The main reason why this blog entitled 'Much To Tell About Nothing' has been initiated today is that one does not need any reason whatsoever to do so. I just want to blog, make blogging as my hobby, and connect with other bloggers out there. In other words, I am blogging for the sake of blogging itself, no more and no less. There are moments like today that I find it difficult to contain this relentless urge not only to write words (which I could certainly do offline) but also to publish those words online. 'Publish', I love that word.
In this blog, I do not wish to put myself at the centre, to impress readers, to criticize something or someone, to inform or raise awareness. It is not my intention to be smart or to be funny because I am none of those. And even if I do, nobody cares! Let us make it very very clear, the blogger here is not a writer in the first place and does not master a good command of the English language. As readers would eventually notice, my expressions are sometimes different to comprehend, verbs are not properly conjugated, words are strangely organized, and the never ending problems with prepositions, ideas are not coherent, and so on. These are the challenges of speakers or writers in this particular case who are expressing attempting to express themselves in a language other than their mother tongue. Nonetheless, I love writing and I certainly revere the English language.It never ceases to inspire me to write when I have encountered writings and speeches that have been expressed in clarity.
This is not the first time that I have secured a blog site. I am not very sure if this will just be one of those blogs in the past that have been impulsively launched but never landed, have been started on a whim but did not continue. In other words, I have already many blogs in the past that have been commenced as I commence one today, but never finished. But when is blog finished in the first place? It seems that blog has a start but never an end. In so many ways, blogging is always an unfinished undertaking.
When I revisit the blog site I have launched in the past and reviewed the entries I have written in it, I just want to give a smack to my younger self. I was so young and so arrogant. I have put myself at the centre as if I have something important to say. I have claimed that I know something that others do not know, while at the same time, elevating myself as somebody who can educate others. Now that it came to pass when I could read what I have written in the past with certain degree of detachment, I could not help my present-self to feel indignant on how presumptuous my past-self was.
When the time comes that my future-self finds this blog the way my present-self has found the blog of my past-self, I deplore my future-self not to judge what is written too harshly the way I judge my past-self today. I hope that what is written here today and henceforward will not be used against me and that I will be reduced alone into what I may or may not write, into what I may or may have not written. As you would already know, consciousness is a very tricky thing. What we think we know at one moment can be substantially changed at other moments in most unpredictable ways.
Of course, I reserve the possibility that my future-self would not become the way one might expect. After all, on the contrary to the predominantly held view, growth and development do not always take a linear path. Rather it can be unpredictable and it is not always progressively forward. Our lives are not immune to step-backs and backlashes. Who knows, my future-self will be worse than my past-self. I certainly hope not. Anyway, I always cringe when I read anything I have written in the past.
Hang on a minute, did I just promise that this blog is absolutely not about myself? Did I just say that I will not try to be smart? I am not saying that I have said something smart above because being smart is not the same thing as trying to be smart. I am indignant to my past-self for being presumptuous and imposing. But is that exactly what I am doing here and now? Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
This occurs when I am writing a diary. It commences, then abruptly ends, again to be unfurled some 2 years later. I've had 2 personal diaries, one lost and the other one still intact which I don't write anymore. It's like, familiarity breeds contempt. And again here am I in this field of blogging to immerse myself in writing, just because I love to write. Even I am not sure how long this blog will be in operation. Glad to have found someone who shares the same consequences as I do.
Here's my blog. I would love it if you give it a visit and help me improve it since you are already so experienced in this field. 🙂 But unlike you, this blog is mine i.e. it's gotta say a lot about myself and my experiences.
What a profound comment! Thank you very much!
Do you know that I also keep a diary? and like what you said, although I am a diarist, I cannot consider myself as a prolific diarist. I love writing though. Sometimes, when I stare in a blank paper, I have this impulse to grab a pen and write on it. I must say though that writing in a diary traditionally gives me a different experience. I feel that I am more in touch and in conversation with myself than when writing electronically.
I say let us keep writing because we are lost without it!
I'd agree on that though with you, Pandorica. Holding a pen in your hands and scribbling letters on a page that materialise your thoughts is more comforting than typing. But nonetheless, it'swriting all the same. 🙂 🙂 And as long the experience itself makes you happy, the peripheries are not of much consequences. What say?
This blog has no specific theme, subject or structure. Everything is provisional. It does not aim to inform, address current issues, challenge anything, nor change anybody's mind. Should anybody felt offended by any of its content in anyway, apology is extended in advance. Be rest assured that to offend an individual or groups of individuals on any ground is not the intention of this blog. The blogger is blogging for the sake of blogging as one discovers new ideas while in the process of writing. The blogger does not assume objective position but the views and thoughts written here are subjective accounts of the author.


Tax free income is no doubt tax free, but, it must be declared when filing your tax returns. Many individuals consider this as tax free and hence decide not to mention the same in the income tax returns or ITR.
That is not the best thing to do and one must declare tax free income. It becomes important to declare the same and let me give you most examples, where you need to declare the same.
The interest earned on savings bank account is tax free up to an amount of Rs 10,000. So, if you have as an example earned Rs 8000 on interest income on savings bank account, it is exempted from tax. This does not mean that you do not show the interest on savings bank account. It must be shown when filing tax returns.
A host of tax free bonds were launched a couple of years back. These included from the likes of Indian Railways Finance Corporation, HUDCO, National Highways Authority of India etc. Interest income earned from these bonds were tax free. So, if you are a holder of these bonds and have received interest income from them, you can show them in your income tax returns and then claim an exemption.
Interest earned on the PPF is tax free in the hands of the investor. However, you need to show them in your tax returns, even though it is tax free.
This is more a case of capital gains. If you buy shares and sell them after holding them for more than a year, you need not pay capital gains, as there is no capital gains applied for holding shares for more than a year. But, you must declare the profit so made on sale of these shares.
Dividend income is also tax free in the hands of the investor. This is on the shares that you hold. However, you can mention the same in your income tax returns.
Remember, when declaring your tax returns to mention all kinds of income. This would also include interest on fixed deposits, recurring deposit, post office deposits.
Many individuals fail to even mention savings bank interest income when filing tax returns. This is totally incorrect and must be rectified.
Remember, the last day to file tax returns is the August 31, which has been extended from the usual July 31 deadline.


Social trading network Trade has announced the launch of SocialTrader. The product combines the network's 'Cloud Trader' web trading platform and social network on one interface. The goal of the new product is to allow users the ability to have access to the network's social sentiment information directly from Tradeo's order entry interface. Moving away from just providing social trading access to MT4 brokers, the company also announced connectivity to the ACT platform.
Within the Social Trading industry we have seen the launch of cross broker products become more developed during 2012 as they compete with the massive user network of eToro. Overall, a social trading platform's success is limited to the breadth of its users. Also, while a trader searching for social trading is most likely to go to a pure play like eToro, it will be interesting to see ahead how individual brokers begin to market their cross broker social offerings. Currently, most brokers simply market the product alongside their existing offerings. Meaning that a user needs to be first interested in searching for a broker while then deciding to use the social trading platform. Therefore, to fully compete with eToro, a broker may need to devote a dedicated marketing campaign and separate web pages just to its social trading product.
Tradeo, the financial world's foremost pioneer in Social Trading, announces its new SocialTrader platform.
Tel Aviv / London / New York – 26 December 2012 – Tradeo is pleased to announce SocialTrader, a fully-realized web-trading platform featuring an entirely integrated social network.
Until now, any trading site's social features have existed solely in parallel with trading. With the advent of Tradeo's SocialTrader, trading and social functionalities are, for the very first time, combined on a single screen.
The revolutionary SocialTrader application has been created utilizing some of the online world's most advanced technologies, including: HTML5, WebSockets, and liquid layouts. These sophisticated underpinnings enable Tradeo to reliably deliver this complex product in a fast, secure, and elegant fashion.
1. Personalized, real-time price streaming based on each individual user's trading account.
2. Full trading capabilities including one-click close for multiple positions.
3. Support of both MT4 (via plugin) and Act (via API).
4. Real-time Social Charting consisting of a visual layer of social trading data (the positions and orders of other users).
• By hovering over positions to view additional information, one can readily visualize the social trading trend.
• Collaborating on a trade is as easy as clicking on the position.
• One's own positions are also clearly indicated.
• Trade execution can be accomplished directly from the chart.
5. Social Feed incorporates the broadcasts, polls, and signals of other traders.
The entire Tradeo network continues to live right beside SocialTrader and its exciting, new features. Users can still filter, meet, and collaborate on Tradeo in exactly the ways they've grown to love, including auto-following of other users via the 'Copy Trader' system.


