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Globalization, Energy, and Economic Growth – A Brief Case Study on China
By Massoud Amin
The 20th Century marked a period of technology triumphs. Electrification, telecommunications and the Internet, fast and efficient transportation, modern medicine, scientific agriculture, and other advances changed—and continue to change—the conditions of human life all around the globe. While the smart grid may not be as dramatic, it, in its own right, will be transformative, which is why China is heavily invested in the technology.
Recent policies in the U.S., China, India, the European Union, the U.K., India and other nations throughout the World, combined with potential for technological innovations and business opportunities, have attracted a high level of interest in smart grids. Particularly in the light of the more recent multi-national agreements on limiting GHG emissions in the making for several years.
Nations, regions and cities that best implement new strategies and infrastructure may reshuffle the world pecking order. Emerging markets could leapfrog other nations. For example, China has invested over $7 billion and will spend $96 billion in smart grid technology by 2020. Consider:
China's energy needs to double by 2020
China's State Grid Corporation will invest $31 billion for smart grid development in Xinxiang province to allow interconnection with neighboring provinces
Many changes will happen in the homes themselves
China will account for nearly 20% of global smart grid appliances in the next 5 years.
As the largest T&D market in the world, China's smart grid market has immense potential, due to its need to grow while reducing GHG emissions. It already has a high production/manufacturing capacity of wind and solar technologies. China's increasing commitment to reduce pollution through its integration of greener and cleaner energy sources and policies supportive of smart grid solutions will enable this transformation.
Persisting environmental constraints and the cost of coping with them, much more than resource scarcity or technology limitations, will likely dominate society's future energy options and choices. Over the next 25 years, substantial progress will almost certainly be achieved in improving our understanding of key environmental issues, and in using electricity innovations to resolve them.
The electric power industry has undergone a substantial degree of privatization in a number of countries over the past few years. Power generation growth is expected to be particularly strong in the rapidly growing economies of Asia, with China leading the way.
Drivers often result from local, regional or and national priorities; for example, the government of India aims at reducing the "Aggregate Technical and Commercial" (AT&C) losses for power distribution systems from 34% to15% with an annual target of 1% improvement (source: 'Technology: Enabling the Transformation of Power Distribution in India" in 2008). The report commissioned by the Ministry of Power, the Government of India, and prepared by the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) and Infosys. The report also puts forth the suggestion of a national institution to drive this.
Changes in technology and the resulting economics have disrupted the traditional value chain and stimulated the adoption of distributed energy resources (DER). These distributed resources can assume many forms, but some key examples are distributed generation and storage, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).
A class of service offerings with similar requirements include those related to customer billing, management of customer equipment, energy information, and a range of value-added services. The latter include on-line meter reading, bill management, energy audits, real-time pricing, and procurement. Many of these service offerings share similar requirements for integrating disparate systems, automating business processes, and enabling physical and financial transactions. Delivering these services will require a communications architecture that is open, highly scalable, and sufficiently flexible and adaptable to meet the changing business needs of suppliers and customers.
Standardization and Interoperability
Smart grids are "systems of systems." Solutions are, and will increasingly be, integrations of components, often from different sources. The components in question are not just physical products, but also communication protocols, information and data models, software implementations of algorithms, etc. It is thus important that components and subsystems from different suppliers can work together (interoperability), in as close to plug-and-play fashion as feasible and consistent with safety and reliability constraints; and that they are based on open, accessible interfaces and protocols (standardization). Interoperable standards are thus a driver for smart grid developments; without them, the effort and expense of product development and system integration is increased.
The importance of interoperable standards for smart grids is globally recognized and end-use sectors are a particular focus. In the U.S., a public-private partnership organization, the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), has been established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology "to support NIST in fulfilling its responsibility, under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, to coordinate standards development for the Smart Grid" (NIST, 2011). Similar initiatives are under way in the EU (EC, 2011) and China (SGCC, 2010).
From a personal view, since early childhood, I have been a student of Chinese culture and civilization, have regularly visited China, and served as Chairman of China Center at the University of Minnesota (the oldest China Center in the U.S.). As such I continue to study and present on China (and India) - on multiple occasions that increasing leverage their science, engineering, and leadership base to power economic growth ‐‐ have realized their aspirations toward societal progress with positive economic impact.
The formula for economic growth is well known, at least academically:
Y = f(R, K, H), where:
Y = GDP (Economic Growth)
R = R&D (Investments in judiciously selected areas of Research and development)
K = physical capital (having the infrastructure to do the job)
H = human capital (having the well-trained human capital to do the work)
In summary the determinants of success - GDP growth is dependent on:
a) Velocity and proportion of R, K, H, and
b) Available and affordable energy, and electricity as the most efficient carrier of energy
While seemingly a very simple formula for success, but in reality assessing options, building consensus, determining supportive policies, implementing, assessing/measuring success, powering societal growth and lifting a whole nation (or even a region), while performing course corrections become massive and often very "messy" undertakings.
During the last four decades, China has gone from a nearly Third World or developing communist economy to a dynamic growing competitive market. The country's science and engineering vision and policy have driven a historically unprecedented economic growth.
Overall, the Chinese economy grew at nearly 10 percent per year in the last decade. It is clear that science and engineering and its effective management are a major driving force in shaping global society. Going forward, macro to micro considerations for any successful implementation in China, or elsewhere, with the goals noted in the equation above, several systemic factors need to be addressed:
Understanding emergent and accelerated global trends/shifts in power & energy, independent systems logistics and infrastructure development, human dimension & culture, education, population/workforce, laws including IP, Medical/Biotech, Information Technologies (IT), Defense, R&D centers and Innovation;
Assessing opportunities in the above technological/business sectors (combined with economic, policy and cultural interests/goals) and societal change;
Understanding the underpinning power, energy and water dynamics, risk-managed pathways and scenarios. Focus on selected technologies, including energy technology, expected to play pivotal roles in future industrial development and economic growth of China (end-to-end, fuel source, to end use), together with barriers and opportunities for growth and commercialization and forming global alliances.
Clarity on individual, organizational, local to State and regional (as Mayors and Governors in China have a high degree of power) to assess and implement short/mid-term as well as longer-term collaboration and innovation opportunities in the above areas, along with pros/cons, associated risks, cost/benefit, and strategic/tactical/urgent issues and to address them proactively if possible.
Although China's investments in S&T development began long ago, China faces several fundamental challenges:
Can a booming economy that is networked globally and driven by engineering and technological revolution be sustained without intellectual property rights and free speech, particularly now with the Internet?
Assuming that in the next decade or later when China reaches toward its aspirations and achieves its economic goals, can its citizens drink the water and breathe the air?
"The empires of the future," said Winston Churchill, "are the empires of the mind". Echoing this in his 1981 book, Investing in People: The Economics of Population Quality, economist and Nobel Laureate, Theodore Schultz, argued that the wealth of nations is not limited by land or minerals, it comes predominantly from "the acquired abilities of people, their education, experience, skills and health."
Because the pace of global change is accelerating, the long-term strategic view of smart grid, the human condition, and all other sectors that critically depend on power, become a vital consideration.
As the world opens, the value of education continues to rise, and knowledge will play an even greater role in development of technological innovations and in the success of businesses, since understanding the changing environment demands a constant stream of information and a tolerance for ambiguity. In particular, smart grid technologies, deployments and services will emerge from collaborations among coalitions of companies, universities, national labs, and government agencies. This "open research model" allows all participants to leverage assets. If you are innovative, you will find new directions – and thus together finding sustainable solutions, risk-managed options and pathways forward for the seemingly simple GDP growth equation provided above.
For a downloadable copy of August 2016 eNewsletter which includes this article, please visit the IEEE Smart Grid Resource Center.
Massoud Amin, a fellow of IEEE and ASME, chairman of the IEEE Smart Grid, an independent Director of the Board of Directors of the Texas RE and the MRO, holds the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership at the University of Minnesota. He directs the university's Technological Leadership Institute (TLI), is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and professor of electrical and computer engineering. He received a B.S. degree with honors and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the M.S. degree and the D.Sc. degree in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Before joining the University of Minnesota in 2003, he held positions of increasing responsibility at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto. After 9/11, he directed EPRI's Infrastructure Security R&D and served as area manager for Infrastructure Security & Protection, Grid Operations/Planning, and Energy Markets. Prior to that, he served as manager of mathematics and information sciences, leading the development of more than 24 technologies that transferred to industry, and pioneered R&D in "self-healing" infrastructures and smart grids.


