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Ouarzazate City in Morocco
18th July 2016 14:31
Ouarzazate, nicknamed The door of the desert, is a city and capital of Ouarzazate Province in Drâa-Tafilalet region of south-central Morocco in the middle of a bare plateau south of the High Atlas Mountains.
In the past, Ouarzazate was a crossroad for African traders seeking to reach northern cities in Morocco and Europe. During the French period, Ouarzazate expanded considerably as a garrison town and administrative centre. It is the largest town in the Moroccan Sahara.
Its name comes from a Berber phrase meaning "without noise" or "without confusion". The town is chiefly inhabited by Berber-speakers, who constructed many of the prominent kasbahs and buildings for which the area is known.
The Ouarzazate area is a noted film-making location, with Morocco's biggest studios inviting many international companies to work here. Films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Living Daylights (1987), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Mummy (1999), Gladiator (2000), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Kundun (1997), Legionnaire (1998), Hanna (2011), and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) were shot here, as was part of the TV series Game of Thrones.
The area is also known for its Ouazguita carpets with geometric designs of red-orange on black background.
You do not need to enter the centrally located Taourirt Kasbah, as it is empty, crumbling and unimpressive. You will get the very best impression of it from the street.
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It's design is based on the Scania appliance used at Perth Metro stations, but has been adapted to requirements of country towns that have more bush area's. The appliance carries 1200 litres of water as well as rescue equipment and breathing apparatus.
More safety features are added such as louder sirens and air horns together with much better safety lighting both for highway use and perimeter lighting for night time incidents.
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The fittings locker holds a variety of items.
Suction hose - used to obtain water out of rivers or swimming pools when normal supply is not available.
Ropes - used for a variety of reasons, mainly securing wreckage and rescuing persons.
First aid kits - a large supply of medical equipment in case the ambulance is not available.
Oxyviva - Oxygen supply for people who are overcome by smoke or injured.
Couplings and fittings - to connect and split hoses from the pump to the fire.
AWG branch - a branch which has a large throw of water, mainly used in hot fires.


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PRIS Ionospheric Scintillations
Friday, 23 April 2010 15:32
Within this ESA / ESTEC project, GPS measurements at high sampling rates (50 Hz) have been recorded in both high and low latitude regions. A data base has been constituted. These data have been used to derive the scintillation characteristics and improve scintillation models.
Additional points to this study include the analysis of data from IGS network, the generation of time series corresponding to scintillation samples in order allowing receiver testing and the development of one forecast model allowing obtaining scintillations maps.
Receivers deployment
The locations of the different receivers are indicated on the figure below. For some of them, we had an internet connection. For the others, the data recorded was sent by regular mail. Two kinds of receivers have been used: GSV and Javad. GSV receivers include an algorithm which extracts the scintillation parameters, namely the intensity and phase indexes every minute. An equivalent algorithm has been developed to extract these parameters for the Javad receivers.
The constitution of a data base has been made according to the figure below using DLR EVnet system. A dedicated PRIS FTP server has been developed.
The data flows are of three kinds: on line stations with raw data files, off line with pre-processed files and historical data.
Software outputs are an improvement of GISM model and the definition of a forecast model to build scintillation maps.
Expected Main Benefits
This is the first time that such a work was realized in Europe. The team has fulfilled all the objectives of the study which were to install and operate scintillations receivers, mainly in equatorial regions, collect scintillation data, perform a relevant data analysis and improve the models. This work was highly valuable regarding all these aspects and will constitute a reference for such studies.
The figures below show the dependency on the season and on local time measured respectively in Vietnam (measurements by IETR, Rennes U. and ENSTB, Brest U.) and in Cayenne (measurements by CLS, Toulouse).
Of particular interest were the data from Vietnam and Indonesia. These four stations were located approximately at the same longitude allowing consequently obtaining global maps of this region which covers the equatorial anomaly.
The figure below presents the maps built from the measurements (right panel) and obtained with GISM model (left panel). This model has been improved during the study taking advantage from a better knowledge of some of the medium parameters. The vertical axis is the geomagnetic latitude from -25° to 20°. The horizontal axis is the local time at the Ionosphere Pierce Point (IPP).
The plots show clearly the relationship between the equatorial anomaly and the scintillation region extent. The horizontal stripes between -25° and -10° and between 4° and 10° correspond to the multi paths in Bandung and in Hanoï. This kind of plot allows separating the different contribution: scintillation, geostationary satellite contribution when present and multi-paths.
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Trump rejects EU offer to eliminate auto tariffs
Published Thu, Aug 30 2018 6:07 PM EDT Updated Thu, Aug 30 2018 6:47 PM EDT
Carmin Chappell
President Donald Trump rejected an offer from the European Union to eliminate tariffs on cars as "not good enough."
Earlier in the day, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said that the EU would be willing to eliminate auto tariffs if the U.S. did the same.
President Donald Trump on July 26, 2018.
Joshua Roberts | Reuters
President Donald Trump rejected an offer from the European Union to eliminate tariffs on cars if the U.S. did the same in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday.
Hours earlier, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told the European Parliament's trade committee that the EU is "willing to bring down even our car tariffs to zero, all tariffs to zero, if the U.S. does the same."
Trump said that the offer is "not good enough," adding that European "consumer habits are to buy their cars, not to buy our cars."
Currently, the U.S. imposes a 25 percent tariff on light trucks and pickups and 2.5 percent on smaller cars. The EU imposes a 10 percent tariff on all passenger vehicles.
Should you buy the latest trade war dip?
Last month, European automotive stocks soared after Trump met with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, and the two leaders agreed to work towards eliminating tariffs for non-auto industrial goods. Malmstrom's statement on Thursday went further than Trump and Juncker's agreement, which caused European auto stocks to jump initially before paring their gains.
Trump also said in the interview that the EU is "almost as bad as China, just smaller." The president told aides he supports tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods as early as next week, according to Bloomberg.


 Achira - Meaning of Achira, What does Achira mean?
[ 3 syll. ac-hi-ra, ach-ira ] The baby girl name Achira is pronounced as aa-CH-IY-Raa- †. Achira's language of origin is Sanskrit and it is used mainly in the Indian language. Achira is a variant transcription of Acira (Indian).
Achira is unusual as a baby girl name. It is listed outside of the top 1000.
Baby names that sound like Achira include Acira (Indian), Ajara, Akari (Japanese), Akeri, Akira (English and Japanese), Akirah, Asgard, Asherah, Ashira, Ashura (African, Arabic, and Swahili), Azara, Azure (English), Azuree, Azuryne, Usher, Ajaree, Azaria, Azura (English), Isaurea, and Ajare.
† English pronunciation for Achira: AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; CH as in "cheese (CH.IY.Z)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)"


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Q: Load balancing between Linone and EC2 with Nginx How to load balance with Nginx between a Linode and an EC2 instance?
I don't want to use subdomains like
www1.abc.com
www2.abc.com

So there are different IP addresses, but I just want see  abc.com from "outside".

A: As per: http://mickeyben.com/blog/2009/12/30/using-nginx-as-a-load-balancer/
You would need once instance of Nginx running somewhere.

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We want to create a comfortable environment where learning is easier and the focus is placed on the needs of the student. One-on-one tutoring (whether we're meeting you at your home or another location) helps lessen the stress, and each session plan is customized for the maximum benefit of the student. By coming to you, we also work around your schedule and set up tutoring sessions at the most convenient available time slots.
We all learn differently. How information is taken in and processed changes from one person to the next. During our first meeting, we'll do a student assessment where we find out a little bit about the student's personality, how they learn, and what issues we need to tackle. We use that information to find the perfect match for the student out of our awesome team of qualified tutors. Based on the assessment we'll be able to give an estimate of how much tutoring is necessary, and the assigned tutor will create a plan to get the student where they want to be.


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Q: How to create a Second database connection with Symfony2? I'm trying to connect a second database to my project in Symfony2. First, I added into parameters.yml some parameters to create the connection.
Then, I edited my config.yml, and now looks like:
doctrine:
    dbal:
        default_connection:   default
        connections:
            default:
                driver:   pdo_mysql
                host:     "%database_host%"
                port:     "%database_port%"
                dbname:   "%database_name%"
                user:     "%database_user%"
                password: "%database_password%"
                charset:  UTF8
            circutor3:
                driver:   pdo_sqlsrv
                host:     "%database_host_circutor3%"
                port:     "%database_port_circutor%"
                dbname:   "%database_name_circutor%"
                user:     "%database_user_circutor3%"
                password: "%database_password_circutor3%"
                charset:  UTF8
orm:
        auto_generate_proxy_classes: "%kernel.debug%"
        naming_strategy: doctrine.orm.naming_strategy.underscore
        auto_mapping: true

Finally, I tried to get connected, using the following code in my controller:
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager('circutor3');

And, the error returned by Symfony2:

Doctrine ORM Manager named "circutor3" does not exist.

The circutor3 makes connection to a database, external to my system, so I don't need to create entities or objects. I only need to execute some SELECT to get information and store it using an array.
Is creating a typical mysqli connection the best way to solve my problem?
I don't know how to solve this with Symfony.
Thank you in advance.