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Mark M. Seaman
mseaman@stanleyfoundation.org
Mark Seaman is director of communications at the Stanley Foundation and has spent over ten years in strategic communications, issue advocacy, policy research, and humanitarian causes in the United States, Africa, and the Middle East. He most recently worked in Washington, DC, with military veterans, aid organizations, and Iraqis to build US support for Iraq's sustained peace and reconstruction. Mark earned a master of public affairs degree (summa cum laude) and a master of international affairs degree at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris and Columbia University in New York, where he focused on human-centered solutions to policy and traditional security, respectively. While in graduate school, he completed work with the US Embassy in Rabat, Morocco, and with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya.
Prior to continuing his education, Mark was responsible for corporate, foundation, and individual giving, public relations, and marketing for one of the nation's largest AIDS service organizations and was a communications consultant for a Washington, DC-based media-training firm. He has served on several nonprofit boards and is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from the Republic of Niger, where his work centered on gender equality and public health. Mark completed his undergraduate education at American University's School of Public Affairs and is originally from Central Pennsylvania.
What do you do at the foundation and how long have you been here?
As director of communications, I ensure that the foundation's brand and image are in keeping with our core values and expand the reach of our work and ideas to concerned global citizens and policymakers. My team and I enhance the foundation's capacity to advocate policy through our partnerships, publications, and online presence, develop new tools for doing so, and assess—and reassess—our impact. I am among our newer staff, having joined the Stanley Foundation in summer 2018.
My colleagues. The staff at the Stanley Foundation is among the most talented and dedicated group of individuals I have had the pleasure to work alongside. The opportunities for collaboration across every department and the value that collaboration adds to the purpose of our programs keeps our vision achievable.
Our founder, C. Maxwell Stanley, said "the world is made up of thousands of Muscatines," the small town in Iowa where the foundation makes its home. I grew up in a town like Muscatine in rural Pennsylvania—and the perspective of those origins has always traveled with me. Climate change, nuclear weapon proliferation, and the threat or use of violence impact us all. Collectively, our varied perspectives can solve those challenges best.
I am a trivia enthusiast, going so far as to DVR episodes of Jeopardy! I also enjoy peaceful activities: stream fishing, museum visits, reading nonfiction, and running—which inform my worldview and prepare my mind for the fast-paced, international work of the foundation.

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TakeDownCon offers IT security professionals affordable access to training, two days of briefs, and the Chief Information Security Officer Summit.
The partnership includes the use of the UConn Stamford campus to deliver ... two days of presentations from renowned security experts, networking and information sharing with some of the top industry leaders, and a CISO Summit for high-level executives.
EC-Council Foundation, the non-profit sister organization of the creators of Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), EC-Council, announce the University of Connecticut School of Business through their Connecticut Information Technology Institute as the presenting partner for the first hacking and offensive cyber security conference in the constitution state, Connecticut.
The partnership includes the use of the UConn Stamford campus to deliver a comprehensive analysis of cyber security through two days of presentations from renowned security experts, networking and information sharing with some of the top industry leaders, and a CISO Summit for high-level executives. This event will connect more than 250 IT professionals interested in hearing about the latest threats in cyber security, gain a better understanding of the minds and motives of hackers, and learn how to effectively defend against cyber attacks.
The partnership will unite the two brands with thought leaders and decision makers from the public, private, defense, law enforcement, and intelligence sectors who want to learn about and discuss some of the key security challenges which face our digitally connected nation.
Live, instructor-led training in the industry-leading EC-Council suite of certifications, including their flagship Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Hacking Forensics Instructor, Computer Security Analyst, and Licensed Penetration Tester, and Certified Chief Information Security Officer will also be available prior to the conference.
CISOs and other Information Security Executives are encouraged to participate in the CISO Summit that is running concurrently with TakeDownCon on June 13. These closed-door meetings give C level executives the opportunity to discuss current IS challenges, best practices, and network with their peers.
To learn more about TakeDownCon UCONN and register for the event visit: http://www.takedowncon.com/2016/UCONN.
Founded in 1881, the University of Connecticut (UConn) is the state's flagship institution of higher education and is one of the top 20 public universities in the nation. One of 14 schools and colleges, the UConn School of Business was established in 1941 and has evolved into an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. The School of Business operates in four campuses—Storrs, Hartford, Stamford and Waterbury—offering academic programs at the bachelors, masters, doctorate and advanced certificate levels, as well as customized education and outreach services to the corporate community. Supporting the business school's mission, the Connecticut Information Technology Institute (CITI) provides a variety of IT training solutions, education and professional development, specializing in the areas of project management, information technology, office productivity, and visual arts. UConn's business school is ranked among the nation's Top 25 public institutions by CEO Magazine, Financial Times, Military Times, and U.S. News & World Report, and has been fully accredited internationally by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) since 1958.


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import { cloneElement, useContext } from 'react';
import { isElement, isFragment } from 'react-is';
import Context from '../Context';
import Anchor, { PopoverAnchorGetElementFn } from '../Anchor';

export interface IPopoverFocusTriggerChildProps {
  onFocus?: (...args: any[]) => void;
  onBlur?: (...args: any[]) => void;
}

export interface IPopoverFocusTriggerProps<
  ChildProps extends IPopoverFocusTriggerChildProps
> {
  getElement?: PopoverAnchorGetElementFn;
  children?:
    | string
    | number
    | React.ReactElement<ChildProps, any>
    | ((childProps: IPopoverFocusTriggerChildProps) => React.ReactNode);
}

export function PopoverFocusTrigger<
  ChildProps extends IPopoverFocusTriggerChildProps = IPopoverFocusTriggerChildProps
>({ children, getElement }: IPopoverFocusTriggerProps<ChildProps>) {
  const ctx = useContext(Context);
  if (!ctx) {
    throw new Error('PopoverFocusTrigger must be child of Popover');
  }
  const childProps: IPopoverFocusTriggerChildProps = {
    onFocus(...args: any[]) {
      if (isElement(children)) {
        children.props.onFocus?.(...args);
      }
      ctx.popover.setVisible(true);
    },
    onBlur(...args: any[]) {
      if (isElement(children)) {
        children.props.onBlur?.(...args);
      }
      ctx.popover.setVisible(false);
    },
  };
  let child: React.ReactNode;
  if (typeof children === 'function') {
    child = children(childProps);
  } else if (isElement(children) && !isFragment(children)) {
    child = cloneElement(children, childProps);
  } else {
    child = <span {...childProps}>{children}</span>;
  }
  return <Anchor getElement={getElement}>{child}</Anchor>;
}

export default PopoverFocusTrigger;

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Q: How to horizontal Auto Scrolling carousel (jquery) i've got a carousel and it's moving horizontally by clicking on a button, but I need it to keep scrolling, as i'm new on jquery and javascript (also I ask you guys to be patient haha)
I get a little confused with the codes.
Code:
/**
 * Custom button state handler for enabling/disabling button state.
 * Called when the carousel has determined that the previous button
 * state should be changed.
 * Specified to the carousel as the configuration
 * parameter: prevButtonStateHandler
 **/
var handlePrevButtonState = function(type, args) {
    var enabling = args[0];
    var leftImage = args[1];
    if(enabling) {
        leftImage.src = "imagens/esq_ativo.jpg";
    } else {
        leftImage.src = "imagens/esq_inativo.jpg";
    }
};
/**
 * Custom button state handler for enabling/disabling button state.
 * Called when the carousel has determined that the next button
 * state should be changed.
 * Specified to the carousel as the configuration
 * parameter: nextButtonStateHandler
 **/
var handleNextButtonState = function(type, args) {
    var enabling = args[0];
    var rightImage = args[1];
    if(enabling) {
        rightImage.src = "imagens/dir_ativo.jpg";
    } else {
        rightImage.src = "imagens/dir_inativo.jpg";
    }
};
/**
 * You must create the carousel after the page is loaded since it is
 * dependent on an HTML element (in this case 'mycarousel'.) See the
 * HTML code below.
 **/
var carousel; // for ease of debugging; globals generally not a good idea
var pageLoad = function()
{
    carousel = new YAHOO.extension.Carousel("mycarousel",
        {
            numVisible:        9,
            animationSpeed:    0.15,
            scrollInc:         9,
            navMargin:         15,
            prevElement:     "prev-arrow",
            nextElement:     "next-arrow",
            size:              18,
            prevButtonStateHandler:   handlePrevButtonState,
            nextButtonStateHandler:   handleNextButtonState
        }
    );
};
YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, 'load', pageLoad);

Thank you!

A: When you initiate the carousel you need to set autoPlay with the interval value.
Example
carousel = new YAHOO.extension.Carousel("mycarousel",
    {
        numVisible:        9,
        animationSpeed:    0.15,
        scrollInc:         9,
        navMargin:         15,
        prevElement:     "prev-arrow",
        nextElement:     "next-arrow",
        size:              18,
        prevButtonStateHandler:   handlePrevButtonState,
        nextButtonStateHandler:   handleNextButtonState,
        autoPlay: 1000
    }

Update
To get the carousel to loop you need to set wrap to true.
Example
carousel = new YAHOO.extension.Carousel("mycarousel",
{
    // Your previous settings
    wrap: true
}

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With celebrities from far and wide reaching out to help those in need following the massive earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, Rihanna has been added to the list of volunteers as she gets set to perform at the Hope for Haiti Now Telethon on Friday.
Among the list of contributing performers, Rihanna will sing a brand new song entitled, "Stranded," alongside Jay-Z, Bono, and The Edge of U2 to raise money for those in need according to the Associated Press.
After becoming upset with, "great sadness," for the people of Haiti, Rihanna sat down with Fredrik Skavlan on an Oslo talk show to express her grief, especially seeing as though her native hometown of Barbados is not far off.
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief will be broadcast in London on Friday, with supporter Wyclef Jean reporting from N.Y. and George Clooney from L.A.
All donations received from the telethon, where Coldplay will also be performing, will be sent to UNICEF and Oxfam America and Partners in Health in order to aid those suffering in Haiti.


