I'm not going to lie. I totally bought this for the cover. Then it sat on my bedside table for weeks because I wasn't actually sure I was all that interested in reading it. Eventually, when I had nothing else to read, I gave it a shot. Meh, my instincts were right.
This book is one of a series but they are presented as discrete stories so that they can be read in any order. I did find, however, that some things were mentioned without context, such as the cemetery of forgotten books.
The Prisoner of Heaven tells the story of Fermin Romero de Torres, who was imprisoned for some reason that I've forgotten. Although the story was fairly engaging, I struggle in retrospect to understand the significance of his imprisonment. Maybe it was mentioned in the book and I just forgot. Perhaps it was assumed that the reader would make the connection. I'm not sure.
One of my main problems, however, was Zafon's lack of elaboration. This could be a result of his intention being lost in translation, but during the dialogue, it was difficult to understand how the characters were interacting with each other. For a long time, I thought that Fermin and Daniel were enemies, because there was no indication of how they were interacting with each other- The words of dialogue were written without context. Some adverbs would have gone a long way.
Overall, it was a fair enough stop-gap whilst waiting for something better to read. Perhaps I would have been more engaged had I read the previous books first but, after reading this, I have no desire to do so.
I'd like to say that I'll give it a go but I probably won't after reading this one!
I've read one of his before, for the life of me it escapes me now what it was called but it was really hyped up and I must admit failed to see why.
I have another on my shelf by him, Angels Game but to be honest I'm not sure if I ever will get around to reading it.
I definitely wouldn't recommend it!


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10. A moisturiser is not a wrinkle cream.
Moisturisers are meant to hydrate your skin. All they can treat is dryness. SO while you might look better, with plumped-up skin, after you use a good moisturiser, it won't have any real effect on those lines (or in my case, crevasses and canyons!).
If you can't bear to toss your fave lippy, toss it anyway. If it's been opened and in your cupboard for more than several months, your risk of infection increases the longer it sticks around, especially if like most of us you keep your cosmetics in the bathroom where it gets humid after a bath or shower. See this as an ideal opportunity to find a sizzling new colour.
7. No cream is worth a week's salary.
There is no over-the-counter product containing the veritable Elixir of Youth ingredient that will restore your aging skin to the dewy freshness of your baby's dumpling cheeks. Sorry, but there just isn't. Hyper-pricy products might feel and smell luscious on your skin, and might have stunning containers that look and scream I DESERVE THE BEST, but there are umpteen less expensive products that are just as effective - or better. They just may not look as pretty on your shelves.
6. The zit on your face today started forming weeks before.
So you can stop blaming the chocolate bar you ate last night! Pimples might seem to spring up instantly (and always before an important meeting at work or date with a new guy, right?) but they've been churning away - thanks to the cursed p. acnes bacteria and excess oil production and hormonal influences - below the surface long before they erupt. Besides, when you have zits, you need a bit of Green & Black's to soothe your mood.
5. Exfoliation is a must-do - but go easy on your skin.
Pity the poor skin cell. It's born, chugs its way to the surface of your skin, and croaks a few weeks later. Slough it off and your skin looks great. But as you age, this skin cell turnover process slows down too. So if there's one step you need to add to your skincare routine as you grow older, it's gentle exfoliation. (Yes, the word gentle is in there for a reason - no aggressive products meant for teens with oily skin, please - even if you are a teen with oily skin..!) This will get rid of the dead skin cells that are making your complexion dull and blah.
4. Treatment products need up to eight weeks to work.
This is one of the biggies. How many times have you tried something spanking new and supposedly incredible, not seen any results after a few weeks, gotten frustrated, and chucked it… only to start a new cycle with a new product? Eight weeks is a long time. Two months. Be patient and stick with it! If a product doesn't work by then, it probably isn't right for you.
3. When in doubt, see a competent dermatologist.
It's so tempting. There are so many cosmetics counters and websites and so many beauty bloggers with advice (and a lot of it is brill, like what you read here.) But still, never self-diagnose any skin problems. If you suddenly develop any changes to your skin (which is, after all, your body's largest organ), you need medical attention (you might have a hormonal imbalance or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, for example).
2. You need a lot more sunscreen than you think.
1. Never, ever go outside without a good broad-spectrum (UVA + UVB) sunscreen.
Now that you know how much sunscreen to use, don't leave home without slathering it on. Sun exposure is the absolute top reason for skin ageing - and it's the easiest to prevent. I start applying sunscreen before breakfast so it soaks in, and then put on another layer after I brush my teeth. Voila. Takes a few seconds and then I don't have to worry. No excuses, please - the skin you save will be your own. The only exceptions are blizzards, hurricanes, typhoons, and the cover of darkness.
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Ok, hear me out on this one. We all love our flying mounts in WoW. We feel quite entitled to them, honestly. But after 5-1/2 months without them I don't really find myself thinking about it very much.
The existing automated flight system in the Broken Shores is good. And I know my way around the zones on foot well enough. Yes, places like Highmountain are a pain to get around, but how often are you there at this point? And when you do find the hidden peak or the tucked away sled that takes you back down the mountain, you get that satisfying sense of accomplishment like solving a puzzle or the pleasant surprise of finding a hidden treasure.
Now, I'm not saying we shouldn't have flying, but if we didn't have it, would it be so horrible? I spend the majority of my game time now in three places: in my Class Hall, in Dalaran, or in a raid zone. A flying mount will have no impact in any of these places.
How much is Patch 7.2's flying mounts really going to change your gaming experience in Legion at this point in the expansion?


