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Apple's making it easier to karaoke at home. The upcoming tvOS 13 software update for Apple TV includes a song lyrics feature in the built-in Music app. The words on the screen aren't highlighted, so this isn't 100 percent like karaoke lyrics. But it's close. Add a few pieces of hardware, and you're guaranteed to have a great night of fun anytime your friends and family visit.
Products used in this guide
- Our top Apple TV speaker: Sonos Beam ($399 at Amazon)
- Add some color: BONAOK Karaoke Microphone ($32 at Amazon)
Apple occasionally offers updates to iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS as closed developer previews or public betas for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac (sadly, no public beta for the Apple Watch). While the betas contain new features, they also contain pre-release bugs that can prevent the normal use of your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, or Mac, and are not intended for everyday use on a primary device. That's why we strongly recommend staying away from developer previews unless you need them for software development, and using the public betas with caution. If you depend on your devices, wait for the final release.
How to activate song lyrics on Apple TV
In tvOS 13 by default, you'll see lyrics every time a song or album plays using the Music app for Apple TV. However, the Apple TV screensaver will cover the lyrics unless you make a simple change.
- Click on the Settings app on the Apple TV Home screen.
Choose General from the menu.
- Select Screensaver.
Toggle Show During Music and Podcasts to OFF.
With this setting, the Apple TV screensaver will not play during music and podcasts. Therefore, you'll see song lyrics whenever you're using the Music app.
How to turn off song lyrics on Apple TV
You can elect not to see song lyrics on Apple TV. To do so:
- With any song playing on Apple TV, hit the pause button on your Siri Remote.
Scroll up, then click on the Lyrics icon at the top right of the screen to turn lyrics off.
Repeat the same steps to turn lyrics back on.
How to find lines in song lyrics on Apple TV
During music play on Apple TV, you can move to different locations in the lyrics.
- With song lyrics playing on Apple TV, use the Siri Remote glass surface to move up and down to find a location.
Tap the Play icon above the lyrics location you want.
You can now start singing at the new location in the song!
Our top equipment picks
To take karaoke night to a fun, new level, be sure to get a well-received soundbar and wireless microphone.
Sleek and stylish
Sonos Beam
Hard not to love
You can't go wrong with this highly-rated soundbar from Sonos. Though compact, it offers a rich, high-quality sound that fills the entire room.
Our favorite speaker for Apple TV comes from one of the top audio companies in the world. Use the Sonos Beam when watching your favorite movies or TV shows — and when singing along with your favorite song, of course.
Easy to use
BONAOK Karaoke Microphone
More than meets the eye
Available in five colors, this 4-in-1 karaoke microphone can also serve as a Bluetooth speaker and recorder. Additionally, it includes 48 colorful LED lights that move along with the rhythm.
Whether you choose space gray, rose gold, or another color, the BONAOK wireless microphone offers hours of fun before needing a battery charge. Besides Apple TV, you can also connect the microphone to your iPhone or iPad for mobile fun.
Additional equipment
If you've been eyeing the Sonos Beam, but have a smaller budget to work with, consider one of these less expensive soundbars.
TaoTronics Soundbar
You can use this low-priced soundbar wired or wirelessly. Control it with the in-unit buttons or included remote.
VIZIO Channel Soundbar
This VIZIO soundbar has the added benefit of shipping with a Bluetooth subwoofer. It offers crystal clear sound with little harmonic distortion.
Yamaha Soundbar
Bluetooth streaming offers easy switching between two devices with this soundbar from Yamaha. The speaker Includes simple setup with HDMI, optical, or aux connection.
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Narphu Valley Trekking – Annapurna region Nar Phu valley trekking
Narphu Valley Trekking – Annapurna region Nar Phu valley trekking
Annapurna region Narphu valley Trekking, Trekking in Narphu valley the Narphu valley trekking is newly open trekking trail in Annapurna region. Nar Phu valley trek is restricted trekking trail in Annapurna region opened for the trekkers since 2003. Narphu valley trekking is one of the best regions for viewing majestic mountains in the high land. Narphu valley trek up to Nar and Phu combines high peaks and passes, glaciers, remote villages, narrow canyons, lovely forests, amazing rock formations, yaks, gompas and unique Himalayan cultures. Narphu valley trekking offer superb Himalayan views of Mt. Manaslu 8163m, Mt. Dhaulagiri 8167m, Mt. Annapurna I 8091m and other 19 snow capped mountains of Annapurna trekking. Trekking in Narphu valley is probably the best and non tourist area of Annapurna trekking routes and for those who want to explore hidden valley and trek off the beaten crossing through Challenging high passes like Masokanto La (5099m), Kangla pass (5200m), Tilicho Pass (5230m) with beautiful Lake Tilicho. Narphu valley trekking include spectacular regions of ethnically-Tibetan inhabitants and combines remote villages, narrow canyons, lovely forests, amazing rock formations, yaks, gompas and unique Himalayan cultures also include the Annapurna circuit trekking , the bridge leading over the Marshyangdi River to the steep portals of the Nar Phu valley system is easily missed, but although the entrance is narrow and forested, the valley system above opens up to a huge expanse of high snow-peaks, ancient villages and high altitude grazing settlements.Since Narphu valley trekking trail has been open Himalayan Worldwide trekking professional will take to you with amazing experience of Narphu valley in Annapurna region.
Annapurna Narphu valley trekking commence at Besishar after 5-6 hours drive from Kathmandu. HJT professional trekking guide led through out Annapurna circuit trekking trail until koto then trail ascend to Narphu valley. As Narphu valley treks is restricted trekking trail required special trekking permit through government registered Nepal trekking Agency and minimum two person required for obtain Narphu valley trekking permit. Himalayan Worldwide Trekking arrange three different options Nar Phu valley trekking.
Besishar Narphu valley Besishar, Narphu valley Tilicho pass trekking , Narphu valley Annapurna circuit trekking as per trekkers wish and holiday schedule. Annapurna Narphu valley trekking required good physical fitness with prior trekking experience as well as minimum three weeks holidays. Narphu valley trek include world's top 10 trekking trail, Annapurna circuit trekking so this is famous trekking destination in Annapurna region. Annapurna Narphu valley trekking take to you heart of the Annapurna region.
Day 01: Arrival in kathmandu 1334m, Himalayan Worldwide Treks & Expedition airport representative will transfer to hotel Narphu valley trekking briefing with officially arrangements overnight at Kathmandu.
Day 02: Katmandu by bus to Beshishar (823m)
Day 03: Beshishar to .Bahundada (1311m)
Day 04: Bahundada to Jagat (1314m)
Day 05: Jagat to Dharapani (1943m)
Day 06: Dharapani to koto (2713m)
Day 07: Koto to Chhacha (3200m)
Day 08: Chhacha to Meta (3700m)
Day 09: Meta to Junum (4000m)
Day 10: Junum to Phu valley.
Day 11: Excursion around Phu valley.
Day 12: Phu Valley to Nar Village
Day 13: Nar Village to Dharmasala 2800m.
Day 14: Dharmasala – koto –Chame (2713m)
Day 15: Chame to Pisang (3185m)
Day 16: Pisang to Manang (3440m)
Day 17: Manang acclimatizing day.
