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"I, Too" is a poem written by Langston Hughes that shows a want for equality through patience whilst going against the idea that patriotism is limited by race. It was first published in Hughes' first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. This poem, along with other works by Hughes, helped define the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the early 1920s and '30s of newfound cultural identity for blacks in America who had discovered the power of literature, art, music, and poetry as a means of personal and collective expression in the scope of civil rights.
In the poem, Hughes describes a ubiquitous racial oppression that degrades African Americans at the time. He writes from the perspective of an inferior servant to a domineering white family that shoos him away to the kitchen whenever company arrives.

Hughes ties together the sense of the unity that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln spoke about regarding the separate and diverse parts of the American democracy (the coexistence of slavery and freedom) by referencing Walter Whitman's poem  "I Hear America Singing".

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Resurrection (1923 film)
Resurrection (German: Auferstehung or Katjuscha Maslowa) is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Rudolf Forster and Lydia Potechina.[1] It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.
Frederic Zelnik
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Lya Mara
Rudolf Forster
Lydia Potechina
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Albert Patry
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His Majesty the Hypochondriac (1918)
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Charlotte Corday (1919)
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Anna Karenina (1920)
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Trix, the Romance of a Millionairess (1921)
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Memoirs of a Film Actress (1921)
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Lyda Ssanin (1923)
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Resurrection (1923)
Daisy (1923)
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The Sailor Perugino (1924)
Nelly, the Bride Without a Husband (1924)
By Order of Pompadour (1924)
Athletes (1925)
Women You Rarely Greet (1925)
The Venus of Montmartre (1925)
Letters Which Never Reached Him (1925)
The Bohemian Dancer (1926)
The Mill at Sanssouci (1926)
The Blue Danube (1926)
The Weavers (1927)
Dancing Vienna (1927)
The Gypsy Baron (1927)
Mariett Dances Today (1928)
Mary Lou (1928)
My Heart is a Jazz Band (1929)
The Crimson Circle (1929)
Everyone Asks for Erika (1931)
The Forester's Daughter (1931)
The Dancer of Sanssouci (1932)
Happy (1933)
The Emperor's Waltz (1933)
Southern Roses (1936)
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Daddy Long Legs (1938)
Tomorrow It Will Be Better (1939)
I Killed the Count (1939)

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Trade and Business in Ecuador, Quito
Syllabus of the Subject: Foreign Trade and Business in Ecuador. Quito
Introduction to the Republic of Ecuador (Andean Community)
Doing Business in Guayaquil and Quito
Ecuadorian Economy
International Trade (Import, Export) of Ecuador
Customs of Ecuador
Import and export formalities
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ecuador
Case Study: Business Opportunities in
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Case Study: Manta-Manaus Multimodal Transport Infrastructure in Ecuador
Access to the Ecuadorian Market
Business Plan for Ecuador
The objectives of the subject "Foreign Trade and Business in the Republic of Ecuador" are the following:
To analyse the Ecuadorian Economy and Foreign Trade (Import, Export, FDI)
To know the business opportunities in Ecuador
To explore the Ecuadorian trade relations with the country of the student
To know the Ecuadorian Free Trade Agreements
To examine the profile of Ecuadorian Companies
To develop a business plan for the Ecuadorian Market
Sample - Foreign Trade and Business in Ecuador:
The Subject "Foreign Trade and Business in Ecuador" belongs to the following Online Higher Educational Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:
Masters: Business in America, International Business, Foreign Trade, Emerging Markets
Doctorates: American Business, World Trade
Course: Business in the Andean Markets
Learning materials in or Ecuador Equateur Equador
Description: Foreign Trade and Business in Ecuador
Ecuadorian Free Trade Agreements (FTA)
Ecuador and the Latin American Economic Area
Andean Community
Andean Community Free Trade Agreements (FTA): MERCOSUR, Chile, Mexico, Panama, and the European Union
Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)
Latin American Integration Association (ALADI)
Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)
Mexico-Ecuador Economic Complementation Agreement
El Salvador-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement
United Kingdom-Ecuador-Peru Free Trade and Economic Integration Agreement
Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP)
MERCOSUR (Associate)
Pacific Alliance (candidate country)
Central American Integration System (SICA) (observer country)
The Republic of Ecuador retired from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) in 2018.
Ecuador seeks to join the Pacific Alliance after its departure from the ALBA.
American Trade and Economic Organisations
Organisation of American States (OAS)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Summit South American-Arab Countries (ASPA)
Africa-South America Summit (ASA)
Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC)
European Union-CELAC Summit
Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)
The Republic of Ecuador.
Borders of Ecuador: Colombia and Peru
Ecuadorian Capital: Quito.
Guayaquil is the second-largest Ecuadorian city
Official language of Ecuador: Spanish
Ecuadorian population: 15.7 million people
Ecuadorian Area: 283,561 square kilometres
Ecuadorian currency: Dollar USD
Abolition of Slavery in Ecuador: 1851
African Diaspora in Ecuador: 1.1 million people (7.2% of Ecuadorian population)
Independence of Ecuador from Spain: 1809, recognised in 1830
Main religion in Ecuador: Christianity (Catholicism: 13 million)
Ecuador belongs to the Latin American Economic Area (Western-Christian Civilisation)
Ecuadorian Economy.
Ecuador benefits from his strategic position that provides the direct access to the East Asian markets and the Western Coast of the United States
Its proximity to the Panama Canal permits safe access to Europe, the United States, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia
The Ecuadorian economy is the eighth largest economy in Latin America after Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, the Republic of Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru
The Dollarisation of Ecuador creates an advantage negotiating with a strong currency (since January 2000, the U.S. Dollar is the official currency)
Petrol, manufacturing, commerce, and agricultural production are the pillars of the Ecuadorian economy
Petrol accounts for 40% of the Ecuadorian exports, petroleum exports allow having a positive trade balance
Ecuadorian GDP growth: 3.8% (economic slowdown)
Inflation of Ecuador: 3.7%
Tax reform in Ecuador in 2014. Tax amnesty in 2015
The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is in Quito
Ecuador is a leader in bananas, shrimp, fresh tilapia, tuna, fine cocoa, passion fruit concentrate, palm, pond, leaf snuff, and broccoli production
The main activity of the Holding Favourite Fruit Company is production and export of first-class green bananas, Cavendish variety. The Favourite Fruit Company has a 4.5% share of the worldwide market; exports have shown a continuous growth.
Foreign Trade of Ecuador.
Thanks to its geographical location, Ecuador has an appropriate climate for growth of many agricultural export products
Ecuador has an international reputation as a reliable seafood and aquaculture products supplier, the manufacturing industry is known for its strengths in design, quality, and reliability
Ecuador exports to 150 countries. The largest export markets of Ecuador are the United States, Peru, the Republic of Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, Italy, Panama, and Russia
Ecuador exports 14,000 million dollars, 50% belongs to petroleum sector and 50% of non-traditional and traditional exports
Export growth: 6.7%
Import growth: 2.2%
Ecuador is the largest bananas, palm of hearts, balsa wood, passion fruit juice, and roses exporter in the World
Ecuador is renowned for its high-quality food products, including cocoa, coffee, aromatic, and medicinal plants
The largest import partners of Ecuador are Latin America excluding the Andean Community 37%, the United States 25%, the Andean Community 22% Asia 19%, and the European Union 10%.
The Port of Guayaquil handles a majority of the international trade of Ecuador; it is the economic capital of Ecuador
Other important ports of Ecuador are Esmeraldas, Manta and Puerto Bolívar (banana). A larger bulk of international trade takes advantage of ocean routes. Every year, there are over 2,500 vessels that leave from Ecuadorian ports
Ecuador is:
World's leading bananas exporter
The first palm hearts exporter
The first roses exporter
The third largest flower exporter
Ecuador is a member of the Andean Community and associated to the MERCOSUR