Helmut Bölcskei was born in Mödling, Austria on May 29, 1970, and received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr. techn. degrees in electrical engineering from Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. In 1998 he was with Vienna University of Technology. From 1999 to 2001 he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, and in the Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He was in the founding team of Iospan Wireless Inc., a Silicon Valley-based startup company (acquired by Intel Corporation in 2002) specialized in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems for high-speed Internet access, and was a co-founder of Celestrius AG, Zurich, Switzerland. From 2001 to 2002 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been with ETH Zurich since 2002, where he is a Professor of Mathematical Information Science in the Department of Electrical Engineering, also associated with the Department of Mathematics. He was a visiting researcher at Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, The Netherlands, ENST Paris, France, and the Heinrich Hertz Institute Berlin, Germany. His research interests are in applied mathematics, machine learning theory, mathematical signal processing, data science, and statistics.
He received the 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2006 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Best Paper Award, the 2010 Vodafone Innovations Award, the ETH "Golden Owl" Teaching Award, is a Fellow of the IEEE, a 2011 EURASIP Fellow, was a Distinguished Lecturer (2013-2014) of the IEEE Information Theory Society, an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow (1999-2001) of the Austrian National Science Foundation (FWF), was included in the 2014 Thomson Reuters List of Highly Cited Researchers in Computer Science, and is the 2016 Padovani Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. He was editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory during the period 2010-2013 and served on the editorial board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, "Foundations and Trends in Communication and Information Theory", and "Foundations and Trends in Networking". He was TPC co-chair of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and the 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop and served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He has been a delegate for faculty appointments of the president of ETH Zurich since 2008.
E. Riegler and H. Bölcskei, Chapter in Information-theoretic Methods in Data Science, M. Rodrigues and Y. Eldar, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019, to appear.
V. I. Morgenshtern and H. Bölcskei, Chapter in Mathematical Foundations for Signal Processing, Communications, and Networking, E. Serpedin, T. Chen, and D. Rajan, Eds., CRC Press, pp. 737-789, 2012.
G. Durisi, V. I. Morgenshtern, H. Bölcskei, U. G. Schuster, and S. Shamai (Shitz), Chapter in Wireless Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels, F. Hlawatsch and G. Matz, Eds., Academic Press, pp. 65-116, 2011.
H. Bölcskei, Chapter in CRC Handbook on Signal Processing for Mobile Communications, M. Ibnkahla, Ed., Ch. 12, 2004.
H. Bölcskei, Chapter in "Advances in Gabor Analysis", H. G. Feichtinger and T. Strohmer, eds., Birkhäuser, pp. 321-352, 2003.
H. Bölcskei and A. J. Paulraj, Chapter in "The Communications Handbook", 2nd edition, J. Gibson, ed., CRC Press, pp. 90.1-90.14, 2002.
H. Bölcskei and F. Hlawatsch, Chapter in "Gabor Analysis and Algorithms: Theory and Applications", H. G. Feichtinger and T. Strohmer, eds., Birkhäuser, pp. 295-322, 1998.
H. Bölcskei, P. Grohs, G. Kutyniok, and P. Petersen, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 8-45, 2019.
C. Aubel and H. Bölcskei, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 2019, to appear.
T. Wiatowski, P. Grohs, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 7, pp. 4819-4842, July 2018.
M. Tschannen and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 6, pp. 4081-4104, June 2018.
T. Wiatowski and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 1845-1866, Mar. 2018.
G. Alberti, H. Bölcskei, C. De Lellis, G. Koliander, and E. Riegler, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Mar. 2018, submitted.
C. Aubel, D. Stotz, and H. Bölcskei, Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 45-107, Feb. 2018.
M. Tschannen and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 65, No. 22, pp. 6009-6023, Nov. 2017.
D. Stotz, E. Riegler, E. Agustsson, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 9, pp. 5445-5460, Sept. 2017.
R. Heckel, M. Tschannen, and H. Bölcskei, Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 246-283, Sept. 2017.
D. Stotz and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 11, pp. 6423-6435, Nov. 2016.
D. Stotz and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 7, pp. 4172-4197, July 2016.
R. Heckel and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 11, pp. 6320-6342, Nov. 2015.
R. Heckel and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 12, pp. 7985-8000, Dec. 2013.
G. Matz, H. Bölcskei, and F. Hlawatsch, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 87-96, Nov. 2013.
V. I. Morgenshtern, E. Riegler, W. Yang, G. Durisi, S. Lin, B. Sturmfels, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 7, pp. 4213-4229, July 2013.
G. Durisi, V. I. Morgenshtern, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 10, pp. 6372-6391, Oct. 2012.
C. Akçaba and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 4462-4480, July 2012.
C. Studer, P. Kuppinger, G. Pope, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 3115-3130, May 2012.
P. Kuppinger, G. Durisi, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 263-277, Jan. 2012.
D. S. Baum and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 11, pp. 7555-7577, Nov. 2011.
D. Seethaler, J. Jaldén, C. Studer, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 9, pp. 5754-5768, Sept. 2011.
G. Durisi and H. Bölcskei, International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEÜ), Vol. 65, Issue 8, pp. 707-712, Aug. 2011.
D. Cescato and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 1719-1733, Apr. 2011.
C. Studer and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 10, pp. 4827-4842, Oct. 2010.
D. Cescato and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 4754-4761, Sept. 2010.
Y. Eldar, P. Kuppinger, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 3042-3054, June 2010.
D. Seethaler and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 1085-1105, Mar. 2010.
G. Durisi, U. G. Schuster, H. Bölcskei, and S. Shamai (Shitz), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 367-395, Jan. 2010.
U. G. Schuster, G. Durisi, H. Bölcskei, and H. V. Poor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 57, No. 9, pp. 2686-2696, Sept. 2009.
D. E. Quevedo, H. Bölcskei, and G. C. Goodwin, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 503-515, Feb. 2009.
C. Studer, A. Burg, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 290-300, Feb. 2008.
V. I. Morgenshtern and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 10, pp. 3319-3349, Oct. 2007.
U. G. Schuster and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 2464-2475, July 2007.
S. Visuri and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 3980-3993, Sept. 2006.
H. Bölcskei, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, Issue 4, pp. 31-37, Aug. 2006, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei, R. U. Nabar, Ö. Oyman, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 1433-1444, June 2006.
D. Perels, S. Haene, P. Luethi, A. Burg, N. Felber, W. Fichtner, and H. Bölcskei, European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), pp. 215-218, Sept. 2005.
R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 2519-2532, Sept. 2005.
M. Borgmann and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 1799-1810, Sept. 2005.
A. Burg, M. Borgmann, M. Wenk, M. Zellweger, W. Fichtner, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol 40, No. 7, pp. 1566-1577, July 2005, (invited paper).
R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and F. W. Kneubühler, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1099-1109, Aug. 2004.
A. J. Paulraj, D. A. Gore, R. U. Nabar, and H. Bölcskei, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 198-218, Feb. 2004, (invited paper).
Ö. Oyman, R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 2784-2795, Nov. 2003.
H. Bölcskei, P. Duhamel, and R. Hleiss, Signal Processing, Vol. 83, No.7, pp. 1379-1391, July 2003.
Y. Eldar and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 993-1006, Apr. 2003.
H. Bölcskei, M. Borgmann, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 427-439, Apr. 2003.
D. Gesbert, H. Bölcskei, D. A. Gore, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 50, No. 12, pp. 1926-1934, Dec. 2002.
R. U. Nabar, V. Erceg, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 23, Issue 1, pp. 31-44, Oct. 2002, (invited paper).
R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, V. Erceg, D. Gesbert, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 2553-2562, Oct. 2002.
D. Gesbert, L. Haumonte, H. Bölcskei, R. Krishnamoorthy, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 86-95, Apr. 2002.
H. Bölcskei, D. Gesbert, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 225-234, Feb. 2002.
H. Bölcskei, R. W. Heath Jr., and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 96-109, Jan. 2002.
H. Bölcskei, P. Duhamel, and R. Hleiss, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 1594-1598, July 2001.
H. Bölcskei, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 988-999, June 2001.
H. Bölcskei, A. J. Paulraj, K. V. S. Hari, R. U. Nabar, and W. W. Lu, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 100-108, Jan. 2001, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei and F. Hlawatsch, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 155-172, Jan. 2001.
H. Bölcskei, R. Heusdens, R. Theunis, and A. J. E. M. Janssen, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 760-772, May 2000.
H. Bölcskei and A. J. E. M. Janssen, The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 255-276, May 2000.
A. J. E. M. Janssen and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 79-82, Apr. 2000.
H. Bölcskei, The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 409-419, 1999.
H. Bölcskei, F. Hlawatsch, and H. G. Feichtinger, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 46, No. 12, pp. 3256-3268, Dec. 1998.
H. Bölcskei and F. Hlawatsch, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 1057-1071, Aug. 1998.
H. Bölcskei and F. Hlawatsch, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 851-866, Apr. 1997.
H. Bölcskei, K. Gröchenig, F. Hlawatsch, and H. G. Feichtinger, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 106-108, Apr. 1997.
F. Hlawatsch and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 44-46, Feb. 1996.
E. Riegler, G. Koliander, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Vail, CO, USA, pp. 101-105, June 2018.
H. Bölcskei, P. Grohs, G. Kutyniok, and P. Petersen, Proc. of SPIE (Wavelets and Sparsity XVII), San Diego, CA, USA, Vol. 10394, pp. 10394-10394-12, Aug. 2017, (invited paper).
T. Wiatowski, P. Grohs, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of SPIE (Wavelets and Sparsity XVII), San Diego, CA, USA, Vol. 10394, pp. 1039418:1-1039418:12, Aug. 2017, (invited paper).
P. Grohs, T. Wiatowski, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Germany, pp. 1356-1360, June 2017.
D. Stotz, S. A. Jafar, H. Bölcskei, and S. Shamai (Shitz), Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1292-1296, July 2016.
P. Grohs, T. Wiatowski, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1163-1167, July 2016.
C. Aubel and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1551-1555, July 2016.
G. Alberti, H. Bölcskei, C. De Lellis, G. Koliander, and E. Riegler, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 2789-2793, July 2016.
T. Wiatowski, M. Tschannen, A. Stanić, P. Grohs, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), New York, USA, pp. 2149-2158, June 2016.
T. Wiatowski and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Hong Kong, China, pp. 1212-1216, June 2015.
C. Aubel and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Hong Kong, China, pp. 2568-2572, June 2015.
E. Riegler, D. Stotz, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Hong Kong, China, pp. 1836-1840, June 2015.
M. Tschannen and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Hong Kong, China, pp. 1207-1211, June 2015.
D. Stotz and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Honolulu, HI, pp. 471-475, July 2014.
R. Heckel, M. Tschannen, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Honolulu, HI, pp. 2997-3001, July 2014.
A. Jung, R. Heckel, H. Bölcskei, and F. Hlawatsch, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 769-773, May 2014.
