alexander Mack in 1708. It is sponsored by the Brethren Encyclopedia Project, Inc. Assembly sessions are open to all and will feature lectures, panel discussions, historical tours, worship services, and much more.
Today's session begins at 2 p.m. with a plenary session focusing on historical and religious intersections for the Brethren. It concludes with a worship service, where Dr. Gary Kochheiser is the speaker, and an ice cream social.
Friday includes sessions that focus on the Brethren-evangelical relationship in the eras of Charles G. Finney, Billy Sunday, and Billy Graham. Afternoon panels and sessions include a discussion of the Brethren and the Civil War, "What's in a Name?," responses to war, the life and ministry of Jacob Cassel, and clean water as a catalyst for Christian-Muslim reconciliation. An optional bus tour will take guests to sites in and around historic Winona Lake, once the home of the world's largest Bible conference, and a central conference point for Brethren groups since the 1880s.
Saturday's sessions will focus on themes of social justice, relationship with the military, gender questions, and will include a bus tour of historic Brethren sites at Arnold's Grove in Milford, Ind., and Camp Alexander Mack on Lake Waubee. The day concludes with a worship service at the New Paris, Ind., Church of the Brethren. On Sunday attendees are encouraged to worship with local Brethren congregations, not of their own groups.
Evening sessions are open to the public at no charge. Walk-in registration for events during the day is available.
The event is chaired by Terry White, a member of the Brethren Encylopedia Board representing the Charis Fellowship. Jared Burkholder, history faculty member at Grace College, is the program chair.


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August 27, 2014
Birmingham City 0-3 Sunderland: Still Dreaming
Sunderland's second-half pressure eventually told when dismissing the challenge posed by Championship outfit Birmingham City tonight, as another Capital Once Cup campaign got underway impressively at St. Andrew's.
August 27, 2014
Birmingham vs Sunderland: Confirmed Line-Ups
The team sheets are in for the first cup game of the season!
August 27, 2014
Preview: Back On The Road To Wembley
After reaching the final last year, we are back on the Capital One Cup trail and come up against a familiar but not particularly popular face.
August 27, 2014
Fan Focus: Birmingham City Babbling
It's time for that thingie we do where we seek out a fan of the team we are about to play and get their take on how things are going.


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Many news articles are published daily, updating media consumers with information related to COVID-19. Several of the articles are true stories based on facts, but some contain false information. In a pandemic time, it is important for media consumers to be able to determine between real and false information in a dynamic and changing 24-hour news cycle. University libraries offer resources to teach students, faculty, and members of the campus community how to know if an article has the correct information.
There are many different forms of "fake news" that can appear in articles, videos, and on social media. For example, a news article is published about a fake cure for COVID-19. This article is shared via the Internet and social media, and then additional new articles are posted and shared. Suddenly, the information is everywhere, only later is it revealed that the information was not true. How would a person know whether or not that information was objective in the first place?
This is where expert librarians in university libraries come in. Subject librarians have specific areas of expertise and are trained information literacy experts. They know how to spot fake news and are always available to help students find and verify credible sources they need for their academic work or areas of personal interest.
Information literacy is the integrative skill set that encompasses reflective discovery of information, understanding how information is produced and valued, and using information to create new knowledge and ethically participate in learning communities.
Students can contact or make an appointment with the subject librarian through the "Find your librarian" tab on the university libraries website.
"We have resources to help teach students to think critically about what they read on the news, as well as verify their own facts," said Teresa Schultz, social science librarian at University Libraries. "Librarians love to help students analyze what they read, whether it's an academic article for a class assignment or the next big meme on Instagram."
University libraries offer many databases, including OneSearch, which allows anyone with an active university NetID to search for academic articles.
"Fake news has social and emotional dimensions," added Schultz. "People respond to information emotionally first and cognitively second. Just because a person sees a news item appear in their Facebook feed does not mean they are trustworthy. "
When looking at an article, a person should assess who wrote the article and consider what biases they might have. It's also smart to see and see if the article has any evidence to back up its claims.
