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While some of our work is political-adjacent and everything we do has brand at its core, we’d never built an actual political brand before. That was before Michelle Wu, city councillor and Boston’s next mayor, tapped us to create her visual identity and build a digital brand toolkit to power her campaign and inspire her supporters. The community responded with overwhelmingly positive reactions, including claps from ... a potato.

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We’ve been discussing this inspiring essay on the history of interfaces by Boris Müller. Müller argues that interfaces are cultural artifacts and should be taught the way old masters are taught to new art students. While many are obsolete, these patterns are echoed in modern interfaces and still understood by users today. By researching influential interfaces from history, we can better understand why things are the way they are today, and how we might build better interfaces tomorrow.
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The 20th of August is the biggest holiday of the year in Hungary.  It is St. Stephen’s day, celebrating the founding of the nation by King Stephen (more on this later). This is evidently the most spectacular celebration of the year.  It sounds amazing, BUT for me, I can’t wait to see the Red Bull Air Race World Series.  Check this out…

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Guest post: Cat in the Box

As my mum is out

I jumped on the computer

to show you my favourite places.

From the title you can see it is a box,

yes anything enclosed, I love

additional to my mum’s lap of course.

There are always new places appearing in my house,

boxes and others.

I utilise them all.

I promised my friend Binky to show my relaxing places.

So here we are:

the box on the sofa

the box on the floor

the tiny shoebox

the rocking chair

my mum’s computer desk,

I just swipe things of the desk and get comfortable.

the drawer in my mum’s son’s room

Yes I am allowed

Isn’t it just wonderful how many places I have to relax and snooze!

So now it’s your turn,

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Happy Mother’s Day

A mother’s love

is unique,

cannot be measured,

is divine,

is the purest love.

We are born of love. Love is our mother – Rumi

  There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

– Chinese Proverb.

Here are some flowers to all the mother’s out there!

♥ With Love ♥

Some Awww moments of motherly love….

Pictures are from google, and Pinterest.

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Happy Birthday and Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge week 60

Happy Birthday Thomas!

My cat was born on Halloween,  I don’t celebrate Halloween but we do celebrate Thomas’s birthday!

Happy 6th Birthday Thomas!

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He was a very cute kitty!

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Always loved a stretch!

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As a family cat, he joins in with everything

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Even listens to a teenager’s music….wow…

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I shall also enter these into Michelle’s weekly pet challenge this week!

Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge Week 48

My Monkeys

Sonel gave me my idea for this pet challenge week… and she knows how much I love monkeys…

I rounded up my monkeys while they were monkey-ing around the house.

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On the clothes rack….

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On the bed

Clearly you see that they are good pals and always do mischief together!

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on my newly acquired hammock! – holding tight so they don’t fall off….

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Well the two had lots of fun posing for these pictures.

Well… we are off to monkey around a bit more.

Have a fun filled day!

I shall enter these into Michelle’s weekly pet challenge this week!

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That is me……  but don’t eat me……just hug me….

I love teddies and soft toys here are my favourites.

This is Petzie and Retzi. Petzie is a German Steiff Teddy which is actually my sister’s and is over 50 years old dressed in our baby clothes. Retzie lives in London but was allowed to visit Germany, he does have his own passport.

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This is Teddy Mac Fluff, our cool teddy.

Another collection:

Teddies are patient, loving, cuddly, soft, fluffy, cute and always happy.

I hope Manny from Marsha’s blog  likes all his friends here.

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Faith can be born in, and survive, a shipwreck

With critics claiming the Pope’s reputation has been shipwrecked by his inaction over the clerical abuse of children, His Holiness visited Malta last weekend to commemorate the 1950th anniversary of the Apostle Paul’s shipwreck near the island, an event recorded in the book of Acts.

Interestingly, the two issues came together on Malta when the Pope met with eight Maltese men, victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests.

Conversion of Paul as depicted Caravaggio

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Pope Benedict promised them with tears in his eyes that the Catholic Church would seek justice for paedophile priests and implement ‘effective measures’ to protect young people from abuse.

Benedict expressed his ‘shame and sorrow’ at the pain the men and their families suffered and prayed with them during the meeting at the Vatican’s embassy in Malta.
One of the men described the meeting as ‘fantastic’. ‘Everyone was crying,’ he said. It is the first time Benedict has met with abuse victims since the worldwide clerical abuse scandal engulfed the Vatican earlier this year.

While this meeting had not been foreshadowed by the Pope, he gave three other powerfully relevant reasons for his visit to Malta.

‘For Malta, the opportunity to have the faith was born with the shipwreck. Thus we too can see how the shipwrecks of life can be part of God’s project for us, and be useful for a new beginning to our lives.

‘The second reason is that… I am aware that Malta loves Christ and loves His Church which is His Body, and that it knows that, even if this body is wounded by our sins, the Lord still loves His Church, … and His Gospel is the true force that purifies and heals.

‘The third point is that Malta is a place where waves of refugees arrive from Africa and knock on the doors of Europe. This is a great problem of our time, and naturally it cannot be resolved just by the island of Malta. All of us have to respond to this challenge, first of all so that people can live a dignified life in their own land, and on the other hand so that these refugees can also find space for a dignified life here… faith is the force which leads to charity, which allows us to respond well to these challenges.’

Faith can be born through a shipwreck, faith tells us God loves his church even if wounded by our wrong doing, and faith through charity should work fo a dignified life for refugees… add these comments to his tearful meeting with abuse victims and we have hope that the Pope may find a just and gracious way through the current ‘shipwreck’. PH

PS – I’m not Catholic, but faith and truth is where you find it and we can enriched by it, religion aside.

