* Hubei Health Commission announced 242 new recorded deaths in a single day * Also found 15,000 more people have been infected than previously thought * It came as the commission began including 'clinically diagnosed' cases * Newly found figure accounts for more than half of the total fatalities
Coronavirus deaths have leapt 242 in a single day - the biggest rise ever - as the total cases of infection soar past 60,000.
There were 242 deaths on Thursday alone in Hubei province and authorities also found that even more people than they thought were infected.
After changing the way they record the virus, the Hubei Health Commission found there were 15,000 more than they thought. That means the figure shot up from 45,000 to 60,000 in the world in a single day.
WNU Editor: These numbers are shocking. And so much for the media narrative earlier on Wednesday that the epidemic was levelling off. Bottom line .... China has lost control of this epidemic, and I cannot help but feel that we are on the verge of a pandemic that the world has not seen in over a century.
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....If my hands were tied, Iran would have a field day. Sends a very bad signal. The Democrats are only doing this as an attempt to embarrass the Republican Party. Don't let it happen!
* President Donald Trump pleaded with the Senate not to pass a war powers resolution that would hamper his ability to take military action in Iran * 'We are doing very well with Iran and this is not the time to show weakness,' Trump wrote on Twitter. 'Don't let it happen!' * 'If my hands were tied, Iran would have a field day,' the president wrote * A bipartisan group of senators ignored his plea and advanced the measure * Eight Republicans voted for it in the procedural vote, a sign it will pass when it comes to a final vote, likely on Thursday * The resolution would require Trump to end all hostilities regarding Iran within 30 days unless he gets explicit approval from Congress
A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday ignored a plea from President Donald Trump and voted to advance a war powers resolution that would hamper his ability to take military action in Iran.
Trump implored lawmakers not to pass the measure at is would 'show weaKness' and let Iran 'have a field day.'
'Don't let it happen!,' the president wrote on Twitter.
The Senate, however, voted to move the resolution forward with a final vote expected on Thursday.
WNU Editor: This is going to be vetoed by the President. My main concern is that Iran will see this vote as a sign that there is strong opposition within the U.S. to President Trump's Iran policy. I can easily see the mullahs being embolden to continue their policy of confronting the U.S. and their Middle Eastern allies. They may even escalate it.
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* The coronavirus, now officially designated as Covid-19, is not just a short-term hiccup, and no vaccine can solve longer-term corporate issues it has revealed. * China invested decades in building cross-border relationships in a deliberate fashion. * The world's second-largest economy will not be off limits to future investment, but there will be wariness and caution and businesses seeking alternatives.
Everywhere we look we see the headlines and commentators talking about the coronavirus and its impact on tourism, trade and investment between China and the West — and China and the U.S., in particular. However, there are far-reaching effects that have not been contemplated fully beyond the intuitive assessment.
Things move slowly. China has long been known as a country with patience, which in business language translates to longer lead times in the transactional arena, sometimes exhaustive negotiations, and relationships are built over time. Many of these relationships are created in the environment of trade shows, conferences, information exchange platforms, and trade delegations. China has finely tuned this method of cross-border introductions and it is a continuous process.
After rapid daily increases, new daily cases of coronavirus in China appear to be 'stabilizing,' the WHO said, as the lowest number of new infections in two weeks was reported
* On Wednesday, China reported its lowest number of new cases in the past two weeks * The World Health Organization batted back questions about China's measures during a Wednesday press briefing * Director General Dr Tedros said the country's swift and aggressive actions are 'keeping us all safer' * But he also cautioned that the outbreak which has killed more than 1,100 people and sickened more than 45,000 could 'go in any direction'
The number of cases of infection with the new coronavirus in China has stabilized, but the apparent slowdown in the epidemic spread should be viewed with 'extreme caution,' the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
'This outbreak could still go in any direction,' the WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a briefing in Geneva.
At the end of a two-day meeting on science and innovation into measures to tackle the new viral outbreak, Tedros welcomed the 'positive response of the research community' at short notice 'to come up with concrete plans and commitment to work together.'
A patrol of US military vehicles is seen near the flying yellow flags of the terrorist YPG-dominated SDF and green flags of its constituent YPJ in the town of Tal Tamr in the northeastern Syrian Hasakah province along the border with Turkey on Feb. 8, 2020. (AFP Photo)
The $740.5 billion Pentagon budget proposed by the U.S. government will continue to provide funding for YPG/PKK terrorists in Syria but it will slash it by a third compared with the previous year, while it includes more funding for nuclear weapons, research and development spending.
The Trump administration's proposal will slash funding for the YPG/PKK-dominated SDF to $200 million from $300 million in 2020.
The SDF is an umbrella organization predominantly led by the terrorist PKK's Syrian wing YPG.
The proposed budget cuts funding for other combat operations abroad, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
American support for the YPG, under the name of the SDF, has long vexed Ankara. Turkey considers the YPG to be the Syrian offshoot of the PKK terrorist organization, which has waged a more than 30-year brutal war against the Turkish state.
Washington views the SDF as a "reliable partner" in its fight against Daesh and continues to provide it with arms and equipment in the face of strong objections by Turkey.
Turkey is trying to send the message that it will not hand over an easy victory to Russia and the regime.
Within a week, Russia-backed Syrian regime forces killed a total of 13 Turkish soldiers in two deadly attacks in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.
Needless to say these attacks wouldn't have taken place without the approval of the regime's main international backer, Moscow. And this is where Turkey's predicament starts, if not deepens.
These two attacks brought to the fore the contradictions, limits and nature of Turkey and Russia's fast-improving relations in recent years. Despite the casual usage of the word "strategic" by some Turkish officials and pundits in depicting the nature of Moscow-Ankara relations, these bilateral ties are far from being qualified as such.
WNU Editor: Turkish President Erdogan made a strategic error when he believed that after numerous talks with Russia in the past year, Moscow would accept a Turkish role and influence in Syria. But the Kremlin has made it clear in the past week that this is not going to happen, and are now actively supporting Syrian military efforts to seize this territory. The sad part of this slow-moving disaster was that President Erdogan was warned by many in the West that this is what was going to happen, but he choose to believe otherwise.
Syria's curse, as its conflict rumbles slowly towards its first decade, has always been how new forces enter the war just when it seems that exhaustion might slow everyone down.
But over the past week, a starker evolution has occurred, one that's been lost amid fatigue around the seemingly endless violence. Two of the most influential actors there -- Turkey and the Syrian regime -- have stopped fighting purely through proxies, and instead taken to directly attacking each other.
It is a seismic development: Turkish troops being repeatedly killed by Syrian forces, and then Ankara exacting a revenge toll on Bashar al-Assad's men. The expectation has always been that Moscow -- the forceful, long-term backer of Assad but also the fair-weather and awkward new friend of NATO member Turkey -- would step in and negotiate a pause. But they haven't yet, despite repeated phone calls between Ankara and Moscow. And they might not.
A U.S. military convoy was attacked on Wednesday by pro-Syrian government militia fighters in northeast Syria, local sources and U.S. officials said.
The incident occurred in a village near the northeastern city of Qamishli.
'Self-defense'
The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) terror group said its troops opened fire at a checkpoint manned by Syrian regime forces near Qamishli after they came under small arms fire.
"In self-defense, Coalition troops returned fire. The situation was de-escalated and is under investigation," Col. Myles B. Caggins, a coalition spokesman, said in a statement, adding that "the Coalition patrol returned to base."
A new analysis from Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre says the Afghanistan-based Taliban has surpassed the Islamic State to become the world's deadliest nonstate armed group.
The group reported that while terrorist attacks decreased 10% to 14,009 in 2019, the lowest level since 2011, Taliban attacks increased by almost 90%, resulting in a 60% increase in deaths.
The data shows that the Taliban accounted for more deaths than the next nine deadliest groups combined.
KABUL/DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S.-Taliban peace deal could be signed this month if the Taliban significantly reduces violence, which could lead to an eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, two Afghan government sources and a Western diplomat said on Wednesday.
The tentative timeline shared by sources came a day after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said there had been a possible breakthrough in U.S.-Taliban talks in Qatar.
The talks had been deadlocked in part over a U.S. demand that the insurgents agree to sharply reduce violence as part of any American troop withdrawal accord.
Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban's political office in the Qatari capital Doha, said progress has been made, but refused to share further details.
* Identifying how long it takes before carriers start to spread the virus could prove key to curbing the spread of Covid-19 * Researchers are trying to determine whether it can be transmitted before carriers start to show symptoms
Global health experts are divided on whether the coronavirus outbreak has peaked or worse is to come, but a more fundamental problem for front-line hospitals and laboratories is identifying when a person carrying the virus becomes infectious to others.
Scientists say this could be a key to defeating the disease it causes, now officially known as Covid-19. In other words, knowing how it behaves allows for the development of counter strategies.
The ideal countermeasure is a vaccine, but because doctors are dealing with a previously unknown virus, infectious disease experts, including Professor John Nicholls from the University of Hong Kong, said it would take many months to develop and test a drug to fight it.
* The CDC is preparing for the new coronavirus, which has killed at least 1,115 and sickened more than 45,000 worldwide, to "take a foothold in the U.S." * "At some point, we are likely to see community spread in the U.S. or in other countries," said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is preparing for the new coronavirus, which has killed at least 1,115 and sickened more than 45,000 worldwide, to "take a foothold in the U.S."
"At some point, we are likely to see community spread in the U.S. or in other countries," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a conference call. "This will trigger a change in our response strategy."
Health officials had confirmed 13 U.S. cases of the virus, now named COVID-19, short for Corona Virus Disease.
BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China reported on Wednesday its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in two weeks, bolstering a forecast by Beijing's senior medical adviser for the outbreak in the country to end by April - but fears of further international spread remained.
The 2,015 new confirmed cases took China's total to 44,653. That was the lowest daily rise since Jan. 30 and came a day after epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said the epidemic should peak in China this month before subsiding.
His comments gave some balm to public fears and to markets, where global stocks surged to record highs on hopes of an end to disruption in the world's second largest economy.
Many in member countries express reservations about fulfilling Article 5's collective defense obligations
NATO is generally seen in a positive light across publics within the alliance, despite lingering tensions between the leaders of individual member countries. A median of 53% across 16 member countries surveyed have a favorable view of the organization, with only 27% expressing a negative view. But opinions of NATO and related issues vary widely across the countries surveyed, especially regarding the obligations of Article 5 of the 75-year-old treaty, which declares that an attack against one member nation is considered an attack against all members.
Positive ratings of NATO among members range from a high of 82% in Poland to 21% in Turkey, with the United States and Germany in the middle at 52% and 57%, respectively. And in the three nonmember states surveyed, Sweden and Ukraine see the alliance positively (63% and 53%, respectively), but only 16% of Russians say the same.
* Trump's repeated threats to the United States' European allies to fall into line with US policy on Huawei are failing. * The United Kingdom last month backed a deal with the Chinese telecoms company despite a furious call to prime minister Boris Johnson from the president. * Now the German government is also preparing to rule out a ban on Huawei. * Other European leaders are set to follow their lead and defy Trump after the president failed to follow-through on his threats to the UK.
In recent months Trump has issued a series of threats to European allies which were designed to force them into following his administration's ban on the Chinese telecoms company Huawei.
However, the threats, which included a plan to withdraw from the US intelligence-sharing relationship with the United Kingdom, appear to have failed, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreeing a deal with Huawei anyway.
Trump reportedly reacted with rage to Johnson's decision and slammed down the phone on the prime minister in a call last month.
However, far from fearing a similar reaction from Trump, other European countries are now moving to take a very similar position to Johnson.
This week Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats backed a positions paper which ruled out an outright ban on Huawei.
WNU Editor: The priority in Europe is to develop commercial and trade relations with China. U.S. concerns on national security over Huawei is not their priority.
After nearly 70 years of service, the U.S. Air Force plans to begin divesting its fleet of U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes starting in fiscal year 2025, budget documents show.
According to the service's fiscal year 2021 budget request of $120.2 million for U-2 procurement, the service "will maintain operational capability up to and through FY25" for the high-altitude plane before divesting in the aircraft beginning that year.
"These investments will address reliability, maintainability, supportability, diminishing manufacturing sources/material shortages (DMS/MS), flight test, safety issues, and integration of capability development activities in support of the broader [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] portfolio," the budget request says. "This continued investment in the platform ends in FY25, where the U-2 will be divested."
Two U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers fly over the Pacific Ocean during training in August 2018. The mission was flown in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's Continuous Bomber Presence operations. (Airman 1st Class Gerald R. Willis/U.S. Air Force)
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Air Force prepares for the possibility of a future conflict with a near-peer adversary, it has run into a massive logistical problem: In a time where Russia and China are investing in layers of air- and ground-launched missiles that threaten American air bases, how can the Air Force ensure it will be able to get its planes off the ground?
The answer — which the Air Force calls Agile Combat Employment — calls for the service to be able to launch, recover and maintain planes away from its main air bases and instead at unorthodox locations like partner nations' military airfields or civilian airports.
Specifically, the large, geographically dispersed terrain of the Asia-Pacific region generates unique challenges, said Maj. Gen. Brian Killough, deputy commander of Pacific Air Forces. "We've got to respond to that requirement to move everything by either air or ship across the theater" he said in a Jan. 29 interview. "We don't have the very efficient rail lines and highway systems that Europe does to move those things around, so we've got to get lighter and leaner."
WNU Editor: Big bases means big targets. It makes sense to look at alternatives, as well as having supplies and equipment already deployed in the field.
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS John Paul Jones at sunset. The Navy is moving to slash five Flight III Arleigh Burkes from their five-year budget plans. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Kyle Merritt)
In future years, however, America must make the hard choices to put the Navy on a solid footing towards achieving the force structure our nation needs. We have done it before, after all. And let's not forget the stakes: If the U.S. Navy can no longer ensure a free and open global maritime commons, our nation will be less safe.
It's good news, obviously, that Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is "fully committed" to getting the U.S. Navy up to 355 ships. That number has been in decline for decades. In 1987, the Navy had 594 ships. Today that number is 294. For those who lack context, 294 ships sounds like a lot. And it is.
But — and here's the bad news — it's insufficient to perform what the National Defense Strategy demands. To understand why the Navy needs at least 355 takes a little explaining.
First, though, let's consider where the Navy's requirement for 355 ships came from. It's the result of the Navy's December 2016 force structure assessment (FSA) of the multiple types of warships it needed to "address the ever-evolving and increasingly complex threats the Navy is required to counter…" It is not, as some have claimed, an unconstrained "wish list." Indeed, the FSA balanced "an acceptable level of warfighting risk to our equipment and personnel against available resources and achieves a force size that can reasonably achieve success."
An F-35B Lightning II approaches the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) as the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) transits alongside on April 18, 2018, following an expeditionary strike as part of Certification Exercise (CERTEX) in the Philippine Sea. (MC1 Daniel Barker/Navy)
"Congress can't want a bigger and stronger fleet more than the Navy and Marine Corps want a bigger and stronger fleet," Rep. Mike Gallagher, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said today. "There's a lot of confusion about the budget."
CAPITOL HILL: Navy and Marine Corps leaders met with Defense Secretary Mark Esper and his staff Monday to work through the Navy/Marine Corps ambitious new shipbuilding and force structure plan, which is expected to be released in the next few weeks.
The meeting, which included Deputy Secretary David Norquist, Pentagon budget officials, and the top military and civilian leaders, came as Esper weighs the merits of the Navy's plan to reach 355 ships as soon as next decade, a heavy lift that would add more than 50 ships to the current fleet, some of which would include new classes of ships the Navy hasn't decided on yet.
"The Navy and Marine Corps' work is largely done," Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger said at a forum on amphibious ships on Capitol Hill. Berger said he's unsure when the secretary's review will be complete, or when the plan will be formally blessed and released to the public.
* The US, British, and French navies all had carriers at sea in January, including the US and UK's newest flat tops. * Those new carriers, and one France may acquire in coming years, will be in service for decades, but on the US side, changes may be coming for the role and size of that carrier force.
While the US's new aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, was undergoing testing off the East Coast last month, the Royal Navy's new carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, was landing and launching jets in UK waters for the first time in a decade and the venerable French carrier Charles de Gaulle was setting off on its first deployment since its 18-month-long midlife overhaul ended late last year.
That activity is a sign the French and the British "are now back in the big carrier business," Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis, commander of the Navy's recently reestablished 2nd Fleet, said this month in Washington, DC.
"Having that global carrier force is real beneficial. That helps our operational dilemma quite a bit," Lewis added in response to a question about his command's partnerships with European navies.
WNU Editor: The UK's aircraft carriers lack planes and escort ships, and the French carrier Charles de Gaulle is just coming back after a long overdue overhaul.
