Challenges with Balama graphite production beset Syrah Resources over 2018 and brokers hope for a smoother ride in 2019.
While a significant milestone in the declaration of commercial production at Balama occurred for Syrah Resources ((SYR)) in 2018, several setbacks and a downgrade to 2019 guidance have spooked the market.
Balama, Mozambique, appears to have recovered from the interruptions to production that occurred in 2018 and will continue to ramp up over 2019. Developing the market for the company's spherical graphite products is the main challenge brokers foresee.
The production downgrades over 2018 appear unrelated to the quality of the resource or the design of the plant, with most analysts attributing the interruptions to inexperience in operating and maintaining Balama and controlling logistics.
Syrah Resources expects 2019 production of 250,000t versus prior estimates of 250-300,000t. Costs are expected to trend towards US$400/t over the course of the year, from around US$550/t.
While not providing a specific price, the company reported achieved pricing in the December quarter was lower, affected by higher sales of fines. All numbers in the guidance for 2019 fell short of Deutsche Bank's expectations, while UBS believes costs and pricing guidance were the most disappointing.
The position of the mine in the global graphite market remains the key uncertainty, in Macquarie's view. Still, there is a future in the long term, underpinned by the battery anode material (BAM) project in Louisiana, which accounts for around 60% of the broker's valuation.
Meanwhile, natural graphite production was 33,200t, in line with guidance for the December quarter but down -14% quarter on quarter, as fire damage affected the primary classifier unit in October. Sales rose to 37,000t in the quarter, supported by a draw down of inventory, while recoveries improved to 70%.
Overall, mishaps in the past year were disappointing but Credit Suisse believes this overlooks the company's achievements and the opportunity that exists. The company has installed 5000tpa milling capacity for its BAM project. Purification equipment is being installed and the first customer qualification product was dispatched mid-January and phase 1 of the commercial scale feasibility study has been completed.
Specifically, the limited balance sheet capacity and expectations of a substantial cash consumption in the March quarter have put the focus squarely on the near term. Positive operating cash flow has been pushed out again, now expected early in the June quarter.
Credit Suisse asserts the company must demonstrate quickly how it can achieve positive momentum and remove concerns about the balance sheet. UBS agrees and suspects, with net outflows likely to take the cash balance below US$50m, attention will return to the need for a debt facility.
Incorporating the production result, lower realised and forecast pricing and a slower ramping up of BAM production to commercial levels, results in meaningful reductions to Macquarie's earnings forecasts of -44% and -56% for 2019 and 2020, respectively. The broker incorporates an increased risk premium in its weighted average cost of capital estimate, to reflect the uncertainty in how the graphite market will evolve.
UBS suspects the market is trying to ascertain a sustainable long-term price for the company's product and factors in a long-term basket price of US$824/t. Credit Suisse expects a medium-term achieved basket price of above US$600/t, as lower-priced 2018 contracts are depleted and sales diversify away from China.


Digital Media and social marketing are undoubtedly the buzzword nowadays for marketing managers in many countries. China is no exception.
As mentioned in our recently blog, the number of people who are online in China is astonishing. Digital marketing and social media marketing in particular proves to be the most cost-effective marketing method that no marketing manager can afford to ignore. This week we will publish a series of blogs focusing on social media in China to help you gain a better overall picture. We will introduce the social map in China and focus on the most influential social medial platforms. What similarities do they bear with popular Western social medias and in which ways they differ from them? We will also give some ideas on how western brands can benefit from the booming social media in China and the best ways to promote your products and services using Chinese social media.
What social media platforms are there in China? Let's take a look. The following China social media landscape graph is published by CIC in 2012. In the centre of this pie chart you can see the popular social platforms that most of us here in the west are aware of. Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are probably social media marketers favourites.
One thing you cannot miss from this chart is that there are many equivalents of the same social media platforms. When you look closely it is never that straightforward. As the IT technology in the west is much more advanced than that of China, a lot of the successful western online concept were brought into China. However the Chinese government censored some of the western media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. Therefore the demand for the Chinese to have their own social media and play within the limit of their own domestic cyber law was only natural.
In most cases there is more than one company with the ambition to bring in these platforms, with localised features, to cater for Chinese Internet users. Though the pie chart has outlined the landscape nicely the real picture is much more complicated with different platforms and its own "edge".
For instance the Chinese equivalent of Twitter is Weibo (the Chinese name for Microblog). However, Weibo is more like a combination of Facebook and Twitter. There is a limitation of 140 words on each post but users can also upload a picture like they do on Facebook. Your Weibo followers can also comment on the tweets posted on Weibo, which is also a Facebook feature. This made Weibo extremely popular in China whilst the real Facebook equivalents RenRen and Kaixin are losing its popularity. Most active Internet users will still keep their Kaixin and Renren log-ins but more and more interactions are happening on Weibo.
Another dark horse in Chinese social media is "Wechat" which is even more sophisticated. The registration on Wechat reached 300million 3 month earlier than Sina and Tencent Weibo. Wechat is like a combination of Facebook, Whatsapp and Weibo but with more private audience groups and it is definitely the one to watch.
Now you might be more confused than when you started to read about Chinese social media.
Where to start? How can you or you company benefit from Chinese social media? Which channel suits you the best? This week we will publish a blog a day focusing on Chinese social media to help you answer these questions and show you how to start to get you Chinese social media page going in no time. We welcome any question and queries; anything that has been puzzling you in your China social media strategy. We will try to answer each one.


