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BENGALURU: Directed by Italian director Anna Dora Dorno, Dante's Beyond Borders is an experimental theater and dance performance. Co-produced in partnership with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Mumbai, it was born from the collaboration between the Italian theater company Instabili Vaganti and the Indian association Ahum Trust. It is inspired by the Divine Comedy of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of his death.
Considered one of the greatest works in world literature, the poem, written in the first person, chronicles Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead – hell, purgatory and heaven.
The performance explores different artistic languages: experimental theater, dance, cinema, video art, electronic music in order to take the viewer on Dante's supernatural journey.
Performed by Anna Dora Dorno, Nicola Pianzola and Anuradha Venkataraman, the play is in English and old Italian. The sounds of Dante's ancient Italian language meet the mudras and gestures of the Bharatanatyam dance, accompanied by contemporary electronic soundscapes, originally composed by Oscar-winning Italian musician Riccardo Nanni.
The performance aims to explore the many links between Dante's work and Indian culture, from an iconographic, philosophical and theological perspective. âBeyond Dante's Borders stems from the long and unexpected lockdown, where innovation and the struggle to keep up with artistic and cultural collaborations were sometimes mixed with weak feelings.
Finally, here we are ready to attend the show on stage, celebrating the power of art and the absolute beauty of the real and deep exchanges between cultures, here Italian and Indian â, declared the director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Francesca Amendola. 'Dante Beyond Borders' will be presented at Ranga Shankara from November 30 to December 1.


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BREAKING: After Meeting with Trump CHINA THREATENS To Bomb North Korea [VIDEO]
The Left wondered how President Trump would perform on the world stage, particularly when it came to potential acts of war. Well, they just got their answer.
The Trump Effect continues in international relations, as China gives an ultimatum to North Korea.
Recall during the campaign when then-candidate Trump said that China should intervene with North Korea, not the United States. President Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week seems to have made an impact. China just threatened to bomb North Korea and its nuclear facilities if it crosses their "bottom line."
During the entirety of Barack Obama's presidency, North Korea has threatened the world. Obama never leveraged China, and he certainly offered nothing definitive to stop Kim Jong-Un from his idiocy.
However, President Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week seems to have made an impact.
China just threatened to bomb North Korea and its nuclear facilities if it crosses their "bottom line."
As Zerohedge reported:
In a harshly worded editorial titled "The United States Must Not Choose a Wrong Direction to Break the DPRK Nuclear Deadlock on Wednesday" Beijing warned it would attack North Korea's facilities producing nuclear bombs, effectively engaging in an act of war, if North Korea crosses China's "bottom line."
The editorial in the military-focused Global Times tabloid, owned and operated by the Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper, said that North Korea's nuclear activities must not jeopardize northeastern China, and that if the North impacts China with its illicit nuclear tests through either "nuclear leakage or pollution", then China will respond with force.
"China has a bottom line that it will protect at all costs, that is, the security and stability of northeast China… If the bottom line is touched, China will employ all means available including the military means to strike back. By that time, it is not an issue of discussion whether China acquiesces in the US' blows, but the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) will launch attacks to DPRK nuclear facilities on its own."
This, as the editorial puts it, is the "bottom line" for China; should it be crossed China will employ all means available including the military means to strike back," warned the editorial.
Furthermore, the op-ed declared:
North Korea will "not be allowed to have a government that is hostile against China on the other side of the Yalu River." This implies that if and when the U.S. initiates strikes on North Korea, the Chinese PLA will likely send out troops "to lay the foundation" for a favorable post-war situation.
In a follow-up to his meeting with President Xi last week, Trump offered China a better trade deal if they solve the "North Korea Problem."
Mr. Trump made clear to China last week that they needed to correct its trade imbalance with the United States immediately.
Sweetening the deal in an early morning tweet, President Trump said:
"I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!"
Not backing down, Trump brought more pressure on China in a second tweet:
"North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A."
After the U.S.-China meeting, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed that China agreed with the Trump administration that "action has to be taken" regarding North Korea.
Tillerson told CBS's Face the Nation:
"We're hopeful," he added, "that we can work together with the Chinese to change the conditions in the minds of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] leadership. But I think there's a shared view and no disagreement as to how dangerous the situation has become. And I think even China is beginning to recognize that this presents a threat to even to China's interests as well."

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Bernard of Clairvaux, the Last of the Fathers and the End of the Middle Ages
Chicago, IL 60637
Burcht PrangerUniversity of Amsterdam
Cosponsored by The Medieval Studies Workshop
and The Theology Workshop
The 12th century monastic reformer Bernard of Clairvaux recruited hundreds of young men to the cloister or claustrum (enclosure) of Cistercian monastic life. The rhythm of life in the monastic enclosure not only rules the structured existence of the monks but also alters their experience of time from linear to circular while maintaining the goal of the world to come. Bernard's eloquent insistence on this way of life represents the end of an era and, to an extent, the end of the Middle Ages.
Burcht Pranger is Professor Emeritus in the History of Christianity at the University of Amsterdam and, at present, the Thomas F. Martin St Augustine Fellow at Villanova University. He has published widely on medieval monasticism, mainly on Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux. In his Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism (Stanford, 2003) he discusses the work of Anselm at length. In 1994 he published a book on Bernard: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought: Broken Dreams.


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Navigating your child's online world – a cyber safety event
March 8, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Navigating Your Child's Online
A Cyber Safety Parents Information Evening
Do you feel like you're fighting an uphill battle with the use of technology in your household? Worried about what your children are actually doing online but not sure how to to find out? Not sure how to set age-appropriate boundaries? You're not alone! These are common questions that parents today face.