This is our first good look at the kind of activity, especially off the East Coast of the United States, that the US military has been warning about.
The Pentagon has released a map showing areas of increased Russian and Chinese naval activities, as well as the locations of major undersea cables, around the world as part of its most recent budget request for the 2021 Fiscal Year. This is perhaps the most granular detail on these subjects that the U.S. government has provided to date after years of warning about the threats that these patrols, especially by Russian submarines, pose to American national interests. Just last week, we reported that a senior U.S. Navy officer stated that Russian submarine sorties had become such an issue that the service no longer treats the East Coast of the United States as "uncontested" and would no longer view it as a guaranteed "safe haven" in a crisis.
WNU Editor: Not sure what they are trying to prove. The undersea cables follow a route that is the shortest distance between the continents. It is only logical that the shipping lines will also follow the same route, including other country's navies.
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The University of Kashmir is located on the western side of Dal Lake in the city of Srinagar, which lies in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The University of Kashmir has developed into perhaps the biggest college. There are 12 resources, 47 scholarly offices, 21 focuses, 36 universities and six perceived organizations spread everywhere throughout the state. The two biggest divisions in understudy enrolment incorporate the Faculty of Law and the Business School. The Faculty of Law being perhaps the most established division runs three courses LLB, LLM, and B.A, LLB(Hons). Kashmir University additionally has a P.G. Confirmation course in Human Rights. The Faculty of Law has been effectively seeking better expectations of scholarly greatness. The office has delivered famous legal advisers, legal advisors, creators, government workers, and legislators.
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Understudies are holding on for the results in case they scored well they will incite one year from now. Nevertheless, if they won’t get more stamps they can apply for the Revaluation Results. At the point when they applied for the Examination, the more raised level Examiner will check the paper again. In like manner, if they notwithstanding everything gets bomb marks, they can apply for the worth appraisal. For every Semester Students can apply for the revaluation after the affirmation of the essential appraisal results. The Kashmir University will take as long as seven days to process the test papers to report the Kashmir University Revaluation Results. Do stay invigorated with this page to consider the Revaluation Results.
MPSC Syllabus 2020 is available here for Agriculture Service Exam, Subordinate Services PSI, STI, ASO, Civil Judge, Group A & B Combined Engineering Services, Tax Assistant, Clerk, Forest Services, Assistant Town Planner, Agriculture Officer & Other posts. Applicants who are applying for Subordinate Services like Sales Tax Inspector (STI), Police Sub Inspector (PSI) & Assistant Section Officer posts can get here the complete MPSC Subordinate Services Syllabus 2020 in Marathi here. Also, download the Maharashtra State PSC Exam syllabus pdf from the below links along with Exam Pattern to start your exam preparation.
Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) is conducting the Civil Judge Mains exam. Candidates who have applied for the MPSC Civil Judge exam 2020, need to have proper preparation to crack the exam successfully. For this purpose on this page, we have given detailed information about Maharashtra www.mpsc.gov.in civil Judge prelims & mains syllabus & exam pattern. For further information read the below sections.
MPSC Livestock Development Officer Syllabus 2020 Pdf download links are available here. Applicants who are looking for the MPSC Livestock Development Officer Syllabus can download it here. Get Maharashtra PSC Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2020 on this page. You can also refer to MPSC LDO Previous Paper before preparing for the written exam.
The selection process for the LDO Grade A Jobs is given below. Candidates who got selected in the written examination will be invited for the Interview.
Written Examination.
Interview.
MPSC Grade A Syllabus for LDO Post
Clinical Subjects
Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Surgery
Radiology
Veterinary Gynecology and Obstetric
Para Clinical Subjects
Veterinary Pathology
Veterinary Parasitology
Livestock Products Technology
Veterinary Microbiology
Toxicology
Veterinary Pharmacology
Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology
Pre Clinical Subjects
Veterinary Anatomy
Veterinary Physiology and
Biochemistry
Animal Production
Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education
Livestock Production Management (Cattle, Poultry Science, Sheep & Goat and Pig)
Dear Candidates !! Board Authority of Maharashtra Public Service Commission is going to conducting the Written Examination for recruiting various vacancies.Candidates who had applied for the MPSC Recruitment 2020 can start preparing for the MPSC Engineering Services Examination 2020. Aspirants who want to qualify in the MPSC Engineering Services Exam with the minimum score then can collect the MPSC Syllabus 2020 and Exam Pattern details from here. Here we have given the details of MPSC Engineering Services Syllabus 2020 and the Exam Pattern had given for the sake of candidates who are preparing for the MPSC Examination 2020 along with MPSC Engineering Services Previous Papers.
Contestants who had applied for the Group C positions are seriously looking for the MPSC Group C Syllabus 2020. For that reason, we had provided the entire information about the MPSC Group C Syllabus along with Exam Pattern. The contenders can begin the preparation with the help of the Syllabus and Exam Pattern. So applicants no need to waste precious time searching the MPSC Group C Syllabus and Exam Pattern in various websites on the Internet. On this page, you can get the entire details about the MPSC Group C Syllabus and Exam Pattern. Aspirants must grab more knowledge by preparing the Maharashtra PSC Group C Exam Syllabus 2020. Get the MPSC Group C Syllabus 2020 in a PDF format that is specified at the end of this page. By reading this post you can get all the detailed information.
The Selection Process for various Group C (Tax Assistant, SI & Clerk-Typist) is given on this page. There are two rounds included in the MPSC Group C Selection Process 2020, they are the Written Examination followed by the Interview. And the Written Examination consists of the Prelims Exam and Mains Examination. Candidates who got selected in the written examination are invited for the Interview followed by the Document Verification round. The Document Verification round is conducted based on the number of selected candidates from the Interview.
Maharashtra PSC Mains Exam syllabus for Agriculture Services has been given revealed. Hence, candidates are advised to download the syllabus from the bottom of the section. Therefore, the Agriculture Services Mains exam is very important to get placed in the Maharashtra Public Service Commission. So, all the candidates should qualify for the exam. Therefore, we have given you the syllabus and exam pattern for your convenience to prepare for the exam.
MPSC Syllabus 2020 for Forest Service Examination is available here. The Aspirants who are going to attend the MPSC Forest Service Examination 2020 can check the Syllabus for Prelims and Mains Examination. However, we updated the latest MPSC Exam Syllabus for both Prelims and Mains Forest Service Examination 2020. Hence, go through the details below and check the MPSC Exam Syllabus and Test Pattern 2020.
MPPSC Forest Services Exam Syllabus 2020
Description
Details
Exam Name
Forest Services Examination
No. of Vacancies
Various
Category Name
Syllabus
MPSC Exam Pattern for Forest Service Examination 2020
The Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission selection process for Forest Service Posts is having Prelims and Mains Examinations. The Candidates who are qualified in Prelims and Mains are shortlisted for Interview Round. However, the Complete MPSC Exam Pattern for Prelims and Mains is listed below. Hence, check the details clearly and start preparing for the Prelims Examination.
MPSC Exam Syllabus for Prelims – Forest Service Examination
S.No
Subjects
Maximum Marks
Time Duration
1
English
100
60 Mins
2
Marathi
3
General Studies
Questions will be Multiple Choice Questions.
Maximum Marks for Prelims is 100.
Negative marking will be as per MPSC Board Rules.
MPSC Exam Syllabus for Mains – Forest Service Examination
S.No
Subjects
Maximum Marks
Time Duration
1
General Studies
200
01 Hr
2
General Science & Natural Conservation
200
Total
400
Question Paper: MCQ’s.
Number of Questions in each Section 100.
Each Question Carries 2 Marks.
Negative Marking will be as per MPSC Board rules.
MPSC Exam Syllabus for Forest Service
The Maharastra Public Service Commission Exam Syllabus for Forest Service Examination 2020 is updated below. The aspirants who are going to appear the MPSC Prelims Examination on 28th Oct 2020 can check the details below. Later, Download the MPSC Exam Syllabus Pdf for free from the link given below. Moreover, check the Official Website for more details.
MPSC Forest Service Exam Prelims Syllabus 2020
Marathi Language
English Language
Current Affairs (National & International)
General Mental Ability
Logical Reasoning
Analytical Ability
Problem Solving
Basic Numeracy.
MPSC Syllabus for Forest Service Exam Mains 2020
General Studies (Paper-I)
Indian History is related to Maharashtra.
Physical, Social, Economic & Geography of India & World. (Related to Maharashtra)
Politics & Governance, Constitution & Political System, Rural & Urban Local Self Govt.
Maharashtra PSC Assistant Town Planner Syllabus 2020
MPSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf for Assistant Town Planner posts are mentioned here. Interested candidates who would like to prepare for the MPSC Assistant Town Planner can get the MPSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf download links here. Check Maharashtra Public Service Commission Syllabus to make your exam preparation smooth.
MPSC Syllabus Pdf – MPSC Assistant Town Planner Exam Pattern
S. No.
Exam Type
Name of the Subjects
1.
Objective Type Questions
General Knowledge
2.
English Language
3.
Reasoning Ability
4.
Aptitude
It is an objective type
It consists of subjects include General Knowledge, English language, Reasoning Ability, and Aptitude.
MPSC Assistant Town Planner Syllabus 2020 Pdf Download
Are you looking for the MPSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf download links? If so, you’re in the right place. This is because here we have given the direct download links for MPSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf and Exam Pattern. Hence, applicants can easily get the MPSC Assistant Town Planner Syllabus and Test Pattern here. In the below-mentioned MPSC ASO Syllabus, you can find the topics for every subject that comes for the written examination. Check the detailed MPSC Assistant Town Planner Syllabus 2020 Pdf and read all those topics to crack the test. And, if you read the below section, you can get the exam pattern for MPSC Assistant Town Planner. Consider both the MPSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf and Exam Pattern before preparing for the written exam.
Maharashtra MPSC Syllabus 2020 – English
Sentence Improvement.
Active and Passive Voice.
Substitution.
Error Correction (Phrase in Bold).
Sentence Completion.
Synonyms.
Fill in the blanks.
Spelling Test.
Prepositions.
Transformation.
Antonyms.
Joining Sentences.
Para Completion.
Idioms and Phrases.
Passage Completion.
Spotting Errors.
Error Correction (Underlined Part).
Sentence Arrangement.
MPSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf – General Knowledge
Environment.
Basic Computer.
Botany.
Famous Days & Dates.
Chemistry.
Indian History.
Inventions in the World.
Indian Parliament.
Indian Economy.
Zoology.
Basic GK.
Indian Politics.
Indian Culture.
Famous Books & Authors.
Sports.
Geography.
Physics.
Maha PSC Syllabus 2020 – Reasoning
Analogy.
Decision Making.
Cubes and Dice.
Alphabet Series.
Blood Relations.
Non-Verbal Series.
Number Series.
Directions.
Arithmetical Reasoning.
Clocks & Calendars.
Mirror Images.
Number Ranking.
Statement Conclusion.
Coding-Decoding.
MPSC Assistant Town Planner Syllabus 2020 – Quantitative Aptitude
Number System
Partnerships
Compound Interest
Problems on squares, cubes
Averages
Allegations & Mixtures
Probability
Mensuration
Discounts
Simplifications
Time & Distance
Percentages
Geometry
Simple Interest
Boats & Streams
Permutations & Combinations
Ratios & Proportions
Problems on Ages
Time & Work
Profit & Loss
Fundamental Operations
Least Common Multiple (LCM) & Highest Common Factor (HCF)
MPSC Assistant Town Planner Syllabus 2020 Pdf – Download Here
MPSC Agriculture Officer Syllabus 2020 Pdf download links are available here. Applicants who are looking for the MPSC Syllabus and Exam Pattern can download it here. Refer to the Maha PSC Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2020 on this page. Using the MPSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf and Test Pattern, you can obviously get to know the topics to read. Moreover, you can also check mpsc.gov.in to be clear about the MPSC Exam Pattern, Exam Dates, and so on.
The subjects include English, Marathi, General knowledge, and Technical Knowledge
The number of questions for paper – I will be 100 and exam duration is 1 hour
And, the number of questions for paper – II is 100 and the duration to complete the exam is 2 hours.
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We can say that lots of candidates are applied for the MPSC ASO Exam. And, those applicants are now looking for the MPSC Agriculture Section Officer Syllabus and Exam Pattern to prepare for the exam. So, we have gathered the detailed MPSC Syllabus of the Agriculture Section Officer. In the below-mentioned MPSC Syllabus, you can find the topics for every subject that comes for the written test. Hence, check the MPSC ASO Syllabus 2020 Pdf and read the entire subjects to attend the written test in a good manner. Read this full page to know the exam pattern as well. So, read both the MPSC Syllabus 2020 Pdf and Exam Pattern before preparing for the written test.
MPSC Agriculture Officer Prelims Syllabus
MPSC AO General English
Synonyms
Transformation
Idioms and Phrases
Spelling Test
Sentence Improvement
Para Completion
Error Correction (Phrase in Bold)
Spotting Errors
Passage Completion
Substitution
Antonyms
PrepositionsSentence
Joining Sentences
Error Correction (Underlined Part)
CompletionActive and Passive Voice
Sentence Arrangement
Fill in the blanks
MPSC AO General Studies Syllabus
The economy of India & Maharashtra State.
History of Modern India & Indian National Movement.
History of Maharashtra and Movement for Maharashtra Statehood etc.
Current Affairs – Regional, National, and International.
International Relations and Events.
General Science.
Science and Technology.
Environmental issues.
Geography of India.
Geography of Maharashtra State.
Indian Constitution & Polity.
Society, Culture & Heritage of Maharashtra State.
Arts and Literature of Maharashtra State.
Policies of Maharashtra State State.
Disaster Management.
General Ability
MPSC AO Marathi Syllabus
Idioms and Phrases
Antonyms
Synonyms
Sentence Structure
Comprehension Passage
Grammar
Common Vocabulary
MPSC Agriculture Officer Mains Syllabus
MPSC AO Syllabus for Agriculture Paper
Global warming.
Types of Soils.
Fertilizer control.
Insect morphology.
Afforestation.
Watershed Management.
Bio-diversity.
Ultra Structure of Plant cells.
Post-Harvest Technology.
Plant Diseases.
Horticultural crops.
Herbicides and Fungicides.
Historical developments in Agriculture.
Integrated Farming Systems.
Weed flora and their management.
Silviculture.
Extension Education.
Cell structure.
Environmental Pollution and Prevention.
Plant Genetic Resources.
Tissue culture and Plant Genetic Engineering.
Neurophysiology.
Agricultural Economics.
Agro-based industries.
The importance of Horticulture in Telangana.
Sustainable Management etc.
MPSC Assistant Town Planner Syllabus 2020 Pdf – Download Here
CIL Admit Card 2020 | The Coal India Limited has released the admit card on 12th February 2020. Because they had decided to conduct the exam on 27th February & 28th February 2020. For the exam process and for the candidate’s verification the board has issued the CIL Hall Ticket. So, Applicants who are eligible to take down the exam must carry the CIL MT Admit Card. Get the direct link to download the hall ticket from the forthcoming section.
Candidates who have applied for the post of Management Trainee are suggested to download the CIL Admit Card 2020. Hence, the board will issue the hall ticket along with some important details. The credentials should be entered as in the application form.
Candidates Name
Name of the Candidate's Father
The venue of the Exam Centre
Date & Time of the Test
Reporting Time to the Exam Hall
Gender (Male/ Female)
Roll Number
Duration of the Online Test
Space for Invigilator's Signature
Registration Number
Name of the Test Centre
Category of the candidates
Space for Applicant's Signature
Name of the Exam Conducting Board
Photograph of the Candidate
Applicant's Date of Birth
Name of the Written Test
Important Guidelines for the Exam Takers
Full Name of the Applicant
Examination Centre Code
Signature of the Board Counselor
CIL Management Trainee Exam 2020
Coal India Limited has commenced the exam date on 27th February & 28th February 2020. Hence, the admit card is now available after the board releases it on their official portal. Therefore, the CIL Management Trainee exam is going to be held at various places and the details can be viewed after downloading the CIL MT Admit Card 2020.
[CIL Management Trainee Previous Paper 2020 – Get Here]
Documents required with CIL Management Trainee Admit Card 2020
Candidates need to carry the original identity proof along with the CIL MT Admit Card. Therefore, the hall ticket can be easily downloaded by following the steps given in the upcoming section.
Original Photograph
Voter Card
Pan Card
Employee ID
College ID
PAN Card
Passport
Driving License
Any other ID proof issued by a Gazetted Officer
Bank Pass Book with the photograph
CIL Admit Card Download Steps 2020
Firstly, Click on the direct admit card link.
Enter the valid credentials to log in to the hall ticket page.
