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Round-trip transportation on scheduled airline. Checked luggage costs not included.
All breakfasts. All dinners.
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Entrances and activities as noted on itinerary.
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Day 1: Arrival New York City
Day 2: New York City
Guided tour at the United Nations Headquarters
Tour of the NBC Studios Tour at Rockefeller Center
Ascent to the Top of the Rock Observation Deck
Excursion to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty
Wall Street area
Broadway Show (scheduled according to availability)
Day 5: New York City - Home
It's an exciting time when you arrive in "The Big Apple!"
As you make your way through man-made canyons, surrounded by unnatural mountains of steel, glass and concrete, you may remember that the once-pristine island of Mannahatta was purchased from Native Americans for about $24 dollars' worth of costume jewelry and seashells.
Day 2: Museum of Modern Art, United Nations Headquarters Guided Tour
Visit the splendidly redesigned MoMA, which houses the world's richest collection of modern sculpture and world masters, from Monet's Water Lilies and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to Andy Warhol's soup cans.
Learn about the intergovernmental organization founded in 1945, and which now counts 193 Member States. Its headquarters is located on US soil, but on a property declared extraterritorial through a treaty with the United States. Representatives meet in the General Assembly Hall (access subject to availability).
Day 3: NBC Studios Tour, Top of the Rock Observation Deck, Guggenheim Museum
>Enjoy a tour of the studios that produced famous programs such as the Today Show and Saturday Night Live. have fun at the NBC Experience Store!/p>
Head to 30 Rockefeller Plaza for a ride up to the 70th-floor observation deck of the "Top of the Rock." Enjoy the stunning views over the skyscrapers of midtown and downtown.
Visit the Fifth Avenue landmark designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to view a strong collection of modern art. You'll also quickly understand why the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is one of the most architecturally interesting buildings of the 20th century.
Day 4: Excursion to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, Broadway Show
Embark on a ferry ride to Ellis Island, where twelve million Europeans first experienced America through the island's chaotic immigration processing facilities. Continue to Liberty Island to get a closer look at the Statue of Liberty. Built by the French, Bartholdi's "Lady Liberty" was recently renovated to bring back her original splendor.
Take a stroll in the Wall Street area, the financial hub of the world. Landmarks in the vicinity include Chinatown, SoHo, Greenwich Village, the Brooklyn Bridge, Trinity Church and its churchyard with the grave of Alexander Hamilton, Wall Street, and Federal Hall, where George Washington's inauguration took place in 1789.
Other sites include the New York Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the "Charging Bull" and Battery Park.
Free time in New York City
The remainder of the day is free to plan as you wish.
You may want to explore South Street Seaport. Once a rundown area of empty warehouses and dilapidated piers, the old seaport has been restored into an eleven-acre complex that includes art galleries, craft shops, restaurants, and the South Street Seaport Museum and its Street of Ships.
Enjoy a Broadway performance today.
Day 5: New York City, Departure
This morning, if time permits, do some shopping for that special souvenir.
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Libya Elections 2018 – 2020. Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions for Sale about : Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Fayez al-Sarraj (Prime minister of Libya), Mustafa Sanalla (Chairman of Libya 's National Oil Corporation), Khalifa Haftar (the head of the Libyan National Army), Ali Zeidan (Former Prime minister of Libya). Candidates for libyan presidential elections 2018 and the people who are funding the Libyan Elections .
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1. Sergey Shoygu ( Minister of Defense of Russia ) – How bad is the health of Sergey Shoygu ? The war in Syria in details – Air strikes of USA, intervention and conquest by USA. The war Russia – USA ? What will stop it? The war Iran-USA – Where it will stop? Where is the dividing line? Where is Bashar al-Assad? The specified war Russia-USA with details – without the victims. The surprise factor – Iran. The war at the Arctic. Problems – Trump and a new war… From where will enter Europe in the war with Syria? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 12, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
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Reza Zarrab (Iranian Gold Trader arrested in USA as part of a scheme to transfer gold to Iran to sidestep US sanctions) – His health, Gold, Business, Political intrigue in Turkey, New Leader, Where is now Reza Zarrab and where he will be in the future – 2017, 2018, 2019, health, diamonds…Reza Zarrab – a knife or a hand to Turkey, a tool for revenge or a change in in Turkey. His life in the future – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions November 13, 2017, 7pm – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Mehmet Hakan Atilla (Turkey's state owned Halk Bank's deputy director arrested in USA about millions of dollars worth of financial transactions for Iranian businesses or Iran's government through US banks) – What will happen with him year 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 – On the inappropriate place in a bad moment – He is stubborn, Tough character, a Turk – He is not part of the negotiations – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions November 13, 2017, 8pm – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Mehmet Zafer Caglayan ( Former Economy Minister of Turkey – indicted by US prosecutors for suspected collusion with Zarrab) – Did he invented the game? What is his role, What he will achieve and how far he will go ? His health, Trial, Which documents will buy his freedom? – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions November 13, 2017, 9pm – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Heinrich Himmler (One of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany,head of the Gestapo and the SS) – Construction of Nazi Nuclear Power plant about the production of electricity – a scheme, location , export of energy deposits to Northeast, Meetings with Hitler and reports. Plan for an island in a frozen ocean. Creation of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. A ban about the using of nuclear bombs to prevent the destruction of the planet Earth. Connections with aliens. The ring on his hand has different stones – a passport and detector for Himmler in front of the aliens. Was the real Heinrich Himmler captured ? –Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions October 24, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna .
Hitler and the Occult – a new technology from the Second World War. Clairvoyant reading about : The Henge at Ludwikowice ,Poland ( Die Glocke, The Nazi – Bell) – a machine about antigravitation – how does it looks like, 11 photos with separate clairvoyant reading on each of them, Experiments about the using of gravitational waves : crashing an airplane, control of the gravitational waves – applications, Scientists who have created and experimented, An equation (formula) about the gravitational movement.
Alien technologies – The Second World War – The rainbow after the rain….
– Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions October 6, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House " Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Brazilian drug lord Luiz Fernando da Costa, known as Fernandinho Beira – Mar (Leader of Comando Vermelho – the most dangerous Brazilian criminal organization) – his health, business partners, Intervention from Russia, Legal business , Transfer in the prison, treatment… Which business he will expand and where ? Uniting of drug cartels – when and why ? Alive among the dead… – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions September 25, 2017, 3pm – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Marcola – Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho (Leader of Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC – Brazilian Criminal organization) – His health, A war in the business, Construction of underground bunkers, Removing a governments from power, How many attempts for murder he will have and how? A leader, Escape, Anarchy, Politics, a bullet. What is the weakness of mr. Marcola? The future of Brazil seen through the eyes of Marcola – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions September 26, 2017, 3pm – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Roberto Escobar Gaviria ( Brother of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and former accountant of the Medelin Cartel) – Health, Business for year 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. How will end the war with Netflix ? What plans does he have for the future ?
What kind of Space projects he will accomplish ? When is the most difficult moment in his life ? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions September 24 ,2017, 3pm. – by Clairvoyant House " Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Reed Hastings ( Co-founder and CEO of Netflix) – Health, His strength and weaknesses, The war of Netflix with Escobar family – about what is it and what development it has. Clairvoyant predictions month by month for year 2017 and 2018 – From when he gets the changes in the business? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions September 24 ,2017, 3pm. – by Clairvoyant House " Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
The Stealth Technology and Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (Aeronautical genius, Leader of Lockheed Skunk Works) – How Kelly Johnson is seeing The Stealth Technology ? Experiments. Where is his place at "Area 51″? New design of aircrafts, faster movement – one step before the teleportation, silent and invisible – a crusader in the Space – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions September 20, 2017, 3pm. – by Clairvoyant House " Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Photo – October 6, 1983. Time – after the photo.
Prof. E. Godfrey Burr (Discoverer of Diffused lighting camouflage – Ship camouflage) – What represents "diffused lighting camouflage…Experiments and discoveries on the base of Stealth technologies and Yehudi Lights.
What is the angle for disappearance of aircrafts and ships…?
, 2017, 3pm. – by Clairvoyant House " Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Lt.Gen. Stephen J. Townsend (Commanding General of the XVIII Airborne Corps. and Fort Bragg) – Health, Military Exercises – tactics and performance, A big explosion, Testing of new kind of weapon – How does it looks like?, Damages, Research on the health, damage in the blood – Secrecy. What's wrong with the military exercises. A moving… research of the weapon in water. A work abroad – Guarding – Mining at sea – Korea, China … – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions September 15, 2017, 1pm. – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Photo – September 5, 2017. Time – after the photo.
Colonel – General Andrei Kartapolov ( Russia's Western Military District Commander and The Zapad 2017 joint Russian – Belarusian military drills) – Health, Career, During Zapad – 2017 military exercises – a conquering of polish territory. What is the goal of these military drills ? New assignment connected with a new space weapon – research, sales – Syria, Africa…. – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions September 15, 2017, 2pm. – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
General Joseph Dunford ( US General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ) – Meeting of US,Russian chiefs of general staff – Negotiation with the Russians : about the stopping of russian flights above anerican ships, about flights in Syria, about american troops in Syria. Negotiations for american base in Azerbaijan…. When there will be a military coup in USA and when Donald Trump will be overthrown ? – Clairvoyant predictionsFebruary 25, 2017 – – by Clairvoyant House " Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Who is the killer, What is the reason ?
Is it sold the information about the Experiment MH370 ?When will be the next murders? Who will be the next killed ?
Where the experiments still continue? Who are selling the information?
MH 17-MH370,ROTHSCHILD,FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTORS-CLAIRVOYANT/PSYCHIC READINGS BY CLAIRVOYANT HOUSE " DIMITRINKA STAIKOVA AND DAUGHTERS STOYANKA AND IVELINA STAIKOVA" -FROM EUROPE,BULGARIA,VARNA.
G-20 Meeting of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. About what will talk Putin with Trump : Energy projects, Nuclear power plants, uniting,Germany – a construction for capturing of gravitational waves, three energy corridors, Providing of three bank documents for signature, Clairvoyant calendar for year 2017 and 2018 – When will fall a space apparatus (device)?, Discussion of Russian meddling in 2016 US election, Intervention – the russian participation in the shift and murders of senior militaries Washington – when ? – date. Which business negotiations will not be accomplished? When will be included Trump in the common business with gold, golden money both with China? When the russian golden Ruble will become convertible ? Is there an intervention of Putin in the separation of USA of influences? When there will be an assault against Putin in aircraft ? The health of Putin – now – July 7, 2017 – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions July 7, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House " Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova " – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Donald Trump – His health now – July 7, 2017. Does he accoplish 'Three Seas Initiative'?, International relationships. Will Donald Trump be included in division (separation) of Syria? When Trump will seek for russian help and russian participation in the business in USA – 2018 ? A shock for the health of Donald Trump when he returns from the G20 meeting, Fear from the investigation about the russian intervention in 2016 election…. – Clairvoyant reading/Psychic predictions July 7, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House " Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova " – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Clairvoyant reading to Senator Angus King ( Member of Senate Intelligence Committee) and the problem with James Comey – a lawsuit for two, Details – what is planning Senate Intel Committee ? What will happen with the former FBI Director James Comey year 2017? What are the truth plans of Senator Angus King for James Comey – A look from inside – Clairvoyant reading May 13, 2017 , 1pm – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Six celestial bodies in a ring + aperture (entrance) + seventh celestial body + a small Sun + One very big Sun + Celestial body against the aperture – Alien Civilization of the "Greys" – Clairvoyant reading to TRAPPIST – 1 (an- ultra cool dwarf star, located 39.5 ly from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius. The dwarf star is host to seven terrestrial planets) – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Golden treasures – Knights Templar's Cave – Caynton Caves (series of man-made underground chambers in the grounds of Caynton Hall, near Shropshire, England) – There are invested a lot of golden money, energy and strong artifact, Where in the cave is burried the Golden Treasure ? – Clairvoyant predictions/Psychic reading – March 27, 2017, 10am – by Clairvoyant House "Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova" – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Awakening of Nephilims Giants 12000 years old in hypersleep-extasis state – Clairvoyant predictions about ancient tomb, energy fields and objects, energy roads, objects ,how to be awakened the Nephilims Giants, where and what is located close to them ?


