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Ljubljana is a city full of surprises and things to see! Before we start this guide, let's see what we have known about Ljubljana before we visited it: seriously, nothing! Only that it's the capital of Slovenia. Somehow we have absolutely underestimated it, and we focused on the landscape and nature of Slovenia. But oh boy, we were so wrong! Ljubljana is clean, the architecture is beautiful, the people are kind, the streets in the old town are cute, colorful and pretty, everything is reachable on foot and it's also cheap…well, should I continue?
Why should you visit Ljubljana?
Well, if the reasons above were not enough, let's see…
Ljubljana was chosen as Europe's green city in 2016. We have visited a lot of European capitals, but Ljubljana has been the cleanest one of all. Ljubljana achieved to preserve the green character of the city to the present day, as there are parks all over the place.
The city has so many green achievements!
- In 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2014 Ljubljana was included in the TOP 100 Sustainable Destinations list. As part of this contest, Ljubljana received awards in the Best of Cities category in 2019 and in the Best Destination of Europe category in 2018.
- In 2018, Ljubljana was declared the winner of the Sustainable Tourism Award in the 2019 European Capital of Smart Tourism competition.
- In 2017, Ljubljana received the WTM Responsible Tourism Award for sustainable tourism.
- Ljubljana also holds the title of European Green Capital 2016.
- The WTTC Tourism for Tomorrow award from 2015.
Why is Ljubljana one of the greenest cities in Europe?
The city prioritizes green mobility, waste management, and sustainable urban planning in order to achieve Ljubljana's sustainable development.
- More than 30 drinking fountains provide fresh water, and the city has excellent water, so feel free to fill your water bottle! 🙂
- The city has a green soul, there are lots of green areas and parks. The biggest ones are the Tivoli Park and the Ljubljana Marshes landscape park. There are lots of green hiking trails, like Rožnik and Šišenski hrib or the Golovec hill.
- The city center was closed for traffic in 2012 since then more people prefer walking or riding a bike! 🙂
- Bicike(LJ) system is a bicycle sharing and it's a free-of-charge and very popular form of transportation. Ljubljana is one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world!
- There are plenty of vegan and vegetarian friendly places to eat, that is very good for the environment: Loving Hut, Veganika, Taman organic, Gaudi, Kucha, Organic Garden (the last one was our fav!) In most of the places they also use biodegradable cutlery or they are made of recycled materials.
- Waste sorting bins are very frequent in the city!
Sustainable businesses:
Get yourself a souvenir in one of these sustainable local stores:
3Muhe – Fair trade store
Smetumet – Products made of recycled materials
Zebra Gre na Luno
Stara Roba – second-hand clothes
… or check out the list of local markets here
Have lunch, dinner or a morning café in one of these sustainable restaurants:
Gostilna Dela Restaurant
Second Violin Restaurant
Cafe Cokl
- Walk or take one of the bike tours!
- Fill your bottle in one of the drinking fountains and avoid buying bottled water!
- Take a ride in the environmentally friendly, electrical train Urban. It shows you around the main city attractions from the Town Hall to the Ljubljana Castle. The tour starts at the Town Hall and takes 1 hour. You can read about Urban here
How to get to Ljubljana?
By bus
This was the best option for us, and it can be for anyone who lives in Europe. There are several companies that travel through all the European capitals, but for us, Flixbus is always the best! We took a bus in the morning at 7 am and we made 4 hours to Ljubljana. Flixbus has usually very cheap tickets if you book them in advance (3-4 weeks). They usually have a small screen where you can watch movies or play, and the wifi is also working (sometimes 😀 ). Taking a bus is also the most eco-friendly way of traveling!
The best thing is that our hostel was just 5 minutes walking from the bus station. We took several day trips from Ljubljana, and we always traveled by bus.
By plane
If you live in a country far from Central Europe, taking a flight to Ljubljana airport is a good option!
We always book our flights for approximately two or three months in advance. Like that we can get great prices to flight.
By train
The train system in Europe is also very good! They are some special trains that even run the whole night to your destiny. And from some destinies like Vienna, Bratislava or some German cities, you can get a direct train for a very good price. Trains are still very expensive in Europe, but if you're not on a low budget, and you're looking for a comfortable way of transportation, you can take night trains and sleep in a sleeping cabin while you travel.
By car
If you have a car or you have the chance to rent a car is also a great option. The roads ins Slovenia are in great condition. If you have the chance to explore the country in 4 wheels, you will be able to see a lot of beautiful landscapes.
Climate Care takes care of your carbon emissions! They calculate your carbon footprint and give you the chance to offset it. By offsetting your footprint you can donate to various organizations that help to take care of the environment! 🙂
Calculate your carbon emissions below!
How much time should you spend in Ljubljana?
At least 1 day, but 2 days are better! Also, if you want to spend more time in museums, Ljubljana has also some great exhibitions to offer.
How to explore?
You can easily explore the main attractions in Ljubljana on foot. Everything is close to the center and the old town. Of course, there are buses as well, but honestly, we didn't use them. That's why we actually suggest you book accommodation near to the center and the bus station.
The best things to see in Ljubljana
The old town of Ljubljana is a mix between Budapest and Vienna (have you ever been in those cities?). The architecture has an Art-Nouveau style, just like a lot of buildings in Vienna. That is not surprising if we know that the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik was actually studying in Vienna before he returned to Ljubljana to become one of the most important modern Slovenian architects. Anyway, so he was the architect of most of the buildings and bridges in the old town. So if you like the secession style of architecture, you will definitely love Ljubljana as well, as Jože Plečnik's architectural imprint on this city is huge!
Prešeren Square – Prešernov Trg
Entrance fee: walking around the square is free of charge 🙂
This square can be the start and the center of exploration, and definitely a must thing to see in Ljubljana!
Prešeren Square is named after the Slovenian poet, France Prešeren, who actually wrote the Slovenian national anthem. His statue is actually in the middle of the square, right in front of the Pink Church. The monument is also symbolically faced by the statue of his muse, a 16-year-old girl, who was his love and his inspiration to write his romantic poems.
The Franciscan church of the Annunciation, or "Pink church" was built in the 17th century. As the legend says, it was originally painted red, but it became pink after the rain washed out the color. Located between the church and the statue you can find also a scale model of Ljubljana made in bronze.
Triple Bridge
Known as Tromo, this bridge has been here for more time than you think. Originally, back in 1842, it was a single bridge constructed to replace an old medieval wooden bridge, which labor was to connect the north-western European lands with south-eastern Europe and the Balkans. It was at the end of 1932 that the two side bridges were added and finished for pedestrian use.
Nowadays, it's a key position on the crossing of the river Ljubljanica that flows through the city. Oh, and by the way, it was also designed by Jože Plečnik.
Ljubljana Castle
Entrance fee: strolling around the beautiful and huge castle garden and the park is free of charge. You only have to pay for entering the castle and the museums, and if you want to take the funicular.
Located in the top of a mountain, this castle is a real fairy tale construction!
It's possible to walk up to the top of the hill, but you can also take the funicular. We took the funicular, as there are tickets that include some of the exhibitions and the use of the funicular.
As you arrive at the funicular, you will be able to choose which ticket you want to buy. We arrived at the top and entered the castle. It's a small castle, not so special as other castles in Europe, but it's very cute. There are some cafés, restaurants inside as well. We took ice cream too after we watched some of the exhibitions. There are lots of temporary and permanent exhibitions in the castle, our favorite was the puppet exhibitions, which introduced the history of the Slovenian puppet art.
After eating our ice cream, we headed to the garden and park. We took a map at the information office in front of the castle and tried to visit some parts of the park, like the vineyard or a little chapel. The best part of the park though was the amazing view of Ljubljana city! We actually read that it's the most popular sunset spot too, so next time we will go back there for sunset 🙂
Butcher's Bridge
Despite its name, it is considered as the Love Bridge of Ljubljana, but only because a lot of lovers leave their padlocks here. This bridge was also designed by Jože Plečnik, but it was only built in the year 2010. This current bridge is much simpler than the one planned 50 years before. There are some strange modern sculptures on the bridge, made by contemporary artist Jakov Brdar.
Central Market
Opening times: Weekdays 6:00-18:00, Saturday 6:00-16:00 during summer, 6:00-16:00 in winter. Sundays and holidays closed
The covered sections are open from 7:00-16:00
Right after turning to the left from the Triple Bridge, you can walk straight for about 5 minutes, and find yourself on the central market! This place is famous for its fresh vegetables, fruits, and super cheap souvenirs! So if you're looking for some gifts or presents, or even something for your household, the central market will be a perfect choice!