Now Fill the CIL Exam Admit Card page with needed requirements.
Recheck the details entered in the admit card.
Finally, Submit the CIL MT Hall Ticket to download.
Download the hall ticket and carry it for all the selection rounds.
Carry the required Government Documents for CIL Written Examination.
MGU Results 2020 Released by Mahatma Gandhi University for M.Sc Mathematics 3rd & 4th Semester and different seminars on 12th February 2020. Understudies who had finished the semester test can look at for the immediate connections from the beneath the area of this page. Students can get the Mahatma Gandhi University UG/PG Semester Exam Results here. We will give direct connections underneath will take you to the official site of the college with no perplexity. Subsequently, Check other data of MGU Kerala Results 2020 in the beneath segments of this page. Likewise, visit the official site i.e, mgu.ac.in to think about confirmations and course subtleties.
Understudies of Mahatma Gandhi University here is incredible news for all. Get Updated Regular, Supplementary, Revaluation results for the Mahatma Gandhi University. As the school offers a wide scope of courses like UG/PG/Ph.D. and different courses individuals from all over Kerala are contemplating. Contenders can survey their show through underneath joined associations. Ensure you get down the full segment. Additionally, locate the most recent updates about MG University Results 2020 included with MGU Revaluation Results.
Latest Updated MGU Results 2020-21
Examination Name
Result Link
III and IV Semester M.Sc Mathematics Private Stream Regular/Supplementary Degree Examinations February 2019
Mahatma Gandhi University was built upon 2 Oct 1983 in Kerala State. The school has 100 related colleges in excess of 5 zones in central Kerala. It is otherwise called MG University. MGU is outstanding amongst the other 50 Universities in India. It is just the college from south India. It has 299 scholastic endeavors, for example, Bachelor’s, Masters, Doctoral degrees in the fields of Pure and Applied Sciences, Arts, Technology, Paramedical Studies, Nursing, Management, Engineering, Gandhian. However, International Relations, Politics, Physics, Nano Science, Disability Studies, Rehabilitation Sciences, Special Education, Psychology, Journalism, Environmental Sciences, Business Studies, Commerce, Economics, Pedagogical Studies, Hotel, and Hospitality Management, Catering Science, etc.
Normal/Supplementary Results for MGU
Understudies of MGU ought to find good pace insights about the Revaluation Results. Once after the principle assessment is directed, the University will give you one progressively possibility. In the event that you fall flat or score low stamps in the semester test, the college will allow you another opportunity called Revaluation mode. Applicants do check with the Official Website to consider the Revaluation framework. Here you can get the Regular, Revaluation and Supplementary Results for the MGU. This Revaluation strategy may take a large portion of a month to process the results. The test paper will be surveyed eventually for the people who have applied for the Revaluation procedure. So, we encourage the contender to remain refreshed with our page or with the Mahatma Gandhi Official Website to accumulate progressively point by point data about the MGU Revaluation Results.
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus2020 Pdf is available for the aspirants, who are preparing for the exam. If candidates are looking for HPPSC Civil Judge exam Syllabus can download the syllabi here.
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus 2020
Himachal Pradesh PSC Recruitment is released to fill Civil Judge posts. Applicants who are eligible & looking for Government jobs can apply for the Himachal Pradesh Civil Judge Exam. Aspirants who are going to attend for the HPPSC Civil Judge Exam are searching for the Himachal Pradesh PSC Civil Judge Syllabus. We are providing the HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus & Exam Pattern. Candidates can make use of the direct link for HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus provided below for more information. For further updates regarding HPPSC Important dates, HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus, HPPSC Civil Judge Results, etc. bookmark our site recruitment.guru and stay connected !!!
HPPSC Syllabus Pdf 2020 – Details
Name of the Board
Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (HPPSC)
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus 2020 is available below for the guidance of the candidates. The civil Judge Exam Pattern is provided below. Selection will be based on preliminary examination and Main Written (narrative) examination.
For Preliminary Examination:
S. No.
Paper
Name of the Subjects
Total Marks
Duration
1.
I
Civil Law – I
100
1 Hr
2.
II
Civil Law – II
100
1 Hr
3.
III
Criminal Law
100
1 Hr
The preliminary examination shall be an objective type examination consisting of the 3 papers.
Each paper is of 100 Marks.
Each paper will be of one-hour duration.
The topics of the Preliminary exam are Civil Law-I, Civil Law-II, Criminal Law.
NOTE: The syllabus for the preliminary examination shall be the same as provided for Paper-I to III for the Main examination.
For Main (Narrative Examination):
S. No.
Paper
Name of the Subjects
Marks
1.
I
Civil Law – I
200
2.
II
Civil Law – II
200
3.
III
Criminal Law
200
4.
IV
English Comprehension
200
5.
V
Language (Hindi)
100
Total
900
Viva – Voca
100
Main Written Exam consists of 5 papers.
Duration of each paper will be for 3 hours.
Candidates, who qualify the Main written examination, will be required to appear for Viva-voce which will be 150 marks.
After the main examination, Viva-voce will be held.
Himachal Pradesh PSC Civil Judge Syllabus 2020
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus is given here. Refer the HPPSC Syllabus to crack the civil judge exam with maximum marks.
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus for Civil Law-I
Code of Civil Procedure.
Indian Evidence Act.
Indian Stamp Act.
Himachal Pradesh Courts Act, 1976 and Specific Relief Act.
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus for Civil Law-II
Indian Contract Act.
Hindu Law.
Indian Limitation Act.
Transfer of Property Act and H.P. Urban Rent Control Act.
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus for Criminal Law
Indian Penal Code.
Criminal Procedure Code.
Chapter-XVII (section 138 to 143) of the Negotiable Instruments Act.
H.P. Excise Act-2011 as Applicable to the State of H.P.
Wild Life Protection Act and the Indian Forest Act.
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus for English Composition
A Choice of Three Essays on General Subjects. (The standard for the English paper shall be that of graduation examination of Himachal Pradesh University.)
ESSAY: 100 Marks.
Translation of Hindi Passage into English: 50 Marks.
HPPSC Civil Judge Syllabus for Language (Hindi)
Hindi (in Devanagari Script) No books prescribed. The paper of Hindi will comprise of the following:-
Translation of English passage into Hindi- 30 Marks.
Essay in Hindi on any topic out of three. – 50 Marks.
Composition (Idioms and Corrections etc.) – 20 Marks.
(The standard for the language paper shall be that of Matriculation examination)
Direct Link to Download Himachal Pradesh PSC Civil Judge Syllabus
Complete information about HP Forest Guards Syllabus 2020 is available on this page. The higher authorities of the Himachal Pradesh Forest Department are planning to conduct the Written Examination for recruiting Forest Guard Vacancies. The officials of the Himachal Pradesh Forest Department will release the Examination Date and the list of Examination Centers as soon as possible. Initially, aspirants need to keep concentrate more on the HP Forest Guards Syllabus 2020, because there is heavy competition for Forest Guard posts. So, we sincerely request all the applied candidates, to attend the written test by preparing the HP Forest Guards Syllabus 2020.
Candidates have to start their preparation as soon as possible, by collecting the HP Forest Guard Syllabus 2020. Candidates who are attending the Forest Guard exam, they no need to worry. Because we had arranged the HP Forest Guards Syllabus 2020 which was attached at the end of this page. Competitors who are interested must have to make an effective plan of action for better preparation and crack this test easily. HP Forest Guards Syllabus 2020 is the important thing to get qualify in the written test. Get more info such as Exam Pattern, Selection Process and HP Forest Guard Previous Papers on this web page.
Interested candidates can collect the HP Forest Guards Exam Pattern 2020 details from the table given below. The written examination is conducted for all the aspirants who had applied for the post of the Forest Guard. Here, all the applied candidates can get the complete structure of the Examination that is the details of the name of the subject, the number of marks, the time duration, total marks and also the type of the examination.
HP Forest Guards Physical Measurement Test
Category
Men
Women
Height
165 cm
150 cm
Chest without expansion
79 cm
74 cm
Chest with expansion
84 cm
79 cm
Forest Guards Physical Efficiency Test
For Men
For Women
Running
Distance
Time
Running
Distance
Time
100 meter
1.4 sec
100 meter
1.7 sec
800 meter
2.45 min
800 meter
4.15 min
Jump
Height
Long
Jump
Height
Long
1.25 meter
4 meter
1 meter
3 meter
HP Forest Guards Written Examination Pattern
Name of the Subject
Number of Marks
General Awareness
85 Marks
General Science and the forests of Himachal Pradesh
Environment and Wildlife
General Knowledge
Aptitude
Reasoning
Personal Interview
15 Marks
Total
100 Marks
Type of Examination: Objective Multiple Choice Type
Time Duration: 75 Minutes
Selection Procedures:
HP Forest Guards Selection Process 2020 detailed information is given in this section. The Forest Guards selection Procedures will be based on the following rounds. Candidates who want to get through this examination have to perform well in all of these rounds. So, the HP Forest Guards selection procedures are mentioned below
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NEW DELHI | GUWAHATI: A day after data of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list disappeared from its official website, IT major Wipro said the services were terminated over non-payment of dues while the Union home ministry clarified that NRC data in Assam is safe even though some technical issues were visible and that it would be resolved soon."The NRC data is safe. Some technical issues are in visibility on the cloud. These are being resolved soon," a home ministry spokesperson said.The data was not available for a couple of days and it created panic among the public, mostly those excluded from the list as the rejection certificates were yet to be issued.Wipro, responsible for IT services, said the authorities did not renew the services contract for the project after it expired in October 2019. 74107014 After a rigorous tender process, Wipro was appointed the system integrator for the NRC project in Assam in 2014, as per the company.In an e-mailed statement, the Bengaluru-based company said it had continued to pay the hosting service fee until January end "as a gesture of goodwill" and that it was willing to continue providing these services if the agreement is renewed by the authorities.However, Wipro did not comment on the quantum of dues or whether discussions were underway to resolve the issue.Meanwhile, a senior officer in NRC, who does not want to be named, told ET, "A case was filed against an NRC officer on Wednesday for not providing the password for the data records.The officer had left the NRC office without handing over the password. This comes under the purview of Official Secrets Act and other authorised officers have not been able to access the data." "Wipro is claiming dues of Rs 70 crore, while as per our estimate it is Rs 60 crore. However, we are in the process of reconciling this," he said.
JC Flowers & Co, a private equity fund specialising in the turnaround of financial firms around the world, is leading a consortium that plans to invest as much as $2 billion in Yes Bank.About half-a-dozen investors, including JC Flowers & Co, Tilden Park Capital Management, OHA (UK) (part of Oak Hill Advisors) and Silver Point Capital, have sent in 'non-binding' expressions of interest, and the investment could be in two stages."The bank and its financial advisors are currently in discussions with these investors on the commercial terms, including pricing, of their investments which…will be subject to certain conditions and receipt of requisite approvals, including regulatory approvals with respect to the size of the stake to be acquired, as well as necessary dispensations with regard to applicable pricing guidelines," the bank said in a late evening exchange filing after ET had earlier sent the lender a query on potential investors in the current round of capital raising.Industry executives told ET that the proposals include a preferential sale of shares to JC Flowers & Co and some investors followed by a rights share sale by Yes Bank. The firm, led by Christopher Flowers, has signed a non-–binding agreement subject to regulatory approval. There is no certainty that the agreement would translate into a successful transaction. The bank's board would meet before March 14 to consider the offers. 74109703 "There has been thorough due diligence of the books and it is only the details like pricing and the regulatory approval that are to be completed,'' said one of the persons cited above. "Of course, there could be many unanticipated issues that could pop up, but it is a lot more concrete than on previous occasions."Yes Bank's financials came under scrutiny last year due to surging bad loans and management uncertainty after the Reserve Bank of India declined to extend the term of founder Rana Kapoor as the chief executive in 2018. Under the new CEO Ravneet Gill, the bank managed to raise one round of funds through share sale to institutional investors, but that was not enough.It recently hired former Deutsche Bank veteran Anshu Jain, now president at boutique investment banking firm Cantor Fitzgerald, to help raise funds. Ambit Capital's Ashok Wadhwa has been working along with Jain in raising investments from JC Flowers, it is learnt.Successful completion of the transaction with JC Flowers would be a coup of sorts for Yes Bank, the shares of which have been pummelled in the past few months for failure to raise money.JC Flowers, the youngest partner at the storied Goldman Sachs Group who went on to lead its financial services business, made his name by investing in distressed financial institutions across the world. His investments in Japan's Shinsei Bank after its collapse in the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the first by a foreigner in Japan, vaulted him onto the global stage. Flowers successfully turned around the lender with a focus on retail lending, buttressed by technology.TECH EDGEFor a private equity investor of JC Flowers' stature who has held on investments for more than a decade, Yes Bank could be a good bet as its technology platform offers the potential to grow in an economy that's increasingly turning digital, a top industry executive said."Yes Bank does more UPI transactions than the top three private banks put together and more than double that of Paytm," said the person. "If other private transactions are any indication, its tech platform could be valued as high as $6-7 billion.'' Flowers had other investments in Europe too. He backed the UK's OneSavings Bank and the Dutch lender NIBC NV.At Yes Bank, Flowers' stake could go as high as 50% depending on the structure of the deal the regulator permits."If there's a market solution to the problem, there should be no issue,'' said one of the persons aware of the negotiations with the regulator. "It can cap the voting rights at 15% and permit a higher holding."Yes Bank shares are down 88% in the past year from their peak due to its weak financials. The bank rejected Canadian billionaire Erwin Singh Braich's offer to buy $1.2 billion worth of shares late last year.Raising capital is crucial because rising non-performing loans have increased provisions and eroded the bank's net worth. The bank posted a loss of Rs 600 crore in the September quarter due to a one-off tax hit of Rs 709 crore on account of the change in the corporate tax rate regime. Excluding this one-time hit, adjusted profit was Rs 109 crore. Gross bad loan ratio rose to 7.4% from 5% at the end of June.
NEW DELHI: A fact-finding team from Ikea last week visited India as part of an internal probe into the alleged presence of excessive chemicals in locally made mugs that prompted the Swedish furniture major to recall the products worldwide, two people familiar with the development told ET.The Ikea compliance team last week visited Vadodara-based Shaily Engineering, the company that had supplied the mugs, as part of the investigation, one of the persons said.In January, the Swedish furniture and home products giant said it was recalling Troligtvis-branded mugs — priced Rs 129 apiece in India — from more than 400 Ikea outlets worldwide, barely four months after Ikea started selling the product globally."IKEA works together with approximately 1,600 suppliers globally. Due to confidentiality and business reasons we do not share details about individual supplier relations," an Ikea spokesperson said in an email response to a query about its probe and the Ikea team's visit to Shaily.Sanjay Shah, chief strategy officer of Shaily, declined to comment.In an analyst call after the third quarter earnings, Amit Sanghvi, MD of Shaily, said the Vadodara-based company has not been immediately affected by the recall."At the moment, we don't have any liability on the product recall," he told investors on February 4.Ikea was prompted to recall the mugs after tests found excessive level of dibutyl phthalate (DBP), a substance that is used as plasticisers to enhance durability and flexibility of plastic products.Sanghvi told analysts that Shaily was 'not at fault' for the global recall of the travel mugs. "Is there a problem, yes there is a problem for which the product recall was initiated. Is the problem related (or) to because of Shaily's manufacturing. No," he said in the conference call.
KOLKATA: Sales growth of refrigerators, ACs and washing machines in 2019 was the best since demonetisation, signalling a revival in discretionary purchases and kindling hopes that the economy is on the mend.Volume sales in the overall consumer electronics and major domestic appliances market grew 9% year-on-year in 2019 against 1% in 2018 and 4% in 2017, as per data released by GfK India. Industry executives attributed the revival largely to pentup demand.Panasonic India CEO Manish Sharma said green shoots of consumption revival are visible now, with growth improving quarter-on-quarter. "Products such as ACs, refrigerators, washing machines and smartphones have become necessities," he said.Brian Bade, CEO at India's largest smartphone and electronics retailer Reliance Digital, said there is improvement in consumer sentiment. "Average billing size has gone up, as has same-store growth," he said.Sales Picking UpSmartphone sales growth in 2019 took a marginal beating over 2018, but it was still better than 2016 and 2017, GfK data showed. Industry executives attributed this to lack of compelling product innovation in smartphones.At the same time, television sales in 2019 declined 2% due to a shift towards audio-visual consumption over smartphones.Despite the pickup in overall electronics and durables sales last year, the growth rates in most categories are still way below the pre-demonetisation days when sales used to grow in double digits. This shows that it might take some more time before a wide spectrum of consumers, such as those in rural India, opened their purses, industry experts said.GfK India managing director Nikhil Mathur said the growth in 2019 was driven by both first-time buyers and those upgrading their products. As per GfK data, refrigerator sales went up by 9% in 2019, those of washing machines by 12%, and air-conditioners by 25%.Offline SalesSmartphone sales growth in offline stores declined marginally from 10.9% in 2018 to 8.7% last year. Sales growth was lower in 2017 and 2016 at 7.5% and 4.3%, respectively. In online, smartphone sales remained resilient last year, growing at 45% like in 2018, GfK reported.As per GfK's consumer life study, more than 60% of urban consumers aspire to spend on personal and home electronics followed by appliances (53%) and education (43%) in the next 12 months. "Thus, if other economic indicators and consumers' mood remain stable, the overall consumer electronics category may show a good momentum," Mathur said.He, however, warned that the supply chain of both smartphones and electronics may be impacted in the short term due to the Covid-19 outbreak in China, which could impact sales.GfK is the only agency in India that tracks real sales to consumers at retail points while other trackers release data based on product shipment, which could also include unsold inventory."Sales started picking up since April-June quarter when products like refrigerators and airconditioners reported brisk sales due to extreme summer," said Godrej Appliances business head Kamal Nandi.
