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Costa Coffee Club app is a testament to the power of a well-designed loyalty program that is integrated with a digital platform. By providing customers with convenient ordering and payment options, personalized offers, and a range of other features, Costa has successfully enhanced the customer experience and strengthened its position as a leading coffee retailer.

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∇owen (make it fluffy? pretty please?)

A fluffy aging/old age headcanon for Owen 💜

(I'm having kind of an emotional day so... sorry in advance)

Okay. In order for Owen to actually grow old, this has to be an au where he doesn't die on the staircase. I think there'd be a long, complicated, painful reconciliation process, but ultimately Curt and Owen would get back together. In this version of reality they get out of the spy game, and have a remote little place somewhere far away from either of their countries. Maybe Costa Rica or something like that. So let's take all that as read.

I like to think that Owen gets to have a home. A real home. That someday Curt brings home a stray dog he finds on the side of the road and Owen is dead set against having a dog, but eventually he and the dog become inseparable. I like to think that he gets a little patch of land, and spending his time growing things- beautiful flowers, vegetables he uses to make dinner- helps to heal something in him. Something he thought was broken forever after the fall.

I think as Owen gets into his 40s, a lot of the injuries he sustained in the fall start to get worse- arthritis in the places he had breaks, scar tissue, etc. Modern knee replacement surgeries last for around 15 years. I'd assume 1950s joint replacements are not quite as durable, so maybe ten years on he needs to have surgery to replace the worn out knee and hip replacements Chimera did for him.

And even though they've made a lot of progress, Owen hides how much pain he's in for a long time because he's terrified that Curt would leave him- if not for needing surgery to begin with, then certainly for all the care he would need for the long recovery afterwards. Curt wasn't there after the fall. He doesn't know how bad things were. Owen explained some of it to him, but couldn't bring himself to talk about having trouble walking, needing help to go to the bathroom, being constantly on the verge of tears for months because the pain was unbearable. The stuff nobody likes to talk about with injuries like that.

He has a lot of insecurities about himself that he didn't have when they were together before- burns, scars, limited mobility, chronic pain. His body is different now, and it's a long, slow, horrible grieving process to deal with that.

But eventually he has to have these joints replaced. He could hide the pain, but he can't hide it from Curt when his knee starts suddenly giving out on him. He was using a cane only on really bad pain days before, but as the joints start to break down he has to use it every day. So he gives Curt an out, tells him to go, maybe even tries to push him away. Owen tells himself that this would be easier for him to survive than Curt seeing the reality of his injuries after the surgeries and choosing to leave when Owen needs him the most. At least this way they're parting on terms Owen has some control over.

But Curt is older now. He's had a chance to be in a real relationship. The kind of thing where you wake up together and go to sleep together and have a home and a life together. And also he's stubborn as fuck. Curt has never had a problem caring about people, but he's never really been able to care for someone. To take care of someone. Hell, he could barely take care of himself sometimes. But he refuses to leave. He refuses to let Owen push him away. He chooses to commit, to stay, even if its messy and uncomfortable.

I think before all this, Curt was probably doing some defense/security contractor work- there's plenty of it out there for someone with his background. He does enough to pay the bills, which isn't much. And in his spare time he takes up woodworking. It keeps him busy. Keeps him doing something with his hands, something he gets to be creative with. So when Owen comes back home after having these big surgical procedures, Curt has built a little ramp so the wheelchair can get up the stairs. He's put up railings and hand-holds everywhere he can think of. He rebuilt a couple of doorframes to make them wider. He made a little cart on wheels that fits over the wheelchair, so Owen can still prepare and cook food if he's up for it. He really goes wild with it. He's still him, he still struggles to say how he feels in words, but he finds other ways to express it. He takes care of Owen's little garden while Owen is recovering (and accidentally pulls half of it up because he doesn't know the difference between a weed and a growing vegetable, but it's the thought that counts)

And they get through it. Curt understood on an intellectual level what happened to Owen after the fall, but didn't really have any way of knowing exactly what it means to be that injured, that dependant on the people around you to survive. So this thing that can and does drive a lot of couples apart (seriously look up the stats on men leaving their partners when they become sick/injured, its bad) ends up bringing them closer together. It ends up soothing that constant fear that Owen has had ever since they got back together- that at any moment Curt might just get sick of him or decide he isn't worth the trouble and leave him again. It helps Curt understand how vulnerable Owen was when Chimera convinced him to work for them.

Eventually Owen heals up, the chronic pain issues go back down to his post-fall baseline. He is still a full-time cane user, but Curt loves to find the most beautiful downed branches, exotic hardwoods, and make Owen a variety of canes. He gets into woodcarving so he can decorate them. He tells Owen that the cane makes him look distinguished, that its actually kinda hot. And Owen chooses to believe him.

By the time Owen is in his late 50s, maybe early 60s, he's a full time wheelchair user. He can walk short distances with a cane, but for the most part its better for him to just use the chair. But thats okay, because the house is pretty well adapted for him already. Curt helps him when he wants to tend to his garden, and he makes big family dinners whenever Tatiana and Barb come to visit.

Curt's mom visits while she's still alive, and although Curt and Owen never outright tell her about them, she knows. She knows the same way a kid knows that their unmarried aunt with short hair and a longterm female roommate is probably a lesbian, even if nobody ever says that word in front of them. She treats Owen like a son.

That's my soft, sappy, overly sentimental alternate universe headcanon for Owen Carvour growing old. That someone cares about him. Someone cares for him. Not because he's useful, not because he has skills they can exploit for their benefit. That Curt cares for Owen just because he loves him. And Owen loves Curt.