A: you could access to the database connection in the controller as follow:
    $connection = $this->getDoctrine()->getConnection('circutor3');

then use the connection as:
$stmt = $connection->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute();
return $stmt->fetchAll();

Some help here and here
Hope this help

A: According to Symfony documentation (http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/doctrine/multiple_entity_managers.html), you only defined a connection, not an entity manager :
You have to create an entity_manager for each connection.
orm:
    default_entity_manager: default
    entity_managers:
        default:
            ...
        circutor3:
            connection: circutor3
            mappings:
                AppBundle: ~


80-7-123. Nursery account -- investment of funds. (1) There is an account in the state special revenue fund. All fee revenue and reimbursements for costs authorized under 80-7-106, 80-7-110, 80-7-135, and this section must be deposited in this account. Revenue in the account must be used for the purposes and provisions of this part.
(2) Revenue received under 80-7-106, 80-7-110, 80-7-135, and this section not immediately required for the purposes of 80-7-106, 80-7-110, 80-7-135, and this section must be invested in accordance with the unified investment program established in Title 17, chapter 6, part 2. Income from the investments must be deposited in the account.
History: En. Sec. 8, Ch. 551, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 7, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 289, Ch. 42, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 384, L. 2007; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 389, L. 2017.


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- On-board FT232RL USB-RS232 interface conversion chip.
- On-board power indicator, status indicator.
- On-board recovery of the fuse to prevent the output current is too large to burn the module.
- On-board USB male, easy to connect to the computer.
- The chip has been the main pin all leads to facilitate the realization of communication with the microcontroller.


Today, Girls' Frontline EN has announced their upcoming Easter event and the major Deep Dive event.
Meanwhile, Dolls' Frontline/Girls' Frontline JP will be having their maid theme gacha and fairies.
In terms of feature updates between English and Japan servers, the Japan server seems to be getting slightly behind.