Photographer J Salmeron has apparently been banned from Arch Enemy shows due to a copyright dispute involving a picture he took of Alissa White-Gluz at the FortaRock Festival. The frontwoman shared the photo on Instagram and it was reposted by Thunderball Clothing, the company that created her custom outfit. Salmeron took issue with this and that's when things went south.
The photographer sent a message to Thunderball founder Marta Gabriel saying he usually charges €500 to businesses that use his work in an "unauthorized manner." However, he added that he would forget about the whole thing if she donated €100 to the Dutch Cancer Foundation.
Gabriel then forwarded the email to the band, resulting in both White-Gluz and manager/former singer Angela Gossow getting involved. In the end, Salmeron was ultimately blacklisted. He has since shared a lengthy article regarding the situation, complete with his email exchanges, screenshots of Instagram messages, etc.
"In early June, I reposted a photo of myself on instagram from a concert photographer, which is common practise. The photo was already posted to Instagram by the photographer himself. I like doing this because it is a way to say thank you and tip my hat to photographers and usually there is a nice symbiotic relationship between bands and photographers this way.
If you follow my socials you know this is something we all enjoy. His watermark was visible, the photo was unaltered and he was tagged and credited in the caption, the way we always do it. The girl who made the outfit I am wearing in the photo, Marta, reposted my post shortly after that.
She didn't print it, didn't use it commercially, didn't upload or copy it – she reposted it with a free Instagram application called "get_repost", like many of you do. She was just happy to repost the news that I wear her creations (one of a kind clothing items we designed together, not a product that you can buy), and share it with her followers.
99% of the time, this is how this online world functions like a supportive community and everyone wins this way. Often, photographers send us folders of photos in hopes that we like them and we post those, always with their name and credit. We really felt we were doing just THAT.
The photographer of this particular photo was ALWAYS fully credited for the ENTIRE duration of his photo being on my Instagram and Marta's. As soon as he expressed discontent the posts were immediately removed. There was never ANY attempt made by Thunderball or Arch Enemy to use that photo for commercial use, and certainly not without compensation.
To our understanding, since there was nothing being sold or advertised in the posts, it was not commercial, but we still took his concerns seriously and immediately took the photo down. To be clear, this is not a photographer Arch Enemy hired, this is one of the hundreds of photographers who are in the photo pit at festivals.
Once the photographer stated he wanted a fee for online use, we immediately (within minutes) agreed to remove the posts (which were online for a few days at most) so as to avoid any complications. If we were going to use a photo for any commercial application, we would pay them and there would be a contract ahead of time, like we always do and have done with hundreds of photographers.
Marta forwarded us an email from a lawyer saying she owed 500 euros, was in breach of copyright and the email included payment method information. Marta goes by the name Thunderball Clothing online and is a fellow musician, artist and one-woman clothing maker from Poland.
We tried to explain that this photo isn't selling anything, it is showing off the custom outfit I am wearing, but the emails felt more and more coercive, so we simply removed the posts. There was no product for sale in the photo and no attempt to keep using the photo once the photographer stated his discontent.
I understand that there are laws in place that dictate when and how a photo can be used, although promotional online use is usually appreciated, especially when it provides exposure for all parties involved. But, the photographer was unhappy with the reposts so we removed them, plain and simple.
We didn't want any trouble so we deleted the posts and thought that was the end of it since we had no contact since June. Normally, in my experience, people are happy to see the subject of their photo sharing their work and its a beautiful thing to be able to have one concert experience be a platform for musicians, lighting directors, clothing designers, photographers, sound engineers and fans alike all sharing in the art that is created.
All that happened here was I simply posted a photo of myself with full credit, watermark and tagging, then took it down when a lawyer contacted my friend who was among several pages that reposted it.
Lots of fan pages are run by teenagers in countries where there may be different laws or a language barrier, who might not understand, and I didn't want them to end up with some lawyer's letter in their inboxes, and I know they like to repost things I post, so I just took it down.
I'm not really sure why this non-issue has been twisted to scapegoat us 6 months after the fact, especially considering we simply did what he asked and the last interactions I had with him, personally, were pleasant.
We reserve the right, however, to decide who is allowed to photograph our shows and after having corresponded with him we didn't want any more issues like this in the future, especially when passes are limited and we know so many photographers who love having the opportunity to get a photo pass and have fun with us at shows.


