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Our team recently exhibited at the UK's only event dedicated to marketing technology, TFM (Technology for Marketing), at London's Olympia in the first year that the major event merged with Ecommerce Expo and Customer Contact Expo.
As a leading ecommerce agency and regulars to the event which is free to visitors that this year included Amazon, Sony, and Google, we exhibited with our friends from Kentico, providers of the only all-in-one ASP.NET CMS that fully integrates web content management with ecommerce, online marketing, and intranet on one platform.
As an elite Kentico Gold Partner, it was a great pleasure to work together with Kentico to answer visitor questions and demonstrate the platform's capabilities, as well as sharing more of our platform knowledge through showing examples of our client portfolio which includes Twinings, HMV, and Pure.
As an elite Kentico Gold Partner, it was a great pleasure to work together with Kentico to answer visitor questions and demonstrate the platform's capabilities.
Spread across two days, the event brings together over 100 marketing technology providers (the widest range at any UK event), giving visitors a single place to source and optimise the technology and services required across the customer journey, with talks by those leading the way in marketing and technology.
Ridgeway delivered a number of talks to a full house, with our Managing Director Simon Lassam discussing the common factors of websites and elephants – principally the preparation and commitment required, before dedication to the aftercare of the solution chosen. Our Performance Lead, Graeme, and Business Development Manager, Stuart, also delivered talks on the aptly titled 'Life's A Pitch', which provided key tips and thinking for navigating the minefield of briefing and pitching digital projects.
The event was a huge success and it was great to catch up with the guys from Kentico – we really enjoyed showing visitors the capabilities and successes of the platform, and it was even more enjoyable to chat to visitors over a beer during Happy Hour on both days! We're already looking forward to next year's TFM event.
To find out more about any of the talks our team delivered at the event, or to discover how Kentico's platform could suit your business, why not get in touch?


WHEREAS, on the 19th day of October, 1972, Presidential Decree No. 24, amended certain Sections of Republic Act No. 1161, as amended, otherwise known as "The Social Security Law;"
The legitimate spouse, the legitimate, legitimated, acknowledged natural children, natural children by legal fiction, AND OTHER ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, and their legitimate descendants, AND the legitimate parents.
In the absence of any of the foregoing, any other persons designated by him."
"Sec. 9. Compulsory Coverage. (A) Coverage in the SSS shall be compulsory upon all employees not over sixty years of age and their employers: Provided, That any benefit already earned by employees under private benefit plans existing at the time of the approval of this Act shall not be discontinued, reduced or otherwise impaired: Provided, further, That private plans which are existing and in force at the time of compulsory coverage shall be integrated with the plan of the SSS in such a way where the employer's contribution to his private plan is more than that required of him in this Act he shall pay to the SSS only the contribution required of him and he shall continue his contribution to such private plan less his contribution to the SSS so that the employer's total contribution to his private benefit plan and to the Social Security System shall be the same as his contribution to his private plan before the compulsory coverage: Provided, further, That any changes, adjustments, modifications, eliminations or improvements in the benefits to be available under the remaining private plan, which may be necessary to adopt by reason of the reduced contribution thereto as a result of the integration, shall be subject to agreements between the employers and employees concerned: Provided, further, That the private benefit plan which the employer shall continue for his employees shall remain under the employer's management and control unless there is an existing agreement to the contrary: Provided, finally, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as a limitation on the right of employers and employees to agree on and adopt benefits which are over and above those provided under this Act.
"(B) FILIPINOS RECRUITED IN THE PHILIPPINES BY FOREIGN-BASED EMPLOYERS FOR EMPLOYMENT ABROAD MAY BE COVERED BY THE SSS ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS UNDER SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS AS THE COMMISSION MAY PRESCRIBE."
One tenth of one per cent of the average monthly salary credit for each monthly contribution in excess of one hundred twenty and paid as of the last day of the second quarter preceding the quarter of retirement: Provided, That a member of the SSS covered prior to June 18, 1962 and who was fifty years of age or over on the date of his coverage shall be entitled to the benefits hereunder if he has paid a number of monthly contributions equivalent to the number of calendar months of coverage at age sixty, but in no case less than twenty-four: Provided, further, That the monthly pension shall in no case be less than forty-five pesos: PROVIDED, FINALLY, THAT THE FOREGOING SCHEDULE SHALL TAKE EFFECT ON JANUARY 1, 1974.
2. Upon the recovery of an employee retired due to permanent total disability, or his failure to present himself for examination at least once a year upon notice by the SSS."
1. He shall have paid eighteen monthly contributions within the thirty-six calendar month period ending on the last day of the second quarter preceding the quarter of death.
2. His payment ratio is not less than eighty per cent.
Provided, further, That if none of the foregoing conditions are satisfied, his death benefit shall be the above amount multiplied by one and one-fourth times his payment ratio: Provided, finally, That the death benefit shall not be less than the total contributions paid by him and his employer in his behalf to the SSS nor less than five hundred pesos: Provided, however, That the covered employee who dies in the month of coverage shall be entitled to the minimum benefit."
"(b) The payment of such allowances shall be promptly made by the employer every regular pay day or on the fifteenth and last day of each month in the case of direct payment by the SSS for as long as such allowances are due and payable: Provided, THAT SUCH ALLOWANCE SHALL BEGIN ONLY AFTER ALL CURRENT SICK LEAVES OF ABSENCE WITH FULL PAY, IF ANY, TO THE CREDIT OF THE EMPLOYEE SHALL HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED."
(e) For purposes of this section, any employer who is delinquent or has not remitted all the monthly contributions due and payable may within six (6) months from approval of this amendatory act remit said contributions to the SSS and submit the corresponding collection lists therefor without incurring the prescribed three per cent penalty. In case the employer fails to remit to the SSS the said contributions within the six months grace period, the penalty of three per cent shall be imposed from the time the contributions first became due as provided in paragraph (a) of this section: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE ADMINISTRATOR, MAY IN MERITORIOUS CASES, ALLOW EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE SUBMITTED A PAYMENT PLAN, ON OR BEFORE APRIL 19, 1973, TO PAY THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS DUE AND PAYABLE UP TO DECEMBER 31, 1973 WITHOUT INCURRING THE PRESCRIBED THREE PER CENT PENALTY."
"(g) As part of its investment operations the SSS shall act as insurer of all or part of its interests on properties mortgaged to the SSS or on the lives of mortgagors whose properties are mortgaged to the SSS in accordance with such rules and regulations prescribed by the Social Security Commission. For this purpose, the SSS shall establish a separate account to be known as the "Mortgagors' Insurance Account." All amounts received by the SSS in connection with the aforesaid insurance operations shall be placed in the Mortgagors' Insurance Account. The assets and liabilities of the Mortgagors' Insurance Account shall at all times be clearly identifiable and distinguishable from the assets and liabilities in all other accounts of the SSS. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the assets held in the Mortgagors' Insurance Account shall not be chargeable with the liabilities arising out of any other business the SSS may conduct but shall be held and applied exclusively for the benefit of the owners or beneficiaries of the insurance contracts issued by the SSS under this paragraph.
"The SSS may insure any of its interests or parts thereof with any private company or reinsurer.
"The Insurance Commission or its authorized representatives shall make an examination into the financial condition and methods of transactions business of the SSS at least once in two years BUT SUCH EXAMINATION SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE INSURANCE OPERATION OF THE SSS AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS SECTION AND SHALL NOT EMBRACE THE OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE SSS; and the report of said examination shall be submitted to the SSC and a copy thereof shall be furnished the Office of the President of the Philippines within a reasonable time after the close of the examination: Provided, That, for each examination the SSS shall pay to the Insurance Commission an amount equal to the actual expenses of the Insurance Commission in the conduct of the examination, including the salaries of the examiners and of the actuary of the Insurance Commission who have been assigned to make such examination for the actual time spent in said examination.
"The general law on insurance promulgated thereunder shall have suppletory-application insofar as it is not in conflict with the SS Law and its rules and regulations."
"Sec. 28. Penal Clause. (a) Whoever, for the purpose of causing any payment to be made under this Act, or under an agreement thereunder, where none is authorized to be paid, shall make or cause to be made false statement or representation as to any compensation paid or received, or whoever makes or causes to be made any false statement of a material fact in any claim for any benefit payable under this Act, or application for loan with the SSS, or whoever makes or causes to be made any false statement, representation, affidavit, or document, in connection with such claim, shall SUFFER THE PENALTIES PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO OF THE REVISED PENAL CODE."
(e) Whoever fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of this Act or with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred pesos nor more than five thousand pesos, or imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court: PROVIDED, THAT, WHERE THE VIOLATION CONSISTS IN FAILURE OR REFUSAL TO REGISTER EMPLOYEES, OR TO DEDUCT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EMPLOYEE'S COMPENSATION AND REMIT THE SAME TO THE SSS, THE PENALTY SHALL BE A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE HUNDRED PESOS NOR MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND PESOS AND IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT LESS THAN SIX MONTHS NOR MORE THAN ONE YEAR."
Sec. 9. This Decree shall form part of the law of the land and shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.


