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I am really happy personally with Google Maps, it has come a long way and it is always a great app and tool to have on my smart phone. Read the whole article here by Jeff Huber
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What Makes Google's Maps So Good
Google allows average citizens make corrections to Google's maps as they find them.
Wow. Nothing makes you appreciate something like losing it.
Nobody ever raved about Google's mapping app for phones until they saw how hard it was for Apple to come up with a rival. In my Times column today, I wrote about the challenges Apple has faced in replacing its iPhone GPS/mapping app, substituting its own data sources for Google's. I noted that the new app is beautiful and will be really terrific someday — once it does a better job of incorporating all of its various data sources.
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In researching the story, I interviewed representatives from Apple and Google. At Google, I spoke with Manik Gupta, senior product manager for Google Maps, and Daniel Graf, director of Google Maps for Mobile.
What I realized is that mapping the world is a staggering, gigantic, vast, inconceivably huge and ambitious project. It represents years and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.
I was surprised to learn that, like Apple, Google began its efforts by licensing petabytes of data from outside geodata companies.
They include TomTom, the same company that Apple's using. (The other big map vendor isNavTeq, which Nokia bought a few years ago; I guess that explains why Apple and Google aren't using NavTeq's data. Too bad — by all accounts, the map app on Nokia's Windows Phone is pretty great; I'll be trying it out shortly.)
But that's just the basic data. "We start with licensed stuff, then expand and enhance it," Mr. Gupta said. Google has supplemented it with years of additional data gathering, involving its Street View cars, satellite data and human labor.
And it shows. As of 2008, for example, onto those digital maps of the world Google had overlaid 13 million miles of turn-by-turn directions in 22 countries; today, it has 26 million miles of guidance in 187 countries.
"It's fair to say that in the mapping world, you can't just throw money at it and then you have it the next day. This takes time," Mr. Gupta said. "It took a lot of time to get where we're at." He said that even now, Google is far from done; error reports still flow in by the thousands.
Many of them come from Google Map Maker, a Web site that is live in 200 countries (and just started in the United States) that lets average citizens make corrections to Google's maps as they find them. You can, for example, draw a line to represent a new road.
Like Apple, Google also collects location and movement data (anonymously) from millions of smartphones as they're driven around; from this information, Apple and Google can determine when, for example, a one-way street has been mislabeled in its data.
You may be familiar with Street View, a Google exclusive that lets you stand at a certain spot on the map and "look around." You can see a photo of the address you seek, and use your mouse to turn right or left and actually move through the still photos. It's an amazing way to see what it's like to be at that spot.
Street View isn't available for the entire world, but you'd be surprised at how many inhabited areas are covered: Google's GPS- and camera-equipped Street View cars have, so far, driven five million miles through 3,000 cities in 40 countries.
What you may not realize, however, is that those photos are far more than just helpful references for you, the viewer. Google's software analyzes what's in those photos. Its image-recognition software can read the text on street signs, storefront signs, hotel names and so on. It can tell a major road from a minor one, a single-lane road from multilane and one-way streets from two-way streets. Street View, in other words, generates still more useful data for Google's maps.
I asked Google why its satellite photos don't seem to display the same jarring seams that are showing up on Apple's — obvious borders between side-by-side tiles that were taken at different times of the year or in different weather.
"When you look at Google Earth," I was told, "you can see that the globe is made from a mosaic of aerial and satellite photos, often taken in different lighting and weather. We license these photos from multiple providers, possibly the same ones that Apple uses; but we've had the time to come up with a smoothing algorithm. In January, we introduced a new way to render them, smooth them out, make them seamless. But by no means have we perfected this."
On this call, Google pointed out a new feature that I hadn't seen before: compass mode. On an Android phone, you can call up a location like Trafalgar Square in London. You hold the phone in front of you to see a Street View-like photo of the scene — and as you look left, right, up, down, or behind you, the view changes, as though you're looking through a magic window at another place in the world. You can even use Compass mode to look around inside places — I tried Delfina, the San Francisco restaurant — to get a feel of the décor before you go there.
Can you imagine how powerful Compass mode will be once it covers most of the earth's developed areas? It will give you a sort of instant teleportation, a way to travel without travel, a sense of a place without having to go there.
What I've learned from this deep dive into the making of map apps is that you can't just license a bunch of data, bake at 350 degrees and come up with a useful tool. Gethering the data is only the starting point; from there, it takes years to reconcile it, correct it and make it useful. (This Atlantic article offers a good look at the kind of hand-tuning that Google's minions do constantly.)
By the way, let me be clear: I have no doubt that Apple's Maps app will get there. We've seen this movie before — remember MobileMe? It, too, was very rough when it made its debut. Today, its successor, iCloud, is smooth and sensationally useful. Maps will be, too.
But I suspect that Apple has just realized the same thing I have: that we may live on a small blue planet, but digitally representing every road, building and point of interest is a task of almost unimaginable difficulty. Let's be grateful that another major player has just joined the attempt.
Google on Apple: "We talk to them every day" (neowin.net)
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With iOS 6 Out, Google Has Some Repositioning to Do With Its Maps (allthingsd.com)
Google Is Working On Its Own Maps App For The iPhone (GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
Apple Ditches YouTube & Google Maps In iOS 6: Who Wins & Who Loses (readwriteweb.com)
Google Maps goes underwater with panoramic images (ibnlive.in.com)
Apple Had A Year Left On Its Google Maps Contract (AAPL, GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
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Blackpool International Airport has announced its closure.
A statement on the airport's website reads, 'We regret to announce that no agreement has been reached to secure the future of operations at Blackpool Airport. The airport operation has been making a loss for a number of years and unfortunately there is no option for the company other than to close.
'This is a very sad day for the airport which has a proud aviation history and a loyal, appreciative customer following. We would like to thank all our dedicated staff who have delivered exceptional service to passengers for many years.
'The airport will remain open to the public until 15 October 2014 and we will endeavour to maintain operations as normal until this date, after which time commercial flights will cease.
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The bank said it needed to introduce the fee to fill revenue gaps created by the Durbin Amendment, an 11th-hour addition to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. The amendment, which went into effect on Oct. 1, essentially limits the amount of money banks are allowed to charge merchants per transaction, which is a major source of bank revenue.
Specifically, the Durbin amendment lowers the banks' transaction fee to a maximum of $0.21 on all transactions for merchants, an effort to save retailers money. It also allows merchants to impose a $10 minimum on bank card transactions, as well as give cash discounts for using plastic, two practices that were banned in previous years.
Within the first week, retailers started to see savings. By Oct. 3, merchants had already saved about $1.8 million, according to data released by Heartland Payment Systems, one of the nation's largest payments processors. About one-third of those merchants were restaurants. Heartland estimates that its average merchant will save more than $1,000 in the first year.
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However, Helgeson believes the picture may not be so rosy for all small businesses. Merchants that process many low-priced items may end up paying more, since the amendment eliminates the MasterCard and Visa "small-ticket" interchange rates that previously protected places like coffee shops, which have a high volume of small transactions.
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"Stop, Look, Listen (to Your Heart)" is a soul song written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed that was originally recorded by the Philadelphia soul group the Stylistics.

The Stylistics original version
An R&B ballad, it was the first track from their 1971 debut self-titled album and was released as a single in 1971 and reached No. 39 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also climbed to No. 6 in the Billboard R&B chart.

Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye version

Around the same time, Motown wanted their most successful label mates Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye to record a duet album. Among the songs they released, their version of "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" was recorded in separate studios, and was released as a UK only single from their duet album, Diana & Marvin, in 1974. The song became a hit in the UK reaching #25 on the UK Singles Chart.

In 2001, the Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye duet version was used as part of the movie soundtrack for Bridget Jones's Diary.

Personnel

The Stylistics version
Lead vocals by Russell Thompkins Jr.
Background vocals by
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Produced by Thom Bell

Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye version
Lead vocals by Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye
Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
Produced by Hal Davis

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The Stylistics songs
Diana Ross songs
Marvin Gaye songs
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Songs written by Linda Creed
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Q: Summarise data frame ignoring repetition I have a data frame in which there are repetitions of entries  in one column. I want to summarize the other columns based on the that one column. I wish the summary to consider each unique entry and not the total count when making the summary.
For example in the data frame example below, if i want to answer the question on how many people surveyed are young,midage and old?  "RefID" 1-1 is taken as a count of 1 in summarising "ageclass"=young and not interpreted as a count of 5.
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A: To get unique entries in a dataframe, see ?uniqe :
Data <- unique(Mydata)

You can use by :
by(Data,Data$ageclass,summary)

See also ?summary to understand the outcome. If you are interested in counts, you can use table ,eg :
table(Data$RefID,Data$ageclass)

or for a summary :
margin.table(table(Data$RefID,Data$ageclass),margin=2)

EDIT :
you'll have to be a bit careful, as unique() takes the unique rows. If you have both a male and a female having refID 1-1 , then you'll still count it twice. But I presume that won't be the case in your data. If you really want to make sure, you can do :
with(unique(Data[c(1,4)]),margin.table(table(RefID,ageclass),margin=2))

or take the plyr solution mentioned here.

A: The plyr package is useful for this. E.g. you could do:
> require(plyr)
> ddply( df, .(ageclass), summarise, Num = length(unique(RefID)))
  ageclass Num
1   midage   1
2      old   6
3    young   1

A: With subset you make a subset of the data and with duplicated you get a logical vector indicating if a value already occured in a vector. First a small sample dataset:
df <- data.frame(
   ID=rep(1:5,each=5),
   attitude="low",
   sex=c(rep("F",10),rep("M",15)),
   age=c(rep("young",5),rep("middle",10),rep("old",10))
   )

Then you can make a subset in which only the first time each ID is entered is recorded:
df.sub <- subset(df,!duplicated(df$ID))

Then you can summarize:
> summary(df.sub$age)
middle    old  young
     2      2      1

