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The Death Mask of Gabrielle Danton
Vizille, France
The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.
The bust bears a striking resemblance to Madame Danton, perhaps because it was molded off her actual face. Rama/CC BY-SA 2.0
Either the original or a cast of the death mask. Rama/CC BY-SA 2.0
A portrait of Antoinette Gabrielle Danton on exhibition at the Musée Troyes. Jacques-Louis David/Public Domain
George-Jacques Danton, husband of Antoinette Gabrielle Danton. Musée Carnavalet/Public Domain
Château de Vizille where the bust is housed. Citevia/CC BY-SA 3.0
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This death mask is an artifact of one of the more dramatic moments in the life of George-Jacques Danton, the man without whom the French Revolution would not have happened, many scholars say.
George-Jacques's wife Antoinette Gabrielle Danton died in labor on the 10th of February, 1793, along with the infant son that would have been the couple's fourth child. Her rebel husband was away in Belgium at the time, on a military observation mission for the Revolutionary Government. The widower did not hear of his wife's death until five days after the fact.
In the few years leading up to her death, George-Jacques had neglected his wife in favor of mistresses. Yet contemporary accounts report that he flew into a terrible, violent grief and immediately ordered a coach back to Paris.
He reached Paris the next evening, and began to tear apart his home in rage at his abandonment of her and grief at her death. Biographer David Lawday describes the scene in Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror (from Rodama 1789):
"Through his tears, a solution formed: he would make a likeness of her, a bust he could for ever embrace and ask for forgiveness. The next evening he hurried to see a sculptor he knew, an artist with a workshop in the Saint-Marcel section. The sculptor shook his head. Madame Danton had been dead for a week, he reminded his frantic visitor, in her grave for three days past."
From there Danton and the sculptor preceded to the graveyard, where the most powerful man in Paris bullied his way in. Several biographies report that after they grave was dug up, Danton forced the casket open and embraced his dead wife, possibly kissing her, before the sculptor went to work forming the mold for her death mask.
The mask was completed in short order, and bore a striking resemblance to the late Madame Danton. Unfortunately George-Jacques was unable to enjoy it for long. He was executed when revolutionaries turned against him during the Terror just over a year later, under suspicion of corruption. No death mask was made of Danton's giant, scarred face, but his last words spoken to his executioner, are famous: "Show my head to the people. It is worth the trouble."
George-Jacques would have been happy with where the final representation of his wife ended up though. The bust of Madame Danton now resides in the Château de Vizille, a castle museum dedicated to the arts of the French Revolution.
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Lawday, David "Danton: the Gentle Giant of Terror" (2009), p178-9
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Charlotte has a strong connection with Cove Park, having undertaken the Craignish Trust Emerging Visual Arts residency in 2010, following graduation from Glasgow School of Art's MFA programme. This was her first residency and the experience of working in this region has continued to be important to her, not just in terms of the landscape and the relative seclusion if offers, but also in relation to the Firth of Clyde's history of post-industrialisation, evident in its former sites of shipbuilding and industrial transportation.
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Isi Liebler: A morally and politically dysfunctional Government
by Isi Liebler May 24, 2015
[First published in Israel Hayom]
The recent shenanigans that preceded the expansion of the government sickened even those reconciled to the reality that, since the Menahem Begin era, there exists a total lack of ethics in the Israeli political arena.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has succeeded in consolidating his government and may have ensured that it will survive its full term of office - making him the longest presiding Prime Minister of Israel.
In this case, Netanyahu was not being Machiavellian. Like any politician, understandably his principal objective was to increase his paper thin parliamentary majority in order to retain power. But there is little doubt that his objective was also to create a government that reflected the unity of the nation in terms of security issues and which our adversaries and allies alike could not dismiss as extreme right wing. I believe that he genuinely desired to incorporate Zionist Union or the bulk of its parliamentarians into his government. But ultimately he realized – as Herzog himself subsequently conceded – that he was unable to gain the support of the Labour party. Even if Herzog delivered a number of Labour MKs, the coalition would be highly unstable and likely to break up at any time.
Avigdor Lieberman, realizing that his political future was at risk if he remained in an opposition headed by the Joint Arab List, signaled his arch political enemy that he was willing to join the government and in less than 24 hours, the deal was cobbled together.
Netanyahu saved his government by this volte farce. But it may yet prove to be a pyrrhic victory.
As the global community prepares to exert more pressure – including UN Security Council Resolutions designed to coerce us into accepting indefensible borders - we will be perceived as having an even more extreme right wing government. This will undoubtedly be exploited by President Obama as justification for not employing the US veto to anti-Israeli Security Council resolutions.
On the domestic level, Netanyahu's cavalier treatment of his former political allies in order to further his own ends by increasing the government – at any cost - leaves a very bitter taste.
The manner in which Moshe Ya'alon was displaced as Defense Minister by Lieberman was almost surrealistic. When Lieberman served as Foreign Minister he abused his position and misrepresented Israel. To appoint him as Defense Minister, possessing no military experience whatsoever, is grossly unsuitable and reminiscent of the disasters associated with Amir Perez.
In contrast, Moshe Ya'alon was an exemplary Defense Minister of Israel. He was considered a man of exceptional integrity, one of the few who was renowned for promoting the national interest rather than his personal ambitions. His absence from the next Security Cabinet is a great loss for our national security.
Over the past month, Ya'alon was justly criticized for making a number of ill-considered statements, creating tension when encouraging IDF personnel to speak out against political decisions they considered inappropriate.
However, Ya'alon's controversial remarks had no bearing on Netanyahu's subsequent acquiescence to Liebermann's demand for the Defense Ministry. What is clear is that Ya'alon – one of Netanyahu's loyal allies over many years - was not treated as a loyal partner or adequately consulted. The result was that he exploded and, despite the belated offer of Foreign Minister, resigned from the government and Knesset announcing he would return to politics at a later date and become a contestant for the leadership.
How has this impacted on domestic politics? The country's biggest loss is Ya'alon whose wise advice and military knowledge is irreplaceable. The other loser is Bugie Herzog who genuinely sought to bring Zionism back into the Labour Party and marginalize the delusionary leftists who have hijacked his party. To this end, he fought his own party colleagues but failed in his effort to create a national unity government. His party will now be in shambles until it sorts itself out and elects a new leader.
The big winner in this new government, aside from Lieberman, will be Yair Lapid who will benefit immensely at the polls and is likely to represent an alternative leadership at the next elections.