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Things We Saw Today: Marvel's Phase 9: Lokitty's Revenge
Yeah. You read that right. Prepare yourself.
By Dan Van WinkleApr 1st, 2015, 7:30 pm
You didn't think you'd make it through today without at least one joke trailer for upcoming Marvel movies, did you?
NBC's next live televised stage show will be The Wiz! (via Variety)
Pick up some new titles from the Heroines Who Rule comics sale on Google Play. (via tipster Jason)
This is an adorable little K-9 toy from Doctor Who… that you control with an app on your phone. Yes, we will take all of them, please. How much? (via io9)
Julie Newmar will be back to voice Catwoman along with Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin in an animated movie version of the 1960s Batman TV series! (via Nerdist and Collider)
David Duchovny has some teases about what will happen in the new X Files episodes and some thoughts on picking up an old character as a more experienced actor. (via THR)
Dorkly presents this handy chart of famous mad scientists' intelligence and madness. Although, they may have made the mistake of underestimating Jeff Goldblum on both counts. NEVER underestimate Goldblum.
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The Charleston Regional Business Journal has the good word that the Charleston City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of establishing a free public shuttle system in downtown Charleston.
They've also got some numbers on how much the free shuttle service will cost: $416,000 per year, though the actual price tag will be slightly lower for the first year because of the Nov. 22 start date.
Pop over to the post for more on the proposed plan that is swiftly taking shape.
Downtown Charleston may be getting a free shuttle service that would haul shoppers, diners and tourists around and through the heart of the city's main business district.
The plan, which is still awaiting approval from City Council, is to merge two existing DASH routes into one and run the route about every 10 minutes or so. The route would run from Upper King Street to Broad Street, turn left on East Bay Street and then head back up Market Street and then shoot up Meeting Street. Need a visual? Looky here.
Mayor Riley's goal is to have the system running around the time that holiday shopping season kicks into high gear.
Sounds like a good idea to me, let's see how this one plays out.
In the meantime, read all about the free shuttle plan over in The Post and Courier.


Climate change scored less than two minutes in the federal Treasurer's 40-minute budget speech, which provided no worthwhile new ideas to deal with climate change, the planet's number one threat to human life.
Australia's emissions of carbon, the driver of climate change, come mainly from energy generation (about 34 percent), industry (30 percent), transport (19 percent) and agriculture (15 percent).
Under the budget proposals, the government would pay $1.38 billion to the government-owned Snowy Hydro, to fund construction of the $4 billion Snowy 2.0 project. That scheme involves river water being pumped up to high reservoirs and released later to provide extra hydro power and iron out irregularities in daily energy demand, particularly due to variations in wind and solar energy generation.
The climate change threat demands urgent action but Snowy 2.0 would take at least six years to complete, whereas South Australia's highly successful energy storage complex was constructed in less than twelve months.
The government's proposed $56 million Marinus energy connector would provide the mainland with an extra 3,000 megawatts from the Tasmanian hydro system. This would probably involve construction of new dams, resulting in another bitter struggle like the battle over the damming of the Franklin River. And construction would probably take ten years.
The government has previously given tentative approval for ten energy projects under its Underwriting New Generation Investments program. However, these haven't progressed to commitment and weren't mentioned in the budget speech, and $10 million of the program's budget would go towards a feasibility study into constructing another new heavily-polluting coal-fired power station in Queensland.
The government has allocated $79 million over seven years to support investment in reliable energy generation and supply, but that almost certainly rules out renewable energy generation in the government's eyes.
The budget makes no reference to phasing out the mining and use of coal, a crucial measure in dealing with the climate change menace. It allocates an extra $1.8 billion per annum for fossil fuel subsidies to benefit mining companies, a total of $9 billion every year.
The government won't release a policy on electric vehicles until next year. All of Australia's cars are now imported, and overseas auto firms are rapidly converting to production of fully electric vehicles. Under Coalition government policies, within 20 years Australia's petrol and diesel automotive infrastructure may still be largely unchanged, but there may be no internal combustion engine vehicles for sale.
The government proposes to spend $189 million over four years propping up the Abbott regime's totally discredited and almost totally ineffective Emissions Reduction Fund, now renamed the Climate Solutions Fund. The scheme would pay companies to stop pumping out carbon emissions, rather than penalising them for doing so.
The government claims it will reach Australia's Paris carbon emission targets "in a canter", but when calculating emission reductions it ignores emissions from agriculture, transport and heavy industry.
It continues the fraudulent "double-dipping" practice of adding excess Kyoto program emission reduction "carry over" credits to any reductions it manages to make under the Paris Agreement. Without that fraud it would fail miserably to reach Australia's emission reduction targets. And if other countries decide to follow Australia's lead on "carry-over" credits, the feeble Paris agreement will be wrecked.
The Coalition's fraudulent emission credit "double-dipping" practice would be banned by Labor, which has set itself a 2030 target of 45 percent emissions reduction compared with 2005 figures, and a 2050 target for zero emissions. The Climate Council says the 2030 target should be at least 65 percent.
Labor wants electric vehicles to comprise 50 percent of all vehicles sales by 2030. The conservative National Roads and Motorists Association recommends reaching that target five years earlier, in 2025.
Labor proposes to establish a $200 million national electric vehicle charging network, and to introduce limits for light vehicle emissions. It also wants to impose a "cap and credit" emissions trading scheme on polluters. However, that would enable corporations to buy credits from low-polluting firms in developing countries, allowing the Australian firms to buy their way out of their environmental responsibility very cheaply. Overseas emissions trading is also highly vulnerable to fraud.
Labor wants to strengthen the Climate Change Authority, which was established to provide advice on climate change policies, but was ruthlessly deprived of funds and expertise by the coalition.
However, like the Coalition, Labor fails to address the major issue of reducing the production of fossil fuels. Its policy statement doesn't mention the infamous Adani coal mine proposal in Queensland.
Labor exempts agriculture from firm carbon reduction targets and allocates $30 million to pay farmers not to clear the land, rather than requiring them to refrain from doing so under the law and in the national interest.
Labor's climate change policies are inadequate but nevertheless mostly welcome.
In glaring contrast, the Coalition has deliberately done as little as possible in order to retard the transition to clean energy sources and preserve the dominance of the fossil fuel industries, whereas the situation demands radical action as fast as possible. The Morrison government's policies constitute a major threat to future generations of Australians, and it must be dumped at the coming federal election.