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A 58 year old Councillor from Knysna is among four people arrested on 14 August 2018 for the murder of the ANC's chief whip in Knysna, Victor Molosi, who was gunned down outside his house in Concordia on 23 July 2018.
Two people were arrested in Cape Town, and two in Knysna. They will join a fifth suspect, Mandla Tyololo in court on Thursday 16 August 2018. The five accused are expected to apply for bail.
"The integrated task team which comprises members from the Provincial Organised Crime Unit, Eden Cluster Detectives, Knysna Detectives and Eden Cluster Crime Intelligence, was established to investigate this case," Pojie said.
"Their tireless efforts paid dividends when the investigation took them to Cape Town where two suspects, both 37 years old, were arrested" said Capt. Malcolm Pojie, spokesperson for the South African Police.
According to Capt. Pojie, the other two suspects, a 42 year old person and a 58 year old Councillor from ward 8 in Knysna were arrested at their homes.
All five suspects will be charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder as well as Murder.
Members of the ANC Women's League held a march to the Knysna Magistrate's court on to demand that Molosi be denied bail.


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Q: An inequality in product space $V$ I found an inequality as following: Let $x, y, z$ be three complex numbers then:
\begin{equation*} \frac{1}{2}(|y+z-x|+|x+z-y| + |y+x-z|) \le |x| + |y|+|z|+\frac{1}{2}|x+y+z| \end{equation*} (1)
The inequality holds with equality if and only if $x+y+z=0$
Note that: I have a proof of the inequality (1).

My question: I am looking for a proof of conjecture as following:
Let $x, y, z$ in an inner product space $V$ then
\begin{equation*}\frac{1}{2}(\|y+z-x\|+\|x+z-y\| + \|y+x-z\|) \le \|x\| + \|y\|+\|z\|+\frac{1}{2}\|x+y+z\|\end{equation*}
where the norm ||z|| denotes the norm induced by the inner product

See also

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*Hlawka's inequality

*Absolute value inequality for complex numbers

A: It follows from the 1-dimensional case which you say is true: project everything to a randomly chosen line, apply 1d case and integrate.

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Collect more points to be able to upgrade your character physics and make the whole battle look easier. Defeat Jaguar and save Cynthia. Tsukikage is a young ninja that lost his loved father by a deadly half-man, half-beast creature.
He goes on a 7 level mission to revenge his father and finally kill the creature. On his way there are different kind of enemies and bosses trying to stop him. With the use of katana, shurikens, bombs and kusarigama he is dedicated to defeat all the enemies that appear on his way and slain the beast. The game is available in 2-player and 4-player modes with you being able to pick which one of the four TMNT you want to use.There are many reasons for the shut-down of the website.
But many other Emuparadise alternativesalso known as ROM sites are still working. Some platforms are serving malware along with the retro file to harm the user.
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Emulators are totally legal. Nintendo games were booming a few decades ago. By the time now people still love to play their games but by using an emulator. Whenever a Nintendo ROM is published on a website, there are many lawsuits coming on their way. Such sites are charged for violating copyrights laws. Follow up to know more and share this article with your friends.
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Gamulator deserves the 1 spot as it highlights some of the popular ROMS. No nonsense advertising and good user experience are provided to the users. The most exciting thing is the collection of games available on Gamulator. Such parameter includes information like : Console on which game will run, Year of release, Region and File size, etc.
All the downloads are scanned through online antivirus programs and hence Gamulator is one of the trusted safe ROM sites. Retrostic is specially designed for Retro Games lovers. So, M. E emulator users should definitely visit Retrostic. More than 50 consoles and around emulators are covered by the website.
They are providing games for both mobile and PC emulators. The design and user interface of ConsoleRoms is very user-friendly. Proper details related to the ROMs are provided on the download page. It includes a supported platform, release year, filesize, etc. The process to download the ROM games is straightforward. Then on the ROM page, click on the download button and after some time, the download will start automatically.
This site is online from almost the last two decades. Thousands of people are using it as Emuparadise alternative. Normal consoles and Handhelds gaming consoles Roms are available for free. All the games are categorized according to the console systems. Cheats of the game are written along with file descriptions.August 15, February 5, December 16, October 31, October 3, September 24, December 26, October 5, May 17, April 27, April 9, March 30, March 21, February 16, July 17, July 16, July 12, July 10, July 7, June 18, June 17, June 12, April 28, April 25, April 2, March 23, January 30, July 8, June 28, June 24, June 9, June 16, I first played Gauntlet 2 on my Atari ST with my brother.
As long as one of you stayed alive you could respawn and keep the game going forever. Fueled by tactical Pot Noodle breaks we played this game for hours. Gauntlet is great as a multiplayer and supports up to four players. The controls are easy to pickup and you can choose how well to co-operate with the other players.
You can play each of the four turtles each with their own distinctive weapon. Now we can all gorge ourselves in retro-ninja goodness.
If you want a sideways shoot-em-up and you are partial to a bit of Detroit law enforcement then this game is worth a look. You control Robocop in sequences that loosely follow the plot of the film. Robocop 2 is similar to its predecessor but allows another player to join in. Most of the action is sideways scrolling but some levels are viewed from behind RoboCop and provide a gun sight with which to shoot your targets.
The sprites in this version are improved and Robocop looks much better. In the game you are a knight who flies an ostrich who must defeat other knights flying buzzards.
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Sounds crazy? It is. Crazy fun! A second player can join the fun and you can decide to either play cooperatively or against each other. Another classic from my Atari ST days. Back then we played Double Dragon with a joystick. This was the first non-sporting game I had ever played where I got to swing a baseball bat. Life sucks sometimes.
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This is one of my favourite arcade games of the Space Invaders variety. I played it a lot at a camp site in the south of France on a family holiday during the s. It took 1 Franc coins and the guy running the site would sometimes give us a handful for free. The game follows the Space Invaders format but the aliens dive bomb your ship.
Special alien ships can use a tractor beam to capture your ship but if you manage to rescue it you get a two ships joined together for double the fire power. Aparently after reptilian-looking aliens invade earth the only people to stand in their way are two kids on skateboards.
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It can be played by two players. It can be played with two player and generally involves mashing a button as fast as possible to complete various sporting challenges.
Lots of people may associate it with the ZX Spectrum.When we look at them now, we instantly remember the good old days of our childhood. ROM files allow us to play our favorite old-school games on our devices using emulators.
And nowadays, most of the ROM sites are filled with unwanted ads and other, that is why I decided to write this post. Without any further ado, here is the list of best rom sites which are safe to visit, and provide working ROM download links.
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This one has to be on our number one spot. The website is more than 18 years old but is still going strong. After the downfall of Emuparadise, the site gained more popularity and became one of the best ROM sites hosting ROMs for almost all the classic systems.
Another site hosting great quality ROMs and emulators. The games can be easily found using the search bar located on the top of the page or by selecting your console from the left side of the page. Along with ROMs, you can get emulators and also bios to go along with them.
For download, you can use the direct link recommended or install using their download manager. It is also one of the good alternatives to emuparadise that is safe and still working.
Tech Tip : Experience the freedom to remotely access your android apps and data from anywhere on any device by loading android emulators onto high performance Citrix VDI powered by one of the leading providers of Office and QuickBooks Hosting — Apps4Rent. The Eye is an archival site that hosts various content from all over the internet, including ROMs. Their archival service currently holds ROMs for more than 60 consoles which total up to 3.
On The Eye, you can find Rom files for almost every console imaginable. From Atari Consoles to Nintendo Switch, you name it.
Most of the ROMs files are directly downloadable from here without any ads or any intrusive pop-ups. The site is very simple to navigate and content can be easily found there, they do offer a sitewide search tool but do not have a search tool for specifically searching ROMS.
However, they do sort them in alphabetic order and specific games can easily be found using the Find and Replace function of a web browser. They do not host any content on their servers but do provide download links from very reputable and fast services like Mega and Mediafire.
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Andrea is the Operations & Marketing Manager for our group. She works behind the scenes to ensure systems and processes are in place to help clients have the best experience possible.
After a long, successful, and stressful career in corporate marketing and communications, Andrea made the leap to real estate and hasn't looked back. In fact, she was a former real estate client of Dawn's and was so impressed with the experience that she stayed in touch and when she was ready to make a career change, reached out to Dawn. As a member of The Dawn Griffin Group at Circa Properties, she helps provide the highest level of service to clients by managing many of the details of the buying and selling process. She's focused on Client Care (#weloveourclients), Listing Coordination, and Marketing/Social Media. Andrea grew up in the country (big skies! nature!) but has called St. Louis home for 20+ years (culture! job!). For fun she does art and science projects with her daughter, takes road trips with her husband, tests recipes on her friends and family, makes art, and works on home improvements to her mid-century ranch rambler.