PPS – I’m glad to mention Malta in Utterance as I have discovered I have at least one reader from there!! See the flag counter in the Utterance sidebar.

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  1. What a valuable comment and I would not have read it had I not had Utterance to take me to it. Thanks Peter.

  2. Thanks Aud. That’s part of why I do this. Things catch my attention, a word here or headline there, and with a bit research, it’s amazing what you find. To then bring it together in one place might mean people get to read some important things that otherwise would get lost in the billion words (and worlds) that are the internet.

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Walking Fashionable | Valentina Cirasola | Designer

Girl-Pink-Green-1aWelcome to my Fashion Friday episode.
My parents and their siblings were in their late teens when WWII broke out. After the liberation by the hands of American troupes, the entire Europe fell in love with everything American, products, fashion, cars, food and English language took over the world. Roll time forward, Italy, many years later, there I was watching American films with my fashionable aunts who, like everybody else in Italy, loved Hollywood. (Click on each photo to view it larger).

We admired the class of American actresses, dressed impeccably, hats & gloves, their hair always in place, nails always painted red and that infamous cigarette holder forever between their red lips. They exploded elegance with body language, through their clothes and in the expressions they used. Never, I heard blasphemy and vulgar words out of their mouth. The actors were not far behind, charming in their manners and so well-groomed. I believe,  back then, people centered life around looking perfect in every moment of the day; even homes showed in films, often set in California, were so elegantly decorated.

Roll time again, forward it many more years later, I moved from Italy, now living in California. I came here and didn’t find all that elegance I saw in American films. California is still under the influence of hippies and bohemian free people, casual is the style. There is nothing wrong with casual, but when being casual borders untidiness, then it’s a different story, we can call it slovenly, or lack of self-respect. At times, I feel people go out in their pajamas and don’t even bother to wash or dress. Californians live in flip-flops and sweat suits every day. Stores sell cheap merchandise with high price, fashion choices are awful for both men and women.

Hollywood today,…..well…. it is not an exemplary place, it’s only a platform for venom and vulgarity.

One day, I was walking in a posh area, elegant stores all around and very casual people walking in the streets. Something caught my eyes. Returned on my steps and saw original men shoes artistically displayed in the window. It was the store of Donald J. Pliner. I asked a woman working there, if she knew who is the typical client buying these shoes. She couldn’t say, probably thought I was a weirdo. I asked for permission to take photos and left, irritated by her lack of interest.

(Photos taken inside the store Donald J. Pliner -https://www.donaldjpliner.com)

Shoes tell a lot about us. It’s encouraging to know someone still cares for personal image.  I like to understand where are the men wearing these shoes, because out there, feet are wrapped in UGLY.
Thank you Donald J. Pliner for designing for men who care to look good for themselves first. Ciao,

Copyright © 2017 Valentina Cirasola, All Rights Reserved

ValOperaStampI am Valentina, a trained Fashion and Interior Designer, born in Italy in a family of artists. Style has surrounded me since the very beginning of my life. My many years of experience in design business led me to offer consultations in both fashion and interiors, so much so that I can remodel homes as well as personal images. I am passionate about colors and I encourage my clients to express their individual style in their homes and with the clothes they wear. I am the author of three books, one of which is a book on color theory: ©RED-A Voyage Into Colors available on Amazon and Barnes & Nobles.
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4 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. TBM
    Feb 21, 2017 @ 11:36:09

    It’s amazing how much fashion changes over the years.

  2. Amy
    Feb 18, 2017 @ 18:49:46

    Beautiful photos of these stylish shoes, Valentina. When I travel, I wear those walking shoes since I’m on my feet all day and for days. 🙂

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Flirting Tips For Married Couples

Flirting tips for married couples are essential as they help to keep the spark of love alive in a relation despite the roll of time. Flirting has been cultivated in order to gain attention, to convey the fact that you still admire your spouse and to receive that one has to give in. One probably should continue the habit of flirting with his/her partner without bothering about the age. When couples get married and start staying together, they tend to take each other for granted and soon boredom takes in. To avoid this, flirting tips for married couples come handy because it acts like insurance against relationship problems and resentments.

It does not take years of marriage to figure out monotony between couples and to realize that their initial chemistry is fading away. It is human instinct to grow tired of the same thing and this harms a relation. It is vital to keep up the thrill and excitement between a husband and wife even after many years of tying the knot. The ecstasy can be sustained and even improved upon, if only courting never ends because the key component of courting is flirtation. Flirting tips for married couples definitely strengthens the bonding adding joy and pleasure into a relation.

Here are few flirting tips for married couples to guide you to enhance your relation.

Flirting Tips For Married Couples

1. Cultivate the habit of saying “I Love You” frequently- Busy schedule, tiring day at work and taking care of kids often leaves very less time for you both to interact. But these three simple words will always rejuvenate your heart desires.

2. Call your partner with a special tone in your voice- Change is always for the better and an appealing one works like magic. So next time if you are calling your partner, use a special tone to surprise him/her and cherish their pretty smile.

3. Look into each other’s eyes while talking- Eyes mirror your true feelings and gazing into each other’s eyes will make your communication more intense. This is one of the top flirting tips for married couples.

4. Surprise him/her with a kiss- A peck of love speaks more than any other flattering words. Make sure you surprise your partner with sweet kiss when they least expect. A surprise kiss is one of the most adoring tips for married couples.