MPUI is an easy-to-use Windows frontend for MPlayer. MPlayer is arguably the best media player application of the world. MPUI plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including MPEG-1, -2 and -4 (DivX), H.264, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and AAC. For most media files, no additional codecs are needed. This is because MPlayer is not one of the uncounted DirectShow players – the codecs are directly integrated into MPlayer.exe. The most important MPlayer options (aspect ratio, deinterlacing, and postprocessing) can be configured without typing in cryptic command-line options. No installation is required to use MPUI/MPlayer.


THESE STORIES ARE FROM THE GUTTER, housed with losers, wannabes and out-of-luck dreamers, whose mouths bulge with alcohol and vulgarities, whose lives are done before they're begun, whose imaginations carry them no further than their backyards. Something Grand, the ironical title of this collection of eleven short stories, presents us with a number of poor, uneducated or traumatized individuals struggling for respect from themselves and others in a larger world. As readers with the benefit of an external perspective, it is easy for us to see they are mentally and emotionally unequipped to fill any station beyond their present one. The problem with Something Grand, is that the stories are ungrounded in larger environments or contexts that might provide alternatives to their current situations. While the characters, their relationships and their problems are revealed in sufficient detail, they float in a landscape of their own barbs and expletives, with no role models or choices toward which they — and through them the readers — might strive.
This lack of environment begins with a failure to provide external descriptions. In "Wistah Irish," an uneducated and frustrated hospital janitor drives to a nearby bar after arguing with his wife who wants to name their first-born after an "uppity" friend whom her husband despises. At the bar, when he spots a new SUV, the prose withdraws into furious, expletive-ridden internal monologue. Avis throws a cinder block through the SUV window but does so without providing a larger description of the bar scene from which a chance detail of hope might be gleaned. Why shouldn't Avis get mad if he sees no choice for anything else? The same is true in "Pulpo Avoids A Hard Time," whose protagonist, an Hispanic who works several jobs in east Los Angeles, is not as convinced as his wife that they can make ends meet and make a life for themselves. The bulk of the story takes place in the restaurant where Pulpo is a dishwasher. He is hassled by fellow employees, accused of smoking marijuana, which could lead to his getting fired, and dreams of killing his boss. Other characters, whose lives or situations might be more hopeful, are completely absent. Pulpo, like Avis, is reduced to vulgarity and violent thoughts, which does little to endear him to the readers' sympathy.
Most of the troubled characters brood deeply and enforce an emotional paralysis on themselves that makes it impossible to improve their lives. The stories are often overwritten as well, but most importantly, they are limited by the author's failure to drive beyond a general malaise to a broader environment where improvement or happiness might be found. The characters guard their personalities, even from the readers, through recourse to violence, alcohol and vulgarity. In doing so, these stories degenerate rapidly into tales of conditions rather than of conflicts. And as a result, boxed in with little hope for escape or victory, the weak characters lose the readers' interest as well as our desire to travel with them through the pages.
Joe Kovacs is a regular contributor to WorldView Magazine. His most recent articles, "The Harlem Renaissance, Washington, DC" and the "Rise of Langston Hughes" will appear early next year on Literary Traveler.com. He recently accepted a marketing position with Gelman, Rosenberg and Freedman accounting firm in Bethesda, MD.


Toronto city councillors overwhelmingly approved (38-4!) a ban on the ownership, sale or consumption of shark fin.
The brutal practice of "finning" satisfies a vanity-food demand and is so widespread (an estimated 90 million sharks are killed each year) that it is pushing several species toward rapid extinction.