This cyber safety event is not to be missed. Hosted by Brett Lee, a former police officer and online child exploitation detective, this parent information night will provide real insight and actionable steps for parents.
Topics covered include:
- How to help your child maintain their sense of self in a pressurised online world
- How to help your child create a healthy balance between real life and online connections
- The best parental control apps
- How to set healthy boundaries and digital contracts.
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France introduces four-week national isolation to fight coronavirus
France will enter a new month-long national lockdown from midnight on Thursday to apply a "brutal brake" on coronavirus infections, president Emmanuel Macron has announced.
In a televised speech on Wednesday evening, Macron called for a "collective effort" to combat Covid-19, admitting recent efforts to contain the virus were "useful, but not enough".
"Difficult measures have to be taken," the president said.
"We have always said we have to live with the virus … We have done all we can do and I believe our strategy and information has been good," he said. "But we have to admit, like our [European] neighbours, we are submerged by the acceleration of the spread of the virus. All of Europe is surprised by the speed of the spread of the virus.
"We are overwhelmed by a second wave that is set to be harder and more deadly than the first."
Macron said that if the virus continued at the current rate, all of France's intensive care beds would be filled with Covid-19 cases by mid-November, causing the cancellation of other essential and sometimes life-saving operations.
He recognised that another lockdown – following the strict two-month confinement in March and April – would hit the French economy, adding: "The health system won't hold unless there is an economy to support it, but nothing is more important than human life.
"We could do nothing and adopt the idea of herd immunity … in the short term this would mean patients being triaged and possibly 400,000 deaths."
Macron said the aim of the new restrictions was to reduce new infections from the current 40-50,000 a day to a treatable 5,000 a day.
The new lockdown will see the return of sworn declarations needed to leave home, but schools will remain open. Universities will give courses online. All non-essential businesses, including bars and restaurants, will be closed from midnight on Thursday.
Private gatherings are banned, though there will be time given for people to return home from the All Saints' Day holiday this weekend. Public services will remain open.
The prime minister, Jean Castex, will give details of the new rules on Thursday.
Large swathes of France, including Paris, have been placed under a night-time curfew, but officials say this has not been enough to stop the virus.


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ANBERNIC portable protective bag For RG353P/RG353PS
This product is rated 5.0 of 5.0 stars.
It has received 1 review.
Customer Reviews
It's a nice case, gives good protection and fits perfectly, the only improvement i see (not just for the case but for most cases) they use elastic to hold you extra stuff securely in the extra pocket ad this works with thing like cables but it does not work for stuff like MicroSD cards or converters MicroSD to USB or to SD, these just slip out from under the elastic and as a result you will loose them, they should have used Velcro, or give it two pockets one with Velcro and one with elastic, that would be even better.


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Zemarah Script Font
Zemarah Font is a new fresh handmade calligraphy font created by VPcreativeshop. A handwritten style that is simply and classy font. Zemarah is not ordinary, elegant typeface with 3 styles, swirls and multilingual support. It's a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes.
Zemarah is perfect for branding projects, home-ware designs, product packaging, magazine headers – or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.
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AMD FirePro W5000 Professional Graphics Card Review
AMD says the FirePro W5000 is the most powerful midrange workstation graphics card ever created. For example, it has the ability to process up to 1.65 billion triangles per second, allowing a designer to easily interact and render 3D models, while the competing solution is only able to process up to 0.41 billion triangles per second (up to 4 times less). Read on to see how this sub $450 professional graphics card does in some benchmarks!
"Priced at $448 shipped, the W5000 is a card that comes with the support and certification for the applications professionals use without the high price tag of the more powerful cards in the FirePro lineup. The W5000 packs 768 Stream processors with an engine clock of 825MHz. The 2GB of GDDR5 memory comes clocked at 800MHz on a 256-bit bus, offering 102.4GB/s of memory bandwidth…"
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At ElasticON Global 2021, we shared our vision for the future of the Elastic Search Platform and how new innovations will continue to empower you to search, solve, and succeed.
Elastic 7.14 delivers free & open Limitless XDR, delivering unified SIEM and endpoint security capabilities in one platform. Elastic Agent enables simpler and faster data collection with integrated security and centralized agent management.
Elastic 7.13 delivers cost-effective search across more data with searchable snapshots and the frozen tier, analyst-driven data enhancements on the fly with runtime fields, and expanded Microsoft integrations.
Elastic 7.12 released: General availability of schema on read, technical preview of the frozen tier, and support for autoscaling
Elastic 7.12 enables customers to choose between unmatched flexibility and speed with schema on read, unlock new value by making object stores fully searchable with the new frozen tier, and automatically scale deployments on Elastic Cloud.
Elastic 7.11 released: General availability of searchable snapshots and the new cold tier, and the beta of schema on read
Elastic 7.11 lets you optimize for cost, performance, insight, and flexibility with the GA of searchable snapshots and the beta of schema on read. We've also introduced enhancements across Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security.
Elastic 7.10 transforms the way in which our customers and users can trade off cost, performance, and depth of data with searchable snapshots. Kibana Lens is GA, and Elastic Observability is expanding user experience monitoring and synthetics.
Elastic 7.9 released, with free distribution tier of features of Workplace Search and endpoint security
Elastic 7.9 delivers new capabilities to market. Get started with a new free tier of features of Workplace Search, and transform how you onboard data with the new Elastic Agent. Plus, one-click free malware prevention is built into Elastic Security.
