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6 New Startups Redefining The Educational Space

Elena Prokopets

Tech startups are creating buzz in transportation, gaming, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors. Everybody knows this. What people may not realize is that technology has a huge impact on the educational space as well. In the first quarter of 2017, ed tech startups already closed over 130 funding deals, making it the highest quarterly deal count for this industry in over a year as CB Insights report. In general, EdTech spend is expected to reach $252 billion by 2020 according to a joint report from EdTechXGlobal and IBIS Capital.

There’s a good reason for such massive growth. Learning models have hardly evolved for the past 150 years, especially in K12 education. We still see a teacher explaining a concept to the class sitting behind desks with most materials being printed textbooks. Yet, modern students are not quite like their peers 150 years ago. They are among the first truly digital generation and they expect the technology to be present in the classroom as well. Next, digital skills are now in demand with over two million digital jobs expected to appear in the UK alone by 2020.

The following six startups are already addressing the changing educational landscape. They’re creating ripples and truly disrupting this industry with new solutions.

Nerdify is, at its core, a personal assistant app. The difference is that the founders of Nerdify have identified college students as their target market. Here, all the assigned assistants are referred to as ‘nerds’. You can get in touch with one via FB messenger or a quick text to explain what you need. Students submit whatever request they may have – whether it is just to order a book, get a quick answer to the academic question or get help with more complex tasks

After the request is submitted, Nerdify will match you with the ideal nerd for the job. The company lets students know what their nerd can do for them, and how much it will cost.

The topic of literacy is very important to educators. What people may not realize is that it’s a complex issue that goes far beyond whether or not students can read. These days, to be considered truly literate, students must know how to discern facts from opinion, and how to analyze what they read to draw conclusions. Newsela is on the cutting of helping educators create truly literate students.

They do this by partnering with school districts and providing teachers with grade appropriate, carefully curated articles. This includes current events, technology, and more. Students simply work through the content, then take the assessment provided by Newsela.

Teachers Pay Teachers

Teachers Pay Teachers is an online community and marketplace created solely for educators. It is a place where teachers can share ideas with one another, and even sell educational resources that they have created.

According to the website, participating teachers have earned more than 300 million dollars selling items through TPT.

Good educators know the value of peer assessments and reviews. Unfortunately, the old method of having students pass their work to one another is a bit haphazard. It’s also difficult for instructors to get good insights. After all, how much can you learn about a student’s progress when they are likely passing their work to someone who is familiar to them?

PeerGrade cuts through all of this by implementing a proven system that allows students to assess one another’s work, and also provides useful feedback to the instructor. It works quite simply. The instructor creates the assignment. The students complete it, and upload it. PeerGrade works for documents, videos, and other content. Finally, PeerGrade distributes the finished assignments for assessment. When the assessments are finished, the instructor receives a final report.

Class Dojo

In a business, corporate culture is extremely important. It impacts morale, and customers’ perception of the company. When culture is good, people feel respected, that their needs are being met, and that they are heard. This applies to everyone including customers.

Likewise, classroom culture matters as well. The ideal classroom culture encourages communication, ensures that everyone is treated with respect, and provides a safe place for learning. Class Dojo is a platform that uses a variety of tools to help students, parents, and teachers create positive and supportive learning communities.

Managing communications between teachers, students, and parents can be difficult. Putting notes into backpacks and hoping they make it home has been proven to be a failed experiment. Virtual backpacks or other solutions that store communications online aren’t very effective either. Parents and students still have to remember to go look for information. Teachers have to remember to keep things updated.

Remind is a communications tool that is safe, secure, and works in real time. Without exchanging phone numbers, Remind gives teachers, students, and parents a way to ‘text’ one another in real time. This can be used for assignment reminders, for students to ask teachers questions after hours, and to keep the communication flowing between parents and instructors.

Economics, politics, and a variety of other factors impact what goes on in the classroom. It will be interesting to see where these six up-and-comers are at a year from now.

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Definitive Edition a Mix of Impressive Effects and So-So Performance on Consoles

Mafia Trilogy has been the definition of a mixed bag. Mafia II: Definitive Edition was a disastrous remaster and Mafia III: DE was basically just a low-effort re-release, so what about the final entry in the trilogy? Mafia: Definitive Edition is a full remake, so you’d hope it would be handled with more care, but does it suffer from the same technical issues as it brothers?

Thankfully, the answer is no…for the most part. The tech heads at Digital Foundry put all the console versions of Mafia: Definitive Edition through their paces, and came away relatively impressed. If you’ve got about 15 minutes to spare, you can check out the full Digital Foundry video for yourself, below.

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Let’s get the nitty-gritty out of the way first – Mafia: Definitive Edition runs at a native 1440p on both Xbox One X and PS4 Pro, 1080p on the base PS4, and 900p on Xbox One. All versions lock performance at 30fps, and the Xbox One X manages to maintain that fairly consistently. Meanwhile, the PS4 Pro dips down into the mid-20s occasionally during busy driving scenes and the base PS4 and Xbox One can drop down into the low 20s. Oddly, the PS4 also features screen tearing (all other versions use VSync).

So yeah, not the most impressive performance, but you do get some effects you don’t often see on current-gen consoles in return. The game features a global illumination system for more realistic lighting and a new software-based reflection system. It’s not real hardware-based RTX, but developer Hangar 13 describes them as “ray-traced screen space reflections.” Based on the footage provided by DF, the reflections do look fairly impressive. So, you’re getting a fairly nice looking game, as long as you don’t mind a few performance hitches. If those do bother you, perhaps you’d better look into the PC version or wait for the inevitable Xbox Series X/PS5 upgrade.

Mafia: Definitive Edition is available now on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. You can buy the game a la carte for $40 or as part of the Mafia: Trilogy bundle for $60.

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Using 25% lower bandwidth, Disney+ launches in UK, Ireland and 5 other European countries, France to come online April 7

Disney+, the streaming service from the Walt Disney Company, has been rapidly ramping up in the last several weeks. But while some of that expansion has seen some hiccups, other regions are basically on track. Today, as expected, Disney announced that it is officially launching across 7 markets in Europe — but doing so using reduced bandwidth given the strain on broadband networks as more people are staying home because of the coronavirus pandemic. From today, it will be live in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland; Disney also reconfirmed the delayed debut in France will be coming online on April 7. It’s the largest multi-country launch so far for the service.

“Launching in seven markets simultaneously marks a new milestone for Disney+,“ said Kevin Mayer, Chairman of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International, in a statement. “As the streaming home for Disney, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and National Geographic, Disney+ delivers high-quality, optimistic storytelling that fans expect from our brands, now available broadly, conveniently, and permanently on Disney+. We humbly hope that this service can bring some much-needed moments of respite for families during these difficult times.”

Pricing is £5.99/€6.99 per month or £59.99/€69.99 for an annual subscription. Belgium, the Nordics, and Portugal, will follow in summer 2020.

The service being rolled out will feature 26 Disney+ Originals plus an “extensive collection” of titles (some 500 films, 26 exclusive original movies and series and thousands of TV episodes to start with) from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and other content producers owned by the entertainment giant, in what has been one of the boldest moves yet from a content company to go head-to-head with OTT streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

Caught in the crossfire of COVID-19

The expansion of Disney+ has been caught in the crossfire of world events.

The new service is launching at what has become an unprecedented time for streaming media. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, a lot of of the world is being told to stay home, and many people are turning to their televisions and other screens for diversion and information.

That means huge demand for new services to entertain or distract people who are now sheltering in place. And that has put a huge strain on broadband networks. So, to be a responsible streamer (and to make sure quality is not too impacted), Disney confirmed (as it previously said it would) that it would be launching the service with “lower overall bandwidth utilization by at least 25%.”

There are now dozens of places to get an online video fix, but Disney has a lot of valuable cards in its hand, specifically in the form of a gigantic catalog of famous, premium content, and the facilities to produce significantly more at scale, dwarfing the efforts (valiant or great as they are) from the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Apple .

Titles in the mix debuting today include “The Mandalorian” live-action Star Wars series; a live-action “Lady and the Tramp,” “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,”; “The World According to Jeff Goldblum” docuseries from National Geographic; “Marvel’s Hero Project,” which celebrates extraordinary kids making a difference in their communities; “Encore!,” executive produced by the multi-talented Kristen Bell; “The Imagineering Story” a 6-part documentary from Emmy and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Leslie Iwerks and animated short film collections “SparkShorts” and “Forky Asks A Question” from Pixar Animation Studios.

Some 600 episodes of “The Simpsons” is also included (with the latest season 31 coming later this year).

With entire households now being told to stay together and stay inside, we’re seeing a huge amount of pressure being put on to broadband networks and a true test of the multiscreen approach that streaming services have been building over the years.