5. Schedule an unexpected date with your spouse- A date with your loved one is always special and if kept as a surprise, then the joy and pleasure multiplies for you both. No matter how many tricks you try but the idea of an unexpected date is one of the great flirting tips after marriage.

6. Leave a small flirty note- Yes, nothing works better than a personalized piece of writing. Put in some of your naughty thoughts on paper or search for exciting flirting quotes. Don’t give it directly; instead leave it on his car seat, beside her pillow, over the fridge or his wardrobe.

7. Relive one moment of your hilarious past- Reviving any of your funny moments from the past will get you closer in the most amazing way. Recreate that hilarious moment you didn’t stopping at before marriage and experience the fun all again.

8. Wear something that he/she likes- Looking good reveals your state of happiness and wearing something that he/she likes will flatter your partner more. If it happens to be an important date, try to put on something that is dear to your partner’s heart.

9. Offer an unexpected comment- Whenever you plan out an outing with your couple friends, just look where you can offer an unexpected comment to your partner; culinary skills, beautiful eyes, great physique, simplicity and so on.  He/she would hold for a moment and blush at the very next.

10. Give a special look- Make it a point that for few seconds you give that special look (full of passion) to your partner. Choose your moment, like at the time she serves you dinner, when he is leaving for office, preparing meals for you, gives you towel or greeting your friends for lunch.

11. Plan an evening for watching your wedding video- Wedding video recalls your blissful union, your dotting expressions, moment of celebration and what not. Take out some time from busy hours and plan an evening to watch the mesmerizing video of your marriage.

12. Occasionally give a subtle touch- A subtle touch at any rare occasion comes out as a real flirting act. Just a mild touch and you can sensitize your partner to their heart’s content. These small jittery things are enough to cajole your partner’s soul.

13. Deliver an unexpected gesture- If you are living with your parents, then finding those dear moments of tenderness may seem quite tough. Without being getting noticed by other members, deliver any unexpected gesture just for few seconds like a quick hug, small kiss, pat on waist or playing with the hair. This will keep your partner happy till you meet for long.

14. Arrive home with intension- Coming back from work is a regular chore, but if you want to do something enthralling, then arrive home with intension. Plan something on the way and surprise your wife by any flirty act. For example play a special music and plan a romantic ball dance.

15. Appreciate his/her look and work- Everyone likes to hear those goody words and getting appreciated by your partner definitely feels great. So, next time if you find her looking pretty than usual or his work impressive, don’t forget to praise him/her. Speak your heart and make the moment more prized.


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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

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In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened, what it tells us about human nature and about
America's westward expansion, remained shrouded in myth.

Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. But Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity."

A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, A Desperate Hope casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.

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ISBN-13: 9780195305029
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 02/04/2008
Edition description: New Edition
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Ethan Rarick has written about politics, crime, business and sports throughout the West. His work has appeared in many publications, including the Los Angles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, and he is the author of California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. He lives in Berkeley,

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1. Jumping off
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4. Pleasure Trip
5. Fine Style
6. The Crucial Decision
7. Gambling
8. A New and Interesting Region
9. Unearthly
10. One Bad Hill
11. Abandoned
12. The Mouth of Hell, The River of Life
13. A Great Snowy Range
14. This Prison
15. The First Death
16. The Forlorn Hope
17. A Low Situation
18. Taking the Field
19. Our Present Calamity
20. Fellowbeings
21. From California, or Heaven?
22. Threshold of Desperation
23. Weeping
24. Gruesome Sights
25. Terror, Terror
26. A Broken Promise
27. Alive Yet
28. None for Tears
29. The Last Man
30. A Beautiful Country
31. A Day of Renown
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Since emerging in 2015, JULIA has transformed pop not only from behind-the-scenes as a songwriter whose credits span everyone from Justin Bieber to Selena Gomez, but in the spotlight as a solo artist. Her rapid rise can be attributed to identifiable honesty in every lyric.Within just a year since arrival, she garnered 2018 GRAMMY® nominations in the categories of “Best New Artist” and “Song of the Year” for “Issues. That honesty is also why “Issues” received a triple-platinum certification from the RIAA, cracked 1 billion global streams and consumption of 10 million, became “the top-selling debut single by any artist in 2017, and placed on Variety’s “30 Most Consumed Songs of 2017” as the only solo female contribution. It’s why the industry recognized her with nominations everywhere from American Music Awards,Billboard Music AwardsTeen Choice Awards and RDMA’s to the MTV VMAS and MTV EMAS.

Extending and expanding her influence, she traffics at the forefront of numerous genres. She lent her voice to Clean Bandit’s international hit “I Miss You,” which became her first Top 10 entry on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Dance Songs chart. Right now, she also features on Keith Urban’s latest single “Coming Home” and rising artist Noah Kahan’s single “Hurt Somebody.” Other recent collaborations include a duet and writing credits on Shawn Mendes’ upcoming album, songs on Christina Aguilera’s upcoming album, a co-writing credit for Janelle Monàe’s latest “Make Me Feel, Anne-Marie’s “2002,”and a sample of her vocals on Migos’ “Gang Gang.Moreover, she’s written on recent albums from P!nkMaroon 5, and Jessie Ware.

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You need a company who has the expertise to deal with the particular dynamics of a foreclosure appraisal. For a company you can rely on, contact Vandergoot Appraisals.