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Senators Ask USDA to Release Broadband Funding for Rural Communities
A bipartisan group of nine Senators led by Ron Wyden, (D-Ore.), encouraged the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday to remove requirements making it more difficult for rural communities to access funding for broadband deployment. They delivered a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, requesting he allow funding to rural communities who have received funding from the Federal Communications Commission for satellite service.
In 2018, Congress created the ReConnect Program which provided over $500 million in funding to "facilitate broadband deployment in rural areas." In the letter, the Senators say the USDA does not consider satellite service to be sufficient to meet the requirements, which is not in line with the ReConnect Program. They claim high-speed broadband "is vital to reducing the digital divide and harnessing important opportunities in telemedicine and online education, and the high-paying jobs that come with them."
Rural areas who have already received USDA broadband loans are not eligible for the program, but the Senators argue that those who received funding for satellite service should still be eligible for access to broadband. The group of Senators argues satellite service is not sufficient and Wyden says in his press release that the USDA agrees. "USDA considers satellite coverage insufficient for the needs of rural communities. Satellite service has much lower bandwidth caps, reliability and network speeds than fiber and fixed wireless services."
The window for applications for this year's funding closes on March 16, 2020, the Senators also asked for the USDA to extend the deadline to allow the additional communities time to apply or amend their applications. They asked Perdue to give them a response by March 4, 2020.
"USDA can, and should, fix this. USDA is neither statutorily required to eliminate FCC grant recipients from ReConnect eligibility, nor does it consider satellite service as sufficient broadband service for the purposes of awarding ReConnect funding," the letter said.
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Use of vaccines decreases the need to use antibiotics to treat disease, thus reducing the opportunity for the development of antimicrobial resistance.
Key Evidence: In this analysis of data from large-scale studies of households, two vaccines recently implemented in the WHO EPI, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and live attenuated rotavirus vaccines, were estimated to confer 20% and 11% protection against antibiotic-treated episodes of acute respiratory infection and diarrhea, respectively, in the age groups with the greatest disease burden attributable to these pathogens. Under current coverage levels, pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines are estimated to prevent 24 million and 14 million episodes, respectively, of antibiotic-treated illness each year among children in LMICs less than five years old. An additional 40 million episodes could be prevented through achievement of universal coverage targets.
Lewnard, J. A., Lo, N. C., Arinaminpathy, N., Frost, I., & Laxminarayan, R. 2020. Childhood vaccines and antibiotic use in low- and middle-income countries. Nature. 581.
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Key Evidence: Evaluation of the ability of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine to reduce the occurrence of respiratory infections and the resultant antibiotic drug use was conducted among day care attendees in Israel. It was observed that children who had received the 9-valent conjugate vaccine showed a 17% overall reduction in antibiotic usage. In particular, a 10% reduction in days of antibiotic usage for upper respiratory tract infections, 47% fewer days of antibiotic usage for lower respiratory tract infections, and 20% fewer days of antibiotic usage for otitis media (ear infections) when compared to children who did not receive PCV.
Dagan, R., Sikuler-Cohen, M., Zamir, O., et al 2001. Effect of a conjugate pneumococcal vaccine on the occurrence of respiratory infections and antibiotic use in day-care center attendees. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 20(10).
Key Evidence: Several studies have shown a 13-50% reduction in the use of antibiotics by children who have received influenza vaccine compared with unvaccinated controls. This is due to a decline in febrile illnesses causes by influenza — for which antibiotics are often prescribed inappropriately — as well as a decline in secondary bacterial infections requiring antibiotic treatment, such as pneumonia and middle ear infections, that are triggered by influenza.
Klugman KP, Black S 2018. Impact of existing vaccines in reducing antibiotic resistance: primary and secondary effects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(51).
Key Evidence: In a study evaluating the impact of PCV7 on 40,000 recipients and control subjects in northern California revealed that the vaccine could significantly decrease the need for antibiotics to treat the disease. The children who had received the vaccine displayed a 5.4% reduction in the number of antibiotic prescriptions and a 12.6% reduction in the use of "second-line antibiotics" compared to the controls. Additionally, when looking at children in the time period between their first dose and attainment of the age of 3.5 years, receiving the vaccine had prevented 35 antibiotic prescriptions per 100 fully vaccinated children.
Fireman, B., Black, S.B., Shinefield, H.R., et al. 2003. Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on otitis media. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 22(1).
Key Evidence: In Iceland, a study of all children born over an 11-year period, before and after the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into the national immunization program, found a 6% decrease in all antibiotic prescriptions for children during their first four years of life and a 22% reduction in prescriptions for otitis media after the vaccine was introduced. Thus, in addition to reducing the burden of pneumococcal disease, PCV may also slow the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Eythorsson E, Sigurdsson S, Hrafnkelsson B 2018. Impact of the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on antimicrobial prescriptions in young children: a whole population study. BMC Infectious Disease. 18(505).
Key Evidence: A study led by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that across five winter influenza seasons (2013-2018), vaccination against influenza averted 1 in 25 antibiotic prescriptions among outpatients with acute respiratory illness (ARI). The study population included 37,487 ARI outpatients 6 months or older treated at over 50 healthcare facilities across the United States. The authors conclude that influenza vaccination may curb unnecessary antibiotic use and help reduce the global threat of antibiotic resistance.
Smith, E. R., Fry, A. M., Hicks, L. A., Fleming-Dutra, K. E., Flannery, B., Ferdinands, J., ... & Nowalk, M. P. 2020. Reducing Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care Through Influenza Vaccination. Clinical Infectious Diseases. ciaa464.
A retrospective analysis of influenza vaccination coverage and antibiotic prescribing rates from 2010 to 2017 across states in the United States, controlling for differences in health infrastructure and yearly vaccine effectiveness, found that a 10-percentage point increase in influenza vaccination coverage was associated with a 6.5% decrease in antibiotic use across all age groups, equivalent to 14.2 fewer antibiotic prescriptions per 1000 individuals.
Klein, E. Y., Schueller, E., Tseng, K. K., Morgan, D. J., Laxminarayan, R., & Nandi, A. 2020. The Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Antibiotic Use in the United States, 2010–2017. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 7(7).
Key Evidence: Vaccines against influenza reduce the use of antibiotics that drive drug resistance in bacteria in two ways. First, they prevent secondary bacterial infections caused by influenza, such as pneumonia and otitis media; in Ontario, Canada, the rate of prescribing for influenza-associated antibiotics declined around 64% after universal introduction of influenza vaccination compared to other Canadian provinces with more limited use of the vaccine. Second, they help prevent inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract infections caused by influenza and other viruses, which account for half of all respiratory illnesses for which antibiotics are prescribed in the U.S.
Jansen KU, Knirsch C, Anderson AS 2018. The role of vaccines in preventing bacterial antimicrobial resistance. Nature Medicine. 24.