Elastic Stack 7.8 delivers new capabilities to market, helping our customers and users onboard more data into Elastic, streamline navigation and management, and power deeper investigations and greater insights from that data across use cases.
Spin up a fully loaded deployment on the cloud provider you choose. As the company behind Elasticsearch, we bring our features and support to your Elastic clusters in the cloud.


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Pet Piano is an interesting musical training game for children. Ten tunes that you can play, music instruments, piano, guitar and music box, and sounds of animals, dog, cat, bird, chicken, cow and cricket. Have a great time! Mouse or tap to play.
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Managing Network Resources
Managing Compute Engine Resources
This course has been designed to teach you how to manage networking and compute resources on Google Cloud Platform. The content in this course will help prepare you for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam.
The topics covered within this course include:
- Adding subnets to a VPC
- Expanding existing subnets
- Reserving static addresses via the console and Cloud Shell
- Managing, configuring, and connecting to VM instances
- Adding GPUs and installing CUDA libraries
- Creating and deploying from snapshots and images
- Working with instance groups
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to manage networking and compute resources on Google Cloud Platform
- Prepare for the Google Associate Cloud Engineer Exam
Intended Audience
- Those who are preparing for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam
- Those looking to learn more about managing GCP networking and compute features
To get the most from this course, you should have some exposure to GCP resources, such as VCPs, VM Instances, Cloud Console, and Cloud Shell. However, this is not essential.
Hi, everyone, and welcome to this lecture. In this lecture, we're going to cover instance templates. Instance templates are used to create VM instances and manage instance groups. When you create an instance template, what you're really doing is defining the machine type, the boot disk image, the container image, if necessary, any labels, and any other properties that will be used to deploy your instance or instance group.
Once the instance template settings are defined, you can use the template to create either a managed instance group or to create individual VM instances. The purpose of an instance template is to facilitate the creation of identically configured instances. That being the case, it's not possible to update or change an existing instance template once it's been created. If you need to make changes to a configuration, you need to create a new instance template.
It's important to note that instance templates are global resources; they are not bound to a specific zone nor to a specific region. However, when you create an instance template, you may need to specify some zonal resources. This, in essence, restricts the template to whatever zone in which those zonal resources reside. For example, if an instance template includes a persistent disk from the US-Central-1A zone, you won't be able to use that instance template in any other zone since the disk exists only in zone US-Central-1A.
Join me in the next lesson where I'll show you how to create and assign an instance template.
Tom is a 25+ year veteran of the IT industry, having worked in environments as large as 40k seats and as small as 50 seats. Throughout the course of a long an interesting career, he has built an in-depth skillset that spans numerous IT disciplines. Tom has designed and architected small, large, and global IT solutions.
In addition to the Cloud Platform and Infrastructure MCSE certification, Tom also carries several other Microsoft certifications. His ability to see things from a strategic perspective allows Tom to architect solutions that closely align with business needs.
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Why is Superior Bath Durham's leading bathroom renovation Company? Because we are specialists in renovating bathrooms. We do not build decks one day, install a roof the next day or build a fence some other day. We only build bathrooms and are extremely good at it. Read our testimonial page and see what our clients have to say about us. We offer a full one-stop supply & install service, renovating bathrooms from inception to completion. We supply, we design, we install. No extras. Benefits Of Choosing Superior Bath Reno: We have our own crews to do the work - no subcontracting Peace of mind Full Supply & Install Service - we do not leave your project until complete. 2 Year Installation Warranty Full Liability Insurance and Workman's Comp - No Client Risk Meet Us: Joe Beninato - President and Co-Founder Joe has been in the home renovation industry since 1973 working in all areas of the plumbing and building industry. Joe has been involved in the wholesale, retail, manufacturing and now a renowned bathroom/kitchen renovation expert. He personally gets involved in all of the ongoing renovation projects. His keen eye for detail and personal hands-on project management ensures a quality and successful completion to the project. With partners and co-founders Sam Martin and Shelley Webb they lead a group of 4 master renovation crews that work exclusivley for Superior Bath. Each crew is assigned their own projects and do not leave until the job is complete. Joe can also be hired as your personal project manager. Should you have your own contractor, Joe is also available to help you design your bathroom and aid you in choosing product selection and manage your renovation on your behalf.


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Can VR revolutionize education? Equality Lab's case
Put ourselves in others' shoes Everyone is different. This is definitely truth around us. However, we might forget this truth sometimes. For example, when we live in as a majority […]
Put ourselves in others' shoes Everyone is different. This is definitely truth around us. However, we might forget this truth sometimes. For example, when we live in as a majority […]
Everyone is different. This is definitely truth around us. However, we might forget this truth sometimes. For example, when we live in as a majority group of a community, we might neglect minority groups' opinions.
Everyone has his/her own rights and can enjoy his/her own life, and we respect each other. These actions are really easier said than done. First of all, it is difficult for us to understand what and how other people feel and think. Even though we are living with family members for a long time, it is impossible for us to understand completely other members' feelings and emotions. When it comes to people other than our families, it becomes more difficult.
"Put yourself in others' shoes" is the key quote in the situation. If we try to put ourselves in others' shoes, it is the first step for mutual respect and understanding. Thanks to technological advancements, some tools help us do so. Virtual Reality (VR) is possibly one of them.
Virtual reality (VR) refers to a computer-generated simulation where a person can interact within an artificial three-dimensional environment. VR uses electronic devices, such as special goggles with a screen or gloves fitted with sensors. In this simulated artificial environment, users are able to have a realistic-feeling experience.