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Evolution and Growth of Content Writers in India
Career, Skills / By Naman Sarawagi / May 29, 2021 January 16, 2023
We are aware of the fact that the function of fuel is to propel a vehicle and it is the same thing that digital marketing nowadays plays a role in a business. Digital marketing is the need of the hour to propel a business to achieve its goals. It is expected to play an important role in brands' and individuals' growth in 2023.
No matter what business you own, digital marketing is important as it has been a fact that no matter how well you are in a particular field, it is more important to attract the attention of others. And here is what the two limbs of digital marketing, namely content writing and marketing enter into the picture. A good content writing team with the right strategy for marketing is like half the work done.
Evolution of content writing in India | Early Stage
Content writing in India after LPG policy, 1991
Content writing in the 2010s
Content writing in 2021 and beyond | What to expect?
Content writing in India started way back when the Britishers invaded the country. The then purpose of content writing was to spread awareness amongst the people. It was that British rule is like an infection to the country and people must look for an independent nation.
The evolution of content writing in India can be traced through the change in the purpose of writing content. It has changed from spreading extra negativity against British rule. They exploited the nation to spread positive thoughts after the independence of the country.
If not wrong, the evolution of content writing in India after the independence of the country can be traced from the way people used it as per their profession.
If we talk about the 1950s we can observe that people used content in more official terms. It was used to make amendments to the constitution and used by editors who worked in some famous newspapers in the 1950s.
As we go into the future the importance of content writing has increased. People found ways to write new content types. With the drastic rise of the film industry during the late 1960s, the content writing industry saw a huge rise.
It was not until the 1960s that people saw the content industry as a potential place to pursue their careers. More and more people got into this field and this was the sole reason that content writers in India were now noticeable.
This was all possible due to the industrial revolution that took place when a lot of focus was shifted toward automated printing presses. This led to a rapid increase in the content published each day. More importantly, it was the need of the hour as many professions were being introduced to the people of India and more people got literate.
LPG (Liberalisation, Globalisation, and Privatisation) Policy was announced on 24th July 1991 by the then finance minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh. It aimed at encouraging foreign trade with other countries with regulated imports and exports. It also aimed at enhancing foreign capital and technology.
This helped the old traditional Indian market to upgrade itself to foreign technologies and further boost the economy of India. Just a few years back in 1986 internet was introduced in educational and research institutes in India. Further in the era of the 1990s computers were made open to purchase for individuals.
People could now connect their devices to the internet and find whatever they want within minutes. And so here came the first digital content writers in India who wrote write-ups and posted them on the web.
Content writing was just not a passion during these days and was converted to a profession as the 2000s approached. During the 2000s the term personal computer came into existence and in late 2008 3G internet was introduced.
More and more people could access the internet as the days passed and with the introduction of more advanced internet technology, people these days could surf at a faster speed. The digital business was introduced and many people started it with just a website out there on the internet.
Many people started advisory personal blogs and companies who owned blogging websites started hiring content writers. Mobiles were introduced where it wasn't necessary these days. To have a personal computer to search for something on the web rather than a small device that could fit in pockets was necessary.
This is where the actual crisp of the content writing industry evolved in India. Content writing was just not related to writing some bunch of sentences. It was rather strategic content, SEO content writing and many other new content types came into existence.
Due to the rapid of social media during this era, copywriting which included content for the post or story and an attractive caption for the same was introduced. Content writers in India got a reputable place in every organization. With their functioning the same as any other technical domain that included a GM and other such posts.
Other growth included the integrity of automated software in content writing. Many tools like keyword checkers, SEO score checkers, etc. were being used by content writers in India. This is the stage that saw the highest increase in content writing in India until now. There was immense growth achieved due to the introduction of 4G and the growth during these 10 years exceeded the combined growth that took place before 2010.
Digital marketing is growing at the highest possible rate as of now. The need for content writers increases as we move into the future. If we talk about the current scenario, content writing is all about how well a person uses tools that influence automation.
To name some it would be a highly reliable grammar check tool like Grammarly, a fully functional keyword planner like Ahrefs, and an SEO checker like AccuRanker. The one who integrates these tools with immense accuracy and precision within the write-up is the master content writer in India.
The future of content writing in India is filled with immense opportunities. The scope for individuals to jump into this field is wide. Choosing content writing as a profession over other technologies that seem to provide high-paying jobs surely has a reason to say.
With the introduction of 5G internet technology, content writing in India is expected to have a boost as it had during the introduction of 2G, 3G and 4G internet technology. It is expected to grow wider during the upcoming decade.
Also Read: How to become a content writer in India?
Digital marketing is the propellent for business in any domain. It is useless without its two limbs namely content writing and marketing. The history of content writing in India is vast. One can easily trace the same according to the purpose of writing that people adopted during each decade.
With the introduction of new internet technologies since the early 1990s content writing industry has seen an immense boost. With each new technology introduced and it is expected to show the same pattern in the near future as well.
That's all for now! Wishing you all the best if you are looking content writing industry as a profession to pursue. Excel enough that you become inspired by some and inspiration for all.
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Hosting outdoor activities for family members and friends can be a fun way to create special memories. If you have a backyard, then you may be able to host a gathering at your home. You may also want to consider a local park. Here are some ideas for hosting a fun event.
Your first step in hosting an event is to determine the guest list. Once you have determined who will be attending your gathering, then you can begin to plan activities that are appropriate. The age of your guests will help you decide which activities will be best. If you only have a few children in attendance, then you may only need some sidewalk chalk and water balloons to keep the children occupied.
There are several options for engaging your crowd. Volleyball is an incredibly fun way to keep a crowd entertained. Guests will enjoy choosing teams and competing for bragging rights. Badminton is also a classic favorite. If you have guests of all ages, then they may enjoy participating in a scavenger hunt. Hosting a scavenger hunt works best when you have a large area to hide clues in. For example, guests can hunt for clues throughout a local park.
You will also need to consider what food options you would like to offer your guests. You may want to serve a variety of appetizers along with miniature sandwiches or meatballs. Offering a selection of veggies, fruits and dips can also please a crowd. Your guests may also enjoy bringing their favorite foods to the event. Hosting your event as a potluck can relieve you from the pressure of selecting a menu.
Try to have an alternate plan in case the weather prohibits your outdoor plans. You may also want to use environmentally safe mosquito control to keep pests away from your party. Once you have finished the planning, then enjoy your celebration. Your guests will be delighted at the chance to spend time together and play games, and you can be proud of hosting a successful event.


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Just ordered one as well after reading this! So looking forward to being able to use the trackpoint again!
Nice. Hope you will find my experience useful then, but please do read the relevant parts of maintenance manual first. Specifically, do remember to disable the built-in battery before opening the machine from the BIOS, that's a quite important step.
But I only basically use the real click for the left mouse click and then the touch events (like pressing or better touching with two fingers) for middle click and right click (3 finger touch) .
I still prefer the smaller but better touchpad on the t410/420 with real buttons . It simply works and feels better.


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Q: how to display graphically layout in Eclipse? This error is create when I open graphically layout in eclipse? I make android apps..

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
  Exception details are logged in Window > Show View > Error Log

A: You are probably using a Custom View that you created, or some error. Follow the instructions and check the Error Log.