In this case, you can use all the usuals: mobile phones, streaming media players, smart TVs and gaming consoles to watch the Disney+ service (including Amazon devices, Apple devices, Google devices, LG Smart TVs with webOS, Microsoft’s Xbox Ones, Roku, Samsung Smart TVs and Sony / Sony Interactive Entertainment, with the ability to use four concurrent streams per subscription, or up to 10 devices with unlimited downloads. As you would expect, there is also the ability to set up parental controls and individual profiles.

Carriers with paid-TV services that are also on board so far include Deutsche Telekom, O2 in the UK, Telefonica in Spain, TIM in Italy and Canal+ in France when the country comes online. No BT in the UK, which is too bad for me (sniff). Sky and NOW TV are also on board.


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How To Secure Yahoo Account From Hackers

How To Secure Yahoo Account From Hackers

Do you worry about how to secure Yahoo Account from hackers? Then here, you are in the right spot or site. This article will contain all the information that gives full measures to make a secure Yahoo account.

Yahoo is a well-known name among the users and didn’t need any introduction. But with the recent years, it has encountered many hacking cases. This makes the users worry about their account as they think “Is Yahoo Mail secure?” Users themselves allow hackers to attack on their account by opening all the doors.  For the user’s information, Yahoo has a recycling policy that states that anybody can use your email id after one month of deletion.

It simply means that hackers can open another account via your old Yahoo username.  And can reset the password by sending reset requests so that they can easily access your linked services. So, to protect Yahoo mail accounts, one has to read this article thoroughly.

How to Secure Yahoo Account from Hacking with Some DIY Methods?

Is Your Yahoo Mail Account Safe? If not, then use these manual techniques.

Different measures that protect the user’s account from hackers. Users had to take care of these measures so that your account remains fully encrypted. I will discuss these measures here users can use them from the article. This article will tell the procedure on how to secure Yahoo Account from hackers? So, If the users who want to encrypt their Yahoo Mail, then use these five ways to improve the account security.

DIY Strategies to Make a Secure Yahoo Account:

 1. Alter the Password

This is the most basic thing that any user should know. Users should keep their password strong enough that it can’t be decoded easily. They should keep their password personal i.e don’t give their password to others. Because the user will lose its security that will make their account easy to access. As anyone can change your password and can misuse your account. Even if you have a strong password it is recommended to keep their password changing.

Yahoo is one of the oldest email services that offer different features to its users. But it is prone to hacking and it has been hacked several times in recent years. Thus, Yahoo itself recommended to all its users to alter their passwords if they hadn’t. It is safe to protect the user’s stolen passwords as hackers might break the encryption if they are resolute.

Users can use these following instructions to change their password. These are-

  • To change the user’s password, visit Yahoo on your PC or mobile device > Account security page > tap on the “Change password” > enter and verify the new password > tap on Continue.
  • Users are asked to eliminate the answers of the security questions that were hacked earlier as it is not protected. Thus, it is recommended to eliminate the security questions from the user’s account. And, use an alternative email address or mobile number as the extra security measure. If the user has updated their email or phone number, then the security questions will automatically be removed.
  • Users can get rid of the security questions, Move to the Account Settings > Account security > Turn off the security questions > on the page with the user’s security questions, snap on “Yes, secure my account” > hit Continue.
  • To attach another recovery option, visit the Account security > tap Email addresses or Phone numbers > hit on Add recovery [email address] [phone number] > go along with the on-screen prompts.

2. Update other sites

Many users use the same password and security questions on different sites. This can be dangerous as hackers can easily penetrate these sites and can misuse it. Thus, to avoid this situation, users have to change their password and security questions across these sites too.

3. Turn on Two-Step Verification

To have tight security and encrypted Yahoo email accounts, users can enable two-factor verification. Users should use the password that is strong enough to decode. It is necessary to perform as it decreases the possibility of being hacked because if the user’s account gets hacked. Then, hackers can easily have access to the user’s email and phone number. This can be a worrisome situation as then it will operate according to the hacker’s will.  Also, for online transactions try to use a phone number that you don’t use it any longer.

  1. First, visit the Account Security section to turn on two-factor verification.
  2. Now, turn on the two-step verification and enter a phone number that will be asked to confirm it.
  3. Once it is completed, the verification mode will be turned on.

      4Upgrade the Recovery Information

This is an important feature for the users so that they can attach the contact information to the Yahoo account if they get logged out. This permits the user to use another email address or your phone number to regain the account. Thus, one should update this info in time before it’s late.

  1. First, visit the Account Info > Account security tab again.
  2. Now, attach any contact details you often use under Phone numbers and Email addresses.
  3. Next, choose the Add recovery email/phone, and enter the proper info.
  4. Then, for phones, users will get a verification code through SMS or a call. In case, users attach a new email address then they will get a message with a link to confirm the address.

      5.  Remove the Connected Services

Connected services help the hackers to approach the user’s social media accounts just by hacking the user’s Yahoo account. Thus. users should disconnect to all other connected services from their Yahoo account.

  1. To eliminate the connected accounts from Yahoo, visit the Settings and tap on More Settings.
  2. Next, the settings page will display, from where the user has to choose the Social Accounts to see all the other connected services.
  3. Finally, eliminate the accounts from the list. So that users can avoid the leak of their information regarding other accounts and services from hackers.

      6. Transfer data from Yahoo Mail

To make Yahoo mail stronger and protected from the hackers. It is advised to the users to migrate from Yahoo mail to another client. Users can opt for any email client, nowadays Gmail is the best option to opt. For your information, Gmail offers the easy importing of emails and contacts from the available Yahoo mail accounts.

  1. First, users can import into Gmail by opening the Gmail email. Visit the Settings.
  2. Then, tap on the Accounts and Import tab and choose the Import mail and contacts option.
  3. Users will be asked to enter their Yahoo id. Once it is completed, users can easily import their Yahoo emails into Gmail.

So these were the manual techniques that anyone can perform for free. Users have to perform these techniques carefully as data loss is probable.

While doing above methods, one thing that needs to be kept in mind is to take a backup of your Yahoo account immediately. To do so immediately, just use Yahoo Backup Tool which ensures full data backup without any issues.

Important Points to Remember to Secure Yahoo Account from Hacking:

Is Yahoo Mail safe 2020?

The tight security used on one’s computers can prevent data loss or information. As this decreases the doubt of the users of Yahoo security. Thus, it is necessary to have a strong password as even the effective anti-virus software can’t catch every virus. Thus, it will ultimately prevent every hacking method. If your password is weak enough then even the malware can steal your passwords. And thus, your Yahoo account can be stolen.

1.Generate a sign-in seal when the user logs in. It is available on the Yahoo mail login screen under “Are You Protected?” Whenever a user enables or mark a tick on its mail, then, a sign-in seal appears. This is shown as a message or an image.  It simply shows the authenticity of the site. Once the users make their choice, tap “Save this Seal.” Users are required to recreate the sign-in seal in case users delete their browser’s cookies.

2. Now, create a different password for every Yahoo account. It is necessary because utilizing the same password can make an account more vulnerable. Because the hacker is required to steal one password of the user. So that he can access all accounts.

3. Now, Hover the cursor over the links in the email to inspect the domain before tapping them. Avoid phishing emails. Because they are created to be real but ultimately redirect you to the fake page. Hence, it is necessary to inspect the link beforehand to see if it will send you to the original website. If not then, report the email to Yahoo.

4. Finally, update your antivirus program and run it all the time. This is necessary to make a line that will keep the malicious software off of your computer. Take care of your account and scrutinize suspicious files. Avoid opening an attachment that arrives from the unknown source.

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Cubot X19

Cubot X19
Cubot X19

The Cubot X19 smartphone was released in 2019 and is powered by the Mediatek Helio P23 MT6763 chipset, with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage. It runs on Android OS v8.1 (Oreo) straight out of the box and features a 5.93″LCD IPS screen. With a really affordable price of $100 bucks, the Cubot X19 becomes a decent option for your needs.

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Design and display

The design of the Cubot X19 comes in black, green and “twilight” color giving it an aesthetic look to the 155, 06 x 74, 67 x 9, 55 mm dimension body. It weighs 167grs and comes with a plastic frame and back. With rounded edges and the camera placement at one of the top corners we don’t get too much innovation here but it is compensated by bright colors and a slim look.

The 5.93-inch IPS capacitive touchscreen with 1080 x 2160 px resolution is multitouch capable and maintain its brightness even under the sunlight. Also with this resolution and with 407 pixels per inch, the displayed content is therefore sharp and neat.