In a world where our kids know how to use our portable technology better than we do, it's good to know somebody's looking out for their health. In the case of Griffin Technology, Inc., it's their hearing that's being monitored with new MyPhones volume limiting, over-the-ear headphones. Comfy and customizable for kids aged three to 12, these headphones will let you safely keep your children busy with iPods, iPhones, portable DVD players, gaming consoles and other time consuming tech when you need it most (think airplanes and doctor's offices).
The volume limit of these headphones is 85 decibels, which is the level that pediatric audiology and safety agencies suggest as ideal for little ones. It's also suggested you give them a break at least every hour or two to keep ears protected from damage. Though not the first to come out with this technology specifically for children (See Good for Your Soul, Bad for Your Hearing) Griffin thinks its design and flexibility makes them unlike the others.
The flexible design comes with soft, rubber ear cushions and an adjustable band, while the shell caps are removable and be interchanged with three different design inserts. And if they're really creative, kids can use the inserts as a template to draw their own by going to www.myphoneskids.com, where they can upload their own designs or download others. And did we say creative? The packaging of the MyPhones can be used as a plastic carrying case for the headphones and an iPod for easy organization.


On 14 th February 2017, we organised a programme "Melodies of Love" in ground floor auditorium. Exccept Octopad all the instrumental accompanying is done by college students themselves. It was a mixture of semi classical and non classical songs with sone fun in the form of games etc in between.
Special thanks to Junior College Music Association. Junior college students not only accompanied the senior college studetns in planning the event but also helped in planning and managing the event.