"Consider your source. Is the source a legitimate means of communication? "Said Georgia Grundy, member of the Library Extension Committee and library technician at University Libraries. "There have been several bogus cures and home test offers for COVID-19 online and on social media. Facing a threat like COVID-19, having incorrect information can be deadly to you or others. "
"Students should use the resources of the University Libraries because the library resources have been peer-reviewed," added Grundy. "Librarians and research staff are still available to help students locate and evaluate quality research sources."
At the University of Nevada, Reno, each academic department has its own assigned librarian. These librarians are available to help with research needs and provide personalized, individualized assistance. They also offer guidance on topics such as academic posters, copyright, online publishing, author reputation, open educational resources, data management, systematic reviews, academic metrics, and open access journals.
"We are here to help, even when we are off campus," Schultz said. "You can send an email to your librarian or even schedule a Zoom appointment online. We are here to support students during this time. The community on campus may look different right now, but we continue to build a community virtually while supporting the academic and personal success of students. "
Schultz also suggests that community members use fact-checking resource websites like Snopes to help better determine between real and fake news.
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April 15, 2020
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Dharma as a method for Moksha
There are other methods which are called the methods of dharma, where the emphasis falls upon the instrument of action. Here again you are not told as to how you have come into this trouble. You are told that if you want to come out of this trouble, then you take recourse to dharma. What is dharma? We are told that it is a very difficult subject but if you want to know in a minimum way, all is explained in the Veda. What is dharma, what is not dharma being a very difficult subject, the easiest answer is to open the Veda and whatever is prescribed there is dharma and you follow it and when you do it you will attain to liberation, moksha. This process is a very intricate process, a much longer process than the other processes which I have described so far. First it says that your mind should be so developed as to have the desire to avoid evil and to do good. This should be the least preparation. A human being should be so developed, his body, life and mind should be so developed that he arises at a point where he feels "I must avoid evil and I must do the good". Whatever thing may help you to arrive at this point is good for you, that is the first minimum condition. Training of the child right from childhood is good if you can succeed in doing so. Or else you reason with the child and tell him the consequences of doing good actions rather than evil actions. Or you may experience in your life sometimes after having done many evil actions that you really come into an abyss and then you realise, "My Lord, I will now never go into it, I will never do it again". Take for example what Othello did to Desdemona. Othello and Desdemona were deeply in love with each other and they married each other escaping from their own house and then somehow at a certain time Iago began to arouse jealousy in the mind of Othello saying that his wife is unfaithful to him. Othello would not believe it but ultimately he showed a handkerchief as a proof; the handkerchief given by Othello to Desdemona. He said that she gave it to somebody from where he obtained it. This proof was so clinching for Othello that he could not for a moment doubt it and he was filled with jealousy. He went straight home and asked for that handkerchief which she could not produce. When she began to give some kind of an answer about the presence of that handkerchief of which she was not aware because it was stolen by her maid servant for creating this kind of a trick, then his suspicion became so great that he became mad and in his rage he simply smothered and killed her. And after this, the maid servant came and told him the truth and in that situation he realised that he had done something really evil. This was a real realisation – and he felt that he should have never done it. For him at least, the only solution was to kill himself after that. But a person can reach a situation in which one finds really the experience of evil and feels that such a thing should never, never happen. The real nature of evil is that when it is realised you feel like blotting it out, that is the meaning of evil. Evil is a situation or an action or an instrument or a thing which seen in a particular light is felt to be so inconsistent with your highest. That which you would like to blot out, is evil. If from the beginning you were not trained in goodness perhaps in your experience you will reach the point where you will really ask yourself. "What is good? How can I avoid in my life in future so that I will not be trapped again in that situation where I will do evil and have these consequences?" According to this teaching it is best that you are told what dharma is and then you follow very rigorously that dharma. You are told