Day 18: Manang to Yak kharka (4210m)
Day 19: Yak kharka to Thorung phedi (4640m)/ Thorung High camp (4800m)
Day 20: Thorung phedi (4640m)/ Thorung High camp (4800m) via Thorung La (5416m) to Muktinath.(3802m)
Day 21: In the morning Muktinath Temple excursion and overnight at Kagbeni (2840m)
Day 22: Kagbeni to Jomsom (2713m)
Day 23: Jomsom by flight back to Pokhara (915m)
Day 24: Pokhara back to Katmandu by Tourist bus/Flight
Day 25: After breakfast, Relaxing/shopping with own activities , Himalayan Worldwide Treks & Expedition's representative will drop to Kathmandu international airport for onward journeys or if you have time to stay in Nepal will arrange any other trip as your request.
Cost Inclusions in Tea House & Tented Camp
Airport transfers, welcome upon arrival and departure after completion of trips.
Welcome dinner classic Nepali cousin place and farewell dinner
Comfortable, private transportation as per itinerary
Quality accommodation on lodge or tent as per itinerary
4 Star accommodations in Kathmandu with B/B Plan
Western standard down jacket and sleeping bag for trek
All meals and hot drinks on activity
1 government license Holder Trekking guide English Speaking as per itinerary
One porter, each two member as per itinerary
Trekking /climbing equipment for porters and guides
Experienced and friendly trekking staffs
Staffs insurance, well paid salary
All permits such as National park, Trekking Permit, as per itinerary
Rescue Arrangements off course not the rescue bills please!
All necessary camping gear such as High quality tents, mattress, kitchen equipments, dinning table & chair etc
Medical Kit Bag on every trip
Cost Exclusions in Tea House Trek
International airfare to/from home city and international Airport departure taxes
Domestic flights & domestic airport taxes as per itinerary
Excess baggage charges
Food and Accommodation while you are off the trip.
Sightseeing and entrance fees Temple & monastery as per itinerary
Climbing permits as per itinerary & Royalty for restricted area.
Nepal entry visa costs (~$30.00) and visa extension fees (three days transit visa you will get free upon arrival)
Travel, trek and expedition medical and evacuation insurance
Emergency evacuation charges, if required
Personal expenses (e.g. phone calls, laundry, alcohol, soft drinks, bottled water, souvenirs, etc.)
13% VAT and 10% TSC Taxes
Tips must be required for the staffs because this is the sign of the guest happiness at the end of the trip. It has been establish a custom say "Baksis" (collect between all the participants and reward each staffs through your hand directly)
Any loss due to unforeseen circumstances such as flight delays, road blockage due to landslide, etc the over come expenses need to take care trekkers themselves.
Latest Updates
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Trip CostThe price will be depending on service quality that you are going to use accommodation (Deluxe, Standard & Budget) in cities and entire the trekking either way normal teahouse or best available or Camping (Fully tented camp) so better to mention us what you are expecting? Please click here to request the price.
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For many of you, the holidays were spent with loved ones and not-so-loved ones, by force. For me, I just chilled out. --- Seriously, the past few days have been restful and a chance to run around the town without many people doing their own thing; not totally abandoned, but not cluttered with traffic and people, either. So, I took the opportunity to head out and catch an all-locals show.
On Friday, I made my way to The Shred Shed and caught three bands working their way up the ranks: Archeopteryx, Pinecone Radio and The Pelicant's. I chat with all three bands today, as well as look at about 300 photos that you can check out here.
The Pelicant's
Gavin: Hey, everyone. First thing, tell us a little about yourselves.
TPC: Hi. We are a progressive-fusion band based out of Salt Lake City. We're juniors in high school, and we're super-excited to be a part of this interview. Our band consists of four musicians and our esteemed hype-man, Gary Hafford. Ryan Collenburg, our guitar player, has been honing his skills for over five years now. The drummer, Kona Ossana, is a self-taught musician and brings a unique style and flair to the band. Parker Andrezzi, our newest member, is one of the best local teen trumpet players around. Finally, William Guss plays bass and manages most of the band's online presence.
Gavin: What got you interested in music, and who were some of your favorite acts and musical influences growing up?
TPC: Our musical interests are quite diverse; each member has their own unique taste, which really becomes apparent when listening to any of our songs. We grew up listening to jazz, fusion, metal, progressive rock and even trip-hop. Some names that come to mind are Genesis, Weather Report, Anvil, Pantera, Return to Forever, John Coltrane and Iron Maiden.
Gavin: How did you all come together to form The Pelicant's, and where did the name come from?
TPC: It was honestly by chance that we came together. Although we had been jamming together for a while, we never thought that we would start an actual band until our good friend Joren Carlson, the drummer of Anthropology, asked us to play a gig with him last minute. In a rush, we threw together "2nd period," a song written during our second class period on the day of the gig. After that, we started practicing and decided to form a band. As for the name, we came up with it while playing Rock Band.
Gavin: What made you decide to go more as an instrumental band, and what influenced the jazz-rock sound?
TPC: To take the music where we really wanted to take it, the idea of a singer really didn't work for us. Most of our musical influences don't have vocals, so we never put effort into finding a singer. As for our style, it kind of facilitated itself through our own musical tastes. However, Anthropology played a big part in motivating us to start making more complex and math-y rhythms and melodies.
Gavin: How has it been for you just starting up and playing around the area?
TPC: It's been exciting, seeing as we are starting to get a following. It's one thing to be able to play music with a bunch of good friends, but to have other people hear it and even enjoy is awesome.
Gavin: You currently have some recordings online. Any plans to record an album or EP anytime soon?
TPC: Yeah. If everything goes according to plan, we'll be recording our LP, Nude at Noon, this summer. If you want to stay up to date with that, check us out on Facebook.
Gavin: Have you given any thought to touring yet, or are you just playing around the state for now?
TPC: For right now, we just want to work on writing a whole bunch of songs and getting our album done. We're definitely interesting in expanding our reach and sharing our music outside of Utah, but only after we finish our LP.
Gavin: Going local, what are your thoughts on the music scene, both good and bad?
TPC: The local music scene has been really good to us, and with help from venues like the Shred Shed and Kilby Court, getting our music out there has been really easy. It's really cool how on any given night you can go down to either of those venues and listen to some amazing local music.
Gavin: Is there anything you believe could be done to make the local music scene more prominent?
TPC: Sure. More media coverage would certainly help. There are so many good artists here locally, and more coverage would totally help them get the fan base that they deserve.
Gavin: Not including yourselves, who are your favorite acts in the scene right now?
TPC: There are a ton of cool bands playing around right now. Anthropology, of course, is one of our favorites, but we really like Archeopteryx, The Wasatch Fault and Squash. It's really surprising that Utah's local math/progressive-rock scene is so large, and we're glad that there are other bands out there representing this great genre of music.
Gavin: What's your opinion on current local-music airplay on community radio and how it affects local musicians?
TPC: Airplay is extremely important for local musicians, and we're glad that KRCL is doing its best to help support local bands.
Gavin: What do you think of the rise of sites like Bandcamp, and bands essentially marketing themselves?
TPC: The advent of the self-marketing band is amazing. For us, websites such as SoundCloud have been really important, useful tools for us to market and share our music. We don't think we'd here today without the help of the Internet.
Gavin: What can we expect from all of you going into next year?
TPC: As we said, we're trying to release a new LP and spread our music as much as we can. We're hoping to help promote local artists and play a ton of shows!
Gavin: Is there anything you'd like to plug or promote?
TPC: Well, besides our Facebook page, we have a battle of the bands on Jan. 11, and we'd be stoked if everyone came out see us at In the Venue. Also, our friends at Anthropology have a new album, Anthology. So, if you like great math rock, go support a local artist and purchase their album.