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In AMC’s Breaking Bad, high school chemistry teacher Walter White, although starting out as a protagonist, descends into depravity and ruin.  Clearly, not all high school chemistry teachers are Walter Whites.  Similarly, not all scientists, innovators and patent owners are evil. Yet Congress, at the urging of lobbyists, is ready to label many innovators and patentees as “patent trolls,” categorically unworthy of participating in the patent process and subject to stiff penalties.

It seems that patents are always in the news.  The reason is their value and the market power involved.  A patent is a limited, exclusionary government grant designed to protect an inventor from infringers — i.e., copyists and others who desire to take advantage.

Patents represent one way the little guy with an idea can succeed in today’s economy.  Indeed, the U.S. Founding Fathers recognized the value of a patent system to foster innovation and incorporated it in the Constitution.  For more than two centuries, the U.S. patent system, like a faithful and sturdy machine, has been operating to protect American innovation and propel the country forward.

However, the patent system — the poster child of capitalism — can be controversial.  In the 1840s, the sewing machine patent wars created controversy. Likewise, Morse’s telegraph, Bell’s telephone, Edison’s inventions and the Wright Brothers’ flying machines all generated controversy in their day, triggering a hue and cry against the patent system.  Today, we have the smartphone patent wars, due entirely to the quest for market dominance — and this controversy too will pass.

In response to cries for patent reform, Congress passed the America Invents Act of 2011, which was recently enacted. It was meant as a response to the so-called patent trolls, also termed “patent assertion entities,” or PAEs.  The Act includes numerous new U.S. Patent Office governmental proceedings designed to challenge patents — e.g., oppositions and reexaminations — on top of the existing mechanisms to challenge and invalidate patents.

Through these various proceedings, dubious patents can be overturned without the necessity of resorting to a trial.  In the congressional hearings for the AIA, numerous corporations proclaimed the need for the Act.  Now, the U.S. Patent Office has hired hundreds of judges to oversee these new proceedings, and patent attorneys across the country have had to tell their clients about the brand new provisions, some of which overturned more than 210 years of patent law.

Even though the ink on the AIA is hardly dry, Congress is poised to enact rather serious legislation to curb so-called patent abuse, which the AIA was designed to do.  Also, the Federal Trade Commission is once again engaged in studying the patent system.  What is going on? Various large corporations and their lobbyists, although instrumental in pushing the AIA through, want more — far more than they got legislatively.

The fear, however, is that the proposed new measures, designed to kill trolls, may destroy what few advantages the small inventor and small companies may have to enforce their rights.  For example, there is a fee-shifting provision in a current bill that would shift attorney fees onto an unsuccessful troll.  Although penalizing a troll sounds OK, who is the troll?  Answer: anyone given the label.

“Trolls,” as the term is now understood, include those not practicing their invention — e.g., someone who has no business — only a patent.  Under this definition, universities are trolls.  Small inventors driven out of the market by a larger entity are trolls.  Nonetheless, there are bad actors out there, and there are bad patent lawsuits.  However, the AIA and its patent-challenging provisions are the mechanism that should come into play — not new legislation.

There is also a challenge against new technologies, primarily software.  To critics, all software patents are unpatentable as being too abstract even though the Supreme Court and numerous judges have elucidated guidelines to address this.

Further, software is an American specialty.  Is the U.S. to allow this national resource to go unprotected, allowing everyone to copy?  Just as the telegraph, the phone, electricity, flight, plastics, and other disciplines became subject to patenting — and controversies — software will in time join the technologies of yesterday and be supplanted by the technologies of tomorrow, which will hopefully be patentable as well.  Singling out software for exclusion from patenting is both short-sighted and asinine.

The AIA is not perfect, but it is a creature of pretty much the same lobbyists who are now crying for more.  The American patent system is strong, but it is not indestructible.  American invention is strong, and this national resource must not be hindered.

As Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said, “Innovation never comes from the established institutions. It’s always a graduate student or a crazy person or somebody with a great vision.”

If the U.S. government curtails patents enough, undermines the patent system, or otherwise disincentivizes innovators, the nation will suffer.

Demonizing inventors as greedy or evil — equating innovators with Walter White or other bad characters — undermines the Founding Fathers’ hopes for the U.S.  The AIA was an unpleasant pill that the patent system had to swallow; let’s let it work before forcing more unpleasantries on inventors.

One thing is certain: Heisenberg is dead.

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CT Gaming Interactive’s content is now available to the players in Belarus.

After striking a deal, followed by a successful integration with the online casino operator Parimatch BY, a suite of top-performing 10 brand titles, including hits such as 20 Star Party, 40 Treasures, Chilli Fruits, Duck Of Luck are live at pm.by and the company confides in the ability of the content to satisfy the local players’ expectation.

“We offer an engaging and thrilling casino experience to the Belorussian players with our portfolio of fruit, nature, and adventure-themed titles. Parimatch BY is among the leading operators in Belarus and we are incredibly excited about entering this market with them. We have promising plans for the future. There’s no doubt that our games will impress new players”, explained Lachezar Petrov, General Manager at CT Gaming Interactive and added that more of CT Gaming Interactive`s titles will be certificated for the Belorussian market in near future.

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Racism In The U.S. is Over, Jon Voight Says -- Does He Have a Point?

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In his next pro-Trump video the actor Jon Voight claimed that racism used to be an issue in our country a long time ago and it is now a thing of the past.

In addition to that, the Oscar winner also defended our President by saying he was not racist. The actor also accused all his critics of being filled with anger and hate.