Nick and I have a lot of fun reviewing different As Seen On TV products, but we have discovered that our house is quickly filling up with the stuff! So we decided that the best way to clean things up is to have the occasional giveaway!
Our first giveaway will be for a previously reviewed copy of the Catch Caddy! As you remember from the review, the Catch Caddy did little for my make and model of vehicle so we want to give it to someone who will actually have a better use for it!
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The Viking Line M/S Gabriella can carry up to 2500 passengers and has around 2500 beds spread amongst a selection of onboard cabin accommodation. Gabriella offers activities for all age groups. A great selection of food is served onboard and tax-free bargains are available too.
All cabins on the Gabriella are ensuite.
Please Note: Whilst we have taken great care in making our Gabriella guide as accurate as possible, onboard facilities, services and entertainment may vary depending on the date and time of year that you travel, facilities mentioned may change without notification and ferry companies reserve the right to operate vessels other than those mentioned at time of booking without prior notification.
A smooth travel by boat. There were enough benches for everyone and the ship was clean and tidy. The only downside for me were all the (cigar) smoking people. I would have liked it if there would have been a non-smoking area outside as well.
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Excellent experience. Absolutely no complaints at all. Booked on line with a smart phone with Direct Ferries, showed the check in lady the email response on the phone and then straight on. Modern ship, comfortable and efficient all the way.
Given the inexpensive cost of this ferry, we were prepared for a mediocre experience. However, everything was marvelous - efficient boarding, clean room and bathroom, wonderful restaurants, helpful staff. I highly recommend this ferry for travelling between Helsinki and Stockholm.
We were not sure what the Ferry would be like but it seemed like a good idea to be able to have lodging and get from Stockholm to Helsinki at the same time. We were so right! The ship was not a luxury ocean liner but it was comfortable enough and clean enough. We had 2 great meals in the restaurant for both dinner and breakfast the next morning. This was a great idea!
We switched to a larger room because the assigned accomodation was tiny. This made the difference from a horrible trip to a nice one. The ship was pleasant and modern. The dinner buffet very good.
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We spent two hours and a half really nice on board of the Vikings Line travelling from Helsinki to Tallin.
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Took the ferry from Stockholm to helsinki on an over night trip. Great scenery leaving Stockholm and coming into helsinki. Awesome night life and activities on board, good food and drink. Great way to travel.
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We had an amazing crossing from Stockholm, calm waters, beautiful sunset and great food at the a la carte restaurant. En nice and quiet night resulted in a good nights sleep and the breakfast in the big dining room was plentiful, but a bit busy. On the return journey it was hard to get something to eat, you couldn't reserve tables anywhere and the queues were long and slow for the other food places, it disappointed us. The ferry seemed overcrowded and the staff were indifferent and seemingly annoyed with the customers, it was messy in the corridors before people had found their cabins. Despite this we were happy with the trip and we got good value for the money.
Check in very quick, quality food, clean, professional personal and everything you need not to be worry in this trip. Wonderful!