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What the Wizards' Success Without John Wall Really Means
The conversation on the Washington Wizards is lost right now. It's wandering in the woods, and it keeps running into thorn bushes, branches, snaring vines, and sand pits. Here's what we know.
Since John Wall went down with his latest knee soreness, the Wizards are 9-4 overall. Going in to Wednesday's loss to the Warriors, Washington had the fifth-best net rating in the league in that span, outscoring opponents by more than five points per 100 possessions. So naturally, folks have leapt to suggest that the Wizards are better without John Wall, which, of course, is stupid. Really stupid. Like, cheering-wildly-during-an-NBA-contest-for-free-fast-food-tacos-you-wouldn't-order-anyway stupid.
This much is true: The Wizards have been fundamentally different since Wall went out, and that difference in style has led to an improved set of results. It's not just noise, it's not just the schedule, and it's not something to throw away when Wall returns. These are serious lessons to take from this stretch, beyond, of course, "Bradley Beal is awesome."
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When Beal was asked about what's been different with Wall out, he famously replied "everyone eats," referring to distribution of shots via ball movement. That got overblown and was a textbook lesson in how the media can miss pop culture references like the movie quote that Beal dropped and then extrapolate it. (Admission: I've done this several times with missing Drake references. God's plan.)
Beal clarified that the idea they were better without Wall was, as I stated above, stupid.
"For us to say that we're a better team without John, it's, like, that's comical in a sense. Come on, let's be real," Beal said. "The guy's the head of our franchise, a five-time all-star. Let's be realistic. I think what benefits us is we figured out how to play without John. Reality is reality. … We're not sitting here saying we're a better team without him, by no means.
"Everybody has success. Everybody gets a touch. Everybody shoots the ball. Everybody plays defense. Everybody rebounds. We don't care about who has more than the next man, and that's the same mentality we had last year, and we just found it again."
But there are a lot of questions that come to mind when you stop and consider what Beal said. Why did it take Wall going down for them to rediscover how they played last year? And the "we don't care about who has more than the next man" comment is telling.
Wall is sporting the third-highest usage of his career this season. What's interesting is that his usage (28.9%) is lower than last year's (30.6%), when, as Beal said, they played differently.
It's not just wins. It's not just the offensive efficiency. It's this:
On the season, Washington ranks 22nd in passes per game. That 313.0 mark since Jan. 27 would rank 10th among all teams this season.
But that's not necessarily reflective of actually meaningful passes. This is a common misconception. Passing in and of itself is not good. Passes with purpose that create good/better looks — those are valuable. A secondary assist is when a player passes to a teammate who then feeds another teammate for an assist. The assist to the assist. Check out those numbers for this year.
Why would teammates be creating more extra passes without Wall? Shouldn't Wall's gravity open up the floor to facilitate more of these?
Some of this speaks to a natural dynamic with Wall himself. A high-usage, pick-and-roll star, Wall is a model that the league has adjusted to. Give him a screener and shooters around him, and he'll go to work. That formula is tested, tried, and true in the NBA.
However, it's notable that only one of the top five offenses in the NBA also ranks top-five in percentage of time spent in pick and roll, and only two of the five best offenses rank top-10 in pick-and-roll usage. Except … the Wizards are actually spending more time in pick and roll than they were with Wall.
So what gives?
The secret is in what those pick and rolls are resulting in.
The Wizards are creating more cuts, both out of pick and roll, and overall, with Wall out, up about 2 percentage points. That doesn't sound like a lot, but it is. And this stands out, as well: Before getting injured, Wall had cut just once for a shot attempt this season, per Synergy Sports. One. Time.
Tomas Satoransky, on the other hand, is constantly cutting. He only has 18 cut possessions logged by Synergy, but when you watch, he's constantly moving once he disengages from the ball.
It's been fascinating to watch.
And here's an interesting quirk: I've long been critical of Markieff Morris' place on the team. Earlier this season when they were in full struggle mode, Morris was the only starter to have a negative on/off differential for the Wizards. Watching Washington without Wall, however, it hit me how little chemistry Morris seems to have with the star players. But he meshes much better with Satoransky.
Morris has nearly as many assists to Satoransky as he does to Wall, despite playing nearly half the amount of minutes. The whole dynamic is different between them.
That's the thing: Without Wall, the primary creators on Washington are now guys who are themselves dynamic. It's bizarre, because Wall, as a hyper-athletic guy with incredible vision, is the very definition of dynamic, but he doesn't play that way. He's static, he's controlled, he's efficient, which is to say that he's also predictable.
Think of how Chris Paul was in Los Angeles compared to how he is in Houston. This isn't just on Scott Brooks, because, after all, the Wizards' success without Wall is in part the product of how Brooks is coaching them. Instead, this has more to do with Wall and his approach to the game. There's very little chaos in Wall's game right now. Some of that is the product of the knee soreness he experienced this year, 18 months after having double knee surgery in the summer of 2016.
Some of it is the product of Wall's approach. Viewed through this prism, the Wizards' success, and their comments about it, make much more sense. In the playoffs, you need that control. Most playoff games, for long stretches, become what I refer to as haymaker-trades. It's two teams going blow for blow, hammering on one another with big shots, tough defense, holding off ball — you know, the things that actually define that much-discussed "playoff basketball" definition.
The Wizards need Wall for that.
But there are lessons to learn here. A little chaos opens things up, and it makes the most of the talent the Wizards have. It allows Beal to be both a creator, a gravitational threat, and the tip of the spear. It means Otto Porter actually gets the ball sometimes and can use his ability to produce off-screen.
Wall can not only do this, he can make it better, but he has to be in the right headspace, which is why the awkward comments between him and Marcin Gortat in the media and the ongoing whispers leaguewide of the discomfort there complicate things.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE DISTRICT
For years there have been rumors that Beal and Wall didn't get along on the court. Off the court, there appears to be no issues whatsoever. The two showed up for an appearance at the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles at All-Star Weekend like two peas in a pod. They were chummy with one another and the kids. Five minutes is nothing to gauge a relationship on, but when two players don't like one another, sometimes those signs appear no matter where they are.
For whatever it's worth, there was none of that in Los Angeles. The way it's been described to me by both writers and league sources is that Beal and Wall like one another personally, but they're very different. Wall is perceived — and I say perceived because neither the media nor sources who aren't close to him really know — as being self-conscious and aware of his star positioning among the league's elite. He's emotional, which makes him a good leader. Beal is regarded as a process fanatic who's more focused on the long term.
Beal and Wall are "good" with one another as far as anyone I've spoken to. There were whispers of discord, but that seems to be centered more around Wall and Gortat, and with Gortat unlikely to be in Washington beyond this season, it's not a huge concern. Wall and Beal can coexist, and if they find a balance, they've shown how dangerous they can be.
The Wizards are a better playoff team than they are a regular-season squad. It was true in 2014 when they upset the Bulls, in 2015 when they upset the Raptors and almost beat the Hawks, and in 2017 when the Celtics even acknowledged how tough that series was.
Wall is central to that. You need stars for the playoffs. But you also need to play in a way that constantly puts pressure on the defense.
The Wizards are not better without John Wall. They are different. And that difference has made them better. It says more about how others play without Wall than it does about Wall himself. The key will be merging the two when Wall returns. If they can do that, the Wizards' ceiling is way higher than what most will expect of them, which could present plenty of opportunity for all you bettors out there.
If they can't, it's only going to get more awkward in the District as a team struggles with a common problem in the NBA. What do you do when the best situation for your players makes you worse?
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Macarthur FC defender Alexsandar Susnjar is eager to learn as much as possible playing alongside new arrival Adrian Mariappa.
The experienced Jamaican international, who has extensive English Premier League experience, made his A-League Men debut last weekend against Western Sydney Wanderers.
Mariappa and Susnjar combined in the heart of the Bulls defence to keep a clean sheet in the 2-0 win as Macarthur continued their unbeaten start to the campaign.
The 26-year-old said Mariappa has already had an impact on him and the rest of the team following his arrival last month.
"It's a great experience with someone that's played at the highest level," Susnjar told AAP.
"I'm not that young anymore but it's definitely good to learn with him and by him, just asking questions when I'm stuck and he can always direct me in the right way.
"It's always good to have someone playing next to you with that kind of experience.
"He came into the team two weeks after arriving in Australia and showed everyone what he's capable of and what kind of leader he is. He definitely came in and done his part."
The pair will face another stiff challenge this Sunday when the Bulls make their return to Campbelltown Stadium after an unsafe playing surface forced their two previous home matches to be played elsewhere.
Newcastle are the visitors, hot on the heels of their 4-0 destruction of Wellington last weekend.
Both teams have had COVID dramas during the week with Angus Thurgate and reserve goalkeeper Noah James out for the Jets after testing positive, while an unnamed member of Macarthur's squad is also in isolation after testing positive to the virus.
But Sunday's match is still expected to go ahead, giving Susnjar another chance to build his claims of a Socceroos recall.
Susnjar made his lone Australia appearance in a friendly against Norway in 2018 but hasn't given up on a return to the national team, particularly after Graham Arnold's comments earlier this week that he would be watching closely Australian-based players who are featuring regularly for their clubs.
"Perform well week-in, week-out," he said.
"That's the most I can do.
"To get that call up would be amazing."
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Rainer Hermann: Where is Turkey Heading?
Writing about Turkey means writing about contradictions. There is barely any other country that produces such a range of differing images and emotions as Turkey. Rainer Hermann's book, "Wohin geht die türkische Gesellschaft?" (Where is Turkey Heading?), explains why that's the case, and why normal changes to legislation might reform the country from top to bottom – or plunge it into political disaster.
Divided into three large sections, the book takes the reader on an unusual journey. Focusing on changes in Turkish society over the past ten years in particular, Hermann illustrates why the country is threatened with collapse although it is actually seeking a cure. Even for experts, the tangles of political, economical and military connections are sometimes difficult to unravel. So the book benefits from the fact that its author is an experienced journalist. Not only because Hermann is capable of presenting complicated facts in simple form, but also because he has spent the past 17 years living in Turkey and can therefore provide a far-reaching expert insight into the country.
Hermann hits the nail on the head, quoting a 1950s newspaper headline to express Turkey's main problem even today: "People Flood Bathing Resorts, Citizens Unable to Swim." This headline sums up the prevailing Kemalist view of the state at the time – on the one hand are the citizens, who make up the polity – and on the other hand the uneducated "people", who play no role whatsoever for the state and its politics.
Today, however, the once uneducated religious Anatolian "people" have evolved into normal citizens. The ruling AKP is a new rival to the old Kemalist elite, rising from the very group that Mustafa Kemal wanted to exclude from the concept of the state he founded: religious Muslims.
Hermann provides a convincing explanation of why accusations that the AKP is Islamifying Turkey are not accurate. In fact, he writes, it is the military that is nationalising religion. The author describes in sober tones how effectively laicism, once created by Atatürk's "social dictatorship", became a stand-in for religion, powering the nationalism present across Turkish society. Yet this laicism is increasingly losing its effect, he writes, and just as some citizens love their national flag more than the country itself, nationalism is becoming a force in its own right and taking on the nature of a fetish.
Hermann, an economist with a PhD in Islam Studies, applies his own typical mix of affection for the country coupled with cold-blooded economics and rational analysis to great effect, describing the radical changes in Turkish society with a great eye for precision. Even for experts on Turkey, his book will yield plenty of new and interesting material – for example the fact that the army general staff is allowed to authorise its own defence budget.
Hermann's main theory is that the election of the Islamic AKP, launching a counter-elite in Turkey, saw the beginning of a "clash of civilisations". Drastic changes in society are unmasking the nation's homogeneity as a fiction. Changes that have established a visible face of religion not only in politics, but also in society itself, and a debate that Arab countries are following with interest. But the book also reflects on German history: Turkey's clash of the civilisations displays unmistakable parallels with that under Reich Chancellor Bismarck, according to the author.
Hermann provides an impressive description of how Turkish society is increasingly freeing itself from the constraints of Kemalism and more and more citizens are beginning to define their identity via their culture, beyond the official ideology of state-defined "Turkishness". The author describes Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan as a "pragmatic politician from the docklands" who wants to increase scope for democracy despite the religious and military factors.
This is an excitingly complex book that reads at times like a whodunnit. Not because Hermann presents the reader with a veritable "Who's Who" of the Turkish underworld, complete with links to the highest levels of politics and the military, but because he grants the reader an incredibly informative and bizarre insight into the country's political mechanisms. The author explains why authoritarian-leaning states such as Turkey prefer to struggle with the same problems over and over, taking up arms if necessary but only creating more conflict potential in the process, rather than relying on democracy and granting freedoms.
While there could have been more reportage articles in the book and the odd name might well have been omitted to make it easier to get through, the book is a fascinating read. It certainly stands out from the ranks of German-language non-fiction on Turkey, providing a staunch defence of the reform thinkers the country has produced in the course of its history.
Be it the military, the headscarf debate, "honour killings" or EU accession – Hermann illustrates that the current conflicts raging between the young and old elites are rooted in Turkey's history. Regardless of the reader's political position on Turkey, this book provides objective insights and background knowledge. The third part ought to be required reading for Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, describing the country's riches and debts in a most impressive manner.
There are few books offering such convincing and critical arguments to support the radical changes taking place in Turkish society. This is Rainer Hermann's fond farewell to the country he lived in for 17 years – he is now leaving Turkey to work as a correspondent in Dubai.