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DukeGEN Blog: Welcome to the Duke Start-up Challenge Grand Finale Event!
Welcome to the Duke Start-up Challenge Grand Finale Event!
This is the event everyone's been waiting for. Tonight, the winners of the 2010 Duke Start-up Challenge will be crowned and the $25,000 grand prize will be awarded. The evening begins with a keynote address from legendary Duke entrepreneur, Aaron Patzer, founder and CEO of Mint.com. After an inspiring round of investor pitches led by Duke student entrepreneurs, the evening will crescendo into a time for the audience to select their choice for the winner of a cash award and when the winner of the $25,000 grand prize will be revealed.
Tonight marks the conclusion of months of preparation by aspiring entrepreneurs across Duke's campus. Completing live on stage at the Fuqua School of Business, 13 of the best start-up company teams will deliver their one-minute elevator pitches with hopes of winning the grand prize.
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By Eileen Peck on February 6, 2020
The WCC administration wants Washtenaw County residents to believe Washtenaw Community College's enrollment will drop along with the area's school-age population. I've already debunked this. Generally, the school-age population will drop in Southeast Michigan and affect other community colleges. In fact, in Macomb County, the over-65 population will exceed the under-18 population by 2025. The school-age population will not drop in Washtenaw County. In fact, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments predicts that Washtenaw County's school age population will increase by 10%.
Every community college in Southeast Michigan has seen its enrollment drop. In large part, administrators attribute the drop to the strong economy. Because community colleges tend to do best during recessions, a prolonged good economy can be hard on them. To understand the impact of a good economy on a community college, it's important to understand the economic cycle.
The economic cycle
A complete economic cycle begins with a period of growth. This period (also called a "boom" economy) concludes when it reaches the point known as peak expansion. The following decline –called recession – continues until it reaches its lowest point – known as the trough. Following a trough is a period of recovery, which eventually leads to expansion, and the economic cycle begins again.
Since 1945, complete economic cycles have averaged 58 months – slightly less than five years. The current economic cycle began in March 2009. If you're counting, that's 131 months or 2.25 times longer than average. Community colleges have been waiting a long time for economic relief.
Economic cycles aren't easily predictable. There are no reliable leading indicators of a recession. During recession, nobody knows how deep the trough is, or how much time the economy will spend there. Likewise, no one knows how well the economy will recover, or how much it will grow. That's why it is essential for community colleges to spend conservatively during periods of economic growth. They don't know how long their enrollments will be low.
Community colleges compete with the economy
Community colleges don't compete with other community colleges or 4-year universities for students. They compete with the economy. When the economy is good, it's very hard to persuade people to stay out of it, even for two years. When the economy is bad, many people can't participate. It's especially hard for teenage workers and young adults to find work. Going (or going back) to school is the best way to make productive use of economic down time.
Over time, a drop in the school-age population means that community colleges will have to compete even harder for students. In smaller numbers, college age individuals are more likely to find work without a post-secondary degree – even during a soft economy.
So, how have the local community colleges been coping with declining enrollments?
Oakland Community College
According to Oakland Community College , its enrollment has dropped by nearly half since 2011. Its students enroll in 45% fewer credit hours than they did in 2011. So how has Oakland CC coped with the decline in its enrollment? Like Washtenaw Community College, Oakland Community College receives generous taxpayer support. During a good economy, property tax revenues rise, and that offsets enrollment declines.
Nonetheless, to cut costs, OCC has restructured its administration, and is working to manage its utility costs. It has planned to increase tuition by 3% per year through 2024. OCC has also eliminated vacant positions and increased its reliance on temporary and part-time workers to keep its expenses low. The College has some capital projects planned and intends to maximize the State of Michigan's 50% match on them. To improve enrollment, OCC intends to focus on student retention. The College also has an endowment of about $17.5M, which returns investment proceeds to the General Fund.
Wayne County Community College
Wayne County Community College is one of the largest community colleges in the State. It maintains several satellite campuses, but it is not immune to enrollment declines. To cope with its $40M+ loss of funding, WCCCD has reduced staff by leaving many positions unfilled. These are not unnecessary positions, and WCCCD admits that the staff shortages impact their ability to deliver services throughout the Metro Detroit area. To encourage enrollment, WCCCD has decreased tuition and offered "tuition amnesty" for students who owed WCCCD money for previous enrollment.
Henry Ford College
Henry Ford College has also lost enrollment since the end of the Great Recession. HFC has coped with declining enrollment by carefully planning class schedules, and at one point pledged to avoid canceling classes for low enrollment. HFC recently won a millage increase from its voters. Academically, HFC has focused on improving dual-enrollment numbers from local high school students and early college programs. In addition, HFC is considering the four-year degree options that are available to community colleges in Michigan. They have also examined tailored pricing for programs and try to maximize federal funding. HFC is pursuing a new advertising strategy to target special populations. They admit they've had mixed results with their retention efforts.
All of these institutions have experienced steeper, sharper declines in their enrollment. None of them have suggested that they need to build a hotel to generate revenue. Instead, they've done what a reasonable person might expect. They reduce costs, maximize state funds, encourage enrollment through partnerships with local high schools, and ask for additional taxpayer support. They've reduced their administrative staffs, eliminated open positions and carefully managed debts.
The WCC administration has made no effort to cut costs. In fact, this administration has expanded itself by nearly one-third. The WCC administration has made no effort to make the most of available State funding. They're taking on debt. They're not managing utilities costs, and they're not addressing maintenance issues early to keep costs down.
When you compare WCC to its regional counterparts, it's easy how other schools are managing declining enrollment, and making the most of the revenue they receive from other sources.
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Steers has a long history in South Africa and is a truly home-grown brand. It was founded in 1970 by George Halamandaris, with the first Steers restaurant opening in Jeppe, Johannesburg - one of the first fast food venues ever in South Africa. Since then, Steers has grown to more than 400 restaurants countrywide. They introduced the first drive-thru concept in 1997 and a delivery service in 2008. Steers offers mainly beef burgers but also various vegetarian and chicken burgers, subs, sandwiches and chips. Steers are well known for their Wacky Wednesday special - a two for the price of one burger special offered only on Wednesdays. Their food has won various awards, such as "Best Hamburger", "Best Chips", "Brand Builder of the Year" and "Franchisor of the Year" by various organisations such as FASA and Leisure Options. Steers is part of the Famous Brands group of companies.
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When the recent Arne Nordheim Composers Prize laureate, Øyvind Torvund, has his work Forest Construction premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival, the tape part is made from field-recordings in Schwarzwald with the Ascolta ensemble.
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Forest Construction is a series of short compositions for ensemble and tape. On the recording, made by Experimentalstudio des SWR, the ensemble performs parts of the compositions in the forest; and live in the Donauhall on October 21 the ensemble responds to and imitates the structures on tape.
The musical material is derived from two main sources: rhythmic patterns from Norwegian folk music and the imitation of various animal sounds (howls and calling signals from lynx, wolves, dogs, deer, camels, zebras and hyenas).
Torvund has been met with particular interest in Germany. He studied in Berlin and has attended the Darmstadt Music Courses. From June 2013 he holds the DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst) Scholarship, which means a one year residency in Berlin. Among his predecessors for this scholarship could be mentioned Xenakis, Feldman and Ligeti. Before the Donaueschingen premiere Falling Constallations has its world premiere on October 12, with the quartet SF Sound at the Faithful! Festival for interpretation in Berlin.


If the Constitution is supposed to protect us from dictators and fascists, why are anti-Trumpers so anxious? In this week's boralogue, John shows that those who are worried about a fascist takeover of America by Donald Trump aren't turning to the Constitution for help because they have spent the last 20 years reshaping it to say whatever they want it to say. A living, breathing document of relativistic truths offers no protection for anyone.
How did our Constitution morph from its original meaning to what we are seeing today? Daniel Horowitz (www.conservativereview.com), Senior Editor at Conservative Review joins us to discuss judicial activism where courts are creating rights for classes of people that infringe upon rights that were established long ago. It is "social transformation without representation" and reform is needed quickly if we are going to survive as a country.
John finishes up the show explaining why those on the Left are behaving the way they are both before and after President Trump's speech this week to both houses of Congress.
This week on Section 6, John continues his discussion on Saul Alinsky and relates that to what's going on behind the scenes in Europe and the future of the E.U.