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import os
import unittest
import imath
import six

import IECore

import Gaffer
import GafferTest
import GafferScene
import GafferSceneTest

class MapProjectionTest( GafferSceneTest.SceneTestCase ) :

	def test( self ) :

		cube = GafferScene.Cube()
		camera = GafferScene.Camera()
		camera["transform"]["translate"]["z"].setValue( 2 )

		deleteUV = GafferScene.DeletePrimitiveVariables()
		deleteUV["in"].setInput( cube["out"] )
		deleteUV["names"].setValue( "uv" )

		group = GafferScene.Group()
		group["in"][0].setInput( deleteUV["out"] )
		group["in"][1].setInput( camera["out"] )

		map = GafferScene.MapProjection()
		map["in"].setInput( group["out"] )
		map["camera"].setValue( "/group/camera" )

		oIn = group["out"].object( "/group/cube" )
		self.assertTrue( "uv" not in oIn )

		oOut = map["out"].object( "/group/cube" )
		self.assertTrue( "uv" in oOut )
		self.assertTrue( oOut.arePrimitiveVariablesValid() )

		oIn["uv"] = oOut["uv"]
		self.assertEqual( oIn, oOut )

		camera["transform"]["translate"]["z"].setValue( 3 )
		oOut2 = map["out"].object( "/group/cube" )

		self.assertNotEqual( oOut, oOut2 )

	def testAffects( self ) :

		cube = GafferScene.Cube()
		camera = GafferScene.Camera()

		group = GafferScene.Group()
		group["in"][0].setInput( cube["out"] )
		group["in"][1].setInput( camera["out"] )

		map = GafferScene.MapProjection()
		map["in"].setInput( group["out"] )

		cs = GafferTest.CapturingSlot( map.plugDirtiedSignal() )

		camera["transform"]["translate"]["z"].setValue( 2 )
		self.assertTrue( "out.object" in [ x[0].relativeName( x[0].node() ) for x in cs ] )

		del cs[:]

		camera["fieldOfView"].setValue( 10 )
		self.assertTrue( "out.object" in [ x[0].relativeName( x[0].node() ) for x in cs ] )

		del cs[:]

		cube["transform"]["translate"]["z"].setValue( 2 )
		self.assertTrue( "out.object" in [ x[0].relativeName( x[0].node() ) for x in cs ] )

	def testHash( self ) :

		cube = GafferScene.Cube()
		camera = GafferScene.Camera()

		group = GafferScene.Group()
		group["in"][0].setInput( cube["out"] )
		group["in"][1].setInput( camera["out"] )

		map = GafferScene.MapProjection()
		map["in"].setInput( group["out"] )

		h = map["out"].objectHash( "/group/cube" )
		self.assertNotEqual( h, group["out"].objectHash( "/group/cube" ) )

		cube["transform"]["translate"]["y"].setValue( 1 )
		h2 = map["out"].objectHash( "/group/cube" )
		self.assertNotEqual( h, h2 )

	def testCustomPosition( self ) :

		littleCube = GafferScene.Cube()
		littleCube["name"].setValue( "little" )

		bigCube = GafferScene.Cube()
		bigCube["dimensions"].setValue( imath.V3f( 10, 10, 10 ) )
		bigCube["name"].setValue( "big" )

		camera = GafferScene.Camera()
		camera["transform"]["translate"]["z"].setValue( 10 )

		group = GafferScene.Group()
		group["in"][0].setInput( littleCube["out"] )
		group["in"][1].setInput( bigCube["out"] )
		group["in"][2].setInput( camera["out"] )

		self.assertNotEqual(
			group["out"].object( "/group/little" )["P"].data,
			group["out"].object( "/group/big" )["P"].data,
		)

		bigCubeFilter = GafferScene.PathFilter()
		bigCubeFilter["paths"].setValue( IECore.StringVectorData( [ "/group/big" ] ) )

		shuffle = GafferScene.ShufflePrimitiveVariables()
		shuffle["in"].setInput( group["out"] )
		shuffle["filter"].setInput( bigCubeFilter["out"] )
		shuffle["shuffles"].addChild( Gaffer.ShufflePlug( "P", "Pref" ) )

		littleCubeFilter = GafferScene.PathFilter()
		littleCubeFilter["paths"].setValue( IECore.StringVectorData( [ "/group/little" ] ) )

		copy = GafferScene.CopyPrimitiveVariables()
		copy["in"].setInput( shuffle["out"] )
		copy["source"].setInput( shuffle["out"] )
		copy["filter"].setInput( littleCubeFilter["out"] )
		copy["sourceLocation"].setValue( "/group/big" )
		copy["primitiveVariables"].setValue( "Pref" )

		self.assertEqual(
			copy["out"].object( "/group/little" )["Pref"].data,
			copy["out"].object( "/group/big" )["Pref"].data,
		)

		unionFilter = GafferScene.UnionFilter()
		unionFilter["in"][0].setInput( littleCubeFilter["out"] )
		unionFilter["in"][1].setInput( bigCubeFilter["out"] )

		projection = GafferScene.MapProjection()
		projection["in"].setInput( copy["out"] )
		projection["filter"].setInput( unionFilter["out"] )
		projection["camera"].setValue( "/group/camera" )
		projection["uvSet"].setValue( "projectedUV" )

		self.assertNotEqual(
			projection["out"].object( "/group/little" )["projectedUV"].data,
			projection["out"].object( "/group/big" )["projectedUV"].data,
		)

		projection["position"].setValue( "Pref" )

		self.assertEqual(
			projection["out"].object( "/group/little" )["projectedUV"].data[0],
			projection["out"].object( "/group/big" )["projectedUV"].data[0],
		)

		self.assertEqual(
			projection["out"].object( "/group/little" )["projectedUV"].data,
			projection["out"].object( "/group/big" )["projectedUV"].data,
		)

	def testWrongPositionType( self ) :

		cube = GafferScene.Cube()
		camera = GafferScene.Camera()

		group = GafferScene.Group()
		group["in"][0].setInput( cube["out"] )
		group["in"][1].setInput( camera["out"] )

		cubeFilter = GafferScene.PathFilter()
		cubeFilter["paths"].setValue( IECore.StringVectorData( [ "/group/cube" ] ) )

		projection = GafferScene.MapProjection()
		projection["in"].setInput( group["out"] )
		projection["filter"].setInput( cubeFilter["out"] )
		projection["position"].setValue( "uv" )

		with six.assertRaisesRegex( self, RuntimeError, r'Position primitive variable "uv" on object "/group/cube" should be V3fVectorData \(but is V2fVectorData\)' ) :
			projection["out"].object( "/group/cube" )

if __name__ == "__main__":
	unittest.main()