New Delhi: Max Estates, the wholly owned subsidiary of Max Ventures and Industries, has formed a 51:49 joint venture with New York Life Insurance, the largest mutual life Insurance company in the United States, to develop a commercial real estate project in Noida.The Rs 400 crore project, with a built-up area of 700,000 square feet, will be the second investment of New York Life Insurance in Max Ventures and Industries in the past two years. In 2017, it had invested nearly Rs 250 crore in a combination of preference and right issues of Max Ventures and picked up nearly 23% stake."This would be the third commercial project of Max Estates. We aim to scale up to among the top three commercial real estate developers in the region within the next three years," said Sahil Vachani, managing director, Max Ventures and Industries."Our business model going further is to develop the commercial projects in the partnership with such large foreign funds. Companies are preferring developer owned office to lease vs strata sold ones so we will own the assets and give them on long term leases," he said.Strata sold buildings are the ones which are pre-sold to investors in parts who then further lease them out to companies."Max Ventures will have continued stream of income from these projects. It will have project management fee during the construction phase of these projects and asset management fee after the completion of the projects," said Vachani.The company is also looking at acquiring some distressed assets that are coming up for resolution under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.Max Estates has already developed the 600,000 sq ft Max Tower in Noida and is set to complete a second project of 300,000 sq ft, Max House, in the next quarter.New York Life had partnered with Max Group to form Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited with 26% ownership. The American insurance behemoth sold its stake to Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company Limited of Japan in 2012.According to Colliers International, a Canada-based global commercial real estate services organisation, leasing activity continued its strong momentum in 2019 across seven major cities in India with gross absorption at a new high of 58.6 million sq ft, 17% higher than in 2018.
Mumbai: Real estate firm Supertech is looking to sell its assets to raise fund for completing about 20,000 homes in New Delhi-NCR.Supertech chairman RK Arora told ET that the company has applied for the realty stress fund and as a backup plan, has identified several of its malls and hotels in tier II cities to raise Rs 700 crore."For the stress fund, we have given a list of 12 projects, where 30% of the work has been completed. It (still) requires last mile funding of about Rs 1,500 crore. We are hoping for a positive outcome and are committed to deliver 20,000 flats by 2022," said Arora.He said that due to a lack of funding, the pace of construction has slowed down, and only 50-60% of the flats are sold."We are in talks to sell malls and hotels in Meerut and Haridwar to generate about Rs 700 crore. Once the money flow starts, there won't be any issue as we have committed receivables of about Rs 4,000 crore," Arora added.The 12 projects that require funding are Hilltown Hill View, Hill Town Crest, Golf Country, ORB and Capetown, Ecovillage 2 and 3, Romano, Sports Village, Meerut Sports City and Green Village, Hues and Azalia.The chairman said Supertech will not launch any product till they complete and deliver existing projects.Supertech is however banking on the commercial return from Supernova, the tallest building of NCR at Sector 94, Noida.Supernova is India's largest mixed-use development spread across 7 million sq. ft. of area.The project has currently four towers – Spira, the Iconic Tower, which is India's tallest mixed use development of 80 floors standing at 300 meters, Nova East, Nova West and Astralis tower.Spira, the tallest tower consists of high-end luxurious branded residences, suites, serviced apartments, premium and luxury malls, futuristic offices and ultraluxurious condos.The 80-floor tower has 13 floors dedicated to residences.
There is a reason why they call it family silver. The ET Intelligence Group's analysis of the publicly available data of 884 listed family-run enterprises reveals that they have earned slightly higher returns than the overall sample of India Inc as well as that of the professionally-run businesses.Family businesses have earned 14 per cent annualised returns between January 2017 and January 2020 on the stock exchanges. In the same period, the sample of 2,770 professionally-run companies and India Inc gained 12 per cent and 13 per cent, respectively.The aggregate market capitalisation of family businesses is at around Rs 65 lakh crore which is an average of the market cap for January 2020. This was 42 per cent of India Inc's total market cap of Rs 156 lakh crore. The Tata Group (market cap of Rs 11.8 lakh crore) and Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (Rs 9.4 lakh crore) were the second and the third largest business groups in the country after HDFC group (Rs 12.4 lakh crore), which has been professionally managed for over two decades. 74109418 The current composition of the benchmark indices includes a majority of family-run companies. The Nifty50 has 31 family-run companies and the S&P BSE Sensex has 16. They contribute 52 per cent and 49 per cent to the market cap of the Nifty and Sensex, respectively, thereby highlighting their pivotal roles in cultivating investor culture.One would wonder how these family-led businesses fared individually. To that effect, a further slicing of data shows that one out of nearly every three business families reported higher returns than Sensex's 15 per cent returns based on 3-year compounded annual growth rate (CAGR).On the financial front, the sample of family businesses clocked Rs 24 lakh crore in revenue and Rs 1.8 lakh crore in net profit in FY19.They contributed one-thirds and one-fourths to India Inc's total revenue and profit. Moreover, the annualised growth rate of sales and profit for the family-run companies at 10 per cent and 15 per cent was marginally higher than that of 9.5 per cent and 7 per cent for the larger sample in that order.In line with the findings of PwC India's Family Business Survey 2016, 76 per cent of Indian family businesses have shown growth in the last 12 months as well, which is higher than the global average of 69 per cent. Further, 58 per cent have achieved double-digit growth, which is significantly higher than the global number of 34 per cent, said PWC in their latest study from 2019."Family business leaders have told us they will fund this growth through bank lending and credit lines along with internal sources, namely cash flows, family funds and so on. More than half also said they will explore private equity/venture capital funds as an option or will look at listing on a stock exchange," said Ganesh Raju K, partner, PWC.The wariness to seek public or institutional capital is also changing and PE capital has acted as a catalyst to change perceptions among founders. "It is not surprising that 56 per cent of family businesses say that they will be looking at bringing in PE funding for the business.Moreover, 17 per cent of family businesses mention they will consider procuring funds from other families or through family offices. Usually, this signifies crossholdings between related families/friends; however, lately, a key emerging trend is procurement of funds through multifamily offices," adds Raju.
When we spoke last it was on the budget day and the general view was that the markets will go lower. What we are staring at is a lot of strength, record highs and good market breadth. So if the budget was okay, why are markets looking great?One thing is clear that the RBI policy itself was very supportive. It was a great surprise because there were a lot of nice and refreshing aspects to the policy compared to the dogmas of the past. It may have its own risk and I acknowledge that but at least it is a path forward to doing something different. Number two alludes to the budget. Let us be honest, the budget had nothing great about it. Since the stock market and economy are so linked together, the market is being driven by global flows or at least local flows. Then thirdly, this whole thing about the value in midcaps has been built up to a crescendo at this point in time. As a result, more than institutional money, a lot of local money has gone into buying the same old stocks. If you look at Bajaj Finance, it has moved from Rs 4,000 to Rs 4,700 and so on. It is one of the times when the local money has been convinced that this is the right time to buy into the market and they have bought the same old themes. I do not think midcap has been such a great theme but rather has by and large been about the same old stocks. We are at a time where the absence of bad news is good news and there is so much money on the sidelines. Everybody has got so much money and what do they do with it? They go and buy a Nestle or a Bajaj Finance or a Hindustan Lever or a PVR or Apollo. We look at what will happen this year in terms of economy but investors are okay with the five-year horizon. They own Nestle or Apollo Hospital or PVR and are not looking at one-year horizon. It is a very different time frame that investors are looking at today compared to what the market participants typically believe in.So what is the bottom line here? Can I say the fabric of the market will remain the same because the budget has done nothing that will take us back to 7 per cent growth and if flows are strong the same 15, 20, 25 may be 35 stocks will keep on marching higher?If you even look at the phenomenal Delhi elections which just happened shows that economy does not seem to be an issue with anybody at this point of time and that is the scary part which has us worried. One would tend to believe that there is an urgency in the government or the system to address economic issues because those affect the electoral fortune. But that does not seem to be the case. Neither the winning party, which has astounding win, spoke about the economy nor the ruling party, which had nothing much to comment about. You are right in saying that we will trundle along as far as the economy is concerned. One day the piper will call you when they say the dichotomy between the economy and what is happening in terms of the stock market will come to bear. I would still say that in a struggling economy we are going to see more and more concentration of economic power with the top 100 or 200 companies. In a manner of speaking, the wish of the investors will come true. While the economy will struggle at 5 per cent or 6 per cent growth, some of these companies may produce good results. The lobby is strong. Let us not neglect the fact that the result of every company has tax benefit. This will not be the case next year; the base effect will catch up next year. It will be a troubled time for the economy but investors have nowhere to go. With the money in the bank, you are not going to buy midcap or a very small cap given what has happened, such as the decimation of Coffee Day or Eros Media. You will buy the same stocks at this point of time and we will trundle along. The worrisome part is lack of electoral response to the economy. It is not a good sign for us because that means the urgency to handle the economy is not there at this point of time.Should one invest in this low liquidity, low growth and abundant cash environment?One good part is that while this market is doing well at 12,000 and thereabouts, large pockets are at historic lows and one of the key standpoints is that the biggest destruction in value has happened in the PSU stocks. In the last five-six years, the sheer market cap reduction in PSU stocks could have financed all our fiscal deficit by that point of time. But on the other side, it gives a tremendous opportunity if you are getting your oil marketing companies, resource companies, oil pipeline companies closer to 1-1.25 book value. Look at GAIL, the stock was around Rs 121 and the dividend of Rs 6.5 was announced. That is an incredible situation out there. There is a need to be in some of the pockets which are monopolies. Yes, there are PSUs to that extent in that market and more value destruction can happen but at some point in time, you will not destroy more value than what you have done. And I believe we are reaching a point where the value is so down that can you destroy it more? Maybe not. You do not have to necessarily go to the larger pockets. One can be in some of the pockets giving good dividends and hopefully good returns and PSU block is one such investment area. Secondly, there are healthcare companies one can look at. All healthcare companies are now deleveraging at a frenzy which we had not seen before. In a year or so, all Indian pharma companies will have a leverage of 0.25 or below and at that number serious value will start to emerge. And then there are metal companies which are again at the bottom end of the cycle. The dilemma is not where you invest, it is rather how much more do you invest in the largecaps -- whether it is Bajaj Finance or HDFC Bank or HDFC. We are loading up on PSUs; healthcare companies will be countercyclical and there the alpha value will be significantly higher. It has not been proven true so far in the last 12 months, it has been on the negative side in fact but we are hoping it will turn around. Find some stable pockets of return rather than just piling up into the same shares. When we are looking out for multibaggers there is a sense that we might miss out if we do not get in at these levels because despite all the recent blips we have had markets have continued to bounce back. In that context, what about PSUs when it comes to some of those cyclical names? In infrastructure, some of those pockets still seem to be beaten down but could they provide manifold returns?PSU stocks represent very high risk and very high return because it's difficult to understand how one can destroy this kind of value in five or six years. I am a buyer and I have a large holding in PSU stocks and it runs across the spectrum. I have oil marketing companies, gas companies in my portfolio; you name the PSU on a dartboard and I think I will have it in the portfolio. But that is a very tough call but we have taken that call and we are enjoying the dividend to that extent. Let us be honest, we cannot blame the investors if they don't pick PSU stocks because when they look forward ahead three-four years, they need to find safety. If you just read the budget, it is a scary document, look at the write-offs sitting on it, the Food Corporation of India, the electricity distribution companies and now the government says they will not be able to compensate the states for the GST. So, growth will be really out of the window. If we look at the financial landscape, it looks scary. I do not think many will survive in the next three years time frame. The RBI has kicked the can down the road. There will be MSME restructure one-two years down the road and that is required perhaps but what will happen in two years' time when all become bad debt? Let us be honest about it. We are looking at the transmission companies' bad debt, production of electricity bad debts, Mudra loan bad debts, now the MSME bad debts. If you were to put your money in the bank where would you go? You will just go to an HDFC Bank, a Kotak Bank and put the money and sit tight. I cannot fault the investors and we must respect the wish of the investors to say that in an economy which is wobbly as ours we are not willing to take the risk with our money. We are willing to ride with Nestle or HDFC or Bajaj Finance but not willing to ride with Yes Bank or IDFC First. And that is a very sensible choice. I would still tell investors to extend their horizon of return longer and longer. We had a large holding in Nestle, we are just buying it thinking it is going to take five years but it gave a fantastic return in 12 months' time. So, the market can surprise you but this is a market for quality, not for risk. If you are buying value on risk basis on midcap and smallcap, you are going to come to serious grief as all of us have come in the last three years. There was a view that the markets are getting specifically focussed on earnings, performance. In midcaps and smallcaps we have seen that there have been select names that have shown steady performance. Would you stay away as a blank risk averse or would you actually also look for some quality names in the broader markets?Again it is the definition of midcaps. After Sebi formula, the midcap is a fairly large space. Would you qualify SRF to be midcap or largecap? I am not sure. It has done fantastically well in terms of performance. Therefore, we are talking of companies with a turnover of Rs 2,000 crore. When we talk of midcaps, we talk of companies sub Rs 500 crore and that is an extinct species. In the three-year time frame, very few such companies will survive. So, it does not matter if you may have an odd quarter. In an economy growing at 5 per cent, if the market leader grows at 10 per cent, that means everybody else will have to de-grow by almost 50 per cent in terms of their growth rate. The arithmetic is clear. It is against the small companies so a good result should not get you excited. There are lots of good names but again they are overvalued. If you look at Dr Lal PathLab, Metropolis, they are hugely overvalued in the context of their growth scenario. Growth is where the FIIs are going to buy at the end of the bottom line. Growth is not going to come where the local HNIs are going to buy because of a single jerk and the price cut could be 20-30-40 per cent. In this environment of low economy, draw the line unless you are willing, like us risk-takers, to say I want PSU, healthcare, etc. Your dividing line is if it is on the FII list or not. If it is not, it should not be on your list also.What are the lessons learnt from DMart?Retail as a sector we all thought was gone and out but DMart is an amazing story out there that surprised everybody. Not only DMart, the second one which has surprised us more than DMart is IRCTC. If you have missed out on the story, don't lose heart because there will always be such cases as DMart, etc. The lesson is that you will find such cases, enjoy the look of it, congratulate the guy who actually invested in it but stick to your investment thesis because while looking for DMart you may end up buying a Coffee Day as well.A great compounder can also be multibagger. Look at HDFC, it has been a multibagger but it has been compounder. Which is that great compounder, which looks like a compounder today boring, dull, ordinary business and gives you a 15 per cent return but at the end of the decade it may turn out to be a multibagger?Three-years back we were discussing a similar concept, saying not HDFC but what could be the next Maruti. We had volunteered to add, not that we recommend stocks, PVR. I still believe that is one story which is going to be the story of the decade. It is absolutely phenomenal. They have the expertise, the right model, and a passionate promoter. It is not even a stock that offers 10-15 per cent but it will be the story of the decade. All of us go and see movies, so we keep contributing to their earnings.
MUMBAI: Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran said the current narrative around artificial intelligence and automation — of efficiency improvement and these replacing human jobs — stemmed from developed economies and that developing countries like India had distinctly different use cases for these technologies. "The narrative of AI taking jobs comes from advanced economies because of their challenges when it comes to ageing workforces, markets getting mature and lack of growth," Chandrasekaran said in his first keynote address at the Nasscom Technology Leadership forum.Listing out a few characteristics that would make future technology usage and adoption in India different from developed economies, he said technology would have to be leveraged here firstly to create markets, unlike in other markets where technology was making existing markets more efficient.India's demographics demanded a different approach to automation, he said. Chandrasekaran, who was previously the chief executive of the nation's largest IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services, said the Indian technology industry's vision for 2030 should not just include software professionals and white-collar workers, but must also include others in the economy."We have to remove this hallowed effect and aura about AI and the misconceived fact that AI is only for the elite or well-read," he said.In the coming decade in India, 90 million people would be joining the workforce which entailed that unlike developed economies, age or lack of resources would not be a problem for the economy, he said.