Pope Francis set aside the text he had prepared for a meeting with young Filipinos after a 12-year-old girl asked him a tearful question about why God allows suffering.
"Certain realities in life can only be seen through eyes cleansed by tears," the Pope said after listening to Glyzelle Palomar, who used to live on the streets but now has a home thanks to the foundation for street children Pope Francis had visited in Manila yesterday.
Palomar spoke after Jun Chura — a 14-year-old rescued from the streets by the same foundation — described life on the streets as a struggle to find enough to eat, to fight the temptation of drug use and glue sniffing, and to avoid adults looking for the young to exploit and abuse.
As some 30,000 young people looked on at the University of Santo Tomas, the Pope kissed the top of Palomar's head and pulled her close for a big hug, then embraced her and Chura together.
He also listened to the testimony of two other young men and their questions: how do young people discover God's will for them? What is love? And how can young people become agents of mercy and compassion?
The Pope's gathering with the youths was emotional from the beginning. Opening the encounter, the Pope spoke about 27-year-old Kristel Padasas, an employee of the US bishops' Catholic Relief Services, who died after being struck by speaker stand knocked down by the wind on Saturday at the pope's Mass in Tacloban.
She was "young, like yourselves", the Pope told the youths, asking them to join him in praying for her and for her parents. "She was the only daughter. Her mother is coming from Hong Kong [and] her father has come to Manila to wait," he told them.
Although he had received the texts of the young people's testimonies and questions in advance, and had prepared a response, he set them aside and asked Mgr Mark Miles from the Vatican Secretariat of State to translate as he spoke off the cuff in Spanish.
One of the first things he commented on was the fact that Palomar was the only female on the programme.
"Sometimes we're too 'machista' and don't allow room for the woman," he said. "But the woman is able to see things with a different eye than men. Women are able to pose questions that we men are not able to understand.
"When the next pope comes to Manila," he told them, include "more women" on the programme.
Speaking directly to Palomar, he told her, "you have expressed yourself so bravely".
While it is impossible to explain why God would allow children to suffer, he told the young people, "only when we, too, can cry" can one approach a response.
Being moved to tears out of compassion and in the face of the mystery of suffering is holy, he said. It is not the same thing as crying to manipulate or get something from someone.
"Jesus in the Gospel cried, he cried for his dead friend," Lazarus, "he cried in his heart for the family that had lost its child, he cried in his heart when he saw the old widow having to bury her son, he was moved to tears of compassion when he saw the multitude of crowds without a pastor," Pope Francis said.
In the face of suffering like Palomar's and Chura's, he said, "our response must either be silence or the word that is born of our tears".
"Be courageous, do not be afraid to cry," the Pope said.