Equality Lab makes use of VR technology to enhance our perception about diversity. For instance, the organization made VR that enables users to experience in 1960s. In 1960s, the civil rights movements were peak and users can feel as if they were a minority group in that era.
Dr. Alexandra Ivanovitch, who is the CEO of the organization, said in the following way. Our mission is to build immersive worlds that heal, educate and elevate. We commit to offering people mind-expanding experiences and taking them where no human has gone before.
As we see the other article about AR, VR might not enjoy its full potential. Still many people might think the technology will be used in only video or online games. However, like Equality Labs does, VR can enrich our experiences. Everybody is different so that the world cannot exchange one person for another, but VR makes this myth happen.
For example, my Japanese friend once told me that he lives in the special world. It means that people around him were all Japanese and they also spoke only Japanese as well. When he studied abroad, he noticed how big the world was. There are so many countries, people, culture, traditions, foods, histories and others. Therefore, VR technology helps these people broaden their horizon, even though they are living in the same place for a long time.
In this sense, VR enables students to learn diversity and inclusion more realistic views compared to classroom experiences. Education is the very base of our society so that most countries put much effort into the improvement of it. Most governments, schools and teachers should VR's potential into consideration.


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In lieu of the haul I featured yesterday, why not pair an Electropop with a kick ass glitter?
Yeah, that's right! You're looking at shards of glitter! Unique isn't it? This is two coats of Icing After Party over China Glaze Aquadelic.
Remember kids, after the party is the hotel lobby.
Tune in. Drop out. Love polish.
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Nature reserves in the region Attersee-Attergau
Nature reserves, nature park & European protected areas
Protected areas can have different goals: The protection of a site , the protection of endangered habitats and animals, the preservation of unique natural relics or the protection of centuries-old trees. Experience the protected natural jewels in the Attersee- Attergau region. Discover the Venus Trap among the nature reserves, learn about a special relic - the natural and untouched piece of primeval forest shore - and much more.
Protected areas at state & European level
In Upper Austria there are three different national protected area categories: Nature reserves, landscape protection areas and protected landscape parts. Nature parks are a special form of a landscape protection area. In addition to the national level, there are also protected areas at the European level. Several categories of protected areas in Austria are referred to as European protected areas, which pursue the goal of permanently safeguarding Europe's natural habitats. Essentially, these are areas in the Natura 2000 network of protected areas of the European Union for the protection of biotopes and species.
Nature reserves & natural jewel at lake Attersee
European protected area Attersee - Natura 2000
Pearl fish and sea salmon
An area of over 6000 hectares of Mondsee and Attersee lakes was designated as a NATURA 2000 protected area by the EU in 2006. Among the reasons why this area was declared a European Protected Area are pearlfish and sea pigeons. The pearlfish is a highly endangered carp fish. It is only rarely found in Europe. In the Attersee and Mondsee the most vital stocks are found in all of Europe. The sea pigeon is still relatively common in Lake Mondsee and Lake Attersee, but it could no longer be detected in Lake Traunsee. Both fish live in deep waters. In the Aquarium Weyregg, the endangered fish such as pearlfish and sea dove, as well as the measures in the European Protected Area Mond- and Attersee can be observed.
Where does the pearlfish get its name?
The pearlfish owes its name to the typical spawning rash of the males. Largely on the head and back, amber-colored, approximately rice-grain-sized elevations form, which, giving the fish its name, look like small pearls.
Attersee-Traunsee Nature Park
All powidl in the plum kingdom!
The special cultural and natural landscape between Lake Attersee and Lake Traunsee was awarded the title of Upper Austria's third and largest nature park in 2012. It connects the two lakes with a very varied mountain and valley landscape.
For inquisitive nature lovers, knowledgeable experts offer a large number of different nature adventure tours to explore the herb and plant world or the life in the forest and water. A treat for body, mind and soul. Discover this fascinating landscape and experience the Attersee-Traunsee Nature Park with all your senses.


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To be fair, it was hard to come up with this list as I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to food. I do my best to try everything and give it a fair chance. Sometimes, I even try things twice just to give it the benefit of the doubt. But, when it comes to these things, I tried them once and only once. My husband (and son) love all of these things, but they are just not for me. I tried to find "appetizing" pictures, but for you non-meat eaters out there, you've been warned. ;-)
1. Leberwurst
Otherwise known as Liver Sausage, you can buy this fresh from the butcher, already packaged in the store or in a glass jar that obviously already has the casing removed. Typically, it's eaten on an open-faced, buttered slice of bread or in a buttered brötchen.
2. Rouladen
From what I've read, Rouladen is typically rolled beef filled with onions, pickles, bacon and mustard, but the recipes vary by region and generational traditions. For instance, M's mom serves it filled with a hard-cooked egg which is the only way I have ever tried it. I know many cultures, including my own, have different ways of serving beef and eggs together. Whatever the country, I'm not interested. M has also made a dish that has ham stuffed with ground beef in a sort of cream sauce. No, thanks. I like all of these things separately on their own, but let's not start mixing them, k?
3. Fischfrikadellen
These are basically fish cakes, which I think are similar to crab cakes, and while I quite enjoy the latter, for some reason I don't like these. The one time I tried it, I almost spit it out, but to be fair, I've never had one fresh from a restaurant or home-made. So, if that were ever the case, I might be willing to give it another go.