IIM Calcutta has completed final placements for its MBA Class of 2020 with a record average salary of Rs 28 lakh and median salary of Rs 25.5 Lakh. The average salaries for the top 10% and the top quartile of the class were recorded at an all-time high of Rs 54.5 Lakh and Rs 41.8 Lakh per annum respectively, the institute said in a release.The institute offered "Dream" and "Wait and Hold" options to give its students more choices. Recruiters could also select from a larger pool and make offers to the most suitable candidates as per their choice. 439 students bagged 492 offers from 136 firms participating in the placements process.The Consulting sector was the largest recruiter with 31% offers. The Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co., Bain & Co., Kearney, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture were the top recruiters in the sector. Marquee Finance and Private Equity-Venture Capital (PE-VC) firms made 83 offers (17%). Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Arga Investment Management, Gaja Capital, JP Morgan Chase and others extended top roles to the 55th batch of IIM Calcutta.General Management and Sales and Marketing roles added up to 30% of the total offers. Major firms recruiting for such roles included TAS, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance, Vedanta, TrueNorth, Hindustan Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, ITC, Mondelez, and FIITJEE. 22% of overall offers were rolled out in Product Management, IT/Analytics and Operations domains. Top recruiters included Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Amazon, Flipkart, Udaan, EXL Service, American Express, HCL, UnitedHealth Group (Optum) and Mastercard.
As AI permeates the home, work, and public life, it’s increasingly important to be able to understand why and how it makes its decisions. Explainable AI isn’t just a matter of hitting a switch, though; Experts from UC Berkeley, SRI, and Fiddler Labs will discuss how we should go about it on stage at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI on March 3.
What does explainability really mean? Do we need to start from scratch? How do we avoid exposing proprietary data and methods? Will there be a performance hit? Whose responsibility will it be, and who will ensure it is done properly?
On our panel addressing these questions and more will be two experts, one each from academia and private industry.
Trevor Darrell is a professor at Berkeley’s Computer Science department who helps lead many of the university’s AI-related labs and projects, especially those concerned with the next generation of smart transportation. His research group focuses on perception and human-AI interaction, and he previously led a computer vision group at MIT.
Krishna Gade has passed in his time through Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Microsoft, and has seen firsthand how AI is developed privately — and how biases and flawed processes can lead to troubling results. He co-founded Fiddler as an effort to address problems of fairness and transparency by providing an explainable AI framework for enterprise.
Moderating and taking part in the discussion will be SRI International’s Karen Myers, director of the research outfit’s Artificial Intelligence Center and an AI developer herself focused on collaboration, automation, and multi-agent systems.
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Can a meme be redeemed? That's the central question in Andrew Jones' Feels Good Man — a documentary that premiered at Sundance this year charting the course of the creator of Pepe the Frog, a comic book character turned universally recognized meme, as he attempts to reclaim it from racists and shitposters.
The sweet, gentle pacing of the doc fits well with the calm, sensitive demeanor of its creator Matt Furie . Furie is described as "ethereal" by one of his friends in the piece and that's mostly true. As Pepe is created, then coopted by the residents of 4chan and turned into a meme representing ennui, disenfranchisement and white supremacy in turn, Furie takes it mostly in stride.
But he's not without passion, as lines begin to be crossed and Pepe becomes registered as hate speech by the Anti-Defamation League, Furie sees an opportunity to try to reclaim his symbol. He's unsuccessful for the same reason anything is popular on the internet — there are simply too many nerve endings to properly anesthetize them all.
The vast majority of the people that use Pepe are completely unaware of its origins. And the general community of Internet people that communicate via memes go a step beyond that to being un-able to even grasp the concept of ownership. Once something has entered into the cultural bloodstream of the Internet, its origins often dwindle to insignificance.
That doesn't, of course, stop a creator from existing or caring how their creation is used. And the portrait painted here of a gentle and caring artist forced to watch the subversion and perversion of his creation is heartbreaking and important.
Feels Good Man stands above the pack of docs about internet cultural phenomenon. It peels back enough of the layers of the onion to be effective in ways that analysis of culturally complex idioms born online are often deficient.
Too many times over the years we've seen online movements analyzed with an overly simplistic point of view. And the main way they typically fall down is by not including the influence and effect of that staple of online life: trolls. People doing things for the hell of it who then become a part of a larger movement but always have that arms length remove to fall back on, able to claim that it was just a gag.
Jones mentioned during a Q&A after the screening that they wanted Furie's art to be a character, to have a part to play throughout the film. In addition to scenes of Matt drawing, this is best accomplished by the absolutely gorgeous animation sequences that Jones and a team of animators created of Pepe and the rest of the Boy's Club characters. They're delightful and welcome respite from the somewhat hammer-like nature of the dark places Pepe is unwittingly drawn by the various subcultures he is adopted by.
It's not a perfect film, the sequences with an occultist are goofy in a way that doesn't fit with the overall flavor of the piece. But it's probably one of the better documentary films ever made about the Internet era and well worth watching when it gets picked up.
Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence from smartglasses (again, so far). Yet Facebook, Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today.
While there are more AR platforms than just these companies, they represent the top of the pyramid for three different types of AR roadmap. And while startup insurgents could make a huge difference, big platforms can exert disproportionate influence on the future of tech markets. Let's see what this could mean for the future of AR.
Facebook: The messaging play
Facebook has talked about its long-term potential to launch smartglasses, but in 2020, its primary presence in the AR market is as a mobile AR platform (note: Facebook is also a VR market leader with Oculus). Although there are other ways to define them, mobile AR platforms can be thought of as three broad types:
Karma Automotive is laying off 60 workers at its Irvine, Calif., headquarters, just three months after cutting 200 workers, according to documents filed with the California Employment Development Department.
The Chinese-backed California-based startup filed the notice under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires employers to alert the state of mass layoffs. The WARN report was updated Wednesday. The Orange County Register was first to report the layoffs.
A Karma spokesperson confirmed the layoffs and said a majority would be at the headquarters, with a significantly smaller number being impacted at its Moreno Valley, Calif. assembly plant. Karma didn’t provide details on its total employee count, but did say “adjustments” will be made at its Irvine headquarters, Moreno Valley assembly plant and its Detroit Technical Center in Troy, Mich.
Here’s the complete statement from spokesman Dave Barthmuss.
As Karma evolves beyond its initial birth as car company and emerges as a technology-focused innovator, there is a continuous need to adjust the size and skillset of its workforce to fulfill the task at hand. The company has therefore determined it necessary to realign resources in some business functions so it can grow its capabilities beyond just creating and selling luxury electric vehicles.
As Karma builds partnerships with other OEMs and start-ups to speed product development, we must staff appropriately to fully leverage and realize the kinds of efficiencies partnerships and collaborations can provide. The result of that decision is some adjustments at Karma's Global Headquarters in Irvine, Calif.; the Karma Innovation and Customization Center in Moreno Valley, Calif.; and our Detroit Technical Center in Troy, Mich. Although clearly regrettable for the individuals involved, this action is part of the natural trajectory of a start-up enterprise and underlines Karma's commitment to remain lean, nimble and focused on building partnerships to encourage success in a changing and hugely competitive marketplace.
The company continues to actively recruit, with emphasis on technology innovation, in functions across the company as we focus on retail deliveries of our current products and developing new vehicle platforms, technologies and business partnerships.
The layoff notice comes just a month after several executive hires at the company, including a chief revenue officer, a new vice president of strategy and vehicle line engineering and a head of supply chain. Karma does have a handful of jobs posted on its website, including 11 positions at its Irvine headquarters and two spots at the Moreno Valley plant.
Karma Automotive launched out of the remnants of Fisker Automotive, the startup led by Henrik Fisker that ended in bankruptcy in 2013. China's Wanxiang Group purchased what was left of Fisker in 2014 and Karma Automotive was born.
It hasn’t been the easiest of roads for the company. Karma’s first effort, known as the Revero, wasn't received warmly. The Revero GT, which has been described as the first fully conceived product under the Karma name, followed with better reviews. The 2020 Revero GT is being delivered to retail customers, according to Karma.
Karma unveiled in November the Revero GTS and a new electric concept car called the SC2, just weeks after it laid off about 200 workers following a restructuring. Production of the GTS is slated for later this year.
The SC2 is a big part of Karma’s restructuring and plan to reinvent itself as a technology and design incubator that supplies other automakers. The company's new business strategy is to open its engineering, design, customization and manufacturing resources to other companies. The GTS and SC2 were meant to show automakers what it is capable of.
When Josh, my co-founder, and I founded Kittyhawk, we saw the need for a new way to aviate with the demands and opportunities that unmanned systems would create. We set out to build the future of programmatic aviation, yet to enable this aviation renaissance we also knew that pragmatic innovation was key.
We didn't rush into building cool but ineffective technologies. We ignored the lure of flashy solutions looking for problems. We started from day one working, learning and engaging directly with our customers, who are now some of the largest users of aviation. Unless our customers — operators of some of the largest manned and unmanned fleets in the U.S. — can leverage a piece of technology today, its usefulness is muted. Unless our platform can make the entire National Airspace System (NAS) safer for all stakeholders, the effectiveness is diluted.
Our DNA is built on skating where the puck is going, innovating at the edge so that we can move fast and deliver actual capabilities that are impactful from day one with the potential to accrue more value and evolve over time. There's no better example of this than Remote ID.
More than two years ago, we released our real-time telemetry and tracking of aircraft. Not simple representations of a flight icon on a screen, but live data of aircraft that businesses, governments and public safety workers utilize every day. How we view the future of Remote ID is based on our experience of powering live-flight data and the feedback and learning that we've received over the last two years of enabling Remote ID across our user base. We've incorporated all of this data and practical experience — along with all of your feedback from our NPRM survey results — to inform our approach to Remote ID.
Below, we've attached the full public comments that we'll submit to the FAA's notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on Remote ID, but first, let's begin with a few of our core beliefs that are central to how we operate as a company and the voice that we strive to give all of our users who fly with Kittyhawk:
We believe that technology and software innovations should enable flight.
Any rules, technologies or regulations that curtail or disenfranchise flight are not well-thought out and fail to appreciate what technology can solve.
We believe that technology should be adopted based on its merits and its core utility.
Regulating technologies based on the potential for misuse is unprecedented in our nation and has no place in the adoption of unmanned systems.
We believe the future of aviation requires new ways of thinking to accomplish scale requirements and the need for mass adoption.
Rules or processes that start and end within a traditional mindset are flawed and will fail to result in meaningful impact.
We believe the future is now.
Safety and speed are not mutually exclusive and there are ways to create a safer NAS today that all aviation users can adopt immediately.
On November 21, 2019, the FAA was rolling out a new batch of LAANC-enabled airports, including Washington Dulles International Airport (KIAD), which represents a huge swath of airspace in the security-sensitive area of Washington, DC. To give you a sense of how excited our users were for this, we began receiving support requests shortly after the strike of midnight as people were anxious to comply and fly in this airspace. Their initial authorization requests, however, were receiving errors, as it wouldn't be until later that day that the FAA would officially flip the switch for these new airports and we could begin accepting LAANC requests for KIAD.
Moral of the story: If you give operators an easy way to comply, they'll move faster than regulators to do everything they can to get in the air compliantly.
High-level comments on the NPRM
The current draft of the NPRM is overly complicated, presenting solutions for problems that don't exist and introducing complexity that won't solve the problems that do. We can create a baseline for Remote ID today that opens airspace and impacts safety. We can create a system that demands compliance without creating privacy black holes. There is a better way and we can do it in 2020.
No. 1: Leave OEM certification out of the picture completely
There is absolutely no reason that OEMs should be involved in the NPRM on Remote ID. The role of an aircraft is to reliably fly based on the controls it receives, not the other way around.
We do not require DVRs to prevent you from recording the Super Bowl on the off chance that you might redistribute it. We do not require cars to prevent you from driving if you don't have validated licenses and registrations. Just because a piece of technology has the potential for misuse, it’s unprecedented and un-American to restrict capabilities at the hardware level based simply on what-ifs.
Any hardware requirement for Remote ID introduces unnecessary security concerns and also adds unnecessary time to the path to adoption. The thought of giving this much power to hardware manufacturers to control access to the NAS should scare everyone, and I'm surprised the FAA failed to consider this. OEM control of airspace access via Remote ID greatly expands the target landscape for hackers and data breaches.
By removing OEM requirements and proposals around things like new serial number systems, all current unmanned systems and models alike will not be relegated to the scrap heap. All current recreational and commercial operations will not need to buy new drones or worry about costly retrofits with untold timelines for potential compliance.
Recommendation: Put all the responsibility on the Remote Pilot In Command (RPIC). Delete all OEM manufacturer requirements from the rule.
No. 2: A logical, tiered approach is the only way
A tiered approach to Remote ID makes a lot of sense, but the proposed tiers in the NPRM are misguided and disjointed.
Remote ID tiers should account for different types of flight by different types of operations in different types of airspace. The more timely and rich the Remote ID data, the more freedom to the sky should be enabled, but there should be more tiers with a lower bar to simply get in the air.
To this end, there should be a tier that includes a volume-based Remote ID (like we have in the ASTM and like we've already developed and showcased in the open-source InterUSS Remote ID platform). Think LAANC reservation, but for Remote ID, where a user can announce a time/place of flight. This would require no new hardware and no new technology. Every operation from model aircraft to routine Part 107 commercial flights could adopt and comply with this, effective immediately at zero cost.
Additionally, there should be more privileges for sharing real-time data and having a connected operation that can communicate and deviate if required. If Remote ID is going to unlock BVLOS, then the highest tier of Remote ID operations should do just that.
Recommendation: A tiered system that creates a low-friction, zero-cost ability to comply with Remote ID, extending to a more demanding requirement that results in BVLOS without a waiver.
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Ceiling (Uncontrolled Airspace)
Up to 200ft
Up to 400ft
Up to 400ft
Ceiling (Controlled Airspace)
Up to 100ft*
Up to 400ft*
Up to 400ft*
Range
VLOS
VLOS
BVLOS
Remote ID Requirements
Volume-based reservation of a time/place.
Can be done remotely, up to 90 days in advance.
Volume-based reservation of a time/place.
Plus live sharing of telemetry via broadcast or network.
Volume-based reservation of a time/place.
Plus live sharing of telemetry via broadcast or network.
Plus network connection for aircraft or control stations to send and receive real-time messages.
Process
Submitted and processed like LAANC to a USS.
Submitted and processed like LAANC to a USS.
Broadcast or network to meet data requirements (see below).
Submitted and processed like LAANC to a USS.
Broadcast or network to meet data requirements (see below).
*Or lower if flying in controlled airspace and LAANC ceiling is lower than the corresponding tier.
No. 3: Tier-based Remote ID data
Remote ID data for public consumption should be separate from law enforcement use cases that may come in the future. Conflating public use cases with law enforcement use cases adds unnecessary complexity and sacrifices privacy.
The objective with Remote ID data is that it's actionable for other aircraft and flights in the area — and for the public — to understand what is buzzing over them. Yet, the public needs only a few data points to share with law enforcement who can then put the pieces together. The "license plate" is all law enforcement really needs to take action.
Anything else is a bonus and should be optional based on the tier of the flight you want to execute.
In our experience with customers who want to early adopt into Remote ID and from what we've seen in our Remote ID survey, people will gladly share more information with law enforcement. People will also gladly share more information if it results in more access to the air. Just as it is the RPIC's responsibility to comply with Remote ID, it should also be up to the RPIC to control her data.
Recommendation: Fewer data requirements with more optional fields at lower-tier operations, with more demanding data sharing and real-time communications at the highest tier to enable advanced operations.
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Aircraft Identity
serial number or anonymous session ID**
serial number or anonymous session ID**
serial number or anonymous session ID**
Aircraft Location
N/A
real-time LAT/LONG
real-time LAT/LONG
Operator Identity
optional
FAA registration number or anonymous operator ID**
FAA registration number or anonymous operator ID**
Operator Location
N/A
N/A
real-time LAT/LONG
Operator Contact Information
optional
optional
required
Flight Plan
optional
optional
Submitted with takeoff, landing, route and emergency landing points.
Updated in real time.