My dumb fluffy headcanon is that after the first half of their lives being so brutal and violent and painful, they get to have a second chance. A second chance they never should have gotten. A chance to find things that are beautiful and wonderful and hopeful. And they take that chance together.

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The NCIS franchise continues to expand—but not every show can last nearly as long as the mothership. Hawai’i, currently in its third season, will be ending with the May 6 episode.

“I was shocked” by the news of its cancellation, NCIS star Rocky Carroll tells TV Insider. “Less than two weeks ago, I was doing a talk show with Vanessa Lachey and LL COOL J. We were all sitting around celebrating being a part of the NCIS universe. You never know what the motivating factors are, but I’m hoping that those characters, because we still have the mothership as we call it, we still have NCIS: Sydney, and who knows, those characters may turn up. I mean, LL COOL J’s character came from Los Angeles and was in Hawai’i. So who’s to say that Vanessa Lachey’s character wouldn’t show up somewhere in the NCIS universe again?”

There are at least two more series coming, the Origins prequel about a younger Gibbs (played by Austin Stowell, with Mark Harmon narrating) and Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo reprising their roles of Tony and Ziva in an untitled spinoff. “I’m thrilled about [the expansion], and I think it’s a real testament to the staying power and the commitment of CBS Paramount to have this show be sort of the staple that we now have a brand that’s expanding,” Carroll says. “It’s like the Marvel universe now. New audiences, new generations of audiences can now have their show that they can say, ‘Yeah, I’ve been with it since season one,’ like the diehards from NCIS who are 22 years in now.”

With Carroll playing the director of the agency, while neither Tony nor Ziva remains with NCIS, it would be quite easy for him to appear in a video check-in, right? “It’s funny you should mention it. I just did a podcast with Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo, and we had a chat about that, and I said, ‘Who knows? Sometimes the director may need to come in and check in on you kids because you’re on the other side of the world here,'” shares Carroll. “That would be kind of fun. Video check-in would be nice. I’d like to see their faces when Vance just walks into the room.”

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But is there a spinoff he’d like to see in the franchise? He points out that there are divisions of the agency that have been introduced, like the REACT team. “The thing that made NCIS so interesting to begin with is [creator] Don Bellisario picked a federal agency that most people had no idea what NCIS stood for or what it was,” Carroll notes. “There’s all these other parts of this federal agency that you could focus on as opposed to just NCIS: Costa Rica—which wouldn’t be bad. I wouldn’t mind having Vance’s retirement job being a director in a small office in Costa Rica somewhere.”

Not every attempt at a spinoff has been a success; Los Angeles Season 4 introduced Red, the mobile unit, but that wasn’t ordered to series. “There’s never any guarantee,” according to Carroll. “But the universe has this solid footing now that you can take a chance, take a leap of faith, and say, ‘Well, let’s try it and see what happens.’ You know that the universe is still going to be safe, still going to exist.”

After all, NCIS is still going, even three seasons after its lead, Mark Harmon, exited. “There were star-driven shows in the ’70s and the ’80s. It was the name above the title and then the show.” Carroll recalls. “But now what CBS had done—and Harmon was a big factor in this, too, he always wanted the agency to be the star of the show. And CBS has been successful with other shows like CSI; once Billy Petersen left CSI, people thought, ‘Well, he was the main character behind it,’ but the show still had life after that. Because it was about the agency. And I think that’s one of the things that CBS does pretty much better than anybody else.”

[peakwealth]

No more silly season

Early morning sunshine and low cloud rising from the valley at Sever do Vouga, Portugal (July 2024)

Late September has brought the promise of a relaxed autumn. The afternoon shadows have lengthened and the nights have turned cool with clear skies and bright stars.

We used to look forward to summer. Now we are relieved when it is finally over, the punishing heat of southern Spain, the drunken rowdiness during the night and the crowds of tourists during the day.

Eloping to a more temperate part of Portugal brought temporary relief - see the preceding audio postcard from the small town of Sever do Vouga (1).

Summer also used to be the 'silly season' in the news business, when everyone was on holiday and there was nothing much to report. Not any more, the news is non-stop now and it is consistently awful.

I noted, with sadness and anger, that it was ten years ago that Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 was shot down over Ukraine with a Russian anti-aircraft missile. 298 people died, human debris twirling out of the summer sky. Justice has not been done, nor is it likely ever to be. Allowing Vladimir Putin to get away with this casual act of aggression opened the door to greater evil and unaccountability. This is where we are now.

But in the midst of horrific wars, summer fires and floods, I saw some hopeful stories popping up.

In no specific order of time or importance:

1. When the Labour party won the summer elections in the UK, Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his conservative seat in the House of Commons. Catholic, pompous, pin-striped and insufferable, Rees-Mogg is the son of a famous editor of the London Times (in the days when such editors were luminaries and persons of substance). He had been memorably called the Honourable Member for the 19th Century.

2. Another political wunderkind was sidelined when the French electorate turned against the hard-right Rassemblement national of Marine Le Pen. The mid-summer snap election went off the rails, delivering an unexpected swing to the left as well as a hung parliament. Jordan Bardella (29), Madame Le Pen's more Instagrammable front man, had been groomed to become prime minister. Not so. In some ways it was tempting to see Bardella as a junior version of Rees-Mogg, youthful looking and parvenu at the same time, both over-eager. Gone for now.

The good vibe ended there. President Emmanuel Macron ignored the outcome of the election and, after much hand-wringing and obfuscation, appointed an ageing conservative to be his new PM, Michel Barnier. Neither may last long.