R. Heckel, E. Agustsson, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 6761-6765, May 2014.
C. Aubel, D. Stotz, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, pp. 36-40, May 2014.
D. Stotz, E. Riegler, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 106-110, July 2013.
R. Heckel and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1382-1386, July 2013.
R. Heckel and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 3263-3267, May 2013.
D. Stotz and H. Bölcskei, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 1755-1760, Oct. 2012.
R. Heckel and H. Bölcskei, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 698-702, Oct. 2012, (invited paper).
G. Pope and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Boston, MA, pp. 1463-1467, July 2012.
C. Aubel, C. Studer, G. Pope, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Boston, MA, USA, pp. 2047-2051, July 2012.
R. Heckel and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 1412-1416, Aug. 2011.
E. Riegler, V. I. Morgenshtern, G. Durisi, S. Lin, B. Sturmfels, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 2020-2024, Aug. 2011.
C. Studer, P. Kuppinger, G. Pope, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 1422-1426, Aug. 2011.
V. I. Morgenshtern, G. Durisi, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Austin, TX, pp. 320-324, June 2010.
Where is randomness needed to break the square-root bottleneck?
P. Kuppinger, G. Durisi, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Austin, TX, pp. 1578-1582, June 2010.
P. Kuppinger, G. Durisi, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Taormina, Italy, pp. 338-342, Oct. 2009, (invited paper).
J. Thukral and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seoul, South Korea, pp. 1759-1763, June 2009.
C. Akçaba and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seoul, South Korea, pp. 1604-1608, June 2009.
G. Durisi, V. I. Morgenshtern, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seoul, South Korea, pp. 2174-2178, June 2009.
D. Seethaler, J. Jaldén, C. Studer, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seoul, South Korea, pp. 729-733, June 2009.
C. Studer, D. Seethaler, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, pp. 2032-2037, Oct. 2008, (invited paper).
U. G. Schuster, G. Durisi, H. Bölcskei, and H. V. Poor, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 1582-1586, July 2008.
P. Coronel, M. Gärtner, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 915-919, July 2008.
D. Seethaler and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 2002-2006, July 2008.
C. Studer and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 2007-2011, July 2008.
J. Thukral and H. Bölcskei, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 502-509, Sept. 2007, (invited paper).
C. Akçaba, P. Kuppinger, and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Bergen, Norway, pp. 233-237, July 2007.
G. Durisi, H. Bölcskei, and S. Shamai (Shitz), Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, pp. 156-160, June 2007.
P. Coronel and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, pp. 2841-2845, June 2007.
M. Gärtner and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, pp. 526-530, June 2007.
C. Studer, M. Wenk, A. Burg, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, pp. 2071-2076, Nov. 2006, (invited paper).
V. I. Morgenshtern and H. Bölcskei, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 106-112, Sept. 2006, (invited paper).
G. Durisi, H. Bölcskei, and S. Shamai (Shitz), Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seattle, WA, pp. 1500-1504, July 2006.
M. Gärtner and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seattle, WA, pp. 2819-2823, July 2006.
V. I. Morgenshtern and H. Bölcskei, IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, May 2006, (invited paper).
A. Burg, M. Borgmann, M. Wenk, C. Studer, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conf. (DATE), Vol. 1, pp. 593-598, Mar. 2006, (invited paper).
V. I. Morgenshtern, H. Bölcskei, and R. U. Nabar, Proc. IEEE Int. Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Adelaide, Australia, pp. 1211-1215, Sept. 2005.
M. Borgmann and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Adelaide, Australia, pp. 651-655, Sept. 2005.
V. I. Morgenshtern and H. Bölcskei, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 1939-1949, Sept. 2005, (invited paper).
U. G. Schuster, H. Bölcskei, and G. Durisi, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Adelaide, Australia, pp. 97-101, Sept. 2005.
How different are UWB channels from conventional wideband channels?
U. G. Schuster and H. Bölcskei, International Workshop on Convergent Technologies (IWCT), Oulu, Finland, June 2005, (invited paper).
D. Cescato, M. Borgmann, H. Bölcskei, J. Hansen, and A. Burg, Proc. of IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), New York, NY, USA, pp. 945-949, June 2005, (invited paper).
D. E. Quevedo, G. C. Goodwin, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, pp. 1442-1447, Dec. 2004.
M. Borgmann and H. Bölcskei, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, pp. 1941-1947, Vol. 2, Nov. 2004, (invited paper).
R. U. Nabar and H. Bölcskei, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 502-511, Oct. 2004, (invited paper).
M. Gärtner and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), Parma, Italy, pp. 722-727, Oct. 2004.
D. S. Baum and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Vol. 3, pp. 1614-1618, Sept. 2004, (invited paper).
S. Visuri and H. Bölcskei, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Vienna, Austria, pp. 523-527, Sept. 2004, (invited paper).
J. Hansen and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 64, June 2004.
S. Visuri and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, pp. 286-291, June 2004.
H. Bölcskei and R. U. Nabar, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 20, June 2004.
U. G. Schuster, M. Borgmann, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 383, June 2004.
D. Schafhuber, H. Bölcskei, and G. Matz, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 389, June 2004.
R. U. Nabar, F. W. Kneubühler, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Vol. 4, pp. 565-568, May 2004.
R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, Munich, Germany, pp. 253-256, Mar. 2004.
R. U. Nabar and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Francisco, CA, Vol. 4, pp. 1952-1956, Dec. 2003.
R. U. Nabar, Ö. Oyman, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 378-389, Oct. 2003, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei, M. Borgmann, and A. J. Paulraj, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Anchorage, AK, Vol. 4, pp. 2837-2841, May 2003.
Y. Eldar and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of 2003 Workshop on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA'03), May 2003.
R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 5, pp. V61-V64, Apr. 2003.
Ö. Oyman, R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Vol. 1, pp. 521-525, Nov. 2002.
Ö. Oyman, R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Vol. 2, pp. 1172-1176, Nov. 2002.
H. Bölcskei and M. Borgmann, Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 237-246, Oct. 2002, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei, M. Borgmann, and A. J. Paulraj, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Sept. 2002, Toulouse, France, Vol. 2, pp. 413-416, Sept. 2002, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei, R. Koetter, and S. Mallik, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 358, June 2002.
R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Orlando, FL, Vol. 3, pp. 2381-2384, May 2002.
R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, European Wireless 2002, Florence, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 629-634, Feb. 2002.
R. U. Nabar, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Antonio, TX, Vol. 1, pp. 131-135, Nov. 2001.
R. U. Nabar, V. Erceg, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 175-180, Sept. 2001, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei and A. J. Paulraj, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Washington, D.C., pp. 219, June 2001.
H. Bölcskei, R. U. Nabar, V. Erceg, D. Gesbert, and A. J. Paulraj, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Salt Lake City, UT, Vol. 4, pp. 2437-2440, May 2001.
R. W. Heath Jr., H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Salt Lake City, UT, Vol. 4, pp. 2445-2448, May 2001.
D. Gesbert, H. Bölcskei, D. A. Gore, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Francisco, CA, Vol. 2, pp. 1083-1088, Nov. 2000.
H. Bölcskei, R. W. Heath Jr., and A. J. Paulraj, Adaptive Systems for Signal Processing, Communications, and Control Symposium 2000 (AS-SPCC), Lake Louise, Alberta, CA, pp. 58-63, Oct. 2000, (invited paper).
D. Gesbert, H. Bölcskei, D. A. Gore, and A. J. Paulraj, Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove (CA), Vol. 1, pp. 748-752, Oct. 2000, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei and A. J. Paulraj, Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove (CA), Vol. 1, pp. 687-693, Oct. 2000, (invited paper).
H. Sampath, H. Bölcskei, and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall, Boston (MA), Vol. 3, pp. 1175-1178, Sept. 2000.
H. Bölcskei and A. J. Paulraj, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2000, Vol. 1, pp. 1-6, Sept. 2000, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei, D. Gesbert, and A. J. Paulraj, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Istanbul, Turkey, Vol. 5, pp. 2569-2572, June 2000.
H. Bölcskei, R. W. Heath Jr., and A. J. Paulraj, Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove (CA), Vol. 2, pp. 1127-1132, Oct. 1999.
H. Bölcskei, SPIE Proc., "Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VII", Denver (CO), July 1999, Vol. 3813, pp. 625-636, July 1999, (invited paper).
H. Bölcskei, P. Duhamel, and R. Hleiss, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Vancouver B.C., Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 559-564, June 1999.
H. Bölcskei, P. Duhamel, and R. Hleiss, Proc. of IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Annapolis, MD, pp. 154-157, May 1999.
H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Annapolis, MD, pp. 166-169, May 1999.
H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Phoenix, Arizona, Vol. 5, pp. 2749-2752, Mar. 1999.
H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis (TFTS), Pittsburgh (PA), pp. 489-492, Oct. 1998.
H. Bölcskei and F. Hlawatsch, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis (TFTS), Pittsburgh (PA), pp. 509-512, Oct. 1998.
A. F. Molisch and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Conference (PIMRC), Boston (MA), Vol. 2, pp. 884-890, Sept. 1998.
H. Bölcskei, T. Stranz, F. Hlawatsch, and R. Sucher, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Santa Barbara (CA), Vol. 2, pp. 594-597, Oct. 1997.
H. Bölcskei and F. Hlawatsch, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Hong Kong, Vol. 1, pp. 357-360, June 1997.
H. Bölcskei and F. Hlawatsch, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Munich, Germany, Vol. 3, pp. 2453-2456, Apr. 1997.
H. Bölcskei and F. Hlawatsch, Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove (CA), pp. 998-1002, Nov. 1996.
H. Bölcskei, H. G. Feichtinger, K. Gröchenig, and F. Hlawatsch, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Paris (France), pp. 525-528, June 1996.
H. Bölcskei, F. Hlawatsch, and H. G. Feichtinger, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Atlanta (GA), Vol. 2, pp. 409-412, May 1996.
H. Bölcskei, F. Hlawatsch, and H. G. Feichtinger, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Atlanta (GA), Vol. 3, pp. 1391-1394, May 1996.
F. Hlawatsch, T. Twaroch, and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Atlanta (GA), Vol. 3, pp. 1395-1398, May 1996.
H. Bölcskei, H. G. Feichtinger, and F. Hlawatsch, Proc. IEEE UK Sympos. Applications of Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Methods, Univ. of Warwick, Coventry, UK, pp. 249-255a, Aug. 1995.
F. Hlawatsch and H. Bölcskei, Proc. IEEE UK Sympos. Applications of Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Methods, Univ. of Warwick, Coventry (UK), pp. 187-193a, Aug. 1995.
H. Bölcskei, F. Hlawatsch, and H. G. Feichtinger, SPIE Proc. Vol. 2569, "Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing III", San Diego (CA), pp. 128-139, July 1995.
F. Hlawatsch and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Detroit (MI), Vol. 2, pp. 1025-1028, May 1995.
F. Hlawatsch and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis (TFTS), Philadelphia (PA), pp. 52-55, Oct. 1994.
F. Hlawatsch and H. Bölcskei, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis (TFTS), Philadelphia (PA), pp. 524-527, Oct. 1994.
H. Bölcskei, PhD thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Nov. 1997.
H. Bölcskei, Diploma thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Sept. 1994.