Pinecone Radio
Gavin: Hey everyone, first thing, tell us a little about yourselves.
PCR: We are Pinecone Radio, we like to groove. We are Ally Roundy on vocals, Juan Altuna on bass, Jeff Souza on guitar and Chris Shemwell on drums.
Gavin: What got you interested in music, and who were some of your favorite acts and musical influences growing up?
PCR: All of us have similar interests in music; we gain inspiration from artists like Jamiroquai, Marvin Gaye and several other Motown and funk artists. Mostly, these inspirations were discovered through our early endeavors with the School of Rock where we essentially grew up together.
Gavin: How did you all come together to form Pinecone Radio?
PCR: We all met at the Sandy School of Rock. Jeff, Juan, and Chris formed the band in the summer of 2012, and Ally didn't join until December of that year. We needed a vocalist for a Christmas party, and then she stuck with us after that, and we started writing and gigging a lot.
Gavin: What made you go for more of a soul/funk sound for the band?
PCR: At first, we just played a lot of party music and jammed, then once we played together more, we started developing our own style and expressing it through some tasty jams of our own. It's nice to be able to play with some of your best friends because you share that connection and it shows in your music.
Gavin: You've been together about a year and a half now, how has it been playing venues around the state and gaining recognition?
PCR: It's been a blast playing around and gaining some fans. The support we get at our shows is amazing, we love all the people that listen to us! All of the bands we have played with have been great to us as well, it's some of the best experiences we have had!
Gavin: Are there any plans to tour down the road or just playing at home for now?
PCR: There aren't any big plans yet, we just take all the local gigs we can get. Although, this summer we went on tour in Chicago with the School of Rock Allstars and that gave us a taste of touring experience.
Gavin: Anything in the works recording-wise for an EP or full-length, or are you still writing material?
PCR: Currently, we are in the process of getting some solid recording done, and we are also writing some new stuff. Get excited!
Gavin: Going local, what are your thoughts on the local music scene, both good and bad?
PCR: There's some really awesome things going on out there, but as far as venues go, the Utah scene is kind of limited. It would be nice if there were some more venues that support local artists, like The Shred Shed and Kilby, but other than that the local scene is rad. Meeting all the local bands out there makes our hearts super happy.
Gavin: Is there anything you believe could be done to make it more prominent?
PCR: Exposure is key for anybody trying to get out there. So things like being in the newspaper or local businesses promoting shows and artists would really help people take off.
Gavin: Not including yourselves, who are your favorite acts in the scene right now?
PCR: Some of our favorite acts include Squash, Archeopteryx, False Division and Of Earth Inside. They are champs, check them out!
Gavin: What's your opinion on current local music airplay on community radio and how it affects local musicians?
PCR: Like we said before, exposure is good for any local band trying to get on their feet. Airtime for artists like us is priceless, you never know who is listening!
Gavin: What do you think of the rise of sites like Bandcamp and bands essentially marketing themselves?
PCR: It's a great resource for bands trying to get out there. If you want to make it, you have to learn to market yourself or pay for a manager. So chances are the first option is the one for broke college students like us ... tools like Bandcamp and ReverbNation are helpful!
Gavin: What can we expect from all of you going into next year?
PCR: We've got an EP in the works, and hopefully more shows around Salt Lake. Keep an eye out for us, friends!
Gavin: Is there anything you'd like to plug or promote?
PCR: On Jan. 11, we will be grooving in Battle of the Bands at In the Venue in SLC, so check it out! Also, we have some demos posted on our Facebook and Soundcloud!
Gavin: Hey gang, first thing, tell us a little about yourselves.
APX: We are an experimental rock band from Salt Lake City. We have been playing for about two years.
Gavin: What got you interested in music, and who were some of your favorite acts and musical influences growing up?
APX: We all really got interested in music when we started listening to either Rush or possibly Green Day.
Gavin: How did you all come together to form Archeopteryx?
APX: We had played on and off with each other in different bands then finally sort of just started a new band with all of us in it.
Gavin: You do this meld of genres that hit classic rock, progressive, even metal at times. What made you go for that style, and how is it coming together to make that music?
APX: We do not really aim for any sort of style, we just write music we enjoy and it does reflect a lot of what we listen to.
Gavin: How has it been playing around the past couple years and gaining an audience?
APX: It has definitely been a huge learning experience.
Gavin: You have recordings online but no official albums. Are there any plans to record a full-length or an EP anytime soon?
APX: We are planning on doing a full-length and an EP within the beginning of this upcoming year!
Gavin: Have you give any thought to touring yet or will you stick to Utah for now?
APX: We would love to tour! After we finish our full-length, we will be playing that a lot then seeing if a tour is possible.
Gavin: Going local, what are your thoughts on the local music scene, both good and bad?
APX: The local scene is rather monotonous as far as music genres go. There also could be quite a few more all-ages venues that local bands have a chance at booking at.
Gavin: Is there anything you believe could be done to make it more prominent?
APX: More all-ages venues would be the greatest thing that ever was.
Gavin: Not including yourselves, who are your favorite acts in the scene right now?
APX: We like the guys in Advent Horizon, Pinecone Radio and False Division a lot. They do a lot of new things as far as music styles go in our scene.
Gavin: What's your opinion on current local music airplay on community radio and how it affects local musicians?
APX: There really aren't too many opportunities for it from what we have seen. We would really like it to be played at more listener-friendly times rather than around midnight when a lot of people are sleeping.
Gavin: What do you think of the rise of sites like Bandcamp and bands essentially marketing themselves?
APX: Bandcamp is one of the greatest tools that a band could use. You can't solely rely on it, but it sure can help.
Gavin: What can we expect from all of you going into next year?
APX: You definitely expect a lot more shows, a full-length release and an EP. Possibly (cross our fingers) a small tour!
Gavin: Is there anything you'd like to plug or promote?
APX: Not right now, headed to the studio soon right as we finish putting together a few new songs.
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There is a small charge to cover costs and travelling expenses and to help support the setting up of Spirit Cafes in countries around the world where finance is more of an issue.
These interactive Training Events cover the theology behind Spirit Cafe as well as helping activate you and your team in their gifting.
If you would like to know more about attending one of our Training Events, or hosting one yourself, please contact us HERE or have a look at the Diary page to see when the nearest on to you is going to take place.


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A pensioner who tried to smother his dying father with a cushion because he wanted to end his suffering walked free from court today after the judge suspended his 18 month jail sentence for two years.
Downpatrick Crown Court Judge Geoffrey Miller QC told 67-year-old James Weir while there was "no doubt" his offence crossed the custody threshold, he was suspending the sentence.
"Having regard to the exceptional circumstances surrounding the case and bearing in mind that, regardless of your intention at the time, the actual degree of harm was slight and had no bearing on your father's death" He said.
The judge said while it was a "tragic case," Weir's actions in smothering his unconscious father with a cushion had been " deliberate and clearly carried out with the intention of killing his father, something he may well have achieved had the nurse not arrived in the room."
Weir, from Manor Street in Belfast, had pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his father James Weir on 24 November 2018.
The court heard that Mr Weir snr, who was 90 at the time and was a resident at Blair House Care home in Ards, was approaching "the end of his life" when his son tried to kill him.
Prosecuting counsel Laura Ievers said the defendant, who along with his brother had drunk a litre of whiskey and ten Guinness overnight as they sat watching their father, had been momentarily alone in the room when a nurse came in and see him "holding a cushion over his father's face."