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Money transfer startup TransferWise has closed a $292 million secondary funding round which doubles its valuation to $3.5 billion, the company said on Wednesday.
The round was led by growth capital investors Lead Edge Capital, Lone Pine Capital and Vitruvian Partners, TransferWise said.
Existing investors including Baillie Gifford and Andreessen Horowitz expanded their holdings in the company and some of the investment came from funds managed by BlackRock Inc, the London-based company said.
TransferWise, one of Europe's most well-known fintech startups, has gained popularity by offering a simpler and cheaper alternative to banks for international money transfers.
Launched in 2011, the company serves 5 million customers worldwide and processes 4 billion pounds ($5.08 billion) each month.
The company posted 6.2 million pounds ($7.88 million) in net profit after tax and revenue of 117 million pounds ($148.61 million) in the fiscal year ending in March 2018.
Kristo Käärmann, TransferWise's chief executive and co-founder, said in an interview the round allowed the company to add shareholders more in line with its stage of growth.
"It's an opportunity to bring on new investors, to bring on the right people for the next phase of growth and get validation that we are building something of increasing value," Käärmann said.
The company currently employs 1,600 people across a dozen global offices and plans to hire 750 people over the next year, it said.
The latest round brings the total raised so far by TransferWise in both primary and secondary funding to $689 million from investors including Sir Richard Branson, Valar Ventures and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.
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TOM HOLLOWAY WAS 17 YEARS OLD AND WORKING IN A PIZZA SHOP IN HOBART WHEN THE TRAGEDY AT PORT ARTHUR UNFOLDED IN 1996. HIS PLAY, BEYOND THE NECK, A STORY PERFORMED 10 YEARS LATER, IS HIS POWERFUL RESPONSE TO THE EVENTS OF THAT DAY.
An arc of shelving containing family memorabilia wraps around the performance space. Isolated in compartments these artifacts include a transistor, phone radio, wireless, pair of binoculars, traffic cone, model ship, horseshoe, red safety helmet, photo developer, dartboard, pair of red shoes and a model of a colourful Montgolfier balloon. Most of these embody a nostalgia for childhood and the shared times of family life. Because we are alert to the symbolic significance of many of the items, this miscellany of memory also evokes a sense of menace and foreboding.
Four strangers are seated at a table. They introduce themselves as a boy (Jonathan auf de Heide), teenage girl (Jemma Gates), young mother (Sara Cooper) and a tour guide (Ron Haddrick). They offer fragments of their story interspersed with interruption and disjuncture. Each character strategically draws on the device of a closing imperative such as "No!", "Stop!" and "What!" These intercessions deflect a specific or difficult strand of thought that threatens to summon terror, blame or dread.
It's Sunday. Making their separate journeys by car or coach are the boy, the teenage girl and the young mother. Inevitably someone is whingeing. The teenage girl is cramped in the back of a car with her knees jammed under her chin. She resents her mother's intimacy with the driver, her father's best friend. The boy is hyper-excited because his friend Michael is traveling with him—or is he? The young mother is part of a mystery bus tour with a blue-rinse mob. She turns toward the rear of the bus to ensure that her husband David and daughter Molly are present—or are they?
It is this indeterminacy of past, present and future that contributes to an inexorable build of tension. Our knowing and imaginings are already filling in the spaces. Through an interweaving of narrative and back-story, our apprehensions hover about the temporal uncertainty and the indeterminate fate of these Sunday travellers.
The Neck is a narrow strip of land a few hundred metres wide, 83 kilometres from Hobart. To cross The Neck is to be inexorably drawn to the former penal settlement of Port Arthur. This prison was modelled on Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon which functioned as a round-the-clock surveillance machine where each prisoner was left alone in the dark without sound or name, inevitably raving into madness. We are similarly seated in the darkness of the auditorium while observing each character's terror, grief and compassion unfold.
Waiting at Tassie's top tourist attraction to meet his next tour group and unleash his "old fart's bad jokes" is the tour guide (Ron Haddrick). When he welcomes us to the Visitors' Centre our indeterminate journey begins. The impact of that day on each of the characters is gradually revealed. Again we are reminded of the cruelty of sudden absence: the boy hears his friend Michael urging him to act, the teenage girl grieves the loss of her father, the young mother recalls her terror when she is locked in the darkness of a solitary cell. Ten years later the tour guide is still fending off intrusive questions and angrily refers to the "bullshit" of 'closure.' "Were you there?", the teenage girl asks the tour guide and an autumn chill slaps our necks.
Beyond the Neck was one of five plays out of 400 entries to be chosen for presentation as part of the Royal Court Theatre's International Young Playwrights' Festival in London. Holloway structures his play so that through fragments and overlays of story, through the fluctuation of presence and absence, four strangers find connection, solace and possible redemption.
The events at Port Arthur reverberated around the world. To echo the words carved in stone at the memorial site: "…cherish life for the sake of those who died. Cherish compassion for those who gave aid. Cherish peace for the sake of those in pain." Holloway's tautly crafted work offers a theatre of renewal for and of our time.
Beyond the Neck, writer Tom Holloway, director Iain Sinclair, performers Jonathon auf der Heide, Sara Cooper, Jemma Gates, Ron Haddrick, design Jamie Clennett, lighting design Daniel Zika, composer, sound designer Steve Toulmin, An Argy Bargy Production presented by Tasmania Performs; Peacock Theatre, Hobart, Sept 12-15
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Q: Why flask does not return result? I am new to deep learning and flask deployment and I am trying to deploy a pytorch model(resnet34) with flask. When I try to upload an image to check the predictions, it does not show any predictions. It does not show any errors in my code.
The HTML page where I upload images.
<form method ='post' enctype=multipart/form-data>
        <input type="file" name="file" >
        <input type="submit" value="upload">

The html page where I want to see the predictions.

Prediction

Currency Name: {{ currency }}

App.py for flask
from flask import Flask, request, render_template, jsonify
from commons import get_tensor
from inference import get_currency_name
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def hello_world():
    if request.method == 'GET':
        return render_template('index.html', value='hi')
    if request.method == 'POST':
        try:
            file = request.files['file']
            image = file.read()
            print(request.files)
            if 'file' not in request.files:
                print('file not uploaded')
                return
            file = request.files['file']
            image = file.read()
            currency_name = get_currency_name(image_bytes=image)
            category, currency_name = get_currency_name(image_bytes=image)
            get_currency_name(image_bytes=image)
            tensor = get_tensor(image_bytes=image)
            print(get_tensor(image_bytes=image))
            print(currency_name)
            return render_template('result.html', currency=currency_name, category=category)
            #return jsonify({'category': category, 'currency_name': currency_name})

        except:

            return render_template('result.html')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

commons.py code
import io

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torchvision import models, transforms
from PIL import Image

def get_model():
    checkpoint_path = 'checkpoint.pth'
    model = models.resnet34(pretrained=True)
    model.classifier = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(512, 6))
    model.load_state_dict(torch.load(
        checkpoint_path, map_location='cpu'), strict=False)
    model.eval()
    print("model loaded!!")
    return model

def get_tensor(image_bytes):
    my_transforms = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(224),
                                        transforms.ToTensor(),
                                        transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5],
                                                                std=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5])
                                        ])
    image = Image.open(io.BytesIO(image_bytes))
    return my_transforms(image).unsqueeze(0)

code for inference.py
import torch
from commons import get_model, get_tensor

class_names = ['Rs. 20', 'Rs. 100', 'Rs. 500', 'Rs. 10', 'fake 100', 'Fake 500']
model = get_model()
def get_currency_name(image_bytes):
    tensor = get_tensor(image_bytes)
    outputs = model(tensor)
    _, preds = outputs.max(2)
    category = preds.item()
    currency_name = class_names[category]

    return currency_name

When I select an image and submit, it does not return any result to result.html and does not show any errors either.
What could have possibly gone wrong??


As part of National Women in Engineering Day 2016, CIBSE has organised a survey to determine who you think is the most inspiring female engineer in history, and who inspires you today.
CIBSE is an institution for everyone who is passionate about building services engineering, and the good it does in society; and we're firmly of the opinion that the more people we can encourage into our exciting, ground-breaking, life-saving industry, the better. A big part of what we do is to spread the public benefit of building services engineering, and to do that to the best of our ability without engaging more than half the population is an unachievable task.
It's not just up to professional organisations to make a difference though. To truly change the experience for women in engineering, it requires the participation of everyone involved in the industry. In order to help raise awareness and highlight the fantastic work of women engineers now and throughout history, we're asking you to nominate your greatest inspirations of today and yesterday.