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Max DePree: North America's First CEO Design Thinker
by Mari Anixter
The former CEO of Herman Miller, Max DePree said, "I've got so many MBAs, but what I need is a poet. Poets are the original systems thinkers."
This poetic mode is the critical perspective in a human-factor and design business—and Herman Miller is the most apt precursor in the Design Thinking revolution, so they knew the value of this holistic, poetic lens where anything can be better designed to better suit real people.
Even DePree's little instructional manual on running a successful business made a statement, as it was entitled Leadership Is An Art. Not a science, mind you, but leadership as an art. This book has sold more than 800,000 copies despite the mad rush that seeks to turn business into a science (look no further than a degree in Management Science for proof of this statement).
DePree was a Design Thinking pioneer and also the archetype of the type of leader who will successfully run the businesses of the coming era, the human-to-human age of commerce.
At the time of the book's release, the title would have been added to a shelf with many titles about the science of business. True to his vision, DePree followed up with Leadership Jazz, furthering the intuitive, way-finding, and non-linear approach to designing an entire organization. Design was at the heart of his entire world-view, and it propelled Herman Miller into an inspired phase of growth in the market.
Empathy and cooperation were foremost traits in this style of organization. DePree cultivated an "inclusive corporation," where all voices could be heard. He also looked at the entire corporate culture as if it were a human and gave it human virtues. To his credit he saw no oppositions to celebrating business success while crafting a "caring organization."
Much of DePree's success stemmed from instituting empathy and communication as strands of organizational DNA of Herman Miller. He actively encouraged open communication and noted that all should "err on the side of over-communication."
Lastly, the art of leadership, for DePree, was poetic. The opening lines of his famous little book proclaim, "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you."
Defining reality is the great commission, the heroic charge, and the real test of authentic leadership. Leaders must filter so many worlds at once—society, trends, the market, adjacent markets, competitors, company culture, debts and investment, short- and long-term plans. To be able to define a reality for an entity is to give it license to live up to its full potential, to provide the groundwork for the organization to thrive.
Saying thank you means enduring the rigors of running a business and emerging with a tangible and contagious spirit of gratitude for the people, processes, and circumstances that merge to make it happen. Saying thank you also means that you are flexible enough to learn from mistakes as they arise instead of thinking of them as failures.
Thank you, Max DePree, for defining a potent and beneficial reality of leadership for the next generation.
image credit: spu.edu
Michael Graber is the cofounder and managing partner at Southern Growth Studio, a Memphis, Tennessee-based firm that specializes in growth strategy and innovation. A published poet and musician, Graber is the creative force that complements the analytical side of the house. He speaks and publishes frequently on best practices in design thinking, business strategy, and innovation.
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My question is: Is there a time of day winning phone calls are usually made? When have you recieved your winning call?
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My last winning phone call was at 7:30 am - talk about eye opening!!!
was for in the loop contest. called at 1030a. was listed as unavailable. if i wouldnt have answered they would have went to the next person.
I have recieved winning phone calls in the morning, in the afternoon and the evening. Depends on what time zone they are calling from sometimes!
Good luck! Always answer your phone! Worse case scenario is you say, "No thank you, please do not call me again"!
I once got a winning phone call at 6:30pm on a friday.
The winning phone call is the one notification I've never experienced.
the mailed affidavit, the surprise win and the slightly crumpled letter stating my prize will arrive in 2 months.
My son and I both received our calls in the evening.I've yet to get a call during regular daytime hours.
I had a winning phone message left on my answering machine..which came at 10 am..bad thing is I work most of the day so who knows if I missed a call or not..
I was lucky they left a message and return number.


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The World Health Organization approached Northlich with an RFP to create a campaign around the 2015 World No Tobacco Day.
Every year, on May 31, WHO and partners mark World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.
For World No Tobacco Day 2015, they are calling on countries to work together to end the illicit trade of tobacco products.
From many angles, the illicit trade of tobacco products is a major global concern, including health, legal and economic, governance and corruption.
As the Art Director of the campaign, I lead the charge on both the strategic and design direction to win this international account, and was hands-on in developing the creative.
On the face of it, the use of these tobacco products isn't any more or less unhealthy than legal tobacco. Rather, it has a ripple effect, funding an array of other criminal enterprises while decreasing the ability of governing bodies to combat the issue.
The slogan,"Beware illegal tobacco and everything that comes with it" declares the use of illegal tobacco to be a danger, but also alludes to the many detrimental effects that interacting with the criminal underworld can incur. When paired with the key visual, the unsavory stranger offering to sell you something illegal out of his trench coat, the impact is clear.
The overall theme focuses on the Hollywood stereotype in a stark graphic style with angular lines suggesting the hard shadows of a back alley. The offerings of our criminal element go beyond seemingly innocent cigarettes to include icons representing hard drugs, human trafficking and weapons, quickly linking illicit tobacco with the many other dangers connected to the trade.