to read the Veda and to find out what dharma is from the Veda but Veda itself is so difficult. So it is said that the first dharma is to study Veda, because akhilo vedo dharmasya moolam, i.e. the entire Veda is the origin of the dharma. So study of the Veda is itself prescribed as dharma. But then when people have read the Veda, they have found so many interpretations of it that they get confused. In due course of time therefore in India we had a system of Smriti – Veda is called Shruti but then came a system of Smriti – and we are told that Veda being a very difficult thing, you just see what is written in the Smriti. Therefore, you have Manu Smriti, Narada Smriti, Mahayajnavalka Smriti and other Smritis in which dharma is given. But again if you read the Smriti today, you will find that there are so many things which are unacceptable, so it is said in India that Smritis have to be refreshed from age to age. Unfortunately today there is no new Smriti being written and that is one of the big difficulties. That is why, in India today, whenever anybody goes in search he gets perplexed because some people tell him that what is in the Veda is in the Ramayana. Some say that the Mahabharata tells you everything that is in the Veda and yet he does not get any satisfactory answers because Rama and Krishna themselves are quite different personalities. So who should be followed? Or he is told to read the Puranas because all the Puranas are expositions of the Vedas, or he is told to read the Smritis, but there are many Smritis and you do not know which Smriti to follow and then even the Smritis are out of date. Others advise him to follow the Bhagavad Gita, it being the smallest, text wise, but again the Bhagavad Gita is interpreted by so many different people that there is again a perplexity: whose Bhagavad Gita should be read? Whose teaching should be followed? Whose interpretation? That is another problem. So, for those who want to follow the path of dharma there is a tremendous difficulty today, and then added to the present anarchy we are told now that we have new values, a new dharma. Secularism, liberty, equality and fraternity are new dharmas of the present day and we are told to follow them and unless we have thought out quite vividly, deeply and subtly, we are all in a mess in fact, we do not know where to turn!
In any case the sum-total of the movement of dharma is only one thing: you clarify your nature by means of goodwill. Basically you might say the essence of all dharma is goodwill. Develop your goodwill to the utmost and anything that is opposed to goodwill is impurity, so clarify your impurities, throw them out. Your mind should be drenched as it were, in goodwill. When the question of acting out of goodwill is concerned there will be many, many difficulties. Some even prescribe that you should do works of charity. Among professions you are told that to be a doctor or to be a teacher and educate the children are called dharmic actions in the sense of goodwill. This does not satisfy the modern mind because it is more dynamic and more active. Why should a lawyer's work not be regarded as dharma? He is helping the society as much as anybody else. Why should a captain of industry not be regarded as a man who can do a lot of good to the whole society? The questions of the modern mind are much more complex. But even there, the general answer that should be given is that if anyone of them is doing work with goodwill then it is a good instrument. According to this dharma, once you have reached that point where the mind is drenched with goodwill then comes the point of liberation, then you begin to perceive the Supreme good which is not here in this world. You begin to perceive the Supreme good and then you are enabled to come out of the clutches of all that is here and you are liberated from the world merely by a perception of the good. By developing goodwill to the highest point you are enabled to perceive the good, the Supreme good and when you perceive the Supreme good there is a kind of a liberation that will be felt which will make you come out of this mess in which you are and you will be liberated. This is the third method.


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Ryan Casselman is hoping his final year of junior eligibility is a memorable one.
The 20-year-old Napanee native will spend his last season with his hometown Raiders, looking first and foremost to improve upon the team's disappointing first round exit in last year's playoffs. If he tops his league leading 48 goals and 69 assists in the process, so much the better.
"Last year was obviously a disappointment for us," said Casselman, who will sport an 'A' on his jersey this year. "I think this year we should just take it one game at a time and not look too far ahead. I think everyone has the same goal in mind, which is a championship. Hopefully we'll just start with one game at a time and not get too far ahead of ourselves."
Casselman has experienced highs and lows in his junior career.
In 2017 he scored the game-winning goal to lead the Junior A Cobourg Cougars to the RBC Cup.
The following year he returned to Junior C where he led the Raiders to their best finish in franchise history with a 37-2-1 record. He was also named the league's MVP and earned the OHA's Donald Sanderson Award, complete with a presentation at Toronto's historic Hockey Hall of Fame.