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The Aberdares are an isolated volcanic range that forms the eastern wall of the rift valley, running roughly 100km north south between Nairobi and Thomsons Falls. Soils are red and of volcanic origin, but rich in organic matter. There are two main peaks, Ol Donyo Lesatima (3,999m) and Kinangop (3,906m) separated by a long saddle of alpine moorland at over 3,000m. The topography is diverse with deep ravines that cut through the forested eastern and western slopes and there are many clear streams and waterfalls. The Aberdares are an important water catchment area providing water to the Tana and Athi rivers and part of Central Rift and Northern drainage basins.
The National Park lies mainly above the tree line running along the 10,000ft contour with some forest and scrub at lower altitude in the 'salient' area near Nyeri with the boundary running down to the 7000ft contour
The unusual vegetation, rugged terrain, streams and waterfalls combine to create an area of great scenic beauty in the National Park. The park is surrounded by a predominantly indigenous forest, whose management is under an MoU between KWS and the Forest Department.
The lodges are one of the main attractions of the Aberdares. Both Treetops and The Ark are built above the ground beside floodlit waterholes with salt licks. Visitors must book in advance and cannot make their own way to the lodges in private vehicles. Instead check-in is at the Aberdare Country club for The Ark and the Outspan Hotel for Treetops, from where guests are bussed to their respective lodges.
Central highlands, west of Mount Kenya; Nyeri District; Central Province; 766km2.
Mist and rain occur throughout much of the year, with precipitation varying from around 1000mm yearly on the north western slopes to as much as 3000mm in the south east. Heavy rainfall occurs through most of the year.
HOW TO GET THERE :
The park is readily accessible on tarmac from Nyeri and Naro Moru on the eastern side (160 kms from Nairobi). A road crosses the park to connect with another from Naivasha and North Kinangop on the west.
The main towns from which the park can be approached are Nyeri (154 km from Nairobi) Nyahururu (188 km from Nairobi) and Naivasha (87 km from Nairobi).
Airstrips
Mweiga Airstrip, next to the park headquarters or Nyeri Airstrip which is 12 km from Mweiga headquarters.
Park Roads
The park has 60km and 396km of primary and secondary roads respectively. The salient has an adequate road network. The central Aberdares is hardly accessible during the wet season and there are few motorable roads in Northern Aberdares which is also cut off from the central Aberdares. Most of the current road network is not accessible during the wet season.
Park Gates
From Nyeri - Ruhuruini gate 20 km, Kiandongoro gate 30 km, Treetops gate 17 km, Ark gate 28 km, Wandare gate 47 km.
From Nyahururu - Rhino gate 48 km, Shamata gate 45 km, Naivasha, Mutubio gate 50 km.
Lesatima peak, Kinangop peak, waterfalls, walks in the moorlands, Twin hills, Elephant hills and Table mountains, Elephants, Second largest population of black rhinos in Salient and Northern Aberdares, Queen Elizabeth learned of her accession to the throne at Tree-tops, The Kimathi Hideout, Night viewing of wildlife at the Ark & Treetops.
Bandas:
Fishing Lodge; Ruhuruini (Tusk Camp); Sapper Hut; KWS Hut at Treetops; KWS HQ bungalow.