Abstract: The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we can decompose this index into indices of spatial dispersion, generalized ethnic fractionalization, and the alignment of spatial and ethnic distances. We use maps of traditional ethnic homelands, historical population density data, and language trees to compute these four indices for more than 150 countries. We apply these indices to study the relation between historical ethnic geography and current economic, political and social outcomes. Among other things, we document that countries with higher historical alignment, i.e., countries where ethnically diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust.


They're baack! Like the previous poster noted, the original owners reopened in Reedy Creek Plaza just about 2 miles away! Delicious and cheap!
Ate at Dharani for lunch today - the buffet was really good! Almost all of the dishes were new to me, which is the whole reason I like going to Indian buffets. Lots of vegetarian choices and everything was clearly labeled. The place was mobbed though so I'm glad we got there at 11:30AM. Will definitely be going back!
I am going to give a shout out to my favorite, Nazara. Out of all the Indian restaurants close to this part of Cary, I think they are the best!
Interesting menu, several uncommon dishes. Will have to give this a try.
We've been a couple of times and it is really good!
My daughter and I ate at Himalayan Range last night. Be both REALLY enjoyed it.
We got a Vindaloo (Chicken) dish, a Saag Paneer and another dish that was black lentles, red beans (and other beans) in Napali Spice. All heated to medium, which was just about right. It was not that hot, but after eating a whole meal, I had a nice glow. (Medium-hot would have been perfect for me, I think "Hot" would have hurt a little).
The service was friendly and prompt, as others noted, the prices were great, and I noticed that this location is much nicer than the one on Chatham.
All in all, a great experience. I will be back! Thanks to all who recommended it.
It's settled. I have to go ASAP.
Plenty of dishes I never had.
3+ desserts, including an avocado pudding with fresh fruit, OMG.


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Dell Canvas is a 27 inch touchscreen display (that looks like a Surface Studio)
Dell is unveiling a new device aimed at creative types looking for a large touchscreen device with support for pen input and the ability to function both as a display and an input device for creating and editing graphics, music, video, and more.
It's called the Dell Canvas, and it looks a lot like Microsoft's Surface Studio, thanks to its large screen and adjustable stand that allows you to use the machine like a monitor or like a slate that's propped up at a gentle angle for drawing.
But Dell's solution isn't an all in one desktop. It's a monitor that you can use with any PC.
That means you may be able to hang onto the system longer, since it might work with your next few computers. And you get a chance to configure your own PC. With a price tag of around $1800, the Canvas is also about half the price of the Studio.
The device is made to work with Windows 10 and it may be the only input decide you need thanks to a virtual trackpad and touchscreen keyboard that can appear on screen.
The display is a 2560 x 1440 pixel screen with 100% color gamut. And it has a matte finish rather than glossy. It also has wide bezels around the display, but that's by design: a Dell rep says the company spoke with artists who wanted to be able to draw lines that would extend to the edge of the screen without their hands falling off.
The big bezels also serve another purpose: there are magnets that can hold the pen and dial accessories in place when they're not in use.
Dell's Canvas is primarily meant to be used in conjunction with a second display, giving you the ability to touch one screen and see the results on another, for instance. When you're editing videos you can manipulate the timeline on the Canvas and see the video output on a primary screen.
There's also a custom version of Stardock's Fences designed to let you organize files and folders on the touchscreen display.
As such, it's really meant to be laid flat or nearly flat on a table, and the built-in kickstand is a small one for that reason. But there's also a separate stand that you can use to position the Canvas as an upright monitor.
Dell is showing off the Canvas plugged into its own computers and secondary monitors, but it should work with just about any computers that support Windows 10. If your PC supports high-speed USB Type-C output, you can connect the Canvas to your computer with a single cable. If not, you may need to use an adapter to use DisplayPort and USB ports simultaneously to power the video and touch components.
The Dell Canvas goes up for pre-order in March and it should begin shipping in April.
Wacom AES or broke
bmlsayshi
Yay! This looks perfect for me. The price is a bit high but not unreasonable considering it's market.
Tsais
I think I'd go with Wacom at that price range – insufficient savings to chance it with Dell….
…Maybe a used one from ebay in a couple of years, for 1/3 the price and after all the pen input bugs got fixed?