4. Mezzo Mix
Okay, so in case you didn't know, Germans really enjoy combining drinks. You've got Radler (beer with lemonade), Cola Bier (beer and coke) Banane Weizen (banana juice with Hefeweizen) and in this case, Coke and Fanta mixed (well cola and orange soda to steer clear of brands). This is another one I almost spit out the first time I tried it, however, if I make the mix myself, it is quite good. I still have to be in the mood for it and can;t drink it regularly, but when doing it myself, I can add less coke which I think is why I don't like the pre-made version. The cola is very strong and overpowering, in my opinion. I know I'm in the minority as it's very popular here. (And no, my son hasn't tried this one before I get any crazed comments, "you let your toddler have caffeine/soda?")
5. Schokolade Croissant
I can hear you all gasping, running to unfriend or unfollow me as fast as possible. I know it's an awful thing to admit, but I hate these. I have tried them multiple times because my boys love them and somehow, I always end up holding them, but every time I do I regret it. For me, it's like biting off a huge piece of chocolate wrapped in a small amount of bread. For me to like it, you'd have to flip that scenario and make it a whole-lotta bread with a dash of chocolate. I know. The horror! Please forgive me.
So, what about you? Any foods from where you live or your home country that you can't stand? I'd especially like to hear the ones that are popular with everyone else (like my mezzo mix and croissant).


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The New Threat To Offshoring
Offshoring has been popular for many years, and back-office processing (BPO) is still a big earner for many nations, particularly in Asia, parts of Latin America and Europe. However, how long will it continue is anyone guess, with COVID-19 set to cause havoc globally for many months if not years.
Lockdowns have occurred almost everywhere, and in nations where offshoring is a large part of their services sector, remote working is not a foregone conclusion to continue business as usual. Security concerns have meant there are clauses in client contracts which prevent BPO providers from allowing their staff to work from home.
Is Offshoring Cost-Effective?
Businesses realise less value in offshoring. For example, the wage gap is shrinking now companies can switch to a remote working model onshore for many if not all their staff.
New Technologies
Plus offshoring has been under pressure for some time from new technologies aka digital transformation, including greater immersion of AI, machine learning and robotic process automation.
4th and 5th industrial revolution tech can do the same work faster and for less cost. Plus handle the mundane tasks, a reason many companies choose the offshoring model in the first place. They either didn't want to hire low-value workers who cost a lot more than their offshore counterparts, or they preferred to invest in upskilling their staff to take on other roles and tasks.
Also, onshore competition between digital services providers has lowered the costs to the business for data storage and hosting. Where once server and website hosting was expensive now with cloud computing its a commodity and a low-value offering.
COVID's impact on offshoring
COVID has exposed companies vulnerabilities with offshoring. There is a lack of control, poor communication; therefore if there was ever a time to ditch the offshoring model maybe now is it!
Remote Working
Companies know they can trust their staff to work from home and the cost savings for the business are far-reaching, so it questions the validity of offshoring.
Commercial Real Estate
The reasons to move business processing offshore is losing its lustre for many companies. If the cost of real estate was a reason to offshore, it no longer stands up to the test.
Downsizing headquarters and fewer commercial premises are shrinking that value gap between onshoring and offshoring.
BPO Providers fight back
BPO providers know they need to pull out all the stops to retain their customers.
While not a true expression, the saying possession is nine-tenths of the law can suggest that it's easier to continue business as usual with your offshoring provider. The transformation project to bring process onshore will be costly and disruptive, maybe not a good time to testing your customers' patience.
Investment in new tech
BPO service providers can show their commitment to their clients with investment in new technologies that reduce the cost of the service. This action alone may be enough to deter many companies from a major change that could threaten sales.
Tax Advantages
Plus there may still be a tax advantage for keeping services offshore. Unless Governments offer companies tax credits and stimulus to hire locally and keep or bring back services, the tax may have the final word.
Consulting firm Deloitte conducted 40 interviews with global business service providers, including BPO organisations and the world, changed and the future less clear. Still, it's not all doom and gloom for the sector.
Opportunities for BPO Service Providers
There are opportunities for it to grow and now working remotely and use of video conferencing second nature, what was considered a communication barrier is now less challenging. It may be a case of who gets there first with new tech adoption.
If BPO service providers step up to the challenge and prove their set up is far superior, delivering cost savings, transparency, and greater flexibility, then why attempt the mammoth task of 'reshoring'?
Offshoring is under a greater threat since COVID. Lockdowns and remote working have businesses realising they can save a lot and invest in new technologies, so why not consider 'reshoring' business processing. If BPO service providers can prove they have the new technologies and the value will be passed on, then it will be business as usual.


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Making the Web Safe for Democracy
What the United States can and should do to spread Internet freedom.
With this week's news that the Gmail accounts of foreign journalists in China had been hacked, coming on the heels of last week's brazen attacks on the accounts of Chinese human rights activists and the broad, sophisticated cyberattacks on about 34 U.S. companies, the Chinese assault on Internet freedom is now out in the open for all the world to see.
With this week's news that the Gmail accounts of foreign journalists in China had been hacked, coming on the heels of last week's brazen attacks on the accounts of Chinese human rights activists and the broad, sophisticated cyberattacks on about 34 U.S. companies, the Chinese assault on Internet freedom is now out in the open for all the world to see.
The challenge to Internet freedom posed by China is formidable and calls for a bold response. To this end, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will unveil a new technology-policy initiative on Jan. 21. But merely stressing the importance of Internet freedom will not be enough. The U.S. government must be prepared to back up its ideals with bold action.
The Chinese government censors the Internet in multiple ways, using extensive, multi-layered systems. It blocks social networking applications at critical times, as it did with Twitter on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre; it filters politically sensitive content; and it uses human censors to shut down online discussions about human rights abuses, official corruption, and other forbidden subjects. The regime also pressures private companies, such as blog hosts, to police their users.