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Is Mahagathbandhan the Only Way Out for the Opposition in 2019?
Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu, AICC President Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi (right to left).(Photo: PTI)
Amitabh Dubey 05.06.18
Opinion 5 min read
How can Modi be beaten in 2019? Following the Bharatiya Janata Party's by-election reverses last week, the consensus in the commentariat clearly leans towards a grand alliance (mahagathbandhan) of Opposition parties of the sort that humbled the BJP in Bihar in 2015 and in three recent Uttar Pradesh parliamentary by-elections.
The subtext is that an "arrogant" Indian National Congress should be more generous towards regional parties, possibly even putting forward a non-Congress candidate as prime minister to cement a grand alliance.
However, is it valid to extrapolate from parliamentary bypolls to national politics? Gilles Verniers and Rajkamal Singh argue not, saying "bypolls do not have a predictive value for the following state or general election" and that they reflect mostly local factors, such as the interplay among influential political families in Kairana.
There does seem to be some truth to this – the United Progressive Alliance won 6 of the 12 bypolls in 2012 and 2013 and the simple average of its vote rose 2 percentage points vis-à-vis the 2009 general election. Yet it was routed in 2014.
If you look closely at parliamentary – as opposed to state – by-elections though (see charts below), there does seem to be a correlation in terms of vote swing between how the UPA did in the by-elections and in the subsequent general election.
The simple average of the vote swing away from the UPA in the seats that had byelections is similar to the national swing in 2014, implying that they may have been representative of the national picture.
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Grand Alliance Isn't the Answer Everywhere
It is striking how poorly the BJP has done in comparison with the UPA, winning only one of the 13 seats that had parliamentary by-elections in 2017 and 2018. It seems difficult to imagine the BJP reversing all of the ground it has ceded in those seats between now and 2019.
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra are all states that were central to Modi's 2014 victory. It might be challenging for the BJP to make up these losses with evident gains in eastern states such as West Bengal. There is reason for the BJP to worry.
Do the by-election results support the proposition that the Opposition cannot win in 2019 without a mahagathbandhan? Not really. Of the 15 seats that just had elections, only four were won by an Opposition grand alliance. Non-BJP parties won three seats fighting alone and another five were won by longstanding state alliances in Bihar (Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress) and Maharashtra (Congress-Nationalist Congress Party).
The case for a mahagathbandhan is obviously strongest in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP remains ahead of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party individually by quite a margin. It suffered a major vote erosion only in Phulpur; in Gorakhpur and in Kairana it slipped but still polled strongly in the high 40s.
That doesn't mean that a grand alliance is the answer everywhere. The BJP and its allies rule 12 of India's 20 biggest states, and the INC is in a position to defeat it – either singly or with its existing allies – in all but Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
The one ally that could make a difference is the BSP, whose vote base overlaps with that of the Congress, as in Madhya Pradesh where an alliance seems to be in the works.
In a close election, the addition of the BSP vote could make the difference between victory and defeat in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, states that contributed 62 of 65 seats to the BJP in 2014 and will hold elections in a few months.
Congress Mustn't Rush Into the Grand Alliance
Whether Mayawati is amenable to a broader alliance, and on what terms, remains to be seen. It is often said that the BSP suffers because allied parties do not transfer their votes even as they they benefit from the BSP's vote bank. However, this does not appear to be the case in the BSP's biggest alliances.
In 1993 and 1996, the BSP allied with the SP and the INC respectively in the Uttar Pradesh state elections. The BSP's vote share in the seats it contested was only about a percentage point lower than its partners', suggesting that a smooth transfer of votes occurred.
To sum up, the BJP is facing a serious erosion of votes that is making the 2019 election much more competitive than in 2014. But with the exception of Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, the results suggest that the INC should be judicious about ceding ground to potential allies rather than rushing into a mahagathbandhan.
In 2004 and 2009, the INC became the single-largest party by winning 35 percent and 47 percent of the 417 and 440 seats it had contested, respectively.
If the party cedes more space to a mahagathbandhan and ends up contesting, say, 300 seats, it will be difficult for it to come close to the 150 mark needed to block the BJP's claims and to form a stable coalition.
(This piece was first published on NewsCentral24x7 and has been republished with permission.)
(Amitabh Dubey is a political analyst and can be reached @dubeyamitabh. This is an opinion piece and the views expressed above are the author's own. The Quint neither endorses nor is responsible for them.)
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X-Apartments Beirut: Moving Through the Colonial Architecture of Culture Tourism
Jasbir K. Puar Elena P. Glasberg September 3, 2013
Few cosmopolitan amblers will deny the desire to magically pass through one of the innumerable doorways that interrupt the smooth facade of city walls. The same can be said for the walls of the gallery. Art tourism can feel a little creepy, as if you were Edgar Allan Poe's "Man of the Crowd," haunted perhaps, but also anonymous and free to be a creature of urban design. Curators working in the MENA region take aim at such Orientalist fantasies of freedom in the European-controlled art market. But they don't all manage as successfully as curator of the Home Workspace Program 2012-13 at Ashkal Alwan Matthias Lilienthal's "X-Apartments" to discompose not only the easy transfer of the space of the gallery to any location, but the attendant comforts of the art patron.
Lilienthal's X-Apartments is a template for an art-making project that spans the gaps of art world/real world, artist/non-artist, performance/plastic art. It roughly takes the form of a self-guided tour of apartments in which the art is staged. This version took place in Beirut on May 12-15, 2013 in two distinct neighborhoods. The working class Orthodox Christian Armenian enclave of Bourj Hammoud, well east of downtown, is home to the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia and attracts many tourists which its main street of jauntily-signed little shops seems built to accommodate. In contrast, Khandaq Al-Ghamiq is a heavily militarized Shiite community just south of the ever-encroaching empire of Solidere, Beirut's controversial urban development project. Our starting point are well-known cafes proximate to each, Café Roundabout and Café Matador, respectively.
According to the materials provided by Lilienthal's crew, art students must scope sites in neighborhoods, using local liaisons. Participants are paid $500US for the use of their apartments. Viewers are asked to sign-up for a specific time, split into groups of 2-3, and met at the sites, which they are asked to find for themselves, following copiously written detailed instructions that assist with the mazelike neighborhoods, traipsing through parking lots and alleyways, through courtyards and across fields of debris. Once we arrived at locations, met by docents, our viewing time was strictly controlled.
Lilienthal has staged X-Apartment performances numerous times in locations that could arguably fit into a template of postcolonial or developing post-communist urbanisms: Johannesburg, Istanbul, Sao Paulo, Warsaw, Caracas. And yet, this is intimately Beirut. With instructions such as: "go around the barbwire"; "You should have the bridge on your right and an office building on your left, then a wasteland"; "you see a mound of rubble and plants"; "pass an abandoned church and a row of arcaded abandoned buildings"; "walk until the barracks for the Lebanese army"; -- the quotidian chaos of Beirut's fragmented urban environs that otherwise fade into normalization, where streets have no name and buildings have no addresses, is magically revived.
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Camp Sanjak, Bourj Hammoud, Beirut
We wait by the graffiti that says "MAFIA" to be escorted to our first installation, which happens to be in the establishment of a family shoemaking business, R.M.P Accessoire, in the oldest refuge camp, Camp Sanjak, in Bourj Hammoud, a functioning ruin since the 1970s. Amidst the sheets of leather and construction supplies, we struggle with our role as consumers as art and shoes become interchangeable commodities. Should we buy a pair of shoes? The head shoemaker, Raffi Pamboukian, didn't really seem to care. Is this an installation? Or is there one somewhere in here, apparently curated by the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM)? We never really found out, We are asked by a purposely sketchy-seeming, chain-smoking anti-docent to enter a an upper room tricked out like a disco, drink alcohol, sway with the music, and finally like pose for fashion photos in rickety high fashion stilettos we are enjoined to select. Women, men, fashion-forward or sneaker-preferring -- no matter. Some male viewers we were told had flatly refused. Surely there's a politics to taste, to preferring abstract expressionism to realism, say. But what more direct or other form of politics was enacted in such refusal? That troubling sense of the undermining of art world subjectivities and judgment is one of the most provocative aspects of X-Apartments Beirut.
We amble to the next stop, repeating out loud the meticulously demanding directions. Bourj Hammoud is a neighborhood we had frequented regularly for dinners at Onno and Varouj, well known for authentic Armenian fare, but now the neighborhood was unpeeling in front of us. At Location 2, featuring the genius of Ale Bachlechner, Benjamin Ramírez Pérez, and Stefan Ramírez Pérez, we are sent to climb four flights of stairs to enter an apartment where we are first greeted and then asked to choose between two identical doors opening off the entryway by identically dressed, blond, blue-eyed twins.
Before you realize what's happening, you are split from your gallery-goer partner and ushered in to a living room (in one case) or boudoir (in the other) decorated in 1950s-era Middle Eastern kitsch. One of you it turns out is video-interviewed, efficiently and professionally, by a woman and man waiting just for this purpose. You answer rapid-fire questions about your character, your preferences in a partner and thoughts about family life. While in the other room the other twin sits you down in front of a TV, turns on the radio as you genteel-ly pass the time before he clicks on the TV. A Grandma, speaking in heavily accented English, questions an unseen suitor about their worthiness of her daughter's hand. A sudden cut to the suitor: it is your co-gallery goer, answering the questions in real-time as they are spliced to the pre-recorded prompts of the Grandma-as-match-maker. It's a surprising, amusing, and disturbing performance. Your friend is revealing herself -- or is it defending herself? -- unbeknownst. You recognize her self-proclamations: driven, mercurial, not really that into traditional family. But then you do a double take. You hear her describe herself as generous. Really? Do you buy her ideal self -- or do you find yourself resisting your friend's worthiness? Would you, along with Grandma, reject her? Again, before you can think it through, it's over. In the separation of your perception of the same person, your differences become open and secret at the same time, almost insanely dangerous. You meet again in the empty entryway, with so much to fill each other in on, to piece together. And yet, as you descend the dark stairwell together, you realize you can never say most of it, can no longer assume a unified or shared experience of art. Nor can this splitting of perception be easily transformed into a "positive" or enlightening experience. Somehow we both feel, as we are rushed out of the apartment to make way for the next viewers, that we have been unworthy of the civility and exacting requirements of Bourj Hammoud.
We turn again and again to the directions on the paper, eight times in total, clutching the sheets with determination, especially when lost. Some apartments feel less like an installation and more like a social event being hosted at a home of a local celebrity—we wonder if some of the art students lean too heavily, literalize the swap of life and art. Monira Al-Qadiri's piece showcased a well-known Armenian actor with a living room full of his acting stills, welcoming us with arak and peanuts and stories about being a bodyguard for Shashi Kapoor. In another apartment (Jessica Khaazrik) we carefully make our way through the models of crafted wooden ships, homemade tools, dismantled gadgets, and other random tinkerings of the resident mechanical genius Oscar Guiragossian, owner of Maquettiste Minatures. Monica Restrepo provided a necessary respite at Fish Everyday, where our task as art viewers was merely to be fed delicious kibbe (deep fried bulgur and meat pies) with yogurt dressing; even the disjuncture between what the shop is known for and what we were provided to eat created pause. The finale in Bourj Hammoud is the Cinema Royale, a moldering and yet still functioning deco hulk, there we descended into the theater from a lobby plastered in colorful posters for mostly-forgotten films to chose seats furthest from the water dripping from the once-grand carven ceiling. The ruined grandeur strangely amplified the screening of carefully selected and spliced moments of homosexual gaze and panic in Egyptian film since the 1960s curated by Alex Baczynski-Jenkins.