**Generated and stored by a USS.
The FAA remarked in the NPRM at the successful private-public partnership that is LAANC. Let's build on that infrastructure. We don't need a new class of USS but simply to extend where and how we announce flights in the NAS. We already see that behavior today where users want to create polygons and announce flights in uncontrolled airspace.
At Kittyhawk, we're going to continue building this concept of Remote ID into our platform for all of our users and we welcome other USSs and partners who want to join us and bring an actionable form of Remote ID to the NAS.
If you share our vision, please let us know and also let the FAA know with comments on the NPRM. There is a simpler and more effective path to Remote ID and we can do it in 2020.
And while most of this capital has been directed toward Brazil and Mexico, this surge is starting to have an effect on startups in the region's smaller markets. The increased availability of capital for later rounds is creating more opportunities for startups to scale both regionally and globally. And while it may not be one of the largest countries in Latin America, Peru continues to have one of the best-performing economies and fastest-growing startup scenes.
In 2019, a new record was set for the amount of capital invested into Peruvian startups, at least $11 million, a 24% increase compared to 2018. Most of the money went to fintech (47%) and edtech (37%) startups. Over the past four years, more than $22.7 million in public funds went toward startup-related projects as well.
The government-backed program Innóvate Perú awarded approximately $13.8 million of its total investments almost exclusively to startups. Total venture capital investment will likely exceed US$25 million in 2020, doubling what was achieved in 2019, and will continue to grow from there.
In 2019, Peru's development bank, COFIDE, announced a new fund of funds to invest in venture capital firms, mirroring similar entities such as Chile's CORFO, Colombia's Bancoldex and Mexico's NAFIN. While there are plenty of opportunities to secure seed-stage capital in Peru, many startups still have to look abroad for growth capital. Keynua, Xertica, Turismoi and Runa are just a few of the Peruvian startups that sought international investors to lead their rounds over $1 million. Following in the path of similar funds, the fund of funds will invest $20 million in half a dozen venture capital firms, which would in turn invest in approximately 120 startups.
As government support for entrepreneurs continues to pour in, the Peruvian startup ecosystem is entering a new phase. More and more startups are launching, graduating from accelerator programs and seeking ways to reach their next milestone. Local early-stage investors are stepping in to fill the financing gap and have teamed up to form the Peruvian Seed and Venture Capital Association, PECAP, to share investment opportunities and lay a strong foundation for venture capital in Peru. Here's a look at just a few of the opportunities for more venture capital to step in.
Fueling Peru's growing fintech sector
A massive fintech boom is playing out across Latin America, with the size of the industry expected to exceed $150 billion by 2021. Peru is home to an estimated 120 fintech startups actively tackling the issues of financial inclusion and better servicing the region's small and medium-sized businesses. Peru's economy is still largely informal, with approximately 14 million people underbanked. In 2017, MarÃa Laura Cuya started Peru's Fintech Association to work alongside regulators, academics and other organizations to improve financial literacy and access to financial products, with a focus on Peruvian SMEs.
A few of Peru's fintech sectors stand out, including factoring and foreign exchange, where a number of startups are quickly gaining traction and already branching out to neighboring markets. Innova Funding, Innova Factoring, Facturedo, Kambista and Rextie are just a few examples. Peru's membership in the Pacific Alliance also makes it an attractive initial market prior to launching in other Pacific Alliance countries.
In 2019, Peruvian fintechs Keynua and Apurata were selected for the Y Combinator accelerator program, putting them on the international radar. Traditional banks in Peru are also shifting their mindsets and warming up to fintech partnerships. The publicly traded Peruvian bank, Credicorp, for example, recently set up a corporate venture fund called Krealo. The bank made its first investments in Culqi, a local payments gateway, and Independencia, a lending platform.
Impact investing opportunities
Latin America is a top destination for impact investment capital, outpacing many other regions in the world, with a 15% compound annual growth rate over the last five years, according to the Global Impact Investing Network. Edtech represents a rising entry point across the region for impact investors thanks to its potential for both financial and non-financial returns.
According to an OECD report, approximately 30 million young people in Latin America are not participating in any form of education, training or employment, and 76% of this total are women. Laboratoria, co-founded by edtech thought leader Mariana Costa Checa, helps women develop technical skills and has expanded across the region from its headquarters in Lima to train more than 1,000 women so far. The startup has received praise from global companies, including Walmart and Facebook. In 2019, the skills development platform Crehana raised the largest-ever round for a Peruvian startup ($4.5 million) from both regional and global funds.
Peru attracted more impact investment capital than Mexico, a longtime leader in the region, for the first time in 2018. Much of this investment is focused on improving Peru's education system. Local startups are addressing everything from early childhood education to workforce training, and as more success stories emerge, more resources will be needed to fully tap into Latin America's large markets for these solutions.
Supporting long-term startup growth
The government-backed program Innóvate Perú has financed more than 3,400 entrepreneurial projects to date, and more than 25 private institutions are now accelerating, incubating and investing in Peruvian startups. New startup creation is at its highest rate ever; however, these companies are outgrowing their angel and seed-stage supporters and are now seeking ways to take their ventures to the next level.
Over the past few years, Latin America has proven that it is a place where startups can scale and succeed. Now, with more startups coming out of the region's smaller, underserved markets, like Peru, there is an opportunity to deploy capital effectively and bring impactful solutions to millions of people across the region.
*Angel Ventures was an investor in Culqi before it was sold to BCP. Neither Angel Ventures nor Greg Mitchell currently hold any shares.
Undisclosed influencer marketing posts on social media should trigger financial penalties, according to a statement released today by the Federal Trade Commission’s Rohit Chopra. The FTC has voted 5-0 to approve a Federal Register notice calling for public comments on questions related to whether The Endorsement Guides for advertising need to be updated.
“When companies launder advertising by paying an influencer to pretend that their endorsement or review is untainted by a financial relationship, this is illegal payola,” Chopra writes. “The FTC will need to determine whether to create new requirements for social media platforms and advertisers and whether to activate civil penalty liability.”
Currently the non-binding Endorsement Guides stipulate that “when there is a connection between an endorser and a seller of an advertised product that could affect the weight or credibility of the endorsement, the connection must be clearly and conspicuously disclosed.” In the case of social media, that means creators need to note their post is part of an “ad,” “sponsored” content or “paid partnership.”
But Chopra wants the FTC to consider making those rules official by “Codifying elements of the existing endorsement guides into formal rules so that violators can be liable for civil penalties under Section 5(m)(1)(A) and liable for damages under Section 19.” He cites weak enforcement to date, noting that in the case of department store Lord & Taylor not insisting 50 paid influencers specify their posts were sponsored, “the Commission settled the matter for no customer refunds, no forfeiture of ill-gotten gains, no notice to consumers, no deletion of wrongfully obtained personal data, and no findings or admission of liability.”
Strangely, Chopra fixates on Instagram’s Branded Content Ads that let marketers pay to turn posts by influencers tagging brands into ads. However, these ads include a clear “Sponsored. Paid partnership with [brand]” and seem to meet all necessary disclosure requirements. He also mentions concerns about sponcon on YouTube and TikTok.
Additional targets of the FTC’s review will be use of fake or incentivized reviews. It’s seeking public comment on whether free or discounted products influence reviews and should require disclosure, how to handle affiliate links and whether warnings should be posted by advertisers or review sites about incentivized reviews. It also wants to know about how influencer marketing affects and is understood by children.
Chopra wisely suggests the FTC focus on the platforms and advertisers that are earning tons of money from potentially undisclosed influencer marketing, rather than the smaller influencers themselves who might not be as well versed in the law and are just trying to hustle. “When individual influencers are able to post about their interests to earn extra money on the side, this is not a cause for major concern,” he writes, but “when we do not hold lawbreaking companies accountable, this harms every honest business looking to compete fairly.”
While many of the social media platforms have moved to self-police with rules about revealing paid partnerships, there remain gray areas around incentives like free clothes or discount rates. Codifying what constitutes incentivized endorsement, formally demanding social media platforms to implement policies and features for disclosure and making influencer marketing contracts state that participation must be disclosed would all be sensible updates.
Society has enough trouble with misinformation on the internet, from trolls to election meddlers. They should at least be able to trust that if someone says they love their new jacket, they didn’t secretly get paid for it.
Last year, Microsoft launched a preview of Project xCloud, its ambitious game streaming service that aims to deliver games to any screen — console, PC or mobile. However, the service until now has only been available to mobile users on Android. Today, that changes as Microsoft is bringing the Project xCloud preview to iOS devices by way of Apple’s TestFlight program.
Microsoft had been testing xCloud on iOS internally, but had yet to open it up to the public.
Unfortunately, the iOS test will be limited. As is standard with Apple’s TestFlight platform, the new build will be limited to only 10,000 testers.
That won’t likely be enough spots to meet demand, Microsoft admits, and says invitations will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. To work around the limitation, Microsoft plans to boot out some early testers to make room for new testers during the course of the public beta.
“Those who are accepted into the iOS TestFlight preview may not necessarily participate for the full duration of the preview,” the company explains via blog post. “As noted earlier, there are limited spaces available, so for testing purposes we may need to cycle through registrants in order to best utilize the available testing audience. This also means that even if you miss out on the initial allocation, you might receive an invitation to participate later in the preview,” it says.
The iOS preview will also be limited to only one game: “Halo: The Master Chief Collection.” In addition, this particular test won’t include the preview of Xbox Console Streaming as the Android test currently does.
To qualify, testers will need a Microsoft account associated with their Xbox gamertag; an iPhone or iPad running iOS 13.0 or higher and Bluetooth v. 4.0; a Bluetooth-enabled Xbox Once Wireless Controller; access to Wi-Fi or a mobile data connection that supports 10 Mbps-down bandwidth; and, optionally, a third-party controller mount for phone-based games (like this one).
The move to bring console-quality games to smartphones represents a shift in Microsoft’s gaming strategy. The company understands that it can only sell so many consoles, for starters, but mobile phones are everywhere. In addition, people today want to play games on any available screen — not just the big TV screen at home. And for some users, mobile is their only screen.
Meanwhile, cross-platform gaming is becoming increasingly popular, thanks to titles like Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, PUBG and others, which proved that mobile experiences can match consoles.
Project xCloud aims to make it easier for developers to build games that work everywhere. This is no small task, as it required Microsoft to architect a new customizable blade that hosts the component parts of multiple Xbox One consoles, as well as the associated infrastructure needed to support it. It also needs to ensure the technology can deliver games at console speeds with low latency, so mobile users don’t feel like they’re getting a second-rate experience.
Instructions on how to join the TestFlight are available here.
A lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts attorney general includes new details about how the company intentionally marketed illegally to teens, including advertising on websites for Seventeen Magazine, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.
The suit from Attorney General Maura Healey makes good on the 2018 announcement from her office that she would investigate the company’s marketing and advertising campaign for illegally targeting children.
Filed in Suffolk Superior Court today, the lawsuit reveals that Juul rejected an initial marketing plan that would have focused on adult smokers, instead choosing to use younger models and pitch its product to youth-oriented websites and in targeted campaigns on social media.
Juul did not respond to a request for comment.
"Juul is responsible for the millions of young people nationwide who are addicted to e-cigarettes, reversing decades of progress in combating underage tobacco and nicotine use," said AG Healey. "Our lawsuit sheds new light on the company's intent to target young people, and we are going to make them pay for the public health crisis they caused in Massachusetts."
According to new allegations in the lawsuit, Juul bought ads for its Vaporized Campaign on websites including: Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., The Cartoon network, Seventeen Magazine — along websites designed to help children with math and social studies skills like coolmath-games.com and socialstudiesforkids.com.
Massachusetts’ attorney general also pointed to the company’s use of social media stars and celebrities who had a large following among tweens and teens. These were stars like Miley Cyrus, Cara Delevingne, Kristen Stewart, Luka Sabbat and Tavi Gevinson.
The company even ignored the age verification tools it put in place when distributing marketing materials, according to the attorney general’s allegations. Indeed, Juul sent marketing emails to 40,000 individuals who failed to complete the company’s age verification process. Another 83% of the 420,000 emails the company collected couldn’t be matched to a record associated with someone 18 years old or older.
Glaringly, the company allowed individuals to set up more than 1,2000 accounts using email addresses associated with high schools in Beverly, Malden and Braintree, Mass.
The suit also alleges that Juul's customer service representatives advised potential customers on how to evade minimum legal sales restriction requirements.
In Massachusetts, the results of the marketing campaigns and tactics from Juul and other e-cigarette companies are more than 50% of high school students saying they’ve tried e-cigarettes, with another 30% saying they’ve used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days.
For Juul that has meant $3.3. billion in U.S. retail sales between September 2018 and August 2019 — and a roughly 75% market share of the electronic cigarette market.
On-orbit manufacturing startup Made In Space has tapped Colorado’s Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to help support its Archinaut One demonstration mission contracted by NASA, which is currently set to take place in 2022. The mission will see Made In Space show off the assembly of two 10-meter solar arrays on orbit, which will then be used to power an ESPA-class satellite, providing up to five times more power than is available via power sources used for those satellites not assembled on orbit.
BCT will be providing development of the spacecraft platform (along with Northrop Grumman) that Made In Space will use to delver its Archinaut manufacturing platform, which employs additive manufacturing and robotic assembly to be able to build structures while on orbit. The Colorado company, founded in 2008, has developed a number of spacecraft for a variety of projects, including JPL’s first-ever operational CubeSat project, the Asteria space telescope.
I spoke to BCT systems engineer Brian Crum about the Made In Space project, and he said that it’s representative of the kind of work they’ve been doing, which mainly concentrates around interesting demonstration missions and initial operations of novel space technologies that could have tremendous impact on how work is done in space.
“Given the size of spacecraft that we develop and specialize in, and at that price point, it really lends itself to these Demonstration Missions that are follow-on to operational concepts,” he said. “We are a good solution for testing out concepts, and we get approached quite a bit for that […] we get a lot of interesting ideas of people wanting to try things, and this is definitely one of them.”
BCT is actually in the process of building more than 60 spacecraft, and it doubled in size over the past year. Next, the company plans to open a new combined headquarters and production facility that spans more than 80,000 acres, which should be opening sometime later this year. That growth is directly driven by an uptick in business — something Crum says is the result of a boom in experimentation and technology demonstrations coming from all vectors, including government and private industry.
“There are definitely more people that have more appetite for risk,” he said. “We we are growing because the demand for the spacecraft is growing, that’s the simple answer. We’re hiring the right people to support these programs, and the number of programs is greatly increasing. Along with that, as we grow larger in size, and the spacecraft grow larger and size, they become more complex, which means they need a little bit more effort. So there’s there’s a little bit more engineering that goes into them as well.”
The GSMA, the organization behind MWC, the world's largest mobile trade show, has announced that it is officially canceling the show. MWC usually attracts more than 100,000 attendees from 200 countries to Barcelona. This year's show was supposed to take place on February 24-27.
Several publications received a statement about the cancellation. “The GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event,” GSMA CEO John Hoffman told Bloomberg and the Financial Times. El Diario, El PaÃs and La Vanguardia also report that the show has been canceled.
The GSMA has now published a statement confirming its decision to cancel — writing:
Since the first edition of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in 2006, the GSMA has convened the industry, governments, ministers, policymakers, operators and industry leaders across the broader ecosystem.
With due regard to the safe and healthy environment in Barcelona and the host country today, the GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event.
The Host City Parties respect and understand this decision.
The GSMA and the Host City Parties will continue to be working in unison and supporting each other for MWC Barcelona 2021 and future editions.
Our sympathies at this time are with those affected in China, and all around the world.
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Over the past few days, dozens of big names announced they would skip this year's show. LG first announced that it wouldn't attend the trade show, citing safety concerns related to the coronavirus outbreak. Nvidia and Ericsson followed suit.
On Sunday, the GSMA sent a long coronavirus-related email to registered attendees. The association wanted to reassure attendees by demonstrating that it would implement tough restrictions.
Here's what GSMA CEO John Hoffman wrote:
All travellers from the Hubai province will not be permitted access to the event
MWC Barcelona, Four Years From Now (4YFN), xside and YoMo
All travellers who have been in China will need to demonstrate proof they have been outside of China 14 days prior to the event (passport stamp, health certificate)
Temperature screening will be implemented
Attendees will need to self-certify they have not been in contact with anyone infected.
But that email made things even worse.
Dozens of companies pulled out of the trade show. In other words, some of the top consumer electronics and telecom companies got scared. And those who thought that GSMA had things under control started to cancel their attendance as well — it wasn't worth going to Barcelona if many important partners had already canceled.
Some of the companies that announced they wouldn't be attending include Amazon, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Facebook, HMD, Intel, LG, Nokia, NTT Docomo, Sony and Sprint.