Note: From Zuni Cafe. Begin preparing the fillet 1 or 2 days in advance. If you can find a whole fillet of beef of 5 to 6 pounds, it will serve 10 to 12 people.
Step 1Trim the meat of any thick layers of fat, leaving the thin streaks in place. These will melt as the meat cooks and be a vehicle for the pepper flavor. Leave the delicious, streaky "rope" of muscle that runs the length of the fillet attached, however tenuously, to the roast, but check for and remove large lumps of fat it might conceal.
Step 2Concerning the satiny "silver skin" that sheaths one face of the fillet: Where it is thin, soft and translucent, leave it intact. You won't notice this tender sinew once the meat is cooked. Where it is opaque and tough, near the fat end of the fillet, slide the tip of your knife just beneath the surface to remove a few thick strips of it. But don't bother being meticulous.
Step 3Season the trimmed fillet moderately overall with salt, sprinkling more heavily on the thick sections. We use a scant three-fourths teaspoon sea salt per pound of meat. Next roll the fillet in freshly, coarsely cracked black pepper. We use about 1 teaspoon per pound. To ensure even cooking, truss the fillet, one string every few inches. Cover loosely and refrigerate for 1 to 2 days.
Step 4About an hour before serving, heat the oven to 400 degrees or light a charcoal fire and remove the fillet from the refrigerator.
Step 5Sear on a hot grill or griddle, under a very hot broiler or, if somewhat awkwardly, curled in your largest skillet. For reference, take the temperature at the centers of both the thick and the thin ends of the fillet -- they should be between 60 and 70 degrees. The meat will feel soft and limp. You can hold it for up to an hour this way before cooking.
Step 6To cook, place the seared fillet on a heavy, rimmed sheet pan in the oven or back on the grill over medium coals. If grilling, plan to turn the meat every 10 minutes or so. Whether roasting or grilling, start checking the doneness after 15 minutes. Check both ends. For a very rare fillet, remove the fillet from the heat when the center of the thick end registers 105 degrees (it will feel only barely firmer than before). For a very rosy medium rare, remove from the heat at about 115 degrees. For "just a little pink," cook to 125 degrees. At this point the tender muscle will begin to feel "flexed" firm. Cooking time will depend on the heat source and the thickness of the meat. A skinny fillet that was over 70 degrees to begin with may be very rare in less than 20 minutes.
Step 7If roasting a whole fillet, remember that the skinny end will cook faster, running about 10 degrees hotter than the fat end. This is convenient, if you want to offer a range of doneness. If you want the whole roast to emerge the same doneness, loosely wrap the skinny end with foil, shiny side out, when it tests about 95 degrees.
Step 8In any case, loosely tented, in a warm spot, the meat will continue cooking after you remove it from direct heat. Expect the temperature to increase about 10 degrees in 10 minutes. Although tenderness is not an issue with fillet, I think it has the best flavor if allowed to rest 10 to 15 minutes.
Step 9Because fillet is very tender, you can carve it as thinly or thickly as you like, but respect the mostly regular grain of the muscle. Don't remove the trussing strings on any part of the fillet that you don't intend to carve right away.
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Judy Rodgers has firm opinions on salt. Well, to be honest (and that's the only way she would have it), Rodgers has firm opinions on many, many things, including such disparate topics as the unthinking use of lemon as an all-purpose acidifier, why Kennebec and Winnemucca are the perfect potatoes for frying, and the tip-driven inequities between waiters' and cooks' take-home pay.
These aren't knee-jerk opinions. The chef and co-owner of San Francisco's beloved Zuni Cafe has thought through these issues quite thoroughly, breaking each down in her methodical way.
In fact, a thoughtful, painstaking approach to cooking is the very spirit that informs her restaurant. While other chefs may range far and wide, tracking down the latest new dish, ingredient or technique, Rodgers would rather just dig a little deeper.
Though roughly 60% to 70% of the dinner menu at Zuni changes every night, it is based on a relatively small number of dishes. And some, such as roast chicken, Caesar salad and house-cured anchovies, have been on the menu almost every night since she took over in 1987.
Don't mistake that as a sign of a kitchen on autopilot. Rodgers still views every one of those dishes as a work in progress, and she is constantly measuring, timing and evaluating whether there is a way each could be improved. As she puts it in her critically acclaimed "The Zuni Cafe Cookbook": "Making even a simple dish three times in two weeks can teach you more about cooking than trying three different dishes in the same period. Pay attention to the process of making it, and to the small and large differences in the results."
That could be Rodgers' mantra: Pay attention to the details of cooking and think about what is going on. "Build your database," is how she likes to put it.
Rodgers' most-discussed culinary theory regards the salting of meat. Almost every piece of beef, lamb, fish or poultry that comes into the Zuni kitchen immediately gets a light dusting of salt, and then is set aside for as long as several days to "cure."
"It is a part of the restaurant's personality," she says. "The flavor of Zuni Cafe is pre-salting, and if I can't pre-salt, I can't get the right flavor."
Rodgers says pre-salting does two things: It seasons the meat all the way through rather than just on the surface, and it changes the texture of the meat, making it moister and more tender -- in much the same way brining does.
Ask for details and you'd better be careful what you wish for. Rodgers might just invite you to San Francisco for a day of on-the-spot experiments.
There are two kitchens at Zuni Cafe: one upstairs where dishes are finished, and one in the basement where all the initial preparations take place. The first, the one the customers see, is light-filled and airy with warm wood and tile surfaces. The second is emphatically not, but it seems to be where Rodgers spends most of her time.
The two are joined by a long, steep staircase, and in the course of a day Rodgers must sprint up and down it at least a dozen times. At 49, she still has an air about her of Berkeley in the '70s. Tall and willowy, she wears her hair waist-length and straight and is given to dressing in brightly colored tights and short skirts, even when she's cooking.
But there is nothing airy-fairy about Rodgers. She believes in getting right down to business.
For this day's experiments, she has lined up four chickens (two cut up for frying: one cured, one not; two whole for roasting, the same arrangement); three beef sirloins (one uncured, one cured in salt only, one cured with salt and coarse pepper); two chuck roasts for braising (one cured, one not); and five thick pork chops (variously cured, brined and marinated). You might expect that each type of meat would take a different dose of salt, but Rodgers has calculated that about 1 tablespoon of medium-grain sea salt per 4 1/2 pounds of meat is the perfect ratio for everything. Instead, she says, it's the time spent curing that varies, from a couple of hours to several days. This depends on the type of meat -- chicken and pork are denser than beef or lamb so they take longer -- and the size of the cut.
Rodgers' salting is different from traditional koshering in that kosher chickens are salted and cured for only an hour, then rinsed with water, whereas Zuni chickens cure for anywhere from one to three days. As for the salt, Rodgers prefers a sea salt that she finds in bulk bins in the Bay Area that is somewhat coarser than fine salt, but much finer than that which is usually sold as coarse. It has the consistency of cornmeal. If you're using very finely ground salt, just use slightly less.
You might think early salting would result in drier meat because the salt would draw out moisture. But the way it seems to work is that over time, the meat reabsorbs the moisture, carrying the salt with it. Furthermore, because that moisture is loaded with amino acids and sugars, the meat browns better and forms a better crust.
Rodgers knew none of that when she started pre-salting. She was just following the instructions of Georgette Descat, a Parisian chef and one of her culinary godparents.
By her own admission, Rodgers comes from a very nongastronomic family in St. Louis. As a junior in high school in 1973, she was anxious to spend a year abroad, preferably in France, as she had studied the language. A neighbor who was a fabrics chemist at Monsanto mentioned he knew someone in Rouen, a textile city, who might be willing to host her.
That someone turned out to be Jean Troisgros, who with his brother Pierre was among the pioneers of nouvelle cuisine, at their three-star restaurant Maison Troisgros. For someone with even the most nascent interest in food, this was like landing in heaven.
Indeed, Rodgers dates the beginning of her culinary life to the very first meal she enjoyed chez Troisgros -- not a Michelin-starred extravaganza with its famous salmon and sorrel, but a very carefully made ham sandwich that Jean Troisgros fixed upon her arrival at 4 a.m.
"That was when I started paying attention to food," she says. "Before then I was someone who fueled efficiently. But there was no turning back after that ham sandwich."
Life at the Troisgros' wasn't all wine-poached truffles (though there were those too). Much more formative for Rodgers were the family's dinners prepared by their sister, Madeleine Troisgros Serraille, who served perfectly executed versions of classic French home cooking.
"Salmon and sorrel is wonderful, but nothing beats a great blanquette," Rodgers says.
After the Troisgros experience, Rodgers' great teacher was Pepette Arbulo, who had a small cafe in the Landes region, a great area for ducks, but not much else.
"That was a real awakening for me," she says. "I never noticed that I was eating duck two or three times a day, because people there had explored for a hundred years every possible elaboration of what was possible to do with all of those damned ducks they had, and had eventually winnowed all of those possibilities down to a few of the best. It was a kind of communal distillation.
"It wasn't an attitude of 'Here is what we have to do because we're so isolated'; rather it was a daily exploration of what they could do with what they had."
Between the two French stays was a stint in Berkeley at Chez Panisse, working with an all-star crew including Alice Waters, Lindsey Remolif Shere, Mark Miller, Jean-Pierre Moulle, Deborah Madison and Jeremiah Tower. Rodgers learned from all of them, but the most important lesson may have come from her mother, who hardly cooked at all. She was an instructor in fashion design at Washington University, and when Rodgers was 8, she gave her her first sewing lessons.
"She taught me that there was a right way and a wrong way to lay out a pattern on a piece of fabric, and that if I laid out the pattern the wrong way, it would mess everything up. It didn't matter if it was a great pattern and great material," Rodgers says.
"It's the same thing with cooking. You can have great ingredients and a fabulous imagination, but if you screw up at any of the steps, it doesn't matter what you were working with or what you imagined."
At first it's hard to say whether that deliciousness is because of the quality of the meat -- it's cured for only two to three hours -- or the glorious crackling crust. But pull some of the meat from the center of each sample, and there is a definite difference -- the texture is fine-grained, not stringy.
Things come into clearer focus with the braised beef. Cooked in a red wine reduction until it is nearly falling apart, the regular chuck tastes like boiled beef. The pre-salted sample has a fuller flavor. The pork chops, which the grill cook has let go a little too long, are slightly dried out, except for the one that was brined. It is still tender and moist, but the sugar in the brine makes the meat noticeably sweet when compared with the others.
Rodgers doesn't like that, and though the flavor of the brine was not on the day's agenda, she vows to change the recipe.
The three beef fillets, roasted quite rare, are dramatically different. The unsalted is fine -- it's a nice piece of grass-fed beef -- but the pre-salted has much better flavor and is firmer in texture, so it slices cleanly, rather than in rags. And a hint of black pepper seems to have been carried to the center of the one that was peppered as well as pre-salted.
It is the roast chicken that is the coup de grace, though, and that is fitting. Zuni's roast chicken is so popular that the restaurant goes through 350 birds a week -- each one roasted to order in the wood-fired oven.
You can tell the difference between the birds just by looking. The pre-salted chicken is a uniform golden color, whereas the other is more mottled, with some gold, some pale and even some black charred spots.
The difference in flavor is even more pronounced. The bird that was salted just before roasting tastes like, well, chicken -- nothing special, and the texture is a little stringy.
The pre-salted chicken is a revelation: The flavor is full and deep. It's not salty at all, but has a profound chicken taste. The meat is moist and tender; the texture is downright buttery.
Sure, it's a roast chicken. But it's not just any roast chicken. "That is the taste of a Zuni chicken," Rodgers exclaims. "That is the taste of Zuni restaurant. This is what I've always wanted to do: Serve dishes that weren't just playful and amusing, but were keepers. I like keepers."