As the nurse took the cushion from him, "He said he was sorry she had to witness it but he thought it was the right thing to do for his father and that he could be see him suffer any longer," the lawyer told the court, describing how Weir jnr "visibly shaking and emotional" at the time.


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TaskUs Major Press Mentions and Articles Recap
Summer is off to a sizzling start at TaskUs! We're thrilled to have received several major press mentions over the past 3 months. We're extraordinarily proud of what our entire team has accomplished together that has sparked such prominent media attention.
For those behind on the latest TaskUs press mentions - don't worry. We've got a recap right here!
TIME magazine featured TaskUs on April 7, 2016, in its article about the Filipino presidential race. That's not shabby for a startup headquartered in Santa Monica, California!
Senator Grace Poe, 48 - one of the Philippines' presidential candidates this election season - "wants to attract more entrepreneurs like [TaskUs CEO] Bryce Maddock," as part of her initiative to generate more jobs, according to Time.
The complete article is located at: http://time.com/4285417/the-next-president-of-the-philippines-could-be-the-punisher/
2. BBC News
On May 5, 2016, TaskUs was featured in a BBC News story that focused on Filipino women and how the economy impacts their lives.
The BBC reported, "at least 10% of the country's population live and work overseas". These workers send money - remittance - back home to support the families that they left behind in order for everyone to survive.
TaskUs is playing a big part in keeping families together as part of the BPO industry that has created millions of jobs in the country.
You can watch the BBC video feature here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36209522
3. Inc.
CEO Bryce Maddock and President Jaspar Weir - TaskUs' co-founders - found out on May 24, 2016, that they had been selected by Inc. magazine for inclusion into its annual 30 Under 30 list of young entrepreneurs.
In their final year of eligibility, Bryce and Jaspar were selected by a panel of independent judges from a competitive pool of 500 worthy applicants.
On June 1, Inc. Magazine informed TaskUs that it had won the 30 Under 30 Readers' Choice award. TaskUs received the most votes - 27% of the total - from a vote on Inc.'s Facebook page.
You can read the full article at Inc.: http://www.inc.com/30-under-30
4. The Wall Street Journal
TaskUs' highly differentiated Filipino offices and how they help us to minimize employee attrition is the focus of a very informative and cool video from The Wall Street Journal, called, "Turning a Call Center Into a Cool Tech Start-Up". It was published to its site on June 21, 2016.
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In a companion article also published on June 21, 2016, titled, "Robots on Track to Bump Humans from Call-Center Jobs," published by The Wall Street Journal, TaskUs' thought leadership, Silicon Valley-inspired Manila offices, and CEO Bryce Maddock are heavily featured in both the story and the 3-minute long feature video that accompanies the piece.
In the article, Bryce informs readers about the evolution of the BPO industry in the Philippines and TaskUs' place within it. He envisions the company moving forward into the future by incorporating higher value services via transformational technology that will "'un-call center' the call center".
The Wall Street Journal's article can be read at: http://www.wsj.com/articles/robots-on-track-to-bump-humans-from-call-center-jobs-1466501401


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Meet Mr. Babajide and Miss Ayomide, who tied the knot today as they said bye-bye to Bachelorhood and Spinsterhood (#Ayojide'19). It was reported that Mr. Babajide was once a lecturer to Miss Ayomide in her previous institution before she graduated. Their courtship started back then when she was still a student under his tutelage.
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On Wednesday evening, Ajax will attempt to take its first step towards the UEFA Champions League main tournament. In the historic (for Ajax) Ernst Happel Stadion, Rapid Wien is the opponent. Frank de Boer and captain Davy Klaassen looked ahead on Tuesday, just before the training. Klassen: "If we do the things we are good at, I expect a good result."
The Champions League win from 1995 was obviously a favourite topic during the press conference in the Ernst Happel Stadion. 'The memories from 1995 are great. Will we win 1-0 tomorrow? I'll sign up for that', tweeted Frank de Boer earlier. At the beginning of the evening, he discussed it more extensively. "During the drive to the stadium, we spoke about the great moments from back then. As a player, I definitely was in a sort of tunnel towards the finals during that time. I don't remember much because of that. I only truly remember the moment when I hoisted the cup. I would love to go back in time to re-live that moment."
At the time of that final, Klaassen was 2 years and 3 months old. Still, Ajax's captain can share some memories of that final match against AC Milan. "At home, we had a video tape of Ajax in the Champions League. We watched that so many times. Because of that, I can imagine how it was." During the press conference, De Boer remembers more. "I remember a defensive play and a header just before the break. The whole match wasn't memorable. It was a very bad game."
Back to the present-day. In the first match against Rapid Wien, Ajax hopes to post a good result before the return in Amsterdam. De Boer: "This is the most important match of the season." Klaassen: "If we lose both games against Rapid, we won't play Champions League. The group is focused on that." Ajax's captain had a completely different experience during this year's pre-season compared to previous years'. "Before, we played many friendlies and started with the competition or the Johan Cruijff Shield. Now we need to be even quicker. Normally, if you would lose the first match, it wouldn't be a disaster, but in the CL qualifying rounds, it is. But if we do the things we're good at tomorrow, I expect a good result."
Cillessen uncertain
It is still unclear whether Ajax will be able to call on keeper Jasper Cillessen for this first critical match against Rapid. On the eve of the departure to Vienna, he had some trouble with his calf after the last training in the Netherlands. "We'll need to wait and see how Tuesday's training goes. After that, we'll see if he can play." When asked whether Cillessen's injury is real, and not an indication of a potential transfer, De Boer replies: "No, he really has an injury to his calf. Fortunately, I would add in this case."
De Boer describes opponent Rapid as a 'very complete team'. The Austrian team started their competition promisingly last week, with a 3-0 win against SV Ried. "Rapid was Austria's second-placed team last season for a reason. We can't allow them to get into their game, because they have a good team." The last meeting with an Austrian team didn't end well for Ajax. Ajax was eliminated from the 2014 UEFA Europa League by FC Salzburg. "We played too openly against FC Salzburg", evaluates De Boer in hindsight. "We should have played much more compactly. Rapid isn't Salzburg, but it is a team that likes to apply pressure towards the front. Hopefully we'll have our own answers to that on Wednesday evening. Would I be satisfied with a draw? I never like 0-0. 1-1 is better because of the away goal."


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Wow. Microsoft engineer complains about "some seemingly anti-competitive practices done by Google's Chrome team". Now that is some piquant irony.
Also, the page's YouTube video appears to be blocked. Icing on the cake?
…one of the reasons we decided to end EdgeHTML was because Google kept making changes to its sites that broke other browsers, and we couldn't keep up…
I can appreciate the shadenfreude of Microsoft's new position, but this is a pretty legitimate concern. Especially if Google is/was doing that intentionally. What we need is a good incentive for Google to care about web standards and performance in non-Chrome browsers, but this move by Microsoft only drives things in the opposite direction.
I don't know if it's intentional or not, but I am almost never able to complete reCaptchas in Firefox, it just keeps popping up ridiculous ones, like traffic lights that are on the border of three squares, and it keeps popping the same unsolvable ones for 2-3 minutes until I get tired/locked out of it and just use Chrome to log in, where somehow I always get sane ones and it lets me in first try. Anyone had the same?
This video sums it up very well, although not Firefox specific: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGW7TRtcDeQ
(Btw I don't use Tor, or public VPNs or any of the like.)