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Drake and Ed Sheeran are Spotify's most streamed artists
Drake – 'In My Feelings'. Picture: YouTube screenshot
The music streaming platform has released the list of their most popular artists and songs for its 10th anniversary.
Spotify turned 10 years old this week and as part of its birthday celebrations, it released several all-time lists showing which artists and songs are the most streamed on its platform.
Topping out the list of most streamed artists of all time was rapper Drake, with British singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran coming in second. Eminem landed at third, followed by The Weeknd and Rhianna.
Sheeran bagged his own top spot with the most streamed song on the service – the single Shape Of You – and Drake settled in second with One Dance. The Chainsmokers occupy the third spot with the single Closer. Sheeran also topped the list for most streamed album globally for his 2017 release Divide, ahead of Justin Bieber's Purpose and Drake's View.
Rhianna was the top female streamed artist globally on Spotify, beating out the likes of Ariana Grande, Sia, Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj.
Most-streamed songs of all time
1. Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
2. Drake – One Dance
3. The Chainsmokers, Halsey – Closer
4. Post Malone – Rockstar (feat. 21 Savage)
5. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
6. Major Lazer, MØ, DJ Snake – Lean On
7. Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber – Despacito – Remix
8. Justin Bieber – Love Yourself
9. Justin Bieber – Sorry
10. The Chainsmokers – Don't Let Me Down
Top-streamed artists of all time
2. Ed Sheeran
4. The Weeknd
5. Rihanna
6. Kanye West
7. Coldplay
8. Justin Bieber
9. Calvin Harris
10. Ariana Grande
Most-streamed female artists globally
2. Ariana Grande
3. Sia
6. Adele
9. Katy Perry
10. Shakira
More of Spotify's all-time lists are available over on its official blog.
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Last weekend in perhaps as many as 100 cities around the world open data enthusiasts held hackathons. Here in DC we too were celebrating February 23 as International Open Data Day. And it was, dare I say, a great success.
Press coverage is listed at the end.
Our approach to the hackathon was a little different than many others. Our goals were to strengthen the open data community, to foster connections between people and between projects, and to emphasize problem statements over prototypes and solutions. There was no beer or pizza at our hackathon, no competitions, and no pressure to produce outputs. Participants came motivated and stayed focused without needing to be treated like brogrammers. This created a positive, welcoming, and highly productive environment.
In the morning Eric Mill (Sunlight Foundation/@konklone) ran a several-hours-long tutorial on open data for about 40 participants. Some were new to coding. Others were project managers (inside and outside of government) who wanted to learn more about what open data is all about from the ground up. Eric walked the participants through exploring APIs through the web browser and using command-line tools to process CSV files — a very concrete way to explain the benefits of adding structure to data.
Several projects focused on local DC issues: mapping zoning restrictions (more), graphing public and charter school enrollment and (other education data), mapping trees by species, and building a database of social service providers.
A large team of map hackers worked on mapping Kathmandu in Open Street Map to aid disaster response, and with their collaborators around the world mapped over 7,000 building footprints.
Global poverty and international development was the focus of several other projects, from building APIs for international development project performance data to measuring poverty in real time using Twitter.
The open government projects worked on adding semantic information to legislative documents, comparing legislative documents for similarity, extracting legal citations, cataloging our government representatives at the local level, and building "devops" tools for rapid deployment of VMs that might be useful in government or for open data researchers.
The event was organized by me (Josh Tauberer/GovTrack/@JoshData), Eric Mill (Sunlight Foundation/@konklone), Katherine Townsend (USAID/@DiploKat), Dmitry Kachaev (Presidential Innovation Fellow/Millennium Challenge Corporation/@kachok), Sam Lee (The World Bank/@OpenNotion), and Julia Bezgacheva (@ulkins/The World Bank).
Thanks to The World Bank especially, and to Google, the participants that helped out with registration in the morning, and to everyone who came!
This was DC's second open data day. Our first was on Dec. 3, 2011 and was co-hosted by POPVOX (Josh Tauberer) and Wikimedia DC (Katie Filbert). See what we did on the post-event recap at https://www.popvox.com/features/opendataday2011. Participants then worked on improving access to U.S. law, scanning federal spending for anomalies following Benford's Law, understanding farm subsidy grants, building local transit apps, and keeping Congress accountable. Only about half of the participants were programmers, buteveryone found a way to be involved.
It was also DC's second international development data day. The last one was held on December 9, 2012 in the lead-up to the Development DataJam hosted by White House's Office of Science & Technology. Those events primarily served as ideation jams to bring together issue area experts and data experts to develop new ideas and partner for new solutions. Experts were sought out to inform the discussions, but anyone with an interest in open data in development were welcomed and participated.
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Do you know the haunted history of Wesleyan?
Students don't have to go to a haunted house to get spooked.
With the numerous buildings that are supposedly haunted on campus, students might find themselves in the presence of a ghost studying in the library or attending a play at the Thad Smotherman Theatre.
Dean of Freshman Joe "Pro Joe" Brown said several buildings are haunted on campus, but the most famous story is of Georgia, the ghost in the Fine Arts Building.
"When I came here in 1978 I heard about this ghost from Mason Johnson, who at that time was chair of theatre," he said. "I think he has been given credit with naming her."
Brown said she was supposedly a ghost who had a seat in the balcony of the auditorium.
"When they remodeled and had to close Fine Arts down for wiring, at that time, the person who was currently the dean, which was Jeff Walters, had a particular colored chair put on the ground floor so when they had campus tours they could show, 'Oh that's the chair of the famous ghost,' but he did that for convenience," he said. "The real chair is up on the balcony of the second row."
Brown spent many all-nighters working in the building but he said he never had an encounter with Georgia.
"I would be up there working and looking around and I never sensed her presence," he said. "I never sensed a positive or negative energy."
There are stories about a ghost running down a stairwell in the Dan Waggoner Hall, the School of Education building, Brown said.
"The theory was that it was someone who was killed in the war, a man," he said.
The Methodist Conference Center used to be what was called the Dillow House, Brown said. The house originally belonged to Audrey Dillow, who attended Wesleyan and was given the house by her parents. The house sat in the historic commercial part of Polytechnic when it was a town.
Dillow ended up donating the home to Wesleyan and has since died. Wesleyan used to use the building for the alumni association and various student groups. Brown said a woman who he worked with on plant operations sensed Dillow was still had a positive presence in the house.
"When it was still being used by students, the women who would go in and help with setup talked about she would hear a rocking chair going and it was up in Audrey Dillow's bedroom," Brown said.
The Boyd House, which sits on the corner of Avenue E and Wesleyan Street, and is now home to the Language Company, is the oldest house in the Polytechnic Heights neighborhood, Brown said. Campus police would talk about seeing a light turned on in the house while they were doing their rounds late at night, Brown said.
"Supposedly, they saw what looked like the image of a small girl," he said. "They would go in and the light would go off and they would leave and do the rounds and see the light back on."
One year, Brown said, ghost professionals came to Wesleyan and he showed them different buildings, such as the Dillow house, where they got a reading for a positive presence on the second floor.
"Then when they went to the Boyd House and they went up to the second floor, they kind of got spooked and wanted to leave because it said they were getting what they consider a negative energy reading," he said.
A security guard claimed a photo he took of Ann Waggoner Hall before it burned down showed a woman looking out a window, Brown said.
"There was a photograph that this man, and since then he's deceased, but he would take it and show it to people of what looked like a female figure looking out of the third floor," Brown said. "The third floor was closed off but the first and second floor were faculty offices."
After the new library was built, Brown said there were reports from housekeepers who said there was a ghost flushing toilets on the third floor after hours. Louis Sherwood, associate professor and university archivist, works on the third floor of the library and said he has heard some strange noises while alone up there.
"I would hear what would sound like a door opening and shutting and I would go outside to look and see and there was no one," Sherwood said. "I walked outside and walked all the way around and there was nothing."
Sherwood said he has also heard books moving on shelves when no one was around.
"I have never seen anything but it makes you wonder after a while what's going on because there is clearly no one there," he said. "Why is there all this noise if there is no one here?"
Alanna James, a senior history education major, lives in West Village and she said she has experienced strange occurrences in her room.
"A lot of times I will have experiences where books will fall off my bookshelf," James said.
One of the more prominent strange situations James said she experienced happened after she put her keys on her door knob.
"One time they were completely still but once I sat on my bed they started swinging back and worth kind of violently and then immediately stopped by itself," she said.
Katie Matthews, a senior criminal justice major, said when she lived in Stella Hall she always sensed a presence in her room and sometimes things would start moving on their own.
"There was just a lot of weird noises and whatnot so I just made a joke of it, like it's a ghost I named Henry just to have fun with it so I wouldn't get scared," Matthews said.
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Carolyn littleton • Jan 31, 2020 at 8:34 pm
When the old auditorium was remodeled what happened to the organ?
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The price of oil retreated slightly in thin trading Monday to close below $100.
The price of oil bounced around but closed with a gain Wednesday as the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to start to reduce its monetary stimulus and U.S. oil supplies fell for a third straight week.
The price of oil edged lower Tuesday as investors wait to see whether or not the U.S. Federal Reserve will decide to start reducing its monetary stimulus this week.
The price of oil fell 1 percent Wednesday after the government reported a large buildup in supplies of gasoline and distillate fuels such as diesel.
The price of oil fell slightly Monday, the first decline in seven trading sessions.
The price of oil rose again Friday on signs of a stronger job market in the U.S. and finished the week with a gain of more than 5 percent.
The price of oil rose above $95 Thursday as the U.S. job market showed more signs of recovering.
The price of oil rose slightly Tuesday as traders waited for new clues on U.S. economic strength and the amount of oil and gasoline in supply.
The price of oil slipped close to $93 a barrel on Monday, ahead of the resumption of negotiations in Geneva meant to curb Iran's nuclear program.
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To stimulate and support innovative entrepreneurship in the domain of photonics, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel organizes the third edition of its "Intensive Training on Entrepreneurship in Photonics".
The training targets researchers of universities and research institutes, young professionals, employees of photonics-related companies, lawyers, business angels, consultants… and therefore everybody who is involved or interested in entrepreneurship in photonics.
The training, held in Brussels from Monday 5 March 2012 till Wednesday 14 March 2012, has a modular concept. It builds on the expertise and the educational program developed at the institution over the years, in close collaboration between the Business Economics Department (BEDR) and the Department of Photonics and Applied Physics (B-PHOT/TONA).
More information about the programme, as well as registration forms and testimonials of previous participants can be found in here.
Tom Guldemont, the coordinator of this training (tom.guldemont@b-phot.org) or to Bernadette Callebaut at bernadette.callebaut@b-phot.org.