Performance and battery life

Cubot X19 runs on the MT6763T (Helio P23) Octa-Core 2.5GHz 64-bit and with a 4GB RAM memory. The smartphone’s memory (4 GB) cannot be expanded, but the storage (64 GB) can be expanded with a microSD card. If we refer to performance, it’s adequate to consider it fast and adequate.

A non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh gives the smartphone a good battery and an approximate of 7 hours of screen active use. With this battery life you can get until a day and a half of moderate use before you need to charge the phone. You can even stretch this time a little bit, depending on the use.

The Cubox X19 comes with a dual back camera of 16.0MP+2.0MP, auto – focus incorporated and double LED flash. Not being ideal for taking night pictures or videos and we consider it an average performer for daylight pictures. Besides the back cameras, it has a real nice frontal camera of 8MP that give us really detailed pictures but without front flash light, it’s not recommendable for night selfies.

Suitable for taking pictures to save your memories, capturing bright colors and with surprisingly sharp and good selfies, but not as good to be considered with an “almost professional capacity”.

Conclusion: the Cubox X19 is a good budget smartphone.

You won’t get the last of the last trend in smartphones, but with a decent battery life, a good frontal camera, a different design and a good performance this is a nice option for the day to day use and in a really good price!


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Michigan will build a city-connecting highway for self-driving cars

A 40-mile-long corridor reserved for autonomous vehicles may soon connect Detroit and Ann Arbor. Last Thursday, on August 13, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the creation of the Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Corridor, which will be established through a public-private partnership. Mobility company Cavnue has been selected as the project’s Master Developer, and will help

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The pandemic put a strain on our digital infrastructures, especially in under-served communities

Much has been made about the physical separation necessitated by the novel coronavirus. But the pandemic has also laid bare the digital divide separating communities across the country. Over the past few months, millions of Americans have had to shift their daily activities online with the help of web-based applications, productivity tools, and videoconferencing platforms.

a school bus converted into a mobile testing lab

Firms turn to school buses, shipping containers for speculative COVID-19 testing hubs

Despite all the news of re-openings, lifted restrictions, al fresco options dining, and a return to something more closely resembling “normal,” COVID-19 is still very much with us. And despite the defeatist/downplayed/nothing to see here stance embraced by the current presidential administration, the United States is still in the midst of an unprecedented public health

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URBAN-X 6 showcases new tech solutions at A/D/O

This past Thursday, URBAN-X hosted its sixth demo day in Brooklyn at A/D/O, where startups that were showing what Micah Kotch, the startup accelerator’s managing director, called “novel solutions to urban life.” URBAN-X, which is organized by MINI, A/D/O’s founder, in partnership with the venture firm Urban Us, began incubating urban-focused startups back in 2016.

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A collaboration of Dutch companies wants to 3D print an entire pedestrian bridge

Three Dutch organizations—the materials company DSM, the engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV, and the 3D printer manufacture CEAD—have teamed up to create a printer capable of printing continuous glass- or carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics. Currently, they are demonstrating the capabilities of printing structural elements, and even, they hope, entire pedestrian bridges, with CEAD’s CFAM Prime printer which can create

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Robot boats autonomously bridge a gap in Amsterdam

A joint team of researchers at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolis Solutions (AMS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Senseable City Lab have developed what they’re calling “the world’s first dynamic” bridge. Powered by a fleet of autonomous electric boats, roundAround will connect the Amsterdam City Center with the developing Marineterrein Amsterdam, a partly decommissioned

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New 3D-printed, crash-proof benches debut in Times Square

This May, designer Jou Doucet x Partners, working with the Times Square Design Lab (TSqDL), debuted a 3D-printed concrete alternative to the now-common heavy concrete planters, bollards, and more traditional “Jersey” barriers that surround public places and prominent buildings across the country. Anti-terror street furniture is the often ugly urban peripheral that plugs into our

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Brooklyn-based startup is using robots for rebar assembly

Two Brooklyn-based construction entrepreneurs began their business with a simple observation: steel rebar, used in concrete construction throughout the world, isn’t always easy to work with. Ian Cohen and Daniel Blank noticed this when they were watching wind turbines being erected. “Watching the process of people manually moving these huge, heavy objects looked dangerous and


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Is your Windows computer slow? It’s probably deteriorating

Is your Windows computer slow? It’s probably deteriorating

Aren’t computers fascinating? With one device, you can do so many amazing things …

You probably recognize the feeling of coming home from the store and finally manage to unpack your new computer. For the first few months, everything works very fast, but after a period of time, you can feel it getting more and more complicated. The fact that your computer can start to deteriorate is due to many reasons. In this guide, you will find a series of suggested solutions for Windows computers.

1. Your computer uses too many resources!

Symptoms: Your computer is slower when you have a few browser tabs open

It takes an infinitely long time to open programs

Solution A: Try restarting your computer

One trick that works for almost all technical problems is to reboot the device. By restarting it we do not mean to put it in power saving mode, but to do a real restart.

What happens is that all processes are shut down and reset, freeing up resources for the computer such as the hard drive and RAM.

To do this, restart your computer using the built-in function found by clicking the Windows icon at the bottom left of the screen. Then, select the on / off symbol and click restart. Alternatively, you can turn it off and restart it manually with the physical button.

Solution B: Close unnecessary programs running in the background

The fastest way to do this is by opening the Task Manager. There are many ways to open this list of the “most common” ways;

Right-click on the taskbar (the bar at the bottom of the screen) and click on the task manager

Press CTRL, ALT and DEL to access the security overview. Even there, you can click on the activity manager.

In our opinion, the fastest way is to press CTRL, Shift and ESC.

Most likely, you will only be able to watch certain shows. To get a complete overview of the programs that are running, click on “More information” at the bottom of the window.

Now you can see all the running programs that can terminate redundant activities.

2. You have too many programs in the startup list.

Symptoms: Turning on the computer takes too long

Many programs start when you turn on the computer

Solution: Settings in “Start”

In the activities manager, you will find a button relatively high up where it says “Start”.

During the automatic startup, you will find all the programs that the computer opens automatically when you turn on the computer. You can go through the list and turn off unnecessary programs that you think should not start automatically, by right-clicking on the program and then selecting “disable”. When you do this, your computer will generally start up a bit faster, and there will be fewer programs running in the background.

3. Your hard drive is full.

Symptoms: You can no longer save files

The computer gets complicated in general

You cannot run certain programs

Solution A: Clean the hard drive

When the computer runs programs, temporary files are created and stored on the hard drive. Removing them can improve your computer’s performance. The first step is to press “Windows key + R”. A window should appear asking you to type a command.

Type “cleanmgr” and then press OK or Enter. Next, select your device, usually Windows (C :). There you can choose the files you want to delete. You can select temporary Internet files, Downloads (in the Downloads folder) and Trash if you don’t have to save any files in the Trash or Downloads folder (Save the files you want to prevent from being downloaded to another location).

Then, confirm your selection with “Erase system files”, and you can exit the program when this is ready.

Solution B: Uninstall programs

You will find all your installed programs in the control panel. Press the window button and type “control panel.” Open the panel and look for “Programs and Features.” Then, select the program you want to remove and click “uninstall” just above the list.

4. Your computer has a virus!

Symptoms: Pop-ups, slow computer, strange internet pages that open automatically, etc.

Solution: Virus Protection

Use Windows’ own virus protection, and you will find it when you search for “Windows Security” or any other antivirus program. We suggest Avast or AVG as free alternatives. Search and remove any threats.

Malware can only extract a lot of resources, and it can be good to check your computer from time to time.

5. You have old or “weak” components.

Symptoms: Your computer is unable to access many browser tabs

(You want to save multiple files)

Solution: Update some components

It may also be that your computer cannot function at the levels that you require. There is always the option to update certain components. This is, in most cases, cheaper compared to buying a new computer and a bit more environmentally friendly. It would be best if you kept in mind that it is usually a bit more difficult to update a laptop than a desktop one.

Hard drive: If you have low memory, you can buy hard drives. Today there are both; optical (HDD) which is a bit slower and digital (SSD) with generally higher speed.

RAM: Or also known as Random Access Memory is the working memory of your computer. There, the program files are temporarily saved so they “float”, and you don’t have to wait forever when you want to do something. The more RAM you have, the better. Feel free to check what type of RAM you need for your particular computer. The most current for desktop computers is DDR4 DIMMs and for notebooks SO-DIMM DDR4. The oldest generation is called DDR3. It would be best if you kept in mind that you must have the correct socket on the motherboard for each RAM.