Yet the season still ended on a sour note as a team that was expected to challenge for the Schmalz Cup was eliminated by the fourth place Amherstview Jets in the Tod Division's first round.
"When we were beating up on teams 10-0 we got some bad habits," said Casselman. "This year we're just going to have to keep grinding every single game no matter what the score is and continue with good habits and carry it into the playoffs."
Though the Raiders did lose three of their top five scorers from last year, with only Casselman (117) and Austin Labelle (76) returning from that group, the team should have no issue replacing those numbers with the acquisition of Evan Foley, Cameron Harris and Dayton Kent from Port Hope. That should prevent teams from double-teaming Casselman.
"We got lots of new talent and some hard workers coming along this year," said Casselman. "We seem to be adjusting pretty well. With the new guys the puck's been moving pretty good for us and hopefully it continues starting Friday night."


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Robert Pattinson & Suki Waterhouse's Reported Dates Are So Cute You Might Burst
Ever since Robert Pattinson left the Twilight franchise behind, he's gotten pretty good at avoiding the public eye and has kept his private life for the most part exactly that. However, the Good Time actor was recently spotted together with a rumoured flame which has left me wondering, are Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse dating? The British model and actress was spotted leaving a nightclub with him late at night, further fuelling rumours that the pair have been dating for a little while.
According to Metro, Waterhouse and Pattinson were spotted partying all night long at The Chiltern Firehouse on Tuesday October 30 before leaving around 2:30 a.m. The outlet also added that they were seen "heading home together in a black cab." The Daily Mail also shared pictures of the pair in the car, reporting that they "beamed as they settled into the backseat". They weren't wrong, as the pair seem absolutely adorable and were giggling with one another as they hid from the paps. Good for them. I've reached out to both their reps to see if they can confirm whether or not the pair are dating, as it definitely looks like they have chemistry. Pattinson's rep hasn't responded, but Waterhouse's management responded to say that "we don't comment on our client's personal lives."
Waterhouse and Pattinson were rumoured to be dating earlier this summer. The Daily Mail shared pictures of the pair kissing on a date night during which they alleged stopped by Soho House and also "watched Mamma Mia 2." (A couple with great cinematic taste, TBH.) As with the other night, they also partied pretty late before retiring home together. At the time, the Daily Mail said they remained at Soho House "until 1:10 a.m., when they walked arm-in-arm back to Suki's abode."
E! News previously reported on Pattinson and Waterhouse's romance, with a source telling the publication that the pair were "casually dating," which sounds like a nice change of pace from his previous relationship. The source said, "Rob is having fun right now and has definitely moved on from his relationship with FKA twigs."
They also added that the pair are "definitely into each other" and I'd say that always helps when you're embarking on a romance — confirmed or not.
Pattinson was last in a pretty serious relationship with the singer FKA Twigs and they dated for three years, leading to the pair becoming engaged. They were basically the ultimate hipster couple and it was pretty sad when they broke up last year, as E! reports, but it's nice to see that he's moving on.
Waterhouse on the other hand was previously attached to Diego Luna, a.k.a. one of my biggest celebrity crushes, but they called it quits last year, Harper's Bazaar reports, after a year-long relationship.
Whatever Waterhouse and Pattinson's relationship status is, there's no denying that they look pretty chic together. And if they want to keep things private, that's totally their prerogative. But either way, I genuinely haven't stopped thinking about the fact that Robert Pattinson allegedly took her on a date night to see Mamma Mia 2, my personal favourite contender for Best Picture at the Oscars next year. The couple that watches Pierce Brosnan struggle to hit the high notes together, stays together IMO.


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VR reimagines training and education
Dissolving pessimism and evoking optimism, VR reimagines training and education setting the sails for new realities and ways of learning in soft skills. But is it all plain sailing?
Louis Marin (1984) frames utopian narratives as a journey, in which the construction of reality in out of the ordinary ways is encouraged. The Learning Loop draws clearly and unapologetically on utopian roots, it's coordinates firmly set on sailing VR head on into industry and education to upskill employees and students alike in soft skills.