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Best Tourist Attractions In East Hartford
We've rounded up the best tourist attractions in East Hartford in our quest to discover brilliant family attractions and places to visit near you.
There are 32 East Hartford tourist attractions to pick from.
Alternatively, why not explore some other sightseeing days out nearby, including museums and art galleries. Find the perfect places to go with your kids and get out on your next adventure!
All the tourist attractions we list are rated according to the ages they are suitable for, facilities and whether they are suitable for rainy days or best when the sun is shining.
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Suitable for all ages •Outdoor 2.4 miles from East Hartford
St Marys Lighthouse
Suitable for 4+ •Indoor, Outdoor 5.7 miles from East Hartford
Crab & Compass : Whitley Whale Coastal Trail
Suitable for 4-8 •Outdoor 6.8 miles from East Hartford
Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum
Tynemouth Treasure Trail
Suitable for 4+ •Outdoor 8.7 miles from East Hartford
Tynemouth Priory and Castle
Huntfun Newcastle upon Tyne
Curious About Newcastle
The Newcastle Spy Mission Treasure Trail
Newcastle Codebreaking Walk
Wylam Mystery Treasure Trail
Suitable for 4+ •Outdoor 13.1 miles from East Hartford
The Strategy Sunderland
Suitable for 9+ •Indoor 14.9 miles from East Hartford
Sunderland Stadium of Light Tour
Suitable for 0-12 •Indoor 15.4 miles from East Hartford
Seaham Treasure Hunt Trail
Seaham
Lanchester Village Mystery Treasure Trail
The Alnwick Garden
Suitable for 0-12 •Indoor, Outdoor 21.7 miles from East Hartford
Wicked Wizard of Alnwick Treasure Trail
Suitable for 4+ •Indoor, Outdoor 21.9 miles from East Hartford
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The Durham Treasure Trail
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Word of Apple's initiative came in a statement provided to NPR after the broadcaster ran a report on its blog looking into the steps big tech firms take to protect users' data privacy.
The story was based on an Electronic Frontier Foundation survey that asked companies like Apple, AT&T, Facebook, Google, Twitter and more about the encryption policies implemented in their products. Specifically, the EFF asked if the firms follow a recommended five-step plan the organization believes keeps consumer data safe.
Specifically, the group looks wants companies to use HTTPS, HSTS , forward secrecy, STARTTLS, and encryption of email while in transit.
While Apple's iMessage inherently supports end-to-end encryption, the company's other text-based communication methods are less secure. Users of Apple's iCloud email service enjoy protections similar to iMessage as long as the conversation is with another iCloud address, but there is currently no encryption method being used for emails in transit between other providers like Google.
As the publication noted in its follow-up, however, Apple is working on the issue and will soon have a solution ready to go.
After we published, the company told us this would soon change. This affects users of me.com and mac.com email addresses.
At issue is the STARTTLS extension, which allows for the encryption of text connections between providers. The caveat in using STARTTLS is that both sending and receiving email services must be using it in order to work.
Apple did not offer a timeline on when it plans to roll out end-to-end email encryption outside of iCloud, though Google has started offering specifics on who does and does not support in-transit encryption. As seen above, Google's Safer Email transparency report shows iCloud accounts are also unencrypted, though Apple has not commented on plans to upgrade emails coming and going from those domains as well.
Wow, recently Apple has been jumping on the security bandwagon big time, and I couldn't be happier about this! The more security systems and encryption they pack into their devices and services, the better off everyone will be!
Side note, screw you Google!
Apple knows that privacy and security are two of the Google's biggest weaknesses. Google tracks everything you do online and it stores everything you type or visit or upload and they encrypt nothing on their servers (because then they couldn't serve you ads and make their billions) so Apple is quickly becoming anti-Google.
Google Nest and their watch will display ads to you and will track you while Apple's products and services will be quite the opposite. That's Apple's biggest advantage and they're finally fully capitalizing on it.
This will also have the effect of undermining Google's ability to scan e-mails and integrate targeted ads. Go Apple!
That's BS. Google uses advanced security and encryption techniques. What you're talking about, targeted ads on Gmail.com have nothing to do with a lack of encryption.
Not if you send the email to a gmail account. It looks like apple will encrypt it if some how they know the recipient is using a Apple mail client. Once the email ends up in a gmail account google is free to read it. I am just curious if you use a apple mail client to retrieve your mail if the actual mail file on google servers will stay encrypted until you retrieve it.
This will just keep it from the prying eyes of your ISP, meaning that when the government ask your ISP to forward all your email to them, it will be encrypted and they will have to use more computing resources to see what you are up to.
Confession: I foolishly assumed that encryption had been set up between all these different mail services.
Google encrypts traffic between your browser and their servers. They also encrypt traffic between their servers. But Google DOES NOT encrypt anything they store on their servers! NOTHING!
Nothing? Do you have proof of this? Do you have any evidence to show that if Google Server was stolen all the data would be in cleartext, including my username, password and any CC info? I can't imagine that being the case. So does Google offer you targeted ads in your emails? They same way they do it for your search results. They read the data that is being unencrypted on your end in the browser and AdSense then generates ads based on that criteria.
You should take the time to read their user agreement. They were called on this and admitted they scan your emails "to provide better service". Apple can't even open your iMessage files.
Google does encrypt customer data on their servers at rest. bighype may be getting confused with the recent(-ish) revelation that their inter-datacenter links were not encrypted. Encryption of data on a hard drive doesn't preclude it's use across devices or services, obviously.
That's true. However that does not preclude their ability to use encryption on the server side. The data is stored encrypted at rest, but is operationally accessible to Google's network and software in response to internal queries and external (e.g. customer) client requests. Encryption at rest is to prevent the scenario OP mentioned about stolen servers revealing data. Keep in mind that Google utilizes the same Google infrastructure as it's customers - it isn't likely going to put all of that in an insecure environment.
In reference to iMessage, while that's generally accepted, and I personally trust that, we still haven't seen anything that makes Apple interception impossible. Apple hardware and software still manages the keys used for encryption. I would bet that the system is architected such that it would be inappropriately difficult to adhere to any demand or request requiring them to poison the keying system, intercept data, and dump it to some agency.
I love Apple but GMail is the best IMO. Seemingly infinite storage, quickly accessible from just about any browser, convenient features. iCloud is still a niche that does little besides advertise that someone is an Apple fan.
dated 3/20/2014, "Lidzborski said that all Gmail messages a consumer sends or receives are now encrypted." I read this to mean they weren't encrypted before this date so gmail encryption is new as of a few months ago.
dated 8/15/2013: "From now on everything you put on Cloud Storage will be automatically encrypted on Google servers."
No date but talks about Google Message Encryption. This is for businesses and uses Postini so not for the rest of you (I don't use gmail).
dated 3/24/2014: "With the Google-for-business email service, your email is encrypted between your device and the Google servers, as well as when Google moves your email between its own data centers. Google does not encrypt your emails stored "at rest" on their servers." This seems to conflict with the gizmodo article I mentioned earlier.
Who do you trust to have the real information? Who do you trust handling your information? Email has never been private, just like telephone calls. That's why you never ever send any personal information, passwords, credit card numbers or anything else without encrypting them yourself. I believe Yosemite will allow this to be done within Mail on an email by email basis. I used an email encryption service for years at work and we had documented policy on what types of data could be sent without encryption. Using this process was and might still be the only way to keep others from reading you email.
update: I'm not sure how much of the ADC NDA Apple changed but so much was announced via the keynote and all the WWDC videos were available to everyone so I'll assume most of what I'm saying is not covered under the NDA.
I checked Yosemite Mail and you can now set an encryption certificate to encrypt and decrypt emails regardless of whether the email service you're using encrypts them. Of course, you'll need to get a certificate from a trusted certificate authority (CA) and most of these cost money but you'll be able to maintain encryption at least between people who also can decrypt your email (maybe Apple will be providing this service or using your iCloud certificate, I don't know the answer to this). These people will need part of your certificate so both ends know the identity of the other one but this is how we used Entrust at work. Once the email has been sent, it stays encrypted until it gets to the destination and the recipient decrypts it. With Macs, this can be done automatically in Mail and some other email clients using the Keychain. Apple's CoreCrypto modules have been certified but who knows whether NSA has some kind of master decryption key. They shouldn't but we'll probably never know.
I also "looks wants" the companies to use HTTPS, (buzzwords, et al).
Google does not encrypt your emails stored "at rest" on their servers.
That says it all. The fact they encrypt while it's in transport doesn't mean much. N?? can still get it.
Am now totally Goolies free. Start Page piggybacks off Google to send out your requests so no tracking takes place and a little kick is given to the tender parts of Goolies. SP is working on Mail but will cost a bit. Meanwhile, mail.com is my preference and the adds don't bother me though for a little coin, they are excluded.
One of the best encrypted mail accounts is RiseUp but it takes a while to be accepted unless you have a couple cronies already using RU. Won't know how good it is till I get accepted.
Scanning your content for an automated system to supply targeted ads does't means there is no protection on their servers.
Who cares there's protection when N?? can get everything without a warrant if you're not from US? And if you are from US, they get it through another FISA warrant.
You're weakening your argument. You first stated that NOTHING on Google's servers are encrypted which means that anyone with access to the server could access your data, usernames, passwords and CC info. So why would the NSA be involved, especially if previously between mail servers it was already sent unencrypted. It sounds like they already were getting what they want.
You realise that almost every email provider scans your emails "to provide better service" in the form of a spam filter, right?