Good news for the middle class has finally arrived. The 99 percent has a real candidate for US president now. On Tuesday, May 26, US middle class Senator Bernie Sanders officially announced his candidacy to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency.
Former Wall Street Senator Hilliary Rodham Clinton is Bernie's only competition for the nomination. Clinton has a boat load of money, but she carries a ton of baggage. Most notably, she and her husband, former Wall Street President Bill Clinton, are notorious redistributers of income from the 99 to the 1 percent.
If you listen to Bernie's announcement speech above, the defining issue of this election is going to be income distribution, and more specifically, how the 1 percent went from stealing 8 percent of all US income in 1980 to 37 percent today. Who loses on this issue? Clinton does.
Sure the Dems will hold debates, and sure the moderator will make sure the debate issues will be about abortion, gun control, and a ton of social issues, and not income and wealth inequality, and yes the moderator will make certain the television camera's never light upon Bernie's face by not calling on him to answer any questions or to respond to Clinton's answers, but Bernie will win this election, and by a fair margin.
One day after he announced that he intended to run for the presidency, back in April, 75,000 people volunteered to work on his campaign. A month later, he has 200,000 volunteers. By election time, Bernie will have half a million plus, perhaps a million plus, volunteers working on his campaign. Hilliary can spend half a billion dollars, but she can't beat what Bernie has, volunteers and real hope for the 99 percent, rather than the phoney Obama hope and change!
Our movement needs people like you involved to help it succeed. Add your name now to say you support my campaign for president.
When China manipulates its currency vis-a-vis the US dollar it increases the profits of US job exporters that produce stuff in China and exports that cheap stuff to the USA.
That's most likely why former President Obama said he will veto any congressional legislation that seeks to stop the Chinese government from manipulating its currency.
Why do President Obama and executives of US based multinational corporations, like Nike, want the Chinese government to manipulate its currency? And what does this have to do with the Trans Pacific Partnership and Fast Track Authority?
The answer to one of these questions is simple: the TPP will force China to manipulate its currency even more than is currently the case.
Take a look at the graph below. On the left side is the Yuan, which is the Chinese currency. On the bottom line is the dollar. Now look at the two intersecting lines, which is the supply and demand for dollars. In this example, 600 yuan can purchase $100 in the currency markets, which is roughly what the two currencies currently exchange for.
So when Nike, Microsoft or Apple Inc. manufacture a product in China that costs the consumers, say, 600 yuan in China, given the exchange rate, the same product will cost $100 in the United States, after, of course, it is exported from China to the USA. Assume these US corporations have a 25% profit margin. That means these companies get 150 Y profits in China per product, and $25 profit when they export their products to the United States.
The same is true for companies that manufacture products in the USA, and then export them to China. American manufacturing companies earn $25 per $100 of product sold in the USA, and 150 Y when their products are exported from the USA to China.
The government of China has been accused of manipulating the value of its currency. So what happens when it does this? It purchases dollars. This shifts the D1 line to the left, because there are less dollars on the market, which is shown in the graph below as line D2. This makes the Yuan less expensive in terms of dollars.
Why would President Obama encourage the Chinese government to manipulate its currency by threatening to veto US legislation aimed at stopping it? Why would Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden only pay lip service to the evil of Chinese currency manipulation, while apparently supporting it? Why are the higher up folks at Nike, Microsoft, Apple and every US corporation that is producing goods in China for export to the United States against any legislation that seeks to address Chinese currency manipulation? There is a very good reason they're all for this.
Look at the example in the next graph below. When the Chinese government manipulates it's currency by purchasing dollars, 800 Y will now purchase $75. Do the math; 600 Y will purchase now $56. What does that mean?
It means that when Nike manufactures a pair of shoes in China which costs 600 Y there, in the US it should cost $56 rather than $100, thanks to China's currency manipulation, but that rarely happens. The US corporate propaganda machine will lie to you and tell you it makes Chinese imports less expensive. However, the truth is that China's manipulation increases the profits of Nike.
Nike still gets 25%, or 150 Y, in profits when its shoes are sold in China. When it exports the same shoes to the USA from China, Nike still gets 25% profit on $56, which is $14 dollars. However, Nike still sells it's shoes for $100 in the United States, which means another $44 in earnings per pair, in addition to the $14.
That means Nike's profit margin on a $100 pair of shoes goes from 25% at the old exchange rate to 58% at the new exchange rate. This sends its earnings and stock prices higher. The same thing occurs with Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and every US corporation manufacturing in China, that are exporting their products to the United States.
So who pays the price for this?
You do; if you work for a living in the United States, or if you're a small or medium size business owner. Here's how. Suppose you are a US manufacturer producing shoes in Oregon that sell in the USA for $100. You ship them to China at 600 Y for $100, and earn 150 Y, or $25, in profits. Now suppose the Chinese government, with the encouragement of your corrupt government and many US business leaders, manipulates its currency by purchasing tens of billions upon tens of billions of dollars. The supply of dollars on the international currency markets shrinks, making dollars more expensive, and as noted above, the D1 line shifts to D2, which represents the new supply of money. BTW, the space between D1 and D2 represents the amount of dollars the Chinese purchased.
Those $100 US made shoes now costs 1000 Y in China. Okay, my graph isn't too high tech, but the actual figure is 1066 Y, if you do the math, but let's stick with the 1000 Y, for simplicity sake. There's still a 25% profit margin per pair of shoes, but at the 1000 Y price, there's not a whole lot of buyers in China. The US manufacturer could lower the price of the shoes to 750 Y, but he or she isn't making a penny at that price, and they're still overpriced for the Chinese market. Say goodbye to the Chinese market for all US products at the new exchange rate.
US exports to China are going to shrink quite rapidly under this scenario. This means fewer American jobs, and less wages for everyone. It means less tax dollars going to schools and other government services, it means no retirement pay for a larger percentage of the 99 percent. Rich folks don't need the money they're going to steal from us, except to keep the latest stock market bubble surging, at least until it pops. However, greater profits mean the bubble can keep expanding for a while longer.
So how can US corporate leaders and their corrupt politicians encourage the Chinese government to manipulate its currency even more than it already has?
government want to engage in currency manipulation?
The answer in one word; Vietnam.
Vietnam is one of the nation's involved in negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership. As you can see from the graph below, China's annual minimum wage is nearly twice that of Vietnam. The wages in China at those Nike and Microsoft and Apple and Hewlett-Packard factories and their suppliers and contractors and subcontractors have been going up rapidly over the past fifteen years. Those labor costs have been able to go up because the Chinese government has increased the profit margins of its US manufacturers by manipulating its currency. But there's another reason why China needs to manipulate its currency vis-a-vis the dollar.
As you can see from the map below, there are nearly 313,000 Nike workers toiling in Vietnam, and nearly 250,00 in China. Vietnam clearly has lower labor costs than those in China. The Chinese government, however, can offset its labor cost disadvantage by manipulating its currency. So it can keep those jobs in China, and still allow the wages of Chinese workers to expand. But that might not be the case should the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) become a reality.
Tariff is another word for tax. When a US company like Nike manufactures its products in Vietnam, and then exports them to the US, a tariff is charged against the products of between 10 and 15 percent. So another $10 to $15 dollars is added to the cost of a $100 pair of Nike's Vietnamese made shoes exported to the USA. That means less profits, lower dividends, and lower share prices than would otherwise be the case without tariffs. The US tariffs on US corporate goods manufactured in Vietnamese factories helps to offset some of the Vietnamese labor cost advantages vis-a-vis the cost of Chinese labor.
Under the TPP, should it become law, those tariffs will likely be gone, giving Vietnam a much larger labor cost advantage over Chinese workers.
In which case, the Chinese government will have two options; let millions of Nike and Dell and Apple and Microsoft jobs head south to Vietnam, along with the jobs of contractors and subcontractors, or manipulate its currency even more, which means all of those US corporations manufacturing stuff in China for export to the US will see unprecedented and explosive growth of their profits; and all of this will occur at the expense of small and medium sized US companies that make stuff in the United States and export them to China.
The political game in the US over the TPP and Fast Track Authority currently being played out is a complete farce.
Start with Fast Track Authority, which President Obama, Nike, Microsoft, Ron Wyden, Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell and just about every major US corporate CEO and investor desperately want Obama to have. Fast track will limit congressional debate on trade deals, it will scuttle any possible congressional amendments, and eliminate the use of the filibuster in the senate to stop the TPP. Fast track needs to pass through both houses of congress.
As a condition for bringing Fast Track Authority to a debate on the floor of the US senate, on May 13, a number of Democrats who traditionally vote to redistribute income from the 99 to the 1 percent (Ron Wyden, Harry Reid, Patty Murray, Heidi Heitkamp, Bill Nelson, Tim Kaine, Claire McCaskell, and Ben Cardin) agreed to first bring a vote for a bill by which the US will crackdown somehow on China for manipulating currency.
These folks know such a bill may not pass the senate, much less the house of representatives. If it did pass, then it will sit on Obama's desk until Fast Track Authority passes both chambers of congress. Then he will veto the currency manipulation bill. There's a ton of income to be redistributed from the 99 to the 1 percent resting on his shoulders.
Then the above senators will pretend to the folks back home that they did all that they could, when in fact, they did nothing when they could have done something to protect the folks back home from the TPP.
Every US senator and every US house representative knows this is the game, and many are willing to play this deadly game so as to justify their support for giving President Obama Fast Track Authority, even though the TPP will likely rip out the guts of the middle class, as well as the US economy.
If the above named Democrats were at all serious about Chinese currency manipulation, then they would agree to wait until Wall Street President Barack Obama signed the bill into law before opening debate on fast track authority. That won't happen.
Fast Track Authority is the only way the president can ram the TPP through congress. It's an income and political power redistribution agreement falsely marketed as a trade agreement. Most of those in the know say the TPP is dead if the president doesn't receive fast track authority. So fast track is the key.