GSMA's lawyers wanted to make sure that the association wouldn't be held accountable if there was a single case of coronavirus at the show. But they started another virus — companies pulling out one by one.
As companies usually spend millions of dollars to secure exhibit space and send large teams, canceling MWC altogether is going to be an unexpected financial blow for the GSMA.
According to a report from El PaÃs, the GSMA originally planned to meet on Friday and consider the next steps. The association held an emergency meeting earlier today in order to make a decision more quickly.
MWC originally started as a trade show for carriers. Big telecom companies would meet up with hardware vendors and discuss the evolution of telecommunications networks. More recently, phone manufacturers started attending the show to talk with telecom companies and unveil their latest products. Big tech companies, such as Facebook and Amazon, have also had a formal presence in recent years as they have developed important ties with the mobile industry.
According to the World Health Organization, there are more than 43,000 cases of coronavirus around the world. More than 1,000 people have died.
Essential was supposed to disrupt the smartphone industry. And when it was done with that, it was coming for the smart home. The company came out of stealth with a $330 million funding round and grandiose plans for a new brand of handset, led by none other than Android head, Andy Rubin.
But bad timing, broader industry issues and a founder embroiled in some pretty troubling allegations of sexual misconduct contributed to a company that has struggled to make it far beyond the launch of its first handset. In a blog post today, Essential announced that it would be ceasing operations and shutting down.
The post is a strange mix of existential dread and hopefulness, unveiling a final device it was never able to launch in the process. "Our vision was to invent a mobile computing paradigm that more seamlessly integrated with people's lifestyle needs," the 'Essential team' writes. "Despite our best efforts, we've now taken Gem as far as we can and regrettably have no clear path to deliver it to customers. Given this, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential."
That's all a nod to Project Gem, a new mobile form factor Essential first showcased through renders on social media back in October. The post features the first product videos for Gem, set to a kind of moody acid jazz soundtrack showcasing the skinny candy bar form factor that plays out as a sort of alternative history insight into what might have been, had things gone better for a company once valued at $1 billion.
The news follows years of speculation about the health of the company. In May 2018, reports surfaced that Essential was up for sale following disappointing sales of its first handset. Spokespeople for Essential have long insisted, however, that the company was carrying on in spite of reports. The Project Gem reveal, it seems, was a Hail Mary that turned into a parting shot. What "taken Gem as far as we can" means with regard to a product that didn't make it beyond the promotional video stage remains to be seen.
Sadly, this also seems to be an end for Newton Mail, the power user-focused email client Essential took over when it acquired CloudMagic in 2018. Essential says that “current Newton Mail users will have access to the service through April 30, 2020.”
TechCrunch reached out to Essential for further comment, but we were ultimately directed to the initial blog post. The same month Gem was revealed, news surfaced that Rubin had been bought out of his Playground incubator, which shared closed ties — and an office — with Essential.
The executive had become a liability following explosive allegations of sexual misconduct during his time at Google.
Eight Sleep does sell mattresses, albeit smart ones packed with sensors and temperature regulation controls. The company has raised north of $70 million from backers including Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. A great deal of this funding surrounds the idea that there is more untapped potential in the sleep economy than existing players in the space have been able to imagine.
While Franceschetti says he intends for his company to remain private for the “foreseeable future,” Eight Sleep is in a less-than-comfortable spot following Casper’s botched IPO last week. Though Casper’s stock popped on its first day of trading, the process of pricing its shares ended up leaving its private investors a bit less than ecstatic. Casper debuted trading at a value of $575 million, a far cry from the $1.1 billion private market valuation it had previously achieved.
Franceschetti has been aiming to transform Eight Sleep into a company more focused on a robust tech platform than your average bed-in-a-box company. The startup’s initial effort, a smart sleep cover for your existing mattress, evolved into a mattress with a layer of sensors that then transformed into a sensor-laden mattress with a heating and cooling unit, called “The Pod.” The company’s product development has aimed to build out a more end-to-end platform for sleep, something Franceschetti says has made him reticent to compare his company to other direct-to-consumer mattress companies.
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Netflix is looking to get young adults hooked on its service by making its popular teenage rom-com, “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” available to stream for free to everyone in the U.S., including non-subscribers. This isn’t the first time Netflix has offered free streaming — it teased Brits last year by offering an episode of “The Crown” for free, and has run similar tests in markets like India and parts of South America. But this is one of the only times it has targeted the U.S. with such an offer.
Love is in the air! To celebrate, To All The Boys I've Loved Before is available for everybody in The US (and additional selected markets) to watch through March 9! pic.twitter.com/7I0c8omKqg
The offer of a free Netflix movie comes at a critical time for the service.
The company has hit a wall in terms of subscriber growth in the U.S., even as it’s expanding worldwide. During last month’s earnings, Netflix missed its forecast for U.S. subscriber growth for the third straight quarter, with just 423,000 domestic subscriber additions. Meanwhile, it surpassed expectations overseas with 8.3 million subscribers added instead of the 7 million expected.
Netflix has downplayed the impact of new streaming services, like Disney+ and Apple TV+, on its U.S. growth. But in reality, Netflix will soon be one of many streaming options for U.S. consumers to choose from — HBO Max, NBCU’s Peacock and mobile-only Quibi are set to arrive this year, filling up an already crowded market.
In addition, Netflix’s slowing growth in the U.S. also can be attributed to, in part, continued price increases for a catalog that’s now more dependent than ever on Netflix’s original programming to keep subscribers hooked. And those originals haven’t always performed well. In Q2, for example, the company even singled out its weak content slate for driving fewer paid net adds than anticipated.
“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” on the other hand, is more of an exception. While the film itself is a cute, if fairly conventional, high school romance story, it became one of Netflix’s “most viewed” original films to date. The movie, and other Netflix rom-coms like it, were watched by 80 million subscribers over the summer in 2018, the company also said. These films appeal to an underserved market — people hungry for lightweight romances at a time when the industry is delivering anything but.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is launching margin trading today. Margin trading lets you trade on leverage. But it works both ways — margin trading lets you multiply your gains and your losses.
Margin trading is going to be available on Coinbase Pro, the company's exchange interface for educated investors. Both retail and institutional investors will be able to submit margin trading orders with up to 3x leverage. It'll work with any pair of assets with USD as the base currency.
For now, the feature is limited to 23 U.S. states if you're a retail investor. Institutional investors in 45 states and nine international countries can access margin trading, though.
There are many potential use cases for margin trading. For instance, you can allocate a tiny portion of your portfolio to a margin trading order to hedge across multiple positions. Coinbase believes it has enough liquidity to help investors set up sophisticated margin trading orders.
If you're a retail customer living in one of the 23 states where margin trading is available, you might not be able to use it. The company wants to restrict margin trading to the most advanced traders.
Coinbase is going to track your past activity on Coinbase Pro and look at trades, balances, deposits and withdrawals. If you're an active trader, you'll be able to access margin trading.
Here’s the list of 23 U.S. states with margin trading for retail investors: Florida, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas, Alaska, Oregon, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Maine, South Carolina, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming and West Virginia.
Disclosure: I own small amounts of various cryptocurrencies.
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When the Galaxy Fold was finally released to the public after numerous delays, the device came swaddled in warnings. It was a long list, and not exactly a vote of confidence for those who just dropped $2,000 on an unproven device.
Announced almost exactly a year after the Fold, the Galaxy Z Flip presents a refined look at the concept. Having only spent a little time with the product after the unveiling, Brian Heater says he isn’t quite ready to declare that this is the phone the Fold should have been, but it certainly feels like a key step in the right direction.
WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app, revealed today just how big it has become. The Facebook-owned app said it has amassed two billion users, up from the 1.5 billion it revealed two years ago.
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Nokia, one of the omnipresent firms at major tech trade conferences, said today that it won't be attending this year's Mobile World Congress, citing health and safety concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. Electronics giant HMD, which sells smartphones under the Nokia brand, cited similar reasoning for its withdrawal, too.
This sounds typical of the broader trend in recent years of firms that rush back to market every two years and lock down ever-greater capital commitments as they go. But Battery General Partner Chelsea Stoner insists the firm's newest funds reflect the firm's determination to slow down its pace of fundraising.
The U.K. government has named the existing communications watchdog, Ofcom, as its preferred pick for enforcing rules around “harmful speech” on platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok. 7. Battery Ventures just closed on a whopping $2 billion across two funds, two years after its last fundraise.
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Marketing startup Habu is emerging from stealth today and announcing that it has already raised $15 million in Series A funding.
The company comes out of super{set}, the startup studio created by Krux founders Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya. In fact, Chavez is Habu’s chairman, Vaidya serves as CTO and their former Krux colleague Matt Kilmartin (who eventually became chief customer officer for Salesforce’s consumer engagement platform after Salesforce acquired Krux) is the startup’s CEO.
Kilmartin told me that Habu was created to solve a “still elusive” marketing challenge — delivering “omni-channel orchestration for the entire customer journey.” In other words, he’s saying that chief marketing officers are still struggling to deliver personalized messages to potential customers across every channel and at every stage.
Kilmartin argued that’s because they’re challenged by new privacy regulations, plus the fact that many marketing tools struggle to integrate data from the major digital ad platforms. And then there are the limitations of the big marketing clouds (including Kilmartin’s old employer Salesforce), which he said are “stitching together all the stuff they bought — their goal is to have everyone go all-in on one of their stacks.”
So Habu isn’t trying to build yet another marketing platform. Instead, the company describes its core product as a “marketing data operating system” that can be used alongside the aforementioned clouds, bringing a company’s customer data together across platforms, then providing automated insights and recommendations on how to use that data to deliver personalized marketing. And it does this in a way that complies with privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA.
“We’re trying not to be a platform,” Kilmartin said. “It’s a modular, interoperable suite of services.”
Habu’s software can pull in a marketer’s first-party customer data, as well as data from platforms like Google and Facebook. Kilmartin said that while these platforms remain a “blind spot” for many marketers, “They have APIs and frameworks to be able to do this, it just requires a level of sophistication. And there just aren’t that many extra data scientists that these brands have sitting around.”
In addition to super{set}, Habu’s funding comes from Ridge Ventures. And although Habu is only launching publicly today, it already has customers in the CPG and media industries.
Update: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified some of Habu’s customers.
Swiftmile, the startup that wants to become the gas station for micromobility vehicles, is getting into advertising. Swiftmile already supplies cities and private operators with docks equipped to park and charge both scooters and e-bikes. Now, the company is starting to integrate digital displays that attach to its charging stations to provide public transit info, traffic alerts and, of course, ads.
“It adds tremendous value because it's a massive market,” Swiftmile CEO Colin Roche told TechCrunch. “Tons of these corporations want to market to that group but you cannot do that on a scooter, nor should you. So there's a massive audience that wants to market to that group but also cities like us because we're bringing order to the chaos.”
When a rider pulls up to the station and parks a vehicle, the 55-inch screen will display nearby transit schedules, in partnership with Transit Screen, to encourage more people to rely on public transit.
“TransitScreen is excited to partner with Swiftmile to support the increased access to real-time information about mobility choices,” TransitScreen VP of Enterprise Solutions Tony Hudgins said in a statement to TechCrunch. “Mobility hubs like theirs are changing what commuting looks like in the future, and we look forward to being a part of increased first- and last-mile solutions.”
Swiftmile plans to start deploying these screen-equipped stations in March. By the end of the year, Swiftmile anticipates deploying 1,000 of these stations with digital screens. That would come out to about $80 million a year in ad revenue. Already, Verizon Media Group (owner of TechCrunch) is a customer of Swiftmile.
Swiftmile has already deployed 140 of its charging stations in cities like Austin and Berlin, and plans to hit 1,000 by the end of the year. Down the road, Swiftmile envisions partnering with auto manufacturers to enable car owners to charge their vehicles alongside scooters.
Swiftmile, which is also backed financially by Verizon, has raised about $6 million in funding. It’s gearing up to officially announce its Series A in the coming weeks.
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
This morning we’re exploring Airbnb’s march to the public markets. The popular DIY hospitality startup promised last year that it would go public in 2020. That timeline means that its 2019 performance will be included in an eventual S-1 filing, putting the results on public display.
Recent news, however, doesn’t paint a perfect picture for the famous unicorn. Indeed, Airbnb’s history of rapid growth and profitability appears to have been replaced by slowing growth and profit struggles. The Wall Street Journal reported results from the company’s third quarter that are at once encouraging — a return to profitability — and troublesome; Airbnb’s first three quarters of 2019 are in the red as a group, a change from historical profitability.
If Airbnb goes public soon, as it has promised, its recent, trailing results will matter. To get ready for its IPO, let’s rewind through what we’ve learned about Airbnb’s revenue, revenue growth and profitability over the years. Doing this will help us understand how the startup went from rising profitability to posting, through the first three quarters of 2019, a nine-figure net loss.
The Airbnb public offering (likely a direct listing) is going to be the financial event of the year. Get excited.
Rewind
The following data points were culled from a host of reports over the past half decade. Each is accompanied by its original source, and I encourage you to read the pieces to get a feel for how Airbnb has been discussed through time. The tone of Airbnb coverage largely tracks its performance; when Airbnb was at the steepest part of its growth curve, the media was enthused. Lately, however, the writing is a bit different.
You’ll see why:
2015: Around $900 million in revenue (24/7 Wall St., implied math)
Rs 1,850-crore deal: Dr Reddy's to buy part of Wockhardt generics business According to a statement from Wockhardt, the businesses which are being transferred, reported revenue of Rs 377 crore which is about 15% of the consolidated revenue for nine months ended December 31, 2019.
India beckons: FPIs snap up $2-billion bonds in 5 sessions Before that, between January and early February, FPIs had been somewhat cautious on Indian paper, selling debt worth $2 billion.
Data Protection Bill: Select committee holds talks amid privacy concerns The Bill, based on the recommendations of the Justice Srikrishna committee, was finalised after holding multiple rounds of meetings between various stakeholders.
It's not always easy making friends, and it can be even harder to keep friends around if you don't know how to be one. Train yourself to meet new people, be considerate, and overcome your insecurities. These things will make maintaining friendships much easier; before you know it, you will have become a good friend.
Find peer groups. In order to become a friend, you have to find friends in the first place. Get out of your comfort zone by joining a group that shares your values or position in life, sometimes known as a peer group. Studies show that having friends can actually add years to your life, so meeting new people is not just a good idea—it's essential for your health.[1]
If you're a parent, find a mom group in your area. Most communities have more than one type of parent gathering, whether it's a mother's day out or a park stroller group. Most of these groups have Facebook pages you can join.
If you like political activism, most cities have lobbyist groups or volunteer centers you can join. When a group of people works toward a common goal, a bond forms among them.
Join a class at a gym or community center. Repeating your attendance at each meeting builds a rapport with other classmates. Having a shared goal also builds strong ties among people in a group.
Find classes that encourage interaction among members. Activities like yoga and Pilates are good for your body but don't allow much socialization. Look instead for opportunities like self defense classes, Zumba, even sewing and cooking classes.
Initiate conversations. Even if you're in the habit of visiting new places, simply introducing yourself to people isn't enough. You have to ask questions. Show interest in other people, and they will be interested in you in return.
Pay attention to nonverbal cues like smiling and eye contact. When someone invites you with these gestures, you can give a compliment, comment on what's happening, or share some information.[2]
Be easy to talk to. Keep a list of easy conversational topics running in your mind. Things like happy childhood memories, the weather, and food are all topics most people can engage in.
When starting a conversation with someone you haven't spoken to in a while, take some time to remember that person before you greet them. If you have a humorous memory or a friend in common, let that be your conversation opener.
Invite acquaintances out for coffee. You can make new friends both in person and online, it's true. But it turns out that maintaining face-to-face contact with people is important, and you can't get that by relegating your friendships to your smartphone.[3] When you recognize that conversations with someone are leading toward a friendship, inviting them to an activity outside of where you met provides opportunity for the friendship to truly grow.
Be tactful. Tactfulness is defined as being "careful not to offend or upset other people."[4] While you don't need to be a doormat, you do need to be considerate of the person you're interacting with.
Be considerate of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or what their opinions might be. Don't make jokes or rude comments at the expense of your friend--or anyone like them.
Listen well. Listening is key to being a friend. No one enjoys meeting with someone who doesn't stop talking. In fact, one rule is to listen 75% of the time and speak only the remaining 25%![5]
There are several things that prevent you from being a good listener: judging others; thinking you know what your friend is going to say; and your own emotions.[6]
Instead, allow others to be themselves without judgment, believe your friend has something new to say, and set aside your feelings about a topic. This way, you'll be well on your way toward listening well.