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LIFE IS A MIRACLE
Humita is an Innovative artist in the field of personal power and growth, and her work with women is quickly being recognized as life changing and are making woman in all ages, expand into their empowerment. Not by coincidence, she is by some being called the new Oprah.
She has the agenda of working with women to embrace our sensuality our spiritualty, embrace business, and live up to our true potential, as life-givers and caretakers of this planet.
Her own history tells a story of having to feel small and not allowed to express, and this has catapulted a will for a new way.
She uses (among others) the tools of life coaching, sexual therapy, kundalini yoga, and tantric self-work, to break free of preset conditions.
What do other people say?
Humita has the talent to move women further in life, and make them live their lives to the fullest. Her sensuality is inspiring, her spontaneity is contagious and her sincerity makes her affectionate and accessible.
It's extraordinary how she always manages to hit the nail right on the head. But the thing I admire most about her is her ability to see the potential in every woman, and the way she gets this across to them. Humita has the talent to move women further in life, and make them live their lives to the fullest. Her sensuality is inspiring, her spontaneity is contagious and her sincerity makes her affectionate and accessible.
It's extraordinary how she always manages to hit the nail right on the head. But the thing I admire most about her is her ability to see the potential in every woman, and the way she gets this across to them.
The moment she entered this world, life was never the same anymore. She thrives on life's beauty and magic, creativity and supporting others in their passions and purpose.
Her dynamic and strong energy, big heart, and a positive and beautiful mind make Humita a very special talented being.
Humita started her career in the glamorous international television industry. She was very successful and able to truly enjoy the fruits of her magical career. However, when her body demanded increasingly more and more attention from her after 10 years, she knew it was time to make a new choice.
She traveled the world to learn from some of the most impressive and experienced teachers. Humita is a Kundalini yoga and meditation therapist, Lifecoach and an expert in body, mind, soul healing.
Receiving a coaching experience from her, is truly an effective experience, for both men and women. Often those who are able to receive from her, feel like they are truly being seen and heard for the first time in a comfortable and safe environment which she is uniquely able to create.
Humita is currently involved in writing her book, The Female Way, owns a clothing brand and yoga studio in Amsterdam, and is the founder of Passionate Woman Inc. platform, a collaboration for passionate coaches and teachers both online and through her brand new Podcast to be launched soon!
THE LAKSHMI LIFESTYLE
Lakshimi, the ancient story of a goddess who is the icon of power, wealth, and sovereignty. The image of the goddess Lakshmi adorns most Hindu homes and business establishments. Lakshmi is the goddess of fortune, luxury, beauty, fertility, and auspiciousness: the Indian goddess who always shines her light on you to bring you peace and freedom in your life!
The Lakshmi Lifestyle is for us amazing women who believe that being sensual, spiritual, and successful is our birthright. It is a way of living for women who dare to be vulnerable and powerful at the same time, women who choose love and joy in every moment, and those who live life to the fullest every single day. You are just one click away from joining this way of living, so what are you waiting for?
TLL (The Lakshmi Lifestyle) is founded by me, Humita, and is now an expanding tribe of inspiring, strong, free, and authentic women from all over the world, each living their true potential and shine their light! We support, motivate, and hold space for each other. These women are truly convinced that they deserve only the best life: a life full of prosperity, love, and financial abundance. It is a way of living, teachings, and women activities which is dedicated to personal development, healing and inner growth in which we unleash the Lakshmi Goddess defined in all of us.
Women will not only find the key to infinite creativity and inspiration, but they become an empowering and vital example to their friends and family and to the whole world.


SOIL's deputy director Nick Preneta sat down with NPR in Oklahoma to talk about the sanitation crisis and the transformative power of SOIL's EkoLakay composting toilets. He discussed the impact of SOIL's social business approach to ecological sanitation, and how we're collaborating with other container based sanitation projects around the world to grow and refine our model.
Interested in hearing the more of what Nick had to say? Listen to the full interview here and share your thoughts and questions in the comment section below.
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When you make your Hub publicly available, you probably want it to be part of your website. To do that, use a custom domain.
This is fine for testing, but of course it's your Hub, filled with your content. That means you'll probably want your customers and prospects to consume your Hub content on your own website — not Uberflip's.
To achieve this, you can replace the default domain with a custom domain. A custom domain allows you to cleanly integrate your Hub with your website by hosting it under a URL that is part of your website, for example resources.mycompany.com.
Using a custom domain is good for your SEO. Having your Hub content be part of your website means that search engines will consider it your content instead of Uberflip's content. This can mean higher and more relevant search results for your content.
When you use a custom domain, anyone who visits your Hub will always see the domain you chose, no matter where in the Hub they go. They should never notice that the Hub is actually hosted on Uberflip's servers — from their perspective, it's all part of your website. All link references, email marketing and system notifications will reflect your domain. This allows your visitors to be entirely immersed in the content experience that you create.
How Does a Custom Domain Work?
Sounds great, right? But here's the challenge: Uberflip is SaaS, which means we host your Hub on our servers. Meanwhile, your website is hosted on your servers. They're in two different places.
So how do we solve this problem? The answer is that we use a little web trickery: we make it seem to your Hub's users like they're on your website, while the content they're seeing is actually coming from Uberflip's servers. This is totally transparent to your users — as far as they're concerned, they're still on your website.
There are two main ways to do this, depending on what you want your custom domain's URL to look like.
How do I use a custom domain with my Hub?
If you want to use a custom domain, you first have to choose what you want the URL for your Hub to look like. More specifically, you need to decide which part of the URL will refer to your Hub. You have two main options: subdomain or subdirectory.
Within the domain name, each element separated by a period is a subdomain of the domain to its right. In the example URL above, resources is a subdomain of mycompany.com (and, in fact, mycompany is a subdomain of com).
The path is anything after the domain name, separated by a slash. It typically refers to a file or folder on the web server associated with the domain name. If it's a folder, it can also be called a subdirectory.
So why does this distinction matter? Because the process for setting up a Hub on a subdomain is completely different than the process for a subdirectory, so your choice will determine how you proceed.
This option isn't very popular, because you usually already have a website that you want to integrate your Hub with — but it is a possibility. For setup purposes it's identical to the subdomain option, so if you want to go this route, proceed as if you're setting up your custom domain as a subdomain.
It really depends on your preferences, and to a certain extent on how your website is set up.
In some ways, using a subdomain is the "default" option. It's much simpler from a technical standpoint, and is very easy to set up. We recommend this for most customers, as it should work no matter what your website hosting situation looks like.
Using a subdirectory is the advanced option. It's more technically complex to set up, and has certain prerequisites in terms of your website hosting configuration. However, using a subdirectory can offer SEO benefits compared to using a subdomain, because a Hub on a subdirectory of your primary domain will benefit from the existing SEO authority of that domain. In addition, some customers simply prefer the URL of a Hub on a subdirectory for aesthetic reasons.
If you're not sure which one to choose, understanding a little more about the requirements and setup process for each option might help you to make your decision. See the links below for detailed information on each one.


There's a style of bangs to suit everyone.
Getting bangs is risky as you can never be sure how it'll look in advance.
However, there are certain styles which nearly always suit certain face shapes and hair types.
Celebrity hairdresser Jason Collier explained to INSIDER how to know what shape of bangs will flatter you.
When you're feeling stuck in something of a rut, there's nothing like getting a haircut to shake you out of it.
As Coco Chanel reportedly once said, when a woman changes her hair, she's about to change her life.
But the trouble is, getting a drastic haircut is risky. How can you know whether a new style will suit you? Once you've gone for the chop, you're largely stuck with your new 'do until it grows out.
Perhaps one of the most nerve-wracking cuts to go for is bangs. There are so many different styles, and if you don't love the result, there's not much you can do about it.
Fortunately, there are ways you can increase your chances of choosing a style that will suit you.
"Bangs are a classic way to update your look, and they look especially great during the cooler months," Jason Collier, a hairdresser whose clients include Victoria Beckham, Sienna Miller, and Eva Longoria, tells INSIDER.
"I'm convinced that there's a style of bangs to suit every woman; it's just about knowing what works best for your face shape and hair type."
"How your hair sits, behaves and grows will all impact your bangs, so it's essential to think about what can be achieved with the hair that you have," Collier explains.
You may think that fine hair will never be able to pull off bangs because they'll just sit flat and sad on your forehead, but this isn't the case.
"If you have fine hair, bangs can make it look instantly thicker, simply because shorter sections look fuller," Collier says. "But be careful not to go for too heavy bangs, as you'll be left with a thinner effect on the rest of your 'do."
He recommends a side-swept, flirtatious fringe, styled with a root-lifting spray to add oomph and create movement.
Bangs are a scary prospect for many people with curly hair, but with a bit of styling can be a great look.
"Don't be tempted to straighten your fringe," Collier advises. "Simply smooth out with a round brush and a styling cream to loosen the curl without shaking it out altogether.
If you have thick hair, play to your strengths: go for heavyweight, blunt bangs and embrace the retro vibe.
"Side bangs can look a little too chunky if your hair is especially full, and short bangs are risky as they can stick out from the head, so play it safe and opt for super-flattering full bangs to make the most of your natural volume," Collier advises.
Whatever your hair type, bangs usually require a fair amount of blow-drying and styling which can damage your hair, so make sure to maintain your bangs' lustrousness by using a nourishing oil and heat protection spray (applied to the brush, rather than the hair).
attention to the eyes and mouth," Collier advises.
"Have it gently layered, with the longest layer at the cheekbone and the shortest at the arch of the brow."
"If your face is longer than it is wide, you should look to achieve bangs that balances it out," Collier advises.
"I'd recommend going for long, side-swept bangs, tapered to one side and ending at the cheekbones to add width."
"If you have a rounder face shape, you might have thought that bangs wouldn't be for you.
But actually, rounder bangs can add some contour and shape to the face," Collier explains.
"You might need to be braver when it comes to the cut, and opt for more angular bangs than you first thought; a rounder face can appear elongated if you cut in choppy bangs which end about three centimetres above the brow, which diffuses the roundness."
sides, as they can add a softness to the face," Collier says.
"Ask your stylist to bring some weight to the sides, and cut the hair just below the brows, feathered slightly in the centre."
"You lucky things - all bangs look great on an oval face (other factors dependent) - so have fun!" Collier says.