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Tobago Families enjoy the natural beauty of this small island and its abundance of wildlife, with many species of exotic birds, tropical fish and leatherback turtles visiting the island.
Popular Tobago family resort. Children's pool, kids club 4-11 years open weekdays. Large family rooms for 2 adults & 3 children. Child age up to 11 years.
Barbados has a wide selection of 4 star family resorts offering great all inclusive value for family stays in the Caribbean. With watersports, kids clubs and great dining options. Barbados provides a choice of family resorts to suit everyone's budget.
All inclusive South Coast Barbados resort, excellent facilities and suites for families. Kid's club 3 - 12 yrs. 1st child 2-14 years stays free 18 Apr - 30 Sep.
All inclusive West Coast Barbados resort with kids club. 1st child 2-16 years stays free 18 Apr - 30 Sep. Junior Suites sleep 4. One Bed Suites sleep 4 plus 1 infant.
Discounts for kids and teenagers 2-17 years. Nestled into a hillside of tropical gardens, Windjammer Landing offers a luxury selection of suites and villas, kids clubs, watersports with an all-inclusive option.
This popular resort, ideally situated on the golden sands of Reduit Beach, close to Rodney Bay Village. With non-motorised watersports and kid's club. Child age up to 11 years.
All inclusive family resort ideal for for children and teenagers, with complimetary kids club, watersport, 4 pools and a selection of restaurants. Child age 2-12 years. Family Suites sleep 2 adults with 3 children.
Antigua is popular with couples and families who appreciate great beaches, safe swimming and a fun atmosphere. Most Antigua resorts are all inclusive which offer great value, book early to get the best savings.
The Jolly Beach Resort is a popular family all inclusive, located on a mile-long white sand beach. Kid's club 3-12 and teen club 13-16. Superior rooms are ideal for families, child age to 11 years.
On two beaches with 4 pools, 3 restaurants. Club & Premium rooms sleep 2 adults with 2 children 2-11 years. Two Bed Villas sleep up to 5.
All suite resort with one king bed and a double sofabed in an open plan living area with a kitchenette, sleep 2 adults with 2 children aged 2-11 years. Two Bed Villas sleep up to 5.
Grenada a quiet, tropical island, an ideal destination for everyone all year round. Enjoy a relaxed and easy pace of life. For such a small island Grenada offers a large choice of resorts.
A friendly and small resort on Grand Anse Beach, close to local amenities and attractions. No kids club, but ideal for families. Rooms sleep 3 adults or 3 adults with 1 child, or 2 adults with 2 children. Child age 12 or under.
Self catering suites with the option to dine in resort. Two children stay free sharing with parents. Suites have king or double beds and a pull out sofa in the living room with kitchenette. Child age up to 15 years.
The Grenadian is ideally located on a sheltered beach. Popular for families with non-motorised watersports and kid's club. Child age 2 - 11 years.
"children stay free or additionally eat free, discounts for children"
refers to a promotion or special offer where a child or more than one child can stay at a resort free or additionally eat at the resort when sharing a room with parents (other conditions and restrictions may apply).
The resorts terms and conditions apply and restrictions apply at each hotel, such as child ages, family room occupancy, stay dates, early booking offers, or book by dates. Some discounts for children will not apply at peak times, such as Easter, Christmas and New Year.
At popular times like Easter and Christmas, or Summer School breaks, as the rooms are in more demand availability will become less more quickly. So if you see an resort you like, don't delay call and get it booked early with a deposit.
Bookings can be makde by phone and you can call us on 01704 778188 and speak to our reservation team and let us know your requirements so we can help you.
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There has never been a better time to book a tropical family escape to somewhere exotic like the Caribbean. With a warm climate, sandy beaches, great swimming pools and tasty food that the children will love, the Caribbean offers lots of family fun, all year round. Here's a small selection of customer's favorites, offering the best family value. We know our Caribbean family hotels are great value, because our family deals offer you all the discounts. Typically family deals to any of the resorts, give best value if book a few months in advance of your travel dates, giving more choice and availability. So start looking early and decide what kind of Caribbean resort you like and which island you'd prefer to visit also have in mind your family budget. Choose a few hotels and resorts as possibilities. Caribbean all-inclusive resorts offer good value for families because parents don't need to worry about their spending money, so you can relax knowing that everything's included at the hotel. You won't even need to pack a beach towel and the children will be happy to play in the pool, beach or with friends in the kids clubs.
Family all inclusive hotels will normally operate kids clubs. Some all inclusive resorts will operate with two sessions a day (morning and afternoon) but some resorts will operate kids clubs on a seasonal basis or even on a request basis. Sometimes you're required to book your child's session in advance at the hotel. All hotels operate their kids clubs and we can not offer advice on daily activities that will be available at each hotel. Baby-sitting can be arranged in some resorts (local charge - average approx $USD20 - $USD30 per hour).
Families often need to travel during peak periods such as the School Summer breaks at Easter, Summer in July and August, December and also at half term in February or October and we strongly recommend you book a few months in advance if you want the best value. To travel at peak times it's best to book earlier rather than later if you are fixed on your travel dates. Typically it is not always easy to get a last minute deal to your chosen destination thwe same week that every family needs to travel, although you may be lucky if you can be a little flexible on your dates. Many travellers tend to require the same return dates home to fit in with the start of school or college when many other people's commitments will be the same. Whatever you're looking for we can certainly help and get you the best family deals if you let us know your total budget. We know the resorts and we've personally visited them so simply tell us what's important for your family and we'll find a suitable vacation at an affordable price. Don't delay too long in booking or you may miss out on early booking offers. When you see something you like that is within your budget don't hang around, be prepared to book and have all the passenger names ready and to book.
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1977 births, Women's music
Imogen Jennifer Heap (/ˈɪmədʒɨn ˈhiːp/; born 9 December 1977 in the London Borough of Havering)[2] is an English singer-songwriter and composer. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes. She has produced three solo albums, the latest of which is the 2009 Ellipse, a North American chart success that earned Heap two Grammy nominations, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, in recognition of her technical and engineering work in the said record.[3]
[hide] *1 Biography
1.2 Early work as musician (including work with Acacia)
1.3 1998–2000: iMegaphone
1.4 2001: Interim work
1.5 2002–2003: Frou Frou
1.6 2004–2005: The O.C. and Speak for Yourself
1.7 2006–2007: The year of the 'White Rabbit'
1.8 2008–2010: Ellipse
1.9 2011–present: Sparks
1.9.1 List of #heapsongs
2 Musical and songwriting style
3 Recordings for television and film
3.1 Song use
4 Collaborations
5 Use of technology
6 Charity
6.1 Live 4 X
7 Film
8.1 Frou Frou
8.2 Guest appearances
8.3 Compilation appearances
Biography[edit] Edit
Heap played music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several instruments including piano, cello and clarinet. She attended Friends School, a private, Quaker-run boarding school in Saffron Walden. Heap's mother (an art therapist) and her father (a construction rock retailer) separated when she was twelve. By the age of thirteen, she had begun writing songs.
Heap did not get along well with the music teacher at her boarding school, so she principally taught herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production (on Atari computers). She also taught herself to play the guitar and drums, and subsequently two percussion/idiophone instruments, the array mbira and the Hang.[4] After school, she went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology inCroydon, South London.
Early work as musician (including work with Acacia)[edit] Edit
After being introduced to Nik Kershaw by his manager Mickey Modern, Heap and Kershaw recorded four demos that Mickey Modern took to Rondor Music. Consequently, a few months later she signed her first record contract at 18 to independent record label Almo Sounds.[5] Modern and Wood formed Modernwood Management, and managed Heap until 2006, when Modernwood was dissolved. Wood continues to manage the artist via his new company, Radius Music.[6]
During 1996, Heap began working with an experimental pop band called Acacia, which featured her future collaborator Guy Sigsworth and was fronted by the singer Alexander Nilere. While never a full member of the band, Heap was a guest vocalist (as a counterpart to Nilere) and contributed to various Acacia single and album tracks. One Acacia song, "Maddening Shroud", would later be covered by Frou Frou.[7]
Mickey Modern asked Dennis Arnold to place Heap in the line up in the 1996 Prince's Trust Concert in Hyde Park, London organized by Harvey Goldsmith. Heap performed four songs between sets by The Who andEric Clapton.
1998–2000: iMegaphone[edit] Edit
This section of a biography of a living persondoes not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (September 2010)
Heap's debut album, iMegaphone (an anagram of "Imogen Heap") was a mixture of self-penned and self-produced tracks, alongside tracks co-written and produced with established producers such as David Kahne, former Eurythmic Dave Stewart and Guy Sigsworth. The album was released in 1998 internationally via Almo Sounds, to favorable reviews comparing Heap's angst-filled songs to work by PJ Harvey, Kate Bush andAnnie Lennox. Promotion for the record included a tour of America and performances around Europe. Three singles were commercially released in the UK: "Getting Scared", "Shine" and "Come Here Boy". "Oh Me, Oh My" was sent to US radio stations in place of "Shine".
Heap's early success was soon replaced by problems. Almo Sounds cut funding for UK promotion and gave Heap a deadline to deliver songs for her second album. Upon delivery of the songs, she was told that they lacked "hit potential". It was announced that the record label would be sold to Universal and its artists moved to other labels or released. Heap was one of the artists who was dropped from the label, leaving her without a record contract. iMegaphone had, however, been licensed from Almo Sounds to Aozora Records in Japan, who eventually re-released and re-promoted the album in January 2002, featuring "Blanket" and "Aeroplane" (a Frou Frou remix/remake of one of her B-sides, "Airplane" of the Shine single released in 1998). The album featured new packaging, all-new artwork, and a previously unavailable hidden track, entitled "Kidding", recorded live during her 1999 tour.
Copies of the original Almo Sounds release remain rare. A Brazilian label, Trama Records, currently claims to hold the license to the record and has started re-printing copies of the album in limited quantities. The album was released digitally on the US iTunes Music Store in early 2006. After achieving commercial success with her work with Guy Sigsworth as the duo Frou Frou and her second solo album, Speak for Yourself, Heap was able to secure the re-release of iMegaphone.
2001: Interim work[edit] Edit
In the gap between the end of promotion for iMegaphone internationally and the re-promotion, Heap had also begun to think about her second solo album, and had started writing songs, both solo, as well as working with Guy Sigsworth; however, as she was without a record deal, the songs were shelved. During the time when she was unsigned, Heap appeared on two UK singles, "Meantime" (a track written by her former Acaciacolleagues Guy Sigsworth and Alexander Nilere for the soundtrack to the independent British film, G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time) and "Blanket" (a 1998 collaboration with Urban Species). In 2000, Heap sang on the album You Had It Coming by Jeff Beck.
2002–2003: Frou Frou[edit] Edit
Heap had kept in contact with Guy Sigsworth (who had co-written and produced "Getting Scared" from iMegaphone) and this led to the pair of them establishing the collaborative project Frou Frou.
The initial concept for Frou Frou was Sigsworth's, and the project was to have been an album written and produced by her with each track featuring a different singer, songwriter, poet or rapper. Heap explains that Sigsworth invited her over to his studio to write lyrics to a four-bar motif he had, with one condition – that she include the word "love" somewhere. The first line she came up with was "lung of love, leaves me breathless", and the Details album track, "Flicks" was born. A week later, Sigsworth phoned Heap up again, and together they wrote and recorded the future single "Breathe In".
Throughout the process, Frou Frou work was an equal partnership, with Heap and Sigsworth making equal contributions to writing, arrangement, production and instrumental performance and Heap handling all of the vocals.
In August 2002, they released the Details album and singles "Breathe In", "It's Good To Be in Love", and "Must Be Dreaming" (although the latter two were not commercially available). The album was critically acclaimed, but did not enjoy the commercial success that they had been hoping for.
In late 2003, after an extensive promotional tour of the UK, Europe and the US, the duo were told that their record label, Island Records would not be picking up the option for a second album.
Heap and Sigsworth remain firm friends, and have worked together since the project, including their temporary re-formation in late 2003, when they covered the Bonnie Tyler classic, "Holding Out for a Hero", which was featured during the credits of the movie Shrek 2 after Jennifer Saunders version in the film. Frou Frou saw a resurgence in popularity in 2004, when their album track "Let Go" was featured in the film Garden State.
In a 2005 interview Heap said of frou frou "(it) was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens. But there was never a mention of a second record from either of us, and not uncomfortably. We're just both kind of free spirits. I love to work with a lot of different people, but I was also just gagging to see what I could do on my own. But I'm sure in the future, Guy and I will get back together to do another record, or to record a few songs together."[8]
2004–2005: The O.C. and Speak for Yourself[edit] Edit
[1][2]Performing at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
In December 2003, Heap announced on her Web site that she was going to write and produce her second solo album, using her site as a blog to publicise progress.
Heap set herself a deadline of one year to make the album, booking a session to master the album one year ahead in December 2004. She re-mortgaged her flat to fund production costs, including renting a studio at Atomic Studios, London (previously inhabited by UK grime artist, Dizzee Rascal), and purchasing instruments.
At the end of 2004, with the album completed, Heap premièred two album tracks online, selling them prior to the album's release – "Just for Now" and "Goodnight and Go".
In April 2005, The O.C. featured the vocoded-vocal track, "Hide and Seek" in the closing scenes of their season two finale. The track was released immediately to digital download services, such as iTunes, in the US, where it charted. The track was released to iTunes UK on 5 July 2005 (the same day as the UK airing of the season finale) and entered the official UK download chart.
Heap released the album on her own record company, Megaphonic Records. The album was titled Speak for Yourself.
Speak for Yourself was released in the UK on 18 July 2005 on CD and iTunes UK, where it entered the top 10 chart. The initial 10,000 physical copies pressed sold out, distributed through large and independent record stores and Heap's own online shop.
In August 2005, Heap announced that she had licensed Speak for Yourself to RCA Victor (Sony BMG), for the album release in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The album was released in November 2005 and débuted at #144 in the Billboard Top 200 album chart. In concert, Heap performed solo, controlling the sound through her laptop, as well as singing and playing the piano and array mbira.
She returned from the US, already having sold over 120,000 copies.
2006–2007: The year of the 'White Rabbit'[edit] Edit
Heap also announced, on her return to the UK, that she had signed a deal for the album to be released internationally, as well as re-promoted in the UK, with a new imprint of Sony BMG, White Rabbit, run by former Sony BMG UK A&R vice president Nick Raphael. The deal meant that the album could have the promotional backing provided by a respected major label, whilst Heap retained sole control and the team she established for Megaphonic Records.
Speak for Yourself was re-released on the label on 24 April 2006, ahead of a full promotional push on 15 May, a week after the second single, "Goodnight and Go", was commercially released in the UK.
In August 2006, Heap performed a set at the V Festival, where it was announced that "Headlock" was to be the third single to be lifted from the album, and released on 16 October 2006 in the UK.
In late September and early October, Heap embarked on a tour of the UK, holding a competition on MySpace for different support acts for each venue, before touring throughout Canada and the US in November and December. This was her first tour of North America that included a band, incorporating upright bass, percussion, and support acts Kid Beyond and Levi Weaver on beatbox and guitar, respectively. In December 2006, Heap was featured on the front page of The Green Room magazine.
On 7 December 2006, Heap received two Grammy nominations for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, one for Best New Artist and the other for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for "Can't Take It In".
2008–2010: Ellipse[edit] Edit
Throughout the creation of her album Ellipse, Heap posted vlogs, or VBlogs as she called them, through YouTube.[9] She used these to comment on the album as well as update on its release. The album's release was pushed back multiple times. These included Heap being asked to perform at the annual event PopTech in October 2008. During the event, she premiered one of her album's songs, "Wait it Out".
Heap announced on her Twitter page that Ellipse's first single would be "First Train Home". On 17 August 2009 Heap made the entire album Ellipse available for live streaming via her webpage.
Ellipse was released in the United Kingdom on 24 August, and in the United States on 25 August.
On 15 January 2010, Heap accepted the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for her engineering work on Ellipse.
2011–present: Sparks[edit] Edit
On 14 March 2011, Heap started work on her forthcoming album, Sparks (then unnamed), as fans sent in nearly 900 "sound seeds", or samples of everyday sounds such as a "dishwasher door", a "bicycle" or a "burning match". Heap says the concept for this album will be to record one track over a two-week period every three months. Each song and video will be released immediately. According to her website, the album will be completed in roughly three years.[10]
The first song, initially entitled "#heapsong1" and later retitled "Lifeline", premiered worldwide on 28 March 2011 via Ustream[11] along with a live remix by Tim Exile. "Lifeline" was released on 30 March 2011 as a digital download from Heap's website and via iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers. Released alongside this was a 12-page 3DiCD package (a 3D virtual CD) including crowd sourced (and paid for) images, the instrumental version of the song, the "seeds and solos only" version and "heap speaks seeds and solos" - an-18-minute commentary by Heap on how the sounds and solos were used in "Lifeline".
On 6 May 2011, Heap tweeted that she and deadmau5 were working on a collaboration. The song is titled "Telemiscommunications" and is included in deadmau5's sixth studio album, Album Title Goes Here.[12][13][14]
On 9 September 2012, Heap wrote and released a track, "Someone's Calling", recorded especially for use as a ringtone.[15]
List of #heapsongs[edit] Edit
heapsong1 is entitled "Lifeline" and was released on 30 March 2011. The song is a tribute to the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
heapsong2 is entitled "Propeller Seeds" and was released on 5 July 2011. The song was recorded using 3D audio effects and headphones are recommended for listeners to get the full effect.
heapsong3 is entitled "Neglected Space" and was released on 17 October 2011. The song incorporates concepts, people and sounds from a lab organized by the Clear Village Charitable Trust to restore a walled garden in Bedfords Park.[16]
heapsong4 is entitled "Minds Without Fear" and was released on 21 October 2011. It was the first song to be featured on the 2011 Indian show, The Dewarists.
heapsong5 is entitled "Xizi She Knows" and was released on 24 January 2012. It is the sixth song off the forthcoming album overall.[17]
heapsong6 is entitled "Me, the Machine" and was originally to be the 6th single released. It was performed live on 22 April 2012. The song premiered along with the film, Love the Earth, as part of Earth Day 2012.
heapsong7 is entitled "You Know Where to Find Me" and was performed live in A Room for London on 22 June 2012. It was released on 2 November 2012 as the sixth single from the album.[18]
"Telemiscommunications", a collaboration with deadmau5, will also be included in the album, as stated on her official website.[19] It was featured in deadmau5's 2012 album >album title goes here<, and released as the fifth single from the album on 25 February 2013.
"Entanglement" will be included in the album, as stated on her Twitter account.[20]
"Climb To Sakteng" and "Cycle Song are two instrumental heapsongs used for the soundtrack of the documentary film The Happiest Place, A Journey Across Bhutan.[21][22]
"The Listening Chair" was performed live in the Royal Albert Hall conducted by American composer Eric Whitacre on 29 August 2012.[23]
"Run-Time" is a collaboration with Intel UK and RjDj to create a Jogging App that will be released along with the new album in the following year.[24]
Another song to be included is "The Beast".
Heap has stated that there will be 14 tracks on her fourth album . The title of the album is revealed as Sparks and is set to be released on 10 June 2014.
Musical and songwriting style[edit] Edit
For her solo work, as well as her work with Frou Frou and Acacia, Heap plays heavily produced and arranged pop incorporating elements of rock, dance and electronica. As a guest player and collaborator she has played rock (Jeff Beck), hip-hop (Urban Species) and theatre/film music.
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums... I would record live drums, and then I would spend a day editing them to take the life out of them. I like to breathe my own life into these sounds, and I do try to keep the 'air' in the music. Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Heap extensively uses manipulated electronic sounds as an integral part of her music. She also mixes ambient sound into her music (such as the sound of a frying pan in use cooking food, in the background of her song "Hide and Seek") and has commented that "certain sounds give the music a width and a space, and that's important."[8]
Heap states that her song lyrics come from personal experience, but are not straightforwardly confessional. She has stated "Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mum or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened."[8]
Recordings for television and film[edit] Edit