Addressing the Americans in a video message, Voight said it was inappropriate that "some angered minority communities" are blaming the President for past lives and for some old wounds that are still fresh.

Furthermore, the 80-year-old actor encouraged fellow Americans to understand that our President deeply honors our nation of liberty, and he truly loves our country.

The actor's video entitled "Jon Voight's message for America" went viral soon after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. According to many, President Trump's divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric also played a role in the attacks.

Twitter users did not remain indifferent to Voight's words and found the message arrogant. Some of them slammed the actor with sarcastic responses. One Twitter user said he would tell his African American friends to get over it after yet another 'Chevy Tahoe driver calls them a racist slur.

On the other hand, Jon Voight supporters thanked him for the beautiful words and appreciated he was standing up for the truth. One of his Twitter supporters even suggested that he should have run for President if he was ten years younger.

Jon Voight who is now starring in the Ray Donovan series, has been one of the few Hollywood stars expressing their support for Trump publicly. In 2017, he commented that Trump's presidential victory was the answer of God to our players.

Earlier this year, Angelina Jolie's father released another video on Twitter saying that Trump is our greatest President since Abraham Lincoln.

It was not the first time the actor compared President Trump to President Lincoln. John Voight was among the few Hollywood stars to attend the inauguration ceremony in 2017. He was even invited to make a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the service.

In his speech back then, Voight asserted that President Lincoln would have been so proud of having a successor like Trump in the White House.

In 2016, Trump administration appointed Voight on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' board of trustees, serving through 2024.

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6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

Beginning with prophecy, the Holy Spirit now listed seven spiritual gifts that God uses in the local church.

let us use them:

There is no verb in the Greek in this phrase, but rather a simple conjunction—“whether.” If we have the gift of prophecy then we function in one manner, and if we have another gift then we operate differently.

Christians should put their gift out to the church like we would invest in a stock. Biblically, we do not choose our gifts; they are donated to us by God. If God takes the effort to give us gifts, we should use them under their unique design.

if prophecy,

We use the word prophecy today primarily as foretelling, but the Greek has two uses: (1) foretelling and (2) forth-telling. “Prophecy” here is forth-telling, not foretelling. Literally the word means to speak forth. The word is close to the idea of preaching or proclamation.

Prophecy has prominence among the gifts in this and other lists in the New Testament (1 Co 14:1, 39; 1 Th 5:19-20). The reason prophecy stands out among the gifts is that it builds the believer (14:3-5). This gift is second only to the gift of apostleship (1 Co 12:28; Eph 4:11; cf. 2:20).

1 Co 14: 1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

We need to understand that the gift of prophecy also included special revelation from God before the closing of the canon (Ac 11:28; 21:10-11). This part of the gift is no longer extant, now that the canon (the assembly of the books of the Bible into one unit) has closed; thus, the element of foretelling lost its dimension after the closing of the canon as well.

in proportion to [according to the standard of] our [the] faith;

The qualifying directive to the person with the gift of prophecy is that he is to exercise that gift according to the Word of God. The Greek word for “in” is according to the standard of. Bible doctrine is the standard for using prophecy. “Proportion” has the mathematical idea of being in proportion to. The prophet is bound by the standard of Scripture already revealed. To go beyond the Word of God is to violate the gift of prophecy.

Ga 1: 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

We are to carry out the gift of prophecy in proportion to our faith or in agreement with our faith. Prophesying is to be done in accordance with what we believe. Here “faith” is equivalent to doctrine. The body of doctrine of what we believe is the standard for measuring whether preaching is accurate or not. Doctrine is always the norm whereby we test whether something said from the Word of God is true or false. The gift of apostleship is no longer operative in the church because the canon is closed as well.

What we preach should always be true to Scripture.

Our special, supernatural spiritual gifts can open the door to fanaticism and undue emotionalism. Apostolic teaching in the Word of God gives balance and true perspective on gifts from God. Doctrine is the norm whereby we stay on track.

Christians should serve God with the idea that their gift was bestowed on them. There is a certain amount of risk in doing so. Our capital is our gift that we put out to be used of God.


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Interview Erwin Bleumink: Together from idea to change

29 June 2020 Acceleration Plan

Interview Erwin Bleumink: Together from idea to change

Erwin Bleumink is a member of the Acceleration Plan steering group on behalf of SURF. He’s been involved from the start in the developments that led to the Acceleration Agenda and later the Acceleration Plan. In September, Erwin bids farewell to the Steering group. In this interview, we look back on his time at the Acceleration plan, and we look ahead.

For Erwin, the road to the Acceleration Plan began at the SURF Education Days in 2016. Two speeches were given during the dinner, one on the influence of education on technology, and one on the influence of technology on education. The latter was Erwin’s speech. “I didn’t envy the other speaker, the influence of education on technology is minimal.” But the influence of technology on education was also not very big, as Erwin realised during the preparation of his speech.

I realised that we needed to collaborate with parties and institutions if we wanted to make an impact on education using technology.

- Erwin

A year after the Education Days, SURF organised a trip to Boston. The theme: education and technology. This study trip was an eye-opener for many of the participants. The trip led to a request addressed to SURF to make a proposal on what we could do for the Dutch educational sector. Anka Mulder wrote a piece on her experiences and her view on what could be done. When those came together, the Acceleration Plan was born.