The political fight over the Trans Pacific Partnership, Fast Track Authority, and Chinese currency manipulation isn't about sanity; it's about greed and government corruption. It's about raising the already soaring share prices, dividends and earnings of US corporations that have exported millions of US jobs to China and other third world nations, and doing so at the expense of everybody else. It's about redistributing your standard of living to a small minority of overly rich people who have corrupted and rigged your government in favor of themselves. It's about redistributing your income and wealth to the 1 percent so as to keep the current stock market bubble expanding. It's about redistributing the American dream to the 1 percent. It's about taking the opportunities that once existed for the majority of American citizens and wiping them out by giving 100 percent of all income growth to the 1 percent, and leaving more and more people in poverty.
Currently, the 1 percent steal 37 percent of all income produced in the United States compared to 8 percent in 1980, back when opportunities for financial advancement existed for most Americans. Now the big boys, and the politicians they've bought off in one way or the other, want to eliminate your opportunities, as well as those of your children.
Call your senators. Call your congressmen and congresswomen. Stop Fast Track in the senate. Stop the corruption. Stop the insanity.
Over the past fourteen years, since China was granted most favored nation trade status, Nike's stock price has risen over a thousand percent, from $10 a share to over a $100. Chinese currency manipulation has helped fuel this bubble. So if you purchased a million shares of Nike in the year 2000, today the value of those shares would be over $10 million. With the TPP and Chinese currency manipulation, the value of Nike's stock will continue to increase, but only at the expense of everybody else. Much of the US stock market bubble is fueled by the same force, and that goes for the stock prices of Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Adidas, Hewlett-Packard and more. And if the TPP goes through, more US manufacturers will need to shift production to China.
A new congressional study suggests that massive immigration increases in recent decades have hammered middle-class wages. Whether through taking jobs or casting votes, hyper-immigration is revolutionizing the U.S.
We are a nation of immigrants, it is often reflexively said. But it is a little-known fact that our foreign-born population dropped more than 11% in the quarter century after World War II.
Since 1970, however, we have become a nation of hyper-immigration, as the foreign-born among us have exploded from fewer than 10 million to more than 41 million as of 2013 — a staggering 324.5% increase.
If a job cannot be exported, then immigrants are encouraged by business and government leaders to enter the United States to generate greater competition among middle class workers, which lowers wages and benefits. For example, a recent study shows that three out of four high tech workers are unemployed in their areas of expertise, and wages in the high tech sector are the same as during the early 1990s, and yet congressional leaders want to admit more immigrants via the H1-B visa. In this way wages and salaries will continue to stay artificially low, which benefits the 1 percent at the expense of the middle class.
The difference between the old higher wages (what wages should be under normal immigration increases) and the new lower wages with hyper immigration, goes straight into the pockets of the super rich via higher corporate profits, rising dividends and soaring share prices.
The middle class is getting hammered by the loss of millions of jobs that are exported via international agreements falsely marketed as free trade agreements. But the middle and lower classes are also getting hammered by hyper immigration. These two governmental policies are income redistribution scams perpetrated by the leadership of both major political parties and their billionaire and corporate sponsors, such as the Koch Brothers and Warren Buffett.
How badly has immigration and free trade policies been for the middle and lower classes?
"A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service for the Senate Judiciary Committee finds that during this era of free trade and hyper-immigration, incomes of the bottom 90% of Americans flat-lined, then dropped starting in 2000. By comparison, middle-class wages increased between 1945 and 1970.
In the fourteen plus years since 2000, less than six million net jobs have been created in the United States, and all of them have gone to immigrants. On the other hand, according to the Federal Reserve, 28 million jobs were exported from the USA from 1990 to 2010, and several million more have been exported since 2010.
Salaries, wages and benefits would be going up if the United States had six million less working age immigrants. More significantly, however, US wages would be surging and our tepid economy would be booming if those trade agreements hadn't been conceived. In both cases, trade agreements and immigration, income and wealth inequality in the USA would not be nearly so significant as it is now.
While so-called international trade agreements are the major cause of the income and wealth inequality of the last thirty-five years, with the 1 percent going from taking 8 percent of all income created in the USA in 1980 to 37 percent today, immigration (legal and illegal) is another, though admittedly lesser, but still significant, culprit in the financial war the super rich are waging against the middle class.
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest income redistribution scam of all time. It is falsely being marketed as a free trade treaty. The Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party, led by President Obama and Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden, have merged with the Wall Street wing of the Republican Party. The TPP will provide incentives for US corporations to ship millions of US jobs overseas, and drive millions of Latin American immigrants illegally into the United States simultaneously, just like NAFTA did.
That's why the TPP is another income redistribution scam for the 1 percent.
Finland has the highest performing K-12 students in the world, year after year.
"Finland's schools weren't always so successful. In the 1960s, they were middling at best. In 1971, a government commission concluded that, poor as the nation was in natural resources, it had to modernize its economy and could only do so by first improving its schools. To that end, the government agreed to reduce class size, boost teacher pay, and require that, by 1979, all teachers complete a rigorous master's program.
For every 45 minutes of study, Finish students get 15 minutes of free time recess.
In the United States, recess has been curtailed, and in some cases, eliminated.
The average class size in Finland is 19. Teachers are highly respected, highly paid, and highly unionized. So what can the United States learn from Finland?
That's because education reform in the USA has nothing to do with education. It's all about corporate profits, campaign contributions, government corruption, and ever rising profits for the publishing industries. Public K-12 students are merely victims in the profit production process through which these aims can be achieved.
This is why the US has the most tested students in the world. The more tests they complete, the more profits for the publishing corporations, such as Pearson Limited and McGraw-Hill.
This is why educational test standards are always raised in the United States. The higher the standards, the more students fail to pass. Then they must retake another profitable test over and over again until they move up a grade or pass it. The more students fail these tests, the more profitable they are for the testing industry.
Tests are changed every few years because it's more profitable than retaining them. When school districts change tests, each district must purchase new testing materials from the publishers. In the United States, students are part of the production process for producing profits, and keeping share prices of the publishing giants rising constantly, quarter after quarter.
So don't expect any real educational reform in the US anytime soon since real educational reform by definition means lower profits for the publishing corporations, which means less money with which to corrupt government. So don't expect anything to change in education in the US anytime soon. The corruption of government at all levels is far too massive.
Just look at Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden who betrayed the voters of Oregon on behalf of Monsanto and Wall Street when he co-sponsored Fast Track legislation in the senate for the massive income redistribution scam called the Trans Pacific Partnership which Wyden falsely markets as a trade agreement. Wyden once wrote a constituent who wrote to him to complain about the Common "Very Profitable" Core Standards. Wyden wrote back, "Please rest assured that I will continue to do all I can on the federal level to ensure Oregon students receive the highest quality education…." Wyden's letter shows he supports the Common Very Profitable Standards, which demonstrates how corrupt he is in all areas in which income is redistributed from the 99 to the 1 percent. See Wyden's letter at, http://oregonsaveourschools.blogspot.com/2014/06/sen-ron-wyden-doesnt-get-it-on-common.html .
Wyden's idea of students receiving "the highest quality education" is to increase the profits of the publishing corporations, which is another way of enriching the 1 percent at the expense of the 99 percent. In other words, less recess, more tests, and higher standards, which is another way of saying the senator wants all students to be on a college track, even if they had no desire to be on such a track.
The magic of the market of goods and services sets neither the lowest wages nor the highest. The corruption of the government is what sets the highest and lowest wages, as well as everything in between. When the government is subsidizing record corporate profits via welfare to corporate employees year after year it's a good sign government corruption is behind the low wages, whether it's anti-union labor legislation, legislation that exports US jobs, or immigration policies that lower the wages of US workers whose jobs cannot be exported. This is called income redistribution from the 99 to the 1 percetn. The government has rigged the economic and political games against the 99 percent on behalf of the 0.01 percent.
President Obama has vetoed Congress's bill that tried to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline! But the president still has to make his final decision on whether KXL is in our national interest. Let's face it. It isn't.
Estimates are that building the pipeline will bring a few hundred to a few thousand permanent jobs to the United States, but the potential environmental impact is massive. On the other hand, the battle over the pipeline is a battle between heavyweight billionaires.
In one corner are the Koch Brothers. Warren Buffett is in the other corner. The Koch Brothers have a sizable investment in the pipeline and the tar sands. Buffett owns the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, which is the largest transporter of crude oil in the United States.
If Obama approves of the pipeline, Buffett loses and the Koch's win. If Obama disapproves of the pipeline, the Koch Brothers lose and Buffett wins.
The Koch Brothers are big investors in the Republican Party. Buffett is a big investor in the Democratic Party. Obama will make his decision based on the priorities of the Democratic Party, just like a Republican president would make this decision based on the priorities of the Republican Party.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gave a blunt message to the big Wall Street banks that have threatened to withhold campaign donations to Senate Democrats as a means to get Democrats to convince Warren to shut up about the crimes of Wall Street.
"It will not work," Warren said in a statement emailed to The Huffington Post.
Warren is not going to be bought off or frightened so easily. The CEO's of the banks want to continue and extend their unpunished streak of criminal activities dating back more than two decades. Warren insists these banks should pay the price of their criminal activities which includes, fraud and money laundering, among many other crimes. And that's how corrupt your government is. When you are rich, there is not a single criminal activity that will net you jail time nowadays.