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We sent Jay, our brand new RTYDS Resident Assistant Director, along to the rehearsals for The Barber of Seville. As someone brand new to opera, it's safe to say he didn't know what to expect! Here's Jay's account of his fascinating day with the cast and crew…
Jay Crutchley, RTYDS Resident Assistant Director
Originally, when I thought of opera, I thought of middle-aged people who walk impossibly upright and speak with an aura of elegance that I (with my strong Brummie accent) would probably feel a little uncomfortable around!
Well, that all changed this week as I was a privy insider to the rehearsals of The Barber of Seville. I was warmly welcomed into the space by all the creatives and cast members. Rehearsals were due to start at 11am and, the London Tube system having let me down, I got there for 10.55am expecting to walk into a room full of actors warming up and getting ready to start their day. Upon my arrival though, I discovered that in fact there weren't any actors there. This really took me by surprise, but within a couple of minutes they started to arrive (with seconds to go until 11am!) and with swift precision, all casually assembled round the piano with the musical director and pianist and just began to sing through the scenes!
I was a little taken aback and equally impressed by this – at how ready they were to just roll into the room, barely break their stride and begin rehearsals. I then noticed that whilst the MD was with the cast rehearsing the vocal elements of the scenes, the director was behind in the space, majestically moving around and taking on a multitude of roles as he blocked out his vision for the flow of movement for each scene. This was actually a thing of beauty to watch as I could see how invested the director was in shaping his vision for the piece. The cast got to a level with the script that everyone was happy with and then proceeded to block out the scene with the director filling in his previously laid out vision.
This is where my respect and admiration of the cast really washed over me due to their ability to move around the space seamlessly whilst also belting out operatic verses, making it look effortless. A particular highlight was a series of choreographed individual moves dished out by the director that included "Schrodinger's Cat" or the "Front Crawl" and, my personal favourite, "The Lady Macbeth", which the cast were particularly keen for me to get involved with. You'll have to come to the show to see what they look like!
If someone had told me 10 years ago that listening to drum and bass would help me understand opera, I probably would have laughed them out of the rave!
Whilst watching this process, I made a slightly left-field reflection that growing up listening to drum and bass, I was familiar with extremely high tempo MC's spitting (rapping) incredibly fast. Over the years I think my ear has become accustomed to this and can focus in on the words to keep up with the flow. In a few moments of the Barber script there are some extremely fast operatic singing moments which were not too dissimilar in tempo to drum and bass MC's and I realised that because of my finely tuned drum and bass ear, I was able to follow it perfectly. If someone had told me 10 years ago that listening to drum and bass would help me understand opera I probably would have laughed them out of the rave!
I also felt that the room had an atmosphere of warmth and joy, which I'm sure was established by the creative team and the cast. There was an exciting energy which blew away my preconceptions of what it would be like. Everyone in the room was very open with me and excited that this was my first experience of opera. The company seem committed to breaking the misconceptions that I'm sure many people, like myself, share about opera. So if you have never seen opera before, The Barber of Seville would be a great first experience!
The Barber of Seville runs at Tobacco Factory Theatres from Wed 18 September – Sat 05 October. Visit the main show page for more info about the production and to book.
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Nery Santos Gómez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1967) é uma escritora venezuelana-americana.

Biografia
Nery Santos Gómez nasceu em Venezuela, dia 21 de agosto de 1967. Ela se formou em Relações Industriais pela Universidade Católica Andrés Bello (1989) e fez um mestrado em Criação Literária pela Universidade do Sagrado Coração em San Juan, Puerto Rico (2016).

Livros publicados incluem Hilandera de Tramas (2012), Lazareto de Afecciones (2018), e Al borde de la decencia (2018). Outras estórias foram publicadas em diferentes antologias internacionalmente. Nery participou na antologia "Palenque", ganhando o Prêmio de Literatura porto-riquenho Pen Club 2014, com a sua estória: "Hacinamiento".

Ela foi finalista de varios concursos, publicando na Narrativa Award de 2014 "Bovarismos Internacional da Mulher em Miami" com sua estória: "Desde mi balcón". Além disso, ela esta entre os vencedores da Aliança 'O porto-riquenho Writers', 'Entre Libros', e concurso de contos maio 2016 e foi publicada com a sua estória: 'El mundo entero.' Nery fez parte do Conselho de Administração da Writers Guild of Puerto Rico em 2013 e 2014. Participou do Projeto Borinquen escrito na Universidade do Sagrado Coração, onde obteve o grau de "Writing Consultor. Atualmente, ela faz parte do pleno direito na Academia Colombiana de Letras e Filosofia de Bogotá, Colômbia.

O livro da Autora Nery, Lazareto de afecciones foi escolhido pelo jornal porto-riquenho El Nuevo Dia como um dos melhores livros do ano 2018.  Em 2019, o libro Lazareto de afecciones ganhou três prêmios (um em 1º lugar y dois em 2º lugar) no concurso "International Latino Book Awards" de 2019.

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Livros

 Hilandera de tramas, 2012
 Lazareto de afecciones, 2018
 Al borde de la decencia, 2019
 Transcending the Lazaretto (versão em inglês de Lazareto de afecciones ), 2020
Fronteras desdibujadas, 2021

Estórias

 Las maletas, 2012 (publicado em Huellas à la mar: Tercera antología internacional de revista Literarte)
 Hacinamiento, 2013 (publicado em Palenque: Antología puertorriqueña )
 Desordenadas palomitas de maíz, 2013 (publicado em Karmasensual8 )
 Desde mi balcón, 2014 (publicado em Soñando en Vrindavan y otras estórias de ellas )
 El mundo entero, 2016 (publicado em Entre libros )
 Osadas orquídeas, 2018 (publicado em Divina: La mujer en veinte voces )
 Depresión, 2018 (publicado em Divina: La mujer en veinte voces )
 Yo, el fisgón de doña Elena, 2018 (publicado em Divina: La mujer en veinte voces )
 De mangas y mujeres divinas, 2018 (publicado em Divina: La mujer en veinte voces )
 Serendipitas, 2020 (publicado em Amores de cine. Pasiones más allá del celuloide )
 Na fila do cinema, 2020 (publicado em Amores de cinema. Pasiones más allá del celuloide )
 Cuarentena literaria. Poemas e relatos que escapam ao encierro, 2020 (coordenador)