But the assault goes well beyond censorship. The Chinese government also conducts pervasive online surveillance and uses sophisticated technology to monitor and intercept emails. State security has forced detained dissidents to give up their passwords, allowing agents to access their address books and identify all of their contacts. It has also subjected cyber-dissidents to arrest, prosecution, and harsh jail sentences. Through this combination of censorship, surveillance, and retribution against dissent, the Chinese government maintains the world's most extensive system for stifling political speech online.
Clinton's Internet freedom initiative will have limited effect if it merely re-packages existing policy. The importance of Internet freedom is well known — it was often articulated by the George W. Bush administration — and $20 million is already allocated for programs to help human rights and democracy activists evade censorship and maintain their privacy in countries such as China, Iran, and Syria. Moreover, as part of this year's appropriations bill, Congress has pumped another $30 million into these programs.
But this doesn't go far enough. Although substantial, these programs are largely reactive. They aim to mitigate the effects of online censorship and surveillance. They don't proactively challenge the ability of China and other repressive regimes, like Iran, to control the Internet in the first place. A truly bold Internet freedom initiative would directly take on the censors and push back the assault on Internet freedom globally. First, the United States must lead the world's democracies in collective diplomatic efforts to press for a more open Internet and respond to violations of Internet users' rights with the same — or greater — vigor as other human rights abuses.
Second, the government should step in to defend U.S. companies when they come under pressure from authoritarian regimes to hand over Internet users' personal data.
Third, multilateral export controls should be enacted by the U.S. Congress and European parliaments to stop the use of U.S. and European technology to censor online political content and intercept electronic communications. The sale of advanced surveillance technology to authoritarian governments, such as Nokia-Siemens' sale of network technology to Iran's telecom monopoly, needs to end. Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which controls the country's telecoms, is no doubt using Nokia-Siemens technology to crack down on the pro-democracy green movement.
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In the face of the increasingly brazen and aggressive assault on Internet freedom, a bold U.S. effort is needed to reverse the current restrictions, pre-empt the emergence of new online threats, and make the Internet a force for freedom throughout the world.
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by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2010/09/29 07:01 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2010/09/29/10069077.aspx
Regular readers may recall recent blogs discussing problems with PDF in complex scripts like Beauty isn't only glyph deep and Beauty isn't only glyph deep, even for Microsoft and Acrobat PDF: the Yugo vs. the BMW vs. the Ferrari and Providing more information is the best way to assure correct information is received.
I thought it might be important to point out that one of the things I felt it important for Adobe to be doing that I mentioned way back in that first Beauty isn't only glyph deep blog:
And Adobe calls PDF
The global standard for trusted electronic documents and forms
do they? For me Adobe has no credibility on that statement until they either
That includes bring those free PDF writers forward. A hard problem, to be sure, but they created it themselves, and gave it to the planet. I think they owe it to the planet to make moves toward solutions.
As it turns out that, without too much fanfare, Adobe is perhaps at least trying to work toward meeting that burden:
As far as the rest of the world, one thing that is being done is that the PDF/A-2 specification includes a new "Unicode" conformance level which requires a ToUnicode table and/or ActualText entries, so that all text (visible or not!) has an associated Unicode codepoint. In addition, there are also discussions on the ISO 32000 (PDF) committee about establishing such requirements for the forthcoming PDF 2.0 standard.
Now given the complex issues I point out in both Acrobat PDF: the Yugo vs. the BMW vs. the Ferrari and Providing more information is the best way to assure correct information is received, this may turn out to not be enough (both the BMW and the Ferrari coming out of Acrobat meet the minimum suggested burden and yet still have problems, which sugges that more needs to be done.
It is tempting to think of these issues as bugs in Acrobat to report that have little to do with the standard.
But it seems likely to me that if Adobe can make the mistake than anyone can -- and thus it makes sense for the standard to close this loophole that allows conformant PDF to be wrong....
And of course Adobe needs to be pushing people to not do old-style PDF whenever possible. There isn't nearly enough of that pushing going on.
In the meantime, articles like this one give me hope. Well, a little bit, at least!
Anyone know where that ISO standard is being discussed, exactly? :-)
Michael S. Kaplan on 29 Sep 2010 7:03 AM:
Of course threads like this one also give me hope, since it means smart people are having the conversation. :-)
Tom Gewecke on 29 Sep 2010 10:54 AM:
Great series of articles -- I'm keeping a list in my own blog:
go to newer or older post, or back to index or month or day


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If rocking music can substitute for crude lyrics, we do not need poets.
I couldn't believe my ears when I heard my close friend's four-year-old humming loudly a song that I had detested for many days now. Yup, the one Deepika is swaying her hips to the item song in 'Dum Maro Dum'. I casually asked Sneha the little one, if she knew what the line in the song meant? Pat came the remark "Aunty it is potty pe bethe nanga', don't you know what it means?
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It is not the first time that vulgar lyrics have been prompted in large scale mediums like films. One such song was the Karishma-Govinda starrer song 'Sarkhai lo khatiya jada lage', though popular made my parents to switch of the television sets in case little guests had come home or worse watch those movements danced to the dance number. I am sure Karishma now would never think of this song and she would get amnesia if someone mentioned that she had danced to this song.
Forget 2000 onwards; if one thinks of the era of great lyricists like the 50s-70s, I wonder if lyricists like Majrooh Sultanpuri or Shailendra would ever find a job of writing even one song in the current lyricist's generation. Could they attempt to write in their wildest dreams lines like 'Shaam ko daaru, Raat ko ladki' from 'Shoot out at Lokhandwala' or 'Kal meri skirt keechega' from 'Dum Maaro Dum'?