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AKA: None
Length: OAV, 60 minutes
Distributor: VHS and R1 DVD from ADV Films
Related Series: None
Notes: Based on a one-shot manga by Urushihara Satoshi.
A scientist has just discovered a deadly new application for the electromagnetic technology used to levitate cities high above the clouds, and is promptly assassinated by a small faction of the government before he can warn others about it. His 16-year-old daughter Elysse barely escapes with her life. Taking an escape pod to one of these floating cities, she is almost recaptured except for the interference of pet-shop hunter Tita (I swear I am not making this up).
Tita is the very young captain of her pet-shop hunter crew, and takes it upon herself to help Elysse pay the government back for the killing of her father and to help make sure that her father's technology will never be misused. But it's just a few against an entire army...does Tita have what it takes to succeed?
Plastic Little is one of those anime that has gained its own (perhaps unfair) notoriety among fans. When you read the back of the box cover describing this title, you'd think that Plastic Little was some sort of ecchi title from the selling points they make ("Lots and lots of hot action and gratuitous nudity! Gorgeous babes!"). That having been said, yes, Plastic Little has all that. But it would be unfair to say that's all that it's about Plastic Little is a surprisingly fun title to watch, provided you're not in the mood for something with a little substance.
As a title that's meant to cater to the drooling otaku, Little delivers. The art is at least above average, with bright, rich colors and sharp backgrounds to match. Character designs are especially well-rendered, gorgeously drawn in a compelling style normally reserved for ecchi titles (not that I'd know anything about that). The animation is well-done, too, at times achieving some truly nifty effects during the action scenes. And, yes, there's a good deal of gratuitous fan-service towards the beginning with the type of (ahem) animation you'd expect, earning it the nickname I won't share here*.
The story is surprisingly coherent, given its penchant towards fan service, although its certainly not anything that will win any awards anytime soon. There's nothing terribly original about this story (defeat evil overlord-type dude and redeem yourself yadda yadda yadda), but this title doesn't seem to care. Plot cliches and character stereotypes are played to the hilt, and when you throw in the highly improbable action sequences (this OAV should have been titled In Which A Small Band of Plucky Individuals Are Able To Destroy A Small Army With Nothing But Their Little Fishing Vessel), you'll find yourself eating your macaroni and nachos straight, if get what I'm saying.
A note on the dub quality: although purists will most likely cry foul (there are those who refuse to listen to _any_ dub), I found that the dub job worked quite well for this title. Amanda Winn makes for an adorably spunky Tita, and the phony foreign accents sported by the members of Tita's hyper-ethnic crew manage to be both effective and unbelievably silly at the same time. For this particular type of title, it works, although it certainly wouldn't work for anything more serious.
So, to sum up, Plastic Little is cliched, silly, preposterous, hokey, cheesy, and gratuitous. But you know what? It's quite a bit of fun, too.
Recommended Audience: Some moderate levels of violence (Tita gets beat up pretty badly in one point) which alone would keep this from being something for kids. As stated before, the nudity in this title is of a more detailed quality than in most anime titles (mostly concentrated in an extended bath scene near the beginning), which may give some people pause before showing just anyone this title. It's not as prevalent as the box cover would have you believe, though. If the audience can deal with the skin display, there shouldn't be too much trouble.
Plastic Little © 1994 Yoshimoto Kinji / Urushihara Satoshi / MOVIC / Sony Music Entertainment