Erwin explains: “At that time, there were ideas for educational innovation with technology here, there, and everywhere, in the Netherlands. There wasn’t any collaboration and no scaling up. If we wanted to increase the impact of technology on education, we had to work with SURF members and ensure that those who determine how education works are involved.” After Anka’s paper, things accelerated. At the 2017 SURF Education Days, the Netherlands Association for Universities of Applied Sciences, the Association of Universities in The Netherlands, and SURF presented the Acceleration Agenda to the Minister of Education. “And then we had to work towards results,” says Erwin.

How do you look back on your time with the Acceleration Plan?

“Living up to our proposal started with the choice to implement the plan in the form of partnership. That came about through trial and error, but we had the wind in our backs. Everyone saw we had to do something with digitisation.” Ambitions had to be formulated in the field of digitisation. Those ambitions weren’t only about improving the educational process. They were also about the way we view education.

Erwin explains: “This is how we started looking at education in a more flexible way.” Besides SURF, the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (VH) and the Association of Universities (VSNU), Erwin also spoke with other parties about the ambitions surrounding digitisation. “We often heard people say the connection between education and the job market could be much better. Naturally, SURF couldn’t really play a role in this, because we can’t interfere with the content of education. That’s why I was very happy to see that this point was also important to the VH and the VSNU.”

We had the wind in our backs. Everyone saw we had to do something with digitalisation.

- Erwin

The 2017 Acceleration Agenda was rewritten into the Acceleration Plan in 2018, including the proposal of themes and teams, and a concrete approach. “The first period with the Steering group was interesting. It was very clear to us that we wanted to do things differently from the usual approach. We wanted freedom and flexibility for the teams. This is now paying off because ownership really lies with the teams and a lot of people are accountable for the results,” says Erwin. Institutions were asked which zones they wanted to participate in and the zone leaders and connectors were recruited. The teams started in early 2019. Erwin: “I look back on a process in which we have created something beautiful by working together.”

Which zone project has captured your attention?

“For me, the vision of making education more flexible stands out. And not only the vision on flexible education, but also the collaboration initiated by WUR, UU, and TU/e in the Student Mobility Pilot of the Flexible education zone to put that vision into practice. You can see we are transitioning from vision to realisation and implementation. I am really looking forward to the pilot becoming reality soon and the institutional barriers that still exist when it comes to flexible education will have been lifted. After all, making education more flexible is one of the ambitions we are working on in the Acceleration Plan,” says Erwin.

But there’s more. Eight zones are working on the opportunities that digitisation offers Dutch higher education, such as in the Learning analytics zone. Erwin: “What also appeals to me is that the way we look at learning analytics is changing. Data is, of course, a sensitive topic and it appears that there is already a lot more data available than I realised. Consider, for example, cohort information which you can use to gain insights that you would otherwise not have. Or think of the forecasts for the intake of first-year students in times of the COVID-19 crisis. We see developments around student data that allow us to think through possible scenarios better.”

I am really looking forward to the pilot becoming reality soon and the institutional barriers that still exist when it comes to flexible education will have been lifted.

- Erwin

The fact that COVID-19 crisis has had a huge impact on education, won’t surprise anyone. But the impact of technology on education will change as a result, Erwin expects: “What strikes me is that education still thinks that technology should support current education. Now you can see we switched to online education very quickly in March and everyone was very passionate about making it happen.” The closure of the physical campuses resulted in the existing education being converted to an online or remote version, which technology has made this possible. “But it didn’t lead to a different type of education. Now you see questions arising about the socialisation education provides, about personal training, and about the didactic aspects of online education.”

How should we deal with the Corona crisis in the Acceleration Plan?

As far as Erwin is concerned, the ambitions formulated should be maintained. “Flexible education, smart use of technology, and a better connection to the job market remain relevant. Of course, we never promised to get education completely online. Full online education makes a number of existing problems and challenges in education even clearer,” says Erwin. “Take large-scale summative testing. This is currently a major issue for the sector due to the pandemic. But that form of testing was under pressure long before COVID-19. What will happen to this in the future? Will we move away from large-scale tests? I hope that the COVID-19 crisis will help resolve this.”

Practical education is another aspect Erwin wonders about how it’ll change as a result of the pandemic. “Large scale lectures can easily be followed online, but that does not apply to practical training. That’s an area in which we still have some room to grow. It often concerns expensive set-ups that we do not just have available online. We have to rethink how we can do things differently and partly online. Investing in it takes a long time and benefits from cooperation.”

This also means that we, as a sector, take a critical look at platformisation, Erwin believes: “We’re running into the issue that in higher education we have become dependent on large platforms. Discussions about privacy in relation to these platforms are now emerging, especially among lecturers and students. However, much broader attention must be paid to safeguarding our educational values when using these platforms. This also concerns, for example, access to education, autonomy, and social cohesion. As far as I’m concerned, it should also be about whether these platforms offer what we need as a sector, and whether their working method matches the values we strive for. In order to influence this, we need to take much more ownership of the online learning environment.”

What results do you hope to see after four years of Acceleration Plan?

The zones are working on innovations at different levels that will be used by different people in education, all with the aim of contributing to better education for our students. “The danger of a project is that it gives innovations boost, but that it doesn’t last,” says Erwin.

Erwin hopes that innovations in institutions will actually bring about change and be implemented: “In 2017 I saw a number of innovators in institutions who were working together in a small setting. I also saw administrators who had a vision of educational innovation with IT that wasn’t yet anchored in their institution. These two factors must change. That’s why the Accelerating together zone is of great importance. They have a major task ahead of them: by 2023, educational innovation with IT musn’t only be ingrained in all institutional plans, but must also be anchored in an innovation strategy, and there must be a manager who is responsible for this and substantiates it.”