Any word on pricing for TL2?
hope it gets the same release price as the first one!
A 360 port of the origianal?
1200 points is about 9.99 for Xbox. Wouldn't have thought the PC version would be far off.
And **** Runic a little for caring about them.
Stupid 360 stopping PC releases coming out sooner. Crysis 2 demo comes to mind!
Sort yourselves out and stop bitching, it's pathetic and you contribute to the stereotype of PC gamers as over-sensitive babies with a massive sense of entitlement. If you want Runic to keep making good games then pray they have success on the 360 - they're clearly a company dedicated to PC games but everyone needs money.
I don't see how issues with the 360 version cause a delay in the PC version. Is it just a case of not enough time to do both, and so focusing on the 360 release, or is there something I am missing?
Sounds like they just needed the development manpower to work on the 360 version, which might be new territory for them. It might also be that while working on the 360 version they notice they were finding ways to improve the new game, so rather than finishing the new game and then having to shoehorn in or forget any other improvements they find they're doing the sensible thing and finishing the old game first before the new game. There's also the issue of some other major releases clogging up the spring months *cough*Deus Ex*cough*.
As an aside, is TL2 going to be multiplatform or are they just releasing it for PC?
Believe it or not, Runic has a finite number of employees who, sadly, can only work so fast.
As Bede says, they likely need money to keep those employees coming to work each morning. Getting out a likely profitable 360 port of the first Torchlight will likely provide a good flow of cash to cover the time until TL2 is done.
Besides, it's been delayed a month. That's nothing.


Forest products journal. Vol. 50, no. 5 (May 2000).:p. 67-74.
International journal of molecular sciences. Vol. 9 (2008): Pages 1361-1378.
In: Zalesny, Ronald S., Jr.; Mitchell, Rob; Richardson, Jim, eds. Biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts from sustainable agricultural and forest crops: proceedings of the short rotation crops international conference; 2008 August 19-20; Bloomington, MN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-31. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 46.
In: Zalesny, Ronald S., Jr.; Mitchell, Rob; Richardson, Jim, eds. Biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts from sustainable agricultural and forest crops: proceedings of the short rotation crops international conference; 2008 August 19-20; Bloomington, MN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-31. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 41.
In: Zalesny, Ronald S., Jr.; Mitchell, Rob; Richardson, Jim, eds. Biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts from sustainable agricultural and forest crops: proceedings of the short rotation crops international conference; 2008 August 19-20; Bloomington, MN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-31. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 10.
In: Zalesny, Ronald S., Jr.; Mitchell, Rob; Richardson, Jim, eds. Biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts from sustainable agricultural and forest crops: proceedings of the short rotation crops international conference; 2008 August 19-20; Bloomington, MN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-31. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 17.
In: Zalesny, Ronald S., Jr.; Mitchell, Rob; Richardson, Jim, eds. Biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts from sustainable agricultural and forest crops: proceedings of the short rotation crops international conference; 2008 August 19-20; Bloomington, MN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-31. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 40.


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Q: Will PS4 synchronize save data between two PS4's My brother has a PS4 with lots of digital games. He activated his console as primary because my niece also plays those games. So my console is secondary.
If I download those games from his account I wouldn't be able to play.
My idea is to download games from his account on a secondary console (my console) and play them using the same account, i.e. my brother's account.
Will this affect his game data? I have seen it starts fresh games on my console. If it synchronizes will it spoil both our data?

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It might affect his data, but most likely won't. The feature can also be disabled.

The PS4's save data synchronisation feature works like this:

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*Your brother must be subscribed to PS Plus (this is a paid membership) in order to synchronize save data to the cloud.

*Only uploads are done automatically. Downloads must be performed manually.

*Saves are only uploaded when the PS4 is in Rest Mode, and the feature can be disabled in: Settings > Application Saved Data Management > Auto-Upload, either on a per-game basis, or for the entire console.

Since the PS4 doesn't automatically download save data, your brother probably won't notice you playing on his account. This will change if he ever needs to download an older save file from the cloud. Thus I recommend turning the Auto-Upload feature off.