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Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis (1)
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (3)
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16 - Incarceration and Crime
from Part II - Deterrence and Incapacitation
By Alex R. Piquero
Edited by Benjamin van Rooij, D. Daniel Sokol, University of Florida
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
Print publication: 20 May 2021, pp 209-218
Abstract: The relationship between incarceration and crime has had a long and contentious history in criminology, with answers about the extent to which incarceration has general and/or specific deterrent effects on the crime rate and offending somewhat elusive. This chapter provides a broad overview of the literature in this area with a specific focus on how knowledge gained from research on criminal careers can help inform policy decisions regarding the use of incarceration not just in the aggregate but in particular at the individual level. The conclusion is reached that incarceration does not have a very strong anti-crime effect at the individual level, and in some cases may actually exacerbate criminal offending.
37 - The Interrelationship of Self-Control and Violent Behavior: Pathways and Policies
from Part V - Looking Toward the Future
By Brie Diamond, Jennifer R. Gonzalez, Wesley Jennings, Alex R. Piquero
Edited by Alexander T. Vazsonyi, University of Kentucky, Daniel J. Flannery, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, Matt DeLisi, Iowa State University
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
Print publication: 26 July 2018, pp 711-723
Benefits and Costs of a Targeted Intervention Program for Youthful Offenders: The YouthBuild USA Offender Project
Mark A. Cohen, Alex R. Piquero
Journal: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis / Volume 6 / Issue 3 / Fall 2015
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 December 2015, pp. 603-627
This paper reports on a benefit-cost analysis of a targeted intervention program, the YouthBuild USA Offender Project (YBOP), aimed at low-income, criminal offenders who are 16–24 years old. Using data on 388 participants, we find: (1) evidence of reduced recidivism and improved educational outcomes that exceed our expectations based on similar cohorts and (2) evidence consistent with a positive benefit-cost ratio, indicating that every dollar spent on the YBOP is estimated to produce a return on investment between $7.20 and $21.60, with benefits to society ranging between $174,000 and $281,000 per participant at a cost to society between $13,000 and $24,000.
Can they recover? An assessment of adult adjustment problems among males in the abstainer, recovery, life-course persistent, and adolescence-limited pathways followed up to age 56 in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
Wesley G. Jennings, Michael Rocque, Bryanna Hahn Fox, Alex R. Piquero, David P. Farrington
Journal: Development and Psychopathology / Volume 28 / Issue 2 / May 2016
Much research has examined Moffitt's developmental taxonomy, focusing almost exclusively on the distinction between life-course persistent and adolescence-limited offenders. Of interest, a handful of studies have identified a group of individuals whose early childhood years were marked by extensive antisocial behavior but who seemed to recover and desist (at least from severe offending) in adolescence and early adulthood. We use data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development to examine the adult adjustment outcomes of different groups of offenders, including a recoveries group, in late middle adulthood, offering the most comprehensive investigation of this particular group to date. Findings indicate that abstainers comprise the largest group of males followed by adolescence-limited offenders, recoveries, and life-course persistent offenders. Furthermore, the results reveal that a host of adult adjustment problems measured at ages 32 and 48 in a number of life-course domains are differentially distributed across these four offender groups. In addition, the recoveries and life-course persistent offenders often show the greatest number of adult adjustment problems relative to the adolescence-limited offenders and abstainers.
Trajectories of desistance and continuity in antisocial behavior following court adjudication among serious adolescent offenders—CORRIGENDUM
Edward P. Mulvey, Laurence Steinberg, Alex R. Piquero, Michelle Besana, Jeffrey Fagan, Carol Schubert, Elizabeth Cauffman
Journal: Development and Psychopathology / Volume 22 / Issue 4 / November 2010
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2010, p. 971
Trajectories of desistance and continuity in antisocial behavior following court adjudication among serious adolescent offenders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2010, pp. 453-475
Because many serious adolescent offenders reduce their antisocial behavior after court involvement, understanding the patterns and mechanisms of the process of desistance from criminal activity is essential for developing effective interventions and legal policy. This study examined patterns of self-reported antisocial behavior over a 3-year period after court involvement in a sample of 1,119 serious male adolescent offenders. Using growth mixture models, and incorporating time at risk for offending in the community, we identified five trajectory groups, including a "persister" group (8.7% of the sample) and a "desister" group (14.6% of the sample). Case characteristics (age, ethnicity, antisocial history, deviant peers, a criminal father, substance use, psychosocial maturity) differentiated the five trajectory groups well, but did not effectively differentiate the persisting from desisting group. We show that even the most serious adolescent offenders report relatively low levels of antisocial activity after court involvement, but that distinguishing effectively between high-frequency offenders who desist and those who persist requires further consideration of potentially important dynamic factors related to this process.
5 - How Does Onset Age Relate to Individual Offending Frequency?
Alex R. Piquero, University of Florida, David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge, Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Book: Key Issues in Criminal Career Research
Print publication: 08 January 2007, pp 60-73
Do those males experiencing an early onset of offending commit more crimes over time than their later-onset counterparts? This is a question that is central to several contemporary developmentally based criminological theories. For example, it may be that both individual offending frequency and offense seriousness increase with age and peak at a higher level for early-starters. That is what some developmental theorists would argue (see Loeber and Hay, 1994; Moffitt, 1993), presumably because early onset is an indicator of a more severe tendency toward delinquency and criminal activity.
In official and self-report records, early onset predicts a relatively large number of offenses in total (Farrington et al., 1990; Le Blanc and Fréchette, 1989). Using official records, several studies show that individual offending frequency is approximately constant after onset (Farrington et al., 1998:101; Hamparian et al., 1978:60l; Tarling, 1993:57). Across individuals, Tolan and Thomas (1995) and Krohn et al. (2001) showed that the frequency of offending in self-reports was greatest for those with the earliest ages of onset. Recently, Farrington et al. (2003), using data from the Seattle Social Development Project, investigated how strongly an early age of onset predicts a large number of offenses (in total and per year) in self-reports compared with court referrals. Their findings indicated that an early age of onset predicted a large number of offenses in both self-reports and court referrals.
Print publication: 08 January 2007, pp vii-viii
4 - How Do Prevalence and Individual Offending Frequency Vary with Age?
What does the longitudinal patterning of criminal activity over age look like? Such basic questions have been studied in the criminal career literature, sometimes resulting in different conclusions.
Prevalence provides a measure of how many individuals participate in a crime type in any period. The shape of the age-crime curve for prevalence is generally agreed upon by most criminologists as data typically provide similar conclusions regarding trends in shape (though self-report records sometimes show an earlier peak for some crime types and a later peak for others). Both official and self-report records suggest that the prevalence of offending increases to a peak in the teenage years, at about ages 15–19, and then declines in the 20s (Blumstein et al., 1986; Elliott et al., 1989; Farrington, 1986; Piquero et al., 2003; Wolfgang et al., 1987). Prevalence curves typically form the basis of many conclusions regarding the aggregate age/crime relationship.
On the other hand, estimates of individual offending frequency, though generally minimally studied, tend to vary considerably – often because the definition of individual offense frequency varies. Some researchers prefer to simply plot the number of offenses (frequency) engaged in by sample members over time or over a particular time period, while other researchers argue that individual offending frequency should be defined by the amount of crime engaged in over a particular time period among those offenders who are active (i.e., offending) during that time period.
The evidence on individual offending frequency is mixed.
9 - Are Chronic Offenders Serious Offenders, and Does This Relationship Vary with Age?
Print publication: 08 January 2007, pp 123-138
Is there such a thing as a "chronic" offender – one whose frequent involvement in criminal activity is marked by serious offenses? The starting point for this question must be Wolfgang et al.'s (1972) finding that 6 percent of the 1945 Philadelphia Birth Cohort was responsible for over 50 percent of the criminal acts to age 17. Perhaps no finding in criminology is better known by students and scholars alike (Laub, 2004), while at the same time being hailed by policy makers and practitioners as central to crime reduction efforts (see Schumacher and Kurz, 1999). If only it were so easy to identify such individuals ahead of time (Blumstein et al., 1985; Gottfredson and Hirschi, 1990).
The concept of chronicity was first established by Wolfgang and colleagues and applied to offenders committing five or more offenses prior to age 18. The concept – and its operationalization – however, is ambiguous because of its arbitrary designation and truncation problems. We believe that chronicity is better discussed with regard to the various relevant constituent dimensions that can vary with age, like frequency and seriousness. The basic theme is that the number of offenses committed (and the opportunity for a larger number goes up with age) and the rate of offending may vary with age.
In this chapter, we examine how chronicity is related to seriousness of offending with age. We attempt to unpack the meaning of chronicity by linking frequency, seriousness, and duration of offending.
8 - What Is the Role of Co-offenders, and How Does It Vary with Age?
Print publication: 08 January 2007, pp 97-122
One of the frequently documented observations about juvenile delinquency is that most offenses are committed with others rather than by persons acting alone (Breckinridge and Abbott, 1917; Reiss and Farrington, 1991) and that this is more characteristic of juveniles than of adults. From the perspective of the criminal career framework, three offending patterns characterize the issue of co-offending: (1) solo offending, where the individual engages in crimes only by himself; (2) a co-offending career, where the individual always offends with others; and (3) a mixed solo and co-offending career, where the individual evinces a mixture of solo and co-offending throughout his/her career, probably beginning with others and then moving into a solo pattern.
Extant criminological theory views the issue of co-offending as important. For example, differential association and social learning theories explicitly rely on the role of co-offending, either through attitudinal or skill transmission or actual offending with others, to explain the onset, persistence, and desistance of criminal activity. Moffitt's developmental taxonomy also implicates the role of co-offenders, but only for one group of offenders: the adolescence-limited. For Moffitt, life-course-persistent offenders do not require the aid and comfort of peers to engage in criminal activity. From her taxonomy, then, it would be expected that co-offending should be most prevalent in mid to late adolescence, just about when offending peaks in the aggregate age/crime curve, only to fall in early to middle adulthood because solo (including life-course-persistent) offenders are more persistent in offending.
Print publication: 08 January 2007, pp xiii-xiv
3 - Overview of CSDD Data
We use data from a classic, large-scale, longitudinal study to examine the patterning of criminal activity: the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development. We provide a description of (1) the sample, (2) measures of offending, (3) attrition, and (4) the social context in which the data were first collected.
Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
Description of the Sample
The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) is a prospective longitudinal survey of the development of antisocial and offending behavior in 411 South London boys, mostly born in 1953. The study began in 1961, and for the first 20 years it was directed by Donald West; in 1969, David Farrington joined the team and has been the director of the study since 1981. The original aim of the study was (1) to describe the development of delinquent and criminal behavior in inner-city males, (2) to investigate how well it could be predicted in advance, and (3) to explain why juvenile delinquency began, why it did or did not continue into adult crime, and why adult crime often ended as men reached their 20s. The main focus was on continuity and discontinuity in behavioral development, on the effects of risk factors and life events on development, and on predicting future behavior. Major results of the CSDD can be found in four books (West, 1969, 1982; West and Farrington, 1973, 1977) and in more than 100 papers by Farrington (2003b).
10 - Trajectories of Offending
Are there distinct patterns of offending over time such that some individuals follow one course (e.g., peaking in adolescence and desisting as adulthood approaches) over another (e.g., peaking early in life, remaining active throughout life, and hardly desisting later in life)? Or is it the case that most offenders follow a similar path to offending such that it is unnecessary to postulate distinct patterns of offending and the theoretical and methodological complexity associated with them? Such questions strike at the heart of classic and contemporary criminological debates as well as policy discussions, options, and decisions.
One set of theorists claims that there are two different groups of offenders, each exhibiting a distinctive shape, peak, and pattern of offending over the life-course (e.g., Moffitt, 1993; Patterson, 1993). The first group is believed to be characterized by a very small number of individuals who evince an early onset of offending and a fairly flat trajectory of criminal activity throughout much of the life-course. These individuals offend early, offend more often while active, and are relatively unlikely to desist. A second group of offenders is believed to be characterized by a relatively large number of individuals who first engage in delinquent and criminal activity in their teenage years; however, at some point in their early adulthood these individuals curtail their offending activity and move on to more conventional adult patterns.
Titles in the series
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research
New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
Alex R. Piquero, David P. Farrington, Alfred Blumstein
Print publication: 08 January 2007
This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the world's most important longitudinal studies, the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), a longitudinal study of 411 South London boys followed in criminal records to age 40. The analysis reported in the book explores issues related to prevalence, offending frequency, specialization, onset sequences, co-offending, chronicity, career length, and trajectory estimation. The results of the study are considered in the context of developmental/life-course theories, and the authors outline an agenda for criminal career research generally, and within the context of the CSDD specifically.
Print publication: 08 January 2007, pp i-vi
6 - How Does Specialization/Versatility Vary with Age?
The notion of specialization in offending has had a long history in criminology, and researchers have devoted considerable attention to it. Research questions have included: Do some offenders disproportionately commit some particular types of crime, such as violence, during their offending careers? Are patterns of specialization, if they do exist, concentrated in the juvenile years, or do offenders become more specialized at older ages (Cohen, 1986; Piquero et al., 1999). Or is it the case that offenders tend to engage in a diversity of criminal acts, be they violent, nonviolent, and/or drug related and that such diverse patterns of offending continue throughout one's criminal career?
Extant criminological theory also sees the specialization issue as important. For example, some theories, such as Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime, anticipate very little specialized offending in the career, while other theories, such as Moffitt's developmental taxonomy, hypothesize some level of specialization for one type of offender (i.e., adolescence-limited) but more generalist patterns for another type (i.e., life-course-persister). The issue of specialization is also important for policy reasons (Farrington et al., 1988). For example, if offending were more specialized, then knowledge about earlier types of offenses in one's career would help officials to predict later offense types and help criminal and/or juvenile justice/adult decision-making efforts.
Much research has been brought to bear on the issue of specialization/versatility. Three findings stand out from this line of research.