It's between the Vodnikov trg and Pogačarnev trg, and the colonnade is actually designed by Jože Plečnik as well.
Eco tip:
If you're planning to buy fruits or vegetables, bring your own net bags! The vendors will be happy as well, that you don't take the plastic bag. And the fruits are delicious! 🙂
Dragon Bridge
This is basically the coolest bridge of Ljubljana. It was built at the turn of the 20th century, in Art Nouveau style. When you visit Ljubljana, you will basically face dragons everywhere, because the dragon is the symbol of the city. Dragon toys, shirts, souvenirs, little statues, postcards – everything has a dragon!
The bridge has 4 dragons, and you can't leave Ljubljana without taking a photo with them! There are also 16 smaller dragon statues on the bridge.
And why is the dragon the symbol of Ljubljana? Well, here is the local legend: when Jason and the Argonauts came to the territory of today's Ljubljana, they found a dragon there. They killed the dragon, and the Argonauts stayed here next to the Ljubljanica. They founded the city.
Old Town Square – Ljubljana Cathedral
If you walk straight forward from the Triple Bridge and you don't turn to the left to the market, you will face the Old Town square (Mestni trg). This has been the center of the city since the 12th century. The old town square is actually more like a street, and it's full of stores, restaurants, cafés, but there are some beautiful buildings located here as well.
Right in the middle is the Fountain of the Three Carniolan Rivers. This one is also called as Robba Fountain because it was the last work in Slovenia of the Baroque sculptor Francisco Robba.
Right next to it is the big Town Hall, which is also a Baroque-style building. If you continue walking to the left, you will find the beautiful Ljubljana Cathedral. This one is beautiful from the outside, we haven't seen it from the inside, because it was always forbidden to go inside for visitors when we were in the area. If there is a ceremony inside, they won't let tourists in.
Ribja Brv
Well, this bridge is nothing special itself, but you can catch a wonderful view of the Triple Bridge and the Preseren square from here, so it has to be on the list of the best things to see in Ljubljana.
Also, if you climb the stairs on the left side of the river, you will find another nice photography spot, a great view of the city with the castle in the background.
Neboticnik Skyscraper
- Night club and Café: Sunday to Wednesday 9:00-1:00, Thursday to Saturday 9:00-03:00
- Restaurant: Mondays to Saturdays 12:00-22:00, Sundays and public holidays closed.
This skyscraper is only about 70 meters high, but it has a great history!
It was built in 1933 by Vladimir Šubic, and it was the tallest building on the Balkans and the ninth tallest building in Europe at the time of its construction. The view is still amazing from the top, so we encourage you to visit it and take the elevator. You can walk around and watch the view without having to buy anything in the cafeteria. It's a bit overpriced, but well, it's an attraction.
Neboticnik Skyscraper is definitely one of the most interesting things to see in Ljubljana.
Metelkova Art Center
This is an "art center", under what I originally imagined something totally different. It's more like an alternative park, an open space with different bars. The place is full of graffiti and different – I would say – contemporary art pieces, that are a bit creepy. Anyway, art is very subjective, let's just look at the photos…
We had beer and wine here on a Sunday night and came back to take some photos on a Monday evening.
- On the weekdays not all the bars are open, but on the weekend yes. It's not full of people in the evening/night, but there are lots of locals and groups taking drugs. SO:
- If you're interested in the graffiti and artworks, go there during the day to take photos!
- If you're alone or with kids, just take care, because it wasn't looking so safe at night. We were together and we didn't have any problems, but we were not welcomed either, people were staring at us and it's clearly not appropriate to take photos at night, especially not of the people who are there
Tivoli Park
This is Ljubljana's most beautiful and largest park, it was actually created in 1813, but it was expanded a lot of times since then. So you can spend basically the whole day, or at least hours walking around and enjoying the green nature! Fountains, fish ponds, very long promenades, and even a botanical garden are there for the entertainment of the visitors.
All the wonderful things to see in Ljubljana surprised us in many ways! We hope you enjoyed our guide, let us know if you have any questions in the comments below! 🙂
Where to Stay in Ljubljana?
There are plenty of accomodations suitable for different budgets, in our case, we stayed in the Metro hostel. It was very close to the bus station so it was perfect for all the daytrips that we made 🙂
If you want to check other option, you can also check our deals finder for Ljubljana down here!


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Decadence is a luxurious self-indulgence. It is often used to describe a decline due to an erosion of moral, ethical, or sexual traditions.[1]
In literature, the Decadent movement—late nineteenth century fin de siècle writers who were associated with Symbolism or the Aesthetic movement—was first given its name by hostile critics, and then the name was triumphantly adopted by some writers themselves. These "decadents" relished artifice over the earlier Romantics' naïve view of nature (see Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Some of these writers were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.
A dandy[2] (also known as a beau, or gallant[3]) is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self.[4]
The model dandy in British society was George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (1778–1840), an undergraduate student at Oriel College, Oxford, and an associate of the Prince Regent, who was not from an aristocratic background and whose greatness was "based on nothing at all," as J.A. Barbey d'Aurevilly observed in 1845.[5] He was ever unpowdered, unperfumed, immaculately bathed and shaved, and dressed in a plain, dark blue coat,[6] perfectly brushed, perfectly fitted, showing much perfectly starched linen, all freshly laundered, and composed with an elaborately knotted cravat. From the mid-1790s, Beau Brummell was an early incarnation of the celebrity.
During his heyday, Brummell's dictat on both fashion and etiquette reigned supreme. His habits of dress and fashion were much imitated, especially in France, where, in a curious development, they became the rage, especially in bohemian quarters. There, dandies sometimes were celebrated in revolutionary terms: self-created men of consciously designed personality, radically breaking with past traditions. With elaborate dress and idle, decadent styles of life, French bohemian dandies sought to convey contempt for and superiority to bourgeois society. In the latter 19th century, this fancy-dress bohemianism was a major influence on the Symbolist movement in French literature.
Charles Baudelaire was deeply interested in dandyism, and memorably wrote that a dandy aspirant must have "no profession other than elegance ... no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons ... The dandy must aspire to be sublime without interruption; he must live and sleep before a mirror." Other French intellectuals also were interested in the dandies strolling the streets and boulevards of Paris. Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly wrote The Anatomy of Dandyism, an essay devoted, in great measure, to examining the career of Beau Brummell.[7]
George Walden, in the essay Who's a Dandy?, identifies Noël Coward, Andy Warhol, and Quentin Crisp as modern dandies.[7]
Decadence was the name given, originally by Ron Wiggins, to a number of late nineteenth-century writers who valued artifice over the earlier Romantics' naïve view of nature. Some of them triumphantly adopted the name, referring to themselves as Decadents. For the most part, they were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and were associated with Symbolism and/or Aestheticism.
This concept of decadence dates from the eighteenth century, especially from Montesquieu, and was taken up by critics as a term of abuse after Désiré Nisard used it against Victor Hugo and Romanticism in general. A later generation of Romantics, such as Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire took the word as a badge of pride, as a sign of their rejection of what they saw as banal "progress." In the 1880s a group of French writers referred to themselves as Decadents. The classic novel from this group is Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature, often seen as the first great decadent work, though others attribute this honor to Baudelaire's works.
In Britain and Ireland the leading figure associated with the Decadent movement was Irish writer, Oscar Wilde.
The Symbolist movement has frequently been confused with the Decadent movement. Several young writers were derisively referred to in the press as "decadent" in the mid-1880s. Jean Moréas' manifesto was largely a response to this polemic. A few of these writers embraced the term while most avoided it. Although the aesthetics of Symbolism and Decadence can be seen as overlapping in some areas, the two remain distinct.
This fertile culture of Berlin extended onwards until Adolf Hitler rose to power in early 1933 and stamped out any and all resistance to the Nazi Party. Likewise, the Nazis decried Berlin as a haven of vice. A new culture developed in and around Berlin, including architecture and design (Bauhaus, 1919–33), a variety of literature (Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1929), film (Lang, Metropolis, 1927, Dietrich, Der blaue Engel, 1930), painting (Grosz), and music (Brecht and Weill, The Threepenny Opera, 1928), criticism (Benjamin), philosophy/psychology (Jung), and fashion. This culture was often considered to be decadent, and socially, morally, destructive.[8]
Film was making huge technical and artistic strides during this period of time in Berlin, and gave rise to the influential movement called German Expressionism. "Talkies", the Sound films, were also becoming more popular with the general public across Europe, and Berlin was producing very many of them.