Heap has recorded several songs for films, including a cover of the Classics IV hit "Spooky" for the soundtrack to the Reese Witherspoon film Just Like Heaven. Her song "Hide and Seek" was featured in The Last Kiss, starring Zach Braff (who used her former band Frou Frou's "Let Go" in his 2004 film Garden State), and was also used in a 2007 episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Shia LaBeouf. "The Moment I Said It" was also used in the episode "Seven Seconds" of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.
In 2004, while recording her second solo album, she was commissioned to record a cover of a short nursery rhyme for the HBO television series, Six Feet Under, entitled "I'm A Lonely Little Petunia (In An Onion Patch)".
In late 2005, Heap was asked to write a track for the soundtrack of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe entitled "Can't Take It In", when a track that fellow Brit singer Dido submitted was deemed unfitting. Heap's track is played at the end of the film in an orchestral version produced by Heap and Harry Gregson Williams, who scored the movie. In addition, she composed a track for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, but it was deemed to be too dark in tone for the film. Instead, it was included in her album Ellipse as "2-1". 2-1 has also featured in CSI Miami (Season 8 Episode 9), as well as promotional trailers for the film The Lovely Bones.
In March 2006, Heap completed a track about locusts, entitled "Glittering Cloud", for a CD of music about the plagues of Egypt entitled Plague Songs, accompanying The Margate Exodus project, for musical directorBrian Eno.
Heap recorded an a cappella version of the Leonard Cohen track "Hallelujah", for the season three finale of The O.C., and her "Not Now But Soon" was included on the original soundtrack for the NBC show, Heroes.
Song use[edit] Edit
Imogen Heap and Frou Frou songs have been featured in various TV shows, movies, advertisements, and marching band productions, notably including CSI: Miami, Chuck, The OC, Saturday Night Live, Garden State, and So You Think You Can Dance. "Hide & Seek" was sampled in Jason Derulo's single "Whatcha Say",[25] which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Frou Frou track "Shh" was also used extensively for TV promotions during the fifth season of Gilmore Girls.
Collaborations[edit] Edit
Heap has collaborated as a guest vocalist, co-writer, remixer or producer with many various artists throughout her career. Among them co-writing and producing By The Time for Mika and Now or Never for Josh Groban. The diverse range of other musicians Heap has worked with include IAMX, Jeff Beck, Temposhark, LHB, J. Peter Schwalm, Way Out West, Jon Bon Jovi, Mich Gerber, Sean Lennon, Thomas Dolby, Urban Species, Matt Willis, Jon Hopkins, MIKA, Acacia, Britney Spears, Nik Kershaw, Blue October, Joshua Radin, Nitin Sawhney, I Fight Dragons, Eric Whitacre, and Deadmau5.[12][13][14]
Use of technology[edit] Edit
Heap is an advocate of using technology to interact and collaborate with her fans. In August 2009 she used Vokle, an online auditorium, to take questions from listeners over video chat.[26]
Heap also teamed up with Vokle to hold open cello auditions for her North American tour. She provided sheet music for "Aha" on her website and encouraged local fans to learn the part and audition live via Vokle. Heap would then pick the cellist to accompany her for that particular city - sometimes with the help of viewers and her puppet lion, Harold. In 2010 Heap opened her online auditions to singers and choirs and invited them to audition via submitted YouTube videos to accompany her on stage as she performed the song "Earth" from Ellipse. The winner of each local show was also invited to do a 15-minute gig of their own. In the studio, the official album recording of "Earth" was made up entirely of numerous tracks of vocals.
July 2011 saw Heap unveil a pair of in development, high-tech musical gloves at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.[27] Inspired by the VAMP [28] system developed by Elly Jessop at MIT's media lab, Heap set out to develop the musical gloves in collaboration with Thomas Mitchell, a lecturer in music systems at the University of the West of England, Bristol. The gloves combine sensors developed by 5DT,[29] x-io Technologies [30] with Shure microphones. Both Heap's and Elly Jessop's musical gloves are similar to The Lady's Glove, an earlier invention by the electronic sound pioneer Laetitia Sonami, and the midi gloves used since 1989 by Steve Hogarth[31] lead singer of Marillion.[32]
Using nothing but hand gestures, Heap is able to amplify, record, and loop acoustic instruments and her voice, play virtual instruments and manipulate these sounds live. Heap has for many years been working toward a less constricting live set up which enables her to be mobile while performing live multiple musical production tasks, songs and improvising spontaneously without the need "to go back to basecamp". This is part of a larger audio/visual performance project Heap has been working towards for a couple of years with the aim of touring in 2013.[citation needed]
Charity[edit] Edit
In 2008 she participated in a music album called Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace, which is an initiative to support Tibet, Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and to underline the human rights situation in Tibet. The album was issued on 5 August via iTunes and on 19 August in music stores around the world.[33] On 12 October 2008, Heap also participated in "Run 10k: Cancer Research UK," placing fifth of the women in the actual run and raising over £1000 for the cause with the help of her fans.
In 2008 Heap was asked to perform at POP!Tech in Camden, Maine (US). There she performed selections from her then forthcoming album Ellipse. After her set and an encouraging plea for another performance later in the conference by the audience and organizers, Heap agreed. Having nothing else prepared though, she decided to improvise a song on the spot with parameters (tempo, key) suggested by the audience. After the show, Heap was asked by a Poptech attendee if she would give the newly created piece of music to his charity. A 'lightbulb' moment occurred in Heap's head and she saw the potential in doing these improvised pieces for local charities at each show during the tour she would soon begin.
The first of these songs materialized at Heap's show at Shepherd's Bush Empire, in London on 19 February 2010. Using the same parameters and audience participation from POP!Tech, Heap improvised a song titled, "The Shepherdess". After the show, Heap made the song available worldwide as a digital download on her website asking for donations per download. All proceeds went to the Great Ormond Street Hospital where Heap was diagnosed with osteomyelitis and underwent life-saving surgery as a little girl. Loving the concept, Heap rolled this out for her North American Tour, donating all the proceeds for each song to a local charity from that city.
In 2011 Heap was set to play a benefit concert in New Zealand's Christchurch city to help rebuild the Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti High School, following a severe 6.3 aftershock in February originating from the 7.1 earthquake that struck the Canterbury region in September 2010. The concert was held at the Burnside High Aurora Centre, also featuring performances from Roseanna Gamlen-Greene, and The Harbour Union including The Eastern, Lindon Puffin, Delaney Davidson and The Unfaithful Ways.[34]
Live 4 X[edit] Edit
In 2010, Imogen Heap partnered with Thomas Ermacora of Bubbletank[35] to organize a series of online charitable events called Live 4 X.
The initial event was inspired by the 2010 Pakistan floods. Triggered by monsoon rains, the floods left approximately one-fifth of the country of Pakistan underwater, affecting over 14 million people and damaging or destroying over 900,000 homes. Teaming up with Richard Branson's Virgin Unite and Vokle.com, Heap and Ermacora create an online webcast/fundraiser to raise awareness and money for the flood stricken. Hosted by comedian, creative, and internet personality Ze Frank, the webcast included a series of conversations with Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, Gary Slutkin, and Anders Wilhelmson, (and later Richard Branson and Mary Robinson) with live performances by musicians Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Kate Havnevik, KT Tunstall, Josh Groban, Kaki King, Zoe Keating and Mark Isham.
The premise of Live 4 X thus established, Heap has since continued to refine the model, organize, host, and perform a number of charitable, streaming-live, concert events. By integrating live entertainment with educated discussion and technology, Live 4 X became an effective charitable outreach tool.
Following the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of 2011, Heap told Washington Times Communities journalist and recording artist Jennifer Grassman, that she intended to continue organizingLive 4 X events to benefit various charitable causes.[36]
Catalog of Live 4 X events to date:
31 August 2010 – Live 4 Pakistan raised funds for flood relief and recovery in that region. Musicians included Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Kate Havnevik, KT Tunstall, Josh Groban, and Zoe Keating. In an ironic turn of events, Heap was kept from appearing on Live 4 Pakistan due to Hurricane Earl which at the time was progressing along the US eastern seaboard. Heap, stranded and unable to get an internet connection, later posted a video message as well as a performance of her song "Wait It Out" from Ellipse.[37]
3 February 2011 – Live 4 Cape Town[38]
11 April 2011 – Live 4 Sendai raised funds for Japanese tsunami recovery following the disastrous Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. The event was also used to solicit rebuilding design ideas on behalf ofArchitecture for Humanity. Performers included Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, KT Tunstall and Jamie Cullum and hosted by Ze Frank.[39]
Film[edit] Edit
After touring for nearly two years straight for her album Speak for Yourself, Heap continued her travels, this time with only a laptop and video camera on hand, as she began her writing trip for her next album. Nine weeks later she returned to the UK with the beginnings of the award-winning Ellipse and footage (as requested by a fan to film the making of the album) from its quiet beginning. Back in Essex, Heap sought the talents of long-time friend and film maker Justine Pearsall to continue documenting the creation of the album. The film documents every moment of joy, excitement, frustration, and even the renovation of Heap's childhood home including turning her old playroom into her new home studio. Everything In-Between: The Story of Ellipse was released in November 2010.
On 5 November 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall, Heap conducted an orchestra (including friends and family) as they performed an original composition by Heap herself orchestrated by Andrew Skeet. Heap also worked with London Contemporary Voices at this time, a scratch choir formed for this concert, which continues as a new choir in its own right. It was the score to the concept film Love The Earth - in creative partnership and co-production with Thomas Ermacora again for another Bubbletank production - in which fans were invited to submit video footage highlighting all of the breathtaking qualities of nature to be selected and edited into a film. This performance was broadcast live worldwide.
In March for the Birds' Eye Festival at the Birds Eye View Film Festival at the Southbank Centre, Heap composed in collaboration with Andrew Skeet an a cappella choral score to the first ever surrealist film 'The Seashell and the Clergyman' (Germaine Dulac, 1927) with the Holst Singers, a programme repeated at the Reverb Festival at the Roundhouse in February 2012 and in the Sage, Gateshead.
Heap also performed in the Film and Music Arena at Latitude Festival in 2011.
Discography[edit] Edit
Main article: Imogen Heap discography*iMegaphone (1998)
Speak for Yourself (2005)
Ellipse (2009)
Sparks (2014)
Frou Frou[edit] Edit
Details (2002 • Island Records/MCA/Universal) (UK: #128)
"Breathe In" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal) (UK: #44)
"It's Good to be in Love" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal)
"Must be Dreaming" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal)
"Let Go" (Promotional single)
Guest appearances[edit] Edit
Hate EP by Acacia (1996 • Radar Records)
Sway EP by Acacia (1996 • Radar Records)
Maddening Shroud EP by Acacia (1997 • WEA)
Cradle by Acacia – all tracks except "Wire" (1997 • WEA)
Blanket by Urban Species – "Blanket" and "Predictably Unpredictable" (1998)
Amor Fati by Mich Gerber – "Embers of Love", "Sirens Call (Qishm)" and "Mare" (2000)
¡Viva Nueva! by Rustic Overtones – "Valentine's Day Massacre" (2001 • Tommy Boy Records)
You Had It Coming by Jeff Beck – "Dirty Mind" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (2001 • Sony Music)
Tell 'Em Who We Are by LHB – "Coming Up For Air" (2003 • Telstar TV)
Contact Note by Jon Hopkins – "Second Sense" (2004 • Just Music)
It's Better To Have Loved EP by Temposhark – "Not That Big (Metronomy Remix)" (2005 • Paper & Glue)
Foiled by Blue October – "Congratulations" (2006 • Universal Records)
Musikain by J. Peter Schwalm – "P.I.N." (2006 • Musikain Records)
The Invisible Line by Temposhark – "Not That Big" (2007 • Paper & Glue)
London Undersound by Nitin Sawhney – "Bring It Home" (2008 • Cooking Vinyl)
Kingdom of Welcome Addiction by IAMX – "My Secret Friend" (2009 • Metropolis Records)
The Boy Who Knew Too Much by Mika – "By The Time" (2009 • Casablanca Records)
Live at Ronnie Scott's - Jeff Beck - (2008 • Eagle Records) - (2009 • DVD)
> album title goes here < by deadmau5 - "Telemiscommunications" (2012 • Mau5trap Recordings • Ultra Records)
Compilation appearances[edit] Edit
New Dawn (Class of '94) – "Missing You" – (1994)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack – "Getting Scared" – (1998 • Warner Music Group)
Virtual Sexuality soundtrack – "Come Here Boy" – (1998 • EMI)
G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time soundtrack – "Mean Time" (with GMT) – (1999 • Island Records/Universal)
Serve Chilled – "Blanket" (with Urban Species) – (1999 • Hed Kandi)
Women Talking Dirty soundtrack – "Getting Scared" – (2001 • Polygram International)
American Psycho 2: All American Girl soundtrack – "Angry Angel" – (2002 • Rondor Music (London) Ltd)
Garden State – "Let Go" – (2004 • Epic Records/Sony BMG)
Nearing Grace Soundtrack – "The Walk" – (2005 • Sony BMG)
Music from the OC: Mix 4 – "Goodnight and Go" – (2005 • Warner Music Group)
Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends – "I'm A Lonely Little Petunia (In An Onion Patch)" – (2005 • Astralwerks/EMI)
Just Like Heaven Soundtrack – "Spooky" – (2005 • Sony BMG)
Music from the OC: Mix 5 – "Hide and Seek" – (2005 • Warner Music Group)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – "Can't Take It In" – (2005 • Disney Records/EMI)
The Last Kiss soundtrack – "Hide and Seek" – (2005 • Lakeshore Pictures)
Plague Songs – "Glittering Clouds (Locusts)" – (2006 • 4AD)
So You Think You Can Dance (US) – "Hide and Seek" – (2006)
So You Think You Can Dance (US) – "Let Go" – (2006)
The Black Donnellys – "The Moment I Said It" – (2007)
In Search of Sunrise 6 – "Hide and Seek" (Tiëstos' In Search Of Sunrise Remix) – (2007)
The Holiday – "Just for Now" and "Let Go" (Under 'Frou Frou') – (2006)
So You Think You Can Dance – "The Moment I Said It" – (2007)
Heroes Original Soundtrack – "Not Now, But Soon" – (2008 • NBC Records)
Criminal Minds – "The Moment I Said It" – (2008)
Songs For Tibet – The Art of Peace' – "Hide & Seek 2" – (2008)
Greys Anatomy – "Bad Body Double" – (2009)
So You Think You Can Dance (US) - "Aha!" - (2009)
The Vampire Diaries - "Wait it Out" - (2009)
Melrose Place - "Aha!" - (2009)
Powder Blue - "Blanket" - (2009)
Chuck – "Wait it Out" – (2010)
CSI: NY - Criminal Justice "Wait it Out" - (2010)
Made in Chelsea - "Goodnight and Go" (2011)
Awards and nominations[edit] Edit
2006 World Soundtrack Awards Best Original Song Written for Film ("Can't Take It In")[40] Nominated
mtvU Woodie Awards Best Emerging Artist Nominated
Most Original Artist Nominated
2007 Grammy Awards Best New Artist[41] Nominated
Best Song Written for Visual Media ("Can't Take It In") Nominated
2010 Best Pop Instrumental Performance ("The Fire")[42] Nominated
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Won
Ivor Novello Awards International Achievement Won
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A high-profile group of women peace activists thinks Trump can officially end the Korean War
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The ones we have been waiting for?
By Annalisa Merelli
Published February 23, 2019 This article is more than 2 years old.
Donald Trump may face a lot of skepticism as he gets ready to head to Vietnam and meet Kim Jong Un, but he has the unlikely support of groups he'd otherwise scarcely see on his side: peace activists. In particular, an influential, international group of women activists, known as Women Cross DMZ.
The group was started in 2015 by women of Korean origin as well as ones from a dozen other countries, many of whom had long been involved in Korean policy and peace and reunification advocacy. It takes its name from a successful campaign it ran in 2015, when 30 of its members, from 15 countries, crossed the military barrier that divides the two Koreas, with the aim of drawing attention on the "forgotten" Korean conflict. The organization held parallel peace walks attended by thousands of women in Pyongyang, in Kaesong (the historical capital of Korea, now in North Korea), and in Paju, the South Korean city closest to the DMZ, and attracted high-profile support including from Ban Ki-moon, Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, and the Dalai Lama.
The members of the all-female group range widely in nationality and profile. Alongside Nobel peace laureates such as Leymah Gbowee and Mairead Maguire are prominent activists like Gloria Steinem and Code Pink co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, as well as Korean-American academics, social activists, and refugees including Chung Hyun Kyung, Jean Chung, Suzy Kim, and Deann Borshay Liem. In addition, the organization's founder Christine Ahn told Quartz, supporters include South and North Korean grandmothers, mothers, and daughters living on either side of the border as well as abroad: They are all tired of a conflict that has been dragging on for seven decades, and are united in demanding peace, safety, and to be reunited with their families across the DMZ.
So what, they say, if the end of the longest conflict of the past century—over 68 years, and counting—happens at the hand of the most unlikely American president?
The wrong man at the right time
Things have changed rather dramatically in the four years since the walk across DMZ, says Ahn, who also co-founded the Korea Policy Institute, which focuses on research and analysis of US policy on the Korean peninsula. What then seemed like a forgotten conflict has gained much visibility, and where there didn't seem to be an opening for peace negotiations there now is one. The change of leadership in South Korea, where president Park Geun-hye was succeeded by Moon Jae-in, ushered in new possibilities: Park, whose father Chung-hee had been a military dictator, had authoritarian tendencies (for instance, she had compiled a blacklist of 10,000 South Koreas artists who had been critical to the administration and had been accused of having sympathizing tendencies towards North Korea, banning them from government work), while Moon is far more open to the possibility of negotiations, as the steps taken toward Kim Jong Un have shown.
Further, the people involved want an end to a war that, while a temporary armistice has been in place since 1953, has never officially ended.
A formal peace treaty has long been the desire of North Koreans, who have been living under violent dictatorship, and suffering decades of unspeakable deprivations following the end of the Cold War, cut off from the rest of the world and without access to many basic goods, including food and medicine.
In South Korea, where life is much different and the country has enjoyed significant economic growth, the time is ripe for a peace agreement, too: According to recent polls, 80% of South Koreans are in favor of a formal end to the conflict, and after the first meeting between Kim and Moon, the percentage of South Koreans saying they trust the North Korean leader jumped from 10% to 78%. This puts Trump in a position to take advantage of an opportunity that Barack Obama never had access to, given the souring of inter-Korean relations between 2007 and 2017. He will, Ahn thinks, seize the opportunity, if nothing else because it will allow him to claim a history-making legacy.
"Trump is not the ideal person conducting the negotiations," says Ahn, "but he can do what no other president has done, which is to end this war."
Can North Korea be trusted?
Amongst those who are critical of Trump's conciliatory initiative, one of the main criticisms is that he didn't get enough of a commitment in denuclearization the last time around, and that since he met with Kim, North Korea as actually continued to work on its nuclear program. Yet, Women Cross the DMZ believes this isn't a fair criticism: Kim never committed to denuclearization in the first place.
In fact, Ahn says, the narrative that Kim is unpredictable is somewhat untruthful: North Korea's position, she says, has long been pretty clear: "[Kim] wants an end to the war," she says, adding that even his predecessors Kim-Jong-il and Kim Il-sung did. Kim, she says, is undoubtedly a dictator, but when it comes to relations with South Korea and the US, "Most analysts will say North Korea is a rational actor." Kim doesn't want the country to have the same fate of countries such as Libya, Afghanistan, or Iraq, and its nuclear proliferation program is primarily about regime survival, to maintain some leverage after the country lost the essential economic and political support of the USSR.
After the latest summit, Kim did stick to its side of the agreement, sending back the remains of soldiers and ending the missile tests, says Ahn. Further, in the new year's speech, he didn't make any mention of nuclear testing, a stark contrast with the previous years, which is promising for the next step of the negotiations.
Do we negotiate with dictators?
Many high-profile US diplomats and analysts agree that there is an important opening for negotiations—and that is what should be done, negotiate. Among them are former director of US intelligence James Clapper, former defense secretary Bill Perry, and former president Jimmy Carter, who first reduced the presence of US troops in South Korea in 1977.
It is unrealistic to expect North Korea to give up its nuclear program before an official end to the war is declared, and the US could take further steps to show its willingness to cooperate with Pyongyang: Normalizing diplomatic relationships, lifting sanctions, and perhaps even revising Trump's travel ban against North Korea could all be important signals that the will to find a common ground is genuine, says Ahn.
Then there is the issue of family reunification: Families are perhaps the biggest casualty of this long war, and many Koreans on either side of the border continue to pay in their personal lives the consequences of the Cold War. But similarly, notes Ahn, there are at least 100,000 Korean-Americans—many in their 80s or 90s—who haven't been able to see their relatives in North Korea in decades: Allowing travel and family reunification would send an important message of peace, she says.
No men alone
Trump may be the man who finally gets this conflict to an end—and Ahn believes that a peace declaration may even be on the table in Hanoi. But this doesn't mean he can be trusted to drive home the best deal, particularly when it comes to guaranteeing the rights of women or families. This is where Women Cross DMZ's support for the deal turns into activism: Ahn and other women from the organization are heading to Hanoi to demand peace, but also that the delegations involved in making a deal feature members of civil societies, and women.
So far the delegations have featured exclusively high-level officials—and no gender diversity to speak of. But, Ahn notes, many studies have shown that involving women and civil societies in the peace process leads to more solid, longer lasting results.
Peace is within reach, says Ahn, but it needs people-to-people engagement to be a successful process. And though the current leaders will do when it comes to signing the actual peace declaration, "we can't just leave [the terms] into the hands of Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump."