Almost daily, media outlets buzz with stories of how some new technology will make consumers' lives better, many of which seem far-fetched, or far out in the future. Some – like Apple's iPhone or Amazon's Kindle – are met with skepticism only to be adopted in record time. These huge leaps, however, are often an evolutionary step forward from something that people are already used to doing — like using a mobile phone or reading a book — accelerated by a friction-free, intuitive user experience.
Enter the smartconcierge. Leveraging a common activity that consumers already comfortably do – messaging – the smartconcierge is a next evolutionary step for hotels to provide exceptional guest service. Unlike rudimentary chat bots with limited scripted responses, today's smartconcierge combines machine intelligence with human customer service in a seamless experience for the guest. Even better, a smartconcierge continues to learn and become even smarter over time.
Inspired by their human counterparts, smartconcierges anticipate and meet guests' needs by context, preferences, and prior requests, then deliver timely and relevant alerts, content, and offers. Without such intelligence, how else could a guest who asks, "I need help getting Gwen Stefani concert tickets tonight" not only get a 2-minute response, but also have tickets delivered via email, with a text notification ten minutes later offering transportation to the concert? How could a mere chat bot know where in the world this guest was, when "tonight" was, where the concert location was, and if there were seats available to book? That's the power of the smartconcierge.
Unlike a human concierge — who wouldn't be expected to help book a return reservation or help dispatch housekeeping — smartconcierges serve as the guest's single point of contact for their entire visit. In the spirit of hospitality, why are hoteliers today taxing the guest with figuring out which department to route their query to? By reading between the lines in the guest's message, smartconcierges automatically route issues to the appropriate staff member. This enables the guest to control their entire hospitality experience with a few taps on their mobile device from anywhere, at anytime.
Smartconcierges are more successful at delivering exceptional guest experiences because the smartconcierge constantly learns to cover every scenario that may arise in a guest's journey. That learning is retained and used in future situations. This breadth helps fulfill not only the guest's service needs, but it truly transforms the request fulfillment process. Simple transactional asks – like more towels, the hotel WiFi password, or borrowing a phone charger – and even more complicated ones, like booking dinner reservations or finding show tickets, can be satisfied with record efficiency by the smartconcierge. This speed and effectiveness reinforces smartconcierge usage. Many guests even report finding the smartconcierge experience fun — like a game or buzz, the way the back-and-forth of everyday messaging is! When this kind of interactivity works well, it drives guest engagement to new highs without requiring more staff. What hotelier wouldn't want that?
Pleased with unprecedented convenience, guests quickly learn to message the smartconcierge first, which frees up human staff for customized requests. What used to take a hotel up to eight separate staff members to address can now be handled by one smartconcierge, enabling the hotel to regain as much as 30% of guest service man-hours. The smartconcierge can also be seen as an amenity and an enhancement to the on-property staff, who may not have time to handle simultaneous guest requests during peak hours.
Using a messaging-based smartconcierge comes naturally to most guests. Messaging now represents 12% of the five hours per day that US consumers spend on their mobile phones, and 86% of travelers already say they want to interact with their hotel via their smartphones. To today's guest, this means not having to pick up the hotel room phone and call someone, possibly wasting time having to wait on hold before even being able to ask for help. With their handy smartconcierge, even off-premises guests can easily message for assistance, which gets provided with the same immediacy as if the guest were on-site. The real-time gratification provided by the AI-powered smartconcierge has led guests to use it ten times more than calling for human assistance. Plus, AI-powered smartconcierges are mindful of etiquette and exhibit a can-do, positive disposition 24/7 – smartconcierges never get harried or have a bad day.
But smartconcierges do more than just respond to inbound guest inquiries. Their hybrid programmed and organic intelligence also enables them to proactively anticipate needs by checking on guests and asking them questions that can enhance their stay, avoid guest issues, and deliver "up-serve" revenue opportunities. For instance, offering a guest a late check out for a modest fee, an incentive for extending their stay, or even food and drink suggestions all adds revenue to the hotel's bottom line.
Raj Singh is a product design expert and CEO at Go Moment, a Google-backed company dedicated to making customer service instant. Go Moment's Ivy is the world's largest customer service automation platform for hotels as seen on NBC.
Singh brings cross-discipline design, technology, and marketing experience from hundreds of large-scale technology projects for leading brands like Virgin, Lady Gaga, and HEB Grocery Company. Blending his deep expertise in UX and market research, Singh works alongside leaders in hospitality to address the industry's needs using next-generation technologies like Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and labor automation. In partnership with IBM Watson, Go Moment's Ivy platform automates up to 90% of guest communication and is currently available to millions of hotel guests.
Go Moment® created Ivy™, the world's largest chatbot for the hospitality industry. Ivy has served millions of guests, automatically answering 30 percent of customer service questions in 1 second. Besides automating typical service questions, Ivy™ routes complex requests and service issues to hotel staff for improved efficiency and delighted guests. Ivy™ can also book restaurant reservations, spa appointments, and other revenue-driving services. Ivy™, uniquely powered by IBM Watson's™ artificial intelligence technology, streamlines operations, increases satisfaction, and revenue for its hospitality clients.