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Before the legendary Lancia Stratos rally car, there was the Stratos HF Zero. Debuting at the 1970 Turin Motor Show, this one-off Lancia concept was designer Bertone's weapon in the fierce battle between it and Pininfarina for the ultimate wedge-shaped supercar, a trend arguably started by the Lamborghini Marzal. Only one was built, and was last sold at RM Sotheby's Villa d'Este auction in 2011.
A video uploaded to YouTube by car spotting channel 19Bozzy92 shows the futuristic Zero concept returning to Villa d'Este for the Concorso d'Eleganza on Lake Como. Besides it's distinct wedge shape, the first thing one notices about the Zero is how low it is to the ground. If the size of the bicyclist in the beginning doesn't give that away, keep your eye on the photographers nearly hugging the pavement trying to get a low shot of the car.
Another interesting feature is the Zero's method of ingress and egress. To climb inside, push down on the "Lancia" badge on the car's nose and you'll discover that the badge doubles as the door handle. This handle pushes the entire windscreen hatch up and moves the steering column forward, allowing the occupant to climb onto the Zero's rubber-clad hood to get inside. It makes getting in and out of a Lamborghini Countach look simple.
The deafening rumble escaping the car's exhaust in the video is only from a 1.6-liter V-4, the same one used in the much more obtainable Lancia Fulvia HF. However, the Fulvia isn't even in the same universe of cool as the Stratos HF Zero. This video proves it's a definite show-stopper.


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Q: Trying to get property of non-object (using Carbon in Laravel 5.3) I got this query $paid_at = $invoice->payments->last()->paid_at which works just fine, returning a string with a date "2013-04-04" (dd, var_dump, print_r confirmed it). But when I feed it to Carbon $paid = new Carbon($paid_at);I suddenly get this error:

ErrorException (E_NOTICE)
Trying to get property of non-object

$paid = new Carbon("2013-04-04"); works just fine too... Same with \DateTime.
Am I missing something here?

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It will convert the paid_at column to instances of Carbon automatically.
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Il Fenicianesimo è una forma di nazionalismo libanese adottata da alcuni esponenti libanesi, soprattutto cristiani maroniti, al momento dell'istituzione del Grande Libano, rivendicando l'identificazione della nascente nazione libanese con l'eredità storica e culturale degli antichi Fenici.

Definizione
I fautori del Fenicianismo sostengono che la regione del Libano sia stata abitata ininterrottamente fin dall'epoca fenicia e che l'attuale popolazione discenda dalla popolazione originaria, con qualche mescolanza dovuta all'immigrazione nel corso dei secoli. Sostengono che l'arabizzazione abbia rappresentato semplicemente un passaggio alla lingua araba da parte delle popolazioni locali e essa non abbia comportato alcun cambiamento effettivo dell'identità etnica, né tanto meno delle origini ancestrali. Alla luce di questa "antica controversia sull'identità", alcuni nazionalisti libanesi adottano una visione di Libano legata alla civiltà mediterranea e cananea, negandone o limitandone l'identità araba. I fenicianisti, per giustificare le loro posizioni, fanno anche riferimento agli studi genetici, che sostengono che la maggior parte del corredo genetico della popolazione libanese, sia tra i musulmani che tra i cristiani, sia condiviso con gli antichi cananei.

Questione linguistica

La lingua araba esiste in molteplici forme: l'arabo formale, comunemente noto come arabo moderno standard (incarnazione moderna dell'arabo classico), che viene utilizzato negli ambiti formali, e le varianti dialettali, che annoverano una trentina di forme linguistiche vernacolari, usate nei contesti quotidiani e che variano ampiamente da regione a regione. Quello parlato in Libano è chiamato "arabo libanese" o semplicemente "libanese", classificato tra i dialetti arabi levantini.

Il punto di controversia evidenziato dai fenicianisti risiede nel fatto che le differenze tra le varietà dell'arabo siano sufficienti per considerarle lingue separate. I primi citano il professor Wheeler Thackston che afferma: "le lingue che gli 'arabi' con cui crescono parlando in casa, sono tanto diverse l'una dall'altra e dall'arabo stesso, quanto il latino è diverso dall'inglese".

Rappresentanza politica
Tra i partiti politici che hanno professato il fenicianismo si citano le Falangi Libanesi, partito nazionalista libanese nembro dell'Alleanza del 14 marzo, ufficialmente non confessionale, ma il cui elettorato è principalmente cristiano maronita.

Altri partiti politici che professano il Fenicianismo includono il Partito Nazionale Liberale, i Guardiani del Cedro e il Movimento Giovanile Libanese – MGL, schierati all'interno dell'alleanza definita delle Forze Libanesi.

Critiche

Il professore universitario olandese Leonard C. Biegel, nel suo libro del 1972 Minorities in the Middle East: Their significance as political factor in the Arab World ha coniato il termine Neo-Shu'ubiyya per denominare i tentativi moderni dei nazionalismi non arabi alternativi nel Vicino Oriente, ad es. l'Arameanesimo, l'Assirianesimo, alcune forme del nazionalismo siriano, il nazionalismo curdo, il Berberismo, il Faraonismo e il Fenicianismo, appunto.

Lo storico Kamal Salibi, cristiano protestante libanese, afferma: "tra l'antica Fenicia e il Libano di epoca medievale e moderna, non esiste un collegamento storico dimostrabile".

Il primo senso di una moderna identità libanese si trova negli scritti degli storici all'inizio del XIX secolo, quando, sotto l'emirato degli Shihab, emerse un'identità libanese, "separata e distinta dal resto della Siria, portando i maroniti e drusi, insieme agli altri gruppi cristiani e musulmani, sotto un unico governo". La prima storia coerente del Monte Libano fu scritta da Tannus al-Shidyaq (morto nel 1861) che descrisse il paese come un'associazione feudale di maroniti, drusi, melchiti, sunniti e sciiti sotto la guida della dinastia drusa Ma'an e in seguito degli emiri della famiglia Shihāb sunniti e maroniti. "La maggior parte dei libanesi cristiani, ansiosi di dissociarsi dall'arabismo e dalle sue connessioni islamiche, erano contenti di sentirsi dire che il loro paese era l'erede legittimo della tradizione fenicia", osserva Kamal Salibi, e ad esempio scrittori cristiani come Charles Corm, scrittore in francese, e Saʿīd ʿAql, che sollecitò l'abbandono dell'arabo standard, insieme alla sua scrittura, e tentò di scrivere in volgare libanese, usando l'alfabeto latino.