Administrators have a major task: by 2023, educational innovation with IT must be ingrained in all institutional plans.

- Erwin

This takes a lot from institutions, but it’s not impossible as SURF has also shown. “SURF had to develop a different working method to facilitate the Acceleration Plan. Institutions too will have to adopt a different working method to implement the innovations from the Acceleration Plan and to make educational innovation part of their strategy.”

In addition, institutions have to cooperate across institutional boundaries, says Erwin: “When it comes to making education more flexible, you have to make deals at a sectoral level. For example, on how you deal with recording study units. Even though I did not know yet who should facilitate that, we have taken steps in this direction by developing edubadges.”

Do you have a final message for the Acceleration teams?

Erwin: “I’d like to remind the participants of the Acceleration Plan: ultimately this programme is about what happens within your institution and whether change takes place there. Make use of the Acceleration Plan and the collaboration to get the rest of your institution involved. Use your team colleagues for this, but also use the Steering group and the Accelerating together zone. Turn to them if you run into issues because you are rarely the only one. Often there is a shared feeling or issue, which you can only resolve in collaboration. Then something really changes.”

You often see that innovation takes place where things come together.

- Erwin

Erwin adds: “I’d also like to advise the Steering group to think about anchoring. Think about how we really make the innovations from the zones a reality and give them continuity. Also, look out for ways in which innovations of different zones are related. You often see that innovation takes place where things come together. Take for example learning analytics and connection to the job market. It’d be nice if you could look at the data on where people end up after their studies. What does it mean for the education we provide in the future? What does this mean for lifelong development?”

And to the question, “anything else?” Erwin replies: “I want to thank the student administrators for their contributions. The fact that they were part of the Steering group really was a gift.”

Erwin says goodbye to SURF. His successor in the Acceleration Plan Steering group is Jet de Ranitz, SURF’s new CEO. We wish Erwin a lot of success and fun with his next adventure.

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4 Innovations for Digital Product Design

This is part 2 of a 5-part series about digital manufacturing called Embracing the Power of the Next Industrial Revolution. This blog series explores the different challenges throughout the product lifecycle and how to “go digital” in Industry 4.0.

Today’s current product design collaboration process is typically ad hoc, cumbersome, and ineffective. Although companies understand the critical importance of collaboration within their organization and beyond, many struggle with departmental silos between design, manufacturing, procurement, sales, and marketing.

More effective collaboration between these different groups offers organizations the opportunity to identify product optimizations and understand market fit more easily—and much earlier in the process. Digital manufacturing holds the key to improving visibility and information sharing from ideation to launch. By “going digital” in product design, companies can minimize siloing between different departments which directly impacts product optimizations.

The Challenges With Product Design

Of the many challenges associated with cross-functional collaboration, the root cause of most is this: product design data is only available to design engineering. Trapped data renders both internal and external collaboration ineffective. This happens because organizations have rigid processes and toolsets that don’t allow for effective communication between different parts of the team, leading to challenges with:

  • Product data access and information exchange between different departments
  • Ideation and development throughout product design
  • Information fidelity, which extends timelines and delays commitments to designs

If an organization can digitalize the product development process, there are more opportunities for complete transparency. Product marketing, procurement, sales, and other teams can leverage product design information for their specific needs without waiting for design engineering to provide the data in a CAD neutral format. Companies stand to benefit from:

  • Increased efficiencies
  • Fewer errors
  • Greater insight
  • Faster innovation
  • Lowered costs

Digital Approaches to Product Design

There are several digital approaches and strategies for product design that ensure product information is accessible throughout the lifecycle.

Digital Twins

One of the most common and thoroughly discussed methods in today’s industry bridges the physical and digital worlds with a digital twin. A digital twin is a fully integrated model of a physical component including all material data, metadata, context, and behavior. It digitally represents the “current state” of a product or system at any given point in time in design, development, manufacturing, and service. In product development, a digital twin allows manufacturers to more easily iterate designs, test feasibility, and share ideas with collaborators.

95 percent of manufacturers are implementing a digital twin in some capacity, with 16 percent achieving full implementation according to a 2018 Capgemini study. And, over half of manufacturers are using their PLM features and tools to engage in collaborative product development. Simplifying collaboration by sharing a digital twin can alleviate many struggles that large-scale manufacturers face today.

Cloud Solutions

Historically, manufacturing organizations harbor a lot of unease for cloud-based solutions. Recent studies, however, are showing that might be changing. A quarter of manufacturers have begun using cloud-based design tools, primarily for:

  • File storage and sharing (74 percent)
  • Design collaboration (56 percent)
  • Design (45 percent)

The common denominator in these use cases boils down to cross-functional and external collaboration. The right cloud-based solutions allow teams to easily collaborate by providing a central place for both internal and external stakeholders to access information. Teams benefit from transparent version control, accountability, and redundancy to communications. When done correctly, cloud-based design tools offer more flexible workflows, greater security, and better cost efficiency than traditional software.

Interested in learning more about the cloud? Check out our series.

Additive Manufacturing

Often referred to as 3D printing, additive manufacturing has undergone significant development and found multiple applications in various sectors, especially for designing complex parts. Rapidly 3D printing a component or product allows designers and engineers to examine and iterate on physical products in real-time.