Wall of shame at the 'duty-free' (Costa del Sol Airport, Spain, 2023)

3. The Geneva-based World Health Organization went out of its way to remind us about some of the great evil-doers of our age. Tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol cause a quarter of all deaths in Europe, the WHO said. (2)

“Today, we provide indisputable evidence of harmful commercial practices and products and we say people must take precedence before profit, always.” Hans Kluge, WHO Europe

No big news there, and the list of corporate bad actors and transnational manipulators is far from exhaustive, but it bears repeating. Every little bit of political pushback helps. In the US, more local governments (including California) are prosecuting oil majors and plastics manufacturers not only for the damage they do but for deceiving the (gullible) public about such things as recycling - a myth, according to the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, perpetuated by Exxon Mobil, among others.

Hohoho.

Latest version. (Screenshot company website)

4. Talking about pushback, I was interested to see families of one recent school shooting in the US suing companies which, they assert, help gun makers promote their weapons to 'insecure (…) socially vulnerable' adolescent boys.

On May 24, 2022, an eighteen year old former student used an AR-15 assault rifle to kill nineteen children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Earlier in the day he had shot his grandmother in the face, apparently a premeditated act.

Lawsuits have been filed against Meta, the parent company of Instagram, and against Activision Blizzard (Microsoft owned), the developer of 'Call of Duty', a military video game favoured by the killer. The company prides itself of bringing "unrivalled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy".

As for the manufacturer of the gun used in the assault, it is also being sued. Daniel Defense is a family owned company based in Georgia. ("Freedom. Passion. Precision")

Daniel Defense online shopping website. (Screenshot)

This is not the first time families of children murdered in their schools sue companies they hold responsible for facilitating gun violence. The Uvalde families have also promised legal action against police officers. Local police were heavily criticized for their slow, timorous and chaotic response to the assault.

5. Personal or corporate responsibility for illicit content on social media and messaging apps remains a hot potato. So I took notice when Pavel Durov (39), the founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested in Paris in August. French police were waiting for Durov when he arrived in Paris from Baku, Azerbaijan, on a private jet. Investigators wanted to know about online criminal activity on Telegram, his global messaging platform with roots in Russia and almost a billion users, some of whom are said to be particularly unsavoury. Nothing to do with me, Durov told the police, but he was held for four days, prevented from leaving France and required to post bail of five million euros. He holds French citizenship. The investigation continues.

Hohoho. Has Elon Musk been to France recently?

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(1) Sever do Vouga is a municipality in the Portuguese district of Aveiro, north of Coimbra and south of Porto. Population around 12,000 (declining). Coordinates: 40°44′N - 8°22′W .

(2) https://www.politico.eu/article/world-health-organization-government-tobacco-food-fossil-fuels-alcohol-europe-deaths-harm/

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Cyber Security Procurement Intelligence: Trends and Outlook

The cyber security category is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 12.3% from 2023 to 2030. With a 34.9% share in 2022, North America dominated this category. Numerous prominent data breach incidents have recently made headlines between 2021 and 2022. Threats to company security exposed potentially millions of Americans' sensitive information, including usernames, passwords, and credit card data at organizations such as Yahoo!, Uber, and Target. It is imperative that even the world's largest companies remain vigilant about security vulnerabilities since hackers and cybercriminals develop new ways to access sensitive systems. Hence, there is an increased demand for cyber security experts and information security professionals worldwide. This is in turn driving the category growth significantly.

The fact that most companies simply cannot risk a breach of information is one of the primary reasons the cyber security industry is expanding. According to the IBM data breach report in 2023, the average global cost of a data breach in 2023 amounted to USD 4.45 million. This is an increase of 15% from the previous three years. A sum that can force many companies to shut down. According to IBM estimates in the same report, in reaction to a breach, 51% of firms intend to boost security spending on technologies for threat detection and response, personnel training, and incident response (IR) preparation and monitoring. Compared to organizations that do not utilize security artificial intelligence and automation substantially, organizations that do use it on a regular basis save an average of USD 1.76 million. Only 28% of organizations adopted notable use of security AI, which minimized costs and expedited containment in 2023. 

The top trends in the cyber security industry include advancements in cloud security, Ransomware as a Service (RaaS), IoT, and cyber threat intelligence solutions. IBM 2023 report shows that data stored in the cloud was involved in 82% of breaches. According to Statista’s 2023 report, more than 72% of organizations fall prey to ransom attacks. IBM 2022 estimates show that it takes about 49 days to detect a ransomware threat. The importance of cloud security services is growing as a result of remote employment, outsourcing, and expanding mobility trends. Also, a steady rise in RaaS platforms will be observed over the coming years. The most noteworthy example was when the governments of Australia and Costa Rica were victims of one of the largest ransomware attacks in 2022.

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The category is highly fragmented and disorganized. The government and electoral security measures are complicated by the category’s fragmentation globally. The most notable instance was the U.S. presidential election in 2020. Due to the increasing amount of information breaches and threats, companies are trying to find solutions that safeguard data as it travels across clouds, databases, applications, and services while also enabling visibility across hybrid environments. On the other hand, in the European region, the fragmentation in the cyber security category is a major obstacle hindering the EU's ability to scale up. This in turn forces cyber security companies to seek alternative markets to expand. Although the EU recognizes the significance of cyber security legislation, it still falls behind other competitors worldwide in terms of establishing a cohesive ecosystem and offering avenues for investment in this category. All these factors reduce the bargaining power of the suppliers.