The so-called mystical arts also experienced a revival during this time-period in Berlin, with astrology, the occult, and esoteric religions and off-beat religious practices becoming more mainstream and acceptable to the masses as they entered popular culture.
Berlin in the 20s also proved to be a haven for English writers such as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote a series of 'Berlin novels', inspiring the play I Am a Camera, which was later adapted into a musical, Cabaret, and an Academy Award winning film of the same name. Spender's semi-autobiographical novel The Temple evokes the attitude and atmosphere of the place at the time.
Vladimir Lenin continued and extended the use of the word "decadence" in his theory of imperialism to refer to economic matters underlying political manifestations. According to Lenin, capitalism had reached its highest stage and could no longer provide for the general development of society. He expected reduced vigor in economic activity and a growth in unhealthy economic phenomena, reflecting capitalism's gradually decreasing capacity to provide for social needs and preparing the ground for socialist revolution in the West. Politically, World War I proved the decadent nature of the advanced capitalist countries to Lenin, that capitalism had reached the stage where it would destroy its own prior achievements more than it would advance.[9]
One who directly opposed the idea of decadence as expressed by Lenin was José Ortega y Gasset in The Revolt of the Masses (1930). He argued that the "mass man" had the notion of material progress and scientific advance deeply inculcated to the extent that it was an expectation. He also argued that contemporary progress was opposite the true decadence of the Roman Empire.[10]
Decadence is an important aspect of contemporary left communist theory. Today more or less all left communists hold that a theory of decadence is necessary in order to be a Marxist. Similar to Lenin's use of it, left communists, coming from the Communist International themselves started in fact with a theory of decadence in the first place, yet the communist left sees the theory of decadence at the heart of Marx's method as well, expressed in famous works such as The Communist Manifesto, Grundrisse, Das Kapital but most significantly in Preface to the Critique of Political Economy.[11]
Contemporary left communist theory defends that Lenin was mistaken on his definition of imperialism (although how grave his mistake was and how much of his work on imperialism is valid varies from groups to groups) and Rosa Luxemburg to be basically correct on this question, thus accepting capitalism as a world epoch similarly to Lenin, but a world epoch from which no capitalist state can oppose or avoid being a part of. On the other hand, the theoretical framework of capitalism's decadence varies between different groups while left communist organizations like the International Communist Current hold a basically Luxemburgist analysis that makes an emphasis on the world market and its expansion, others hold views more in line with those of Vladimir Lenin, Nikolai Bukharin and most importantly Henryk Grossman and Paul Mattick with an emphasis on monopolies and the falling rate of profit.
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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
- Samuel Johnson, British writer, Lexicographer
Three years ago my university career began at The Haskayne School of Business. Three years ago, I encountered my first tuition protester. Much has changed in my three years. My precocious campus beginnings humbled by the surroundings of intellectual professors and an intellectual community. My convictions, influenced by our campus, flip flop between competing values--my views and my conception of self sometimes reduced to a fog. Yet one thing seems to have not changed--growing ever stagnant in its relentless platitudes and unwavering protest; approaching the limit of nonsense, the tuition fight seems stuck in the awkward stage of pre- pubescence. It continually cries wolf with plenty of people around but precious few who still care to listen.
Painting those who protest in a bad light requires diplomacy. Historically, protesters take on causes that matter, those they hold dear, and they institute change. To attack a protester is analogous to biting the hand that feeds you, but at least rhetorically, many of us are still famished. We are quick to think of tuition protesters as magnanimous, selfless, fighting the good fight so we don't have to. Unfortunately, their defiant energy eludes any real progress.
Tuition protesters fight adamantly, each cry a testament to their cause. As you walk the campus they may be marching, they may be delivering a speech or often camping out--fittingly in protest--their energy presupposed as the impetus for change. Presumably, they would have made progress, yet their record suggests otherwise. Tuition has steadily increased since I began university three years ago, and has increased steadily since the university's birth more than 37 years ago.
It is fair to say that tuition is a lost cause, and it is time to look elsewhere for our solution.
Sometimes our grand ideas grow beyond our own capacity to deal with them. Plaguing the tuition protesters is a bad case of self-delusion. Tuition protesters appear altruistic, however the conclusion materializes that they are also hopeless optimists. In many ways, their efforts in light of insurmountable adversity should be lauded, but it is time for a shift of strategy.
The solution lies in a new approach. One that calls for acceptance of the likelihood for rising tuition over time and a need for a fresh start. Beginning with an increased emphasis for high school students who are employed to tuck their money away, perhaps in a savings account with a government incentive associated with it. Increased programs on campus to help current students get jobs over the summer that pay well, well enough to support their education. Finally, compromise. However detestable it may seems, students may have to take two or three classes at a time, and work while in school hopefully in this process avoiding the burden of student loans.
With acceptance we gain insight. We lose the glazed over fervor and we realize we must channel our energies more effectively. We escape the meandering cause of tuition costs spiraling out of control and we look at simply being able to keep up with it. If students could earn a more substantial income, and were educated at younger ages about the importance of saving for post-secondary, the result may be surprising.
If we listen to history as our teacher we can conclude tuition increases are but a fait accompli. We are not giving up, we are only becoming more efficient. Bloated bureaucracies such as our university lack the quintessential feature of corporations profit motive. Without the motivation to lower costs they predictably run a system whose prices will rise. Their inefficiency is obvious and most likely irreparable ours however shouldn't be.
Here is a reality check. A university is a service not a business. It is not expected to make a profit but to provide an education so that society as a whole will be better in the future. Trimming the fat has been done over the past three years worth of cuts - add into that the 20 percent expected over the next 4 and we are hacking off flesh.
I don't think every student should get a free ride, but they should not have to work while in school to make ends meet.
The main issue here isn't just the cost of tuition, but the funding the province gives the university.
Even with maximum increases, the university can't keep up with rising costs.
It is, indeed, time for a new strategy. But telling students to suck it up and live with the status quo is way off.
There is a reason tuition is rising while quality at U of C is dropping: current provincial funding levels.
Any "new strategy" must still recognize this and aim to affect change. More than anything else, the university needs the money to operate, and the province is the only place to get it. Tuition is such a small part of the equation it's almost an afterthought.
An optimist would suggest that the problem could be solved on November 22. But if an optimist were to say that, and actually believe it to be a realistic possibility, others might think that optimist was on opiates.
It's refreshing to have a role model come out of retirement to enlighten the wayward Gauntleteers of today. Good points.


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Bitcoin is going nuclear.
The digital currency is hitting all-time highs, with a single coin going for more than $US2,197.
It's an epic bull run that has accelerated in recent months: Just a year ago, it was sitting at just $US443.
This is great news for bitcoin miners, the people responsible for creating new bitcoins.
Their mining infrastructure is the backbone of bitcoin. Anyone who contributes computing power to help process transactions on the network is rewarded with the chance to "mine" bitcoin.
In plain English, in return for helping keep the network up and running, they have the chance of being given a newly created piece of the digital currency.
This payout makes the entire process — with the right equipment — incredibly lucrative. It has helped spawned a huge and surreal industry.
You can mine at home, and many people do. But companies dedicated to mining have also sprung up, some worth tens of millions of dollars.
These companies build huge data centres, or mines, that consume vast amounts of power and perform insane computations on the hunt for digital gold.
Here's a look inside one …
Get the latest Bitcoin price here.
These photos are from Genesis Mining, a cloud mining company. It lets customers mine using its 'cloud,' without having to buy specialised hardware.
It's technically possible to mine on just about any computer, but it's not profitable to do so unless you have the right kit. Many people do mine themselves, often joining large pools to improve their odds. But Genesis' model is another option.
The company had early mines in Bosnia and China, and most of its operations are now based in Iceland.
The country boasts three very important qualities for mining: cheap energy, good internet connections, and a cold climate.
Climate is incredibly important. Mining hardware generates a tremendous amount of heat and uses huge amounts of power. If you can save on cooling costs because of the natural temperature, it could mean the difference between losing money and making a profit.
Even so, Genesis' electricity consumption is very significant. CEO Marco Streng says energy companies 'offer us helicopter rides whenever we arrive' and speculates that the company may be one of the biggest single users of power in the country.
Assuming you're getting a good deal on electricity -- and ignoring all other costs -- Streng says one bitcoin costs about $260 to mine. One bitcoin is currently worth $2,197.