While the scene for the four-hour tour in Bourj Hammoud is lively, jovial—we are forgiven our sins—Khandaq Al-Ghamiq, meaning deep trench or tunnel in Arabic, demands more intensive scrutiny of our presence as intruders. The neighborhood comprises a small, tightly-circumscribed warren of older buildings and some new construction on its edges. Having developed its reputation as a tunnel or passage for criminal economic networks, its integration into the city's economy remains troubled and since the end of the civil war the rebuilding of the abutting area of downtown has created an almost ostentatiously ghettoizing effect. The role of the inequalities of global citizen-mobility is specifically thematized in many, if not most, of the pieces. For instance, we are pressed to become members of the Occupation of Iraq (www.occupybaghdad.com) by virtue of our living outside Iraq and thinking we are not occupying it. This local Quran-bindery has been repurposed by Urok Shirhan into a bureaucratic performance of interrogation for the binding-in of cosmopolitans into a system of occupation and exploitation.
We are directed to X-Press Money, where Sri Lankan and Ethiopian migrant workers are wiring cash home and making international phone calls where we are ushered by Hicham Awad toward a bank of three phone booths. When was the last time either of us was in one of those? We are asked to wedge into one of these seeming relics from the 20th Century hidden in the back of a store devoted to more recent technologies of global cellular connectivity. Inside our separate booths, we each read a typewritten meditation on lost or impossible connection, while crackling noises, static, issue forth from the receiver. We strain to catch the message, but no we can't hear anything but sound. In every relationship, connectivity or the co-creation of a narrative, only works until the connection itself -- those cables at the bottom of the sea, the transistors, headphones, cell towers, all the material that substrate of connectivity -- becomes all there is to hear and physics overwhelms the temporality of transmission.
Phone booths at X-press Money, Bourj Hammoud, Beirut
Some of the risk of being a gallery-goer is about confronting one's class aspirations so safely negotiated by showing up in the first place (you are obviously the type to go to galleries). Maybe you're not getting it at all, you're a fake! But there's always the possibility that your quiet discernment may be taken for your ability to afford to buy this art. This is the dirty deal of what it means to walk into the hushed antiseptic classed spaces of most galleries. But the economic architecture of X-Apartments Beirut reconstructs that dirty deal and leads to what we might call a post-postcolonial destabilization of risk exchange. X-Apartments demands of the spectator an extreme self-honesty and openness to art-as-experience. And the artists, the people of Beirut in their homes, are not suggesting that you can "get it" and become a discerning cosmopolitan or social do-gooder by taking in, by "buying" -- their art.
This is not to say that economic relations are not a part of this show. They are absolutely crucial and specific to Beirut as a city in constant embedded cyclings of ruin and development. There is a seamless refiguring of the museum gift shop, entrepreneurship-as-performance, and the ready-made as framed and packaged by the X-Apartment tours. This is not a circumnavigation of the problems of cultural and economic power on the one hand and the de-skilling of art training and the dilution of seriousness of art knowledge and even the distraction of attention on the part of gallery-goers (one needs down time, coffee breaks, snacks). Rather than tarry in these binaries, X-Apartments demands giving in to these pressures that can be a giving way into engagement with Beirut and with what art and art spectatorship can be.
The risk entailed in the X-Apartment tours is not relative, as in: I am now in a risky area of poverty or of strange people who want to do me harm. Rather, it is the process of being a viewer that is made risky in X-Apartments. You enter doorways without knowing what is on the other side, vastly different than entering or passing the doorway into a gallery space, or of allowing your eyes to open toward a work presented therein. These Beirut pieces detour and confront. In Khandaq Al Ghamiq we entered into a courtyard and right into the lens of a video camera on a tripod, with a mum camera operator behind it (curator Romain Hamard), following you as we acclimated to the space of the courtyard. We looked about us and noticed the videographer on the roof aiming a lens down at us; we now become objects of an ambush. We are ambushed by our own desire to see. Or for the exotic. We cannot deny our curiosity. Even in our own neighborhoods, we would be curious to be able to enter through the closed front doors lining the streets. Eventually a man emerges from behind a door and offers a performance of Arab hospitality (with real coffee service). We are sure we do not deserve the honor and can do nothing to repay it, except perhaps to attempt to commiserate about the strange Euro-space music that seems to be part of the piece. Gesticulating and smiling through the language barrier, you try to suggest that maybe something more lively, some dance music would be better for your host? He seems to appreciate the joke, though another man who has appeared and who speaks English and French is ignoring the space music atmosphere and arguing politics. Are you eavesdropping? Or are we the political subtext? We begin wondering when is the appropriate or polite time to take leave of this hospitality. Truth be told, we are desperate to leave. On the way back out -- we say goodbye as soon as we can drink down enough of the strong black coffee not to seem rude -- we encounter a middle-aged man wandering in immaculate, pressed pajamas. He is boiling with unspoken rage or madness. As we exit down the crumbling avenue away from the enclave, the man begins yelling, at whom or why we can never know. Nor can we purchase it or "appreciate" it. The upset reverberates.
Art that disturbs and that you want to escape is the most raw, unfiltered. It is uncapturable. It is the city itself. Here is an explanation of the way X-Apartments Beirut engaged this uneven architecture of precarity and beauty. In Khandaq al-Gamiq, the neighborhood is caught amid development, the former tunnel now wedged amid a new overpass, a walled ancient ruin site that cannot by law be "developed," and encroaching developing neighborhoods less historically mired in poverty (and less Islamic). In one apartment, artist Sara Hamde has designed a hunt of sorts, a mystery to solve. The clues are photos placed on the walls of various rooms. We are to move from locations following sounds from speakers placed around the apartment. The docent/ apartment dweller instructs us when we arrive in the cozy, centrally embedded bedroom, to find the hidden photos. We start poking around the carefully arrange items, embarrassed, opening closets and even sitting on the bed -- the room is almost completely taken up by the neatly made up platform bed -- turning over a pillow, he instructs you are getting warmer, further flustering and embarrassing us. We are failing to see -- the basic duty of a gallery-goer -- and the docent is disappointed in us and growing impatient. And we don't want to dig up or disturb this private place. But finally, in fear and under the gun so to speak, we lift up the mattress. Yes, people who don't trust the state keep their treasures under the mattress!
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There it is, a collage of Polaroids in faded 1970s color. A man's life. He's holding a rifle, his hair is dark and wild, his eyes shining with strength and pride. Was this his apartment once? Him, celebrating, posing with family and children, at the beach, in restaurants. All the photos are faded and yet as alive as Beirutis' memories of their civil war. None of them match the decor of the room with its zebra-motif bedspread and department store knick-knacks and throw pillow. We lower the lid and the patient-impatient man leads us around the wall to the abutting balcony.
View from Khandaq al-Gamiq across downtown Beirut, the Mediterranean in the far distance
The view is magnificently, tightly layered out under the prevailing blue skies and sun of Lebanon. We can orient ourselves now, finally, after having been so focused on a trail, a hunt for the secret of Khandaq al-Gamiq. A mosque abuts a church, crescents and crosses, laundry lines criss-cross the density. Over the dwellings we see the expanse of the ancient ruin, and lining that the highway, on the other side of the highway the new downtown and the grand, imposing new Harriri mosque, the high rises and hotels. Khandaq al-Gamiq and this one long-held apartment and the people who lived and looked out here are a view-finder, the lens: this private view and the histories, inhabitations, and positions that attend and create it, which we are now offered a glimpse of and through, is fleeting, uncapturable. Not because it is not enduring, no. It's there right now -- the view is witnessing the development of Beirut under global capital and without proper care for its own histories still in place. It's still there.
Elena P. Glasberg is author of Antarctica As Cultural Critique: The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change (Palgrave 2012), the culmination of years of thinking outside American Studies. Glasberg teaches in the Writing Program at New York University.
Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Puar is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Puar's forthcoming monograph, Affective Politics: States of Debility and Capacity (Duke University Press, 2014) takes up questions of disability in the context of theories of bodily assemblages that trouble intersectional identity frames. She is a 2013-14 Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University, where she will be working on her third book, titled Inhumanist Occupation: Sex, Affect, and Palestine/Israel.
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2. MAMMA JO IS IN TOWN// my mom came to town for a visit which has been really great. austin had to go to las vegas for a job conference of some sort with school & i was going to be on my own for 4 days. luckily for me, my mom decided to come visit to help out & to have some fun.
3. FLAT BREAD PIZZA// austin & i have been wanting to try this new pizza place in sugarhouse ever since it opened, & we finally did. whenever my mom is in town, we like to try all the new restaurants, so her first night in we went to flat bread & it was d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s. seriously, if you live in the area, or ever visit utah, you should probably go. everything we had was amazing.
4. OREGON// our fall break is next week, so we're taking our days off & spending them in oregon! i'm really excited to go. austin served his mission there & is always saying how amazing & beautiful it is. we're going to spend a couple of days along the coast, & then go into portland. i also made austin promise that we could go to astoria, where the goonies (my favorite movie) was filmed.
5. FOUR MONTHS// our tiny, little, baby boy, who isn't so tiny anymore, is officially four months old. as of yesterday. which is crazy because i feel like he has been here forever but at the same time, is still so new. i cannot believe all that has happened since he's been born.
ohhh flatbread pizza, that sounds great!
have so much fun in oregon!
Loved reading this and getting to know about you and your family more! I have always wanted to explore Oregon! HAVE FUN!
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The first collaboration work with AOArchitects for an exciting new and exclusive project for The Artists in Hong Kong. The Artists is a well known local beer to use local and best in class ingredients to brew their beers. The water is sourced directly in a natural well from under the farm, and the barley sourced from local producers. The beers are brewed with the best ingredients regardless of their cost to ensure to offer the excellent and healthy craft beers in Hong Kong.
The Artist House is a multi-functional space to explore craft beers through co-creation and experiences. By exploring the five senses, people get to touch, see, hear, smell and taste the process of beer making. The Artist House also has the first farm-to-table concept in Hong Kong. The in-house aqua farm provides most of the ingredients for their food and drinks. It helps to lower the customer's carbon footprint by lowering the transportation distance and reducing water consumption by 90%. The farm is open to public, so that people get to touch and co-create their own food and drink from the beginning.
The design of The Artist House is cultural, sustainable and flexible. The form of the Artist House comes from the Belgian barn where the craft beer is made. Rather than replicating the farm, we slice them into thinner portals to fit into a challenging setting in Hong Kong. Each portal represents one sense that The Artist co-creates with their partners. The space majorly used reclaimed materials on wall and furniture to reduce its carbon footprint. The mechanical equipment is carefully positioned to reduce operational cost and energy consumption. The use of movable furniture, customized storage, and creative lighting helps to increase the flexibility of the space. Co-creator can transform its semi open space for 1 person or 50 people.