This is known to happen: Blocking via an unsolvable CAPTCHA.
Especially if Google is/was doing that intentionally.
I disagree that intention has anything to do with it. We have to judge these kinds of situations by the effect they have on the web, not on good feelings.
Spot on. Intent only matters when it is ill. Even if not intended, the outcome is what matters materially.
One reason intention matters: if the intention is to handicap edge, then it's probably not serving some other purpose that's good for all of us. If handicapping edge is a side-effect of some real benefit, that's just a fact about the complexity of the web (it might still be a bad decision, but there are trade-offs involved).
OK, let's put aside the schadenfreude as best we can and examine the consequences. I think it's fair to assume, for the sake of argument, that Alphabet Inc absolutely will do everything in its power, dirty tricks included, to derive business value from it's pseudo-monopolist position. If Microsoft were to dig in their heels and ship a default browser for their desktop OS that didn't play YouTube videos as well as Chrome does, would that harm Alphabet, or just Microsoft at this point?
I don't really understand your talk of "a good incentive". Think of it this way: what incentive did Google, an advertising company, ever have to build and support a web browser in the first place? How did this browser come to its current position of dominance?
Google built a web browser because Microsoft won the browser wars and did nothing with IE for 10 years.
Their entire suite of products were web based and their ability to innovate with those products was severely hampered by an inadequate platform.
Chrome was revolutionary when it was released and many of the web technologies we take for granted today could never have happened without it.
I'm not entirely thrilled with everything it led too but whatever their motives now, Google had good reasons to build Chrome in the first place.
I'm sure whichever visionaries were at Google at that point had great reasons to build Chrome. But Google isn't the same company anymore, and Chrome doesn't mean what it once meant.
"You could not step twice into the same river." —Heraclitus
That's certainly ONE factor. The other is that Chrome by default makes "address bar" and "search bar" the same thing, and sends everything you type into the search bar to Google.
Same as Google Maps, or Android as a whole. I often navigate with Google Maps while driving. The implication is that Google knows where I live, where I work, where I go for vacation, where I eat, where I shop. This information has a monetary value.
If there is something Google does that is not designed to collect information on it's users that can be turned into ad revenue, that something will eventually be shut down.
"This information has a monetary value."
Exactly. They are trying to build accurate profiles of every aspect of people and businesses' existences. Their revenue per user can go up as they collect more information for their profiles. That gives them an incentive to build new products that collect more data, always by default. Facebook does same thing. Revenue per user climbed for them year after year, too. I'm not sure where the numbers are currently at for these companies, though.
Google built a web browser because Microsoft won the browser wars and did nothing with IE for 10 years.
No, that was Mozilla. They together with Opera were fighting IE's stagnation and by 2008 achieved ~30% share which arguably made Microsoft notice. Chrome was entering the world which already was multi-browser at that point.
Also, business-wise Google needed Chrome as a distribution engine, it has nothing to do with fighting browser wars purely for the sake of users.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a distribution engine. For ads? Or for software?
I think business motives are extremely hard to discern from actions. I think you could make the argument that Google has been trying for years to diversify their business, mostly unsuccessfully, and around 2008 maybe they envisioned office software (spreadsheets, document processing, etc) as the next big thing. GMail was a surprise hit, and maybe they thought they could overthrow Microsoft's dominance in the field. But they weren't about to start building desktop software, so they needed a better browser to do it.
Or maybe they built it so that Google would be the default search engine for everyone so they could serve more ads?
Or maybe some engineers at Google really were interested in improving performance and security, built a demo of it, and managed to convince enough people to actually see it through?
I realize the last suggestion may sound helplessly naive, but having worked as an engineer in a company where I had a lot of say in what got worked on, my motives were often pretty far afield of any pure business motive. I got my paycheck regardless, and sometimes I fixed a bug or made something faster because it annoyed me. I imagine there are thousands of employees at Google doing the same thing every day.
Regardless, the fact remains that the technology they built for Chrome has significantly improved the user experience. The reason Chrome is now so dominant is because it was better. Much better when compared to something like IE6.
And even ChromeOS is better than the low-price computing it competes with. Do you remember eMachines? They were riddled with junk software and viruses rendering them almost completely useless. A 100$ Chromebook is such a breath of fresh air compared to that experience.
I realize there's a cost to this, and I get why there's a lot of bad press about Google, but I don't think we need to rewrite history about it. I think we're all better off with Google having created Chrome (even if I don't agree with many of the things they're doing now).
The reason Chrome is now so dominant is because it was better.
There are two reasons why Chrome became so dominant:
Google makes deals with OEMs to ship Chrome by default on the new desktops and laptops. Microsoft cannot stop them because of historical antitrust regulations.
Google advertised Chrome on their search page (which happens to be the most popular web page in the world) whenever someone using another browser visited it. It looks like they've stopped, though, since I just tried searching with Google from Firefox and didn't get a pop-up.
The incentive to play fair would come from Google not wanting to lose the potential ad revenue from users of non-Chrome browsers due to them deliberately sabotaging their own products in those browsers. Not trying to imply that EdgeHTML was the solution to that problem or that it would somehow be in Microsoft's best interest to stick with it, just that its loss is further cementing Google's grip on the web and that's a bad thing.
All the user knows is "browser A doesn't seem to play videos as good as browser B". In general they can't even distinguish server from client technologies. All they can do about it, individually, is switch browsers.
Now that Alphabet has cornered the market, their strategy should be obvious. It's the same as Microsoft's was during the Browser Wars. The difference is, Alphabet made it to the end-game.
The end game being anti-trust action? I'm not following your line of argument. Are you examining that particular consequence?
The antitrust case against Microsoft ended up with not much happening, and that was 18 years ago. Do you have much confidence that there is likely to be an effective antitrust action against Google?
I'm not the one making a case here.
Your interpretation[1][2] of how a single historical case went doesn't change the fact that antitrust action is bad for a company's long-term prospects and short-term stock price. The latter should directly matter to current leadership. Companies spend a reasonable amount of time trying to not appear anti-competitive. @minimax is utterly ignoring that consequence of "dirty tricks".
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/microsoft-antitrust-case.html illustrates the opposite perception. [2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/the-eternal-antitrust-case-microsoft-versus-the-world is more balanced, and points out the effect of the lawsuit on Microsoft PR, leadership focus and product quality.
You're looking at it wrong. The question you really need to consider is:
What makes Google's position more of an end-game than what Microsoft had in the early 2000s?
Microsoft was the dominant OS player, but the Internet itself was undergoing incredible growth. What's more, no one existed solely within what's Microsoft provided.
Today, the Internet is essentially the OS for many (most?). People exist in a fully vertically integrated world built by Google - operating system, data stored in their cloud, documents written on their editor and emails sent through their plumbing… all of it run by the worlds most profitable advertising company, who just built themselves mountains of data to mine for better advertisements.
Microsoft in the 00's could only dream of having that.
Your assessment of Google today strikes me as not completely unreasonable, although it does neglect the fact that only a small fraction of Internet users live so completely in Google's stack; I suspect far more people just use Android and Chrome and YouTube on a daily basis but don't really use Gmail or GSuite (Docs, etc.) very frequently, instead relying on WhatsApp and Instagram a lot more.
And back in the 2000s there were definitely a large group of people who just used Windows, IE, Outlook, Hotmail, MSN & MS Office to do the vast majority of their computing. SO it's not as different as you seem to believe. Except now there are viable competitors to Google in the form of Facebook & Apple in a way that nobody competed with MS back then.