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Ligações externas

 Sítio oficial
 Blog oficial
Norte-americanos de ascendência venezuelana
Nascidos em 1967
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Item:Settlement with teachers union
What it means: If the district receives about $20 million it's expecting in federal stimulus money, the board is being asked to approve a settlement with the union that would mean all teachers and paraprofessionals receive their raises based on the number of years they've been working. The cost to the district for the raises and benefits is about $7.1 million this year. The district thinks the current salary schedule isn't equitable, so district and union officials will meet to come up with a new salary schedule.
Item:Authority to sign contracts and other legal documents
What it means: Right now, the board must approve all contracts, agreements and other legal documents with a value of more than $50,000. This would require the board to approve documents with a value of more than $100,000, though the board would still receive a report of the monetary awards.
Item: Purchase of property at Sheffield Elementary School
What it means: The board will consider paying $401,100 plus closing costs for 14.5 acres of property at 13401 Lanier Road next to the school. The purchase would increase the size of the school site from 16 acres to 30.5 acres, which would allow for future expansions. Sheffield and nearby schools are either close to or over capacity, and the district expects residential growth in the area. The expanded site would allow for either a larger elementary or a middle school.
Item:Public hearing and vote on use of district computer resources
What it means: The board will consider a policy for acceptable use of district computer equipment. It would include requiring parents to notify their children's schools in writing if they don't want them to access the Internet. Employees must get permission from a principal or another supervisor before allowing students to interact with each other as contributors to school websites, including on blogs. And district employees must use their district e-mail to communicate with parents and students.


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WikiLeaks Reveals State Department Discord Over U.S. Support for Canadian Tar Sands Oil Program
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Leaked cable warns of tar sands oil's 'higher environmental footprint' as agency considers pipeline that would double U.S. dependence on it
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks has revealed that a U.S. diplomat warned the Obama administration about significant environmental impacts stemming from Canada's controversial tar sands oil production program.
The language in the cable contradicts recent statements by U.S. State Department officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that underplay the environmental impacts of tar sands oil while defending a proposed pipeline that would bring the extremely polluting oil from Canada to the U.S.
In the January 2009 cable, which was prepared for President Obama and Secretary Clinton in advance of the president's first trip to Canada, the diplomat states that Canada has "keen sensitivity over the higher environmental footprint of oil from western Canada's oil sands." The diplomat goes on to warn the president that among Canadian officials there is "concern about the implications for Canada of your energetic calls to develop renewable energies and reduce our reliance on imported oil."
This candid admission of the impacts of tar sands oil production, which results in three times more global warming pollution than production of conventional oil, differs markedly from the description of tar sands oil given by the State Department in public documents.
In its draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prepared to analyze the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would pump tar sands oil from Canada through six U.S. states to refineries in Texas, the State Department claims that tar sands oil is "similar" to other oils and that the impact of increasing reliance on tar sands oil "would be minor." Despite the fact that her agency is still completing its final EIS, Secretary Clinton has stated that she is "inclined" to approve the pipeline.
"It's hard to understand why State Department officials in Washington, D.C. would deny a problem acknowledged by the expert on the ground," said Alex Moore, dirty fuels campaigner at Friends of the Earth. "Tar sands oil production takes an unacceptable toll on the environment and public health and should not be supported by the U.S. government."
Marcie Keever, legal director at Friends of the Earth, added, "It appears as though the State Department sought to deceive the American public about the environmental impacts of tar sands oil in conducting its draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Keystone XL pipeline. The department is required by law to fully evaluate potential environmental impacts, including the extreme levels of pollution produced by tar sands oil."
"Failure to fully assess the environmental impacts of this tar sands oil pipeline would violate the National Environmental Policy Act and leave the agency vulnerable to litigation," concluded Keever.
If approved by the Obama administration, the Keystone XL pipeline would pump 900,000 barrels of tar sands oil into the U.S. daily, doubling our country's consumption of tar sands oil and leading to additional global warming emissions equal to adding more than 6 million new cars to U.S. roads.
The leaked cable warning of tar sands oil's impact is available at: http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/01/09OTTAWA64.html
The State Department's draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline is available at: http://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov
More information about the Keystone XL pipeline is available at: /keystone-xl-pipeline
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A recent Ovum report titled 'Technology Discontinuities in the Public Sector' notes that the rate of technology innovation is accelerating, creating an ever expanding array of so-called disruptive technologies, with more looming on the horizon each year.
The implications of quickening cycles of technology innovation for public and private sector enterprises are profound, driving significant changes in the economy, in industry, and in the operation of government and how it provides services. At the forefront of these changes are mobile devices, cloud services, social media, and analytics.
We have remarked in the past about the crisis of confidence in public sector ICT that has emerged in many jurisdictions – with a history of project failures sapping the enthusiasm of executives for ICT-enabled reforms. One consequence has been the creation of ever more onerous governance arrangements and process controls aimed at reducing project risks. Another erstwhile risk mitigation has been the pursuit of 'fewer moving parts' strategies - consolidation, rationalisation, and standardisation - to create whole-of-government panels and shared services.
The tragedy has been these arrangements have not only failed to reduce risks, they have too often had the opposite effect and led to stiflingly inefficient and unresponsive infrastructure, common systems and procurement arrangements.
Old-school ICT strategies that sought to consolidate, rationalise, and standardise are now recognised as wasteful from many perspectives, but most particularly because of their impact on organisational learning in agencies during periods of technology disruption.
Driving slowly does not necessarily develop the skills needed to ensure a safe journey, and neither does driving while looking in the rearview mirror. Governments need new, more iterative approaches for assimilating rapidly evolving technologies and for learning how they can be applied as enablers of policy and service delivery reforms.
Jurisdiction-wide common applications or shared services projects take many years to fail, all the while acting as a brake on ICT-enabled transformation projects within agencies. As the pace of technology change quickens, the risk profile of large centralisation projects increases – they take too long and are too inflexible. Their opportunity cost is measured in the inactivity of agencies while they wait on the platform for a train that never arrives.
As the pace of technology change accelerates, agencies must be empowered to more quickly understand and 'skill up' for the changing opportunities and risks. In particular they must learn how to manage the successful implementation of new technologies using more agile and pragmatic techniques for defining requirements and managing projects. The cycle time of innovation and learning must be accelerated.
Remember, the workings of compounding interest in your bank account? This observation reinforces a commonsense view around the practical effects of innovation on organisational learning. More is better. Sooner is better. Get started today.
Success in the modern digital economy is substantially a matter of getting started earlier and learning faster. Try new things. Discover what works and do more of it. Discover what doesn't work and do less of it. Early investments in digital services innovations, just like early savings in a bank account, generate benefits that compound the following year. Confidence and benefits compound over time, increasing executive's faith in the transformative power of ICT … and increasing willingness to invest more next year.
This emerging logic of what we refer to as "compounding organisational learning" is a consequence of the shortened cycle time of innovation that is enabled by the new generation of digital technologies, particularly smartphone apps and cloud services. These technologies are both raising customer demand for innovation as well as creating new, more agile organisational behavior options on the supply side of the equation.
Cloud services, in particular, are a game changer because they are engineered from the ground up to be shared, and they deliver the benefits of both scale and choice to agencies. Their arm's-length nature combined with the fact that they are "pure" shared services – designed for multi-tenancy and configurability – means that they are ideally suited to become the shared platforms that government ICT strategies have been seeking for decades. This has significant implications for the logic of government ICT strategy and the role of ICT leadership.
Looking forward, the key change required is for agencies to accelerate the cycle time of organisational learning by buying services that work, rather than attempting to renovate existing infrastructure and systems that don't.
Dr Steve Hodgkinson (steve.hodgkinson@ovum.com) is research director IT, Asia Pacific, for Ovum.