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September Theme Kickoff: Rock Your Divine Purpose.
Our "Rock Your Divine Purpose" inspiration comes from Shine's potion Monet's Garden, which is all about slowing down and being in the moment. From there, you can hear your truest truths. Shine Potions are a mix of herbs, juices, teas and loving intention - truly conscious drinks that fit with Sacred House's value of conscious spiritual exploration. Shine Restaurant offers local and organic food. They work directly with local farmers and it is one of their main goals to support local community events, especially events that support conscious spiritual exploration. That's why they've so graciously partnered with Sacred House for Sunday mornings and why we've been thrilled to partner with them. Here's a link to a page on their site that talks more about the heart & soul behind their food drink.


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9 Gorgeous Beach Adventures in Marin County
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Sun, sand, and wild beauty close to San Francisco.
Here's the thing about Marin County...no matter how many times you go, it's always a surprise. Whether that is because it's almost inconceivable that so much wild beauty exists within spitting distance of a major city like San Francisco, or because the weather is notoriously unpredictable and you never know quite what to pack, visiting Marin is always an adventure. And trust us when we say that it's an adventure you definitely want to take.
From the moment you cross the Golden Gate Bridge and land in the charming town of Sausalito, you are surrounded by places to explore. Hiking trails, scenic viewpoints, camping, and even a bit of climbing can be found as you bump up the Pacific coastline through the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument, and Mount Tamalpais State Park.
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Leadership needs to be involved in customer relations, especially when things go bad. We often say that even the best strategies and initiatives put in place to create a customer service culture can fail if management doesn't practice what they preach.
This is a positive example of how a leader could (and should) insert himself into a major customer relations issue. He proactively and directly communicates, empathizes, and redirects the focus to the future.
Now I'm not suggesting that leadership needs to constantly be involved in the role of "customer relations representative," because – frankly – many business leaders are ill-equipped to know how to defuse a 1-on-1 situation, how to effectively communicate, how to empathize with their customer, and how to be responsive to needs.
But when issues arise, don't buck the Broncos' approach to fan relations. Appropriately involve leaders in communicating the empathy and the future vision.