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As I left my friend's place in my car, the RJ on the radio announced the top 10 songs and the one that had been on my mind however much I detested all morning came back again. This time however I decided to accept it as a phase that will soon pass as I thought one needs such songs to cherish good from bad.
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Cognitive needs - for understanding, curiosity, exploration, knowledge - are strong in the technical communities. We are also known for the high prevalence of diverse neurotypes. This article celebrates the inclusion and care of all our quirks.
Session Layer and Cognitive Needs
This article is NOT about:
- Jam session
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- "Session layer"
Except that the Layer 5 of the OSI model corresponds to the "cognitive needs" in the extended version of Maslow's pyramid , according to my metaphorical mapping that this series of articles is based on.
"Maslow believed that humans chase knowledge to increase their intelligence, so he added cognitive needs in his hierarchy of needs pyramid that focuses on learning, discovering, and creating a better understanding of the world. The motive behind this need is to learn, explore, and welcome experiences in life; needs for meaning and predictability, knowledge and understanding."
Embracing Neurodiversity in Tech
The RIPE community is very strong when it comes to cognition. We are also very rich with people "belonging to the neurodiversity spectrum", as defined in 1998 by Judy Singer:
"The neurologically different represent a new addition to the familiar political categories of class/gender/race and will augment the insights of the social model of (non-pathological) disability."
"Neurodiversity (ND) may be every bit as crucial for the human race as biodiversity is for life in general." — Harvey Blume, The Atlantic, 1998
Adjacent technical communities have been covering this topic for a long time; here are my favourite resources that might be helpful to you when dealing with neurodiverse colleagues in your teams, organisations, communities, and/or families and friends:
- SHA2017 lecture: "Nerd-Wrangling 101: Managing Neurodiversity with Cognitive Empathy", by Meredith L. Patterson and Julian Finn (video)
The term "Nerd" broadly describes very many of the quirks that come with neurodiversity. While not all nerds are neurologically diverse, many are. ADHD and Asperger's, as well as mood disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety, and personality disorders such as OCD are very common within the hacker scene.
- Adding "neurotype" to the D&I (Diversity and Inclusion) / Code of Conduct statements by Ryan Boren #ActuallyAutistic parent and retired tech worker at Automattic (2017).
- "Failed Empathy" CCC lecture (in German) and video about the representation of autism in the media by Beta Lars: a happy autistic 3D artist, game designer and Tinkerer ( 2020).
- Creating equitable digital spaces for neurodivergent individuals talk at MozFest, by Rin Oliver (March 2021).
- "Things Every Software Engineer Should Know About Neurodiversity" Talk on EggHead.io by Myk Bilokonsky. Course Notes on GitHub, by Lauro Silva.
- RIPE Labs articleThe Microphone is the Devil Some Know - Embracing Neurodiversity at RIPE Meetings , by Amanda Gowland — 11 Jun 2019
- "Neurodiversity HCI" (human-computer interaction) in the magazine "Interactions", by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) talks about the importance of considering all ways of cognition when designing interfaces (2013).
Pandemic Brain at Work
As if life wasn't difficult enough for non-typical people, in the last year we have also had to deal with the extra load of the pandemic. Here are some useful resources to boost your resilience:
- Pandemic Brain (comic about editors) by Eva Cheung
- "How Exceptional Individuals and Companies They Have Worked with Are Responding to COVID-19"
- Finding meaning by Caitlin Johnstone
- Using "cognitive empathy" at work
- Accessible Teaching In the Time of COVID-19
- Pandemic and Privilege: how much of an option is working from home?
- COVID-19 Brain Fog inspires search for causes and treatments (April 2021)
- "Black like Me with ADHD"
- "Let's Get Together! Book Clubs for Neurodivergent Adults"
- Pandemic fatigue is tangible and persistent: "surge capacity depletion" how to restore energy and mood Additude magazine is a WONDERFUL resource, this is one typical article.
General resources:
- NeuroDiversityHub.org
- Gratis Masterclass and handbooks, for educating young and adult learners by CognAssist
- Cognitive load: privilege, disability and Maslow's pyramid
- "Spoon Theory", by Christine Miserandino in 2003 (about life with a chronicle illness)
- The Science of Well-Being a gratis Coursera course, started on 3rd May 2021, and The Happiness Lab podcast - both by psychology professor Laurie Santos from Yale University
ND Brain at Play
In 2000, the Canadian Medical Association published a paper that analysed characters from Winnie the Pooh novels and mapped them on the ND spectrum.
Read the review of "Neurocomic",'A Graphic Novel About How the Brain Works' by Brain Pickings.
And in 2016, Jace Harr made an interactive online game for algorithmic self-care, for those of us who have problems with Executive Function, or have trouble reading internal signals. By answering questions you can find out which of your needs is not met, and continue through the "if-then-else" branchings, until you are satisfied with your care. Or, "you may want to go through this routine as soon as you wake up, as a preventative measure."
If you'd like, you can copy or modify this project on GitHub (in Russian), you can translate it into your own language or add other questions & answers!!! I just love how geeky that is!
Recognise - Normalise - Embrace (Neurodiversity)
Calls to action:
- Please fill in the survey about RIPE Community Wellbeing (before 11 May)
- Join the event "Downloadable Brain" on 12 May, by Cognitive Sensations
- Register for the webinar "Covid and Mental Health", on 13 May, organised by the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol
- Register to attend RIPE82 (14-21 May)
- Celebrate (Dutch) Neurodiversity Pride Day on 18 June!