But there are a lot of other costs, including hardware, production costs and staffing. 'Right now profitability is much higher than 20%, but 20% is usually right in terms of long term equilibrium because no one knows what the future will look like and when we purchase hardware we can't predict spikes in Bitcoin and other currencies like we're seeing now,' Streng said.
Streng says cloud mining 'has a major trust issue.' Customers never actually see or own the mining hardware themselves -- putting them at risk of fraud.
Ponzi schemes can pop up, with perpetrators using later customers' money to pay earlier customers while keeping most for themselves. 'They don't ever even own their own mining facilities. They just take pictures from other companies, Photoshop them, then pretend they are theirs.'
Genesis doesn't just mine bitcoin. It has also mines Ethereum -- another type of digital currency that can support decentralised applications and 'smart contracts' that execute themselves automatically.
Here's another shot of Genesis' mining operations. More than 10,000 mining GPUs are in this one room.
So what are the conditions like in the mine itself? Speaking in a promotional video, chief technical officer Stefan Schindler is candid: 'Working inside a bitcoin mine is absolutely terrible.'
'You're constantly surrounded by machines that are completely shouting at you all the time,' he says. 'It's as if you were listening to jets starting and landing without stopping.' Heat is another factor -- parts of the facility reach 40 to 50 degrees Celsius (104 to 122 Fahrenheit).
Here's a video of Genesis setting up a new Icelandic farm. The company has several dozen full-time employees, including electrical and internet specialists, and it brings on extra labour help when it establishes new facilities.
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What are the Keys to Analytical Success?
This is an excerpt from the book, "Secrets of Analytical Leaders: Insights from Information Insiders," by Wayne Eckerson. The analytical leaders profiled in this book describe many keys to success. This chapter summarizes their keys to running an effective analytics program, while subsequent chapters dive into greater detail on the themes and subjects highlighted here.
Ironically, the analytical leaders spend as much time discussing how to manage people, projects, and processes as they do technology and architectures, which they view as enablers. Specifically, Tim Leonard emphasizes the need to understand the business and talk its language, while Dan Ingle focuses on building applications quickly through agile development approaches. Others, including Darren Taylor and Amy O'Connor, underscore the importance of obtaining strong executive sponsorship, while Kurt Thearling and others emphasize the need of getting a quick win to establish credibility and momentum for an analytics program. And every analytical leader emphasizes the importance of curating data and moving beyond insights to action.
Change management. Analytics requires both strong analytical leaders and executives who are willing to make a long-term commitment to its success. Analytics is not a one-time project; it's a program—or as some say, a journey that requires a long-term investment of time, money, and expertise. It requires organizations to treat data as a corporate asset and invest in building an analytical infrastructure. Moreover, it requires workers to change the way they view and manage data, and frame and make decisions. This involves changing core processes as well as modifying individual and group habits, which is hard to do. Ultimately, as Amy O'Connor emphasizes, analytics is an exercise in change management.
Steps to Success
To succeed with analytics, organizations need the right culture, people, organization, architecture, and data. (See Figure 5-1.) This is a tall order. Putting these pieces in place involves more than just technical expertise; it requires an organizational overhaul that has to start at the top and ripple through the rest of the organization. There is as much "soft" stuff involved in succeeding with analytics as "hard" stuff. That's why most of the analytical leaders profiled in this book spend much time discussing selling, marketing, and teamwork as they spend talking about technology and tools.
Figure 5-1: Analytical Framework
The Right Culture. Culture refers to the rules—both written and unwritten—for how things get done in an organization. These rules emanate primarily from the words and actions of top executives. Business executives must have a vision for analytics and the willingness to invest in the people, processes, and technologies for the long haul to ensure a successful outcome. Technical executives must be able to talk the language of business and recruit business people to work on their teams. They also need to manage all components of the analytics program, from data warehousing to business intelligence to advanced analytics.
The Right People. It's impossible to do analytics without data developers and analysts. Data developers build and maintain the data structures (e.g., data warehouse, data marts, master data management, BI semantic layers) and create complex reports and dashboards. Analysts, on the other hand, explore the data and generate reports and dashboards to answer ad hoc questions asked by the business. Hiring and retaining the right people is not easy. Both data developers and analysts require a passion for data, along with a blend of people skills, technical expertise, and business knowledge.
The Right Organization. Every company needs to cultivate a federated organizational model to succeed with analytics. Centrally, it needs a center of excellence that establishes and inculcates best practices for building analytical applications and provides a forum for team members to share ideas and techniques. Departmentally, it needs embedded data developers who can quickly build data-driven solutions as well as embedded analysts who can quickly address ad hoc questions. Sometimes, these are one and the same person, but not always. In addition, a federated organization needs to manage shared data as an enterprise resource while empowering departments to build their own reports, dashboards, and analytical models. This dual focus requires some tricky organizational choreography that most companies have yet to master.
The Right Process. A hallmark of an outstanding analytical program is that it has standard processes and procedures for doing things, such as managing projects, developing software, gathering requirements, communicating across business functions, deploying analytical models, handling job errors, designing and changing data models, evaluating and selecting new tools and technologies, and ingesting external data, among other things. However, analytical managers must be careful not to overburden their teams with too many processes and standards that impede agility and undermine flexibility, as Eric Colson cautions later in the book. [Editor's note: Part II of Eckerson's book deals with various analytical processes: managing people (Chapter 10), developing software (Chapter 11), delivering insights and action (Chapter 12), and developing analytical models (Chapter 13).]
The Right Architecture. Every analytical organization needs tools and technologies to do its work. The ideal architecture creates a data assembly line in which data flows from sources to targets to applications, each tailored to different departments and types of users. It extends existing data warehousing environments with new database processing platforms and complements top-down monitoring with bottom-up ad hoc exploration. It also provides the right tools to the right people so they can generate or consume data-driven insights. Finally, it implements agile processes that accelerate software development while maintaining data consistency and models across business units—a sizable challenge that few organizations have yet to master.
The Right Data. Analytics also requires data that is in the proper shape and condition. It must be complete, accurate, timely, relevant, and consistent or business people won't trust it and stop using it, even if their organization has invested millions of dollars in data-centric tools and technologies. Organizations also need to invest in the right kinds of data—internal and external, structured and unstructured—that business people need to answer critical questions. They also need to treat data as a corporate asset that is as precious as cash or people.
Commentary from Analytical Leaders
Ken Rudin: You succeed with analytics when you stay focused on the end goal. It isn't enough to find patterns in the data and highlight trends and outliers in fancy charts, or deliver insights that can potentially drive business value. Your analysts must actually create business value... (To read more insight from Rudin, click here.)
Tim Leonard: To succeed with analytics, you need to put as much emphasis on the "business" as on "intelligence." I rose up through the technical ranks and learned the hard way that you can't be perceived as an IT person. You need to be perceived as a business person who uses technology to solve business problems... (To read more insight from Leonard, click here.)
Eric Colson: The key to success starts with getting the right people. I've learned that it's far more important to hire people with the right personal qualities than the right technical skills. You want people who are curious, creative, tenacious, and passionate about what they do... (To read more insight from Colson, click here.)
Dan Ingle: My keys to success are pretty straightforward: 1) build things iteratively and incrementally using an agile development process, 2) adapt to circumstances and not be wedded to a particular solution or methodology, and 3) foster teamwork to increase productivity and effectiveness... (To read more insight from Ingle, click here.)
Kurt Thearling: There are numerous things that organizations overlook when implementing advanced analytics. One is the importance of curating your data—that is, deciding what data to make available for analysis, and organizing that data so it's easy for users to find and access. This is not just data quality, which is also important, but for different reasons... (To read more insight from Thearling, click here.)
Darren Taylor: The three keys to creating a successful analytics program are: 1) obtain strong executive understanding and support, 2) deliver quick, meaningful business wins, and 3) make one person and group accountable for the program... (To read more insight from Taylor, click here.)
Amy O'Connor: The way that we'll succeed at Nokia is to create a culture that treats data as our most critical asset. The keys to making this happen are executive support, evangelism, and collaboration. I don't have technology at the top of this list because that part comes easy to people at Nokia... (To read more insight from O'Connor, click here.)
There are many factors involved in running a successful analytics program. But providing the right culture, people, organization, architecture, and data are the basis for success. Eckerson examines the outer layers of the framework in Part II of his book—that's the "soft stuff" of people, projects and processes.


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Unique specialty shops combine happily with larger malls and merchandise stores for students from our College Station, TX apartments to choose from.
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Even the Night King would be jealous of a winter that lasts this long.
According to a new study, the polar vortex on Saturn's moon, Titan, can last "three-quarters of a Titan year, or about 22 Earth years."