Le origini fenicie esercitano un ulteriore fascino nella classe media cristiana, in quanto presenta i Fenici come commercianti e l'emigrante libanese come un moderno avventuriero fenicio, mentre per i sunniti hanno semplicemente velato le ambizioni imperialiste francesi, intente a impadronirsi del Paese e a sovvertire più tardi il Panarabismo.

I critici ritengono che il Fenicianismo sia un mito delle origini che ignora l'influenza culturale e linguistica araba sui libanesi. Essi attribuiscono il fenicianismo alle influenze settarie sulla cultura libanese e al tentativo dei maroniti libanesi di prendere le distanze dalla cultura e dalle tradizioni arabe.

La contro posizione è riassunta da As'ad AbuKhalil, Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (London: Scarecrow Press), 1998:

Etnicamente parlando, i libanesi sono indistinguibili dai popoli del Mediterraneo orientale. Sono senza dubbio una popolazione mista, che riflette secoli di movimento di popolazione e occupazione straniera [...] Sebbene l'arabicità non sia un'etnia ma un'identità culturale, alcuni ardenti nazionalisti arabi, in Libano e altrove, parlano di arabicità in termini razziali ed etnici per elevare i discendenti di Maometto. Paradossalmente, i nazionalisti libanesi parlano anche del popolo libanese in termini razziali, sostenendo che i libanesi siano discendenti "puri" dei popoli fenici, che considerano separati dagli antichi residenti della regione, inclusi, ironia della sorte, i cananei.Recenti studi di Miriam Balmuth hanno anche mostrato che gran parte della storia dei Fenici è stata influenzata da ideologie politiche che hanno avuto inizio con i Greci e i Romani e che i Fenici non avevano un'identità fenicia condivisa con cui si identificavano, scegliendo di identificarsi con le loro città di origine come Tiro e Sidone. Tuttavia condividevano una lingua comune, pratiche religiose comuni, un'origine etnica e una cultura del commercio marittimo comune.

Note

Bibliografia
 Kaufman, Asher, "Phoenicianism: The Formation of an Identity in Lebanon in 1920" Middle Eastern Studies, (January, 2001)

 Plonka Arkadiusz, L'idée de langue libanaise d'après Sa'īd 'Aql, Paris, Geuthner, 2004
 Plonka Arkadiusz, "Le nationalisme linguistique au Liban autour de Sa'īd 'Aql et l'idée de langue libanaise dans la revue «Lebnaan» en nouvel Alphabet", Arabica, 53 (4), 2006, pp. 423–471.
 Salameh, Franck, Language Memory and Identity in the Middle East; The Case for Lebanon, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2010,
 Salameh, Franck, Charles Corm; An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese "Young Phoenician", Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2015,

Voci correlate
 Nazionalismo libanese
 Nazionalismo siriano
 Nazionalismo arabo
 Panarabismo
 Fenici
 Berberismo

Collegamenti esterni
National Geographic: "Chi erano i Fenici?"
 National Geographic : "Sulla scia dei fenici: uno studio sul DNA rivela un legame fenicio-maltese"
 The Irish Libanese Cultural Foundation : "Un parallelo nella storia tra Libano e Irlanda"