It's never too late to change your mind about having an abortion — and a pro-life group hopes to reinforce that concept with a new project it is unveiling along with local medical and pregnancy help centers.
The Pro-Life Action League today announced a new alliance with Resurrection Medical Center and The Women's Center to establish medical and support protocols for assisting women who change their minds after initiating a second trimester abortion procedure.
The organization calls the partnership "groundbreaking" as a first-of-its-kind in Chicago and what it hopes will become a model for Catholic hospitals around the country.
"Recently, our sidewalk counselors have seen several women who have changed their minds about abortion, and who wish to continue their pregnancies even once the late-term abortion procedure has started," Ann Scheidler, vice president and director of sidewalk counselor training for the Pro-Life Action League told LifeNews.com this afternoon.
"Never before have we had such a streamlined process to save the life of a child after the abortion procedure has been initiated," said Scheidler.
Officials with PLAL, Resurrection and The Women's Center, a crisis pregnancy center on the northwest side of Chicago drafted the protocols.
Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortion practitioner and practicing gynecologist from Las Cruces, New Mexico, who has guided women for many years to abortion alternatives since becoming pro-life, was enlisted to advise the hospital's physicians and staff on the procedures involved in a later-term abortion and the reversal of the process.
The protocols include directing women who indicate that have had a change of heart during the abortion procedure to The Women's Center. There, a trained counselor will have access to a designated phone number to alert the emergency room at Resurrection that the women will be arriving shortly for medical care.
The emergency room at Resurrection will handle the initial evaluation and transfer the patient to the obstetrics department where the necessary procedures will be done to ensure the abortion process will not claim the life of her child or pose medical risks for her.
The Women's Center will continue to follow up with the pregnant woman throughout her pregnancy and the delivery of her baby, meeting any emotional and material needs as they arise and provide help in arranging prenatal and post-natal care.
Sister Donna Marie, chief executive officer of Resurrection Medical Center, said the facility is excited to be a part of the new process.


Interestingly, thanks to John Medland and Ian Johnston and their colleagues at British Telecom (BT), a simple and elegant solution called Advanced Mobile Location, or AML, was developed in 2014 to better locate callers using the United Kingdom's (U.K.'s) 999 emergency system. The European Emergency Number Association (EENA) announced in 2016 that BT's partnership with Google, support for AML was implemented in all Android operating systems worldwide.
Apple announced yesterday that its future release of iOS 11.3 will include support for AML in Apple devices. With more than 98 percent of all smartphones running either Android or iOS operating systems, 911 officials should be ecstatic that accurate location information via AML is coming to a 911 center near them soon. Unfortunately, while Apple's announcement is exciting, it's just not enough to have AML within the handset's OS.
Carriers must act quickly to enable AML for 911 calling in the U.S.
AML is a great solution that will fundamentally improve the ability of 911 centers to locate emergency callers; however, it's only currently activated in eight countries: Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, and New Zealand, as well as the U.K. So, while the technology exists on your Android device (and soon on Apple devices), it isn't enabled in the U.S. and none of the domestic wireless carriers have announced a timeline for adding this lifesaving technology.
This situation must change and time is of the essence. Without AML enabled, telecommunicators in 911 centers across the U.S. will continue to struggle to locate emergency callers. While additional regulatory action from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seems unlikely anytime soon, the only other option available is to encourage the carriers to act voluntarily to implement this technology. Assuming just one of the four largest wireless carriers implements AML, the others would follow, right? What carrier wants to be criticized for failing to protect its subscribers by not implementing software that already resides on their phones, but isn't activated?
As online petitions seem unlikely to make a difference, here's a simple plea to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint: Which of you wants to be seen as a progressive champion, serving the critical needs of the 911 sector and all those who call 911 in their time of greatest need? Please do the right thing and turn on AML— now. The millions of people who call 911 each year are depending on you to help 911 find them more quickly, which in turn will save more lives—when it comes to 911, every second counts.