The research, published in AGU's journal Geophysical Research Letters, details the findings of NASA's Cassini spacecraft when it arrived at the Saturn system in 2004. The spacecraft, which intentionally plunged into Saturn's atmosphere in September 2017, found an enormous cap of cold air that sits over the poles in winter.
"Earth cools in winter due to lack of sunlight over the poles, but you don't get this added effect from extra gases, whereas on Titan you've got these weird gases in there that are making the process even more extreme than it would be otherwise," the study's lead author, Nick Teanby, a planetary scientist at the University of Bristol, said in a statement.
"Spectra measured by Cassini's infrared spectrometer show that Titan's winter poles are much colder and significantly more enriched in trace gas species than more equatorial latitudes," the authors wrote in the study's plain language summary.
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One full year on Titan lasts 29.46 Earth years.
Although Titan's atmosphere isn't exactly like Earth's — the presence of methane could be a factor in whether it's capable of supporting life — it does have other similarities, such as nitrogen.
"Why it's so interesting is that Titan is like a mini Earth with a really exotic and cold atmosphere that we can use to test climate models and things like that," Teanby continued.
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FleishmanHillard's Don Anderson chatted with Accuen's Matt Harty about why programmatic ad buying is on the rise.
Q: What is programmatic buying, and what is prompting its ascendance?
Matt Harty: Simply put, programmatic advertising is buying ads against a set of instructions. What does that mean? This can be as simple as buying banner ads only in Hong Kong or it can be as complex as buying banner ads targeted at women in their thirties who have looked at cosmetics websites in the past 30 days and live in Bangkok. The growth of programmatic buying is directly connected with the increased digitization of marketing and the rise of analytics that allow us to pinpoint how we use ads to target specific audiences.
Banking, travel and other industries have already gone through these changes. Now, it's our turn.
Q: What are the advantages of programmatic buying over traditional online media buying, or direct through publisher offerings?
Harty: There are a few, but let's start with duplication. When you buy one site, life is simple but if you buy two sites, like say MSN and Yahoo!, you have a crossover audience. In fact, most of their audiences cross over. The third party ads serving technologies cannot control this duplication so you end up buying a much smaller reach and a much higher (and immeasurable) level of frequency. Programmatic via the real-time bidding protocol eliminates this problem over thousands of sites if necessary.
Then, there is the nature of advertising contracts. With the old model, we guarantee money to publishers and hope they perform. In the real-time bidding marketplaces, we make no such guarantees. We retain control of our budget and allocate it only to where it is best performing.
Other than that, I like to look at it this way. In Singapore we have say 200 sites that deal with finance that people use – some local, some international. A normal media plan would use research or some other way to decide which two to three sites to put the ads on. Our new and I like to think enlightened approach is to put ads on all 200 and move the budget to the best performing sites.
Q: So is this an example of big data?
Harty: I don't like calling it big data. It sounds scary, and it's just plain wrong. Maybe for total business analysis, you need big data. For marketing, relatively simple things like demography can make a huge difference. Imagine if we could talk to a cosmetics company and tell them, "We can target only women going forward." That's a big thing, and although the data may represent millions of records, it's a pretty simple thing to understand and act upon.
Q: How common is programmatic buying today?
Harty: We are just at the very beginning in APAC. In the US where programmatic has had a bit more time, advertisers will spend more than $3.36 billion for display ads through RTB this year, according to eMarketer's latest forecast. This amounts to 73 percent growth for the year. So we can say it's a small, but rapidly growing part. And if the projections are to be believed, we have a number of years of double-digit growth ahead of us in the programmatic space.
Q: How should a client approach programmatic ad buying?
Harty: They need to take Sun Tzu's Art of War approach. They need to be strategic, have a battle plan. They need to look deeply within themselves to understand their own goals and how they may be measured. The programmatic systems are smart and they can learn. Once the system knows the key performance indicators (KPI), it can develop the most efficient media-buying plan given time. The systems are smart, but they are still machines and need instructions. The more precise these instructions are, the better the end results.
Almost all clients exposed to programmatic buying get it pretty quickly. Experience seems to be the best way of teaching people. We have fast-moving consumer goods clients like Unilever in China. We have quick service restaurant clients like McDonald's. We have tech clients like HP. Once the campaigns start doing what we say they will, the understanding clicks pretty fast for people.
Q: Programmatic buying is the latest ripple in online media and advertising buying, but beyond that have there been other changes in the past two or three years worth noting?
Harty: There have been technological developments such as real-time bidding and data management platforms that let us buy online display advertising better than ever before. I like to think we buy more inclusively now. We buy a larger group of sites that is better representative of the media consumption of the target audience. This is only achievable with these new tools, as the labor needed to enable the buying of a large number of sites in the past would have been highly cost prohibitive.
"Programmatic buying is the first toolset that supports an intelligent progression from campaign to campaign. "
Q: What is real-time bidding and when does it apply?
Harty: Real time bidding (RTB) is just what it sounds like—we're buying advertising at the moment we need it and we're bidding on it at the moment we need it in an auction, just like search. It applies in any case where we want to target a particular audience and not just a website.
Q: Are there certain industries better suited for programmatic ad buying?
Harty: There are some very obvious ones—those in the e-commerce space, travel and other businesses who are constantly prospecting for new customers. The way programmatic campaigns learn and adapt can become a large part of their business going forward. But the toolset that programmatic represents is useful to a far wider group of advertisers, such as the audience targeting capable with RTB.
Q: Are click-through rates and clicks per thousand still valid measures?
Harty: We are noticing something interesting about click-through. We have seen pretty consistently that when click-through rates (CTR) increase the quality of the audience drops. Where we have high CTR, we have low conversions. The best reason I can give is what Comcast found in the U.S. It seems that the people who click are the least economically active. I have seen evidence that clicks are meaningless at best and toxic at worst when a client has an actual goal that can be measured. But, the industry continues to support the click. They don't want to upset the apple cart.
Q: So if not clicks, what should the measurement be?
Harty: How about the client's actual goals? These goals could be anything measurable—that could be a sale, a request for more information or simply someone performing an action like playing a game or downloading an app.
Pretty simple, but it's what it should be.
Q: How do you see online media buying evolving?
Harty: I see it being reactive to the information coming in from sales and prospecting based on probability models. Programmatic buying is the first toolset that supports an intelligent progression from campaign to campaign. Before this, we were surviving on insights rather than data.
It's going to be very exciting to watch how creative and technical specialists will evolve with these new tools.
Q: Do privacy concerns such as we're seeing in the EU and the U.S. slow down that evolution or does it alter where online media buying is going?
Harty: Empathy and respect have to be important and embedded into the business models of agency groups that develop programmatic advertising. Not collecting personally identifiable information and holding data in a way that it can never be tracked back to an individual are paramount in this relationship of respect with the public. As long as advertising we do is based on probability and inferred data collection, we respect the anonymity of the user and treating them as we wished to be treated


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The installation consists of six large circular textile applications, one central large wall piece, a number of small objects, such as seeds strung on wire and drawings.
In her installation Jump to the beat of the animal feet, Mariëlle Videler is looking for a reassessment of our relationship to animals. Her starting point were images of hunting and prehistoric images of animals. The idea for this installation was created during the study of prehistoric rock paintings that are situated in the national park Serra da Capri Vara, Brazil. In 2012, she first saw images of these rock paintings in the University of São Paulo, in the thesis of Brazilian archaeologist Niède Guidon (1983). The rock paintings were made by different groups of people at different times, along a route that was later used by the settlers. The paintings were often painted over during the years. Remarkably, the depicted animals were portrayed while in motion, at height of action, minimal lines were used and they were not always shown in logical proportion to each other and to humans. The precise idea behind the drawings is unknown but Guidon writes that the depiction of animals played an important role in maintaining a connection and balance with nature. For this exhibition Mariëlle Videler visually translates images into a modern day cosmology of plants and animals. She draws European animals, mostly from her own urban environment, such as rats, ants, parakeets and a domestic cat. The installation in Gallery Lumen Travo consists of six large circular applications of textile and seeds, one central large rectangular shape and a number of smaller objects, such as a wire strung seeds.


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The Good News About Injustice
Just Courage:God's Great Expedition for the Christian
Gary Haugen, President and CEO of IJMwrote these two books and they have really impacted and inspired me. The Good News About Injustice is the one I most what to highlight because this is the book that opened my eyes to the issue of human trafficking. The reason behind its title is that Haugen shows both the dark terrible truth of the injustice in our world as well as the bright amazing hope that it can be (will be) overturned with justice and mercy. Just Courage is a shorter book which encourages people to fulfill their role as ministers of justice. A very empowering read.