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The new house, made from concrete, with a solid roof and an indoor kitchen: a refuge for many.
Named after a woman who at the end of her life lived in a sturdy and spacious house – a good place for educating local children and a refuge for many.
She and her husband raised 5 children with very little resources – and invited the founder of Reach Dalit in her heart and her home. One of her sons started a non-profit organization in India – he became a father to many.
Over time the international supporter chipped in - and by 2018 the House of Hope operated independently from Reach Dalit.
The old house, mud walls, straw roof and an outside kitchen. The lady of the house and one of her sons. Before 2015.
These children are falling behind in public school - because of their race. Their parents want to do better for them ... and an after school program was established.


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6 Factors For a Successful CEO-CFO Business Relationship
A healthy professional relationship between the CEO and their CFO is critical to the success of any organisation.
However, in many businesses, there is still some work to do on the subject.
Let's be clear it's not that CFOs and CEOs are not working well enough most of the time, but since when was 'well enough' good enough to help a business forge ahead of its competition in an economic climate which is at best, turbulent?
Answering the question and exploring the relationship between CEO and CFO highlights some interesting tactics, some new, some not-so-new, but all of which will be critical to new or existing relationships.
#1 The Right Mindset
There are many reasons why a CFO and CEO have reached the C-Suite level.
They include a successful track record in their respective fields, and the mindset and the strength of personality to go with it.
When two people at a senior level, successful in their own right, get together, they are at a crossroads.
Turn left, and things could end in disaster with two egos in conflict.
Turn right, and the synergy created by two individuals at the top of their game can be genuinely career-defining.
In some cases, a CFO and CEO will go straight on, carrying on as before.
This may not create havoc, but it is unlikely to be the route which will take their business and careers to the next level either.
As is so often the case, it will take one or the other to initiate a business relationship which breaks new ground and builds trust, understanding and shares business acumen.
Taking this option is a demonstration of leadership at a senior level.
Whether it is the CFO or the CEO who takes the first step, it will require an ego replaced with bravery.
Without this proactive solution-led mindset from the start, any strategic wishlist risks remaining just that – a wishlist.
#2 Multiple Strategies
Having the right mindset in forging a CFO / CEO relationship which could turn out to be groundbreaking is critical, but of itself alone is not enough.
There are many different published articles on the CFO / CEO dynamic, advising a handful of strategies each time.
Building trust, listening, open communication, confidence, leadership, coaching, clarity and involvement, to name a few.
The illuminating fact here is that there are examples of CFOs and CEOs who had ended up having an interdependent relationship when it had started as anything but.
Having a handful of strategies is useful; having a boxful gives you a higher chance of success when one doesn't work out.
In some cases, perhaps due to time constraints and organisational responsibilities, a strategy may be appropriate but is not given enough time or deployed in the right way.
In other cases, it is simply not the right strategy.
Flexibility and a variety of different approaches at your disposal dramatically improve the likelihood of you building the CFO / CEO relationship that your business needs.
#3 Selfish Motivation
It may be counter-intuitive to suggest that selfish motivation is key to building a relationship at the C-Suite level between a CFO and a CEO, but there is evidence in its favour.
Answering the question 'how will it benefit me personally to build a strong relationship with my CEO?' is not only healthy in terms of taking ownership for making the relationship work; it is a C-Suite leadership attribute which also answers that most basic of all human needs, the question as to 'what's in it for me?'
A CFO or CEO who can not only see why building a strong relationship will benefit both parties, but also understands it at an emotional level has a far greater chance of making that relationship work.
Provided that the motivation has its basis in mutual respect, there is a qualified chance of success.
In building a global empire, Soichiro Honda encouraged everyone to think first about themselves and what they would get out of working within the company because then, he said, they would be much better for the company and other people in it.
#4 Belief in a Successful Outcome
Most CFOs and CEOs would almost certainly be able to run the company in their own right to a greater or lesser extent.
In building a relationship which will take an organisation to the next level and continue that trajectory, one party must have belief in the other as well as belief in themselves in knowing that they can be part of the solution.
With CEOs often concentrating on speed, success and making things happen at all (calculated) costs, a CFO routinely has a focus from the other side of the spectrum: measured, specific, balanced.
Does one party always believe that the other is capable of really understanding where they are coming from or being able to flex their approach even in the senior, pressurised environment of a boardroom?
If the answer to this question is yes, then it is the key which will unlock all the others.
In contrast, a lack of belief between CFO and CEO either in themselves or in the other person will render an initial solution-led mindset, strategies and motivation redundant.
#5 Taking One Step at a Time
If a CFO or CEO position were that of a departmental manager, there would be far more of a chance that they would interact with each other on a more or less consistent basis.
One of the barriers to a strong CFO / CEO relationship is the amount of time they can dedicate to building the requisite understanding.
To strike the right balance between doing the 'day job' to ensure fiscal and commercial health is maintained, the process of C-Suite relationship-building can only really happen one step at a time.
Authentic, long-lasting relationships are generally forged to a greater depth over time than with a clearing of the air board meeting or a couple of frank discussions over dinner.
Ironically, against a backdrop of fast-paced commercial activity, it is the leadership team who need time to build strength among themselves.
#6 Having The Energy
Creating the right mindset, devising strategies to build a relationship between a CFO and CEO who, in reality, have different priorities and challenging yourself to believe that it is possible all take serious effort.
This is before the raft of organisational roles and responsibilities for which each of these senior positions is held accountable.
Enter the energy question. Do both parties have the energy to put into a relationship at this level?
In a way, it is a big ask, given the seniority of both roles and the sheer effort each requires to get through their own daily cadence.
It is a serious question, however, for anyone at the top of their game.
Being able to draw upon the energy needed to get optimum results is critical to a CFO / CEO relationship.
Increasingly, a focus on health and well-being at CFO and CEO level is seen as mandatory in that it is personal energy which will deliver everything else.
Forging a successful, enjoyable and authentic CFO / CEO relationship relies upon several factors:
1. The right mindset at the outset
2. Multiple strategies and flexibility
3. Selfish motivation
4. Belief in a successful outcome
5. Taking one step at a time
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GAELIC, proper noun. Goidelic; any Goidelic language.
GAELIC, proper noun. Scottish Gaelic.
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Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes
The Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes region is a nearly level, slowly drained plain less than 150 feet in elevation, dissected by streams and rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. The region includes barrier islands along the coast, salt grass marshes surrounding bays and estuaries, remnant tallgrass prairies, oak parklands and oak mottes scattered along the coast, and tall woodlands in the river bottomlands. Native vegetation consists of tallgrass prairies and live oak woodlands. Brush species such as mesquite and acacias are more common now than in the past. Although much of the native habitat has been lost to agriculture and urbanization, the region still provides important habitat for migratory birds and spawning areas for fish and shrimp.
These plants have been identified as particularly worrisome terrestrial invasive species in the Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes ecoregion. Click on their scientific names to go to the Invasive Plant Database and learn more.
Salt cedar - Tamarix ramosissima
Deep-rooted sedge - Cyperus entrerianus
Brazilian peppertree - Schinus terebinthifolius
Alligatorweed - Alternanthera philoxeroides
Trifoliate orange - Poncirus trifoliata