If you need to smile, check out the boy who named our Magical and Sunshine scents fly around my family room. Yes, there might be a few more scratches on my floors, and my furniture might be out of place, but my heart is full. Take the time to dance, take a moment and smile, and don't worry about the scratches.
SMILEY PITS NATURAL DEODORANT AGES 4 - 104 Smiley Pits is proud to be participating as a vendor in the Natural Products Expo East Show September 14-16 at the Baltimore Convention Center. This will be Smiley Pits first year participating in this leading natural products industry event.
Am I allergic to Baking Soda or am I going through a PIT DETOX?
I am Rock Tough! I like to surf, play tennis, swim, and play outside. I like to be energetic and nice. I like to get dirty and mess up my hair. Video games have their place, but I'd much prefer to be active and on the go. I'm a sporty kid who will conquer any sport… anywhere… anytime. If I'm not sweating, I'm not playing hard enough. So remember, BE ROCK TOUGH!


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Zidane? Mane? – How Nigeria Captain Musa And Coach Rohr Voted In The Best Fifa Awards
December 18, 2020 KELLYMORE Sports 0
The German coach and the Super Eagles captain played a role in crowning the best coach and best men's player in Wednesday's award ceremony
Nigeria captain Ahmed Musa voted Lionel Messi as the best men's player for 2020 while coach Gernot Rohr picked Robert Lewandowski for the Best Fifa Men's Player award.
Following an incredible 2019-20 season with Bayern Munich, Lewandowski claimed the coveted recognition on Thursday after beating Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Messi to the top prize.
Despite their contrasting choice of winners, Rohr and Musa both had an African star who helped Liverpool end their 30-year wait for an English top-flight title and also won the Fifa Club World Cup last season, in their picks
After selecting the Polish striker as his winner, Rohr picked PSG star Kylian Mbappe for the second spot while Senegal's Sadio Mane was placed in the third position.
Musa, on his part, chose Messi to lead his pick followed by Lewandowski and Mane in the second and third places, respectively.
When the official voting results were released, Lewandowski had a total of 58 points while Ronaldo managed 38 points and Messi had 35 points.
He's done it! @lewy_official overcomes two of the greatest players in history to become #TheBest FIFA Men's Player for the first time!
@FCBayern | @LaczyNasPilka
pic.twitter.com/TK34hTXcsS— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) December 17, 2020
For the Best Fifa Men's Coach for 2020, Musa and Rohr chose Hans-Dieter Flick for the honour after the German's success in his first season at Bayern Munich.
Flick led the Bavarians to a domestic treble of Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal (German Cup), and the DFL-Supercup. He also guided them win the 2019-20 Uefa Champions League and the Uefa Super Cup.
They both voted Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp as the second-best manager in the world after his Premier League success last season but the third spot took a twist.
Musa went for Sevilla's Julen Lopetegui as his third choice after he helped the Liga club win last season's Uefa Europa League, while Rohr chose Real Madrid's Zinedine Zidane, having led the Blancos to claim the Spanish top-flight crown in July.
Although he was level on 24 points with Flick, Klopp was declared winner for the second time in a row after gathering the highest number of votes from national team coaches while Leeds United's Marcelo Bielsa was third with 11 points.
source:- goal


For one, she's the Mother of Dragons!
1. Her facial features are super unique.
Those big blue eyes and full lips are nothing short of stunning. Don't even get us started on her brow game! No wonder every khal, knight, and soldier falls head over heels for this Khaleesi.
2. Check out that bod!
3. She was Esquire's 2015 Sexiest Woman Alive. With a body as hot as that, it's no wonder she seems so comfortable in her own skin.
5. She's just so cute in the Me Before You trailer. Her character is awkward, funny, and has a quirky sense of style. This is going to be a rom-com heroine to remember!
6. Her British accent is just delicious.
Anything she says instantly sounds so sophisticated.
7. But she's great at imitating other accents, too! Check out her talent for accents on Ellen!
8. She can rock both the blonde and brunette look. No matter what color her tresses are, she always looks fly AF! Swerte!
9. She's the Mother of Dragons for crying out loud! As Daenerys Targaryen on GoT, she's fierce, fearless, and fiery. Yaaasss, QUEEN!


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Belief in God among presbyterians in the Evangelical Tradition by views about government aid to the poor
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In this blog, we'll go over an important distinction in regard to search engine optimization: branded and unbranded queries. This seemingly small difference can actually make a big impact on your lead conversion strategy.
It's not uncommon for marketers to put all Google searches into one big pot. They might not differentiate leads until they track their source (social media, PPC ad, organic search, etc).
But searches are different just by the nature of their text. The semantics here are crucial, since they determine whether someone already knows your brand or not.
Someone who typed your brand into Google clearly already has some idea about it. For these leads, your content should focus on demonstrating your brand's excellence compared to other businesses in the industry.
An unbranded query, on the other hand, means that the user might not know your brand yet. Therefore, your content should not only introduce your brand, but also focus on getting the highest possible ranking in Google's search engine results pages. Most users will see a good ranking as indicative of brand credibility, anyway.
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Q: Nested GridView not firing row events I have a nested GridView that is placed inside a ListView. The GridView renders perfectly fine with all the entities that are bound inside its datasource.
Each record in my gridview has two buttons - 'delete' and 'edit'. The issue that I am having is that the methods wired to each of these buttons never get fired.
I think the reason for this behaviour is because my ListView's data binding happens only on the first page load, and not on every subsequent postback. As a result, when a postback happens, the events of the nested gridview are never wired up again - hence my methods are not getting fired.
Here is what my code [simplified] looks like:
<asp:ListView ID="uiListView" ... runat="server">
    <LayoutTemplate>
        ...
    </LayoutTemplate>
    <ItemTemplate>
        ...
        <asp:GridView ID="uiGridView"
                    OnRowDataBound="uiGridView_RowDataBound"
                    OnRowEditing="uiGridView_RowEditing"
                    OnRowDeleting="uiGridView_RowDeleting" runat="server">
            <Columns>
                ...
                <asp:TemplateField>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <asp:Button ID="uiEditRowButton" CausesValidation="false" CommandName="Edit" Text="Edit" runat="server" />
                        <asp:Button ID="uiRemoveRowButton" CausesValidation="false" CommandName="Delete" Text="Remove" runat="server" />
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>
            </Columns>
        </asp:GridView>
        ...
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>

Code Behind:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!IsPostBack) {
        uiListView.ItemDataBound += new EventHandler<ListViewItemEventArgs>(uiListView_ItemDataBound);
        uiListView.DataSource = ...;
        uiListView.DataBind();
    }
}

// Find a GridView and bind relevant data to it
private void uiListView_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem) {
        ListViewDataItem listViewDataItem = (ListViewDataItem) e.Item;

        GridView uiGridView = (GridView)listViewDataItem.FindControl("uiGridView");
        ...
        uiGridView.DataSource = ...;
        uiGridView.DataBind();
    }
}