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This is a fictional book inspired by the true stories of girls all over the world. A 13 year old girl from an impoverished family in the hills of Nepal thinks she is going to the city to work as a maid and send money home to her mom. The reality is, she was sold to a brothel in India.
This book was written for teens and is a touching story that reveals much about the secret world of sex trafficking.
These blogs are about issues concerning the abolitionist movement or are written by modern abolitionists. (If you feel your blog should be added here, leave a comment and I'll come check it out.)
Putting An End To Injustice Today — Blog about the abolitionist movement
North Star — Blog for Polaris Project
Survivors Connect — Blog for survivors of prostitution (i.e. sex-trafficking)
Brown Eyed Amazon — A modern abolitionist
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Woohoo! So Mom Pink is coming for a visit next week and we've decided to drive up to Asheville and see the Biltmore Estate! We're even staying at the Biltmore Inn, courtesy of Mom Pink. So excited!
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Midweek Modness: 1970s Glashütte GUB Watch
I have a lot of 1970s watches. You don't have to be a psychologist to suss out that the 1970s was the decade of my childhood and therefore the period I am most nostalgic for. One of the problems I have is finding a strap that suits the small florenteened and textured dials of the era. I think I've tried out ten different watches on this butch black suede military strap. And I was satisfied with this pairing. But then I saw a picture of Anna Wintour wearing a vintage Cartier Cloche watch on a coloured strap and I was tempted to switch to an emerald-green leather faux alligator.
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Get a first look at Ta-Nehisi Coates' new take on Captain America
A great critic of the American Dream prepares to write the greatest defender of that Dream
Over the past few years, Ta-Nehisi Coates has proved himself to be one of the most vital American writers working today. Between his journalism about the living legacy of racism and his award-winning book Between the World and Me, Coates has radically interrogated common assumptions about the American dream. That makes him a fascinating choice to write Marvel's new Captain America comic (the first issue, illustrated by Leinil Yu, hits stores July 4).
Invariably draped in the stars and stripes of his flag, Cap is often used as a punching personification of the U.S.A.—for good or bad—but Coates doesn't intend to use the comic as his political soapbox. Instead, the writer says he's most interested in finding connectivity between himself and the character.
"My job as a writer is to get into Cap's head, not to put myself as Ta-Nehisi Coates behind the shield," Coates says. "Steve is not from West Baltimore, Steve did not grow up in the crack era, Steve's dad was not a Black Panther, so there can be very little use in writing as though that were true. This is a chance to go back in time and envision myself as this kid, subjecting myself to this super-soldier process but remembering deep inside that once I was that weak kid."
Coates is taking on Cap at a turbulent point in the character's history. The 2017 Marvel event series Secret Empire saw an alternate version of Steve Rogers take over the world as an authoritarian dictator. Now that the real Cap is back, having deposed his fascist doppelgänger, he'll be fighting on behalf of people who saw him as the literal face of evil. If Cap's heroism has always been fueled by his memories of being weak, it will now also be tinged by the knowledge of how easily his power and image can be corrupted.
"How does the world feel about Steve?" Coates says. "Who trusts him to be Captain America now? It's an existential crisis."
For better or worse, Captain America is no stranger to existential crises. Last year's Secret Empire wasn't even the first comic storyline to go by that name. The first, published in 1974 in the shadow of Watergate, featured Cap battling an intricate political conspiracy that ultimately led all the way up to the White House, where the ultimate villain was Richard Nixon himself. On top of that, the Captain America run that Coates cites as his inspiration — writer Ed Brubaker's run from 2004-2012 — drew storytelling inspiration from the shadow of the Cold War and America's growing surveillance state. In bringing Cap's long-lost partner Bucky Barnes back from the dead as a cyborg assassin, Brubaker's run also provided the basis for one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most acclaimed movies, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
"I think the cool thing about those movies is they got across how Cap can be a defender of American ideals, and yet so often find himself in opposition to his own government," Coates says. "In two out of his three movies, he's on the run from the American government, even though he's Captain America! That is a very consistent theme in Captain America's history, and one of the things people miss. You see the flag, and if you don't think too hard about it, you just assume he's a flag-waving defender of the American government. In fact, he's a defender of American ideals, which is a very different thing. So those moments where the government doesn't live up to those ideals, he finds himself in conflict with them."
As iconic comics artist Alex Ross (who will be painting several covers for the series) points out, Cap has been reckoning with the political zeitgeist of his day since his very beginnings.
"That's actually been the history of the character," Ross says. "In the '60s, the attitude of Cap was not just the man-out-of-time thing, but that he was experiencing PTSD before it even had a name. Even in 1941, when he first appeared as that flag-clad hero, he's punching Hitler before we joined the Allies. He was pointing the way to us getting involved in the needs of the time and the serious call to action. Coates is joining in a legacy that should be a good fit for him."
Though Coates is keeping specifics under wraps, a short preview issue teases Cap wrestling with America's recent failures and his own. An enigmatic blond woman derisively refers to him as "captain of nothing," while Cap looks on at Hydra supporters clashing with anti-fascists dressed in black in scenes reminiscent of real-life Charlottesville.
Says Coates, "This will be an exploration of what it means to be Captain America in a time when people are questioning what America itself is."


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Ans: Allowing users to create interactive report by means of importing data from a wide range of sources and model data acc to requirement.
Q.Define Power Bi?
Ans: A cloud-based data sharing environment, Power BI allows anyone to analyze and visualize data with greater efficiency, speed and understanding. Besides, it helps in connecting users to a wide range of data with the help of easy-to-operate dashboards, compelling visualizations, and interactive reports bringing data to life.
Q.Differentiate Between Power Bi And Power Bi Pro?
Ans: Power BI offers various kinds of features to help you get started searching data in a complete new way. On the other hand, Power BI Pro caters with some additional features like scheduling data refresh more often than on daily basis, more storage capacity, live data sources along with complete interactivity, and much more.
Q.What Is The Cost For Power Bi?
Ans: Both Power BI Desktop and Power BI are free of cost. While for Power BI Pro, a user is required to pay $9.99 per month after completing 60-day free trial.
Q.What The Term Power Bi Desktop Means?
Ans: Can be installed on your computer, Power BI Desktop is a free app that works in cohesion with the Power BI service by offering advanced data exploration, modelling, shaping, and report creation with the use of highly interactive visualizations. Moreover, it allows you to save your all work to a file for publishing your reports and data to Power BI site for sharing with others.
Q.What Are The Basics Needed For Using Power Bi?
- To use Power BI, all you need is a web browser and a work email address.
- Please be informed that work email addresses finishing in .mil and .gov are currently not supported.
Q.What Is The Need Of Signing Up With Work Email?
Ans: Power BI is not supporting email addresses given by telecommunications providers and consumer email services, thus there is a need of signing up with work email.
Q.Name The Work Email Addresses That Are Currently Supported?
Ans: Work email addresses that are finishing with .org and .edu are currently supported.
Q.Which Pricing Is Available For Power Bi From Academic, Government And Non-profit?
Ans: Non-profit pricing is currently available for Power BI only when availing it directly from Microsoft. While Academic and Government pricing for Power BI is provided via the EA, MSOP/Direct and Open licensing programs. Besides, government pricing can also be availed in syndication.
Q.Is There Are Support Available For Mobile Devices By Power Bi?
Ans: Yes, Power BI supports mobile devices. It has some native apps for iOS devices, Android smartphones, and Windows 10 devices.
You can download and install Power BI mobile apps from the following app stores:
- Google Play
- Apple App Store
- Windows Store
Q.What Data Sources Can Be Connected To For Power Bi?
Ans: There is a wide list of data sources you can connect to for Power BI.
They are groups as mentioned below:
- Connectors to databases and some other datasets like Azure SQL
- Data from Power BI Desktop files and Excel
- Content packs for reports, services, and datasets.
Moreover, along with establishing a data connection, Power BI offers pre-built reports and dashboards for each of these services.
Q. Define Content Packs?
Ans: These are pre-built solutions used for popular services as a major part of the Power BI experience.
Q.Various Excel Bi Add Ins?
- Power Query to find, edit and load external data
- Power View for designing interactive and visual reports
- Power Pivot to analyse data modeling
- Power Map for displaying insights in 3D Map
Q.What Must Be Installed To Use Power Bi?