Echoing the sentiments of the Grandfather of VR, Professor Tom Furness, The Learning Loop aims to use VR for social good, building a stronger and cohesive society post pandemic. A fundamental part of social good, is creating a socially just, supportive, and empathic society and workforce. Cue soft skills.
Soft skills have traditionally been overshadowed by hard skills, though the pandemic has shown human interaction and robust communication skills is essential to maintaining i) social networks and ii) remote working. Two thirds (66%) of skills shortage vacancies are the result of a lack of people and personal skills, known as soft skills (Department for Education, 2020). Put simply, action is needed to start meeting this challenge. Could VR have the answer?
Potentially, yes. In our research we identified five key themes to build a case for VR and soft skills training:
- Ability to provide users with exposure to realistic, diverse scenarios in a safe and risk-free environment.
- Cost efficient and green training solutions compared with in person training, supporting scalable and repeated learning episodes at distance.
- Soft skill is challenging to effectively deliver in person as it is challenging to replicate in person interactions using roleplay.
- Utilising blended learning approaches VR provides flexible and versatile education and training, with options for instantaneous feedback.
- Provides support to bridge the soft skills training gap.
Reflecting the possibilities VR brings, the last 5 years have seen an incremental increase in VR companies exploring soft skills training and education. Yet they are still far and few between. Notable companies developing VR simulations to deliver communication, empathy and presentations skills include, Mursion, Body Swaps and PwC. Industry giants Walmart, Vodafone, Ernst & Young, Hilton and Lloyds have all adopted VR into employee training, firmly shifting VR into real life realties.
It seems everyone is hopping on to the bandwagon, right? Not so, as industry examples are few and far between. In education there are even few examples, certainly nothing mainstream.
Robin Ghurbhurun (2020) reported only 4 in 10 FE staff have adequate digital capabilities, with a staggering 49% feeling unable to deliver quality teaching using digital (JISC, 2020).
In short (as obvious as it sounds) educators need support to have the confidence to move away from the deep-seated ingrained teaching and training pedagogies of yesteryear.
Of course, the pandemic has nudged many teetering educators and trainers into the digital pool of ed tech (albeit, I quietly suspect kicking and screaming!). Yet more work is needed. Without this fundamental support, VR will simply remain part of a utopian education. Nothing more than a nice thought and something global giants are able to bring into their own rose-tinted realities as something novel.
Studies and research in this area are lacking, the longer term impacts and translation into real world contexts are largely unknowns. In short, we're just at the tip of the iceberg of understanding how VR can effectively support soft skills delivery
Framed as one of the most significant pieces of research in soft skills and IVR (given the number of blogs mirroring the findings), PwC's (2020) in collaboration with Talespin report is one of the most current pieces of work in this field. Investigating the impact of unconscious bias training using VR, PwC's report offers some insight into IVR and soft skills training though there are shortcomings.
Sure, the latest VR HMD headset was used (Oculus Quest), yet it wasn't exploited to its full potential relying on voice input. A closer examination reveals users read text out loud from multiple options and were not afforded the full benefit of hand controls. Over the last month I have read more about haptics and hand motion tracking than I care to remember – Yet they are AWOL in PwC's research, with no clear rationale for a voice only approach.
This must be one of the biggest shortcomings (and travesties) of all! Even using voice the experience is, well limited. After all, how many conversations do you have with a script displayed? We have to ask ourselves, as a society, as educators and trainers are we ready to accept interactions are formulaic and therefore reduce the act of human interaction as an algorithm?
Mehrabian (1939) reported 38% of what we say is shaped by paralinguistic communication (it's not what you say, it's the way you say it) and 55% facial expression. Only 7% is verbal. Arguably, PwC (2020) were only partially successful in replicating a human interaction and subsequent training.
If VR soft skills training is really to transition out of utopia, it needs to be real ready i.e. truly representative of real life reality. Whether AI can realistically replicate in person human conversations is open to debate. Though if we accept this preposition , are we not accepting robots as new teachers in this utopian education, and if we are, how are we approaching ethics? (If we are thinking about them at all).