// For every row being bound to GridView, register the edit and delete
// buttons as postback controls
protected void uiGridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
        Control uiEditButton = e.Row.FindControl("uiEditRowButton");
        if (uiEditButton != null) {
            ScriptManager.GetCurrent(Page).RegisterAsyncPostBackControl(uiEditButton);
        }

        Control uiRemoveRowButton = e.Row.FindControl("uiRemoveRowButton");
        if (uiRemoveRowButton != null) {
            ScriptManager.GetCurrent(Page).RegisterAsyncPostBackControl(uiRemoveRowButton);
        }
    }
}

// Method runs when a GridView's edit button is clicked
protected void uiGridView_RowEditing(object sender, GridViewEditEventArgs e)
{
    Console.WriteLine('Editing Row...');
}

// Method runs when a GridView's delete button is clicked
protected void uiGridView_RowDeleting(object sender, GridViewDeleteEventArgs e)
{
    Console.WriteLine('Deleting Row');
}

I tried modifying the above code and removing the "!IsPostBack" clause, and the events actually got fired when a button inside the GridView was clicked. However, I do not feel comfortable doing a databind on every postback and think there should be a better solution than that.

A: I know this post is old but came across working on my project very late. I'm no expert, but I believe the problems lies with having the ItemDataBound event set within the !Postback. The Databind() can remain in the Postback statement but setting the event needs to be on the outside. On postback, the ItemDataBound event no longer exists and therefore the gridview events do not exists since its contained in the ItemDataBound event of the listview. So
if (!IsPostBack) {
    uiListView.ItemDataBound += new EventHandler<ListViewItemEventArgs>(uiListView_ItemDataBound);
    uiListView.DataSource = ...;
    uiListView.DataBind();
}

should read....
uiListView.ItemDataBound += new EventHandler<ListViewItemEventArgs>(uiListView_ItemDataBound);

if (!IsPostBack) {
    uiListView.DataSource = ...;
    uiListView.DataBind();
}

When setting events on controls in code behind it is normally best to always set them outside of the Posback statement. When setting them on the aspx page this will not matter being it will always exist.

A: I solved this issue but never updated this post. So for anyone interested, here is what the issue is - the wiring of the button events needs to be done in the RowCreated event handler and not the RowCommand event handler.
Why is that? Have a look at what MSDN has to say for each of the two events:

GridView.OnRowCreated Method:
Before
the GridView control can be rendered,
a GridViewRow object must be created
for each row in the control. The
RowCreated event is raised when each
row in the GridView control is
created. This enables you to provide
an event-handling method that performs
a custom routine, such as adding
custom content to a row, whenever this
event occurs.
GridView.OnRowDataBound Method:
Before the GridView control can be rendered,
each row in the control must be bound
to a record in the data source. The
RowDataBound event is raised when a
data row (represented by a GridViewRow
object) is bound to data in the
GridView control. This enables you to
provide an event-handling method that
performs a custom routine, such as
modifying the values of the data bound
to the row, whenever this event
occurs.

Now what is not clear from the msdn write-up is the follows:
OnRowCreated is triggered when a row is created by two different sources

*

*From the DataSource - that gets passed when DataBind is invoked

*From the ViewState - on postback, rows are loaded from the ViewState and not from data source

So as a result, when a postback occurs, we need to bind the button events again on every row. However, because we are doing the wiring of events in the RowCommand, these methods are never being called again - because they only get fired on DataBind. What we need to do instead is wire the buttons inside the RowCreated method, which will be called when we first DataBind data to the GridView, and on every postback when rows are created from the ViewState of the GridView.

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The law on smacking children could be about to change and here's what you need to know
England is the only country where smacking children will remain legal for parents
Ginette Davies
12:40, 9 JAN 2018
Updated 12:41, 9 JAN 2018
New laws coming into force mean rules around smacking children are going to change – with it becoming illegal in some areas of the UK.
In England it's already illegal to hit anyone but there is a legal defence that lets parents smack their children.
But changes are planned in Scottish and Welsh legal systems which could make it illegal to hit a child with no defence.
That will leave England as the only place where parents are legally still allowed to smack their children but could cause problems for any English parents taking their children over the borders.
According to Wales Online, a total smacking ban has moved a step closer as plans to end physical punishment of children have been formally set out.
Wales is planning the remove the legal defence of "reasonable punishment" for smacking their children
The Welsh Government is seeking views on how it should remove the defence of reasonable punishment.
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Minister for children and social care, Huw Irranca-Davies, has launched a 12-week consultation on the Welsh Government's proposal as part of what is described as a wider package of measures aimed at helping parents and giving children the best start in life.
If passed by the National Assembly, it will mean that smacking and all forms of physical punishment against children in Wales will become illegal.
Father-of-three Mr Irranca-Davies said he knew there were differing views on the proposal and the consultation would provide a way to address this. He wants to support parents to feel confident using more effective methods of discipline than physical punishment.
Announcing the consultation the Welsh Government said it has a long standing record of working to ensure children have the best start in life and of promoting children's rights.
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"This is why the Welsh Government is now intending to bring forward legislation to make it clear that physically punishing a child is no longer acceptable in Wales.
"The proposed legislation would not involve the creation of a new offence. It would instead remove a defence to the existing offences of assault and battery. It would mean any adult looking after a child would no longer be able to use physical or corporal punishment against them."
The same protection is given to children as adults from assault in 52 countries around the world and are protected by law from all corporal punishment.
In Wales, as in England, it is currently lawful for a parent or carer to smack their child where it amounts to "reasonable chastisement". This defence is laid down in the Children Act 2004, but it is not defined in the legislation.
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Whether a "smack" amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack, according to legal experts.
Physical punishment is considered "unreasonable" if it leaves a mark on the child or if the child is hit with an implement such as a cane or a belt.
Scotland is expected to become the first part of the UK to introduce a ban on smacking children after the Scottish Government confirmed last October that it would be making the move.
In Ireland the legislation which allowed parents to use force against their children was repealed almost 17 years ago, and a complete ban on smacking was introduced there in 2015.
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Launching the consultation in Wales Mr Irranca-Davies said: "We all want to give our children the best start in life. As a parent of three boys myself, I know being a parent can sometimes be a challenging experience.
"Children do not come with an instruction manual and sometimes parents need guidance and support to help them raise healthy and happy children.
"Our knowledge of what children need to grow and thrive has developed considerably over the last 20 years. We now know that physical punishment can have negative long term impacts on a child's life chances, and we also know it is an ineffective punishment.
"Whilst physically punishing children was accepted as normal practice in previous generations, we know that it is increasingly being seen as less acceptable and parents feel less comfortable
"We want parents in Wales to be confident in managing their children's behaviour without feeling they must resort to physical punishment. If there is any potential risk of harm to a child then it is our obligation as a government to take action.
"Legislation was introduced many years ago to stop physical punishment in schools and child care settings – now is the time to ensure it is no longer acceptable anywhere."
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An NSPPC Wales spokesman said: "The NSPCC has long campaigned for children in Wales to have the same protection against assault as adults so we welcome the steps being taken towards removing the defence of 'reasonable punishment."
"Doing so is a common-sense move which is about fairness and equality for children.
"It is wrong that a defence which does not exist in a case of common assault against an adult can be used to justify striking a child.
"Closing this loophole will bring Wales in line with dozens of countries around the world and finally give our children equal protection under the law."