Last week, a project descended on El Barrio befitting its name. MonumentArt 2015 is the second installment of the International Mural Festival in East Harlem and the South Bronx, sponsored by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and La Marqueta Retoña. Eleven internationally known artists were invited to participate this year, and create work from 99th Street to 138th Street that is specific to El Barrio and its history.
The Festival kicked-off at the historic marketplace, La Marqueta on Park Avenue and 115th Street in East Harlem on October 4th, and the project was meant to celebrate and document the history of El Barrio, highlighting the cultural identity of the neighborhood by creating nine murals. Three of the mural locations are at schools, where the students had an opportunity to meet the artists and learn how large-format works are created. In addition, el Museo del Barrio held related workshops for the students.
'EVER' (real name Nicolas Romero) is a street artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has painted worldwide including at 5 Pointz and the Berlin Wall. You will find his wall behind the basketball courts on Third Avenue, between 99th Street and 100th Street. the photo above was taken earlier in the week. The photo below was taken on Sunday morning and is almost complete. If you look closely, you can see the artist on the bucket-truck in the lower left portion of the photo.
Madison Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets. PS 171. Photo taken morning of October 10.
The two large murals above are on the Madison Avenue side of PS 171, between 103rd Street and 104th Street, across the street from the Carver Houses and Reese School.
'FAITH47', the only female muralist in this project, hails from Cape Town, South Africa. Her exhibitions and projects have taken her around the world during her fifteen year career as an artist, including a solo exhibit at the Jonathan Levine Gallery here in New York and Art Basel, Miami.
Artist Sega Y Ovbal , hails from Mexico City. Known for having two distinctly different styles, he uses two different 'names' for each – Sego is the name used for the extremely detailed work, and Ovbal is the name used for the more abstract style. His work has been seen around the world, including here in New York.
Elizam Escobar is a Puerto Rican art theorist, poet, visual artist and writer. Here he is working on a mural honoring the legacy of Julia de Burgos at the Julia de Burgos Performance and Arts Center Theater space, located on Lexington Avenue and 105th Street.
The street artist known as ROA hails from Ghent, Belgium. Best known for painting wild animals and birds, he works in black and white. His work can be found on walls and in galleries worldwide. This mural can be found on Lexington Avenue at 108th Street.
El Mac lives and works in Los Angeles. He is known for lifelike renderings of human faces and figures – these commissions have taken him all over the world, including Havana, Cuba in 2012 for the 11th Havana Biennial. He is no stranger to New York – with a solo exhibit at the Joshua Liner Gallery in 2009. He has chosen to do a portrait mural of famed Puerto Rican artist and writer, Nicholasa Mohr, who grew up in the Bronx and El Barrio.
Living in Brooklyn, by way of Spain and Puerto Rico, Luis R. Vidal was trained as a photojournalist. He started his career working for Primera Hora and El Nuevo Dia – local newspapers in Puerto Rico, before moving to Madrid and London, where he studied film. You can find his mural on 111th Street and First Avenue.
Adrian Viajero Roman is the artist known as VIAJERO. He calls both Puerto Rico and New York home, and aspires to put forth the issues of race, migration and identity in his art. His work has been seen worldwide, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., galleries in New York City, Art Basel Miami and CIRCA International Art Fair in San Juan, Puerto Rico, just to name a few.
2ALAS is an arts collective made up of Andrew Antonaccio and Filo Galvez. They are particularly well-known for the work they did on the Wynwood Walls in Miami, Art Basil, Miami and Scope. They have also shown smaller format work in galleries around the world including Italy, Montreal and Puerto Rico.
Next, read about the Top 10 NYC street art pieces of the year so far. Check out more in El Barrio here and Harlem here. Get in touch with the author at AFineLyne.