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ness of the conclusions of the American commission. It has been well said that Reed's experiments 'will always remain as models in the annals of scientific research, both for the exactness with which they were adapted to the points to be proved and the precautions taken that no experiment should be vitiated by failure to exclude all possible sources of error.'
Appreciation of Reed's work was instant in the scientific world. Honorary degrees from Harvard University and the University of Michigan were conferred upon him, learned societies and distinguished men delighted to honor him, and after his death congress voted a special pension to his widow.
To the United States the value of his services can not be estimated. Ninety times has yellow fever invaded the country, carrying death and destruction, leaving poverty and grief. New Orleans, Memphis, Charleston, Galveston, Portsmouth, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and many smaller towns have been swept by the disease. The epidemic of 1853 cost New Orleans eight thousand lives, that of 1793 wiped out ten per cent, of Philadelphia's population. The financial loss to the United States in the one epidemic of 1878 was estimated as amounting to fifteen million three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; but suffering, panic, fear and the tears of widows and orphans can never be estimated. Now, however, if yellow fever should again cross our southern border, there need be no disturbance of commerce or loss of property in the slightest degree comparable with that which epidemics in the past have caused.
The death of Major Reed took place November 23, 1902, in Washington, from appendicitis. It is gratifying to think that, although his country and the scientific world were deprived of one from whose future services more benefit to humanity might reasonably be expected, nevertheless he was privileged before his life's close to know that his discovery had been tested, and that a great city was freed from her ancient foe, to know that his conscientious work had contributed immeasurably toward the future prospects of an infant republic, and even more to the welfare of his own beloved country, whose flag he had served so faithfully.
In the national capital and in the great cities of the United States there are stately monuments to the country's great ones. Statues of warriors, statesmen and patriots stand as silent witnesses of a people's gratitude. Is there not room for the effigy of Walter Reed, who so clearly pointed out to his fellow man the way to conquer America's worst plague?
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This article uses parts of the book Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by James C. Collins and Morten T. Hansen.
"Victory awaits him who has everything in order — luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck." - Roald Amundsen, the first to reach the South Pole.
A Short Prologue
A few weeks ago I met with Rona, a brilliant entrepreneur, and we discussed setting up her business. Towards the end of our meeting I suggested that, alongside starting her business, she could also take over her accounts management.
"Why?" she asked amazed. "That way you'll have better control of your expenses", I answered and added, "It's very simple, and will save you money too. When you have a small business it's important. "
"We'll see", Rona answered, "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."
That phrase, "we'll cross the bridge when we get to it", is a common one, meaning – we don't need to deal with a foreseen problem in advance, we can do that when it appears. This often used phrase is the antithesis of this article.
How Did Amundsen Reach the South Pole a Month Before Scott, and Come Back Alive?
In their book Great by Choice, James Collins and Morten Hansen describe the journeys undertaken by Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen reached his destination a month before Scott and came back alive, while Scott and his associates froze to death on their way back, while approximately 15 kilometers from their supply cache.
In the years before his journey, Amundsen, not knowing what he and his men will face, spend time with Inuit tribespeople – learning from them how they moved slowly to avoid excess perspiration which might turn to ice. He further learnt how to travel by dog-pulled sleds and adopted Inuit methods. He trained in order to be prepared for every conceivable situation he might encounter on his journey.
During the journey, too, Amundsen took precautions against unexpected developments. For example, he prominently marked his supply caches (meant for the journey back) with black flags, over a 10 kilometers wide stretch in case he'll be diverted in a storm.
Scott, contrastingly, did not use the years before his journey to prepare as Amundsen did. He didn't practice skiing nor did he live with Inuit tribes. He went on his journey to the South Pole equipped with "motor sledges" and pony horses. Unlike dogs, ponies sweat over the skin.
During the journey, that sweat turned to ice. The sleds' engines cracked in the first few days, and the ponies failed. Scott and his men progressed slowly, having to harness themselves to the sleds.
According to Collins and Hansen, Amundsen's philosophy was that you don't need to become lost in a storm to know you need more than strength and resilience. You don't need to go on a journey to Antarctica to learn to ski or hire excellent dog-sled drivers. You should train energetically, constantly, so that when conditions change for the worse you'll be able to draw on a deep reserve of strength.
Scott, who didn't prepare for his journey as Amundsen did, wrote in his diary "Our luck in weather is preposterous ". Later he added "It is more than our share of ill-fortune… How great may be the element of luck!"
Who Are the 10Xers the Book Discusses?
Collins and Hansen set three criteria for such companies:
The company consistently produced especially good results, for 15 years or more, in relation to the general stock-market and their specific industry.
The company achieved these results in a turbulent environment beset by uncontrollable events.
The company began developing into a dominant 10Xer from a place of vulnerability, when new.
They identify 7 such companies, out of a list of 20,400. The companies are Amgen, Biomet, Intel, Microsoft, Progressive Insurance, Southwest Airlines, and Stryker.
The Farmer Covers the Hay Bales before Winter
Every farmer knows you have to cover your hay bales long before winter starts. At some point, rain will come, and you should prepare for it. You don't need special prophesies to know that.
We live in a chaotic and ever-changing world where the only expected thing is the unexpected. You can be sure conditions will change and surprises will happen.
Some business people are surprised anew every time the value of the Israeli Shekel goes up, minimum wage rises, or high-quality imports appear on the market causing them to lose sales.
Like the farmer, the businessperson doesn't need special prophesies to know that at some point, minimum wage will rise, the Shekel's value will change, local markets will continue to open to global competition. Information and commodities will move in an increasing flow, and those who don't prepare for competition against foreign businesses will face the danger of collapsing.
Collins and Hansen Ask "Are You an Amundsen or a Scott?"
I think you can find in every field and industry companies that prosper despite surprises and difficulties, and companies who're forces to close their doors.
When a company closes, check if other companies in the field continue to prosper. A positive answer will give you a start in examining what was different in the two companies' development.
Of course, for the company which closed it's a post-mortem analysis. Changes can no longer be made. But for others it can be a source of learning and growth.
Collins and Hansen call this "different behaviors, not different circumstances".
They state that management at the seven 10Xers has three core behaviors: fanatic discipline, empiric creativity, and productive paranoia.
Fanatic discipline: consistent actions. Consistency in values, long-term goals, production level and method.
Empiric creativity: when management in 10Xer companies face uncertainty they turn first to empiric data.
Productive paranoia: 10Xer companies emphasize vigilance, especially when things are going well. They assume condition will change for the worse, and probably at the least convenient time.
What to Do with All this Information?
The story of the race to the South Pole is a fascinating one. But an important question must be asked: what to do with this information? How can it be used to generate change in the business world?
Farmers learnt that if hay is left unprotected in the rain, it'll rot, so they cover it. Very simple. But what can businesspeople do with the information that minimum wage will continue to rise? That currency will fluctuate, exports will garner less profit while cheap imports create competition in the local market?
Surprisingly, the answer is simple and known. There are familiar tools which have already proven themselves over time and in many industries.
The biggest obstacle for change is our thinking. The need to undergo a change, and especially lead one, is always difficult.
Businesspeople face many challenges. Sometimes it seems the variety of challenges ("problems") creates insurmountable difficulties. But oddly, perhaps, the way to deal with this variety is with the same tools and methods.
For example, one of the challenges facing almost every company I encounter is low employee-retention rates among new employees and high absence-rates among old ones. High turnover leads to a lack of professionalism, low productivity, high costs, and diminished profitability.
So, in this example, if we improve retention-rates, we'll increase professionalism and productivity, have more profits, which will improve the company's resilience and ability to compete.
The Tools for Dealing with a Chaotic World
Tools Originating in the Toyota Lean-Production Method:
1. Getting employees invested in the company's success
This is an important step in building a company's ability to withstand chaos and change. It's certainly the desire of many managers. But how to achieve it? We still need tools.
In this context I often quote Morton Mandel's book It's All About Who You Hire, How They Lead...and Other Essential Advice from a Self-Made Leader: if you want to be number one with your employees, they have to know they're number one with you. And it starts with how you treat them. Morton Mandel, an incredibly successful manager, illuminates, from a different angle, the connection between employees' perception of management's action towards them, and their level of investment in the company's success.
Don't underestimate this.
2. Employee engagement
The more employees are engaged and listened to, the more important the company will be to them. Employees, like managers, want interest in their work and to be appreciated. Employees, like all people, want to be heard.