GERARD HOULLIER'S voice is not above a whisper, yet his tone is defiant. "Let's carry on living," he says.
The Frenchman is in the Palais des Congres foyer preparing to analyse the Euro 2016 draw for French TV.
Outside, a helicopter circles, gun-toting police are ever present and later there will be soldiers, who barely look out of their teens, patrolling carriages on the metro while cradling machine guns.
It is an unnerving sight, but a sign of the times after the terrorist atrocities of November 13 which have left Paris on edge.
Last Friday, Houllier met his godson for lunch in the French capital, the sort of rendezvous that would not seem out of the ordinary but one which carried special significance for the former France coach and Liverpool manager.
"My godson was there at the Bataclan," he said. "It was a traumatising experience I tell you. He was safe, but he lost a few friends.
"I don't think it is will galvanise the team more. In fact, what has happened has not played a good role. Against England, we didn't play. Hopefully it will be okay.
"I know that Didier is focused on the European Championships, but all the teams are. If you look at the seeds, then all the teams are strong.
On England's prospects, Houllier believes Roy Hodgson's side will be motivated by the memory of their premature exit at the group stage in Brazil.
"I was impressed by their run – 10 games, 10 wins. It is difficult to do that," he said. "Look at all the other teams. They won maybe eight, one draw, one defeat. So, well done to Roy and well done to the FA because they kept faith.
It is when the conversation turns to Liverpool, to whom Houllier still refers as "us", that his passion becomes obvious and he is intrigued by what Jurgen Klopp's reign could bring.
"Jurgen has personality," said Houllier, whose haul of trophies, including the Cup treble in 2001, represents a feast compared with much of what followed.