Traditionally made with leftover risotto, Arancini are deep fried risotto balls usually filled with cheese, hearty veggies and/or meat. Today's recipe highlights a creamy crab & parmesan risotto with a panko crust, healthfully fried in an air fryer.
Today's recipe is probably one of my favorites from my digital culinary tour of Italy. It's got everything I love all wrapped up in one delightfully crunchy ball: creamy risotto, salty crab and parmesan, and tomatoes wrapped in a crispy panko crust. Arancini is a traditional dish of southern Italy, although you could most likely find it all over the country. It's typically filled with cheese, a hearty vegetable like peas, and some type of ham or meat. Arancini is also typically deep fried.
A couple of years ago, my in-laws gifted me with an air-fryer. To be completely honest, it wasn't on my radar of kitchen appliances and didn't really know what to use it for at first. After a little experimentation I found that it's most useful for pre-made frozen items like french fries, chicken fingers or patties or breaded shrimp. We don't eat these types of foods very often, but when we do, the air fryer is great for getting that nice crispy exterior without too much added oil.
Since arancini is typically deep fried, I thought, why not try to use the air fryer?! And look at that beautiful golden brown crust. They came out just beautifully. The trick is combining the panko crumbs with olive oil, and the hot temperature will heat up the oil enough to crisp and brown the breadcrumbs.
For the risotto part of this dish, I used my butternut squash risotto recipe and left out the squash. I added in tomatoes and crab meat and spread the entire mixture onto a large sheet pan to cool. If you try to form risotto into balls while it's still hot, one it'll burn your hands, and two, it'll just fall right apart. You want nice, cool risotto. Thats why in Italy, arancini is typically made with leftover risotto, the day after it's made. You have that option here– make the risotto the day before so it has plenty of time to cool and become a little more solid.
There just isn't anything better in this world, I think, than creamy carbs combined with cheese and seafood.
So far on our Tour of Italy, we've tasted Pasta alla Norma, Eggplant Caponata, and Pesto alla Trapanese. Be sure to check these recipes out if you're interested in more traditional Italian favorites!
In a large pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Add onion; cook and stir for 2 minutes until the onion begins to soften, then stir in the rice. Continue cooking and stirring until the rice is glossy from the butter, and the onion begins to brown on the edges, about 5 minutes more. Add the minced garlic.
Pour in the white wine; cook, stirring constantly, until it has evaporated. Stir in broth 1/3 cup at a time, until the chicken stock has been absorbed by the rice, which will take a few minutes per addition. It'll take about 15-20 minutes to add all of the broth.
Finish by stirring in the Parmesan cheese, tomatoes and crab meat. Spread the risotto onto a large sheet pan to cool for several minutes.
Preheat an airfryer to 400°F.
In a medium bowl, stir together the bread crumbs and the olive oil.
In a small bowl, gently beat the eggs. Form the risotto into balls, using 2 tablespoons for each one.
Dip the risotto balls into the beaten eggs, then coat in the panko mixture.
Working in batches, place the arancini in the airfryer in a single layer and cook until golden brown and crispy, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a plate and serve with marinara sauce.