Mursion, have gone one step further than PwC and developed 'the human in the loop approach. Effectively a real human puppets an avatar and the trainee interacts with the roleplay. This seems far more sensible, enabling real conversations and scenarios to play out – Personally, I am far more excited about this approach than utilising AI and conversational branching rigs that are out there.
It might sound like I am on a mission to discredit AI and the approach taken by PwC, though you couldn't be further off the mark. What I am trying to articulate is there is a need for rigorous, robust and evaluation of IVR in soft skills training. That is both ethical, true to life and effective.
PwC's report is just a small piece of an emerging picture, more work needs to be done to really get beneath the hood of this fascinating area. PwC have set the sector alive with a partial illumination of what is possible, though is just one perspective and one application with limitations. More exploratory work is needed if we are really going to sail, what is still a utopian education into a wider ocean.
The Learning Loop is striving to develop new, innovative approaches in partnership with industry to develop something that really works at scale. We're already preparing our pilot study and will be going live with our first experiences in the first quarter of 2021 – Keep an eye out for a new ship in the waters! It is going to be an exciting voyage and one I personally hope fosters stronger and deeper human relationships to assist in a post pandemic recovery.
Department for Education (2020) Employer skills survey 2019: summary report [online]. London: Department for Education. Available from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/936488/ESS_2019_Summary_Report_Nov2020.pdf [Accessed 1 February 2021].
Ghurbhurun, R. (2020) Why are only four in 10 staff in FE comfortable with mainstream technology? [blog]. 13 October. Available from: https://feweek.co.uk/2020/10/13/why-are-only-four-in-10-staff-in-fe-comfortable-with-mainstream-technology/ [Accessed 1 February 2021].
JISC (2020) Shaping the digital future of FE and skills – September 2020 [online]. Bristol, UK: JISC. Available from https://www.jisc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/shaping-the-digital-future-of-fe-and-skills-report.pdf [Accessed 1 February 2021].
Pwc (2020) The effectiveness of virtual reality soft skills training in the enterprise [online]. London: PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. Available from https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/technology/emerging-technology/assets/pwc-understanding-the-effectiveness-of-soft-skills-training-in-the-enterprise-a-study.pdf [Accessed 01 February 2021].


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September 21, 2020
NB-IoT burst out of the blocks in 2016, discovered its shoelaces were badly knotted and promptly nosedived into the racetrack.
No one is really sure if 5G will sprint to its rescue or sidestep it altogether, but several big operators currently see little use for the hobbling Internet of Things (IoT) technology, once touted as the mobile industry's future IoT champion.
They include Orange. The French operator has long preferred other technologies and has apparently not warmed to NB-IoT this year.
"We are keeping an eye on NB-IoT," said Jean-Marc Lafond, Orange's IoT portfolio director, when asked during a webinar earlier today about Orange's investment in that technology.
"In some countries you have the local ecosystem and local actors who do want NB-IoT, and then we are studying very carefully if such a deal makes sense."
But the operator has built its IoT strategy around two other technologies, and there is no sign that is about to change four years after NB-IoT was first standardized.
From the mobile industry's bag of standards, Orange has fished out LTE-M, an NB-IoT sibling. It has also made investments in LoRa, a technology based on unlicensed spectrum that took shape outside the telecom sector.
Across Europe, Orange now has LTE-M networks up and running in Belgium, France, Spain, Poland and Romania, and it is due to launch them in Slovakia and Moldova.
A LoRa service is currently available in France and parts of Slovakia, as well as at a few sites in Romania.
Figure 1: Orange's IoT footprint in Europe Source: Orange.
Belgium and Luxembourg stand out as the only geographical markets where Orange has seen any need to invest in NB-IoT.
Elsewhere, it seems, the technology simply does not measure up to Orange's requirements.
"For example, LTE-M offers higher data rates than NB-IoT, lower latency, advantages in mobility and voice and SMS support," says Kester Mann, an analyst with CCS Insight who raised the webinar question with Orange about its interest in NB-IoT.