On December 2nd, arrive at Richmond Country Club at noon, decked out in your holiday finery, have a good time, and spend freely!
BREAKING: Please bring a new, unwrapped toy for a child 2-years or older. Our friends from the Richmond Fire Department will be there to collect the toys, then distribute them to children in Richmond.
Former President Alan Baer presided over the meeting. Oscar Garcia led the pledge. Jon Lawlis asked for a moment of silence for peace, justice and normal levels of good cholesterol. [Just kidding.] Sid Chauvin's thought for the day was "Don't argue with an idiot, people watching may not be able to tell the difference.
Our guests were Zelpha Chauvin (Sid's Wife), Zachary and Gabriella Johnson (Sid's grandchildren which are way too cute to be related to Sid), and today's speaker, Mayra Padilla.
– NO meeting this Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
– Holiday Auction, Friday, Dec. 2nd. See #4 above about bringing a new unwrapped toy.
– No lunch meeting on Friday, Dec. 9th. Instead, Holiday Party at the Richmond Art Center, 5PM.
– Friday, Jan. 6th is first meeting of New Year.
The bike Fund continues to grow with the generous donations of Rotarian's Keep it up so we can get a bike to many of the children at the toy give away.
Come to the Holiday Auction on December 2nd. We won't repeat what we stated above.
Our speaker was Dr. Mayra Padilla, the director of the METAS program at Contra Costa College. "Metas" means goals in English. That's appropriate because the program prepares over 250 WCCUSD students every year to achieve one of the most important goals young people set for themselves: achieving a college education.
Starting in the early years of elementary school, METAS prepares students for college through culturally relevant academic courses, personal development and college readiness workshops, and parent involvement. College students and young professionals serve as tutors and mentors for preschool, elementary and high school students. And it works: 100% of METAS seniors graduate from high school and attend college.