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Everything competes for my attention. There's people looking at our roof, at the mill's wheel, at our room for rent. There's Willem van Gogh's Casa de la Musica compilation cd I received today which introduces me to the likes of Ruben Blades, Trilok Gurtu, Dexter Johnson and his Afro-Cubans, Candido Dupuy y su Son Diamante, Maria Teresa Vera and Destiny's Child featuring Wyclef Jean...
Then there's topics out there that need serious scrutiny and thinking over their effects/affordances (eg. voteauction). There's a trip to Lyon ahead tomorrow, and more guests coming in upon my return. Rock steady. There's email to be replied. These are only the fun things to attend to. Summer's over. Wait until the great bureaucracies of this world wake up to a new season of victories over Joe Doe. And go after his moulin, his car, his papers—instead of solving some of the world's true problems, like fading morals and other sellable items. Ha ha indeed. The joke's on us. Let's have fun and go underground.
I had hardly any sleep Sa/Su. Got up 21 hours ago at 3:30am and started to design a small sheet which I will take to Lyon next Wednesday when I'll visit Andrea and Francine at their artists' residency. Hope to stay a couple of days. The lay-out had me back in Quark: how much you get out of touch with a program... it's a completely different trip from HTML authoring and browsing, jeez I forgot. OTOH: during my typography studies I had to space VAANDELDRAGER in capital lead type (I'm not that old, but went to a traditional school, that's why, ok?) Then came Letraset, for neat spacing and less weight (NPI). So I'm still thinking over the nano-corps' 0 growth, n replication strategy. And I picked up re:reading Brian O'Doherty's 'Inside the White Cube'. Smart, originally from 1976, in his 1986 afterword he says: "Most artists become time-bound to the moment of their greatest contribution, and are not allowed out of it. The present rushes by, leaving them curating their investment—sad imperialists of the esthetic self. Nor is any change tolerated; change is considered a moral failure unless its morality can be convincingly demonstrated."
I'm writing the darn Lyon flyer like I'm writing for NQP. Easy. Nonchalantly precise. But even when it is only to be printed out in a couple of copies, still it has this 'print' thing about it. I'll be wasting paper on it... I would not like send out 9 different copies of it, eg. personalized, too the G-pack. No? While I could do this in email, or even in web 'pages'. Where rests the border between publishing and writing someone in person? It's not in the edition number only, rather in the medium. Like I imagine playing a song to tape it to send it around or record it to reproduce it, is different than playing it ad hoc in front of your friends, or object of fondness.
the culture is our nature suite
I really love this little sucker of a hot folder. Gives me all kinds of goood vibes (courtesy: a nano-corps discussion list)
technology we'll be remembered by
My kids will remember me at my computer. Like I remember my grandmother stirring up the stove in the early morning, my grandfather asleep on the couch, my father in his papers or the paper, my mother at the cooker, the piano or the drawing board; me at the screen will be a prime memory for R+r. Of all the things you remember your parents by and for, be it fondly or not, there are some prime images that stand apart, from whatever the qualities of one's relationship to one's parent were. (I remember my uncle Cees Jouwersma, whose visit from Strassbourg with his dear friend Brigitte I deeply enjoyed a few weeks ago, kicking an apparently rotten onion on the Texel (site sez: from 28 August on a faster server) beach, flinging the onion gunge all over our little company, you know, back in the old age when onions were still quietly rotting away on the beaches). Early morning as a kid you always saw the grownups' backs first, when they were doing some adult thing and you sneaked up behind them. Do I want R+r to remember me at my computer, my back turned to the door which they usually pass? How to change that image. I'd always prefer it to them remembering me gluied to a cell phone. Gil they'll probably remember at the other end of a proper tool, in the (vegetable) garden. Which makes good balance to remember this period of our lives, their introduction to memory.
oh mylieu! au milieu
My brand-new Hachette French dictionary, phonétique, étymologique, précis grammatical, bought at a local supermarket during our recent royal trip, gives the etymology for milieu: from mi (middle) and lieu (place). Our milieu is that which we are surrounded by or, that which we are in the middle (not necessary at the center) of. Ecology (Gr. oikos: house, family, and logos: word, treatise) determines us in an active mutual relationship to our milieu, and all its other inhabiting species. Our cultural milieu's ecology is how we interact with the 'stuff that surrounds us', and with its other users and performers who, like ourselves, bring that stuff alive by informing it. We inform our milieu as vitally as it informs us.
Local currency: 'personal environmental activism' is our prime concern. Pair that to Paul's recent link to 'nano-corporations': when 'small is beautiful' meets 'being ruthlessly small'.
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zero growth, n replication? From critical mass to critical momentum
If replication replaces growth as a 'business' strategy for nano-corporations, what can we expect to see emerge in the corporate milieu? Lots and lots and lots (that's infinite growth... at an explosive rate) of connected interests, forever shifting focus in interaction, and changing value in transaction, changing patterns with restless concentrations of activity, smart trade enhanced by computer supported realtime never-stop communication, all in search of a profitable momentum, when any value (measured in an infinite diversity of information currencies) differentiation's balance drives partners to end negotiations and have the transaction end, only to allow another bidding to start.
Yet the desire for domination drives the need for convergence. 'Those in the grow' will want to invest their power. One of the big questions of the landscape of diversification and fragmentation is whether or not the many will outnumber the few, whether the ruthlessly small will gain momentum over the arrogantly big—there's a chance here, with intricately networked rapidly moving small players, but they need some kind of organisation, a devoir, beyond the goal of survival as small, but strong. Otherwise we're only looking at the relentlessly vulnerable.
Zero Growth for survival? critical mass -> critical momentum
ruthlessly small bears on the road
What pleads against 'ruthlessly small'? First and foremost: the spell of growth, its charming and impressive image, the magic power of big; then: arrogance, elitism, privilege, the creative drives of competition, and other human preoccupations.
capital observations: space, money and wit, generosity, soep en land
gaining space
First thing today, I gained a space around the source's water tank, by trimming and weeding the far west corner of the North Garden. Up to 6ft I cut away all lower branches of an as of yet unknown bush/tree (actually sculpting it from an insignificant shrub into a dramatic tree), thus creating a space under and around it, letting in air and light and freeing a volume that could easily house a table and some chairs, with a view on the mill's pond and the best evening oranges and greens and reds. Then for the fern, ditto. Later in the fall I'll be trimming more, gaining more space for a winter as naked as possible. Joes and Marjolein in our absence had cleaned big areas, so we continue their good work. And we dug some real fine gardens on our trip.
money and wit: call for capital
Over the past week we saw the best art and architecture and genius loci that money and wit could buy over the past centuries: the Loire et al valleys' castles and gardens. Their stories are the stories of ideas, change, wit and taste, money and power, which make Bill Gates' wonderland household the sign of degeneration and a laughing stock. Money and wit used to buy art and move mountains. May those who have it today spend it to that effect. Don't blow it on the media.
The best snail mail in the box when I returned was the fat brown envelope that smiled 'toys' at the customs. It jingled when shaken. It contained the dream stuff one can apparently live without in San Francisco—or indeed potlatch to our family. Treasury. R+r looted most of it up to their room and arranged it around their bed: cowboys and indians, flies, dinosaurs, jumping bugs, a flat glass pebble they use to transmit kisses to the sender (because it is a lot like the pebble Truus gave them when we left Amsterdam, telling them it would send off any kisses they would give it to her). The bird of course I confiscated immediately. The key I found in the dark on the terrace tonight: it is on the move, I think Roemer takes it places to try to fit it. Some of the petite animals joined the library kingdom and stare at the books from the fireplace's mantle. Thank you and bon voyage from the four of us, Judith.
soep en land
I was without web access the first half of the day. Shame on wanadoo. I phoned Paul to be comforted and to hear whatsup. As usual he supplied water to drink. My disconnectedness helped the garden come about. I will be out there a lot with my favorite season fast approaching and my current taste for taming nature going wild. Also my Mavica will return from the doctor, 2 September, so I expect to give lemoulindumerle.com a big swing. Then moerstaal is waiting for more stahoogte, rijksambtenaar, paardentram, tafelschikking, draadeinde, tevens, weleer and gedoe. It's all here. And I'm culturally challenged to the teeth. Even QS Serafijn appeared in my dream yelling 'soep en land!' at me ('soup and land!'), jumping out of a shabby white van... (the white cube?). Joke when she was here showed me his Omission has a website of its own now. I'll sink into that one for you, later. Soep en land to you QS!
Le Moulin du Merle
Tomorrow we'll leave the moulin to Joes, Marjolein and Linde (arriving tonight), and R+r, to go on a fact finding trip—the two of us. Seems like a real long time since we spent longer than 48 hours together, sans R+r. Today we're cleaning and I'm writing the Moulin Manual which still lacked. Simple instructions and sound advice. Where to find the best bread, cheese and wine in the valley. And how to get on or off the grounds, when the main electrical gate refuses to open, due to the heat, or some electrical failure. Things like that.
more simple instructions
20000816 links
don't click telesculpture (sure, art... soon emerging on a socle near you) (www.sculpture.org/documents/webspec/digscul/digscul6.htm)
don't click devices connected to the Internet at Yahoo (nothing you would want to telemove) (in.dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Devices_Connected_to_the_Internet/Robots)
It is the simplest of all, and people love it. Those who would otherwise take no orders, give in, joyfully. It's the true one-order basis of the information age. Repeat click here. What kind of production can we anticipate from the one-click crowd, in the upcoming age, beyond following that one order? Should we be optimistic about the level of democratic creativity: a splendid rising, spreading, thriving of authentic content? Will people have anything to say, beyond: 'I click'? Are they expected to, and what would it be that they will be saying? Is there anyone out there or in here who really cares to prepare the people for some kind of creativity? Something to say? And how to put it? Or who to share it with? What to charge for it, and why? When did you last give some simple instructions, motivate people to use the new media, share some clicks? Well? There's more lag out there than we're willing to think about. And without our help it isn't gonna get any better.
candid isolation: tomorrow's home made
the manual that built Jack
In order to keep pace with informational accessibility, material distribution has to find shortcuts to the household asap. Material distribution has to follow the distribution of information—not the other way around, like it used to (when the manual came in the box with the apparatus, while tomorrow you'll download the manual, which will then fabricate the apparatus for you, in situ. No more boxes). The shortest cut would of course be on site materialization, or manufacturing, in the individual household, instead of heavy duty transport: downloading not information to be browsed on a screen, but instructions to be fed to a production unit at home. Such facilities should be researched with great effort, and probably are. I'm very interested to know of examples of 'goods' produced at home in such a way, and I don't mean rapid prototypes here, but immediately usable goods. Fashion items (the IP knitting machine?) would be the first thing I could think of. What else is prepared out there that can be sent down the wires?
Upon first search it appears that the process is most commonly referred to as telemanufacturing.
simple instructions
Take an x amount of material A, act B on it, voilà the finished product C. Repeat n times for n products. A spinning wheel in every household, to force the British fashion industry on its knees. Remember Ghandi's khadi.
pourrissement oblige, decay obliges
Jacob van Ostayen, active ca. 1640: Still life with flowers, birds and cherries, 1643 (private collection)
greedy breathing man, inapt promoter