SO it's not as different as you seem to believe.
It's incredibly different.
When I used IE5 Microsoft's tactic was to bundle it with Windows and use Microsoft-specific APIs to boost its performance, killing Netscape. If I used Chrome today, I'd find dark UI patterns are used to ensure my data is captured.
Similarly, Office/Outlook/Windows in 2000 didn't mine the files I was working on to enrich an advertising profile that would follow me across the internet. If memory serves, while Hotmail did serve advertisements, they were based on banner advertisements / newsletters generated by Microsoft, and not contextually targeted.
The real risk here, I believe, is in both the scope and ease of understanding what's happening today versus what Microsoft did. Microsoft's approach was to make money by being the only software you run, and they'd use any trick they could to achieve that - patently anticompetitive behavior included.
Google, on the other hand… at this point I wonder if they'd care if 90% of the world ran Firefox as long as the default search engine was Google. I think their actions are far more dangerous than those of Microsoft because they are much wider reaching and far more difficult for regulators to dig into.
I suspect far more people just use Android and Chrome and YouTube on a daily basis but don't really use Gmail or GSuite (Docs, etc.) very frequently, instead relying on WhatsApp and Instagram a lot more.
Even if we take that as a given, this means most people are sending:
up to Google.
Your assessment that Chrome is only a means to an end, the end being to have people continue using Google's web search, seems dead on. But then you follow that up with a claim that doesn't seem to logically follow at all.
The reach of Google now relative to Microsoft 15 years ago is lower as a fraction of total users; it only seems higher because the absolute number of total users has grown so much.
Doesn't this depend on how you define a "user", though? Google has a grip on search that would be the envy of IBM back in the day. Android is by far the most popular operating system for mobile phones, if not for computing devices writ large. They pay for Mozilla because they can harvest your data through Firefox almost as easily as via Chrome, and they prop up a competitor, in case the US DOJ ever gets their head out of their ass and starts to examine the state of the various markets they play in.
Depends on how narrowly you define "search" too; Do you include all the searches people conduct directly on Amazon or Facebook or Siri?
The reach of Google now relative to Microsoft 15 years ago is lower as a fraction of total users; it only seems higher because the absolute number of total users has grown so much.
Android's global smartphone penetration is at 86% in 2017[1]. And while the "relative reach" might be lower, the absolute impact of the data being Hoovered up is significant. In 2000, annual PC sales hit 130 million per the best figures I could find[2] … that's less than a tenth of smartphone sales in 2017 alone.
What does it matter that Google's relative reach is lower when they control nearly 9/10 smartphones globally and proudly boast over two billion monthly active devices?
The level of control isn't directly comparable. Microsoft sold Windows licenses for giant piles of money while Google licenses only the Play Store and other apps that run on Android. Android in China is a great example of the difference, although I guess Microsoft probably lost revenue (but not control over the UX) there via piracy.
Think of it this way: what incentive did Google, an advertising company, ever have to build and support a web browser in the first place?
Is this a real question asked in good faith? Maybe it's just been a long day but I really can't tell.
I was going for Socratic. You're quite welcome to assume anything you like about the goodness of my faith.
Got it - always happy to play along with Mr. Socrates ;) I mostly wanted to be sure I wasn't just biting on an obvious troll.
So, sounds like we're well into the third E of EEE. :-(
We took Microsoft to court for this. Ah, the world was young then.
If Google threatens Purism over the Librem5 using their Motorola patents, that'll be the true Microsoft
For example, they recently added a hidden empty div over YouTube videos that causes our hardware acceleration fast-path to bail
I've seen things like this over images across the web. I thought it was being done to prevent/impede right click and save. What I'd love to know is how people are supposed to develop accessibility tools around web pages that are intentionally trying to deceive web renderers; I'm guessing a lot of these sites know they're not accessible, but business considerations take priority. Of course, that also means they can't openly admit it.
I think the whole idea of adding a
div over it is that it impacts neither appearance nor accessibility, but only the render chain. Am I wrong on this—does adding a
div in front of a page impair screen readers & the like?
As a former YouTuber (with no current insight, nor past insight on the frontend engineering), I would be extremely surprised if it were intentional. It's simply not how Google and especially YouTube works: although Google's emergent behavior may sometimes work for evil, the individual engineers are mostly idealistic, and want what's best for everyone. YouTube in particular views itself as a fairly separate entity, with much more impetus to making their product work well for their users than misguided loyalty to the Chrome team.
I thought the conspiracy theory folks were wrong. It's looking like they were right. Google is indeed doing some shady stuff but I still think the outrage is overblown. It's a browser engine and Microsoft engineers have the skill set to fork it at any point down the line. In the short term the average user gets better compatibility which seems like a win overall even if the diversity proponents are a little upset.
I thought the conspiracy theory folks were wrong. It's looking like they were right. Google is indeed doing some shady stuff
If it's an organization, you should always look at their incentives to know whether they have a high likelihood of going bad. Google was a for-profit companies aiming for IPO. Their model was collecting info on people (aka surveillance company). These are all incentives for them to do shady stuff. Even if they want Don't Be Evil, the owners typically loose a lot of control over whether they do that after they IPO. That's because boards and shareholders that want numbers to go up are in control. After IPO's, decent companies start becoming more evil most of the time since evil is required to always make specific numbers go up or down. Bad incentives.
It's why I push public-benefit companies, non-profits, foundations, and coops here as the best structures to use for morally-focused businesses. There's bad things that can still happen in these models. They just naturally push organizations' actions in less-evil directions than publicly-traded, for-profit companies or VC companies trying to become them. I strongly advise against paying for or contributing to products of the latter unless protections are built-in for the users with regards to lock-in and their data. An example would be core product open-sourced with a patent grant.
Capitalism (or if you prefer, economics) isn't a "conspiracy theory". Neither is rudimentary business strategy. It's amusing to me how many smart, competent, highly educated technical people fail so completely to understand these things, and come up with all kinds of fanciful stories to bridge the gap. Stories about the role and purpose of the W3C, for instance.
Having read all these hand-wringy threads about implementation diversity in the wake of this EdgeHTML move, I wonder how many would complain about, say, the lack of a competitor to the Linux kernel? There's only one kernel, it's financially supported by numerous mutually distrustful big businesses and used by nearly everybody, its arbitrary decisions about its API are de-facto hard standards… and yet I don't hear much wailing and gnashing, even from the BSD folks. How is the linux kernel different than Chromium?
While I actually am concerned about a lack of diversity in server-side infrastructure, the Linux kernel benefits, as it were, from fragmentation.
There's only one kernel
This simply isn't true. There's only one development effort to contribute to the kernel. There is, on the other hand, many branches of the kernel tuned to different needs. As somebody who spent his entire day at work today mixing and matching different kernel variants and kernel modules to finally get something to work, I'm painfully aware of the fragmentation.
There's another big difference, though, and that's in leadership. Chromium is run by Google. It's open source, sure, but if you want your commits into Chromium, it's gonna go through Google. The documentation for how to contribute is littered with Google-specific terminology, down to including the special internal "go" links that only Google employees can use.
Linux is run by a non-profit. Sure, they take money from big companies. And yes, money can certainly be a corrupting influence. But because Linux is developed in public, a great deal of that corruption can be called out before it escalates. There have been more than a few developer holy wars over perceived corruption in the Linux kernel, down to allowing it to be "tainted" with closed source drivers. The GPL and the underlying philosophy of free software helps prevent and manage those kinds of attacks against the organization. Also, Linux takes money from multiple companies, many of which are in competition with each other. It is in Linux's best interest to not provide competitive leverage to any singular entity, and instead focus on being the best OS it can be.