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Advertising alcohol: the business of selling responsibly
Lebanese spirits distributors talk marketing strategies and techniques
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Just like all commodities, alcohol revenues are significantly impacted by successful branding and marketing campaigns. When well-crafted advertisements are relatable to consumers, these promotions ultimately influence their perceptions and increase the product's popular appeal.
Marketing budgets
Alcohol distributors Executive spoke to say that Lebanon, in comparison to other countries in the region, is an advertising haven because there are no restrictions on alcohol advertisements in media channels.
As such, they consider extensive expenditure on promoting their portfolio of spirits brands (although spirits distributors declined Executive's request to provide the total amount spent on advertising per year) to pay off well in sales. "In Lebanon, there is always a strong impact of advertising in terms of driving sales. Advertisements also have a strong impact on top-of-mind awareness, but also on commercial awareness. Our ultimate objective is to build our brand and have a strong and healthy brand performance," says Ziad Chami, marketing manager at Diageo, the multinational alcoholic beverages company with a portfolio of brands such as Johnnie Walker, Bacardi and Smirnoff.
According to suppliers interviewed for this article, the biggest percentage of their marketing budget is usually spent in December which is, distributors say, typically the busiest month of the year for spirit sales. Carlo Vincenti, owner of G. Vincenti & Sons, characterizes his company's experience: "The months of November and December usually account for 40 percent of annual sales, so obviously we spend a large chunk of our marketing budget in that period whether in traditional media or consumer promotions and visibility. Since December is marked by festivities with lots of family and social gatherings involving both gifting and consumption of spirits, all brands tend to launch special packs with gifts and special offers then."
To each brand its own
Lebanese spirits distributors often work with advertising or PR companies to create the ideal promotional campaign and say each brand requires a tailor-made marketing strategy depending on its positioning and the age group of its target clientele. "Every spirit category and even every brand has its own strategy and marketing objectives that could include the traditional media tools or more targeted and flexible ones," says Vincenti.
Anthony Massoud, managing director of Etablissements Antoine Massoud (EAM), a distributing company with a wide line of spirits including Russian Standard Vodka and Nikka whiskey, says: "Every brand has its own strategy, target audience and complexity. We have more than eighty alcohol brands in our portfolio but we have nine core brands which we focus on in our advertising campaigns."
The classics: television, print and outdoor marketing
Traditionally, mass-media tools such as television, radio spots, print advertisements and outdoor promotions were the most effective means to reach a wide base of consumers. Today, Lebanese spirits distributors still consider these pillar methods for some brands but say they believe there are better, more targeted ways to reach the consumer.
Nahla Haddad, communication manager at Fawaz Holding, a distribution company managing a wide portfolio of brands including spirits such as Chivas Regal, Jameson whiskey and Absolut Vodka, says they don't heavily advertise their spirits portfolio on television for several reasons.
To begin with, according to Haddad, most of the global brands they represent lack advertisements which are localized for the Lebanese market. Moreover, television requires a huge advertising budget which they can more effectively spend on other more engaging media. "Finally, for brands such as Jameson whiskey or Absolut Vodka, the target audience doesn't watch local television and so we prefer to appear where the target is," explains Haddad.
Massoud says he prefers hosting PR events and tastings – where they invite the media and select consumers – to advertisements on television or billboards. "Our marketing is very much PR driven as its effect is sometimes stronger than advertising because here you are talking to the consumer directly and increasing the word of mouth effect which is very important in Lebanon. In mass media, you might reach people who are not interested in your brand, but with PR and events you are getting your message across directly to a few people that represent a lot to your brand rather than the masses who might not be interested," explains Massoud.
The rise of digital media
Discussions with distributors did not indicate the collapse of traditional advertising methods, only their supplement with more engaging forms of advertisement. "In general, traditional advertising is still a key part of our advertising mix. But, over the last few years, we have become more active on social and digital media, which is a trend that is happening all over the world and is becoming a more important part of the mix," says Chami.
Davina Atallah, creative director at Leo Burnett which works with Diageo on advertising in Lebanon, says they found a creative way to engage consumers through a mix of social media and outdoor advertising in Johnnie Walker's Keep the Flame Alive campaign.
In that campaign, recalls Atallah, they asked members of the public across Lebanon why they believe it is worth staying in the country; Leo Burnett then had a fire calligrapher flame-write these statements on the spot, took pictures of the final results and uploaded them on social media. They also released these flame-written statements on LED billboards across the country. "It was an evolution in terms of the brand, from the Keep Walking campaign which focused on stories of well-known Lebanese to a story about the resilience of the Lebanese people [through the Keep the Flame Alive campaign], creating an interaction with them which we had never done before," says Chami.
Haddad says social media has allowed them to develop a two-way channel of communication with their consumers, while also reaching out to the younger generation for brands such as Ballantine whiskey which were commonly associated with an older generation in Lebanon. For the launch of Ballantine limited edition "Beirut" bottle, Fawaz Holding asked people to share pictures reflecting the true spirit of Beirut on the company's social media pages. The pictures were then reproduced with an image of Ballantine's Beirut bottle embedded in them and the name of the photographer who took them mentioned on Fawaz's social media pages. Those with the best pictures, as voted by Fawaz's communications team, won the limited edition bottle. "Within three weeks, we were able to increase our fan base, recruit a younger audience and enforce brand awareness," says Haddad.
The mass and the direct
For categories with a wide appeal to consumers, such as vodka, a mass-marketing approach emphasizing their association with a party spirit works best, explains Massoud. Therefore, Massoud says they invest in sponsorships of design events across Beirut and parties such as Decks on the Beach in the summer or of bars such as the new Pacifico (where they have a banner above the bar).
Vincenti also invests in hosting parties with international DJs through Poliakov, a vodka brand in their portfolio, but they are best known for their Jim Beam Rocks musical festival, a now annual event produced by Jim Beam at the beginning of the summer season showcasing local bands as well as one major international act.
On the other hand, according to Massoud, some categories of spirits, such as malt whiskies and wines, are a more refined niche and benefit from targeted marketing involving direct interaction with the consumer. "In single malts, the one-to-one approach is very important. You need to take your time with the consumers, educate and initiate them: it's a long but solid process. This is why we launched The Malt Gallery (EAM's specialized whiskey retail store) as it is an ideal platform to talk directly to the consumer," explains Massoud, adding that this can also be done through tasting plans in other specialized outlets.
Bartenders are key
Massoud says EAM devises their alcohol marketing campaigns based on whether the particular spirit's category is consumer or trade driven. With trade-driven brands (mainly used in bars and clubs) Massoud says it is better to invest in the outlets themselves, while with consumer-driven brands interacting directly with the consumers becomes very important.
As such, bartenders and bar owners become the biggest allies of spirit distributors and priority is given to marketing and promotions targeted at influencing spirit choice when preparing cocktails or establishing their bars.
Many spirits distributors invest in bringing brand ambassadors or expert international bartenders to Lebanon to give workshops and training to local bartenders. Some spirits distributors organize worldwide annual mixology (bartending) competitions where the winner of a country-wide contest goes on to represent Lebanon, and their bar, in the international competition. Speaking of the Diageo World Class competitions, Chami says: "The objective is to raise the bar when it comes to mixology and bartending. Sales-wise, World Class creates a strong engagement between the bartenders, and the trade itself, with our brands; it will translate into a stronger performance of our reserve portfolio when it comes to the on-trade."
Nabila Rahhal
Nabila is Executive's hospitality, tourism and retail editor. She also covers other topics she's interested in such as education and mental health. Prior to joining Executive, she worked as a teacher for eight years in Beirut. Nabila holds a Masters in Educational Psychology from the American University of Beirut. Send mail
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Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and whether you love or loathe this holiday, each year February 14th marks a day where we have the chance to formally recognize and appreciate the most important people in our lives (including ourselves!). We can show recognition and appreciation in many different ways (including flowers and chocolates) but it's important to know the difference between the two. We often use these words interchangeably when, in practice, they aren't actually the same thing.
Recognition is the way that we acknowledge specific success or accomplishment through different rewards. We might be recognized at work for meeting our sales goals with an end of the year bonu$. We might recognize our children at home for getting an 'A' on their homework with praise. But, next month our colleague might beat our sales goals. And tomorrow, our child might get in trouble at school. The problem with recognition is that the spotlight can only shine on us for so long before it's someone else's turn.
And that's not inherently a bad thing. Studies have shown that recognition efforts in the workplace boost morale, motivate, and engage employees. But most importantly, these studies also show that 'recognition-rich' environments have the greatest impact. And these are the cultures and climates that prioritize appreciation as a core value.
So, how do we show our family, friends, and colleagues that we appreciate them?
Dr. Gary Chapman believes that that there are five distinct "Love Languages": Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. These 'languages' are the different ways in which people give and receive love. Now, 'love' in this context can be a romantic love, platonic love, or as we've been exploring, appreciation and recognition. We all have a language or two that we are better versed in than others and that is our preference. You can take an assessment online to determine your preferred love language, but you also might already have a pretty good idea yourself.
For me, I know that I prefer to give and receive love through Quality Time. At work, I don't need words of affirmation or praise to feel valued by my employer or my peers, it actually makes me pretty uncomfortable. Instead, I'd much rather have the opportunity to engage meaningfully with my team inside and outside of the office – whether it's a really energizing brainstorming session in a meeting, teambuilding at a local escape room, mentorship opportunities, or staff development days. This is important for my team to know about me! When we can show meaningful individualized appreciation for people then they will be more likely to be responsive and to feel motivated.
That being said, what's even harder than determining your own personal needs is effectively meeting the needs of others with the right offers. My work team is incredibly diverse in terms of personality, communication styles, background and experience. It's not a surprise that we also all have different love languages. I have to be aware that my preferred love language might not resonate with my colleague. It might seem obvious, but appreciation isn't one-size-fits-all. If we lead life with this assumption then we are setting ourselves up for misunderstanding and conflict. For example, my preference for quality time might be perceived by members of my team as demonstrating favoritism. Or, I might see someone's preference for words of affirmation as fishing for compliments. We have to be considerate of the individual ways that people like to be appreciated or recognized because everyone has their own unique needs.
This process can be especially challenging if you aren't fluent in someone else's preference. We might avoid giving gifts or engaging in acts of service because it makes us feel awkward or uncomfortable. But then, we miss out on incredibly easy opportunities to strengthen our interpersonal relationships and group dynamic. It's important to know that all of these languages can be learned! Take time to get comfortable with the basics. For example, when practicing words of affirmation I start with simple phrases like "I really appreciate how you…" or "Thank you for…" You don't have to be perfect, you just have to be honest. No matter what love language you are working to develop, make sure that your efforts are always heartfelt, genuine, and specific. Over time, these languages will become more natural for you. This fluency, like in any language, will allow you to better understand, communicate, and navigate differences with others.
Appreciation is one of the simplest and most cost effective ways that you can strengthen your team and create a positive, connected company culture and climate. Like anything, it does take intentionality and practice, but in the end, learning how to do this well will only improve your relationships with others. You will be more understanding of and grateful for different expressions of love, be better able to communicate your own needs, and be ready to give the forms of appreciation that people really need to feel valued, fulfilled, and motivated.
Post-It Displays of Appreciation: Use Post-It notes to spread notes of appreciation around the office.
Appreciation Taps: This activity allows teammates to honestly and anonymously affirm each other and their contributions.
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Teambuilding Day – Let your team play a little by taking them up on a ropes course or to a local escape room.