The primary costs associated with this category are the cost of salaries for cyber security experts, software/application development, hardware, network and servers, maintenance and upgrades, facilities, deployment type (cloud, on-premises, or offshore), and others. Other costs can include training and development, utilities, tax, random testing, checks, etc. Security accounts for 11 - 13% of companies' IT budgets. The average cost of cyber security amounts to USD 2,000 (approx.) per full-time employee or roughly 0.5% of the total revenue generated annually. A few factors that affect the total cost of cyber security include industry type, number of employees, hardware or software technology type used, compliance and mandates, pre-existing security measures, firewalls, audits, etc. The cost of firewalls can range between USD 400 – 6,000. Leading cost-saving strategies in this category include using a DevSecOps methodology and performing penetration and application testing.

The Global Insurance Market Index 2023 report estimate shows that the prices of cyber insurance globally slowed in Q1 2023 in the U.S., with average price increasing by just 11% as opposed to 28% rises during Q4 2022. Adjustments in the two largest international markets, the U.S. and the U.K., were the driving force behind the moderation. Greater competition, better cyber security measures, and a decrease in recorded ransomware attacks in 2022 were among the main causes of the mild change.

The most common types of pricing models adopted include a licensing-based model, a cloud-only SaaS model, or all-inclusive models. With all-inclusive models, companies can take advantage of the predictive nature of SaaS, while deploying the software in a flexible and cost-effective manner. Cyber security operations are outsourced (partial or hybrid outsourcing) by many companies to achieve better cost savings and higher effectiveness. An important development is the growing utilization of managed security service providers (MSSPs). In hybrid models, strategic responsibilities are often handled by in-house security executives, managers, and senior experts while lower-level tasks, including monitoring, are handled by MSSPs. The most preferred countries for outsourcing cyber security are India, Singapore, China, Vietnam, and Sweden.

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• Clinical IT Services Procurement Intelligence Report, 2023 - 2030 (Revenue Forecast, Supplier Ranking & Matrix, Emerging Technologies, Pricing Models, Cost Structure, Engagement & Operating Model, Competitive Landscape) 

• Database Management Systems Procurement Intelligence Report, 2023 - 2030 (Revenue Forecast, Supplier Ranking & Matrix, Emerging Technologies, Pricing Models, Cost Structure, Engagement & Operating Model, Competitive Landscape)

Cyber Security Procurement Intelligence Report Scope 

• Cyber Security Category Growth Rate: CAGR of 12.3% from 2023 to 2030

• Pricing Growth Outlook: 11% - 18% (Annually)

• Pricing Models: Licensing-based model, a cloud-only SaaS model, or all-inclusive models

• Supplier Selection Scope: Cost and pricing, past engagements, productivity, geographical presence

• Supplier Selection Criteria: By deployment, types of threats checked and tested (phishing, social engineering, ransomware, malware), security issues (audit and compliance, remote access, privileged access management, incident response), cyber insurance, operational and functional capabilities, software and technology used, data privacy regulations, and others

• Report Coverage: Revenue forecast, supplier ranking, supplier positioning matrix, emerging technology, pricing models, cost structure, competitive landscape, growth factors, trends, engagement, and operating model

Key Companies Profiled

• BAE Systems Plc

• Broadcom, Inc.

• Delinea Inc.

• Check Point Software Technology Ltd.

• Cisco Systems, Inc.

• FireEye, Inc.

• Fortinet, Inc.

• IBM Corporation

• Lockheed Martin Corporation

• LogRhythm, Inc.

• McAfee, LLC.

• Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

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A smart and effective supply chain is essential for growth in any organization. Pipeline division at Grand View Research provides detailed insights on every aspect of supply chain, which helps in efficient procurement decisions.

Our services include (not limited to):

• Market Intelligence involving – market size and forecast, growth factors, and driving trends

• Price and Cost Intelligence – pricing models adopted for the category, total cost of ownerships

• Supplier Intelligence – rich insight on supplier landscape, and identifies suppliers who are dominating, emerging, lounging, and specializing

• Sourcing / Procurement Intelligence – best practices followed in the industry, identifying standard KPIs and SLAs, peer analysis, negotiation strategies to be utilized with the suppliers, and best suited countries for sourcing to minimize supply chain disruptions

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Data Center Cooling Systems Market - Forecast(2024 - 2030)

Data Center Cooling Systems Market Overview

The data center cooling market size was valued at USD 13.51 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow from USD 14.85 billion in 2023 to USD 30.31 billion by 2030. The increasing adoption of various cooling strategies such as free cooling, air containment and closed loop cooling in order to manage equipment temperature is boosting the data center cooling system market. In addition, the growing demand for room-level cooling for utilizing down-flow computer-room air conditioners (CRACs) is tremendously driving the data center cooling system market size during the forecast period 2021-2026. The outsourcing of data center services to a colocation facility frees up precious IT power, enabling a company to rely more on research and development rather than on an ongoing basis learning the ins and outs of its network. Money that may have been invested on running a data center might go into market analysis or product creation, providing additional ways for corporations to make the most of their current capital and achieve their business objectives.

In an era dominated by digital transformation, the demand for robust and efficient data center cooling systems has never been more critical. The Global Data Center Cooling Systems Market is witnessing a paradigm shift towards sustainability, as businesses recognize the need for energy-efficient solutions to support their growing digital infrastructure.

Report Coverage

The report: “Data Center Cooling Systems Market Forecast (2021-2026)”, by IndustryARC, covers an in-depth analysis of the following segments of the Data Center Cooling Systems Market.