Sunday morning early. We progress by lots of small steps these days. We move around and about a moulin, très datscha, we move back and forth from it. With Joke still here and other friends coming today and tomorrow and Thursday, we move beds and pillows and sheets and thin blankets up and down. The summer heat makes us move in and out of the shadow, in and out of the water. The house remains open all day and night as we cross it, wake it, sleep it. Outside, the vide greniers, 'attics emptied', this summer spectacle of the French countryside, its people's material coming out, makes us move to Tamnay en Bazois, Varzy and Champlemy and other small villages, to browse whatever families rid themselves off from their households these days. It seems hard for them to decide what to throw out, there's no logic. Markets are deeply sentimental. Yesterday's and the day before yesterday's books and goods and out-moded everything, all waste, without having been used. The other day in Corbigny... so I didn't buy, just drifted. At her shop in the former church, Simone gave me Rainer Maria Rilke POÉSIE, which apparently waited for me on her shelves, translated by Maurice Betz and published in 1947 by Éditions Émile-Paul Frères, as a present. At home the book fell apart on pages 176-177, right after 'Portrait du poète par lui-même'. Among the poems he wrote in French (1923-1926) is 'Dans la multiple rencontre':
Dans la multiple rencontre
faisons à tout sa part
afin que l'ordre se montre
parmi les propos du hasard
Tout autour veut qu'on écoute,—
écoutons jusqu'au bout;
car le verger et la route
c'est toujours nous!
These are days of endless propos du hasard, in which multiple orders come and go. Rilke in the long 'Verger' means:
Nom clair qui cache le printemps antique,
tout aussi plein que transparent,
et qui dans ses syllabes symétriques
redouble tout et devient abondant.
The 'verger', the abundant orchard ('vers quel soleil gravitent / tant de désirs pesants?') is too rich for the poor poet, greedy to breathe in all, 'écoutons jusqu'au bout', at the end of his life.
right in front of our eyes
'Everything' which 'doubles in symmetry', in front of our abusive eyes, in a desperate attempt to become invisible in us, administered in our language, multiplies again and again in our experience, and in our experience of language. Experience, the multiplier; not even communication or expression (or 'reflection'), already experience raw, sensations in their prime effects, saturates us. Expression and communication of experience are man's clumsy attempts to throw off experience, in per-formed memories and impressions and insights, preoccupations not at all meant to be shared, to be enjoyed with others or to promote them, as much as first and foremost to get them out of oneself and out of one's lonely nightmares and make them disappear completely—to make way for new and unavoidably confusing ones.
The final form for us, the ultimate form at the end of chaos: an order out of us, ordering intoxicating experience out of us, to protect ourselves from it, allowing to throw off experience and make it disappear from our world, from the deadly monumental, into the immaculate invisible—this is all we do, breathe in and out, without a single effect as far as solving any of the known and unknown problems of life, only aggravating these by dumping our sorrows on it, forever wasting.
increasing returns
All this taking in and this throwing off, propelling different meanings in today's media, today's interests being irremediably unfit to ever fix in a final word (when all remains process and search), might allow us just so to make way to a new breathing of the eternal return of experience, to returning angels, to returning intoxication as to their meaningful consumption and production.
Those who claim today's media cannot ever indulge in the luxury of deeply processing experience (consume, produce, breathe) at all levels of suffering, because of it lacking material shape and tangibility—them miserable downsizers are sadly missing the point. Let them trade their own petty experiences entr'eux, let them be emptied by a culture industry for their sex and drugs and other substitute religious appetites, for ever catered to them under the enslaving laws of industrial customization. With all their wonders, new media are no revolutionary democratic emancipation machines. Theirs are very old rules, the rules of man's many faces, showing vital passion for every good and evil it can lay its hands on, to realize and maintain the ultimate power for man's cause and capital and ego.
New immediacy media, their ubiquitous presence and real time momentum, their 24/24 streaming availability for consumption-production symmetry, their individual publishing control—these first rate technological specifics might as well stimulate a breathing interaction with experiential reality at all levels of representation, multiplied to the abundance. Rather than feeling invited to 'eat as much as you can', we should invite ourselves and others to produce as much fertilizing fragments as we can, to till the land for a new search reality. If these media allow us to throw off our experience in such a way as to provide multiple learning-to-perform opportunities in the interaction, we will have found our Eden orchard in which no fruits ever will rot away in oblivion.
To bring to mind once more Rainer Maria Rilke: the orchard and the road, they are always us!, le verger et la route c'est toujours nous!
Rainer Maria Rilke, POÉSIE
achevé d'imprimer en octobre 1942
pour le compte des éditions émile-paul
par louis bellenand et fils
imprimeurs à fontenay-aux-roses (seine)
no. d'autorisation : 12.588
20000812 link
Online Book Initiative: Grimm (swallow.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/packages/Online-Book-Initiative/Fairy.Tales/Grimm/)
popcultures.com: Gilles Deleuze (www.popcultures.com/theorists/deleuze.html)
popcultures.com: Walter Benjamin (www.popcultures.com/theorists/benjamin.html)
- Walter Benjamin (...) showed that allegory was not a failed symbol, or an abstract personification, but a power of figuration entirely different from that of the symbol: the latter combines the eternal and the momentary, nearly at the center of the world, but allegory uncovers nature and history according to the order of time. It produces a history from nature and transforms history into nature in a world that no longer has its center. If we consider the logical relation of a concept to its object, we discover that the linkage can be surpassed in a symbolic and an allegorical way. Sometimes we isolate, purify, or concentrate the object; we cut all its ties with the universe, and thus we raise it up, we put it in contact no longer with a simple concept, but with an Idea that develops this concept morally or esthetically.
Sometimes, on the contrary, the object itself is broadened according to a whole network of natural relations. The object itself overflows its frame in order to enter into a cycle or a series, and now the concept is what is found increasingly compressed, interiorized, wrapped in an instance that can ultimately be called 'personal.'
(from: Gilles Deleuze, 'The Fold; Leibniz and the Baroque')
more is less
the golden goose of information: once you've grabbed her, or those who went before, you're included in the search party and no geek wizard of the woods will ever come to again disengage you from her tail feather for sure
for R+r
once just-in-time, a fairy tale in search of an author
Long years since the kings understood all their narrative to be fragmentary in nature, it has become common knowledge, shared by the many. How exactly this happened; as a result of which spectacular (some impressionable but under-attentive souls think 'revolutionary') escape from history, will remain unclear—isn't it kinda per-verse, irresponsible indeed of those in (narrative) power (and probably not in their advantage either), to leave the uneducated masses disengaged and dumbing down by the shreds, puzzled at the absence of rule, the absence of warp and weft in the web? Anyway, as the story goes so it happened, while some conditions in the fragmentation fabric are a changing again, for the kings, for their daughters, for the masses, for the geese, for the everyone and everything. BTW Deleuze, on Whitman, wrote some disturbing bits about the fragment 'being' innate American and the 'composition' being innate European, which' discussion can wait, but could hold a lesson for the future of informatic license and competing intelligences at both sides of the Atlantic, ha!. I took R+r to old school France for good reason! It is kings' territory, if ever there was one, never mind the republic it is today, never mind all other republics. We all get the fairy tales we've been soliciting, just-in-time when we deserve'm, that is. Reverse your royal ideals today. Go with the kings, kids.
no fix media
Networked media's searchability promises a new whole at every in-stant, a new golden goose to spring up at whim keystroke, infinite new wholes, constructed with the active participation of those who individually search the entirety of an expanding Literature. Since its expansion is of an accelerated kind, it cannot be stopped and fixed in any way. It's amok fairy tale this time. All maps run immediately out of memory as soon as they take shape. They crash on change. All representations of wholeness are as ideological (as ever)—exciting (who said 'dice-like') coups, with no relation to the Literature as such, as to be able to summarize it, index it, rule it down, either by its content or in any quantifiable way. But didn't we always love our maps exactly for their inaccuracy, which left us the freedom to inform them, instead of the other way around?
Every halt-in-whole expands the map, adding information to the Literature, thus pumping up its volume, ruining any illusion of singularity, somewhat like what the artwork does in Eliot's individual talent tale. Information's individual talent, if you wish, is that every bit is no singular appearance, but bears upon the existing and future Literature, infecting its own identity in its very emergence. (I've mentioned Eliot because of the following quote, not to further a suggestion of quality of what I call the Literature, grosso modo after Ted Nelson cs: the entirety of a unstoppable growing body of connected files, stored and processed and distributed in an open hypermedia network, at any given moment). Despite the capital L, there's no proof nor promise of Quality in this Literature whatsoever. After all, there's no such thing as Free Literature:
- what happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. (...) I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.
tale of the searching temper
The information age brings the tale of the searching temper. Sense of search is our only promise, the only informing security in the new dynamic Literature. Search will be the ruling mode of information exchange, both for its ('passive') enjoyment, as for its ('active') (re-)production. Moreover, in terms of information exchange, active and passive are invalid qualities. Smelly browsing nostalgia. Information will be guided only by the searching temper, or be reduced to immobilized mapable data, historia. Searching temper, totally aware of the 'everything you search can be searched against you' paradigm, produces the Literature with every consumption of it.
when more is less
There's less weeds in the garden if you are familiar with their qualities, less people in the crowd if you can name them, even if you do not know their names proper. The more information, the less data. Data turn into information, by becoming invisible in it. Even when data growth is absolute with information growth, it is its refined state 'inside' information, which reduces its raw presence. Early this morning when uprooting nettles I added information to my garden, including myself in active participation, and turning this wasteland of a relationship into a learning opportunity, a land-scaping man shaping exchange. Without me this piece of territory would contain only data, and lots of it—with my active presence, information emerged. When I searched the green for roots I manipulated data for information, in order to let more become less, by adding the value of recognition. Not only did I temporary 'clean up' or order a small part of my property, more importantly I learned and taught a lesson to gardening me. If I do not forget, if the weeds do not forget, we moved to a new level together.
More information means less uncertainty (less improbability reducing the chance of information to happen), if only for a short moment and to a limited extent. With the contemporary non-stop production of connected information, without the noblesse of a closed loop, without the certainty of isolation, without the freeze frame, every bit of certainty (in received information) changes the existing information before and after it, infinitely, there is no escape from data searching a searcher to turn into information. There's no escape from uncertainty in information society. At last we're all free!, and don't we love it!, and as long as possible keep producing our own freedom? To keep adding to it, is the best guarantee for our freedom to last. (S)he who takes a pause from searching, is imprisoned in a lasting view, frozen in a perspective, bound in a (hi)story, cursed by a spell.
they lived long and happily, ever after information
All the king's men and all the king's horses and all the king's kingdoms and all the king's daughters will blow up into data dust, if there's no clever miller's sons to search for their information. When some day in the future R+r will leave the Moulin they'll know that old school 'search composition' will help them go after the kings' daughters, their kingdoms, horses and men.
- If you cut down that tree in the centre of the wood, you'll find that all the others will fall down by themselves. Have a look in its roots where there's a gift for you!