3. Improvement teams
This is one of the more powerful tools to get valuable information from employees and to get them engaged. Despite how successful such teams are at solving problems and getting employees invested in company goals, weirdly and surprisingly many CEOs are opposed to them.
4. Positive feedback
Don't skimp on positive feedback and compliments. There's no such thing as "cheapening" compliments by "overuse". It's the tool that costs the least and yields the most.
5. Transparency and communication
The free flow of information and transparency must be mutual. The more you share information with your employees, listen to them and are open to their feedback – the more engaged they'll become, efficiency will improve, and you'll be privy to information you didn't previously have.
Tools from the Industry 4.0 Revolution:
1. Automation, using robots and cobots.
When a company loses its innovation, the countdown starts. You of course need a balance between too-much and too-little innovation. [לא תורגם}
3. OEE
This is also an important indicator for improving efficiency (by working with employees and improvement teams). This indicator predates the Industry 4.0 revolution. With the development of MES software (computerized production-floor management systems) and the possibility of receiving funding from the Israel Innovation Authority in order to implement such systems in calculating OEE, it's a great opportunity you shouldn't miss (see for example LeaderMES).
Which tools are most important: out of the above eight tools, the first five are the more important. Remember, no automation, robotics, or new technologies will help you if your employees aren't engaged.
Using Jim Collins and Morten Hansen's book Great by Choice, I discussed the ways we can deal with the ever-changing and chaotic business world.
Do we cover our hay bales because we know it'll rain at some point, or are we surprised when rain falls and the hay rots?
Do we act like Roald Amundsen, the first to reach the South Pole, who said: "Victory awaits him who has everything in order"? Or like Robert Falcon Scott, who wasn't sufficiently prepared for the journey, and froze to death on the way back?
So that we don't stay at the theoretical level, asking questions and providing no answers, I presented eight tools to enable us to be more like Amundsen than like Scott. These eight tools are only a partial list. They've all being previously discussed on this blog, as you can see in the provided links.
I'm always surprised anew by resistance to these tools. Even though some of them could be funded with government grants, or have no cost at all, their return-on-investment is very quick. Usually a few months.
Commonly, subsidiaries of international organizations are required to implement these tools. At least the first five, whose aim is to get employees invested in company goals and success. Not all of these companies actually do so. In local companies, the situation is worse.
I strongly recommend you use these tools, and others, to improve efficiency and better prepare your company to the changes which inevitably occur.
If you are interested in my professional help, personally or for your company, the best way is to send a request through the Get in Touch form in my website (here).
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Betfair is one of the most unique companies in the world which first of all is well-known due to sports betting stock and also other not less interesting products. This firm began its activity in 1999 and is totally regulated and licensed by respective gambling games commissions. Betfair company is a numerous times winner of the Queen Prize in different categories: "Innovations" and "International trade".
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A professional client servicing system.
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Raising capital is challenging, even if it's not your first rodeo. We recently held the first event in our Readiness Series, which explored how to run a successful funding round. While every capital raise is different and there's no set formula for success, a lineup of experts from all sides of the business of capital raising shared their top tips at the Readiness breakfast event.
"It doesn't matter if you meet someone in a playground or in the boardroom, make the most of the connections you have. Relationships open doors, it's that simple," said serial entrepreneur Linda Jenkinson.
Understand who's looking to invest in your business. Look through their portfolio and talk to the founders who have worked with their firm. You should try to learn as much about investors as they'll be looking to learn about you and your business.
If you're wanting to work with a venture capital (VC) firm, make sure you choose one who knows what they're good at and what they're not good at – and that they can admit this. Don't get caught up in a name; pick the right firm for your business based on the VC's specialty areas and expertise. This will ensure you're getting the right advice for your company and have the opportunity to speak to other founders who were at the same stage 16-18 months ago.
The biggest mistake most founders make is not setting the bar high enough and exiting too early. Don't just accept any offer that comes along, think longer term.
"Positioning your business with a clear vision and a big aim are essential. Lots of businesses start off with something quite small and generally end up that way." said Richard Kimber, CEO & Co-Founder of Daisee.
Think bigger than your own backyard. It's important to make sure your business is investable from a US perspective. US VC firms are now looking to invest in Australasia and boosting your business' appeal to overseas investors can open a lot of doors and opportunities.
"Australian relationships can open doors in the US. Looking for an investor who could help you get into the US market is good but you also need to ensure you have the right person, with the right idea and at the right time," Kimber said.
"Staying on top your metrics is important from the beginning. Not only will it help direct which way you should be going, but also people who don't know their revenue month on month, their churn or what channels are successful are a red flag. To say you aren't on top of the stuff that matters isn't a good omen – this is your business and you should care about it," said Samantha Wong, Partner at Blackbird Ventures.
No matter what stage your business is at you need to be able to articulate its value and have proof points to show when you've taken action and reached certain business milestones. This can help you sell your business even if you don't have the perfect numbers to back things up.
Businesses who are looking at a Series A or towards a Series B round need to understand that investors are looking to clearly see the future growth opportunity beyond the concrete numbers and business valuation isn't the only determinant of whether they will invest.
"In valuation, people get a bit fixated on the number and definitely at the lower end. There is a huge difference between what value you are raising and what your business is actually worth, especially in the early stages," said Ben Williamson, Co-Founder at dealPad.
While it's important to be open about the value of your business and the terms of investment, stick by your valuation and don't feel pressured to do a deal that has a complex term sheet – strip the complexity and control out of it. It's your journey; get people to come on in with you, not take it over.
"You shouldn't take on more than 20 per cent dilution during any round," said Samantha Wong.
This is a red flag for investors. Founders need to have enough equity and show they're happy to back themselves. If you've already given more than this, you should talk to your investors to see about establishing an option pool which is based around key business milestones. Remember – it's about the end point, so having a professional there that can explain why this is good for everyone is really important.
Ensuring your business' materials are in tip top shape is essential for smooth due diligence. You never know when an opportunity may arise, so ensuring you are ready is essential. It takes more than 6 months on average to get get ready for a deal, which is too long if an opportunity presents itself there and then. Our insights from running more than 20,000 deals have shown that businesses are in their best material state following a deal, which is why ensuring your company is ready means not only deal success, but also the success of your business.
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Today is one of my 'pining' times, since I wish that I were in Canterbury (as I often have been on the 29th of December.) Don't mind me - I'm going to have to include the canticle which mentions "cold and chill, bless the Lord" in my Offices at least till April, since winter is a time when I would be very much inclined to hibernate.
With its being Thomas Becket's feast day, I cannot help but remember a Franciscan friar who was a friend of mine (he died in 1993). He alternated between being exceedingly shy (he once admitted to me that, were there reincarnation, he'd return as a hedge-hog, so he could crawl into a hole and hide) and inclined to the flamboyant. (Indeed, sometimes the two were an amusing combination. I well remember one parish social where Tom was too shy to raise his eyes, but, head bowed, grasped a microphone and sang all 168 verses of "Come back to Erin, Mavaurneen.") He was the size of a jockey, and the only priest I've known who stood on a stool in the pulpit so his head could be visible. Somehow, he reminded me of James Cagney - only shorter, less graceful, and, of course, with a charming brogue rather than the rough tones of New York.
Tom was a choleric man, dramatic in speech and gesture, and inclined to think of himself as Thomas Becket (surprising, I suppose, since those from Kerry generally are not inclined to things English in any sense... I imagine that pre-Reformation images are acceptable to some extent.) When he believed (accurately or not) that those in his congregation were against him, it was inevitable that his next sermon, whatever the gospel text for the day, would include shades of Unam Sanctam and 'lay control,' of how Thomas Becket was executed for not permitting lay control even from a monarch (yes, that's a stretch, but Tom's images tended to the pot-pourri), and a stern repetition of the ominous words, "Will...no one... rid me... of this meddling priest."
Brilliant though he was, Tom could have a thought which made little sense except in his own mind, and suddenly address this as if the hearer knew exactly what he meant. He was avidly Roman Catholic (in the militant version developed to perfection in southern Ireland), and not terribly tolerant of my enjoyment of Anglican scholarship, much less my conviction that it would be a miracle indeed were the ICEL to ever match Cranmer's prose. Tom would use various and vivid metaphors, derived from everything from scripture to history to US baseball.


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