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Ford 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine Complete Review
As we know that Ford is one of the biggest automotive companies which primarily produce a commercial vehicle and machine. The Ford engine's quality is mostly excellent and compatible with any kinds of a big vehicle. The 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine will be our concern for this article.
About of 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine
The 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine Advantages:
However, the 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine disadvantages are:
The 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine Specs
The Review of 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine
The 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT is a different version from the original 1.6L Duratec which improves many features that will be explained next. In general, this engine is equipped with the variable timing and valve system, new software, and the new intake manifold. It was firstly named as Zetec SE series which renamed as Duratec later started its life in 1995.
1.6L Duratec-TI-VCT
The TI-VCT refers to a Twin Independent Variable Camshaft Timing, which is an automobile variable valve timing developed by Ford. They give the name of Ti-VCT to the engine with the ability to advance or retard the timing of both intake and exhaust camshaft independently as the improvement version of the VCT, which only able to operate on a single camshaft. The main feature of VCT is to reduce fuel and emission consumption and provides more optimum performance for a great driving experience.
Some of Ford Ti-VCT Engines use a BorgWarner's Cam Torque Actuation which utilizes the existing torsional energy to rotate the camshaft. Compared to the engine with a fixed camshaft, this engine is completely efficient because it uses an electronically controlled hydraulic valve that directly controlling the high pressure of engine oil into the camshaft.
For Twin Cam or DOHC engines, the VCT was used on either the intake or exhaust both camshaft which currently known as TI-VCT. the usage of variable camshaft timing is to improve the emissions, and vehicle with VCT on its exhaust is do not require the EGR or Exhaust Gas Recirculation as retarding the exhaust car timing achieves the same result. The primary usage of VCT which installed on exhaust camshaft is to increase the engine power and the torque and also able to optimize the opening of intake valves to match the engine conditions.
In physical, this engine is very light. Its cylinder block is made from the aluminum, and there is the 16 valves two camshaft aluminum on the top. This engine also has a timing belt which requires the user to replace the old one every 100,000 miles driving. To adjust the backlash of valves, this engine hasn't the hydraulic tappets as well. The 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine is perfectly reliable to drive instead of straightforward 1.6L Duratec. Eventually, for the fast driving lovers, this engine is less recommended rather than the Duratec HE 2.0 liter.
As the overview before knowing the certain review, you have to know what is the advantages and disadvantages of the 1.6L Duratec Ti-VCT from Ford Engines.
Has a powerful engine
Responsive transmission
6 speeds automatic
Less fuel consumption
Good handling and complete security
Good finishing and voice command
There is only an automatic version
The responsive transmission is less supportive of the lower speeds
It has a low ground clearance
A weak resale value, and
Limited service channel
For further information about the detailed and specifics specs, here is the resumed data:
Manufacturer Bridgend Engine
Cylinder Block and Head Materials Aluminum
Fuel System Electronic Fuel Injection
Bore, mm 79.0
Stroke, mm 81.4
Type of Internal Combustion Engine Four strokes, naturally aspirated
Power, hp 115/6000
Torque, lb-ft 114/4150
Oil change interval, mile 6,000
Engine oil weight 5W-20, 5W-30
Engine oil capacity, Liter 1.4
Firing Order 1-3-4-2
The Ford 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT is the improved version of the 1.4-liter engine which has the main problem such as knocks, noises, vibrations, and heating. 1.6L is fixed them with the TI-VCT system and resulting in the 115 hp output.
The weak point from this version is the timing belt and timing mechanism engine clutch itself. This is unpractical to do. Hence, even though the fuel consumption is most efficient, the timing belt and rollers replacement is quite expensive. You have to make sure that every 100 thousand miles to spend money for those replacements.
However, the 1.6-liter version is suitable and more fun than a simple 100 horsepower engine. This is completely worth for the system and performance choice, even it is less recommended for active driving fans which more recommended to look towards the Duratec HE.
Even this is much of a good engine so far, the Ford 1.6L Engine is an old version one, so there is so many users recommend you to move on to the next millennial version. This engine has a little bit rough and suffers from a slight top-end rate. Hence, the Ford 1.6L Duratec isn't smoothly compatible with Focus and Fiesta Zetec.
According to the other review, the timing belt is quiet hard to fix once it is broken. It needs an exact specialist to avoid further damage. This is needed costs a lot. Then, it needs routinely oil replacements after 6 months for the driving ready as well.
It has a good suspension in the hatchback classes. The suspension is quite smooth with good handling as well. This engine also has a stable power even at a high speed, so it can be the best choice for maneuver by its low ground clearance.
So, that's all the honest review of the 1.6L Duratec TI-VCT Engine. The information provided above is based on the honest review from the Ford Engine's club live chat and another related resource. I hope this article is helpful as your consideration before certainly choosing the engine. Finally, the balance aspects for both advantages and disadvantages might suffer you. So, the best judgment is come after trying by yourself. So, thanks for reading and see you.
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Melbourne finished 2016 with the No.1 ranked defence in the NRL.
They conceded just 12.5 points per game, the third best defensive season in the Club's history (behind 11.5 in 2007 & 11.8 in 2008).
The purple wall came into its own during a six-week period of the season, allowing just 26 points, four tries and 4.3 points per game between Rounds 8-14. You have to go back 26 years for the last time a team conceded fewer points over a six-game stretch (Penrith Panthers, 1990).
For the first time, Storm kept their opponents scoreless in consecutive weeks with shutout victories over the Warriors and Titans in Rounds 8-9.
It took until Round 15 for a team to break the 20-point mark against them, something that only happened on another three occasions during the year.
A cornerstone of the Melbourne defence was their tackling. Storm made 810 more tackles than any other team in the NRL and also missed the fewest tackles.
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Manpower shortages and expansion plans are other reasons for some factories going for hiring.
Buoyed by restoration of cancelled orders and a surge in fresh orders, apparel factories are hiring workers to meet the newly introduced shortened deadlines for export deliveries.
The Business Standard talked with at least 20 leading exporters and eight of them informed of their expansion plans in the coming months requiring more workers.
In fact, there are some factories that have even hired workers during the pandemic to meet the demand for producing PPE garments.
Nearly a hundred apparel factories have made vacancy announcements, an industry association leader said, a hint of recovery in the garment sector.
For instance, DBL group is going to recruit a thousand new workers for its two newly added floors in the factory, said its managing director MA Jabbar.
"We are recruiting 500 for each floor. One floor will go into production towards the end of October while another by the end of this year."
In the case of Snowtex Outerwear Ltd, a gold rated green certified jackets and sportswear factory located at Dhamrai, it is all about work pressure that prompted it to hire more.
Even when the pandemic was at its peak and many resorted to downsizing the workforce, Snowtex continued hiring new workers. In the last six months, it has employed around 1,000 workers and will add 1,000 more to its factory within the next three months.
During the coronavirus shutdown, the factory did not stop production even for a day as it continued to make personal protective equipment and other health products for the domestic market in the crisis.
"We are under some work pressure as a number of cancelled or suspended orders have been restored after the factories reopened," said SM Khaled, managing director at Snowtex.
They needed to increase the number of workers to around 16,000 by June 2021 to cope with current and upcoming orders, he added.
Snowtex Group has about 13,000 workers at present.
"We have recruited 150 management trainees last week. Hopefully, the same number will be appointed next week," he added.
Around a hundred job seekers were waiting for interviews in the Snowtex factory Wednesday. Many of them chose this factory for better wages while some others came after losing their jobs due to the pandemic.
Snowtex Group has set a $250 million export target for 2021 based on their business partners' assurance, said Khaled.
The group has over $200 million businesses with some 17 brands and retailers, including Decathlon, C&A, Colombia, Camaieu, VF Corporation, Canada Sportswear, Huger Clothing, Toray, Bestseller, Debenhams and Kaufland.
The group has engaged about 35% of its production capacity for Decathlon, a French sportswear retailer.
ABM Shamsuddin, chairman at Hannan Group said, "After the factories reopened on April 26, we hired about 1,600 workers to keep production smooth, as 1,357 workers were quarantined after suspected of being infected with Covid-19."
The workers rejoined but Shamsuddin said they were facing a shortage of about 2,500 to 3,000 workers since pre-pandemic times. Currently, they have about 12,000 workers.
"Ninety percent of our suspended orders have returned with a tight delivery deadline and new orders are coming too."
The group has secured a good number of orders to run their units till next November, Shamsuddin added.