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Stephan Siegrist (* 17. Dezember 1972 in Meikirch) ist ein Schweizer Extrembergsteiger. Der ausgebildete Bergführer unternimmt Touren in verschiedenen Gebirgen der Welt und eröffnete einige schwierige Kletterrouten.

Werdegang
Stephan Siegrist wuchs im Dorf Meikirch im Kanton Bern auf. Im Alter von elf Jahren machte er erste alpine Erfahrungen auf einer Skitour. Mit 16 Jahren begann er zu klettern. Auf eine abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung zum Zimmermann folgte die Ausbildung zum Bergführer, die er im Alter von 23 Jahren abschliessen konnte.

Er wohnt mit seiner Frau und zwei Söhnen in Ringgenberg BE.

Alpinismus

Alpen
Die ersten schwierigen Touren gelangen Siegrist in den Alpen. Mit 20 Jahren durchkletterte er die Nordwand des Eiger () im Winter. 1999 war er Teil einer grossen Liveübertragung einer Eiger-Nordwand-Durchsteigung des Schweizer Fernsehens. Mit zwei Teams wurde die Wand in 30 Stunden live erklettert. Darauf folgte 2000 die Neuroute La vida es silbar (Schwierigkeit: frz. 7c)  in der gleichen Wand. 2001 eröffnete Siegrist zusammen mit Ueli Steck in der Eiger-Nordwand die Route The Young Spider (Schwierigkeit: EX+, 7a/A2, WI6/M7). Im Jahr 2002 durchstieg er mit Michal Pitelka die Eiger-Nordwand in der historischen Ausrüstung der Erstbegeher von 1938. Wiederum mit Steck durchstieg er 2004 in 25 Stunden die Nordwände von Eiger, Mönch () und Jungfrau (). Zudem brach er 2004 mit Steck den Rekord für Seilschaften in der Eiger-Nordwand. In neun Stunden waren sie schneller als 30 Jahre zuvor Reinhold Messner und Peter Habeler. In der gleichen Zusammensetzung gelang die 33. Route in der Eiger-Nordwand: Pacienca (8a). Nach der Erstbegehung 2003 wollten die Kletterer der Route erst nach einer Rotpunkt-Begehung offiziell einen Namen geben, was 2008 glückte. Siegrist bestieg die Eiger-Nordwand bisher 38-mal (2018).

Himalaya
Nach den Erfolgen in den Alpen konnte Siegrist auch erfolgreich im Himalaya klettern. 2004 bestieg er zusammen mit drei weiteren Bergsteigern den Thalay Sagar () über den bisher unbegangenen Nordwestgrat. 2006 gehörte Siegrist dem Team an, das den Gasherbrum Ost erstmals über die Nordseite bestieg. Allerdings stand Siegrist selbst nicht auf dem Gipfel. 2007 konnte Siegrist die Nordwand des Arwa Towers () durchsteigen.

Patagonien
Auch in den Bergen Patagoniens war Siegrist aktiv. Im Jahr 1997 bestieg er den Fitz Roy (). 1999 machte er die erste Winterbegehung der Westwand des Cerro Torre (). Die Erstbegehung der Route Golden Eagle gelang ihm 2006 mit Alexander Huber an der Aguja Desmochada (). 2010 konnte er zusammen mit Thomas Senf und Dani Arnold eine Winter-Erstbesteigung des Torre Egger () innerhalb von nur 3 Tagen im Alpinstil ohne Fixseile und Materialdepots verbuchen.

Nordamerika
Im Jahr 2000 kletterte Siegrist die Route Mescalito (5.8 A3) am El Capitan (). An einem Tag erstieg Siegrist mit einem Partner alle sechs Türme der Castleton Gruppe im Arches-Nationalpark, Utah.

Antarktis
Ende 2008 konnte Siegrist zusammen mit Thomas und Alexander Huber in der Antarktis klettern. Im Queen Maud Land bestiegen sie den Holtanna über die Westwand erstmals in der Route Eiszeit (VII+, A4). Dazu gelang die erste freie Begehung der Route Skywalk (7-) am Ulvetanna.

Highlines
Siegrist gelangen auch einige alpine Highlines, so zum Beispiel am Matterhorn (Mai 2012) und an der Dufourspitze (Juni 2013).

Literatur

 Röbi Koller: Stephan Siegrist – Balance zwischen Berg und Alltag. AS Verlag, Zürich 2007, ISBN 978-3-909111-32-9.
 Stephan Siegrist, Christian Ewers: Stephan Siegrist – Unterwegs zwischen Himmel und Erde. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3586-2.
 Stephan Siegrist – Beyond the Element. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3627-2.
 Leben im Sturm. Selbstporträt eines Extrembergsteigers. Orell Füssli, Zürich 2016, ISBN 978-3-280-05616-5.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website von Stephan Siegrist
 Bericht zur Antarktis-Expedition auf huberbuam.de (Archiv)
 Interview auf outdoormind.de
 Die Schweiz über 3000 Metern (Staffel 1, Folge 1). In: SRF DOK, 26. August 2022 (YouTube).

Einzelnachweise

Bergsteiger (Schweiz)
Sportkletterer (Schweiz)
Extremsportler (Schweiz)
Schweizer
Geboren 1972
Mann

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Council pledges support to forces veterans
Devon County Council (DCC) has reinforced its commitment to do all it can to assist former and current members of the armed forces, by pledging its support as an employer.
The council is already an equal opportunities employer, which means that it treats every applicant on merit – irrespective of background. Many of the Council's staff serve or have served in the armed forces.
There are more than 100,000 members of the armed forces community in Devon and some veterans struggle to find a job once on 'civvy street.'
A lack of familiarity about civilian services, and in some cases stigma, can make it difficult for many veterans and their families to access health care, to find suitable housing, get a job or join social groups.
To help dispel this and to affirm DCC's commitment to treating all applicants fairly, Councillor John Hart the Leader of the Council and Lt Col Jon Penhale of 6 Rifles Army Reserve, signed Devon County Council's Employer Armed Forces Covenant at the Full Council meeting earlier this month.
Over the last few years Devon County Council has help launch The Devon Forces Family website so veterans can access information on subjects including housing, support for military families, employment and health.
Earlier this year DCC hosted the Devon Armed Forces Community Wellbeing Partnership Conference.
Representatives from the partnership took the chance to network and discuss the challenges, the recent projects and how to build on the existing work to support the armed forces community.
Former serviceman and Devon County Councillor, Roger Croad, Lead
Member for the Armed Forces Covenant, said: "We have a duty to ensure that that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly.
"The Council recognises the huge commitment and contribution that the Armed Forces community has made to Devon as well as to the Council itself.
"Many veterans, reservists and family members of veterans and work for the Council. We are keen to recognise this contribution, but also to understand the issues that veterans, reservists and family members face and how we can best support each veteran and the wider Armed Forces Community."
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Fire Emblem Heroes arrived on IOS and Android recently, and it has a bunch of things to do – and not only daily, but monthly. Here's some tips and information how to get the most of the game, without wasting precious currency along with real dollars.
You should try to log in daily. Doing so you can earn hero feathers and orbs from simply opening the game up, and tapping on the home menu. The orbs won't last forever, as they are tagged as "App Release Celebration". They will expire on March 14. The two orbs you get are worth nearly a $1 – as they are the primary 'premium' currency of this game. The hero feathers allow you to upgrade your characters, so they will be needed later.
Clear story mode on Normal. This might take some time and some stamina potions, but this should get you 48 orbs (counting the prologue). The orbs can then be used to upgrade your castle and start summoning. This will also unlock some levels in the training tower and arena battles.
Spend your orbs WISELY. There are many uses for them, but there are smart ways to use them, and pointless ways. The smart way is to use them to upgrade your castle to the fullest. Doing so will earn you 100% bonus to all experience earned. This will help level up your characters much quicker. Total cost is around 18-20 orbs. The other main use you will want to do is summoning heroes (see below for summoning tips). There are a lot of other ways to use orbs, but are more to just waste them. If you fall in battle, it may ask you to spend an orb to 'Continue'. Seeing as there is an item called the Light's Blessing, this will revive your heroes in that tricky battle. This item is more rare, but can also be redeemed on My Nintendo. You are better off giving up than spending an orb as the experience can be re-earned.
If you have the arena unlocked, make sure to do three battles there. It will help you earn rankings for the week. Stick to beginner until your party is more seasoned to take on intermediate and advanced. There are monthly goals to winning battles. These battles also do not use stamina. Your 3 swords replenish daily, or you can redeem Dueling Crests to do more than 3 arena battles a day. Again, if offered to spend an orb to replenish, do not spend it!
Claim your rewards. On the home screen, there are a few different statues. If you see a numeric value, it means you received a gift, completed a quest, or have a new friend. Make sure to accept the gifts, greet your friends and tap each quest reward. Just remember for the quest rewards, there are two-three menus to scroll through.
Keep an eye on the monthly goals. Completing these goals will net you free items, including Light's Blessing, Dueling Crests (refills arena swords), stamina potions (+50 stamina), or colored/colorless crystal shards (free experience for heroes). After you complete the normal goals, hard mode goals unlock, followed by lunatic. You must complete all goals of that difficulty level before the next one unlocks.
There is a daily special map to play, completing it will unlock a specific hero. There is normal level will net you a 1-star character, and the hard map will net you a 2-star hero. If you are at least level 5, you can get the 1-star character. This will give you a free hero to train later. If you are near or past level 15, you can take a stab at the 2-star hero. Just keep in mind in both battles, all members of your party must be alive at the end.
Keep an eye out for special events. There was a precious special event where you could beat a map on hard to get a 2-star character and a lunatic map to get a 3 star. Seeing as the daily special maps are already looping back, this one may return, or there may be others just like it.
The easiest way to unlock heroes is through summoning. You should never summon Heroes with less than 20 orbs. You will get a discount by summoning five heroes at once, which costs exactly 20 orbs (instead of 25). This should guarantee you 3-star, 4-star or potentially a rare 5-star character per summoning session.
Your heroes can learn new skills. So each hero will unlock new abilities by spending their SP. Check the "Learn Skills" area to spend your SP. When you advance the star rating, more skills become available to learn.
The star rating can be increased when the character reaches level 20. You then spend the colored badges/great badges in addition to Hero's Feathers. If you are raising a 2-star to a 3-star, the cost will be more minimal. Raising from 3-star to 4-star will then cost more. Promoting a 4-star to 5-star is super expensive and difficult. The idea is to get as many 5-star characters as you can, as this will make all battles easier. Keep in mind your level resets to 1 when you increase the star rating. To upgrade your characters, go to Advanced Growth and select "Unlock Potential".