To sum up:

– Do a proper reboot

– Turn off programs running in the background

– Adjust Windows startup list

– Delete temporary files

– Remove redundant programs

– Update components

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Vanilla Nut Roasted Herbal Tea | 25 Tea Bags

(58 customer reviews)

The creaminess of vanilla accented by golden roasted almonds with the sweetness of dates & figs

25 Tea Bags

Medium Roast - 75% Organic

Vanilla Nut was the first Teeccino flavor I ever created. I wanted to feature vanilla beans from Mexico where I was working to preserve rainforests with rural villages. My expertise is to source ingredients that can be sustainably harvested and the goal of rainforest preservation is to produce economic value for the standing trees and income for the people who live there.

Vanilla, the only orchid used in food, has become a favorite the world over due to its unparalleled fragrance and complex heady flavor. Vanilla is indigenous to Central America where it was discovered by the native people centuries before the Spanish arrived. The Aztec Emperor Montezuma was said to be drinking an elixir for longevity made from cacao 9the bean that gives us chocolate), vanilla and honey when the conquistadors were ushered in for an audience.

Now this may seem like trivia, but do you know that each vanilla bean has to be handled hundreds of times during its 6 month curing process? They are heated in the sun and then wrapped up at night to sweat! Doesn’t that bring home the wonder of nature and the cleverness of humans? It is no surprise to me that Vanilla Nut has always been our best selling Mediterranean flavor. Drink it knowing that you are helping indigenous communities find sustainable livelihoods that preserve rainforests.

  • Naturally caffeine free – no processing or chemical residues
  • Acid free – helps restore alkaline balance
  • Natural energy boost – from nutrients not stimulants
  • Antioxidants from carob, barley, dates, figs and almonds
  • Contains heart-healthy potassium and soluble fiber
  • Prebiotic – inulin from chicory root feeds your probiotics, the beneficial microflora that improve digestive health, regularity and supports your immune system. Inulin extracts naturally into your cup from chicory roots during brewing.
  • Brewed Teeccino has no detectable gluten at less than 5 parts per million when prepared with a paper filter or tea bag. This has been verified by independent laboratory tests.

Roasted organic carob, organic barley, organic chicory, dates, almonds, organic figs, natural vanilla extract, natural vanilla nut flavor*

Contains: Almonds

*All Teeccino flavors are extracted from plants and comply with organic standards.

  • Teeccino tea bags make brewing Teeccino easy and convenient at home or on the go!
  • Each tea bag contains 6g of Teeccino. Regular tea bags only hold 1 – 2g. Teeccino tea bags have more than 3 times the product as regular tea bags to create a full-bodied brew.
  • The exact same Teeccino grounds are in the tea bags as in our 11 oz bags. Tea bags are simply Teeccino in a filter bag.
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Turkcell unveils its commitment to ethical and responsible AI usage

Telecoms is an industry news, comment and analysis hub providing the latest practical, strategic and thought leadership content from across the industry. Telecoms owns and manages two of the leading industry discussions groups on LinkedIn, publishing content directly into streams viewed by over 500,000 industry professionals.

Turkcell recently demonstrated its commitment to the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which will be embedded to core business procedures and technologies.

The initiative aims to make the company one of the key global contributors to AI ethics and also the first in the country to announce concrete AI principles.

Turkcell CMO, Omer Barbaros Yis, said: “AI should be raised like children and we commit to teach better as responsible parents. Today we share our principles and our commitment to help AI have socially beneficial impacts for our customers and society at large.

“We are proud to become the first company to contribute to AI ethics in Turkey. The field will continuously expand and we will witness its transformative impacts in our daily lives. Backed by our experience in digital transformation and creating next-generation technologies, we will continue to drive a positive direction towards its advancement and help overcome public concerns about the field.”

Last November, Zhao Dachun, the vice general manager of China Mobile, expressed his thoughts on the rollout of 5G during the third China Enterprise Reform and Development Forum. Highlighting research data from IHS Markit, which predicts 5G to help grow $12.3 trillion globally across sectors by 2035, Zhao said: “5G will become the aorta of the information society, the accelerator of the industrial transformation, and the footstone of digital society.”

Xiaomi recently announced that it would invest more than 50 billion yuan in 5G and AI in the coming five years. The company has long held a vision around the convergence of 5G, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things, advocating for an ‘all in AIoT’ (AI + IoT) approach.

Interested in hearing industry leaders discuss subjects like this and sharing their use-cases? Attend the co-located IoT Tech Expo, Blockchain Expo, AI & Big Data ExpoCyber Security & Cloud Expo and 5G Expo World Series with upcoming events in Silicon Valley, London and Amsterdam and explore the future of enterprise technology.

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White House Farm available now on DVD and streaming

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ITV drama White House Farm is now available to purchase on DVD and streaming.

The six part series revolved around one fateful night in August 1985 when five members of the same family were murdered at an Essex farmhouse; Sheila Caffell, her twin six-year-old sons, Daniel and Nicholas, and her parents, Nevill and June Bamber.

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Stream or download White House Farm online

Alternatively, White House Farm is currently available to stream in full for free via the ITV Hub here.

You can also stream the series via Amazon Prime Video with ITV Hub+.

The White House Farm DVD release features all six episodes on a two disc set.

Freddie Fox takes the role of Jeremy Bamber with Mark Addy, Stephen Graham, Gemma Whelan, Cressida Bonas, Alfie Allen and Amanda Burton also starring.

A synopsis reads: "Essex Police initially believed that Sheila, who had mental health problems, had murdered her own family before turning the gun on herself. But Detective Sergeant Stan Jones had doubts about the murder-suicide theory, and about Sheila’s brother Jeremy Bamber, who first called the police to the farm.

"Eventually it was Jeremy Bamber who was charged and convicted of the murders of his own parents, sister and nephews. Bamber is currently serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He is one of the few prisoners in the UK subject to a whole-life order. Bamber still maintains his innocence."


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For example, our Windows-based ASC Tool.

When it comes to the stage of acoustically tuning your product, nothing is worse than having to work with complex development tools that you had no say in even selecting, as they are just what is offered by the IC vendor.

At Tempo we understand that all too well the challenges that acoustical engineers face, hence why our ASC GUI Tool is one of the simplest, most intuitive and flexible to use in the industry.

What could be simpler than using a graphical interface to set your filter type, Fc, & Q / BW for up to 12 unique bands?

However, while some tools might be simple for the acoustical engineer to use, when it comes to the task of generating the microcontroller code that implements the programming of the registers in the DSP, some companies leave these programmers to have to practically reverse-engineer the proprietary output file just to be able to extract the necessary bytes that they need to place into their C code as an array. Again, Tempo offers a substantial number of export formats that will dramatically simplify the job of the programmer.

For iOS or Android-based portable audio accessories, we even offer complete turn-key Apps, not just “reference source code” leaving the ODM to figure out how to glue all of the necessary pieces together that enable the end-product to be customized by the consumer and/or to offer field firmware updating.

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Prada x Sotheby’s “Tools of Memory” auction of Miuccia’s Most Exclusive

There are 2 Days and 5 hours left for Prada x Sotheby’s “Tools of Memory”, an exclusive auction event celebrating the importance of design across art and fashion. Prada’s penchant for post-opulent,  understated luxury and transformative fashion will is showcased through an auction of one-of-a-kind Fall/Winter 2020 fashion items, photographic prints, show invitations and pieces drawn from the runway décor and vinyl with the accompanying music for both presentations by Frédéric Sanchez.

Sanchez’s career began in 1988, when fashion designer Martin Margiela invited him to design the soundtrack for his debut show, and he has since worked with various designers such as Comme des Garçons, Helmut Lang, Hermes, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jil Sander, Marc Jacobs, and most recently, Prada where he created a soundscape to for brand’s FW2020 show which debuted in January and February.

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 EUR CURRENT BID: 4,500 EUR

Fashion has a duty not only to reflect its times, but to help shape them, to be a meaningful and useful tool, to affect change.

Prada’s FW2020 show transformed the grand hall of the Deposito of Fondazione Prada into two piazzas, designed by research and design studio AMO. Classical masculine symbols of heroism like an equestrian statue, an unnamed “anti-hero, and a representation of the Greek Titan Atlas designed by Rem Koolhaas formed the centrepieces of the Men’s and Women’s shows respectively; scenescapes reminiscent of Giorgio de Chirico’s works; also appears as highlights of the auction.

Clothes are objects of desire that remind us of emotion and experience: tools of memory of a precise moment within fashion and time, that on this occasion can help the future.

Famed for his sound environments, as well as installations and compositions for galleries, museums and public spaces, Sanchez’s experiential sound staging projects (yes his playlist is also up for auction via vintage vinyl) are one-of-a-kind, much like the garments up for auction at Prada x Sotheby’s “Tools of Memory”. The unique garments worn by models during each fashion show, immortalise the backstage process and on-stage performance.