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Strictly week 6 songs and dances revealed
Find out what everyone will be dancing for Halloween week.
With 11 couples left in the competition, we're in for a real treat for Halloween week this weekend on Strictly Come Dancing.
We're still in shock at last week's show when Deborah Meaden and her partner Robin Windsor exited the show. It really does seem that no one is safe this year.
The dances and songs for the remaining couples have been released:
Ashley and Ola will be performing the Tango to Ne-Yo's 'Beautiful Monster'
Patrick and Anya will be Quickstepping to 'Man With the Hex' by Atomic Fireballs
Abbey and Aljaz will Rumba to 'Stay' by Shakespeare's Sister.
Rachel and Pasha will dance the American Waltz to 'I Put a Spell on You' by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Dave and Karen will be Jiving to Bobby Boris Picket's 'Monster Mash'.
Fiona and Anton will perform the Charleston to Al Donahue's 'Jeepers Creepers'.
Sophie and Brendan Jive to 'Maneater' by Hall and Oates.
Mark and Iveta will perform the Paso Doble to Sarah Brightman's 'I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper'
Susanna and Kevin will Charleston to Creedance Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Rising'.
Ben and Kristina will dance the Paso Doble to Muse's 'Supermassive Black Hole'.
Natalie and Artem will perform the Viennese Waltz to Natalie Duncan's 'Devil In Me'.
Tune into Strictly Come Dancing at 6.30pm on BBC One and BBC One HD on Saturday to see how they all get on.
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Kilmainham Tales - remembering for the Future
Women of the Irish Revolution
Liz Gillis, who has already three great books to her name, launched her fourth - "Women of the Irish Revolution" - in the newly refurbished Richmond Barracks Gymnasium on Thursday November 13, 2014.
This was probably the biggest launch seen this year, with some 400 people in attendance.
The book was formally launched by Mary McCauliffe, of Trinity College Dublin and the Women's History Association. She spoke about the changing perception of the role women played in the Irish Revolution, and the need to document this in a non-partisan way. SHe was fulsome in her praise for this new book, and for Liz GIllis as author.
Liz herself spoke of how she was delighted that families had come forward with stories of lesser known women, and supplied photographs of them, and of how these families had fully supported her in her work. Liz said she was delighted to be able to acknowledge these women and what they achieved, often in the face of the greatest adversary.
Colleagues of Liz from Kilmainham Gaol helped sell the book on the night, Copies were being sold as fast as possible, and it looked at one stage as if all copies would be sold but, in the end, less than a handful remained.
Many of those who had supplied photos and information turned up for the launch, as well as politicians etc., and the launch was such a great success that it highlighted the public appetite for good, quality, unbiased books on the revolutionary period.... and it will be some time before we see the equal of "Women of the Irish Revolution".
The book is published by Mercier Press and is in hardback - although we hear rumours that a paperback edition will be printed in 2015. It is a fantastic book, with many previously unpublished photos and stories told through a wonderful linking text by Liz.
This is undoubtedly one of the most important books on the Irish 20th century revolutionary period to have reached our desk here at Kilmainham Tales, and breaks much new ground. It is essential reading and no library on this period can be complete without it. Once again Liz has set the standard by which all other books which seek to copy her will be judged.


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From cellulosic bioenergy to grid-scale storage, the path to a cleaner atmosphere is being paved by scientists, engineers, and visionaries who are building the green economy of the 21st century.
These are not far-flung technologies. In nearly every sector of the economy, new energy sources can make an immediate impact on air quality. These include:
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, consumption of nonhydroelectric renewable energy has more than doubled since the turn of the century. This progress has largely been driven by state and federal policies designed to replace fossil fuels with cleaner sources of energy. Yet, today, renewable sources supply a mere 11 percent of all energy consumed in the United States.
To protect our air, we must foster an environment that will accelerate the deployment of new, cleaner energy options – bringing technology out of the lab and into the field. Equally important, these efforts must encompass more than renewable fuel. Among the most promising new technologies aimed at protecting U.S. air quality are innovations in energy efficiency, conservation, transmission, and storage.
For example, aggressive research and development programs helped cut the cost of solar power by half since 2011. In fact, America's solar industry brought the cost of utility-scale solar down to six cents per kilowatt-hour three years before the 2020 goal set by the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative. As a result, solar is more than market-competitive with other forms of energy – it saves families money.
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By adopting an economy-wide approach aimed at reducing emissions with all available technologies, we can unleash America's green ingenuity, protect the air, and make clean energy an affordable and accessible option for all families.


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Q: swift NSDictionary filter using string What I need is how we need to filter NSDictionary and return only the values and the keys where the key contain a string
For example if we have NSDictionary that contain :
{
  "houssam" : 3,
  "houss" : 2,
  "other" : 5
}

and the string is "houss"
so we need to return
{
  "houssam" : 3,
  "houss" : 2
}

Best Regards,

A: You can use the filter function to get what you need like in the following way:
var dict: NSDictionary  = ["houssam": 3, "houss": 2, "other": 5 ]
let string = "houss"

var result = dict.filter { $0.0.containsString(string)}
print(result) //[("houssam", 3), ("houss", 2)]

The above code return a list of tuples, if you want to get a [String: Int] dictionary again you can use the following code:
var newData = [String: Int]()
for x in result {
   newData[x.0 as! String] = x.1 as? Int
}

print(newData) //["houssam": 3, "houss": 2]

I hope this help you.

A: Use this code to get matching keys.
var predicate = NSPredicate(format: "SELF like %@", "houss");
let matchingKeys = dictionary.keys.filter { predicate.evaluateWithObject($0) };

Then just fetch entries which keys are in matchingKeys array.

A: Since this is an NSDictionary, you can use the filteredArrayUsingPredicate: method on the array of keys, and fetch back the values from the initial dictionary.
For instance:
let data: NSDictionary = // Your NSDictionary
let keys: NSArray = data.allKeys
let filteredKeys: [String] = keys.filteredArrayUsingPredicate(NSPredicate(format: "SELF CONTAINS[cd] %@", "houss")) as! [String]
let filteredDictionary = data.dictionaryWithValuesForKeys(filteredKeys)

Hope that helps.