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We've a new Assistant Chief Engineer, one Ens. Vincent Tang, who joined us a week or so ago. There'll be a bit of rejigging with another player's character in the coming weeks, but that's a not-a-downdate for another report.
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Doctor Who: The Master in the 2000s – "No beard this time… well, a wife"
By Jokermatt on March 29, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )
When it came to the 21st century, we should have known we were in for a helluva ride. Far removed from the tin-pot schemes of the 1980s and the side-notes of the previous decade, the time of the Master was upon us. Having escaped the Time War by the skin of his overstretched regenerations, even the Master couldn't have guessed how big he was going to get. A select journey from homicidal Prime Ministers to paradox machines…
The Sound of Drums and The Last of the Time Lords (Series 3, 2007)
IF COINCIDENCE HAS A FIELD DAY ANYWHERE, IT'S IN THE VAST AND CONTRADICTORY EXPANSE OF THE TIME VORTEX. And so the third series of the refreshed, renewed and lightly rebooted Doctor Who found at the end of time and the last stand of humanity when a chance encounter with an old but doddery genius, a forgetful but kind, old professor left the TARDIS crew stranded and the Doctor, in the best and worst way, not the last of his race.
Hindsight of subsequent six series can't dull the freshness of Russell T Davies gratuitous dystopian trick in the antepenultimate episode of Series 3, just about kicking off the show's first three-parter since 1989. In 2005's first series, Davies had returned the Daleks to the small screen, navigating the intricacies of the Terry Nation estate to bring some Pepper-Pot classics back to the show. In the second year came the not so imperious return of the Cybermen, this time opting for a parallel universe origin tale. Following hotly behind the unexpected Macra cameo in Series 3's Gridlock, the Master was the next obvious candidate to make a return, and so completing a set of classic villains and monsters, who'd rocked up in the New Series in the same order as they had during the 1960s and 1970s. The Master was a big scalp of course, as the production team had as much fun hinting about his return as fanboys had speculating. Take the guest starring appearance of Anthony Head in Series 2's School Reunion, carefully flashing up in the series trailer next to partially obscured sign "…Master". Of course, he was the "… Headmaster", and despite enjoying the Western stand-off he had with the Doctor, fans retreated to their lairs waiting for the inevitable. And so it came. The first new Time Lord in a world very much built around the idea that the Doctor was alone, the last of his kind.
Was that really six series ago?
"Oh, a nice little game of hide and seek, I love that"
Following the events of Utopia, surprisingly resilient tension-filled momentum that remains unbeaten in the show, the resulting two-part finale has no intention of hanging about. There's a fresh Master, force regenerated to match a bounding incarnation of the Doctor (and no doubt taking advantage of a fresh regeneration cycle bestowed on him by the Time Lords before cowardice took over), hijacking the Doctor's TARDIS and heading into the unknown of space and time. Fortunately, with the traditional vortex effect, Captain Jack's old vortex manipulator, which would stay with the show for some time to come, hurls the Doctor, Jack and Martha into our present day to set about discovering what became of the rogue Time Lord.
Absolute Power
"The Master is Prime Minister of Great Britain"
The Master, stable and secure as a majority-backed, popular and time-rich Prime Minister is a great conceit. Not only does it let Russell T Davies turn his scripts back to pointed politicism but also saves the usual skulduggerous slow reveal of the Master's plot that had on more than one occasion reduced him to pantomime. It also gives us a glimpse of the Master at full power, a considerable challenge for the Doctor to overcome but also height of great distance for a defeated Master to fall. The Master had never been so outlandish and sadistic. And that's saying something. Although there is more in common with his original suave, indifferent, amoral and confident appearance in a sequel four decades before than had been seen for years, what would unravel from these heightened stakes is true marmite for Whovians.
We are allowed plenty of time to watch this incarnation in action, from teasing and murdering at will to sending very specific messages to the Doctor and crucially, his companions. John Simm's incarnation may be a little strained, just as the Tennant version of the Doctor was, but in many ways is also picks up traits from the Ainley incarnation who'd happily sneer at the lesser mortals. Far removed from the 1980s however, he's dispensed with his faux-suave nature as he's rediscovered his taste for large-scale plots (it helps to have real taste buds back) and finally, an appreciation of companions. Both the Doctors and of his own. Of course, the taste for larger scale plotting had really returned during the 1996 TV Movie, along with the wet shave. But who would have put any space currency on both remaining with him after meeting the Eye of Harmony.
After the future Earth smashing of the Series One finale and the monster mash-up, London bash-up of Series Two, the third series needed to be as large as this international, universe threatening romp and he was the Time Lord for the job.
Filling the TARDIS
"Mr Saxon does like a pretty face"
Perhaps the strangest change for this Master is, much to multiple Doctor's amusement in the succeeding short Time Crash, is… His wife. The rather strange first lady of Britain is later revealed to be very much The Master's companion – the first time we've seen him adopt one as the Doctor might. Aside from broadening the drama, it's hard not to see this as a reflection of the fact that a partner-less leader is simply not electable in this day and age, psychic boost or not.
Despite having the time to manipulate events at source, the Master's Harold Saxon's has invented his past to gain the top job as the effective cameo from Nichola McAuliffe's journalist highlights. And best of all, the real icing on the cake: his rise to power was possible thanks to the power void left by the actions of a very angry Tenth Doctor, dispatching Prime Minister Harriet Jones at the end of The Runaway Bride. Yes, this is a plot well laid. And while Utopia was a novelty, a fairy-tale glimpse into what could have been with a kindly and skilled, 'better' version of the Edwardian Doctor, it's clear that these last two sons of Gallifrey, the Doctor and the Master, are fully entwined. Continue reading "Doctor Who: The Master in the 2000s – "No beard this time… well, a wife""
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Doctor Who Series 9: Have companions become more important than the Doctor?
By Jokermatt on November 9, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )
Didn't I say, if we hang around long enough we'll get another show…
The fifth of a series of essays inspired by the stories of Doctor Who Series Nine. The return of the Earth invasion, politics and the last brilliant multi-Doctor story. But something wasn't quite right. The Doctor wasn't in total control. His companions were.
A question brewing for 10 years. Inspired by the The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion
IT'S NOT TOO SOON, IS IT? WHEN COMES TO DOCTOR WHO IT MAY AS WELL BE TOO LATE, SO LET'S JUST SETTLE ON THE TIMEING BEING EXACTLY RIGHT. From where I sit in the far future Clara's been gone for centuries and I've managed to get over it… Yes, this might be a little strong. Episodes of Series Nine are increasingly piling up the doom and gloom surrounding Clara's imminent departure. It could be any time now, but even if it falls before the series finale, the repercussions will reach to the end and beyond. It's certainly going to be a wrench. As the recent two-parter proved, she's not only the modern era's longest serving companion, but quite possibly the most important companion in the show's history…
But Clara's colleague companions have been important for many years. If the New Series can be marked out from the classic years in any terms, it's not the missing Time Lords but the increased role of who the Doctor calls his "friends".
The Classic Years
Far beyond… "The nightmare scenario…"
Companions had a simple purpose in many of the padded stories of the classic era. Classic companions like Leela, who accompanied the Fourth Doctor, had foibles and qualities that fed into the tone of the stories that followed their introduction. In further adventures they often used these to find new and very personal ways to get into trouble. Leela brought an Eliza Doolittle model to the TARDIS. Harry Sullivan was an imbecile, but also a doctor. Sarah Jane Smith was a reporter. Nyssa was a scientist, specialising in bioelectronics. Tegan was an air stewardess who was constantly trying to get back to Heathrow airport and once did. Mel Bush had an eidetic memory and a spectacular scream. But often, despite their unique characteristics, companions served their greatest narrative function within the confines of their origin story. None of their characters defined subsequent stories.
Perhaps the nearest the series came to that was the delirious Brigadier in Series 20's Mawdryn Undead, a Blinovitch loaded time bomb wandering around an alien ship until he created a scene. That same season Tegan fell under the spell of the Mara for a second time, although she was the bridge rather than the focus for these stories. Then came Mel in Trial of a Time Lord. Having seen her in Matrix projections of the future, the Doctor retrieved the companion he's never met to form part of his defence, only for her to take a role in foiling the fiendish plot of the Valeyard inside the Matrix of the Timelords itself. Earlier came precocious Adric, whose sacrifice to mathematics enabled his friends to escape. It was his last act, but he certainly never found out if he was right.
Original crew
When she left, she left for love …
Even original companion Susan was as removed from adventures as her offish un-Doctorly grandfather. Indirectly, it was her elevated extrovertness and poor subtlety that brought two humans, Barbara and Ian, on board the TARDIS to kick-start the two exiles' involvement in the universe. Susan and the Doctor didn't leave Gallifrey to gallivant around the universe after all. With so little of the show's fabric stitched by the time she left the TARDIS crew a year later, she was never attached to being a Time Lady or given their key abilities. She even had the sauce to claim the acronym of TARDIS as her own, as the Doctor presumably fondly remembered in The Zygon Inversion. That said, she did display telepathic abilities, saving Barbara in The Sensorites, that might just have exceeded her grandfather's. When she left, she left for love. She didn't play a part in any arc, presumably the Time Lords never caught up with her to put her on trial. Maybe she wasn't pursued – but could she have escaped the Time War? Continue reading "Doctor Who Series 9: Have companions become more important than the Doctor?"
Doctor Who Series 9: The Knightmare of Immortality
By Jokermatt on October 26, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )
The fourth of a series of essays inspired by the stories of Doctor Who Series Nine. The show kept us in the past, this time landing on the highways of the seventeenth century to pick up on the consequences of the Doctor's actions at the end of his Viking adventure. What do the adventures of the Ashildir now the Lady Me, the latest in a long line of the undying, tell us about humanity?
It's an immortal question. Inspired by The Woman who Lived…
DID YOU FEEL ROBBED? WERE THE HOOKS OF THE GIRL WHO DIED NOT FULFILLED? Perhaps the MacGuffins and red herrings confounded expectation? But in any event, there's no doubt that this casual two-parter was always intended to realign itself as one of Doctor Who's occasional treatises on immortality.
The resulting 45 minutes, with its unusual structure pushing full force onto Peter Capaldi and Maisie William's double-act, proved one of the show's great explorations of that mighty theme. An irresistible concept that the show's often danced around but never answered. If it ever did, there's a good chance things would never be the same again.
Cheating Death
"People like us, we go on too long"
Immortality is built into Doctor Who, and not just in the inexhaustible fuel of the show's format: Ideas and imagination without constraint that may outlast the Eye of Harmony. At the heart of the show is a Time Lord, almost the last one – recently given a whole new regeneration cycle when the first one might simply have allowed him to live forever. "Barring accidents" as the Fourth Doctor put it once. You can imagine the TimeWhich statistics on Gallifrey, warning year after year that most regenerations happen in the kitchen. Regeneration means every Time Lord or Lady has 12 reset buttons on his genome and mannerisms that could give them a new life as a woman, girl, Mekon, dog or sentient lamp – but has so far always landed the Doctor as a humanoid male between the Earth years of 25 and 60.
Since the show's return, the revelation of the Great Time War has left unexplored the concept of these regenerating immortals fighting across time zones. It hasn't touched the compelling possibility of fully piloted WAR TARDISES containing an endless domino spiral of regenerations or soaking up all the ships power just delicately juggle their dying/regenerating inhabitants in various states of temporal grace.
'Accidents' is the key understatement in the fourth Doctor's unhelpful reasoning. Within two generation we saw the Doctor expire due to old age and then forcibly change (after execution we can only presume – nasty). Other times he's been irradiated several times, poisoned, squashed and found on the wrong side of gravity. Only on occasion has the Doctor regenerated through direct selflessness (the Fifth's self-sacrifice did more for his reputation than the Ninth's) unless you want to argue that every regeneration is a result of the indirect selflessness of his universal intervention; a Gallifreyan who had their Type-40 TARDIS stolen would certainly disagree with that.
But as much as the Doctor and the universe combine to pit him against mortal danger, I doubt the latter will ever let him expire. Certainly, the Time Lords who've retreated to God-like status while their planet's AWOL, were happy to break one of Rassilon's directives to extend the Doctor's life. I can't see how that mad despot perished, but I'd be surprised if he's calmed down.
Immortal crossings
The modern Prometheus to go with the Eyes of Hades.
In opposition to the Doctor and usually his people, Doctor Who presents a universe full of undeniable, illusionary and distorted versions of immortality. The list is a long one.
There are those not really of our time and space, who no doubt have no need word for immortality, being as it is very much in the eye of the beholder, and as a result little regard for mortals. These include the Eternals seen in 1983's Enlightenment, elementals who live outside of time, who barely consider the transitory lives of lesser creatures. Those latter years of the Fifth Doctor's life, coinciding with the show's 20th anniversary, saw immortality became a focus as the Eternals were joined by returning Black and White Guardians, maintaining the balance of the universe as personifications of chaos and order. In the 21st century we'd meet a member of the Pantheon of Discord in The Sarah Jane Adventures, the immortal Trickster for one lived on the power of chaos that emerged from the Faustian pacts he dangled in front of vulnerable humans. Similar carnage was wrought by the Gods of Ragnarok in Season 25's The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. Those rogues forced sentient beings to endlessly entertain them at point of elimination, and provided a neat tribute to an old category of the Doctor's rogues gallery in that silver anniversary year. Those gods joined the Discord and Guardians under the title The Great Old Ones in expanded Who universe prose.
Perhaps the greatest of the Doctors foes belonging to that pantheon is the Great Intelligence who first battled the Second Doctor in the Himalayas and the London Underground before meeting an improbable death in the time streams of The Name of the Doctor. In particular the prose of Andy Lane and Craig Hinton equated the Great Intelligence with Yog-Sothoth, a Lovecraftian cosmic entity of Cthulhu Mythos.
The Woman who Lived forwent Norse mythology to dwell on Hades…
The Doctor will always have eternal foes to undermine, tangle with and fight while there is a universe. Elsewhere, a special mention must go to Fenric, the time travelling ancient member of the Great Old Ones encountered by the Doctor in the in the last season of the Classic Series.
Fenric, as its name suggests, was tied up with Nordic heritage and mythology – something that's made an appearance in almost every episode of Series Nine so far. But, The Woman who Lived forwent Norse mythology to dwell on Hades, the underworld of the ancient Greek world. Greek mythology is well stocked with tales of immortality, from the gods of Olympus to the punishments of Titans and mortals. This time the MacGuffin was the Eye of Hades, alien technology that inspired the ponderous observations: "Purple the colour of death… The light of immortality".
In one of Doctor Who's best regarded stories, Egyptian mythology fell under the microscope. The Osirans of Season 12's Pyramids of Mars Could live thousands of years without sustenance and the most evil of their kind was only trapped by the Doctor thanks to a time tunnel pointed to infinity. Similarly long-lived, potentially immortal, and just as influential on humanity were was Azal in The Daemons and that other horned one, the Beast in The Satan Pit.
The Woman who Lived dragged alien intrigue into the mix like a cat dragging a mouse into a working lunch on everlasting life. Tying into those grand plans of aliens influencing the planet, it only seems natural that the immortal girl, the supernatural human, attracted them. After all, science fiction has taught us again and again that Arthur C. Clarke's third law is right: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Dedication to enduring existence is often shown to eliminate individuality…
Many species have survived from the dawn of time to what we can call the present day. They are easy to spot if they are recorded as scaring the ancient Time Lords or even worse, making it into Gallifreyan nursery rhymes or legends. The most famous recent example may be the Weeping Angels – along with their effective forbears the Fendahl, who even the Great Old Ones were said to flee – races almost viral in their persistent survival. Certainly not individualistic, that's something Doctor Who often shows to be eliminated by dedication to enduring existence. Continue reading "Doctor Who Series 9: The Knightmare of Immortality"
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The unthinkable has happened again. An armed teenager has again entered a school with a rifle set on killing whoever crossed his path.
Every time there is a violent incident at a school, our hearts as a parent are crushed. Why would this happen? How come we haven't fixed the issues yet? How can I help my child feel safe when I'm not sure I can tell them they will be?
There is little worse as a parent than feeling helpless to protect and help your child.
I spoke recently with counselor Rebekah Cotner, MA, MHC-LP, who offered some tips for helping your child through the aftermath of a traumatic incident, even if they were not directly involved.
Have a follow-up opportunity for them to talk more if needed.
Assuring your child that you will stick with them and support them as they work through their feelings personally and in their peer community. In addition, if needed, help by securing the appropriate professional support of grief counselors, trauma therapist, pastoral or peer support.
Lastly, be sure to take care of your own emotional needs, taking steps to gain peer support, participate in community efforts to raise safety and awareness, and above all, make time for your family to have the space for recovery and natural conversation.
Patti is a passionate pursuer of Jesus Christ, a wife of 30 years, the mom of two incredible young adults. She has spent a good chunk of my adult life as a youth minister in a number of settings, communicating with youth, writing curriculum for youth ministry, and coaching youth ministers to help them be more effective and healthy in ministry.