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Laura Rosbrow-Telem
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Tag Archives: Technion
Debut feature in The Atlantic: 'Does Waze Mark the Beginning of the End of Israel's Brain Drain?'
Posted on July 12, 2013 by Laura Rosbrow
After months of work, I am very happy to announce my first piece in the Atlantic! The headline/subheadline pretty much sum up the article:
Does Waze Mark the Beginning of the End of Israel's Brain Drain?
The country's entrepreneurs are torn between opportunities abroad and at home.
As always, let me know what you think, and if you like the article, comment and share away!
Photo of Uri Levine, co-founder of Waze; Courtesy of Sithzu Photographers
Posted in Published	| Tagged Atlantic, Brain drain, consumer firm, Craig Gotsman, David Stark, entrepreneurship, hi-tech, innovation, Israeli hi-tech, OurCrowd, social applications, startup-nation, Technion, technology, Uri Levine, vc, venture capital, Waze	| 2 Replies
Cracking the Technion's code
Posted on May 5, 2013 by Laura Rosbrow
I just published an in-depth article in The Jerusalem Post Metro section, titled "Cracking the Technion's Code," about why the Technion was ranked sixth in the world in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey that evaluated entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education institutions. For anyone interested in understanding the start-up nature of Israel, this article provides a number of insights. Technion's impact on the Israeli economy is pretty expansive: for example, two-thirds of the 72 Israeli companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange either were founded or are led by Technion graduates.
If you want to learn how Technion graduates have become so successful, you can see the full (non-pay-walled) article below. As always, I'd love your comments and suggestions.
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With a degree for start-ups and a minor in entrepreneurship on offer, the university is in the business of encouraging innovations.
By LAURA ROSBROW
Photo by: LAURA ROSBROW
In an attempt to understand the impact of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, the authors of the 2012 book Technion Nation: Technion's Contribution to Israel and the World asked graduates of the institution a survey question that verged on the poetic: "Ernest Hemingway once wrote an entire story in only six words. It was 'Baby shoes. Never used. For sale.' Please describe your contribution to Israel and to humanity, in six words."
Many responses touched on the diversity of Technion graduates' technological accomplishments: "Provide poor countries with appropriate technology… Developed Intel's 8087 microprocessor… Simulation software for unmanned drone aircraft."
But one of the best and most straightforward answers was the following: "I came, I studied, I'm rich."
The entrepreneurial spirit is so strong at the Technion that even MIT has noticed. In early April, the Technion ranked sixth in the world in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey that evaluated entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education institutions. The only universities that beat the Technion were MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, London's Imperial College, and Oxford – meaning that the Technion scored higher than Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, all of which have top-ranked business programs.
The Technion probably received this ranking in part because of its new partnership with New York's Cornell University. In late 2011, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a first-time bid to universities around the world to launch an applied sciences graduate school in his city. The Technion partnered with Cornell, and both won the competition. Now Cornell Tech, which is in and of itself an innovation at the university level, will start offering limited programming this fall. The Roosevelt Island campus where Cornell Tech will be based is expected to launch fully in 2017, serving approximately 2,500 graduate students.
Aside from that partnership, though, the Technion's numbers speak for themselves: Two-thirds of the 72 Israeli companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange either were founded or are led by Technion graduates; graduates of the institute lead nine out of the country's 10 leading exporting companies; and one quarter of the Technion's 67,000 alumni have at one time initiated a business.
Technion graduates largely drive the annual output of the country's electronics and software industry, which is approximately $20 billion – half of the country's total annual exports.
A glass window at the Faculty of Computer Science reads "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
Long before Israel's independence in 1948, graduates of the school – which was founded in 1912 – were helping to build the state. They developed much of the industry in the country's early days, including roads, highways and desalination plants. More recently, they created technologies such as text messaging, drip irrigation, the disk on key, and the Arrow defense system. In the last eight years, three Technion faculty members have won Nobel Prizes.
While the Technion has greatly contributed to Israel's becoming a "start-up nation," the school is also a product of Israeli culture.
According to Prof. Miriam Erez, the associate dean of the Technion's MBA programs and a recipient of the 2005 Israel Prize in management science, "entrepreneurial spirit is very Israeli. Israeli culture has all the ingredients necessary for entrepreneurship and innovation."
Photo of Professor Miriam Erez
Erez – an organizational psychologist – is the Israeli coinvestigator of the GLOBE Study of Leadership, an international group of social scientists and management scholars from 62 countries that studies cross-cultural leadership. Out of the values that the study compares, she says, Israel ranks well in those pertaining to entrepreneurship and innovation. Significantly, though, it has a moderate ranking in the most important value, collectivism versus individualism.
"The common research says that individualism enhances innovation, and collectivism discourages innovation," she explains. "Israel is in between – not very individualistic, but also not very collectivistic. I think in today's global culture, because entrepreneurship is to a large extent based on your network, if you're a pure individualist, what is the likelihood that you'll get support for your project, even if you have great ideas? I personally think this moderate level is best, which is exactly what we found here."
This conclusion helps affirm why collective Israeli experiences, such as the army and university, foster local entrepreneurs' networks.
Along with strong communities, the Israelis' individualist side plays out in a value called "power distance," in which Israel ranks very low. Erez explains that power distance is about hierarchy in society, such as the power distance between managers and employees. In cultures where that distance is higher, employees do not feel they can express their opinions.
That is not the case in Israel.
"People feel very comfortable criticizing their own bosses," she says, noting that although it can be difficult to manage these kinds of employees, "this is exactly what you need for entrepreneurship and innovation.
[You need] people who feel free to express their own ideas and criticize until they find the best solution."
Sitting in Erez's office, one can tell that she nurtures her relationships. Near one of her large windows sits a 30-by-90-cm. paper tree, with the photos of several young people adorning the ends of each white branch. When asked about the tree, she smiles and says her students made it for her last year.
OVER THE years, she has maintained good contact not only with students, but also with industry professionals.
Her interest in creativity and innovation led her to found the Knowledge Center for Innovation, which aims to enhance innovation in Israeli industry.
One of those contacts was Uzi de Haan. Both were PhD students at the Technion at the same time. While Erez went into academia, de Haan went into industry, having been trained as an aeronautical engineer. In his last position, he was the CEO of Philips in Israel, which grew to $350 million in revenues under his management. When he retired from Philips at a relatively young age in 2003, Erez saw it as an opportunity and invited him to become a professor at the Technion. He accepted, wanting to teach entrepreneurship.
Photo of Professor Uzi de Haan
In 2004, he helped start the institute's first entrepreneurship center. The Bronica Entrepreneurship Center, which began with only one course, now offers 17. In the fall, Technion students will be able to select an entrepreneurship minor.
The Technion also offers an international MBA program in English, with a similar program focused specifically on start-ups beginning this fall.
Alongside courses, the center offers assistance to early-stage entrepreneurs in developing business ideas, including to Technion alumni.
According to Keren Rubin, the center's director, "in the last six years, the center has assisted in establishing more than 40 companies. We help them in the very early stage with the transition to the ecosystem."
Although the center is of a modest size, with a handful of employee desks and a small conference table, it feels well-placed to grow. The office is located on the top floor of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. From one of its many windows, there is a bird's-eye view of the modern, blue-and-beige-paneled Technion, and the industrial yet beautiful Haifa Bay at the bottom of the hill.
Asked why he thinks the Technion received the No. 6 ranking from MIT, de Haan answers, "We're very much part of the ecosystem. Half of Intel's engineers [in Israel] are Technion graduates. All those guys in tech companies are Technion graduates. We're like a main supplier for engineers and innovation in Israel."
It is no coincidence that Google, Yahoo, Apple, IBM and Intel have offices in Haifa.
They did this largely so they could recruit graduates from the Technion. Many students at the institute also work in industry while they study, applying what they learn in the field to their studies and vice versa.
Photo of Technion courtyard
Tal Goldman, an undergraduate student in computer science, works at the Technion's Student Union.
He says he gains skills in this position that he would not gain in hi-tech – though he is sure his grade point average would be higher if he did not need to work.