If you're an outspoken person, take time to study your friend to see how much of your opinions they can handle. Then ask them to express their side and listen closely.
Work on negative traits. Everyone has flaws, but some things can stand in the way of a meaningful friendship. Try to identify negative traits that you may posses and make a conscious effort to stop them.
Resist bragging about yourself. This behavior is arrogant, and most people find it irritating—you'll lose friends before you get the chance to be one. It is important to have balance in a friendship so that you are celebrating each other's achievements, not competing with each other.
Refuse to gossip. When someone confides in you, don't share that information with others, even if they don't specifically ask you to keep a secret. This builds trust, which is essential for maintaining a friendship.[7]
Keep your commitments. Canceling plans at the last minute is inconsiderate and it can disrupt your friend's life.[8] Sometimes this might be unavoidable, such as in an emergency situation, but you should give as much notice as possible if you have to cancel.
Share from your life. Although you shouldn't be overbearing with your own thoughts and feelings, you shouldn't be too guarded, either. If you allow someone else to talk your ear off without ever offering your opinions, you're just as unlikely to stay friends as the one talking too much.
You don't have to tell your friend your deepest, darkest secrets, especially if it's the beginning of a friendship and you're establishing trust. But personal anecdotes are what connect people to each other. Sharing you life experience is key for a strong friendship.
Keep a sincere demeanor. Insincere people tend to smile too much, talk too loudly, and usually laugh to cover their insecurities. To be a good friend, you must do away with insincerity. You can't keep up a friendship this way because eventually, your friend will see your true self, and it's likely they will feel betrayed.
Be kind. This is a basic rule of society, but if you want to have a friend, you must be a friend. Practice doing small favors, giving gifts to show your thoughtfulness, and staying available for your friend's needs even when it's inconvenient.
Boost your self-esteem. If you believe in yourself, so will others. And it goes deeper than that—if you like yourself, you will treat yourself well, which translates to treating others well.
Practice becoming aware of your thoughts and beliefs when you encounter situations that make you feel bad. When you identify negative self-talk, challenge it.
Do things like using hopeful statements, forgiving yourself, focusing on the positive, and encouraging yourself.[9]
Be discerning. You are much less likely to feel insecure with someone who understands you. You can generally tell when you have a genuine connection with someone. If someone finds you odd, they may criticize you and increase your feelings of insecurity.
Ask yourself questions. Does this person make fun of my quirks? Do their facial expressions seem genuine or fake? Is this someone who will laugh with me or laugh at me?
Know yourself. If you don't know yourself, no one else will be able to know you either. Start a habit of quiet time each day to explore your thoughts. This practice will also boost your self-esteem. Try doing some writing exercises and think about what your responses reveal about your values. Some writing exercises that may help you include:[10]
Reflecting on an amazing experience. Think of a time when you felt really happy. What was the experience? Why did you feel so good? What does the experience reveal about you?
Identifying what upsets you. What things make you really mad? What things annoy you? What are your pet peeves? List everything that upsets you, from major things to minor things and try to identify why these things are upsetting to you.
Think about what you are good at. What do people tend to compliment you on? What do you think you do best?
Figure out what activities or things are important to you. What do you like to do for fun? What things are precious to you?
Respond to communications. Even though sometimes it's uncomfortable to talk to new people, part of overcoming your insecurities is facing your fears. Answer phone calls, text messages, and emails within a day or so no matter how much a person intimidates you; pretty soon, new people won't make you nervous anymore.
Let go of toxic friendships. If you're used to friends who stress you out, don't return favors, aren't there when you need them, or are overly demanding, then you may have some toxic friends in your life. In order to be a true friend, you've got to show you know what a friend really is, so you may want to consider ending friendships that are one-sided.[11]
Keep in mind that just because a friend has some flaws, that does not mean he or she is toxic. Try to weigh you friend's good traits against the bad to determine if the friendship is worth saving.
For example, if you have a friend who annoys you because she is always complaining about her boyfriend, but she listens to you when you need to talk about something, then you may decide that her willingness to listen outweighs her frequent complaints.
When ending a conversation with a friend, shake hands, hug, or at least say goodbye. This politeness will maintain a positive rapport.
Sincere, well-placed compliments are important in good conversation.
Even if you have a lot of friends on the internet, making time for people in real life is the best way to have meaningful friendships. You can speak so much more easily and read body language in person, leading to deeper connections between people.
Keep the secrets of your friends unless it is damaging or physically harmful to do so.
Just because you follow these steps perfectly doesn't mean someone will stay your friend. People have many reasons for ending friendships or avoiding them in the first place.
If you have dry, flaky skin, or your face is looking lackluster and dull, you might want to find a product to bring life and hydration back into your skin. Hydrators and moisturizers do different things, and you might need to assess your own needs to find out which one is best for you. Deciding between a moisturizer or a hydrator might sound tough, but if you decide whether your skin is dry or dehydrated and read the list of ingredients in your products, you can buy the best moisturizer or hydrator for your skin type with confidence.
Examine your skin for visible flaky pieces. If you often have flaky pieces of skin that you can brush off of your face, it means that your skin is dry rather than dehydrated. Look at your skin closely in a mirror and see if you can find any small, flaky pieces of skin. Dry skin means that your skin cells aren't able to lock in moisture as well as they should be able to.[1]
You might also have dry skin if you notice yourself having to exfoliate often to remove dead, flaky skin.
Brush your fingers against your skin to test for a dry feeling. If your skin is dry, it might feel rough and tight. Lightly move your hands over your skin and feel for tightness and roughness. This usually means that your skin is dry rather than dehydrated.[2]
Suspect dry skin if you use prescription acne medications. Most prescription acne medications contain ingredients that dry your skin out. This is good for your acne treatment, but they can be very drying for the rest of your skin. If you are on medication for your acne, you can assume that your skin is dry rather than dehydrated.[3]
Your doctor may have talked to you about dry skin as a side effect for your acne medication.
Expect dry skin in the winter time. Winter air is very harsh on your skin, since there is less moisture in the air. If you live in a climate where winter is especially cold, you can expect that your skin will be more dry during that time. You may have to adjust your skin routine as the weather changes.[4]
Examine your skin for a dull and lackluster look. If your skin is not glowing like it used to, or it looks flat and dull, your skin is probably dehydrated. Dehydration causes your skin cells to lose moisture and become flat, making your skin less bouncy and radiant.[5]
As you age, your skin cells have a harder time staying hydrated. It's normal for your skin to look different as you get older.
Look for new or more prominent wrinkles. If you are starting to notice more wrinkles on your skin than you used to, or if they are becoming more prominent and defined, your skin may be dehydrated. The cells in your skin are losing water, which makes your skin lose its elasticity and creates wrinkles.[6]
Suspect dehydration if you sweat a lot. If you exercise frequently or sweat often, your skin is losing hydration at a rapid pace. This means that it is not a moisture retention problem, but a dehydration problem. Determine if you sweat more than the average person.[7]
Consider how much water you drink in a day. Hydrating your skin also depends on how much water you drink. Think about how much you are consuming on a day to day basis. If you are drinking other fluids like soda, coffee, and alcohol more than you drink water, your skin is probably dehydrated.[8]
There is no "right" amount of water to drink in one day. It depends on your body and how active you are.
Expect dehydration in the summer months. Summer usually dehydrates your skin because you sweat more in the heat. If you live in a climate that gets hot during the summer and you notice that you are losing more moisture throughout the day, your skin is probably dehydrated.[9]
Air conditioners also suck moisture out of the air, which could make your skin dehydration worse.
Use a lightweight lotion or gel moisturizer during summer months for dry skin. If you have dry skin during the summer or hot months, try a moisturizer that is lightweight and won't trap in your sweat as you wear it. Usually, these are lotions or gels that you can rub into your skin and won't sit on top of it. They will help your skin cells lock in moisture throughout the day.[10]
Make sure the moisturizer you buy doesn't contain any alcohol in the ingredients. Alcohol will dry out your skin more.
Lightweight moisturizers are also good for acne-prone skin.
Apply a heavy moisturizer during the winter for dry skin. Dry skin can get worse during the colder months, because the air is more dry. If your skin gets noticeably more dry during the winter, try a heavy moisturizer, like coconut oil or petroleum jelly. Try to find products that don't have a lot of additives in them. Heavy moisturizers help your skin retain moisture during dry periods.[11]
You can buy heavy moisturizers at most grocery and home goods stores.
Use a water-based moisturizer if you have oily skin. Oily skin can still be dry in some areas. If your skin produces excess oil, you should buy a moisturizer that is water based so that it doesn't clog your pores. Check the ingredients carefully before you purchase a moisturizer.
Buy a fragrance and dye-free skin if you have eczema or sensitive skin. Some moisturizers add ingredients like fragrances, dyes, or additives that can irritate your skin. Check the ingredients on your moisturizer before you purchase it and make sure that it has as little ingredients as possible.[12]
If you know you are allergic to a certain ingredient, check to make sure the moisturizer you purchase doesn't have that either.
Use a topical hydrator that has aloe, honey, or marine extracts. Hydrators help to draw water into your skin cells by using natural humectants. Things like aloe, honey, and marine extracts all contain humectants that are good for skin cells and will teach your skin how to retain hydration over time.[13]
Buy water-based hydrators if you have oily skin. If you have more oily skin but you've noticed that your skin is also dehydrated, choose water-based moisturizers and hydrators so you don't clog your pores with excess products. Making sure your skin is hydrated can actually reduce the amount of oil that your skin produces, since it will make your skin more healthy.[14]
Most hydrators are water-based by default, but it is always good to double check.
Don't buy hydrators with glycerin, urea, or propylene. These ingredients are synthetic, and can actually irritate your skin more. If you have sensitive skin or skin conditions that make you more prone to skin dehydration, be extra cautious when buying a hydrator and look out for these ingredients before making a purchase.[15]
If you are buying skin products online, the website should have a list of ingredients about each product. Otherwise, check on the back of the product in the store.
The NYC Marathon is one of the largest and most thrilling races in the world, but it is also one of the most difficult to qualify for. Each year, runners from around the world vie for 50,000 coveted spots in the marathon. Once you are invited to the race, it is important to have a consistent training regimen that includes running, strength training, and nutritional balance. Race day is all about pace and endurance. Running in the NYC Marathon takes a lot of work and some good fortune, but the reward is great.
Enter the drawing for a chance to secure a spot at the race. Between mid-January and mid-February, apply for the drawing through the New York Road Runner website. The drawing is at the end of February. Though this is the easiest way to secure a spot, it is not guaranteed.
In 2017, over 98,000 hopeful runners applied for the drawing and only 16,000 were accepted (a 16.5% rate).[1]
Raise money for Team for Kids to be guaranteed a spot in the race. Runners raise money for this New York Road Runner youth program each year. If you are able to pledge and raise at least $2,620 by October, you are guaranteed a spot in the marathon.
Every year, 4,000 use this strategy to get into the race.[2]
Have a qualifying time at other races to ensure a spot in the marathon. If your official time at other New York Road Runner races is fast enough, you can secure a space at the NYC Marathon. These qualifying times are based on age and gender.
Some of these races include the Fred Lebow Manhattan Half Marathon, the NYC Half Marathon, the Women's Half Marathon, the Brooklyn Half Marathon, and the Staten Island Half Marathon.[3]
Claim your deferred marathon entry from last year. If you were admitted into the race last year but officially cancelled your entry, you are guaranteed a spot this year.
You must pay the entry fee again.
Become a New York Road Runner member to get into the marathon. Become a New York Road Runner member and complete at least 9 of their races. You must also volunteer at 1 or more race to guarantee a spot in the NYC Marathon.[4]
You must complete the races and volunteer in the calendar year prior to the marathon in which you want to compete. For example, you must complete 9 races in 2017 to be eligible for automatic entry into the 2018 Marathon.
You must become a New York Road Runner member by December 31 to qualify for this option.
Eat foods that are rich in protein and carbohydrates. These types of food provide fuel for both your exercise and recovery.[5] Try different types and quantities of food during your training routine to find out what works best for your body.
Good energy foods include bagels with peanut butter, pasta, and oatmeal.
Know how long it takes for your body to digest food before you are able to run comfortably. It can take up to 3 hours for your food to digest completely.[6]
Keep your body hydrated. It is important to keep your body hydrated throughout your training weeks as well as the day of the race. Drink to of water each day during your training. Drink no more than of water on the morning of the race.[7]
Drinking too much water on the morning of the race can make you cramp up.
Coconut water is a great way to replenish electrolytes without consuming the added dyes and sugars of a sports drink.[8]
Incorporate 3 training runs each week on non-consecutive days. Complete 1 long run—at least —each week. Do one moderate run—at least —at a pace that is slightly slower than your 5k pace. Finish one moderate run—at least —at your 5k pace or slightly faster.[9]
Remember to do recovery stretches after each running session.
Complete cross training sessions on the days between your runs. Do 1 HIIT or metabolic conditioning class. Finish 1 non-impact aerobic class each week. Round out your cross training with a yoga class.
HIIT exercise routines include exercises such as squats, push-ups, jumping jacks, and burpees.[10]
You can interchange any of these cross training sessions for an easy 30-45 minute run.[11]
Complete your last two long runs before your final training week. Make these last two runs as similar to marathon day as possible. Simulating the big race will get your body used to marathon conditions and pace.
Wear the same shoes, socks, and clothing as you plan to wear on race day.
Eat the same pre run meal before your last two long runs.[12]
Allow for adequate recovery time between runs and strength training. Remember to stretch after each exercise period. Incorporate at least one rest day each week into your training routine.[13]
Avoid long distance running for the 6 days before the race. Keep all of your runs in the week prior to the big race around to long.[14] Do not run the day before the marathon.
Eat more carbohydrates for the 6 days prior to the race. Try to consume at least of carbohydrates per of your body weight. Increase to per of your total body weight during the last 3 days before the race.[15]
Some good foods for carbohydrate loading are sweet potatoes, brown rice, and quinoa.[16]
Do not overload on carbohydrates. This will make you bloated and lethargic on race day.
Pack your race gear in your carry on luggage. If you are flying to NYC for the marathon, make sure to keep everything you need for race day in your carry on bag, including clothes, shoes, band aids, nutritional products, and energy gels.[17]
You do not want to be scrambling for new gear if your checked bag is lost.
Consume simple meals in the days leading up to the race. Cut foods like red meat, nuts, dairy, fried food, and roughage out of your diet the day before the marathon. Also try to avoid high fiber foods.[18]
Do not try any new foods in the week leading up to the marathon.
Do not do a lot of walking or standing on the day before the race. Too much activity the day before the marathon will wear out your legs. Get to the expo early to avoid waiting in long lines to get your racing bib and packet.[19]
Look up the weather forecast and prepare accordingly. Wearing the appropriate clothing is essential when running in any type of weather. Make sure your layers are comfortable and able to be discarded along your route. You do not want to have to carry a sweatshirt for the entire race.
If rain is in the forecast, bring a trash bag with a hole cut out for your head and wear it while waiting in the corral. Take it off before starting the race.[20]
If it is a cold rain, rub petroleum jelly on your arms and legs to keep warm. Do not rub jelly on your head or neck as it does not allow for adequate sweating and you may overheat.[21]
If the weather is supposed to be hot, try to drink cold fluids (such as a slushie) before the race.[22]
The New York Road Runner club collects discarded clothing and donates them to charity.[23]
Bring only what you need to the race. It is important to not be weighed down with unnecessary baggage. Make sure your phone is secure and not in your way.
Some essentials include your photo ID, some cash, and a small snack.[24]
Keep your pace steady for the first couple of miles. The first section is uphill, and many people try to overexert themselves. Don't waste energy trying to swerve around other runners during the first .[25]
Stay hydrated along the marathon route. Slow down, but don't stop, at aid stations. Stopping will shorten your muscles and cause cramping.[26]
Squeeze the cups to avoid spilling.
Keep your core cool by dumping some water on your head and neck during the race.
Focus on your music or inner mantra during the race. The noise of the crowds may cause you to speed up too early and leave you with no energy for the end of the marathon.[27]
Make a playlist that will help keep your energy up during the marathon.[28]
Examples of positive mantras are "I am strong and feel good" and "I am running great".[29]
Look at a runner in front of you and focus on the back of their shirt. Act like you are a fisher reeling in the person in front of you. Once you pass that runner, repeat the process.[30] Keep going and remain motivated throughout the race.
Be prepared for the hilly last . This is where many racers run out of steam.[31]
Cross the finish line and celebrate your accomplishment. Once you have crossed the finish line, it is important to stretch. Taking a long walk after the race will help flush the lactic acid out of your body and bring you gradually back to your resting state.[32]
Eat a big, hearty meal afterwards to replenish the nutrients your body lost while running.[33]
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