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The day these photos were taken, I had brunch with a couple of my friends (my bridesmaids!) and then we went wedding dress shopping for the first time! It was a pretty fun and exciting day, but it was also a little overwhelming because we went on a Saturday and it was so busy! If you happen to also be wedding dress shopping, I definitely recommend going on a weekday if possible because the experience is so much better and more personal!


For these little cuties, I used a PTU Scrap Kit called "We Wish You The Merriest" made by Wicked Princess Scraps. No tubes, just what came in her kit. It's available in all her stores. Check out her blog HERE. Click tag to see full size!


A couple of weeks ago Dave Smith asked the question in his column, "what do we have to do to make upfront cross-media." His suggestion was that if the timing for the upfront marketplace were changed to a time that matched the period when most advertisers and agencies are considering their cross-media, integrated, or multi-media budgets. A supplemental quarterly market could also emerge to accommodate other advertisers whose fiscals are at different times of the year.
I think changing the way the upfront marketplace works is an excellent idea. And if doing so would accommodate the inclusion of online media, which would also be of interest.
The real problem is, however, that the entire idea of the upfront marketplace is an antiquated one that needs to be not only changed, but likely dispensed with all together.
First, the issue with the upfront as it applies to Network and Cable Television. It is becoming commonplace for networks to debut new programming outside of the traditional mid-September calendar. New "seasons" are now almost a year-round phenomenon. For reality-TV ratings hits like "Joe Millionaire" or "The Bachelorette," the time of year is immaterial for their broadcast. And given the low-cost and quick turn-around on producing this kind of programming, it is possible that the networks won't even know when or if shows such as these are going to air.
Secondly, it is also becoming commonplace for network programming to come and go within a matter of weeks. So much of a network's anticipated schedule is altered by half-way through their new "season," that advertisers are left with buckets of makegoods to be run on programming other than what they'd originally purchased. What's the point of saving a place in line if the event you are waiting in line for is likely to be cancelled?
It is true that last year's upfront was better than expected, and yesterday AdAge reported Mel Karmazin predicting 12% to 15% jumps in upfront pricing. And it is also true that there is a limited amount of time and space and if more people want it than can have it, some process must be in place to deal with that reality. It seems that an upfront market place, however, is designed to prey on fear and laziness of the industry. Fear that someone else is going to get something you want and pay less for it, and laziness because if an organization can do 75% of it's selling and another can do 75% of its buying within a two- to four-week period, then you've only got 25% of a year's work to do over 11 months! And don't forget, just because a lot of people do something stupid doesn't mean that it makes sense.
And finally, why should online be a part of this, yet? Right now, there is still so much unused inventory; one could wait until the last minute and pay bargain-basement prices a week before a campaign was to run. There are exceptions, like rich media ad units or free-floating format assets that many first-tier sites restrict, limiting availability to the point of producing higher demand. And maybe properties like this can benefit from the kinds of thinking that drives the upfront marketplace. I'm all for borrowing tried and true practices from traditional media, but only good practices. Should this fine medium be saddled with something so altmodisch?
The real problem with upfront buying and selling is that it really stands in contrast to what market forces are supposed to accomplish, which is to ensure, albeit fluidly and often times soullessly, that an individual pays the "real" value for a particular product or service. Part of what informs value is spatio-temporal. That is to say, time and place are important variables in determining value. The upfront removes time and space from the equation for determining value. It takes the market and seals it off in a vacuum, letting value be set without influence by macroeconomic forces, quality of product (in this case, programming), and most importantly, the imp of the masses.
The frailties of the upfront practice only reveal themselves when times are tough, however. In recent years prices for most scatter inventory were below that of what was paid in the upfront. I guess the commodities futures market is similar, but has more rules and flexibility. If I lock in rates in the upfront for the Fall season, and I see over the summer that my business is suffering and I need to cut costs, I'm stuck.
Open markets need to be in flux because values are in flux dependent, in large part, on time and place. The upfront fixes these variables and, thus, creates static trade.
I just think it is a better idea to let prices be set by organic supply and demand rather than grandfather clauses and provenance.
I mean, if we really profess a free market, wouldn't practicing one be a great place to start?