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This post documents my own little 'Moon Salutation' sequence beside the Kasbah Tamadot's pool on my trip to Morocco; a cooling and quieting session of nocturnal Yoga. I've always loved Yoga as a form of exercise for mind & body, but having not practiced for far too long, I felt like a true novice once again. On this silent, misty mountain night, I remembered why I love it so much. To my mind, Yoga is an ethos unto itself, and a way of life – the goal is to achieve total health rather than just an aesthetic result. Below is a collection of my 10 fave, basic yoga poses alongside some photos and notes to explain each movement briefly. In the past, I've found it a fabulous beginner's routine to practise on a daily basis. For my session, I'm wearing some favourites from the Sweaty Betty's spring/summer 'yoga retreat'. Click here for more….
"Yoga is skill in Action" says the Bhagavad Gita, probably the best known of Indian philosophical epics. Struck me as an appropriate place to start!
This pose looks easy but I still find it tough! You'll want to interweave & cross your shins, and each foot should sit beneath the opposite knee. Try to sit with your pelvis in a relatively neutral position. A fabulous stretch from which I always feel the benefit the next day.
Inhale and bend your knees and place your palms flat on the ground beside your feet. Take your left foot back as far as you can (standing on the ball of your foot), look up and push your hips forward. You'll basically be standing in a lunge positing but your torso should be resting on your front thigh and your back leg extended fully as well.
Standing in Tadasana, step your feet apart and raise your arms, and then reach them out to your sides keeping the palms down. Turn your right foot slightly to the right and your left foot out to the left 90 degrees. Keep the left heel in alignment with the right heel. Breathe out and bend your left knee over the left ankle.
Lying on your back, slowly bend from the hip joints to lower your toes to the floor over your head. Try to keep your legs fully extended. With your toes on the floor lift your hands against the lower torso for support. Slowly roll out of the pose and onto your back again. It's a good idea to practice against a wall and slowly walk you feet down against the wall until you get comfortable.
Straighten your feet so they are lying on the mat. Inhale, press your hands down onto the floor and straighten your arms whilst lifting your torso up and your legs should be slightly off the floor so your resting on your feet. Look straight ahead.
Exhale, with force push your thighs back and try to press your heels onto the floor, keeping your knees straight (but avoid locking).
Lying on the floor, bend your knees and put your feet on the floor, push your tailbone upward toward the pubis, lift and squeeze your buttocks off the floor until the thighs are about parallel to the floor. Stay in the pose 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Bring your right foot forward under you and let your right shin rest on the floor in front of you. Lower the your right buttock on the floor. The right heel just in front of the left hip. Your left leg should remain straight. Slowly exhale and bring your torso down onto your right thigh.
Stay in this position for 30 seconds – 1 minute; slowly with your hands on the floor slide the right leg back and then repeat with the legs reversed.
Kneeling on the floor, sit on your knees, separating them about as wide as your hips, and touch your feet. (I'm reaching out in front of me as an alternative). Rest your torso between your thighs. This is a resting pose and you can hold it anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes.
Keep your feet c. 4 feet apart, raise your arms parallel to the floor and reach out to the sides. Turn your left foot in slightly to the right, and your right foot out, aligning the right heel with the left heel. Turn your right thigh out. Extend your torso to the right directly over the right leg. Make sure to bend from the hip joint, not the waist. Then place your right hand on the floor, shin or ankle, whichever feels comfortable, whilst remaining in the right position. Stretch your left arm toward the ceiling, and keep your head in a neutral position.
This looks like a great routine. i'll definitely give it a go. Thanks for the tip.
I'm gonna have to start doing yoga soon — it really looks like something I would enjoy!
Go for it! Definitely one of the most relaxing and recharging fitness activities I practise!
Oh God Faya you're awesome. i just loved the way you taught yoga, perfect! wonderful! and i loved the theme as well, it matched so much with the activity. gorgeous!!
Beautiful blog, I'm a new follower!
Doing yoga in Morocco sounds like a magical way to spend your time. The pictures are mesmerizing.
Oh, you're so beautiful that I lost track of the poses! What a magical place, and who took those gorgeous photos?
I think I could manage some of the poses, but upward facing dog will have to wait for me to get my bendy-ness back lol!
Thank you so much for the lovely words! Magical is exactly how I'd describe that wonderful sanctuary!! I'm super lucky to work with a photographer who's very talented indeed, and is responsible for all of the imagery on my blog Good luck with the flexibility !!


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