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with IM David Cummings
In this Update we take a break from mainline theory to explore some of the more offbeat and unusual Flank Openings. In fact, all eight games this month feature a different first move. Which of these is "bold and creative" and which is "eccentric and weakening"? Judge for yourself - as the saying goes, from the sublime to the ridiculous is but one step!
Unusual Flank Openings
Larsen's Opening
From's Gambit
King's English
Download PGN of June '18 Flank Openings games
Delayed Grob, 1 e3 Nf6 2 g4 [A00]
It is rare to see the Grob played in a (non-blitz) game between two Grandmasters, but that is what happened in the game Larino Nieto, D - Sumets, A, albeit in an improved(?) version with 1 e3 Nf6 inserted before 2 g4:
White is threatening to kick the f6-knight around, but in the game, Black put a stop to that with the level headed 2...h6. Now 3 Bg2 is already a novelty, although this isn't the only game this month to enter new territory at a very early stage. Sumets reacted well to the unusual position, and Black was soon better.
Orangutan Opening, 1 b4 e5 2 Bb2 Bxb4 [A00]
After 1 b4 Black has many playable moves, but 1...e5 is the most principled reply, simply taking aim at the b4-pawn. After 2 Bb2 Bxb4 3 Bxe5 Nf6 Black has traded a central pawn for a wing pawn but has faster development.
Honos, A - Kantor, G showed that Black's resources can be dangerous in the hands of an attacking player. Kantor showed some original touches such as 8...Qd6!? to quickly swing the queen across to the kingside. After White played too slowly, his king soon came under heavy fire.
Van Geet (or Dunst) Opening 1 Nc3 e5 [A00]
1 Nc3, the Van Geet (or Dunst) opening can be tricky for Black to meet if he doesn't have a specific line prepared. Improvising, for example playing 1...e5 or 1...c5 and continuing by analogy with 1 e4 openings, holds some dangers. In some positions, White's extra tempo (through delaying the move e2-e4) give him extra possibilities.
Karpatchev, A - Mazur, S, reached the above position, and Black continued with the natural looking move 5...h6. After 6 Bxf6 Qxf6 7 Ndb5, however, Black is caught out by the weakness of the c7-pawn and is already in some trouble.
1 g3 anti-Dutch [A00]
1 g3 is by far the most mainstream of the opening moves in the 'A00' category, and usually transposes to standard English, Réti or 1 d4 setups. In Turner, M - Cheparinov, I, however, White employed an independent option against the Dutch, starting with 1...f5 2 Bg2 Nf6 3 d3 d6 4 e4:
White's plan with an early d2-d3 can be particularly effective against Stonewall structures, but Black has more flexibility in this setup. Cheparinov now clarified the centre with 4...fxe4 5 dxe4 e5 and developed his dark-squared bishop on the e7-square. This gave him long term ideas of expanding in the centre, while it was harder for White to find a convincing plan.
Larsen's Opening 1 b3 a5 [A01]
In Dobre, C - Manea, A Black answered 1 b3 with the rare and provocative 1...a5!?:
This move was played in the fairly well known 2015 game Rapport-Adly, which was covered here on ChessPublishing. Black argues that he has time to get away with this wing move, and meanwhile the players are on their own. There are several promising options for White such as 2 Bb2 a4 3 e4 or 2 c4, but obviously no established theory. In fact Black has scored fairly well in practical games, and not just in blitz games. Dobre's 2 Bb2 a4 3 a3 wasn't very impressive, so in this encounter the surprise element worked in Black's favour.
From's Gambit Declined, 1 f4 e5 2 fxe5 d6 3 e6 [A02]
From's Gambit 1 f4 e5 2 fxe5 d6 is a rare guest in tournament play, but has a body of theory which goes quite deep.
White's best try for an advantage is to grab the pawn, but in Tu, H - Bao, K, White decided to decline the gambit, playing 3 e6. This doesn't promise much against correct play, but in the game Black continued 3...Bxe6 4 Nf3 g5?!. The loosening g-pawn thrust makes less sense with a pawn, rather than a bishop, on the d6-square. 5 d4 led to a pleasant edge for White, although the game swung back and forth several times later on.
Réti Opening, 1 Nf3 d5 2 c4 d4 3 b4 g5 [A09]
Duda, J - Bartel, M opened with 1 Nf3 d5 2 c4 d4 3 b4, and now instead of playing one of the main moves 3...f6 and 3...Bg4, Bartel unleashed 3...g5!?:
This is a dynamic idea that deserves more attention. If White grabs the pawn right away, then after 4 Nxg5 e5 Black has a double attack on the g5-knight and b4-pawn. The critical line is Duda's 4 Bb2 when after 4...Bg7 5.Nxg5 e5 Black gets a large mobile pawn centre as compensation for the pawn.
King's English, 1 c4 e5 2 g3 h5 [A20]
After 1 c4 e5 2 g3, Bruzon Batista, L - Rakhmanov, A, took an unexpected turn with 2...h5!?:
2...h5 is only Black's 10th most popular move, but has picked up some interest recently and scored reasonably well for Black. The h-pawn thrust is somewhat justified by White's lack of central control at this early stage of the game. In the notes I look at White's major 3rd move options. Bruzon chose 3 Nc3 when after 3...Bb4 we again have a brand new position after only 3 moves! In the game, both players developed along standard lines, except that Black's h3-pawn proved to be an annoying thorn in White's side.
I hope you enjoy this update!
Until next month, David.