Fazlul Houqe, managing director at Plummy Fashion Ltd. said, "We are recruiting 40 to 50 workers every month as a number of workers have not joined work during the pandemic."
Fazle Shameem Ehsan, chief executive officer at Fatullah Apparels Ltd, said the factory needs about 250 workers since the pre-Covid-19 period.
The factory hired about 50 workers last month. He hoped he would find the rest of the workers this month.
Fazle Shameem, who is also a director Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA), told The Business Standard that while visiting Ashulia, Tongi and Gazipur, "I saw about 100 factories displaying hire notices."
Comfit Composite Knit Ltd, a concern of Youth Group, is also known to be hiring; however, The Business Standard could not confirm this officially.
"Some large factories are expanding their employee capacity to meet the work pressure, but at the same time, some are also laying off," said Mohammed Abdus Salam, first vice-President at the BGMEA.
Hiring workers during the first ten days every month is a regular practice in the apparel sector as some workers want to switch to other factories for better pays on completion of a year in a factory, he added.
The factory switching ratio increases up to 5% after Eid-ul-Adha every year, as most workers return to factories after spending a long time in their native villages, said Abdus Salam, who is also managing director at Chittagong Asian Apparels Ltd.
The group also appointed about 500 workers after Eid vacations, he said adding that their current manpower stands at about 20,000.
"We have available orders to run units up to 8 hours each day," Abdus Salam added.
Nazma Akter, a Bangladeshi trade unionist and founder of the AWAJ Foundation, said it is good news that some factories are recruiting workers but still a large number of people, who lost jobs during the pandemic, remained unemployed.
When asked, Khan Monirul Alam Shuvo, chairman of the BGMEA standing committee on public relations, said, "The apparel sector has bounced back on a positive trend in August, we should wait for at least the next two to three months to see how it sustains."
Some factories are hunting for workers as they have some work orders and it is good news for the industry but all do not have available orders, he added.
He also mentioned that some factories are facing a worker shortage as a number of workers did not rejoin the factories on time after the Eid vacations.
A number of workers switched their professions too due to the pandemic, added Shuvo, who is also managing director at Fashion.com Ltd.
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Futura Title & Escrow Corporation Turns to IGEL OS to Manage and Control Endpoints Throughout its 69 Offices in the Pacific Northwest
Erin Jones from Avista PR
Another vendor's thin client terminals are easily converted into IGEL OS-powered endpoints, extending the life of existing hardware and saving money
IGEL, provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, today announced that Futura Title & Escrow Corporation, the largest independent group of its kind in the Pacific Northwest of America, has standardized on IGEL's next-gen edge OS-powered endpoints for its companywide desktop solution. This is making it faster and easier for the IT team to customize, manage and update hundreds of devices across 69 branch office locations as part of its Citrix Workspace virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.
Serving 61 counties throughout Idaho and Oregon and parts of Montana, Washington and Wyoming, the Futura Title family of companies specializes in a complete range of commercial and residential title and escrow services. Its brands – Alliance Title & Escrow Corporation and AmeriTitle, Inc. – support customers, including first time home buyers, local builders as well as large commercial developers, with all their property and land purchasing requirements and related insurance needs.
Michael Greear, Futura Title & Escrow Corporation's IT systems engineer, says, "The promise of thin clients has always centered on lower cost devices and easier management. The reality for me has been rather different once you put large outlays of equipment into the field. It's been a big challenge to keep everything updated and, for us, it was no different with our previous solution."
Futura was initially using thin client terminals from a competitor which it had purchased in 2014. The management of them across so many office locations and with over 600 staff caused a huge problem, exacerbated by low bandwidth connections given the choice of ISPs in the region is limited. Futura struggled to deliver firmware and patch updates efficiently to keep its desktops up-to-date and secure and could not easily customize the endpoints as it wanted.
Greear says, "The running of the infrastructure was a headache. Citrix Workspace was baked into the thin client hardware. So, with firmware updates, it could affect one thing while fixing another. Indeed, updates would often break the thin client unit itself such that staff could waste a whole day while we 'overnighted' a new unit to them. We had so many service desk tickets being issued that the thin clients were getting a bad name and many people were unhappy. It came to the point where the success and reputation of our IT department was at stake. We had to change!"
Looking outside the USA for a solution
Futura initially considered looking at other well-known thin client brands but discounted them as it was felt that one set of management problems would be swapped for another. Greear says, "I stopped looking within the U.S. and thought there must be something out there in the world that could help us. I Googled and found IGEL who is No. 1 in Europe. Its OS is impressive, so we got the software into the lab to do a thorough and extended proof of concept which involved testing it on PCs, SATA DOM devices and overwriting our existing terminals and converting them into IGEL powered endpoints."
Based on the success of this, Futura is in the process of rolling out IGEL OS across the whole business in a staged migration converting existing thin client hardware per office. Much of this has already been done. In addition, IGEL UD3 endpoints have been purchased for some staff where additional processing power is required such as the running of multi-layered GIS mapping applications.
IGEL has solved the substantial issues that Futura had:
Customization of devices has been realized given IGEL OS provides 7,000 configuration settings beyond the easy to use defaults. This has been crucially important. For example, the IGEL system has been set to allow hourly paid employees to fill in their timesheets prior to them logging into VDI and waiting for it to load. This means they get paid accurately rather than losing a few minutes at the beginning of each day while VDI starts – so that timesheets can be accessed first – which was how the old solution was architected. Self-evidently, this change has been hugely popular with staff. In addition, Futura can decide on which Citrix Workspace version goes on an endpoint based on the given application. Greear says, "I love the way that IGEL says we're not going to make you put a module in if you don't want to. We're going to give you three different versions of Workspace in every single OS rollout we do. So, you can roll back or ahead as much as you want. It's brilliant!" Furthermore, rather than use DropBox or email, IGEL offers fast native USB redirection so that staff locally can use USB storage devices to share and import sensitive client documentation which then quickly appears in a Citrix session. With the previous solution this was impossible.
Security is enhanced. The FireFox web browser has security patches constantly provided and the IGEL OS Kernel is up to date. Again, this is in contrast to the previous thin client solution where older versions were in use, thereby presenting the business with an unnecessary security risk.
Roll out works over low bandwidth and the endpoints are not 'glitchy'.
Management of endpoints via the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) is easy and quick for the Futura team to learn as it is similar to Microsoft Active Directory GPO management. A reliable platform for the future
Moving forward, Futura is looking at how it might utilize the IGEL Cloud Gateway feature to allow people to work from home and provide access to the corporate environment without using a router and VPN connection. Furthermore, it is reviewing how it might integrate its Cisco unified comms solution within the IGEL environment.
Greear says, "The thing that makes me happiest with the IGEL project is that people use the new system and they don't see and notice it. They can get their work done efficiently and aren't held back by the technology. IGEL has been a real asset to me. It just works and has been better than we thought. The helpdesk isn't plagued with tickets and we just don't have desktop equipment frustrations anymore."
Jed Ayres, IGEL's CEO, says, "IGEL OS is a powerful operating system which gives clients real granular control of their desktop environments and therefore piece of mind. And, in the case of Futura, one can see how x86-based devices – even from competitive vendors – can be converted so that management is simplified and money saved on actual hardware as existing equipment can be repurposed not thrown away."
Learn more about how IGEL helps finance and insurance companies solve their end user computing challenges here: https://www.igel.com/customer-stories/finance-and-insurance/. For more information on Futura Title & Escrow Corporation watch this video.
About IGEL
IGEL provides the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company's world-leading software products include IGEL OS™, IGEL UD Pocket™ (UDP) and IGEL Universal Management Suite™ (UMS). These solutions comprise a more secure, manageable and cost-effective endpoint management and control platform across nearly any x86 device. Easily acquired via just two feature-rich software offerings, — Workspace Edition and Enterprise Management Pack — IGEL software presents outstanding value per investment. Additionally, IGEL's German engineered endpoint solutions deliver the industry's best hardware warranty (5 years), software maintenance (3 years after end of life) and management functionality. IGEL enables enterprises to save vast amounts of money by extending the useful life of their existing endpoint devices while precisely controlling all devices running IGEL OS from a single dashboard interface. IGEL has offices worldwide and is represented by partners in over 50 countries. For more information on IGEL, visit www.igel.com.
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