In contrast, Tehila Sabag, an industrial engineering student who works for the Bronica Center, asserts that her studies "were not hurt because of my work. On the contrary, I think that because of my work experience, I am now a better industrial engineer and manager with more of a business perspective, rather than just an engineering one."
She also values taking entrepreneurship courses, such as a popular one that Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman offers.
"The entrepreneurial activity that takes place here is the flagship of the Technion," she says.
Goldman, too, sees such activity as a major part of the school's efforts.
"I see the Technion's investment in entrepreneurship all the time," he says. "There are advertisements everywhere, such as in emails, posters, and from lecturers, to take part in entrepreneurial projects."
THIS DEEP-ROOTED relationship between the Technion and industry is part of what makes the Bronica Center's BizTEC competition so successful. Now in its eighth year, the student-run BizTEC is a national competition that selects the best student-led technology-based ventures. Winning the competition opens doors for many to connect with venture capitalists and interested funders from the center's network of professionals.
Life Bond, one of BizTEC's early winners, created biological sealants to seal bleeding tissue instantly. It has raised over $30 million.
More recently a start-up called Pixtr, which automatically corrects photos taken by mobile phones so that they look professional, accomplished several impressive early-stage goals thanks to the Bronica Center. In a select meeting between the center's top start-up ventures and top industry mentors, a fairy-tale match was made: Uri Levine, the founder of Waze – which was voted Best Overall Mobile App in the Global Mobile Awards Competition in February – decided to become Pixtr's mentor and chairman. He and the center helped Pixtr join Microsoft's Azure Accelerator Program, which is aimed at early-stage start-ups. As part of the program, Microsoft provides office space, training, mentoring and other benefits.
"The most important thing about the center is the people," says 30-year-old Pixtr cofounder Aviv Gadot, explaining what he feels has made the center a success.
"Uzi has so much experience and a great reputation within the industry, and Keren could move mountains. They are an amazing team."
But for all the center's success stories, there are many more start-ups that fail. Rubin asserts that the chances are "90% against you when you start."
Still, asked if he thinks the start-up bubble has burst, as some leaders are saying, in light of the current budget deficit, de Haan quickly replies in the negative.
"Technology and economic growth are synonymous," he says. "There's an exponential growth in new technologies.
There's no way big companies want to take on these new technologies. You need more and more start-ups to do this first innovation. Big companies don't want to take the risk. They feel, 'Why not outsource these crazy innovations to start-ups, and if they don't fail, we'll buy them.'" The problem, he notes, is how to fund those start-ups.
"But there are new mechanisms – crowd-sourcing, boutiques, venture capital, etc. There are ways to do it."
Posted in Cultural, Published	| Tagged applications, Aviv Gadot, BizTEC, Bronica Entrepreneurship Center, Cornell Tech, entrepreneurship, innovation, Keren Rubin, Knowledge Center for Innovation, Life Bond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Miriam Erez, MIT, Pixtr, science, start-up nation, start-ups, Tal Goldman, Technion, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, technology, technology ventures, Tehila Sabag, The Jerusalem Post, Uri Levine, Uzi de Haan, Waze	| 1 Reply
Starting a new Haifa beat
Posted on March 11, 2013 by Laura Rosbrow
As some of you know, I have started to write about the Haifa area. I can do this now that I am working from home and have the 4 hours of my day back that I used to spend commuting. Yipee.
Here is my first piece, titled, "The allure of the city by the bay," which I published in the Jerusalem Post's weekly metro section. It's their top story this week!
Screenshot on Metro's page, Monday, March 11: http://www.jpost.com/Metro/Home.aspx
If you have ideas for pieces I can write about Haifa, the North, or about whatever, let me know. I'm looking to develop my portfolio considerably, so any ideas would be appreciated.
Without further ado, here's the piece, texted below so that you can read it beyond the paywall (sshh).
The allure of the city by the bay
A small immigrant shift is taking place in Haifa. What does the city have to offer Anglos that other urban areas do not?
Photo by: Itamar Grinberg
Many would say it is hard to find English-speakers in Haifa – that although one can hear English spoken occasionally in public, it does not happen often. So it may come as a surprise that there are over 700 members of the "Haifa Young English Speakers" Facebook group.
At an HYES pub night recently – an event held once or twice a month – several dozen people crowded into the dimly lit, cozy student bar and restaurant Nola Socks, located near the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. It was a diverse and well educated group. Many studied at the Technion.
Several were postdoctoral students. Quite a few were new immigrants, only one or two of whom wore kippot, though there were some Israelis there as well.
According to statistics from Nefesh B'Nefesh, there is an immigrant shift taking place: More Anglos are coming to Haifa. Since 2008, the number of North American and British immigrants who have moved to the northern city has tripled. In the same period, the number of olim from those countries has not even doubled.
However, this movement is small. According to Smadar Stoller Porat, the city's project director of immigration for olim from English-speaking countries, the total number of English-speaking olim living in Haifa is around 2,600.
What is Haifa starting to offer Anglos that other urban areas cannot? Put simply, it's cheap and beautiful.
Rental apartments cost around half what they do in Tel Aviv, and unlike in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, many apartments in Haifa have views. If you want a San Francisco-like view from your apartment and a more affordable quality of life, Haifa delivers.
MOLLY MULLIGAN, a 30-year-old American postdoctoral student in biomedical engineering at the Technion, is HYES's social activities coordinator.
Raised Christian but now secular, she came to Israel because a doctoral mentor urged her to work with his colleague at the Technion. Asked if she plans to stay in Israel after her postdoc is done, she says she wants to if she can.
"I would like to stay, but I have to see if I can get a work visa. The level of work being done at the Technion and the companies I've had interactions with is just very high," she says.
Aside from sometimes being mistaken for a Russian, Mulligan barely mentions encountering any difficulties.
In contrast, Diana Polansky, who made aliya five months ago from New York, seems less certain she will stay in Haifa. The 33-year-old Polansky says she doesn't know if she was sold the truth about the city as an ideal launching pad.
"It's hard to survive here. People come to Haifa for the lower cost of living, but then can't find a job," she says. "You're not saving anyone any money if you can't work."
Indeed, this is the key reason Haifa is cheap: Beyond the Technion, the University of Haifa and the hi-tech industry there are fewer lucrative job opportunities than in the Center.
And even though Kevin Mayer – a 33-year-old Australian immigrant to Haifa – is an engineer, he thinks he will probably move to the Center of the country. "I'm looking both in the Center and in Haifa.
A lot more jobs in engineering are in the Center, so I'm more likely to be in the Center."
FOR THOSE newcomers unanchored by institutions like the Technion, the critical support they need to stay in the city seems to be a partner. Tellingly, Stoller Porat asserts that "Haifa is great for young families and young couples who want a good quality of life that's not too difficult."
She has less to say about what benefits the city may have for singles.
This family-friendly atmosphere was one of the factors that motivated 39-year-old Josh Turner, his wife, Revital, and their two children to make aliya a little over two years ago from Canada to Kiryat Bialik, a short drive away from Haifa.
The Turners' greatest challenge in moving to Kiryat Bialik was finding work, as it is for most olim. But "I got around that by starting my own business," says Josh. "I do international PR for companies. I'm a bigger fish in a small pond in the North, as opposed to a small fish in a big pond in the Center."
He says he appreciates what the area has to offer and thinks it's a pleasant, affordable place to raise a family.
Australian immigrant Tanya Ford, meanwhile, lived in Tel Aviv for more than four years before recently moving to Haifa to live with her Israeli boyfriend, and she feels there have been many benefits to the move.
"It's a lot cheaper than living in Tel Aviv in terms of rent. In my field, which is engineering, there is a lot of work available here. And it's beautiful – it reminds me of Sydney," she says.
However, she cannot see Haifa becoming a hub for new immigrants, as there simply aren't the numbers for it.
"Anglos and olim are attracted to places where there's a bunch of olim," she points out. "Haifa isn't an ideal starting point for olim, but I think it offers a lot to people who are more settled down and established in the country. I think it was a really good move at this point in my aliya life."
Annette Cohen, a religious woman who made aliya from the US in the early 1960s and has lived in Haifa ever since, sums up what is good about Haifa for Anglos: more interaction with Israelis and with nature.
"Haifa is good for people not interested in living in an English-speaking community," she says. "And after all these years, I still stop to stare at the view."
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En kadens (uttalat  även ; italienska cadenza, franska cadence, ytterst av det latinska verbet cadere (cado) 'falla') i musiken betecknar en (ofta stereotyp) ackordföljd som avslutar en fras, ett avsnitt eller ett helt tonalt musikstycke. Motsvarande begrepp för en ensam melodi är slutfall. En solokadens är en (ofta, men inte alltid) improviserad utsmyckning av en solist över kadensens harmonik. Ackorden i en kadens kallas Ultima (sista ackordet), Penultima (näst sista ackordet) och Antepenultima (näst näst sista ackordet).