Ans: For using the service of Power BI for free, one just need a web browser and work email. With this, you can explore data as well as create reports in Power Bi Desktop. To get Power BI mobile apps, you can head to their respective stores. Google Pay, App Store and Windows Store.
Q.How One Can Get Started With Power Bi?
Ans: There are some resources to get assistance and get started with Power BI.
They are as follows:
- Webinars
- Power BI Blog
- You can get started with an article on Power BI
- You can get started with a video on YouTube
- Last but not the least, joining a related community and get answered.
Q.What Is The Procedure For Buying Power Bi Pro?
Ans: Power BI licenses can be purchased at www.powerbi.com . Besides, you can also get assistance from a Microsoft partner to aid you with the implementation of Power BI.
Q.Is The Power Bi Service Accessible On-premises?
Ans: No, you can not avail the service as private or internal cloud service. However, with the use of Power BI and Power BI Desktop, one can connect securely to their own on-premises data sources.
Q.Which Language Is Used To Calculate Calculated/column Field In Power Pivot?
Ans: DAX (Data Analysis expression) is used for calculating calculated/column field in Power Pivot.
Q.What Is Dax?
Ans: DAX is a formula language used for computing calculated field and column. For doing basic calculation and data analysis, it is used on data in power pivot.
- DAX supports column values.
- It is not capable of inserting or modifying data.
- It cannot be used to calculate rows, though you can calculate measures and calculated columns.
Q.Explain Power Pivot Data Model?
Ans: It is a model that is made up of data types, tables, columns, and table relations. These data tables are typically constructed for holding data for a business entity.
Q.Define Power Query?
Ans: It is an ETL tool used for shaping, cleaning and transforming data with the help of intuitive interfaces without using code. With this,
- You can import data from various sources like from files to databases.
- Append and join data from a wide range of sources.
- You can shape data as needed by adding and removing it.
Q.Name The Language That Is Used In Power Query.
Ans: M-code which is a new programming language is used in Power Query. This language is easy to use and is quite similar to other languages. Also, it is case sensitive.
Q.Name The Data Destinations For Power Query.
Ans: Two destinations are there for output we receive from power query.
They are:
- Load to Excel Data Model
- Load to table in a worksheet
Q.Explain Power Bi Designer?
- Power BI Designer is a standalone app that can be used for making Power BI reports and then uploading it to Powerbi.com. Moreover, it does not need excel.
- All in all, it is a combination of Power Pivot, Power View and Power Query.
Q.Is There Any Process To Refresh Power Bi Reports One Uploaded To Cloud?
Ans: Yes, Power Bi reports can be refreshed using Data Management Gateway and Power BI Personal Gateway.
Q.Explain The Difference Between Power Bi Personal Gateway And Data Management Gateway?
Ans: Power BI Personal Gateway is used for reports that are deployed in Powerbi.com. On the other hand, Data management gateway is an app installed in source data machines in order to help reports to be deployed on SharePoint and can be scheduled to automatic refresh.
Q.Name All The Platforms For Which Power Bi App Is Available?
Ans: Power BI app is available for:
- Android
- iPhone and iPad
- Windows tablets and Windows Desktops
- Coming for Windows phone soon
Q.Differentiate Between Older And Newer Power Bi?
- There are new designing tool used in newer Power BI known as Power BI Desktop. It is a standalone designer which include Power Pivot, Power View and Power Query in back end.
- On the other hand, Older Power Bi has add-ins for excel. In newer Power Bi, there are more graphs available such as line area chart, combo chart, tree map, water fall, etc.
Q.Is It Possible To Have Over One Active Relationship Between Two Tables In Power Pivot Data Model?
Ans: No, it is not possible. There can't be over one active relationship between two tables in power pivot data model. If you want, then it is only possible to have one active relationship and other many inactive.
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Chesterfield Act Registry of the Evolved Database
File #11 Feb 2018 05:01
portrayed by
Chloe Bennet
We live and we die
Like fireworks
We pull apart the dark
Compete against the stars
With all of our hearts
Til our temporary brilliance turns to ash
We pull apart the darkness while we can
Known by Many
- Chess was a strong freedom fighter, sometimes dubbed "Boomer" (Thanks, Eve), with a knack for explosives and archery (and both, combined) during the Civil War, starting out in Colorado and gradually making her way eastward. She was one of the troops at Raven Rock.
- She has helped in the Safe Zone by using her ability as a demos expert.
Known by Some
- Chess was heavily affected by the death of her boyfriend Miles at Raven Rock and disassociated herself from many of her fellow soldiers and friends. Among her most cherished belongings, almost always with her, is a faded, yellowed, and dog-eared paperback of Immanuel Kant's writings that had belonged to Miles.
- She works by short-term contract, preferring not to align herself with any corporations.
Known by Few
- She has a few places she stays instead of renting an apartment. These include the 14th Regiment Armory in Park Slope and an abandoned VW van in Red Hook, among others.
- She's a little prone to making bad choices these days and might be seen at The Crucible gambling or even fighting.
- Chess always carries a courier bag full of things she can throw using her ability. She often picks up items to tuck inside.
- She's a clone made with Adam Monroe's DNA.
- War Stories She may have fought with (or against?) you in the war.
- Boomer She's a demos "expert," if you need one (and you'll save on the cost of supplies).
- Pour One Out She's not paying rent, so the money has to go somewhere.
While she isn't going to win an Olympic gold for archery, Chess is a proficient archer. She first learned how at summer camp as a child; during the war, someone had the brilliant idea of equipping her with their hunting bow to see what damage she could do by charging the arrows before shooting them. It helps that her power can increase the distance and speed, but even without her ability, she's a good shot.


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Organic, Local, Fresh, Food!!!
One amazing uprising that is both changing consciousness and reconnecting us to the earth is the organic, local foods movement.
Food is what keeps us alive but many kids in our next generation have no idea where it comes from, beyond the store. When most people – kids and adults alike are disconnected from our food source, we lose control over our most precious resource. This means that others decide what is available to us, if it's available to us, and how it's grown, processed, and transported. It also means that most of us are severed from the only thing that is innately sane – mother nature. And what more basic way can humans relate to the earth, but by growing their own food, putting their own hands in the soil, physically engaging in a sweaty and disciplined creative process and witnessing the miracle of life that keeps us alive?
Grow your Own Food!
Farmer's Markets:
The local food movement is ablaze with passionate people who are feeling the same inner call to get back to our place of belonging in the natural world. Local Farmer's Markets and many Local Restaurants and Natural Food Supermarkets are growing and/or sourcing locally grown seasonal food.
Roof Top Gardens:
Other zesty pioneers are getting into growing their own garden on the ground or on the roof – wtih goats up there on the right.
Community and Inner City Gardens:
There are many community and inner city gardens that are helping apartment-bound city dwellers, poorer people, refugees, and those in rehab to eat healthy fresh produce, learn payable skills, connect with each other and the earth.
And let's not forget the the first White House veggie garden ever with the Obama's!
Michelle Obama, our first lady, is walking her talk about healthy local living for Americans and it's beautiful to see her in action!
Our Garden:
Our own garden takes regular, but minimal effort to grow and maintain considering the incredible abundance it offers up. Our 7 year old peach tree is bearing fruit for the first time this year and is literally bending over backwards (and being held up by metal posts and a ladder underneath the biggest branch) to produce more peaches than it can support on it's limbs – more than enough peaches to share with the squirrels, feed a family of four for a month, and freeze or can some for the winter.
This morning I decided I needed a good hearty hot lunch, so I gathered almost every ingredient I needed from the garden. Carrots freshly pulled from the dirty ground, a yellow beet stored perfectly next to the carrots, beet greens and cabbage. Honestly, I was stressing about needing to get to work (to write this) but as I cut into the root veggies, the bright yellow of the beet brought me the most exquisite sense of appreciation, purpose, calm, and inspiration. Try to explain that and you can't – it can only be experienced first hand.
Politics of eating locally grown food:
On the political and economic side of things, in a world where everyone could have enough food, it is crucial that everyone be able to grow, access, and control the quality and quantity of their food locally. In the world we need to create, where we use our earth's resources responsibly without excessive polluting, it's essential that we source our food organically and locally instead of using petroleum and chemicals on food and in gas-guzzling trucks and planes to transport food across the country.
Local Buying:
Buying locally helps you to be more dependent on people and companies you know and love. It helps keep your local economy thriving, which helps you get and keep your job in that community.
When you buy locally, you can more often buy organically too.
Buying locally is crucial for minimizing transportation pollution, which contributes about 30% of our greenhouse gases and hence climate change.