After a long day of flights yesterday, I am back home. It's nice to be back to normalcy and my daily routines. I had to get unpacked today, go through mail, and get everything back up and running.
Tomorrow I'll get back on track with my normal schedule of blog postings. If you just started following me over the last few weeks–thanks! I really appreciate the follows. As mentioned before I have about 17 days to hit my 500 follower goal. If any of you know anyone that could benefit from my blog, send them my way.
I'm writing this early because I'll be busy cleaning up my brother's house and getting packed up for my flight on Thursday the 13th. This trip was a terrific time. It started with my niece's wedding. It was a wonderful ceremony and went off without a hitch.
Then it was a full week of reconnecting with friends, good food, and lots of laughs. It was also a great time to hang out with my brother, play some games, and binge watch some shows on Amazon and Netflix. I also got in some writing, reading, and some much-needed quite time to think about things and reflect.
I like my reflection time. I think about all kinds of things, like what my life would be like if I did this or that in my past or what I could change today and what effect that would have on my future. I like thinking about my family, my friends, books I have read. I even like to think about thinking sometimes.
I hope all of you enjoyed my Phoenix trip! I did. Friday, I'll be back to my posting schedule. I really appreciate all of the new followers and the time you took to investigate and learn about my blog.
My brother and nephew took off this morning for a week in Barbados. I have my brother's house to myself and looking forward to just relaxing and doing nothing but knocking out my daily to-dos and watching some shows on Amazon and Netflix.
Yeah, I know. It's lazy, but that is what vacations are for. I'm also going to get in some reading today. I'm reading the 2136 trilogy and for an Indy writer it is really good. Well, that's it for today.
Today is just a hangout day with my brother at his home. We're watching a new show on Amazon, called Fortitude. It is really good so far. We have to run some errands today so my brother can get some last-minute things for his trip tomorrow with his son to Barbados.
I'll be here at his house until the 13th, just hanging out and relaxing for the last three days I'm here, before heading back to Michigan. This was a really good trip. I got to hang out with some of my friends who I used to work with out here. I got caught up with some folks I haven't seen in a while.
It was also really nice to hang out with my brother and see my niece get married. My brother's son will be coming over today to hang out and sleep the night here so they can get to their flight early in the morning. While they're gone I'll be knocking out some reading and get caught up on some Netflix and Amazon shows I've been wanting to watch.
I met with one of my gal friends for lunch at The Windsor. It is a nice place with a active, bistro atmosphere. We had a great time catching up.
I have learned a few things about friendships since I've been back. Some say they want to meet and don't. This was a good indication of who was really a friend and who was sort of a friend out of convenience.
Anyway, the gal I met with (I withhold names to protect their privacy), was so nice to talk to. I like hearing other people's stories and the things they have had to deal with. I find it really interesting to hear other people's stories because their experience is so unique. There are always lessons to learn, insights to gain, and connecting with someone is really nice.
Anyway, the food was amazing. I had an Egg Benedict and a Bloody Mary. We talked for a few hours. It was a really nice time and I will try to hang out with her again before I leave Phoenix on the 13th.
Now I am back home, hanging out with my brother. We'll get back to playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider and hanging out. He got sick a few days ago and is fighting either a cold or the flu but he is getting over it. He is headed to Barbados on the 11th with his son for some vacation. I'll be staying at his place while he's gone.
Well, that's it for today, folks.
Yesterday, my brother and I played some more video games. We also finished up the series Patriot on Amazon. Last night we connected with some friends and met up at one of our favorite cigar bars. I had a beer called Pie Hole Port. I ordered this simply because I liked the name.
It was great reconnecting with my friend who is a computer programmer. I really enjoyed last night. My brother and I also went to one of our favorite restaurants for dinner. He had fried chicken, while I had the meatloaf. It was really yummy!
Today, I'll be meeting with one of my old managers for lunch. Then it's back home to work through Shadow of the Tomb Raider some more.
It's raining in Phoenix. This is typical this time of year. Arizonans welcome the rains because they are a welcome respite from the heat of summer and fall.
Yesterday was a day of watching Amazon Prime, playing some video games with my brother, and meeting some friends for dinner. We met at Los Dos Malinos in Phoenix. Boy, talk about some great Mexican food. I had the carnitas plate with rice and beans and it was tremendous. It was really nice meeting with my friends yesterday, getting caught up in their lives and enjoying our time together.
Today, my brother and I are chilling out, watching some more of Patriot, playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and heading out to a favorite restaurant for fried chicken. Then, we are heading over to one of my brother's favorite cigar bars, called Magnums. I'm meeting one of my previous programming consultants. We have been friends a long time.
Well, that's it for today, folks. I realize my posts have been short, but want to enjoy as much time with my brother and friends as possible. Enjoy your Thursday!
Yesterday, was a nice day. The weather was awesome and I had a nice dinner with my wife. She is a special education teacher by day and a female bodybuilder at night. We had to separate because of my Dad's condition, requiring me to come home and help out my parents.
It may be strange to some that my wife and I are separated for this reason but I learned a long time ago that the rules we create for ourselves are just that–rules we impose on ourself–not imposed by others. Society has a way of imposing things on us. There are expectations of owning a home, having a traditional family, doing what everyone else is doing. What I have found is that these social norms are not the norm for most of us. When I made the decision to balk at the expectations of society and truly live my own life, life became lighter, relaxing, free.
Today, I'm meeting some friends at one of our favorite haunts. It'll be a great time to reconnect, learn about what's going on in their lives and spend some time together laughing. Right now, my brother and I are watching Patriot on Amazon and will kick into some gameplay on his Xbox a little later. We are enjoying Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The graphics and storyline in this game are beyond awesome!
Today will be the first day of just hanging out with my brother. I'm meeting with a friend later this afternoon, but that is the only thing I have as far as meetings go. It'll be good seeing her again. The game plan for today is to watch some Amazon, play some game, and get a meal out somewhere. I am really enjoying myself.
I have also scheduled lunches and happy hours for the remainder of the week. Wednesday lunch and happy hour, Thursday happy hour, and a Friday lunch. I also have a meeting with a colleague this Sunday for brunch! It's going to be a great week!
Last night we had another dinner with the newlyweds. Today, my brother and I sent Mom and Dad home to Michigan. They had a great time while they were here. Today will be a day of coordinating with my friends and colleagues to schedule some time together while I'm here. It'll be great fun!
The weather here is perfect! Blue skies, moderate temperatures (evenings in the 50s and days in the 70s). My brother and I will also be playing some video games (yeah, I'm a total geek when it comes to games!). We're looking at Red Dead Redemption and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Both of these games are on the XBox One.
The rest of today will be doing laundry, getting connected with friends to set up lunches and happy hours and knock out my daily to-dos. It's going to be a great time!!


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Viva Magenta: The Color of 2023
Advertising trends with the Pantone Color Institute's color of the year.
Do you want to improve your image campaigns? Do it using a trendy color. And not just any. Use the Pantone Color Institute's color of 2023. This way, your product images will follow the latest trends. In this article, we also add practical suggestions on how to use it for your image campaigns.
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What is the Pantone Color Institute?
Pantone Color Institute provides advice on brand identity and product colors, trend forecasting (Pantone Color of the Year, fashion shows, etc.), color psychology, and more.
The company creates color palettes for brands such as Orange, Lacoste, Airbnb, and Barbie. Their data says color influences the decision to buy a product by up to 85%. Since 2000, they have held two-day debates, where representatives of color standards groups from different countries meet. The Viva Magenta color has also been created in this way.
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Pantone Color Of The Year 2023 Announcement
According to members of the Pantone Color Institute, the color revels in pure joy and uninhibited self-expression. Fun fact: the color comes from the beetle known as Cochineal.
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"A brand that uses Viva Magenta expresses that it is fearless, engaging, and unconventional in bringing new solutions." @pantone
Templates in Viva Magenta
Do you want to create a template frame or add a button or text to your color of the year creative? Using the HEX code makes it easy: #BB2649.
Use HEX code for creating in Viva Magenta color.
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