Performance tuning is qualitatively different than ABI compatibility. Otherwise, I think you make some great points. Thanks!
If there is an internal memo at Google along the lines of "try to break the other web browsers' perf as much as possible" that is not "rudimentary business strategy", it's "ground for anti-trust action".
It's as good of a strategy as helping the Malaysian PM launder money and getting a 10% cut (which… hey might still pay off)
Main difference is that there are many interoperable implementations of *nix/SUS/POSIX libc/syscall parts and glibc+Linux is only one. A very popular one, but certainly not the only. Software that runs on all (or most) *nix variants is incredibly common, and when something is gratuitously incompatible (by being glibc+Linux or MacOS only) you do hear the others complain.
Software that runs on all (or most) *nix variants is incredibly common
If by "runs on" you mean "can be ported to and recompiled without major effort", then I agree, and you're absolutely right to point out the other parts of the POSIX and libc ecosystem that makes this possible. But I can't think of any software that's binary compatible between different POSIX-ish OSs. I doubt that's even possible.
On the other side of the analogy, in fairness, complex commerical web apps have long supported various incompatible quirks of multiple vendor's browsers.
How is the linux kernel different than Chromium?
As you just said it,
financially supported by numerous mutually distrustful big businesses
There's no one company making decisions about the kernel. That's the difference.
There's no one company making decisions about the kernel. That's the difference.
Here comes fuchsia and Google's money :/
I am disgusted with the Linux monoculture (and the Linux kernel in general), even more so than with the Chrome monoculture. But that fight was fought a couple decades ago, it's kinda late to be complaining about it. These complaints won't be heard, and even if they are heard, nobody cares. The few who care are hardly enough to make a difference. Yes we have the BSDs (and I use one) and they're in a minority position, kinda like Firefox…
How much of a monoculture is Linux, really? Every distro tweaks the kernel at least to some extent, there are a lot of patch sets for it in the open, and if you install a distro you get to choose your tools from the window manager onwards.
The corporatization of Linux is IMO problematic. Linus hasn't sent that many angry emails percentually, but they make the headlines every time, so my conspiracy theory is that the corporations that paid big bucks for board seats on the Foundation bullied him to take his break.
We know that some kernel decisions have been made in the interest of corporations that employ maintainers, so this could be the tip of an iceberg.
Like the old Finnish saying "you sing his songs whose bread you eat".
It's a browser engine and Microsoft engineers have the skill set to fork it at any point down the line.
I think this is true. If Google screws us over with Chrome, we can switch to Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave etc and still have an acceptable computing experience.
The real concerns for technological freedom today are Google's web application dominance and hardware dominance from Intel. It would be very difficult to get a usable phone or personal server or navigation software etc without the blessing of Google and Intel. This is where we need more alternatives and more open systems.
Right now if Google or Intel wants to, they can make your life really hard.
Do note that all but Firefox are somewhat controlled by Google.
Chrome would probably have been easier to subvert if it wasn't open source; now it's a kind of cancer in most "alternative" browsers.
I don't know. MIPS is open sourcing their hardware and there's also RISC-V. I think the issue is that as programmers and engineers we don't collectively have the willpower to make these big organizations behave because defecting is advantageous. Join the union and have moral superiority or be a mercenary and get showered with cash. Right now everyone chooses cash and as long as this is the case large corporations will continue to press their advantage.
"Join the union and have moral superiority or be a mercenary and get showered with cash. Right now everyone chooses cash and as long as this is the case large corporations will continue to press their advantage."
Boom. You nailed it! I've been calling it out in threads on politics and business practices. Most of the time, people that say they're about specific things will ignore them for money or try to rationalize how supporting it is good due to other benefits they can achieve within the corruption. Human nature. You're also bringing in organizations representing developers to get better pay, benefits, and so on. Developers are ignoring doing that more than creatives in some other fields.
Yup. I'm not saying becoming organized will solve all problems. At the end of the day all I want is ethics and professional codes of conduct that have some teeth. But I think the game is rigged against this happening.
I don't think RISC-V is ready for general purpose use. Some CPUs have been manufactured, but it would be difficult to buy a laptop or phone that carries one. I also think that manufacturing options are too limited. Acceptable CPUs can come from maybe Intel and TSMC and who knows what code/sub-sytems they insert into those.
This area needs to be more like LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office vs Google Docs vs others on Linux vs Windows vs MacOS vs others


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A FILM is set to recreate the moment two future prime ministers flirted at a dinner dance. BBC4 s drama – Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley – has Ted Heath whisking Thatcher, then Miss Roberts, off her feet at a North Kent Conservative dinner
A FILM is set to recreate the moment two future prime ministers flirted at a dinner dance.
BBC4's drama - Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley - has Ted Heath whisking Thatcher, then Miss Roberts, off her feet at a North Kent Conservative dinner dance in 1950.
As the music ends, Heath clasps Thatcher's waist and she shoots him a look of breathless approval.
"Shall we get some air?" he then says, heavily.
The film, due to be aired tonight, charts Mrs Thatcher's struggle for power from losing the Dartford general election vote in 1950 to winning Finchley in 1959.
A sexist 1950s Conservative Party saw her turned down for a long line of vacant seats, including Orpington and Beckenham.
Her Orpington rejection was painful, leading her to write to Tory Central Office, saying: "The only political temptation for the next 10 years was Orpington for which I have long had an affinity.
"Now that temptation has been removed for all time, I shall continue at the Bar with no further thought of a parliamentary career for many years."
Speaking about her earlier life, writer Tony Saint, who grew up in Labour heartland Newcastle, said: "I was intrigued by the way it was only barely sketched out in biographies about her, it felt as if there was an untold story to tell.
"First of these was the force of character that the young lady from Grantham displayed from the outset.
"Parachuted in to contest the hopeless seat of Dartford, she gave it absolutely everything and managed to cut the huge Labour majority by a third."
He said the film is meant to be foremost a comedy with a nod to Ealing Studios and the Boulting Brothers.
He added: "I'm not sure there's anyone who would claim to know exactly what was going on in Ted Heath's mind.
"Knowing the antipathy that later developed between Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, I was amazed to discover that they had fought neighbouring seats in the 1950 election and so knew each other well as far back as that."
Last year, Lady Thatcher's daughter, Carol Thatcher accused programme makers of warping history after hearing of a scene in which her mother rails against the 'f-ing Establishment'.
The idea that her mother would have used the f-word was 'laughable' and 'offensive', she said.
The line was removed after a call from BBC bosses to producers.
Geordie Andrea Riseborough, 26, who plays the Iron Lady, said: "If she watches it then I hope that Lady Thatcher will recognise that the film portrays the real struggle she went through to get into parliament.
"As we're not dealing with the truth here, it would be wrong for anyone to judge it on the basis of historical accuracy.
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38 Lessons in Baseball
As an 11-year-old, I was addicted to baseball. I listened to baseball games on the radio. I watched them on TV. The books I read were about baseball. I took baseball cards to church in hopes of trading with other baseball card junkies . My fantasies are all about baseball. With this attitude, I entered the 1956 Little League season.
Gordon, who moved into our neighborhood that year, also signed up to play baseball. Quite different from me, he was not addicted. Nor was he good. He couldn't catch. He couldn't hit. He couldn't throw. He couldn't run. In fact, he was afraid of the ball.