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Early Barrage Boosted Northwestern to a Blowout Win at Nebraska
Each of Nebraska's previous three meetings with Northwestern under Fred Hoiberg have gone down to the wire, with the Wildcats pulling out close wins including one in overtime and another at the buzzer.
Saturday's game at Pinnacle Bank was close for about seven minutes. Then the Wildcats hit Nebraska with a 22-5 run and the Huskers crumbled. The Wildcats went on to win 87-65, but that final margin belies the game's competitiveness.
Northwestern entered Saturday tied for 11th place in the Big Ten at 3-8 (and10-10 overall), and the Wildcats wiped the Cornhuskers off their own floor to hand them their 12th straight conference loss (and 17th overall).
"I really thought we turned a corner with every night coming out, playing with great energy and intensity … The other night we played with unbelievable urgency and energy and that's what gave us a chance to win those games," Hoiberg said. "You could tell from the start tonight, just you know the pace going both ways … The overall urgency early in that game was the thing that was so disappointing to me and in our home building and an afternoon game and reunion weekend, you want to give your alumni something to cheer about and be proud about and we were awful in that area."
Northwestern bombed away from deep early as they found themselves open time and time again to create plenty of separation and then cruised though the rest of the game. The Wildcats finished at 13-for-31 (41.9%) from 3 and shot 48.5% overall.
Nebraska shot 45.1% from the field including 38.9% from 3, but Northwestern nearly doubled up the Huskers in made triples as point guard Boo Buie hit six by himself and finished with a game-high 27 points.
C.J. Wilcher was the lone bright spot offensively for the Huskers with 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting (3-of-6 from 3). Bryce McGowens chipped in 10 points but half of that came from the foul line as he shot 2-of-8 from the field.
Wilcher said a lack of intensity from the jump is what made this game different from Nebraska's last few where the Huskers kept the games close throughout.
"We competed in those games before today," Wilcher said. "We started the game off hot every game. Of course, we died down a little bit, but then we found a way to pick it back up. I think that was what was missing today, just that fire, just that edge that we've used to compete those games before."
The game got off to a sluggish start both ways. The Wildcats got a layup on their first possession of the game then attempted nine straight 3s, making just two of them. Nebraska hit one of its first six shots and turned it over three times, however, as the Wildcats led 8-5 at the first media timeout five minutes in.
The Huskers briefly took a 10-8 lead on a 3 by Wilcher, but the Wildcats scored on nine straight possessions including four 3s to open up a 30-15 lead. A 5-3 spurt from Wilcher cut it to 13, but Northwestern continued to rain 3s and hit the Huskers with a 10-3 run to open up a 21-point lead, hitting nine of their first 17 3s.
"We didn't hit shots today," Hoiberg said. "We've been getting off to good starts; you look at our numbers in the first five minutes, they've been really good and we've been shooting a very high percentage. Today we didn't make anything early and I thought that did affect us getting back. When we turned it over, we didn't react to it. It's disappointing, to say the least, to come out with this type of effort at home."
Nebraska had a chance to close the half well as Northwestern switched to a 3-2 zone on its last defensive possession and Alonzo Verge Jr. found Derrick Walker slipping down the lane for a bunny. The Wildcats missed a 3 on the other end, but the ball took a bad bounce and ended up in Julian Roper II's hands. He tried to slam it home but Walker blocked it out of bounds.
Northwestern ran a play to get Robbie Beran a 3 in the corner and he air-balled it, but Lat Mayen fouled Elyjah Williams on the rebound with 0.1 on the clock in the bonus and he hit both shots to give the Wildcats a 49-27 lead at halftime.
Northwestern, who averaged 8.2 3s per game heading into Saturday, shot 10-of-23 from deep in the first half against Nebraska led by Buie's four triples and 16 points. Northwestern out-scored Nebraska 14 to 10 in the paint as well.
"They got a few 3s in transition, which is what we talked about going in in the scout, they get transitioned 3s," Wilcher said. "They shoot the ball one through five better than a lot of teams we've played in conference so far because they have bigs that step out and shoot the ball as well. So I think that's where it started out, and then there's energy behind the ball. Players get confident, then shots go down. So I think that's kind of where it came from, really just the early shots and transition, and even even big fella hit a few 3s early on. So I think that kind of just gave them confidence, gave them energy behind the ball."
The Wildcats made more 3s than Nebraska did field goals in the first half as the Huskers shot 33.3% from the field and turned the ball over eight times. WIlcher led the way with 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting including 3-of-6 from 3. Verge set up Wilcher for most of his buckets and dished out five assists in the first half to go with his five points.
Two more 3s from Buie to start the second half pushed Northwestern's lead to 26 at 55-29. A quick 6-0 run featuring layups from Verge, Trey McGowens and Bryce McGowens cut it to 20, but the momentum was short-lived.
Northwestern pushed its lead to 30 by the under-12 timeout and it hovered around there for a while, peaking at 35 a couple of times.
The Huskers closed the game on an 11-0 run to make the final margin look a bit more respectable, with walk-on freshman Jackson Cronin scoring his first collegiate points on a goaltended layup and Keon Edwards knocking down his first 3 at Nebraska.
The Huskers shot nearly 60% from the field in the second half, but they missed seven of their 12 free throws and turned the ball over seven more times while the Wildcats shot over 50% themselves.
The Huskers will return to the court at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Wednesday to host Minnesota.
"We'll see who's ready to compete on Monday morning," Hoiberg said. "Unfortunately, we have take tomorrow off. I'd love to get them in here and get after it hard, but NCAA rules, you have to take a day off. Unfortunately, we've got to do that tomorrow. So we'll see who's ready to compete on Monday morning and those that are ready to compete, those are the ones that are going to play moving forward."
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- Watch is used but is still in great working condition. - Will come with box and a copy of the receipt. - Selling due to getting a new one but a 42mm.
Two inside pockets Measurements l. 4.1 h. 2.5 inches Purchased in Hawaii for USD 280. I haven't been able to find the receipt but I'll keep looking.