Similarly, for stationary objects that use lower data rates, Orange prefers LoRa to NB-IoT.
Lafond alludes to the maturity of both LTE-M and LoRa, including their device ecosystems, and reckons there was "overcommunication" around some IoT technologies.
While Orange has not entirely closed the door on NB-IoT, "it's clear that it believes other narrowband flavors can satisfy demand for IoT connectivity," says Mann.
Too soon for a write-off
Orange's apathy does not mean NB-IoT can be written off. Other big European operators, including Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, remain firmly committed to it.
Nor has any other wide-area technology seen lift-off.
Only Vodafone appears to have more than 100 million IoT connections, despite earlier forecasts there would be tens of billions worldwide by 2020.
It claimed 102.9 million at the end of March, many based on the old 2G standard.
Deutsche Telekom does not disclose recent numbers, while Spain's Telefónica had 24.3 million in June. Orange supports only 21 million and does not break that down by technology.
Want to know more about 5G? Check out our dedicated 5G content channel here on Light Reading.
Outside Europe, however, NB-IoT has had some major upsets this year.
"The technology's highest profile setback came when Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo announced it is shutting down its NB-IoT network, less than a year after launching a service," says Mann.
"Again, it appears that LTE-M emerged as a preferred technology."
Dish, a US operator building that country's fourth mobile network, has also dumped NB-IoT in recent months, writing off $253 million accordingly.
"We no longer intend to complete our narrowband IoT deployment," said the operator in a May filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"More widely, NB-IoT appears to have lost momentum this year," says Mann.
NB-IoT stakeholders remain hopeful. When it comes to wide-area technologies, the entire market has developed more slowly than was originally expected.
5G could make a difference to NB-IoT's prospects if it helps the technology to evolve and does not simply throw up another option.
In the meantime, NB-IoT could use some telco love.
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Bobbie Mullahey, 87, spent years here in public relations
Star-BulletinMargaret Bobbie Mullahey, widow of Pacific aviation pioneer William Mullahey, died Tuesday in Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in California. She was 87. Born in Tonopah, Nev., to a pioneer Nevada family, she attended Antioch College in Ohio and later graduated from the University of Hawaii.
She traveled extensively with her first husband, Calvin S. White, a journalist, who also served as public relations director of Hawaiian Pineapple Co.
After his death in 1949, she worked in public relations with Matson Navigation Co. and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
She married Mullahey, also a world traveler and an executive with Pan American World Airways, in 1956. He died in 1981.
Her memberships included the Outrigger Canoe Club, the Nevada Historical Society, the Philanthropic Educational Organization, the Carmel Foundation and the Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula.
She is survived by sons Calvin White, Evan White and Michael Mullahey and eight grandchildren.
Memorial services were to take place today at Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula. The ashes will be scattered later.
William R. Big Bill Carroll, 67, of Waimanalo, a retired heavy equipment operator with Gaspro, died April 23 in Honolulu. Born in Honolulu, he is survived by wife Mary Ann K., sons William Roy Jr. and Whiston K. Carroll, daughters Billie Ann Kikala and Carol Ann K. Carroll, sister Catherine Maria, 13 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Monday at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Call from 6 to 9 p.m. Mass: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. George Catholic Church. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: Hawaiian Memorial Park. Casual attire. Tualesolo T. Manutau, 31, of Waipahu died Wednesday in St. Francis-West Hospital. Born in Vatia, American Samoa, he is survived by wife Anoalo P.; sons Ikaika and Kealii T.; brothers Pilimoevai, Eliota, Logovae and Faanenefu Afuola; and sisters Ruta Peseti, Toga Seu, Talagu Leifi and Asomaliu Faumuina. Services: 10 a.m. Monday at Pearl City Community Church. Call from 10 a.m. to noon. Burial: Sunset Memorial Park.
Lillian C. Tseu, 92, of Honolulu will be remembered in services 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Kaimuki Ward. Call after 8:30 a.m. Incorrect information yesterday provided by the mortuary.