From layered fringes to deconstructed pleats, geometric prints, knitwear and shearling-lined outerwear, Prada: Tools of Memory features over 40 looks from the house’s FW2020 presentations. Each outfit is unique; the clothing, shoes, and accessories worn by the models for fittings and on the catwalk, such as a one-of-a-kind pastel blue dress with an embellished beaded fringe neckline, the dress was originally created for the show but the same prototype in a different colour featured on the final catwalk.

I think that in this moment what I can do with my work is to do something that is meaningful, real, that can express various intentions, different meanings. The collections are about personality, craft, a creative contribution. The meaning and usefulness of fashion today: use and utility, function. Clothes as tools, tools for life – fashion with a purpose. – Miuccia Prada

Prada: Tools of Memory auction will raise funds for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and its efforts to safeguard learning for students around the world in the face of the unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19. At the peak of the pandemic, school closures to contain its spread interrupted the education of more than 1.5 billion children and youth – 90% of the world’s students – disproportionately impacting girls and women, for whom education is often a lifeline.

Unique. Estimate: 1,500 – 2,400 EUR CURRENT BID: 6,500 EUR

Prada will donate its proceeds raised in this auction will specifically benefit UNESCO’s new campaign entitled Keeping Girls in the Picture and their Global Education Coalition’s Gender Flagship, which has been leading collaborative efforts to promote the continuity of learning during closures and ensure a safe return to school for all women everywhere.

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My Portlandia Pilgrimage

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Thirty minutes into the line for Voodoo Donuts, it occurred to me that the Portland I grew up in wasn’t nearly as edgy, earthy or hipster as it is today. I texted my sister, who also grew up in the Rose City and then lived most of her adult life on the East Coast.

“Why wasn’t Portland cool when we were growing up?” I asked.

My attention wandered as I waited for her reply. A witty Millennial functioning as line motivator/donut huckster was describing how one uses the pretzel extruding from the trademark voodoo doll-shaped donuts to stab its belly until raspberry goo oozes forth, ensuring a tasty curse.

“Because we lived there,” my sister texted back. Touché. A response worthy of an ad-libbed line from the fame-inducing series Portlandia.

She’s right, of course. But when I was in high school the town was still in the awkward, pre-pubescent stage long before its voice dropped to sexy. Nobody bragged about being from Portland, except maybe Tonya Harding before she reached for her tire iron.

images-1It still rained, but no Grimm TV series had turned the slick street gloom into glam. Athleta and Lululemon hadn’t yet invented attractive outdoor fitness fashion so our galoshes and parkas made us look like lumpy fourth-graders.

Men still wore flannel shirts and sported beefy beards. But those men were your dads. Not confident Lumbersexuals effortlessly lifting their mountain bikes onto electric street trams.

People were still glow-in-the-dark pale when I lived in Portland. But back then Goth wasn’t in and we were embarrassed by our ethereal skin tones. The joke was Portlanders didn’t tan; they rusted.

We still had coffee and beer but they came from jars of Folgers in your mom’s kitchen and from cartons at the back of gas station convenience stores.

The Portland of today is Darwinian in its greatness. People like me and my sister left and only the hippest have survived. There is evidence everywhere that Portlandia has captured the zeitgeist of a new culture.

If you eat out in Portland you will be told the birthplace of every ingredient. On my Saturday morning hike through one of Portland’s forests I passed ferns and wild orchids whose cousins I ate the night before.

When I stopped to see what the asking price was on this cute little cottage in the Northwest quadrant I realized the owner wasn’t displaying real estate brochures but poetry.

Look closely at this mom’s stroller. It’s attached to a skateboard. I looked around, expecting to see Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen.

In this hometown I barely recognize I’m not sure if life is imitating art or the other way around. If anything, Portlandia overemphasizes the “keep Portland weird” vibe and underplays the city’s friendly sophistication.

We were there, for example, for a major fine-art photography portfolio review and month-long celebration of the art form called Photo Lucida. In my day, a photo exhibit in Portland meant landscapes of neighboring Mount Hood printed on canvas. But so many in-the-know Portlanders turned out for the night the photo review was open to the public that the fire marshal had to shut down the Portland Art Museum.

I live in the South now, a region heralded for its hospitality. But it was in Portland that a parking lot attendant saw me wadding the wrapper from my messy, trendy food cart lunch into my backpack and abandoned drivers to show me the nearest garbage can. Then he ducked into his little key shed and reappeared with a roll of paper towels and hand sanitizer.

I knew I was developing a major crush on my new old hometown when I finally reached the end of the line at Voodoo Donuts. The sweet yeasty smell from my freshly baked, over-frosted voodoo doll wafted up to my cold red nose and I must have swooned. I suddenly couldn’t think of anyone to curse. I was so put-a-bird-on-it, tree hugging, never-shaving again happy that I forgot why I was holding the tiny stabbing pretzel in my fist.

Luckily my aunt Ronell, an old-fashioned kind of Oregonian who still drinks beer out of a can and thinks skateboards are for little kids, was by my side. She put down her traditional maple bar and whispered a name into my ear. It was just the spell-breaker I needed and I plunged the pretzel into the jelly-filled belly of the innocent donut. My sister was right. I’m not chill enough to be born-again Portlander yet.

The geek selfie -- me with the about-to-be-replaced carpet at PDX
The geek selfie — me with the about-to-be-replaced carpet at PDX

The Bookclub Reveal that Floored Me

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Meet the ladies of Ex Libris
Meet the ladies of Ex Libris

Beaufort’s Ex Libris bookclub has been meeting for the last twenty-one years – the young mothers who started it as a sanity-saving break from infants and toddlers now swap stories of their children’s weddings and plans for grandchildren. They’ve been each other’s other mothers and other mothers to each other’s children. They pick their books a year in advance and the menu for their monthly meetings is always the same: M&M’s, bags of popcorn and many, many bottles of wine. But they still have the capacity to surprise each other.

Take this month’s meeting, for example. One of the founding members, Vicki Mix, nominated “The Other Mother: a rememoir” because back in the 90s she used to help Byrne Miller archive programs, press clippings and photographs into giant scrapbooks. We didn’t know each other then, but we both count ourselves among the last generation “collected” by the modern dancer who turned the South on its head. So I wasn’t surprised that another sister-by-Byrne would ask me to talk to Ex Libris.

Thats Deborah, second row, second from the right
Thats Deborah, second row, second from the right

I never expected what happened next. One of the longstanding members brought a guest to the meeting, someone who had once worked as a designer at WJWJ-TV, and when we went around the room doing introductions she shyly said her name: Deborah Martin. She was holding an 8×10 black and white photo of a group of dancers and pointed to herself, thirty-years ago. The group was the Byrne Miller Dance Theatre and she was one of Byrne’s original dancers!

Deborah's costume designs for the Byrne Miller Dance Theatre
Deborah’s costume designs for the Byrne Miller Dance Theatre

Byrne at the wedding of two of her collected children in 1990
Byrne at the wedding of two of her collected children in 1990

It gets even better. Not only did Deborah dance for Byrne in the days before the BMDT became purely a presenter of modern dance, she designed costumes for the company.

Byrne was so theatrical, always bedecked in outlandish fashions, that I can only imagine how she must have treasured Deborah’s talents. The sketches she passed around felt like heirlooms – graceful reminders that Byrne’s story was once present tense and active. And that even though Byrne was the star of her own remarkable story there was always a supporting cast. Which included Duncan – Byrne’s husband of 60 years.

The man I was assigned to “cover” as a news story about Alzheimers struggled for the strength to shake my hand and the breath to speak. But Deborah knew a much younger, vibrant Duncan who never missed a single rehearsal.

Duncan, in rehearsal
Duncan, in rehearsal

“He was always there, in his little leotards,” she said. “He absolutely adored dance and had this delightful giggle I’ll never forget.”

The joyous, ebullient Byrne
The joyous, ebullient Byrne

Back cover of "The Other Mother: a rememoir" courtesy of Beaufort County Library
Back cover of “The Other Mother: a rememoir” courtesy of Beaufort County Library

Deborah knew a different side of Byrne than I would ever encounter – the tough, demanding taskmaster never satisfied until a dance was stage-ready. She wasn’t always the wise, tactful other mother she was by the time I found her. Feelings got hurt but always mended. “We went through a lot together, Byrne and I.”

Deborah left Beaufort and WJWJ long before I arrived to take a job at the same TV station, and she lost track of Byrne’s story. It was only decades later, after she had returned to live on St. Helena Island, that she found out about Byrne’s papers at the Beaufort County Library. But even the giant scrapbooks Vicki Mix had helped archive couldn’t restore a presence as pivotal as Byrne Miller.

“When I saw the newspaper pages, all yellowed and faded, it was just so sad. I couldn’t believe that a life like hers was reduced to artifact.”