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Practical Nanoscience Day For Teachers – An excellent, stimulating and informative day.
Science teachers from across the UK attended the event, which provided both information and take-away resources to teach nanoscience in the GCSE, GCE and BTEC curricula.
Beginning with an introductory lecture on nanoscience and nanotechnology the course broke out into practical activities, including investigating carbon nanotubes and buckyballs, making solar cells and synthesising gold and silver nanoparticles. The experiments can all be easily repeated back in the classroom.
A tour of BSP's nanotechnology labs revealed some of the leading research taking place on-site. Members of Professor Nicole Grobert's Nanomaterials by Design and Professor Andrew Watt's Solar Energy Materials Initiative research groups gave insights into the real-life applications being developed using nanotechnology.
Dr Christiane Norenberg, Nanotechnology Programme Manager at Begbroke Science Park, who was leading the Practical Nanoscience workshop, also spoke about career paths available in emerging technologies and emphasised the importance of inspiring future generations to continue studying science post 16yrs. Dr Norenberg reinforced the fact that the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research activity means pupils need not worry about specializing in a single science at an early stage.
To meet the demand for resources to teach nanoscience in the classroom, BSP is offering another Practical Nanoscience for Teachers Workshop on 11 July 2018. If you would like to register for the July event, please get in touch at events@begbroke.ox.ac.uk. or book your place via our website. View our full outreach programme for schools here.