那年搬到我家附近的戈登也报名参加了比赛。戈登和我截然不 同,他对棒球并不上瘾,而且打得也不怎么样。他接不住球,不会击球,不会投球,也不会跑垒。实际上,他怕球。
I felt relieved when the final selections were made and Gordon was assigned to another team. Everyone had to play at least half of each game, and I couldn't see Gordon improving my team's chances in any way. Too bad for the other team.
After two weeks of practice, Gordon dropped out. My friends on his team laughed when they told me how their coach directed two of the team's better players to walk Gordon into the woods and have a chat with him. "Get lost" was the message they delivered. And Gordon got lost.
That scene violated my 11-year-old sense of justice, so I did what any indignant short stop would do. I tattled the whole story in full detail to my coach, figuring he would complain to the league office and have Gordon returned to his original team. Justice and my team's chances of winning would be served.
I was wrong. My coach decided that Gordon needed to be on a team that wanted him—one that treated him with respect, one that gave everyone a fair chance to contribute according to his own ability. Then Gordon joined our team.
I wish I could say Gordon got the big hit in the big game in the final inning . It didn't happen. Gordon didn't even hit a foul ball the entire season. Baseballs hit in his direction went over him, by him, through him or off him.... It wasn't that Gordon didn't get help. The coach gave him extra batting practice and worked with him on his fielding , all without much improvement.
I was not sure if Gordon learned anything from my coach that year. I know I did. I learned a lot from my coach that summer, but my most important lessons weren't about baseball. They were about character and integrity . I learned that we all have value, whether we can stop the ball or have to turn and chase it. I learned that doing what is right, fair and honorable is more important than winning or losing.
It felt good to be on that team that year. I was grateful that man was my coach. I was proud to be his shortstop and his son.
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Sec. 33-6-1. Definitions.
As used in this article:
Delinquent acts means those acts which violate the laws of the United States, or the statutes of the state or the ordinances of the city or those acts which would cause or tend to cause the minor to come under the jurisdiction of the juvenile division of the probate court as defined by MCLA 712A.2, but does not include traffic violations.
Illegal drugs means controlled substances obtained without a legal prescription.
Juvenile delinquent means those minors whose behavior interferes with the rights of others or menaces the welfare of the community. Minor means any person under the age of seventeen (17) years residing with a parent.
Parent means mother, father, legal guardian and any other person having the care or custody of a minor or any person acting in the parent's stead who has custody or control of the child.
(Code 1964, " 36-5-1; Ord. No. 9-87, " 1, 3-25-87)
Cross references: Definitions and rules of construction generally, " 1-1-2.
Sec. 33-6-2. Parental duties.
(a) It is the continuous duty of the parent of any minor to exercise reasonable control to prevent the minor from committing any delinquent act.
(b) Included (without limitation) in this continuous duty of reasonable parental control are the following parental duties:
(1) To keep illegal drugs or illegal firearms out of the home and legal firearms locked in places that are inaccessible to the minor;
(2) To know the city's curfew law and to require the minor to observe the curfew law;
(3) To require the minor to attend regular school sessions and to forbid the minor to be absent from class without parental or school permission;
(4) To arrange proper supervision for the minor when the parent must be absent;
(5) To forbid the minor from keeping stolen property, illegally possessing firearms or illegal drugs, or associating with known juvenile delinquents, and to seek help from appropriate governmental authorities or private agencies in handling or controlling the minor, when necessary; if it becomes known to the parent that the minor possesses stolen property, legal or illegal firearms, illegal drugs, or is associating with known juvenile delinquents.
(c) Penalties for the nonperformance of parental duties are set forth in section 33-6-4 of this article.
(Code 1964, " 36-5-1; Ord. No. 9-87, " 1, 3-25-87)
Cross references: Curfew, " 33-3-1 et seq.
Sec. 33-6-3. Notification of parents; record of notification.
(a) Whenever a minor is arrested or detained for the commission of any delinquent act within the city, the parent of the minor shall be immediately notified by the police department advising the parent of such arrest or detention, the reason therefore and the parent's responsibility under this article.
(b) A record of such notifications shall be kept by the police department.
(Code 1964, " 36-5-2; Ord. No. 9-87, " 1, 3-25-87)
Sec. 33-6-4. Parental violation and penalty.
(a) If a minor commits a delinquent act, the parent shall be guilty of a violation of this article if it is proven that any act, word, or nonperformance of parental duty by the parent encouraged, contributed toward, caused, or tended to cause the commission of the delinquent act by the minor.
(b) Upon the first conviction of a violation of this article, the parent shall be subject to a fine of not less than seventy-five dollars ($75.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(c) Upon the second conviction of a violation of this article, the parent shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and, in addition, be sentenced to probation upon the condition that the parent participate in, through completion, a court approved, community based treatment program (such as parenting skills, family services, employment and training, etc.) or, in the discretion of the court, be confined to the county jail for a period of not less than fifteen (15) days nor more than thirty (30) days.
(d) Upon the third or subsequent violations, the parent shall be subject to a fine of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and in the discretion of the court, confinement in the county jail for a term of not less than fifteen (15) nor more than ninety (90) days or sentenced to probation upon the condition that the parent participate in a government sponsored mandatory work program (alternative sentencing) for the duration of the sentence.
(e) The formula for alternative sentencing shall be comprised of a number of days of a required sentence; however, the sentence to the community self help or work program shall be upon the condition that if the violator fails to comply with the rules of the designated program, the sentence to the program shall be revoked and the violator shall actually serve a required jail sentence.
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LIKE so many children in Dubbo, cousins Alyssa Ferguson, 12, and Kaitlyn Rose, 11, were having fun riding their bikes on the street about 11am on Sunday.
Then they heard a baby cry. They rode towards the sound to a spot under a window of a nearby flat, where they found an abandoned newborn, who has since been named Sunday April.
Yesterday, as the baby was being cared for at Dubbo Base Hospital, police appealed for the mother to come forward.
Inspector Matt Goodwin of the Orana Local Area Command said the search had been extended to health and welfare agencies in a bid to identify the mother.
"It really is a concern for her safety and the ongoing welfare of the child," he said.
A hospital spokeswoman said Sunday was a full-term baby, very healthy and feeding well. "The nurses said she was a bit cold [when she was found] but she was very healthy." Police said doctors described Sunday as being of white or European appearance, and that she was born between 6am and 9am.
Alyssa's mother, Kerrianne Howarth, recounted what happened after her daughter and niece made their discovery. "They ran back as fast as they could, they just flew in the door and said 'there is a baby over there'," Ms Howarth said.
She and her eldest daughter "ran over there, and picked her up and put the blanket around her tighter, and brought her inside and rang triple-0".
"She wasn't distressed when I found her. The hospital later told me that she did have a bit of hypothermia. Her body temp was low because the cement over there would have been really cold.
"I think the [biggest] shock was that she was a newborn," Ms Howarth said. "On the way to hospital I nearly started crying. I just couldn't believe it. The little baby was gorgeous."
Ms Howarth's eldest daughter, Alex, had heard the cries earlier that morning. "I heard the baby crying first. My nephew and
I were having breakfast and
I heard a baby crying and thought, 'Oh someone is obviously not attending to their baby'," Alex said.
Mrs Howarth said: "It wasn't until the kids got on their bikes that we discovered where the cries had come from. So she was over there for two hours before anyone noticed her."


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