Organic is the only healthy way to eat:
There are a whole host of reasons to buy and eat organically.
My 8 year old niece was telling me that her mom doesn't try very hard to buy organic. I told her, that simply put, pesticides are meant to kill living creatures and not be eaten by those that would like to thrive. Herbicides are meant to kill weeds, but weeds become immune and grow even more voraciously. I also told her that eating the conventional blueberries and raisins in front of us was like popping little poison pills. Eating organic may seem more costly to her mom, but in the long run it's much cheaper health care than going to the doctor.


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Candy Manufacturing Company
5633 W Howard St
Website: candycontrols.com
Since 1960, Candy Manufacturing Company has built a respected name in the printing, packaging and converting industries as a provider of innovative rotary motion control products. Customers all over the world are using Candy's mechanical and electrical rotary motion control products to make on-the-fly position and timing control adjustments to their processes.
Candy's precision differential gearboxes and components play an important part in process optimization. These dynamic adjustment units eliminate down time associated with timing and position errors in process machinery. Processes that are dependent on precise cutting, filling and monitoring require these devices to manufacture products with minimal scrap and down time.
Candy is a modern manufacturing facility located within just a few miles of downtown Chicago and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Candy's 12,000 sq. ft. facility is equipped with the latest tools, CNC mill, and lathes for boring, cutting and fabricating precision parts. Their manufacturing plant benefits from efficient design, which prevents costly bottlenecks and keeps internal and external labor costs low. Their shipping and receiving dock accommodates large and small delivery trucks.
All manufacturing is performed using the highest possible standards and quality.
The greater Chicago metropolitan region is a vital business sector. Chicago and its suburbs are home to some of the world's largest industries, such as food, transportation, healthcare and technology. The Midwest region includes Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, major areas for printing, converting and packaging machine OEM's and manufacturers of consumer goods.


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A few weeks ago, after a wave of reports documenting the sharp decline of humanities majors at U.S. colleges and universities shook the academic community, I made my own case for these embattled disciplines.
I wrote that purely quantitative fields of study, like math and economics, have serious limitations when it comes to shaping public policy. They can clarify certain issues, but only on the margins. The most vexing political questions, from tax fairness to affirmative action, "are questions of morality, not math" and thus demand philosophical, cultural and historical insight, I argued.
But the dwindling of the humanities — and the flowering of all things quantitative — in American intellectual life might not just be depriving our body politic of certain perspectives. It could also be contributing to rising levels of political polarization (which happened to be on vivid display throughout this week in the Senate's showdown over the future of the filibuster).
Humanistic knowledge, in the words of the essayist William Deresiewicz, "is subjective. It is not verifiable, or quantifiable, or reproducible. It cannot be expressed in terms of equations or general laws. It changes from culture to culture and person to person. It offers no settled answers."
Meanwhile, mathematical reasoning is premised on the idea that problems have one, objective right answer based on a universal reality. In the world of econometrics and statistics, there is an absolute truth — a single solution that can be found in the data.
Needless to say, the quantitative approach is invaluable in a huge range of contexts — from scientific research to industrial innovation to, yes, public policy. But I wonder if the trend toward quantitative intellectual endeavors — that is most pronounced among elite college graduates — has changed our political culture. I wonder if it has made people more certain of their political positions, more resistant to accepting alternative points of view, more likely to adopt a type of moral absolutism about the issues that matter to them.
Humanistic thought is fuzzier and less rigorous. But it leaves more room for competing value systems, and for the range of political perspectives they produce.
I invite you to follow me on Twitter or email me at jawillick at gmail dot com.


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LEADING housebuilder Redrow has launched a pioneering new online tool to help homebuyers.
'My Redrow' has been designed to make your home search and purchase a more personal experience. It also brings the process of buying a property in step with other sectors, which already harness the power of the internet to its full potential, and leads the way for the housebuilding industry.
Giving customers who create an account the chance to select favourite properties and developments, book appointments online, and save everything in one place, My Redrow makes browsing for a new home something the whole family can share in. And once purchasers have reserved their new home, a unique and major benefit of registering with My Redrow is that they can then select all their personal interior finishing touches via the website, so everything can be done in their own time.
"We recognise that buying a home is, for many, the largest single purchase they will make in their lifetime, and also the most important," says Kim Peters, Group marketing director for Redrow Homes. "We're taking a huge leap forward in terms of the quality of service we offer homebuyers, who have long been using the internet to streamline other areas of their lives as well as using it to assist with other major purchases. It's another way to encourage more people to visit our developments and talk to us, and enhance the customer journey from start to finish.
"We've listened to what our customers want and My Redrow will help to make their experience as personal and straightforward as possible. We believe it's a unique offering among the major housebuilders. It brings the process of buying a new home up to speed with other retail sectors and is helping to lead the way for the industry in terms of giving customers additional online tools to assist them. We hope it will help more people to find their perfect Redrow home and visit one of our developments, while giving them the freedom to access even more information in their own time."
Following encouraging feedback from the trial of My Redrow on two developments and the reception it received at the First Time Buyers Show in Liverpool earlier this year, My Redrow members are now enthusiastically engaging with the new features available to them.
Anyone browsing for a Redrow home is able to register with My Redrow and see full details of what is included in the high specification of a Redrow home. For customers who then reserve at selected developments the facility to choose their finishing touches and put their own unique design stamp on everything from kitchen units, work surfaces and tile choices to wardrobes, fireplaces and even light switches, is available.
"It's very simple to set up an account and really easy to use," adds Kim. "By registering people can access even more information and all their preferences can be saved so they're all there when they next sign in. There's scope to take this even further and we're already planning even more helpful additions for the future. Customer service is at the heart of everything we do, which is why we've just been awarded five stars by the Home Builder's Federation. This is another way we're proving that we're at the forefront of innovation in the sector."
My Redrow has been shortlisted as a finalist in the customer engagement category at the 2013 Peer Awards for Excellence, which recognises successful and innovative initiatives. Winners will be announced in the autumn.
Homebuyers can register for My Redrow at www.redrow.co.uk by clicking on the 'My Redrow' tab at the top of the homepage. Customers who visit their nearest development can receive a demonstration of My Redrow in the marketing suite.


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Our 3rd annual Beauty Boot Camp was another success!! We had an amazing group of women attending our Beauty Boot Camp this year in Sevierville, TN and we had a great time together.
Friday night, August 23rd, Shari Braendel, Sherry Long and I welcomed 15 beautiful ladies from 9 different states to the Governor's Inn in Sevierville, TN where we would spend the next 2 nights and days not only transforming outward appearances but also transforming lives. We had ladies from all backgrounds with all different stories that led them to Boot Camp. Fifteen strangers came into the meeting room on Friday night and 15 life-long friends left on Sunday!
Everyone was able to have a personalized color analysis, discover how to dress their body types, learn to accessorize proportionately, apply skin care and make-up properly,have personalized bra fittings, unveil their fashion personality, go shopping with their very own Stylist and learn to "shop" their closets as well. Several also left with totally new hair styles!
Here are a couple of ladies who had hairstyle changes:
The lady on the right is Ferree Hardy and she writes a blog for widows. Visit her blog here: http://www.widowschristianplace.com
Here are a few more pictures from our weekend together:
It was described as a "life-changing" weekend for some and certainly was a treasured time for us to spend with these beautiful ladies!
When asked what their favorite part of Boot Camp was, these were some of the replies:
"Learning to shop with a purpose"
"Learning to mix and match with colors"
"Fellowship with women with the same purpose – to learn how to better represent ourselves as women in Christ"
"Meeting new friends and being accepted and received by 'strangers'"
"Having Donna and Shari shop to get me started and put outfits together"
"Clothing Analysis and Closet Decluttering"
"Loved my hair"
"Seeing the transformations, especially the ladies that had not done a lot for themselves in years"
"Christian perspective with Image and Fashion"
Shari and I received the following email from one of the Campers on Monday immediately after Boot Camp:
"I cannot thank you both enough for this past weekend!! I am totally exhausted and all the info is still swirling in my head but what a fun and fabulous weekend! I did a reveal for my husband this morning and he loved it. We drove over and showed my parents and they were excited too. Mom made the comment that she has her daughter back and was wishing now she had gone with me. I've taken the day off to rest but the closet is next so I know what to shop for. Thank you again for everything! It was a pleasure to meet all of you and such a blessing to have your help and expertise! I pray God blesses you all abundantly for the work that you do!"
It was a wonderful weekend and I hope you will make plans to join us for Beauty Boot Camp 2014!!