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Cilk: An Efficient Multithreaded Runtime System
by Robert D. Blumofe , Christopher F. Joerg, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Charles E. Leiserson, Keith H. Randall, Yuli Zhou - JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING , 1995
"... Cilk (pronounced "silk") is a C-based runtime system for multithreaded parallel programming. In this paper, we document the efficiency of the Cilk work-stealing scheduler, both empirically and analytically. We show that on real and synthetic applications, the "work" and "cri ..."
Cilk (pronounced "silk") is a C-based runtime system for multithreaded parallel programming. In this paper, we document the efficiency of the Cilk work-stealing scheduler, both empirically and analytically. We show that on real and synthetic applications, the "work" and "
The Amoeba Distributed Operating System
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Gregory J. Sharp, De Boelelaan A , 1992
"... INTRODUCTION Roughly speaking, we can divide the history of modern computing into the following eras: d 1970s: Timesharing (1 computer with many users) d 1980s: Personal computing (1 computer per user) d 1990s: Parallel computing (many computers per user) Until about 1980, computers were huge, e ..."
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people's computers or share files in various (often ad hoc) ways. Nowadays some systems have many processors per user, either in the form of a parallel computer or a large collection of CPUs shared by a small user community. Such systems are usually called parallel or distributed computer systems
Contiki - a Lightweight and Flexible Operating System for Tiny Networked Sensors
by Adam Dunkels, Björn Grönvall, Thiemo Voigt , 2004
"... of tiny networked devices that communicate untethered. For large scale networks it is important to be able to dynamically download code into the network. In this paper we present Contiki, a lightweight operating system with support for dynamic loading and replacement of individual programs and servi ..."
of tiny networked devices that communicate untethered. For large scale networks it is important to be able to dynamically download code into the network. In this paper we present Contiki, a lightweight operating system with support for dynamic loading and replacement of individual programs
A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics
by G. D. Plotkin , 1981
"... Syntax of a very simple programming language called L. What is abstract about it will be discussed a little here and later at greater length. For us syntax is a collection of syntactic sets of phrases; each set corresponds to a different type of phrase. Some of these sets are very simple and can be ..."
Syntax of a very simple programming language called L. What is abstract about it will be discussed a little here and later at greater length. For us syntax is a collection of syntactic sets of phrases; each set corresponds to a different type of phrase. Some of these sets are very simple and can be taken as given: Truthvalues This is the set T = ftt; ffg and is ranged over by (the metavariable) t (and we also happily employ for this (and any other) metavariable sub- and super-scripts to generate other metavariables: t ; t 0 ; t 1k ).
Fine-grained Mobility in the Emerald System
by Eric Jul, Henry Levy, Norman Hutchinson, Andrew Black - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1988
"... Emerald is an object-based language and system designed for the construction of distributed programs. An explicit goal of Emerald is support for object mobility; objects in Emerald can freely move within the system to take advantage of distribution and dynamically changing environments. We say that ..."
Emerald is an object-based language and system designed for the construction of distributed programs. An explicit goal of Emerald is support for object mobility; objects in Emerald can freely move within the system to take advantage of distribution and dynamically changing environments. We say
Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit
by Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman - International Journal of Supercomputer Applications , 1996
"... Emerging high-performance applications require the ability to exploit diverse, geographically distributed resources. These applications use high-speed networks to integrate supercomputers, large databases, archival storage devices, advanced visualization devices, and/or scientific instruments to for ..."
to form networked virtual supercomputers or metacomputers. While the physical infrastructure to build such systems is becoming widespread, the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the metacomputing environment poses new challenges for developers of system software, parallel tools, and applications
Ptolemy: A Framework for Simulating and Prototyping Heterogeneous Systems
by Joseph Buck, Soonhoi Ha, Edward A. Lee, David G. Messerschmitt , 1992
"... Ptolemy is an environment for simulation and prototyping of heterogeneous systems. It uses modern object-oriented software technology (C++) to model each subsystem in a natural and efficient manner, and to integrate these subsystems into a whole. Ptolemy encompasses practically all aspects of design ..."
Ptolemy is an environment for simulation and prototyping of heterogeneous systems. It uses modern object-oriented software technology (C++) to model each subsystem in a natural and efficient manner, and to integrate these subsystems into a whole. Ptolemy encompasses practically all aspects
Usability Analysis of Visual Programming Environments: a `cognitive dimensions' framework
by T. R. G. Green, M. Petre - JOURNAL OF VISUAL LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING , 1996
"... The cognitive dimensions framework is a broad-brush evaluation technique for interactive devices and for non-interactive notations. It sets out a small vocabulary of terms designed to capture the cognitively-relevant aspects of structure, and shows how they can be traded off against each other. T ..."
. The purpose of this paper is to propose the framework as an evaluation technique for visual programming environments. We apply it to two commercially-available dataflow languages (with further examples from other systems) and conclude that it is effective and insightful; other HCI-based evaluation
STATEMATE: A Working Environment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems
by David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Aharon Shtull-trauring, Mark Trakhtenbrot - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , 1990
"... This paper provides an overview of the STATEMATE system, constructed over the past several years by the authors and their colleagues at Ad Cad Ltd., the R&D subsidiary of i-Logix, Inc. STATEMATE is a set of tools, with a heavy graphical orientation, in- tended for the specification, analysis, d ..."
This paper provides an overview of the STATEMATE system, constructed over the past several years by the authors and their colleagues at Ad Cad Ltd., the R&D subsidiary of i-Logix, Inc. STATEMATE is a set of tools, with a heavy graphical orientation, in- tended for the specification, analysis
Tinydb: An acquisitional query processing system for sensor networks
by Samuel R. Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong - ACM Trans. Database Syst , 2005
"... We discuss the design of an acquisitional query processor for data collection in sensor networks. Acquisitional issues are those that pertain to where, when, and how often data is physically acquired (sampled) and delivered to query processing operators. By focusing on the locations and costs of acq ..."
We discuss the design of an acquisitional query processor for data collection in sensor networks. Acquisitional issues are those that pertain to where, when, and how often data is physically acquired (sampled) and delivered to query processing operators. By focusing on the locations and costs