I know exactly how she felt. I too, studied those scrapbooks in the research phase of the memoir of my relationship with Byrne. I was never trying to bring Byrne back to life; just to share the greatest love story I have ever known.

Byrne and Duncan Miller
Byrne and Duncan Miller

Each bookclub that reads “The Other Mother: a rememoir” interprets it in a new way. Ex Libris members shared the perspective of mothers astounded at the selfless love it took for Byrne to nudge me out of her protective nest to start my own career. They loved the ending – the scene where Byrne and I danced a duet of hand shadows in a dark room.

Deborah clutched the book to her chest, close to tears and thanked me for bringing Byrne back to her. And that’s when I realized that for other mothers, there are no endings. Ours are stories that will shape future lives.

Me with Deborah, a sister-by-Byrne I never knew I had.
Me with Deborah, a sister-by-Byrne I never knew I had.

The Other Mother’s First Birthday!

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The Other Mother: a rememoir is one year old today! November 5th was the national release date and the start of a fabulous dance with readers. If I had to make a David Letterman-style “Top 10 list” of the first year of a book’s life it would look something like this:

#10 The thrill of seeing my baby in the window of my hometown bookstore

#9  The pinch-myself moment when I saw it in the main Columbia library during the SC Book Fair – where I got to be on a memoir panel.

SC Bookfest
SC Bookfest

#8  Book signings galore — it turns out men love to buy the book for their wives, and women for their sisters, aunts and other mothers.

#7  A sold-out crowd at Litchfield Books’ Moveable Feast luncheon – where one woman told me she bought the book as a gift for her daughter, hoping she’d “get herself an other mother right quick!”

#6  A blog tour that introduced Byrne to dancers and readers around the country and got rave reviews you can check out on the “reviews” tab of my website.

# 5 An “Other Mother’s Day” PR campaign that introduced the book to newspaper readers in North Dakota, Utah, Ohio and Pennsylvania; morning talk radio listeners in New York and Providence and public radio fans in Berkeley, California.

#4 Hearing all the stories of how other mothers transform us at the fabulously elegant Other Mother Soiree’s hosted for the book in Beaufort, Charleston and Washington DC

#3 Signing 18 copies of the book for Pat Conroy to give as gifts to all the daughters and mothers in his life!

#2 Winning the Independent Book Publishers Association’s 2014 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Autobiography/Memoir in New York

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#1 My favorite part — talking to bookclubs (including one in a yurt!) and hearing perspectives that always surprise and delight me!

The other mother I didn’t recognize

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I love it when readers point out something I didn’t know my memoir said – it reminds me that the love story that at times felt like a fairy tale to me is actually true. And the truth reveals itself in different ways, to different people.

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The Other Mother of the book’s title is, of course, the Jewish burlesque dancer turned Johnny-Appleseed of modern dance in the Deep South: Byrne Miller. I chose to use “the” instead of “my” other mother because I recognized that all of Byrne’s collected children can claim her.

What I didn’t realize is that she is only one of several other mothers who come to life on the pages of the book. My sister was one of the first to read it and ask if the title referred to me. I’ve always considered myself “Auntie Mermaid” to her three children, but to Jenny I was also an other mother, someone she knows will always be interested in the details of the kids we both love – no matter how small.

Then there’s the other mother I never considered at all – Byrne’s mother Fanny. She was one of my favorite characters to write about in the memoir. At first she scared me. Afterall, Fanny passed away decades before I even met Byrne.

Fanny Miller - photograph courtesy of the Beaufort County Library Special District Collection
Fanny Miller – photograph courtesy of the Beaufort County Library Special District Collection

She spoke more often of her father – the Hungarian immigrant adored by her entire family, from whom she inherited her first love and talent: classical piano. But the Byrne I knew was more determined than dreamy, more practical than prodigy. She endured physical trails more painful than I could describe, yet was stoic – almost puritan in her toughness. “Pain is for the hoi polloi,” she’d say. Where did that side of Byrne come from?

Back cover of "The Other Mother: a rememoir" courtesy of Beaufort County Library
Back cover of “The Other Mother: a rememoir” courtesy of Beaufort County Library

The answer, I realized, is Fanny. She was the woman who gave Byrne the delicate necklace of seed pearls that is one of my most treasured possessions.  It was passed down from mother to other mother and finally to me, along with this necklace – a poison pendant Byrne said would protect me should a suitor ever proved unworthy.

My inheritance, from my Other Mother and her mother
My inheritance, from my Other Mother and her mother

But even as I grew to admire and respect the Fanny taking shape on my page, I didn’t see her as an other mother. I wrote right through a truth that readers picked up on right away – -that she was Duncan Miller’s other mother. Byrne’s treasured husband had divorced himself from his own family for some deep dark reason he never revealed. Fanny became the mother he always wanted.

It’s right there, on page 76, Byrne noticing something I had not. “…she’d watched as her husband took to Fanny’s attentions like a forgotten flower, finally watered.”

No wonder Byrne felt so comfortable in her role of other mother, she had been the understudy all her life. I only wish she could have given a copy of “The Other Mother: a rememoir” to Fanny for Mother’s Day.

The Granny Gap

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Earlier this month, the Wall St. Journal had an article about baby boomers impatient to become grandparents. The irony, the article pointed out, was they themselves were the first generation to delay getting married and having kids. And now their grown children are waiting even longer – putting off motherhood until they’ve earned advanced degrees or the right work/life balance.

I call it the Granny Gap – it’s been something I’ve thought about since I started writing “The Other Mother: a rememoir”

I’m lucky enough to have a younger sister who had kids relatively young and took the heat off of me. I’m also lucky enough to have been both othermother and mothered and I contend it could be a practical solution for would-be moms and grandmothers to bide their time.

The average American woman today waits four years longer to have her first child than her own mother did. Other than celebrities and trailblazing women having their first babies when they’re 45 or older, the overall U.S. birthrate has been on a steady decline since 2007. The average age a woman in the U.K starts a family is 30. They’re so freaked out by this across the pond that a pregnancy testing company runs ads of a photo-shopped, grey-haired hag in a Demi-Moore, bare belly pose to scare women into reproducing earlier.  The June 28th, 2013 edition of the Daily Mail informed readers that women with university degrees are bulging the belly curve even later by waiting until they turn 35 to make babies. The horror!

“If the phenomenon continues for another generation,” the article contends, “it means some grandparents will have to wait an extra 20 years, until the age of 70, to have their first grandchild.”

Let me clear my throat. If there is indeed an impending granny gap, othermothing is a low-tech way for women on both ends of it to meet their nurturing needs. Not to mention the chief beneficiaries of multiple mothers providing emotional support: the children both mothers and grandmothers cherish.

The Original Other Mother

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This May 11th  marks the 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day in the United States, a holiday responsible for $16 billion dollars worth of flowers, chocolate, spa treatments and restaurant dinners spent on moms each year by grateful children.

But the woman who started the holiday a century ago, Anna Jarvis, had no children of her own, making her what I consider the quintessential other mother.

I wrote in “The Other Mother: a rememoir” that I couldn’t have pinpointed the exact time when Byrne became my other mother any more than when I became aware of my own name. You just know what an other mother is when you’re lucky enough have one. She’s that special aunt, coach or older friend who doesn’t have any genetic ties so you can talk to her about things you’d never tell the woman who changed your diapers.

All I know for sure is that the term other-mothering dates back long my book or Anna Jarvis’ Mother’s Day campaign.

“You have to remember nuclear families are pretty new in all of human history,” says Dr. Hedman, professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin. “We can’t be everything to everyone. Having other mothers helps relieve the tension and make parents happier.”

I think he’s onto something. I met my other mother when I was 22 and she was 82. My biological mother lived across the continent and was grateful that another wise, caring woman was there to offer me advice and love.

She’s be the first one to agree with the opening of the flap copy of  my book: “Sometimes it takes a complete stranger to show us who we were meant to be.”

I remember every Mother’s Day I spent with my other mother. The florist in Beaufort, South Carolina – Bitty’s Flowers — could barely keep up with bouquets for Byrne Miller.  They came from her collected children around the country:   proof of how we all need and cherish the love of other mothers.

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Own Bossy – don’t ban it

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I remember when sassy was a bad word, as in “don’t you sass me young lady, I’m your mother.” It was only as an adult that “sassy” became a positive label – overused and cliché when used to describe Southern women – but still largely self-applied in a you-go-girl kind of way.

So when I heard of Facebook C.O.O. Sheryl Sandberg’s campaign to ban the word bossy I was conflicted. I agree with the premise of her much denounced book – I’m not happy unless I’m leaning in. Any former almost-Olympian knows that lean in is a synonym for compete. With all you’ve got.