- and/or look back at the "Neurodiversity Celebration Week" that was in March


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Popular YouTubers like Shane Dawson Emma Chamberlain, and Hannah Meloche have made the notion that they, all varying degrees of millionaire, are, in fact, just like us, regular civilians. They go online and say the same droning monologue about how they "have no friends" and are "actually really poor," but their mansions beg to differ. However, people really fall for it, and these YouTubers are capitalizing off it. In fact, this phenomena has extended beyond YouTube, and into the realm of big media corporations, like our beloved Netflix.
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ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - The American Red Cross and the Salvation Army are on the front lines of helping those in need when disaster strikes. Both agencies are preparing for every possible scenario as Hurricane Ian eyes Florida.
"Just really been on a planning timeline the four or five days," said Adelaide Kirk, Executive Director of American Red Cross Southwest Georgia
Ian continues to rapidly intensify, on track to hit Florida as a Category 4 as early as Wednesday.
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May 30, 2022
Tech BBQ 2021 - Remote work and culture
Tech BBQ 2021 got off to a great start for Contractbook. The exhibition hall was rammed with companies from all walks of tech life. Right next to stand 14 where we are located an environmental company working towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. There are companies dedicated to workspaces, opposite us are Joes and Cos with unlimited access to work spaces. Of course one of Contractbook's customers MuteBox are on location, perfect for those meetings.
Want to store your belongings while you exhibit? What about Luggage Hero? They are here too. There has a been a great vibe around the hall all day, the smells of food outside being cooked by local companies such as War Pigs and many others.
Day One:
Our very own CPO and Founder, Jarek Owczarek, hit the Camp Fire stage with the first delivery of Contractbook themed discussion. For us it was about culture, what do we do within these times leading away from Covid 19? We have been working remotely as many other companies have too, but we were remote first before the pandemic.
We have colleagues around the world, all over Europe and an office in the states. We will continue to work remotely and be able to use that to our mutual benefit. As Jarek put it: "We are able to get access to some of the best talent in the world by having a remote first culture." Which is true. Why have a limit of a few million people when you can have the pick of applicants from 7 billion people?
Of course there were a few laughs thrown in. When asked what channels spring to mind when thinking of Slack, the answer of course was "Random" and "Dad Jokes" the audience lapped this up. The repetitive "Dad jokes" murmur was pretty audible at the end. Fair to say whoever is monitoring channel creation at Slack will be inundated with Dad Joke channels.
Another channel that is created on Contractbook's Slack - Main - Where Jarek explained that it was created to say "Hi" and "Bye". For all 10 people originally, now over 100, where we all say hello and goodbye every day, we also find things out there. "Oh you had a baby!? Congrats." Mixed in with a selfie Tuesday.
Remote first culture was pretty much made clear to be an important part of Contractbook's makeup.
Booth activity was constant through the day. All of our sales and partnerships teams discussing the company, interest was high, it is clear people are noticing. How do I know this? I heard them say it. "I recognized the company." or "I have seen it before."
We also had interest from top law firms in Denmark who are gearing towards tech start up involvement.
Our partnerships team was solidly booked for the day and had a ton of meetings scheduled. Again a great amount of interest circling regarding partnering up and many have serious intentions of how we can help with access to incubators, accelerators, and VC portfolio companies.
Johan Mortensen hit the Tech Stage in the afternoon delivering Contractbook as a startup. He nailed it. The focus again on culture, what we stand for and how we like to work hard, but have fun too. A work place thrives when people are trusted to perform and execute, while being able to engage and form bonds with colleagues.
Day two looks promising. After being named one of the top 10 by Danske Bank, we have our CEO, Neils Martin Brochner, facing the press and media including the likes of Forbes and FT. And also we have Thor Haugaard, who will deliver a keynote on the Tech Stage.
Day Two:
The second day of tech BBQ 2021 got off to an early flier with our CEO Niels Brochner facing the press and media. Questions were fired at him from the likes of Forbes, Financial Times and ... amongst others regarding Danske Bank's 100 companies. We have all been working tirelessly to put forward Contractbook on the best platforms possible and this was a great example of that.
Sales teams were back at the booth, number 14, and some of them were booking great meetings right from the first minute until the last. What a turn out. On day one, a member of the sales team booked a meeting and held it with a company, had a fantastic discussion around their use case. Well, what would you know? Day two comes by and that same company set up a booth directly opposite us, which was a pretty cool thing to be fair.
Our automations wizard, Thor Rowland, delivered a great keynote. Super professional, of course, it was like watching a Ted Talk as he went through his repertoire on all thing Contractbook automation - Now everyone knows what automation is, where we see it in everyday life, and how we use it in contracts. "We are surrounded by it every day but maybe you don't know. It is in the traffic lights, phones, computers, everywhere. The future for me is being able to speak to your phone and it produces a contract right there and then."
That, I am pretty sure you will agree, is some futuristic Demolition Man, Terminator, Minority Report level contract creation. Hyperbole aside, of course this is a much more advanced version of Siri, its more advanced sibling, which I am sure would have some suggesting it would be easy to do - for the non-tech savvy like yours truly, not that easy.
If Tech BBQ is to be summed up for Contractbook. A great event to network, gain some knowledge and put forward Contractbook as a business and as a solution for many people, it is what they were looking for. So much interest, the proof of where we are going is the fact that we are so recongnizable to people now. In other ways Tech BBQ has been great internally - We had representation from Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, Marketing and not to mention participation from our founders too. A great team building event.
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