Home › Investing › Ellevest Review 2019 – Invest Like A Woman!
"Invest Like A Woman Because Money Is Power" is the bold slogan that greets new users at Ellevest, a robo advisor designed by women for women. Founded by Sallie Krawcheck in partnership with tech entrepreneur, Charlie Kroll, Ellevest has a mission to get women invested in their financial futures and supports them in attaining their financial goals.
Ellevest offers two levels of service, Ellevest Digital and Ellevest Premium. Ellevest Digital is a fully automated robo-advisor service designed for the hands-off investor who wants Ellevest to manage her money without lifting a finger while Ellevest Premium is more like a hybrid robo-advisor service that is more customized to a client's financial circumstances and involves human oversight.
Like most other robo-advisors, Ellevest relies on exchange-traded funds to build diversified portfolios and has substantially lower fees than most human financial advisors. On fees, it also comes up trumps when compared to many of its robo rivals.
Ellevest offers both a purely automated investment management offering as well as a higher tier of service, Ellevest Premium, for higher net worth clients who prefer human oversight and accessibility.
Ellevest Digital is a technology-powered robo-advisor designed for the hands-off woman who wants to invest her money in a diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds at less cost than a traditional financial advisor would charge.
For a management fee of 0.25%, Ellevest Digital constructs client portfolios using a goals-based approach. For example, you specify financial goals, such as saving for a new home or buying a new car, and Ellevest will examine your timeline, savings, target amount, and capacity for risk to build a customized investment portfolio.
Personalized investment portfolios take into consideration other factors too, including your salary, expected salary growth, and assets in order to make portfolio recommendations.
As you get closer to the target date for your financial goals, portfolio recommendations become increasingly more conservative. This dynamic allocation adjustment over time that factors in a client's changing capacity for risk raises the bar for all robo-advisors.
During our discussions with the senior team, this dynamic allocation feature was described as roboadvisor 2.0, and we wholeheartedly agree that it is in the best interests of clients to modify risk exposure as time goes by to reflect changing financial circumstances.
Where Ellevest shines also is in providing insight into how likely you are to meet your financial goals. Ellevest displays a 70% likelihood of meeting your financial goals, which compares favorably to the 50% benchmark figure used in the industry, so you enjoy a higher degree of confidence that you will achieve your goals.
For higher net worth clients who have a minimum of $50,000 in investable assets, Ellevest offers a higher tier of service for a management fee of 0.50%.
When you see what you get for this fee, you will realize it is highly competitive when compared to the costs and services provided by other leading robo-advisors.
And like other robo-advisors, Ellevest does not attempt to time the market or make bets on specific assets, sector classes, or individual securities.
You receive 1:1 access to Executive Coaches for guidance on salary negotiations and career events.
These services distinguish Ellevest from most other robo-advisors because Ellevest emphasizes that men and women have earning trajectories that follow different arcs.
As a company that relies on data about where women's salaries peak in general, Ellevest can better serve women by customizing financial guidance to their specific needs.
While some robo-advisors have a cookie-cutter investment management services that serves men and women equally without factoring differing earnings arcs, which can lead to sub-optimal portfolio allocations and money strategies for women, Ellevest optimizes for an individual's financial circumstances.
Both women and men can benefit from this deeper insight and more thoughtful approach to serving clients.
Ellevest fees are tiered based on the level of service required and charged monthly in arrears.
The annual management fee for Ellevest Digital is 0.25%, and is charged on a monthly basis in arrears based on the market value of the average daily account balance of the securities portfolio in the preceding month.
Ellevest Premium fees are 0.50% annually and charged similarly.
Like most robo-advisors, these management fees are exclusive of fund fees that range from 0.06% to 0.16% annually.
Our research shows that these fund fees are highly competitive, an another reason why Ellevest deserves your serious consideration, whether you are a woman or a man.
Ellevest uses low-fee ETFs to build diversified portfolios that are aligned with clients' financial goals, time horizons and capacity for risk.
Ellevest astutely realizes that risk tolerance may not be the optimal gauge to assess an investor's risk profile because when markets are rising investors often overestimate their risk tolerances and when markets are falling they underestimate their risk tolerance levels.
Instead, Ellevest focuses on capacity for risk as a better tool to incorporate the timeline of reaching a financial goal.
Upon learning what your risk profile is and having a better holistic understanding of your financial goals and time horizons, Ellevest uses low-fee exchange-traded funds, including many from Vanguard, to build customized, diversified portfolios.
Model portfolios are used by Ellevest Digital to manage clients' assets. Ellevest allocates client monies to ETFs and cash equivalents on a discretionary basis using proprietary algorithms.
For each goal you set, Ellevest invests in a portfolio of ETFs using a method influenced by your time horizon, which you can change at any time.
Your accounts are monitored automatically, managed digitally, and rebalanced periodically according to the model strategy.
Rebalancing does carry a tax risk – for example, if winners are sold near year-end, the capital gains taxes may be significant.
Unlike Betterment and Wealthfront, Ellevest does not apply a broad tax-loss harvesting "brush" to all client portfolios.
The team doesn't believe this is necessarily the best way to optimize for after-tax returns. For more information on the tax strategies employed by its rivals, you can view this tax article.
However, Ellevest doesn't ignore tax considerations. Quite the contrary, it employs what it calls a Tax Minimization Methodology, which we describe below.
A primary difference between Ellevest Digital and Ellevest Premium is human oversight. Ellevest personnel monitor client accounts and make portfolio adjustments as necessary.
Think of Ellevest Premium as a more tailored solution to your individual needs, risk profile and financial objectives.
Ellevest will look to apply tax minimization methods, including deferring capital gains and realizing losses when tax benefits outweigh transaction costs.
While investment methods are similar, perhaps the greatest benefit of Ellevest Premium extends beyond your portfolio to factor in your money growth strategies for life.
We were impressed that Ellevest doesn't just "talk the talk" when it comes to building a financial solution for clients. Because of its insights into how income and spending patterns differ for men and women, Ellevest can help clients to better navigate career hurdles by providing Executive Coaches at no extra charge.
And because clients get 1:1 access to Chartered Financial Professionals, Ellevest has a more holistic overview of your overall financial situation, which means a more personalized and tailored experience.
Ellevest's stand out tool is its trade-off algorithm which spotlights the cost-benefit analysis when you allocate more to one investment than another.
Ellevest has a nice trade-off tool which gives you insights into the effects of prioritizing one goal over another.
For example, if you are saving up for a new car but set a new goal to go on a fancy vacation abroad, Ellevest will inform you what the impact is to your car-buying goal.
You can view your goals on Mint also if you wish. Simply eSign on the Ellevest dashboard and away you go!
Ellevest charges competitive fees for both its Digital and Premium services, provides Chartered Financial Professionals and Executive Coaches at no charge to Premium clients, and even has a private wealth management service for higher net worth individuals.
✅ Management Fees: Ellevest Digital costs 0.25% annually while Ellevest Premium costs 0.50% annually. Both of these charges are in line with industry norms. Qualified Private Wealth clients, who want non-standard service options pay 0.90% annually. ❌ Tax Loss Harvesting: Ellevest views the merits of tax-loss harvsting differently to Betterment and Wealthfront. While Ellevest does support tax-advantaged investing, it does not provide the granular approach to tax-loss harvesting, called Direct Indexing, offered by Wealthfront.
✅ Emergency Fund Management Fee: No management fees are charged on monies held in emergency funds. This is highly unusual in the money management industry, which generally charges management fees even on cash held. ❌ Fewer Account Options: As a comparatively new robo-advisor on the scene, Ellevest caters to fewer account types than some other leading robo-advisors.
✅ Chartered Financial Professionals: Ellevest Premium clients receive free 1:1 access to CFPs for personalized guidance on finances and money growth strategies.
✅ Executive Coaches: Ellevest Premium clients also receive free 1:1 access to executive coaches in order to help navigate salary negotiations and career events.
✅ Private Wealth Management: For qualified clients investing $1,000,000 or more, Ellevest provides a private wealth management service that includes value-based investing options.
✅ Financial Goal Setting: Ellevest provides greater specificity and clarity on financial goal-setting than you might find elsewhere.
Instead of investing more generally for the long-term, you get to "bucket" your financial goals so you can specify for example that you are saving for a new home, buying a new car, saving up for a vacation, building an emergency funds cash cushion, preparing for college tuitions, or putting money aside for a wedding.
✅ Trade-off Tool: If you're on track to meet your financial goals, but must pay for something new, what is the effect on when you will reach your financial goals? Those are the insights you may glean from Ellevest's trade-off tool.
✅ Gender Focus: Data shows that women's salaries peak earlier than they do for men. This important income difference has significant effects on investing allocations, which Ellevest recognizes and supports.
Unlike most traditional advisor who charge management fees on both invested assets and cash, Ellevest stands out by charging no management fees on money held in emergency funds. Overall fees compare well to other robo-advisors.
As the new kid on the block, compared to the the likes of Betterment, Wealthfront and Personal Capital, who started almost a decade earlier, Ellevest is playing catch up with the selection of accounts it has on offer.
Some basic tax minimization strategies are included as part of Ellevest's offering, from deferring capital gains taxes and comparing transaction costs to realizing losses for tax purposes, but Ellevest differs from Betterment and Wealthfront when it comes to providing a "one-size fits all" tax-loss harvesting solution.
The Tax Minimization Methodology employed by Ellevest places tax-inefficient assets in tax-efficient accounts and tax-efficient assets in tax-inefficient accounts.
For example, tax-efficient municipal bonds are placed in taxable accounts while corporate and government bonds are placed in retirement accounts.
Plus, when your accounts need to be rebalanced, Ellevest maximizes your tax losses and minimizes your taxable gains wherever possible.
For specific tax advice, Ellevest encourages clients to consult with tax specialists.
Top robo-advisors need to look over their shoulder because the new "kid" in town has a lot to offer. Ellevest may be younger than its leading rivals, Betterment and Wealthfront, but what it lacks in age it makes up for in a world class product offering.
Ellevest charges similar fees to Betterment for its purely digital solution, Ellevest Digital, and equivalent fees for its higher tier service, Ellevest Premium. Where Ellevest has the edge is its lower account minimum and it goes the extra mile by providing Chartered Financial Professionals and Executive Coaches who help with salary negotiations and career guidance.
Another standout feature at Ellevest is its gender focus. By recognizing that men and women experience salary peaks at different points in their respective careers, Ellevest constructs portfolios that are tailored to client needs. Plus, portfolio allocations dynamically adapt as clients get older to account for modified capacities for risk.
Ellevest considers tax impact in its service offerings and automatically rebalances portfolios as you might expect of any leading robo-advisor.
The bottom line is whether you are a woman or a man, you will need to go a long way before finding a robo-advisor that beats Ellevest.


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