Matte print is beautifully hand colored and identified and titled in black ink on label on verso of frame.
Roberto Eichenberger, born in Guatemala in 1902, attended the Agfaphoto Schule in Berlin in the mid-1920s.
Back in Guatemala, he became a renowned portraitist, freelanced for National Geographic Magazine and was probably the first to use positive color film in Guatemala, during the mid-1930s. His wife, Mary Nicol Eichenberger, painstakingly hand tinted thousands of his photographs.


More and more people nowadays use WhatsApp to make voice/video calls, send texts to friends and share files with colleagues. Sometimes we want to record WhatsApp video/voice call with intimate friends/lovers or we just need to record conference or business calls at work.
WhatsApp doesn't have the call recording feature, therefore, it is important to use a no lagging and easy-to-use call recorder app for WhatsApp. In the following passage, I will recommend two brilliant WhatsApp call recorder apps suitable for use respectively on iOS and Android system.
In Apple's App Store there is, in fact, no WhatsApp call recorder app and WhatsApp also does not have a built-in call recording function. The only way to record your voice/video call is to use a third-party screen recording app. FonePaw ScreenMo can mirror iPhone screen to PC via Airplay and record video and audio calls of WhatsApp. It is a wise choice for it is installed on PC and does not occupy any internal storage or RAM of your iPhone so that it can record WhatsApp calls fluently without crashes.
The WhatsApp call recorder works with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch running on the iOS system.
Click the button below to download FonePaw ScreenMo to your PC.
Step 2: Connect your iPhone and computer to the same Wi-Fi network.
Step 4: After seeing the screen of your iPhone mirrored to the PC, click the red button on ScreenMo and the video recording is on the going. Then you can make a WhatsApp call. Remember to enable the microphone button to record audio in the WhatsApp call.
Step 5: After finishing the call, click the red button again to stop recording. And a window will pop up for setting the definition, output path, and name of the recorded video. After customizing settings, you can click Start Export and the video will be saved.
Just linking your iPhone to the same Wi-Fi that your PC is connected to enables any screen activities and audio on your iPhone to be recorded on the PC. If you have any problem in mirroring iPhone to your laptop, open mobile hotspot on your PC and connect your iPhone to the hotspot.
Cube Call Recorder ACR is a standard call recorder. It can not only record normal phone calls but also the calls from various VoIP services including WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, Hangouts, Facebook, IMO, Line, Slack, Telegram, and more. For Android users, using Cube Call Recorder ACR will allow you to record any calls from any source.
Step 1: Open Google Play and input Cube Call Recorder ACR to search.
Step 2: Download and install it.
Step 3: After installing, open it and click "Next".
Step 4: Grant it storage, microphone, phone, and contacts permissions by pressing "GRANT PERMISSIONS" and switch on the pop-up corresponding options.
Step 5: In this step, tap "ENABLE OVERLAY" to permit its displaying control widget on phone screen and switch in the setting page.
Step 6: Tap "ADD CUBE TO AUTOSTART" and turn on the button beside Cube ACR in the pop-up Autostart setting page.
Step 7: Follow the instructions on the app to disable power optimization for Cube.
Step 8: To record WhatsApp, go to the setting page of Cube ACR and switch on the button beside "Ignore VoIP-support check".
Step 9: Tap "ENABLE APP CONNECTOR" and switch on the button beside Cube ACR on the pop-up accessibility setting page.
After the above settings, each time you make a WhatsApp call, the Cube ACR will start automatically and record your calls. Just open Cube ACR to find the recorded WhatsApp call.
With these two apps, you can record and save any WhatsApp voice/video call for your later reference.
2. Effect: blur, noise remover, wave, mirror and more templates are optional to select.
4. Color: to modify the feeling of the scenes in the video, lots of color templates and filter for selection.


The HAKATA is a design from year 1950 by second generation, Nakanishi Takeo. Having created numerous eyewear design in his lifetime, Takeo has always believed in making eyeglasses that flatter facial features. HAKATA, which was originally designed post-war, was the most iconic best seller in Fukuoka city. This frame is revived with absolute splendour, highlighting its beautiful sweeping profile and effervescent luster.


1) Vector graphics are soooo cool. Always use them if you can… always. (note: I talk about how to get vector graphics in .eps form out of Matlab quickly and easily here: Matlab TeXniques) For those of you who don't know why vector graphics are cool, let me enlighten you! When you resize a normal image (gif, png, jpg) you will run into problems (click image above). If you make it smaller, you throw away data, and if you make it bigger, you have to make up data! Both of these are bad. With vector images, though, you can scale them up and down all you like and they look as crisp & clean as the day they were created! Wonderful.
2) If you want to put LaTeX symbols in your power point file, forget TeXPoint… All the cool kids are using TeX4PPT these days. Its *free,* much easier to use, and creates (you guessed it) vector images of your LaTeX stuff instead of bitmaps. One potential hang-up is that it only runs on Office 2003+. Sorry all you guys still on XP.
Some slight problems that I had: I think it was due to not setting paths right, but I had to put my .ppt file in the miKTeX root director for it to compile the TeX. Also, you can't right-click your text boxes to "TeXify" if the text has the squiggly red underline (just find an un-underlined place). After that rousing adventure in technical advice… if you'd like to see my poster without flying all the way to San Diego, click on the image above to open it in .pdf!