Kadensformer
Kadensen, i betydelsen en avslutande ackordföljd i tonal musik, har traditionellt delats in i olika kadensformer som skiljer sig åt i sin relativa styrka – det vill säga hur avslutande de känns – och de ackord eller funktioner som ingår. Enbart vilka ackord som ingår och i vilken ordning är dock inte det enda utmärkande för en kadens, för att en ackordföljd skall räknas som en kadens måste den ha karaktären av ett avslut.

Helkadens

Helkadens betecknar en kadens som leder från dominanten (D) till tonikan (T)

En helkadens betraktas musikteoretiskt som tydligare eller starkare än en plagal kadens. Detta beror på dominantens överordnade spänningsförhållande relativt tonikan. Av de två spänningsfyllda ackordsfunktionerna dominant och subdominant ligger den "starkaste" (dominanten) en kvint över tonikan medan den "svagare" (subdominanten) ligger en kvint under tonikan.

Exempel:

Fullständig helkadens

Fullständig helkadens är den kadens som leder från subdominanten (S) eller subdominantparallellen (Sp) via dominanten (D) till tonikan (T). En fullständig helkadens avslutas alltså med en helkadens men en helkadens är inte alltid fullständig.
Exempel:

En vanlig variant, speciellt inom jazz och populärmusik är att den primära (dur) subdominanten byts mot sin mollparallell (Sp) även kallad sekundär subdominant (sD). Inom klassisk musik är det vanligt att se detta ackord som en subdominant med sextfärgning eller med sexten i basen, subdominantparallellen kan även ses som dominantens molldominant (Dd). Ackordssekvensen blir då i stället:

Denna variant går även under beteckningen II-V-I ("2-5-1" ibland skrivs "II" som "ii" för att markera det som mollackord) efter den romerska numreringen av ackordens placering i tonarten . II-V-I är en vanlig ackords- och improvisationsövning i musikundervisning samt en mycket vanligt förekommande ackordsföljd inom musikaliska verk.

Halvkadens
En halvkadens är en kadens som avslutas på tonartens dominant. Ofta är penultiman en tonika men det är inte heller ovanligt att andra ackord som exempelvis dominantens dominant föregår dominanten. Halv är den, emedan denna form av kadens stannar vid den maximala harmoniska spänning som infinner sig i treklangen på skalans femte ton.
Exempel:

Notera att i denna enkla form är halvkadensen identisk med plagal kadens; enda skillnaden ligger i vilket ackord som uppfattas som tonika.

Plagal kadens
Plagal kadens är den kadens som leder från subdominanten (S) direkt till tonikan (T).

En plagal kadens betraktas musikteoretiskt som svagare eller mildare än helkadensen. Detta beror på subdominantens underordnade spänningsförhållande relativt tonikan. Detta hänger vidare ihop med att subdominanten är en kvint under tonikan, (därav förledet sub-) medan dominanten är en kvint över tonikan. Subdominanten innehåller inte heller tonikans inledningston.

Exempel:

Bedräglig kadens
En bedräglig kadens är en kadens där dominantackordet inte leder till den förväntade upplösningen på tonikan utan till ett annat ackord, oftast besläktat med tonikan. I durtonarter är det vanligt att en bedräglig kadens avslutas på tonikaparallellen, i molltonarter är det vanligt att kadensen istället leder till tonikans kontraparallell (tK).

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Solokadens
En solokadens är en specifik typ av utsmyckat slutfall i musikaliska solostycken som konserter, mera sällan sonater, där solisten improviserar fritt, utan ackompanjemang. Kadensen är då vanligen det sista som solisten har att framföra, och motsvarar det sista slutfallet i solostämmans harmonik. Ackompanjemanget har därefter ett avslutande parti. I solokonserter från Beethoven och senare förekommer det också att tonsättaren själv har skrivit ut kadenserna, och de kan också vara ackompanjerade.

Se även
 Harmonilära (musik)
 Funktionsanalys (musik)

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The Debate Team will be going to their first competition later this month. For sophomore Alex Padilla, it'll be his first competition ever, and like many first-time competitors, Padilla looks on in nervousness and excitement.
Padilla will be performing an original oratory – a speech which brings attention to an issue that the speaker thinks is important – on cutting the military budget in order to increase funding for medical research. Padilla has been working on his original oratory for roughly 8 weeks, and for Padilla, this speech is very personal.
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Base cost is pretty high right now because of how inflated ele as chaos daggers are, but you can probably craft them for 6-7 ex apiece.
Storm Burst Enchant Shaped Helm 2-3 ex?
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Weapons: Start with ilvl85+ shaped 1h of your choice. Sceptre/wand are good for damage, daggers are better for mobility (higher aps better for whirling blades. The 20% crit difference between an ambusher and a platinum kris barely matters.
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Please show mapping proccess and some Shaper and Uber Elder kills. Really wanna try this build.
Pretty fast Hydra run. Thanks for video. Any tips for leveling?
What's the survivability of this like? I find EB+MoM to fall off pretty hard in higher tier maps, unless i'm doing something wrong or playing too aggressively. Also, is 1.1k ES enough for MoM?
interesting build. the lightning -> cold -> fire conversion and double-dipping at each stage for the extra chaos seems like a very powerful and flexible way to scale damage, and can be used for any skills that's phys to lightning or even just lightning?
the gear requirement/cost is high, but eternity shroud actually opens up a rly flexible way to scale damage that works with many skills (with minimal gear changes; storm burst and divine ire is literally a single gem swap i think), that the cost may be worth it, as you can share most of the gear between characters. have you tried other set ups OP?
question on sustain, how are you leeching life? is it purely through atziri's flask (and heal/regen via life/faith flask)? the only other place i can think of is the amulet % chaos leeched as life mod, but you don't seem to have any.
Yeah, i've done a lot of testing on PoB and most physical and lightning spells work very well, arc, stormcall and storm brand are a bit on the lower side in terms of dps, but that's to be expected, especially since storm brand is low effort.
I'm mostly using Ethereal knives myself, which gets up to 7m dps with a decent setup, but i'll pretty much put every physical/lightning spell to practice at some stage.


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I see webhooks, but only things like payment, refund, dispute events.  Is there any way to catch an order status change?

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A: Currently there are webhooks for different order update events:

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