By Cooling Strategies: Free Cooling (Air-Side Economization, Water-side Economization), Air Containment (Code-Aisle Containment and Hot-Aisle Containment), Closed Loop Cooling.

By End-use Types: Data Center Type (Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 and Tier 4).

By Industry Verticals: Telecommunication (Outdoor Cabin, Mobile network computer rooms and Railway switchgear), Oil and Gas/Energy/Utilities, Healthcare, IT/ITES/Cloud Service Providers, Colocation, Content & Content Delivery Network, Education, Banking and Financial Services, Government, Food & Beverages, Manufacturing/Mining, Retail and others.

By Cooling Technique: Rack/Row Based and Room Based

By Service: Installation/Deployment Services, Maintenance Services and Monitoring Software (DCIM and Remote Climate Monitoring Services).

By Geography: North America (U.S, Canada, Mexico), South America(Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica and others), Europe(Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Denmark and Others), APAC (China, Japan India, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia and Others), and RoW (Middle east and Africa).

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Key Takeaways

In 2020, the Data Center Cooling System market was dominated by North American region owing to the adoption of environmental-friendly solutions in the data centers.

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms in order to predict the energy usage by the equipment in the data centers negatively and positively are further accelerating the market growth.

With the growing demand for environmental-friendly solutions in order to reduce carbon footprints from the data centers is leading to fuel the demand for data center cooling systems market.

The rising inefficient power performance leading to the shut-down of the cooling systems in data centers and further leading to financial risk to businesses. This factor is thus hampering the growth of the market.

Data Center Cooling Systems Market Segment Analysis - By Industry Vertical

Telecommunication segment held the largest market share in the Data Center Cooling System market in 2020 at 34.1%. The demand for effective data centers is growing tremendously which is leading the telecommunication sector to keep their facilities operational. This is also leading to reliability, energy consumption and maintenance. The need for efficiently managing thermal loads in the telecom facilities and electronic enclosures are enhancing the data cooling systems market. In addition, the rising usage of data center cooling systems allows telecom customers to install more communication equipment.

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Data Center Cooling Systems Market Segment Analysis – By End User

Data Center Cooling Market is segmented into Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 on the basis of organization size. The Tier 1 segment is anticipated to witness the highest market share of 49.4% in 2020. Commoditization and ever-increasing data center architecture changes have tilted the balance in favor of outsourced colocations. Colocation services have the facilities construction experience and pricing capacity by economies of scale. This results to provide electricity, energy and cooling at rates that individual businesses who develop their own data centers cannot access. Consequently, colocation service providers operates their facilities considerably more effectively. The return-on - investment model no longer supports businesses that are developing their own vital project facilities. Another major driver for the new IT network is the drastic rise in demand for higher power densities. Virtualization and the continuing push to accommodate more workloads within the same footprint have created problems for existing data centers designed for the purpose. From a TCO (total cost of ownership) viewpoint, the expense of retrofitting an existing building with the electricity and cooling systems required to meet network demands is significantly greater than the cost of utilizing new colocation facilities. These two considerations have tilted the scales in favor of colocation for all but the very biggest installations — businesses including Amazon, Apple, Google , and Microsoft.

Data Center Cooling Systems Market Segment Analysis - By Geography

In 2020, North America dominated the Data Center Cooling System market with a share of more than 38.1%, followed by Europe and APAC. The adoption of data center cooling technologies such as calibrated vectored cooling, chilled water system and among others by mid-to-large-sized organizations in the US are driving the market growth in this region. Additionally, the US-based data centers and companies are majorly focusing on the need for cost-effective and environmentally friendly solutions which results in the demand for efficient data center cooling systems. Furthermore, the presence of an increasing number of data centers in the US is further propelling the growth of data center cooling system market in this region. 

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Data Center Cooling Systems Market Drivers

Rising need for Environmental-Friendly Solutions

The growing demand for money-saving and eco-friendly solutions for the reduction of energy consumed in IT and telecom industry is enhancing the demand for data center cooling systems. The development of data center with ultra-low-carbon footprint by key player such as Schneider Electric is further embracing the growth of the market. Therefore, the demand for reducing carbon footprint of data centers is further escalating the need for environmental friendly solutions which will thereby drive the data center cooling system market.

Integration of Artificial Intelligence in the Cooling Systems

The deployment of advanced technology has highly enhanced various facilities and systems such as data center cooling systems. This deployment has led to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) for data center cooling that gathers data by using sensors in every five minutes. The AI-based algorithms has become the major factor which is predicting the different combinations in a data center negatively and positively which affects the use of energy. As, companies are looking for ideal solutions in order to maintain temperatures in their data centers which is further embracing the AI, and thus surging the growth for the market.

Data Center Cooling Systems Market Challenges

Inefficient Power Performance

Data centers require huge amount of power to run effectively, and the presence of inefficient power performance becomes a critical issue for data center to run smoothly. The lack of effective power performance leads to slow or shut down of the cooling systems that further results in the closing of data center in order to avoid any damage to the equipment. This shut down of the data center also results in affecting the business operation causing financial risk to the business. Therefore, these key factor highly leads to hamper the growth of the data center cooling system market. 

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Data Center Cooling Systems Market Landscape

Technology launches, acquisitions and R&D activities are key strategies adopted by players in the Data Center Cooling Systems market. In 2020, the market of Data Center Cooling Systems has been consolidated by the major players – Emerson Network Power, APC, Rittal Corporation, Airedale International, Degree Controls Inc., Schneider Electric Equinix, Cloud Dynamics Inc, KyotoCooling BV, Simon and among others.