So I wanted to get on board with Sandberg’s clever, intentionally oversimplified plot to encourage young girls to lead. As the ban bossy website points out, between elementary and high school, girls’ self-esteem drops 3.5 times more than boys and they’re less likely to want to lead, even as adults. Ban Bossy is an ingenious PR campaign that keeps Sandberg’s feminist platform in the limelight and brings an important issue some warranted attention.

But I’m also a writer. We celebrate words, particularly those rich in nuance and connotation. Banning a word is as knee-jerk unthinkable to writers as burning a book. And I’m terrible at keeping up with political correctness. My nieces had to remind me for years that “stupid” is on the does-not-fly-anymore list. I get that kids can be cruel and hearing a bratty sub-teen turn the word stupid into a sibilant, drawn out insult makes me cringe. But so does substituting “ill-conceived” or “misguided” when I find myself describing things that are just plain stupid.

I was still trying to find my inner Beyoncé or Jane Lynch (check out their video supporting the bossy ban) when I happened to meet two Thunderbirds at an airshow in Florida this weekend. Major Caroline Jensen is the fourth female pilot to fly with the Air Force’s premier flight team. And Tech Sgt Amanda Geray is the first female line chief in the team’s 61-year history.

Maj. Carolina Jensen
Maj. Caroline Jensen

Tech. Sgt. Amanda Geray
Tech. Sgt. Amanda Geray

Perhaps it was because we were at an official reception and they were in full Air Force role model mode but neither of these two accomplished young women had heard of the Ban Bossy campaign.

“Ban the actual word bossy?” 30-year-old Geray asked. “You’ve go to be kidding. I am the boss. Just ask any of the mechanics on my line.” Maybe it’s because she was born and raised in North Pole, Alaska (for real, check out her bio) but Geray is utterly confident that her skills prove her equality. She’s proud to have been the girl in high school shop class, the girl who fixed cars, the girl who could hold her own.

Pilot Jensen had to think about it for a second. “The thing is, I’ve worked my whole life to be the boss. I love being called bossy. It’s how I got here. I wouldn’t want to be called anything else.”

That’s when it hit me. I’m no gender-barrier-breaking Thunderbird but I do direct mostly-male film crews. In corporate shoots overseas, I’ve been ignored by grips and gaffers who assumed that my husband was the boss. And I’ve enjoyed setting them straight – I’m not going to lie. When a crew in Latin American bought me a baseball cap that said “Director” – just so it was clear they knew who the jefé was – I laughed and said I wanted one that said “Dictator.” Just ask my younger sister. Deep down I’m bossy and proud of it.

What I realized when I heard the Thunderbirds say the same thing, in their own way, is that when you own a word, even celebrate it, you erase any derogatory intent.  Sassy, Gay, Feminist, Bossy whatever – if you appropriate the label you define it for yourself. Girls don’t need to be protected from words that might hurt their feelings. They need bossy role models and bigger dictionaries.

Listen To Your Mother

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If you had to fill out an application for motherhood – like it was a job that paid an appropriate salary – I doubt Byrne Miller would have made it to the interview stage. She was more tart than apple-pie – under previous employment she would have listed burlesque dancer on Vaudeville. In fact, in just about every category associated with motherhood, she would have defiantly checked “other.”

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So it makes sense that she became the “other mother” to hundreds of dancers, students and reporters around the world she called her “collected children.” One of them was me. I didn’t set out to find an other mother and never dreamed I’d write a memoir of our relationship.  I didn’t even realize that I had a mother other than the one who gave birth to me until Byrne Miller was in the emergency room with a life-threatening blood clot. She was an 82-year-old widow and I was a 22-year-old reporter in Beaufort, South Carolina.

“Are you family?” a doctor asked me, flipping through a chart when I arrived. “Yes,” I answered, without hesitation, and in that moment I knew that I had made a choice. Somewhere in the years of knowing Byrne, she had become my other mother, fearless and larger than life. I couldn’t have explained to the doctor or anyone when or how it happened any more than I could pinpoint the first time I became aware of my own name.

The amazing thing to me is that Byrne found it in her heart to be an Other Mother in the first place. Motherhood – the traditional kind — hadn’t exactly been easy for her.  Her daughter Alison was only four when Byrne realized that she heard voices. Not the harmless, “good imagination” kind. But the kind that makes a little girl hold her hands over her ears and beg her mommy to make them go away. It was 1943.

The word schizophrenia comes from the Greeks,” the doctors explained. “Phrenia meaning brain. Splitting of the brain. Most likely inherited from a schizophrenogenic mother.” Byrne watched as her little girl was strapped to a gurney, two metal plates pressed on either side of her shaved head. “Electroconvulsive therapy,”  Bellevue hospital called it, but Byrne knew it as shock treatment.

“She won’t remember anything,” the doctors assured Byrne. She wasn’t allowed to watch the treatment; bone fractures often resulted from  violent spasms thrashing through little bodies. Byrne didn’t need to watch. Her own muscles trembled and contracted, twitching with the guilt and rage of a blamed mother. Alison emerged a shaken, vague, disoriented girl and Byrne a woman who felt she had betrayed her child.

Eventually, the doctors recommended institutionalization. They were asking her to relinquish motherhood itself and Byrne Miller refused.

Back cover of "The Other Mother: a rememoir" courtesy of Beaufort County Library
Back cover of “The Other Mother: a rememoir” courtesy of Beaufort County Library

 Byrne swept back into Bellevue with a dancer’s walk led from angry hips. “Speak again of taking my child away from me,” she threatened, a cobra about to strike, “and I will attach these wires to your testicles.”

So what did this fiercest of all mothers do instead? She gave up her dance career and moved the family to an isolated farmstead in Connecticut, where she and Duncan transformed a tree house into a bedroom for the girls. It was going great, until Alison told her mother that she danced with the tree.

A dancing tree resurrected images of gurneys, head braces and wires that bucked and thrashed through her conscience. It portended relapse, the undoing of a glued-together mind that might not quite have dried. “Why don’t I sleep up here with you tonight?” Byrne asked, cloaking her worry.

Byrne stretched out, face up, atop the coiled rag rug and adjusted her pelvis so that the small of her back was supported. She unfurled her fists so that every bone in her hands made contact.

“It is like dancing,” she muttered as the wind through the tree made barely perceptible adjustments to her position. What had seemed delusional was instead a revelation. Alison had found a partner her mother simply hadn’t seen.

 photograph by Gary Geboy
photograph by Gary Geboy

Byrne never did “cure” her daughter. But Alison lived into her 70s, independently, in part because Byrne found a way to let go: othermotherhood. She didn’t define herself by Alison’s successes or failures and Alison was free to choreograph the steps of her own life.

It was just as freeing for me.  Sometimes it takes a complete stranger to show us who we are meant to be. Byrne Miller had no vested interest in my identity so she saw right through me, to me.  Someday I will pay it forward and become someone’s cherished other mother. There is no biological clock for othermotherhood and I won’t need to fill out an application.  I already know what it will feel like.

Byrne was certain that the sun could never cast another shadow. She had swallowed it whole.

Time Travel with Beaufort Rotarians and Byrne Miller

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Photo courtesy Wayne Heath
Photo courtesy Wayne Heath

I just had the privilege of speaking about my new memoir to the oldest group of Rotarians in Beaufort SC. I say oldest not because of the age of its members, but because it was chartered in 1934.  And some things really do get better with age.

I used to love covering the Beaufort Rotary Club luncheons when I was a young reporter at WJWJ-TV.  The ‘90s were the beginning of a pesky objectivity phase in journalism when it became unprofessional to accept donations of any kind from an organization you were filming. But I made all of $16,000 a year back then and the Rotarians always insisted on feeding me lunch before I set up my Beta camera.

We reporters actually argued over who would get to cover luncheon addresses whenever the speakers were remotely newsworthy. If the Sheriff was speaking, we could always corner him afterword and get a soundbite about some ongoing investigation. If it was a county councilman at the podium, there was always some legislation he was pushing that became a news story that day.

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The problem was the visual. Back when I was covering the Beaufort Rotary Club, it met in a hotel banquet room that would have taken more lights than WJWJ owned to not look as though I was shooting in a cave. So I’d grab my muddy-looking interviews and hope that back at the station I could find some file footage to cover up the voice-over. The infamous WJWJ archives even made their way into my book “The Other Mother: a rememoir.”