Caterpillar has found success with 3D printing in their Additive Manufacturing Factory. Engineers learn how to apply 3D printing to new products, the supply chain, and operations. Stacey DelVecchio, additive manufacturing product manager for Caterpillar, recently said

“Manufacturing companies have spent years training people to design for manufacturability. That means we have parts that are limited by how we traditionally manufacture them. At Caterpillar, we are removing these boundaries from our engineers. Having the capability to design what could never be made before, with features we didn’t think were feasible, is tremendously exciting.”

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) programs are becoming powerful tools for visualization and design. According to 2016 survey data from PwC, more than 1 in 3 manufacturers expected to adopt VR/AR technology by 2018. Today, OEMs such as Ford use AR and VR during product development to collaborate, communicate, ideate, and improve prototypes.

VR allows engineers and designers to see and manipulate their designs in a simulated environment. In a collaborative sense, this allows production and manufacturing to ensure a design will perform optimally in the context of a greater product, such as how a new pump will perform within a tractor. Similarly, AR enables manufacturers to engage a variety of stakeholders with virtual assets, such as overlaying how a new component will fit into a current product, to optimize products while dramatically reducing investment.

Test Before Implementation

A survey from PwC found that 72 percent of manufacturing companies “are dramatically increasing their level of digitization and expect to be able to be ranked as digitally advanced by 2020, compared with just 33 percent today.”

Although all these digital technologies can help an organization collaborate more easily during product design, it is important to note that not every solution is right for every company. Like any innovation, a very targeted use case exploration, pilot study, and careful implementation should be done to ensure these digital strategies will be successful in your organization.

About Thomas Spilker

Thomas serves as a solution architect, product expert, and voice of the customer for Vertex Software. He has over 30 years of industry experience in 2D/3D visualization and leading teams in developing, deploying, and
training on PLM software solutions. Thomas served as a Siemens PLM Senior Solution Architect and Digital Manufacturing Product Manager for 14 years where he specialized in delivering 3D digital twin, authoring 3D “graphical” manufacturing process plans, and delivering 3D work instructions to the shop floor. His industry expertise includes aerospace and defense, heavy equipment, high-tech electronics, and automotive.


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Dame Vera Baird QC issues warning to Government as she publishes her first annual report since taking over as Victims’ Commissioner

“Two major pieces of legislation, coinciding with fresh thinking arising from the COVID lockdown, offers a once in a generation opportunity to bring radical change to the criminal justice system and in doing so, transform the experience of victims of crime,” says Dame Vera Baird QC, Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales as she launches her annual report.

In it she calls on the Government to be bold in its ambition and make the most of the opportunities created by the Domestic Abuse Bill, the promised Victims’ Law and the need to re-think how we deliver justice coming out of lockdown.

Dame Vera said: “Covid has forced all of us to step back and re-think how we do things. We know that in recent years, victims’ confidence in the justice system has fallen.

“The victims’ voice is not always being heard and too often they are treated as by-standers, with what few entitlements they have not being complied with,” she said.

Continuing: “As lockdown starts to lift and the public adjusts to the ‘new normal’ of living with social distancing, the government faces the huge challenge of getting the criminal justice system fully functioning once more.

“This will not be without its challenges. But whilst huge logistical problems face us, there are opportunities to do things differently and better.

“For example, we can maximise the potential use of remote evidence, including vulnerable victims giving evidence through pre-recorded cross-examination. These measures can reduce the ordeal of giving evidence and waiting so long to do so,” she said.

Dame Vera also refers to how frontline victim support services have moved to re-design their support to reflect the demands of social distancing. Virtual contact with victims, web chat and higher levels of engagement have all been positive developments.

“We need to be sure there is long term and sustainable funding for these charities,” she said.

“The Domestic Abuse Bill is on its passage through Parliament and recent government amendments have enhanced the Bill greatly. I want the government to go further, using the Bill to tackle issues such as the iniquitous treatment of migrant women who have no recourse to public funds, and specifically outlawing abusive treatment such as non-fatal strangulation and image-based abuse.

“The long-awaited Victims’ Law must give victims enforceable rights in the justice system, with criminal justice agencies being held to account when they don’t deliver. I also want to see vulnerable victims having the support of advisors throughout their criminal justice journey,” she said.

The 50-page report highlights Dame Vera’s work since taking on the role in June 2019, including: supporting victims’ charities during the pandemic, pressing for action in reversing the sharp drop in the number of rape prosecutions, her work on the Domestic Abuse Bill and the Victims’ Code.

In her first nine-months in office she has successfully prompted a review of the Unduly Lenient Scheme, called for a change in police bail legislation, worked with criminal justice agencies to deliver changes in criminal injuries compensation and the Victims’ Contact Scheme and commissioned important research on the overlap between domestic abuse and gang crime.

The report also sets out Dame Vera’s priorities for the coming year. These are for bereaved victims to have legal representation at inquests; seeking an end to the intrusive breach of privacy of victims who report sexual crime; and pressing the government for effective enforcement of victim entitlements in the Victims’ Code of Practice.

She pledges to continue her campaign to make sure the voice of victims of anti-social behaviour is being heard, as well as looking at how well victims of fraud are being supported.

And plans to do an in-depth piece of research looking at the provision of ‘Special Measures’ for vulnerable and intimidated victims giving evidence in court.

Dame Vera continued: “What a year to start my new role as Victims’ Commissioner! There’s been a general election and the purdah period which preceded it, and then almost straight away the global Coronavirus pandemic which has meant we have all had to find new ways of working with and supporting victims.

“Despite these challenges I have very much enjoyed my first few months in the role and look forward to really getting stuck into the next 12 months,” she concluded.

The full report can be accessed here.


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