Acquisitions/Technology Launches

In July 2020, Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) major provider of single-phase immersion cooling for data centers announced the closing of $7 million series B investment. This funding will allow GRC to raise additional capital in order to support new product development and strategic partnerships. This new funding will enhance OEM agreement with Dell offering warranty coverage for Dell servers in GRC immersion systems. The other agreement will include OEM agreement with HPE, pilot projects leading to production installations, extension of many existing customer locations, winning phase one of the AFWERX initiative of the Air Force.

In May 2020, Schneider Electric partnered with EcoDataCenter in order to develop an ultra-low-carbon-footprint data center at HPC colocation in Falun, Sweden. This data center will be amongst the most sustainable data center in the Nordics, which will enhance Schneider’s EcoStruxure Building Operation, Galaxy VX UPS with lithium-Ion, and MasterPact MTZ are just some of the solutions.

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Enjoying Online Pizza Delivery in Puerto Banus

Puerto Banus, located in the heart of Marbella on the Costa del Sol, is renowned for its luxurious lifestyle, stunning marina, and vibrant nightlife. Among its many attractions, the culinary scene stands out, offering a diverse range of dining experiences. For those who prefer the comfort of their own home or a cozy gathering with friends, online pizza puerto banus provides a convenient and delicious option. Here’s everything you need to know about ordering pizza online in this glamorous part of Spain.

Why Choose Online Pizza Delivery?

Convenience:

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Austria’s Coffee Market is Expected to Grow at a Significant Growth Rate, and the Forecast Period is 2023-2030, Considering the Base Year as 2022.

The Austria coffee market is a thriving segment within the country's broader food and beverage industry. Renowned for its rich coffee culture and discerning consumers, Austria boasts a vibrant market characterized by a diverse range of coffee products and experiences. From traditional Viennese coffeehouses serving up classic blends to modern specialty cafes offering innovative brews, coffee holds a special place in Austrian society. Despite its relatively small size compared to global coffee giants, Austria maintains a high per capita consumption rate, indicating the significant role coffee plays in the daily lives of Austrians. Key players in the market include both international coffee chains and local roasters, each contributing to the dynamic landscape of the industry.

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Leading players involved in the Austria Coffee Market include:

Süssmund Kaffee (Austria), Kaffeefabrik (Austria), Wildkaffee (Austria), Starbucks (USA), McCafé (USA), Segafredo Zanetti (Italy), Lavazza (Italy), Illy (Italy), Tchibo (Germany), Julius Meinl (Austria), Tim Hortons (Canada), Nespresso (Switzerland), Costa Coffee (United Kingdom), Dunkin' Donuts (USA), Caffè Nero (United Kingdom), Coffee Fellows (Germany), Bristot (Italy), Dallmayr (Germany), Wacker's Kaffee (Austria), Coffee Pirates (Austria) and Other Major Players

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One significant driver propelling the growth of the Austria coffee market is the increasing demand for premium and specialty coffee products. With a growing consumer preference for high-quality and ethically sourced coffee beans, there has been a surge in the popularity of specialty coffee shops and artisanal roasters across Austria. Consumers are increasingly seeking unique flavor profiles, sustainable sourcing practices, and transparency in the coffee production process. This trend presents opportunities for both established players and new entrants to differentiate themselves by offering premium offerings that cater to the evolving tastes and preferences of Austrian coffee enthusiasts.

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An emerging market opportunity within the Austria coffee sector lies in the expansion of coffee-related technology and innovation. As digitalization continues to transform various industries, there is potential for the integration of technology into the coffee experience, from automated brewing systems to mobile ordering platforms. Additionally, there is growing interest in alternative brewing methods, such as cold brew and nitro coffee, presenting opportunities for companies to capitalize on changing consumer preferences. By leveraging technology and innovation, businesses can enhance customer engagement, streamline operations, and tap into new revenue streams within the Austria coffee market.

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Segmentation of Austria Coffee Market:

By Forms

Whole Coffee Beans

Ground Coffee

Instant Coffee

Coffee Pods & Capsules

Espresso

Others

By Source

Arabica

Robusta

By Speciality Coffee

Single-Origin Coffee

Micro-Lot Coffee

Organic Coffee

Direct Trade Coffee

Cold Brew & Nitro Cold Brew Coffee Others

By Process

Caffeinated

Decaffeinated

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Vanilla

Caramel

Hazelnut

Mocha

Cinnamon

Others

By Distribution Channel

On-trade

Off-trade

By End-Users

Individual Coffee Drinkers

Coffee Shop Patrons

Office & Workplace Consumers

Catering & Hospitality Industry

Bakeries & Dessert Shops

Others

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North America (US, Canada, Mexico)

Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Rest of Eastern Europe)

Western Europe (Germany, UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Spain, Rest of Western Europe)

Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, The Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Rest of APAC)

Middle East & Africa (Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Israel, South Africa)

South America (Brazil, Argentina, Rest of SA)

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Market Study: It includes key market segments, key manufacturers covered, product range offered in the years considered, Global Austria Coffee Market, and research objectives. It also covers segmentation study provided in the report based on product type and application.

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In late January, standing before a crowd of more than a hundred evangelical Christians and pastors, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro affirmed his faith in Christ. “I believe in Christ the Redeemer, the Christ of the peoples that faced the Pharisees, the brave Christ that sought justice and equality,” he said to great applause. Maduro then publicly ordered his staff to prioritize evangelical churches’ access to radio stations and announced that his government would start a welfare program to renovate churches and give bonuses to pastors.