Recycled, three-quarter inch tapes lined the entire back wall of the WJWJ newsroom in a floor-to-ceiling shelving system that housed the television station’s file footage. It fell to an assortment of unpaid, questionably motivated interns each year to alphabetize the index card database. Even after six years of working at the station I couldn’t intuit the way the mind of a Beaufort High School senior worked. Footage of accidents might be listed under “Ax” instead of “Acc.” Coverage of airshows for the Beaufort Marine Corps Airstation could be filed under “P” for planes, “F” for fightertown or “J” for jarheads. — from “The Other Mother: a rememoir” Joggling Board Press 2013

Fast forward twenty years and I was the one behind the microphone, speaking to the Beaufort Rotary Club, and no reporter was in sight. Like the Byrne Miller Dance Theatre, the local media in Beaufort has all but disappeared. But what hasn’t changed is the small-town spirit of Beaufort, South Carolina and the Rotary Club is one of those foundations of community.

Rotarians were regulars at the Golden Eagle Tavern
Rotarians were regulars at the Golden Eagle Tavern

Ever since 1934, members have met for lunch each Wednesday. The only thing that’s changed is the venue. The Golden Eagle Tavern on the Beaufort River was torn down in 1971 and the club has outgrown the dingy hotel banquet room that made for such dark and grainy television footage in the ‘90s. Now the oldest group of Rotarians in Beaufort pledge allegiance and sing “God Bless America” in an enormous hall at the Catholic church on Lady’s Island.

Members have to put a dollar in a plastic bucket to earn the right to brag on another member or plug a personal cause. A financial officer dutifully reports the total expenses for the group last year: a $50 filing fee with the Secretary of State’s office. Each year they hold crab races to raise money for causes like swimming lessons at the Y and scholarships to the Technical College. The club’s biggest fundraiser requires every last member to sell 100 pounds of Vidalia onions each year. It’s small-town America at its finest – hip enough to have a female president named Harriet Hilton and retro enough to sport members with names like Fly Flanagan and Guy McSweeney.

I don’t know if Byrne Miller was ever invited to speak at a Rotary Club luncheon but several of her collected children were in the audience for my talk. Many of them graduated from the old Beaufort Elementary, where Byrne first demanded to teach movement therapy in the 1970s.

The old Beaufort Elementary - where Byrne first taught and many Beaufort Rotarians went to school
The old Beaufort Elementary – where Byrne first taught and many Beaufort Rotarians went to school

You’d think after spending five years writing a book about Byrne and Duncan Miller I’d have heard all the stories. But after my presentation, a physician in the audience elaborated on Byrne’s incredible toughness (she survived five spinal surgeries and still taught modern dance into her eighties). “We’ve done medical studies on dancers,” he said. “And it turns out they can take three times as much physical pain than ordinary people.”

Duncan in Connecticut

byrne's toastA former neighbor of Byrne’s told a story of how Duncan used to complain about a barking dog who lived two doors down. I knew only the utterly romantic and melancholy Duncan – a writer who adored his charismatic, modern dancer wife. But it turns out before he lost his speech and memory to Alzheimer’s, Byrne’s muse could also be that quintessential cranky old man yelling “get off my lawn.”

It’s a good thing he was married to a woman with a self-described “whim of iron.” Rotarians who were members of Byrne’s board of directors remembered how prickly Byrne got too — when anyone suggested she book more classical, ballet companies for the Byrne Miller Dance Theatre.

“Ballet they can see anywhere,” Byrne would say of her audience. “I will make them the elite; connoisseurs of modern dance in the Deep South.”

I had to chuckle. The genteel, very Southern members of the Rotary Club of Beaufort ended their meeting by reciting what they call the Four Way Test: questions all Rotarians are supposed to ask themselves before they speak or act.

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

So would Byrne have made a good Rotarian? She always spoke the truth, even when it wasn’t fair to all concerned. She was more concerned with building sophisticated audiences than goodwill, but would do anything for a friend. And I can’t speak for all concerned, but having Byrne Miller as an other mother was certainly beneficial for me.

Photo courtesy Wayne Heath
Photo courtesy Wayne Heath

Rants and realizations

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It took some newly discovered other mothers to get me past the apoplexy of a news story while I still should have been basking in the glow of the holidays. The journal Science published a Harvard study about the effect of expanded Medicaid benefits on the frequency of emergency room visits among a select group of Portlandians.

My ears perked up at the mention of Portland – we’d just visited for my grandmother’s 90th birthday. But quickly those ears began to burn. The report was sloppily characterized to condemn “Obamacare” as a failure because the study subjects visited emergency rooms more frequently once they had access to Medicaid coverage than before they did. The tone of the story was one of condemnation and “we told you so” – as though these lower-income people were at once greedy, ignorant and hypocritical.

I say my ears burned, because those of you who’ve read “The Other Mother: a rememoir” now know, I was raised in trailer-park economic conditions in the backwoods of Oregon. My parents were “guilty” of relying on emergency rooms whenever my sister and I got hurt or sick and for their own, irregular health care. I never had a family doctor or preventative anything, and it wasn’t because my parents were lazy or on welfare. They both worked outside the home – my father left the house at 4am and didn’t return until after dark from his low-paying, unregulated, unsafe job as a truck driver.

Which is why my parents relied on emergency rooms. Ear infections, epileptic seizures, heart murmurs, strep throat, dislocated thumbs… off we went to the nearest hospital. There were no doctor’s offices open when my parents could take us – even had my father been able to afford insurance. Neither of my parents’ jobs offered paid sick leave so if they had to stay home because of an illness we were short that month on rent or groceries.

So to hear the Harvard researchers blithely attribute the results of the Portland study to “limited education” about what constitutes emergencies made me dash off an emotional post on Facebook. It wasn’t fair to knock Medicaid and give lousy employers a pass. I know of no poor person who wouldn’t rather sit in a nice comfortable doctor’s office watching cable cooking shows and thumbing through Oprah magazine than wait, sometimes for hours, in an understaffed ER.

Here’s where my newly discovered Other Mothers came in.  It turns out Byrne Miller isn’t the only woman with patience, understanding and a different world view to share. Even though they (mostly) agreed with me, these women (and a few men) gently prodded me to dig deeper into all sides of this issue that had become so emotional.

One book-loving Other Mother is an artist who holds out hope that as Obamacare rolls out, other health care providers will figure out how to make non-critical care more accessible.

“The future holds opportunities for a new type of healthcare industry utilizing technology, and career opportunities for yet to be named professions. There will be those smart enough to capitalize on this, routine tests, immunizations, and treatment for simple accidents etc., will be done in shopping malls, convenience centers etc.”

But another Other Mother is a nurse, and she warned of an impending shortage of well-trained health care providers.

“Healthcare insurance availability is but one aspect of “the system,” and increasing those able to afford/obtain insurance is a plus. However, issues of “enough” medical personnel and systems designed to be truly “patient-centered,” are huge. … MD’s, Nurse Practitioners, Pharm.D, are, and will remain, “critical” to providing comprehensive care as they are prepared to assess the “big picture,” rather than just ” give the shot.”

I realized that my initial reaction was mightily influenced by my own life experiences.  Valuable as those are, I needed a reminder of how important the insights of Other Mothers are – we are never too old to see a different point of view, especially when its shared by someone who really “gets” us.  And we are never too young to pay it forward and become the other mother someone else will need and cherish.


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A dynamic public speaker, Teresa derives energy from her audience. She delivers a passionate message that will leave you feeling inspired and empowered to improve every relationship in your life.

Drawing on her principle of treating others as each of us wants to be treated, Teresa will help you to discover how to use the Golden Rule to overcome awkward interactions, prevent missteps, and build truly caring relationships with those most important in your life.

Teresa’s approach will help you improve relationships with family, coworkers, friends, and even your most challenging relationships.


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Stanislav Tolkachev – Depth Of Light (M_Rec Ltd Grey Series M_RECLTDGS04 – 2013)

Release date is in May 2013

Stas Tolkachev was the first Ukrainian to enter the DJ booth of Berghain and the techno and photo artist from Dnepropetrovsk now lands on Milan’s M_Rec Ltd Grey Series with his solo effort of five tracks.
It’s introduced by a swarm of electric bees illuminating the night (“Depth Of Light”), preparing the entry of agile synth lines and bass knobs in “Like A Cat’s Shadow”. “Break Something That Breaks You” can be filed under proper UK techno (think of 1990’s Surgeon) that tightens the grip with metallic grooves. The B-side opens with the highlight called “No Home No Flag”, a vibrating deep bass and reverb journey and another nod to the floor action makes “Don’t Shit On Your Doorstep”, a dashing tool with caustic notes that gets the message definitely right.

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  1. Yes, Stanislav is a pretty talanted and skilled producer. On my opinion, nowdays, you can find too much copy/paste music…….but, to be something special …… should be creative. Very nice EP with groovy and proper techno tracks. It’s always something special when you feel oldschool nowdays. Looking forward to meet Stanislav soon, here, in Tallinn.

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