It’s not the first time Maduro has tried to court Venezuela’s evangelical Christians. But his efforts—which critics say violate the country’s separation of church and state—are ramping up ahead of the 2024 presidential election, when the mainstream opposition will participate for the first time since 2013. The election is crucial to Maduro, who has struggled to gain international legitimacy since the disputed 2018 election. For Maduro, evangelical support could be key to shoring up his base—and finally regaining international recognition.

This might seem like a strange political tactic in a country where more than 70 percent of the population identifies as Roman Catholic, according to a 2020 poll. But the minority religion has grown in the country in recent decades, and the same poll reported that 13 percent of Venezuelans considered themselves evangelical Christians.

Evangelical Christians have become more influential in politics throughout Latin America. But in most of the region, they have largely supported conservative governments and coalitions, which have seen less success in recent years amid the region’s left turn. For instance, evangelical churches were among the most important allies of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, while an evangelical Christian music singer almost won Costa Rica’s 2018 presidential elections with a campaign opposing gay marriage.

In Venezuela, however, evangelical Christians have largely aligned themselves with Chavismo, the far-left movement of Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez. This unusual convergence could be a product of the country’s authoritarian system. In neighboring Colombia, evangelical parties mobilized the population against a 2016 proposal to sign a peace treaty with Marxist guerrilla groups. But in Venezuela, people don’t want to “be arrested or harassed,” said David Smilde, a sociologist and senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. “You won’t see evangelicals mobilizing against a government like that.” In Smilde’s view, churches have simply sought to gain as much as they can under the current system.

Maduro’s approach, Smilde said, could also be a tactic to fight the influence of the Catholic Church, which has been openly critical of Chavismo since the early 2000s. While the Catholic Church isn’t one of the main political actors in Venezuela, it has influenced public opinion and has been critical of authoritarian governments since the 1950s; Jesuit institutions have also long influenced the country’s progressive and democratic movements.

In fact, Maduro announced the new church welfare programs to evangelical leaders a few days after Catholic authorities criticized him for reassuring the country that an economic recovery was taking place while a series of teacher-led protests against low salaries and working conditions raged on across the country.

“The government is seeking alliances that mobilize people and win support,” said Alfredo Infante, the Jesuits’ representative in Venezuela. “We could be in front of a new political phenomenon—for me, not positive at all—in which religious sectors are allied with political sectors.”

It’s not the first time that evangelical Christians have loosely allied with Chavistas. Their relationship started to develop as Chávez rose to power in 1999. “Chavismo was a moral rejection of technocracy,” said Smilde, an expert in the history of evangelical Christianity in Venezuela. “[Chávez] reached out to progressive Catholics, evangelicals, feminists, ecological movements”—basically “anybody who was critical” of the neoliberal Venezuelan governments of the 1990s.

When he came to power, Chávez gave evangelicals access to some of the privileges the Catholic Church had—for example, by letting them influence religious education in public schools—as part of his efforts to loosen Catholicism’s grip on the country, Smilde said. His government’s relations with the Catholic Church hit their nadir in 2003, when Chávez’s supporters threw rocks and set off fireworks at the funeral of an anti-Chavista cardinal and later decapitated a statue of the Virgin Mary in a square associated with the opposition.

Chávez’s close ties with some evangelical churches reached their peak in 2004, when 2,000 evangelical churches organized the “A Million Prayers for Peace” rally to pray and support Chávez in a recall referendum. Then the relationship came to a “screeching halt” in October 2005, when Chávez expelled New Tribes Mission (NTM) from Venezuela, Smilde said. NTM was a U.S. evangelical organization preaching among the Indigenous tribes of the Venezuelan Amazon, but Chávez accused its missionaries of being imperialist agents and CIA collaborators a few months after U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson publicly called for Chávez’s assassination.

It wasn’t until the late 2010s that evangelical pastors and churches made a political comeback. Maduro started to see the value of evangelical support when Chavismo’s popularity collapsed amid Venezuela’s severe economic and humanitarian crises. Since at least 2019, when he proclaimed a National Pastor Day, Maduro has organized events with thousands of pastors associated with the Christian Evangelical Movement for Venezuela (MOCEV), a group that claims 17,000 evangelical churches under its leadership. MOCEV is led by Moisés García, a pastor who is also a lawmaker from Maduro’s party.

“Many [evangelicals] have their own aspirations and see an opportunity,” Smilde said, and want to “stitch” themselves into the government’s clientelist networks. According to state media, 2,500 churches have received government aid and 13,915 pastors have been registered to receive aid since 2022. (The denomination was not specified, but evangelical churches are more likely to receive aid, since Catholic churches tend to have other sources of funding.) The share of money earmarked for “religious development” in Venezuela’s 2023 national budget approved by the Chavista-controlled National Assembly is equal to the funding for science and culture combined.

Maduro, who remains deeply unpopular, may need evangelicals’ support. If he manages to negotiate the conditions for free and fair elections in 2024 in exchange for sanctions relief, and thus make the elections legitimate in the eyes of the international community, the playing field could get competitive. While evangelicals’ vote may not be decisive, Smilde said, their churches and associations could mobilize members and bring considerable support to Maduro’s coalition ahead of a close election.

Yet while some evangelical Christian groups back Maduro, they are not united in their support. Some evangelical organizations—especially the oldest, most established ones, such as the Evangelical Council of Venezuela—have been mildly critical of his regime. Moreover, some evangelicals have tried to chart their own path separate from Maduro and the mainstream opposition, though they’re not revolutionary—they still follow the Chavista system’s rules.

In 2018, evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci, the leader of the Christian democratic party Hope for Change, ran for a president in an election boycotted by the mainstream opposition and not recognized by Western and Latin American democracies. Bertucci won more than a million votes—more than 10 percent of the vote.

Hope for Change, which considers itself an opposition party, has evangelical Christians in its ranks but is not part of MOCEV. Recently, it has engaged in its own talks with the government, which have been separate from the mainstream opposition’s negotiation process. Alfonso Campos, an evangelical congressman from Hope for Change, said his party believes “that the only way to achieve change is through the democratic way—the institutional way.” But these side negotiations end up helping the Maduro regime put on a democratic facade and weakening the mainstream opposition by dividing it. Members of the party “don’t question the government’s institutionalism, even if it’s unfair or illegal,” said Hector Briceño, a sociologist and researcher at the Central University of Venezuela.

Hope for Change’s strategy of participating within the Chavista system hasn’t turned it into a major party in Venezuela, but it has helped it win local elections. While its three gubernatorial candidates in the 2021 regional elections lost (the most successful won more than 22 percent of the vote), 79 municipal councilors and 17 state legislators running on the party ticket were elected. Still, it only won fewer than 105,000 votes—less than 2 percent of the state vote—mostly in rural areas and the state of Carabobo, which is home to Bertucci’s Maranatha Church.

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Although Campos, the evangelical lawmaker, hopes evangelical forces will unite and “rescue human society,” it’s unlikely for now that evangelical Christianity will rise as a political force of its own. But it can continue to grow its influence within Venezuela’s dominant party—and if Maduro does stay in power, evangelicals’ ability to stifle progressive social movements shouldn’t be underestimated.

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Google launching ChatGPT-like product

After worldwide popularity and being called the future AI, ChatGPT has got Microsoft's backing and together they are building the future. Seeing this, there is no way that Google will fall behind, especially in the AI industry. After giving us Google Assistant, Google was seen as the leader in AI.  Now that many people are claiming that ChatGPT is the future and it will kill Google. Google is secretly planning to launch a similar product like ChatGPT in May this year. It is being said that this Google AI product will be more advanced and powerful than ChatGPT. Though the news is not officially been confirmed by Google rumors strongly claim that Google will launch something surely in competition with ChatGPT. Also Read: Henry Cavill is back! As Superman??

Google layoff its 6% of its employees

The news that has been trending is that Google is going to lay off 12,000 of its employees. This is the first time in Google’s history that Google is firing employees at this number. It is almost about 6% of their workforce. This trend was started by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Twitter. Amazon made 18,000 jobs cut off and Microsoft made 10,000 jobs cut off. And we are all aware of the circus events of Twitter which fired almost half of its workforce. Now Google is following in the footsteps. This news was spread when an email was leaked which was sent to the company’s staff. What was in the memo is given below: 

Googlers, I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We’ve already sent a separate email to employees in the US who are affected. In other countries, this process will take longer due to local laws and practices. This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with. I’m deeply sorry for that. The fact that these changes will impact the lives of Googlers weighs heavily on me, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here. Over the past two years, we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today. I am confident about the huge opportunity in front of us thanks to the strength of our mission, the value of our products and services, and our early investments in AI. To fully capture it, we’ll need to make tough choices. So, we’ve undertaken a rigorous review across product areas and functions to ensure that our people and roles are aligned with our highest priorities as a company. The roles we’re eliminating reflect the outcome of that review. They cut across Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels, and regions. To the Googlers who are leaving us: Thank you for working so hard to help people and businesses everywhere. Your contributions have been invaluable and we are grateful for them. While this transition won’t be easy, we’re going to support employees as they look for their next opportunity. In the US: - We’ll pay employees during the full notification period (minimum 60 days). - We’ll also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks' salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU vesting. - We’ll pay 2022 bonuses and the remaining vacation time. - We’ll be offering 6 months of healthcare, job placement services, and immigration support for those affected. - Outside the US, we’ll support employees in line with local practices. As an almost 25-year-old company, we’re bound to go through difficult economic cycles. These are important moments to sharpen our focus, re-engineer our cost base, and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities. Being constrained in some areas allows us to bet big on others. Pivoting the company to be AI-first years ago led to groundbreaking advances across our businesses and the whole industry. Thanks to those early investments, Google’s products are better than ever. And we’re getting ready to share some entirely new experiences for users, developers, and businesses, too. We have a substantial opportunity in front of us with AI across our products and are prepared to approach it boldly and responsibly. All this work is a continuation of the “healthy disregard for the impossible” that’s been core to our culture from the beginning. When I look around Google today, I see that same spirit and energy driving our efforts. That’s why I remain optimistic about our ability to deliver on our mission, even on our toughest days. Today is certainly one of them. I’m sure you have many questions about how we’ll move forward. We’ll be organizing a town hall on Monday. Check your calendar for details. Until then, please take good care of yourselves as you absorb this difficult news. As part of that, if you are just starting your work day, please feel free to work from home today. -Sundar Read the full article

[aethereallynephilim]

2023/01/08

this week has been one that has been up and down. trying to get back into the swing of college has been a pain, i have been trying to balance out college with my work and also not having my mental health go down the drain. it is a double edged sword. i find it hard to find balance. balance is very important!

i had a blood test on tuesday which was fine. sure i worried a lot about the results and i still am but i have a rheumatology appointment on the thirteenth so hopefully everything will be fine. i am still worried though i just want to keep my head up. i want to keep pushing.

i got my lamda results back and i got two distinctions! i am so proud of it, i didn't expect to get them but it is so fucking awesome.

some of you may know this most are unlikely to but i love mixology, i find it interesting and i love the theory behind it and this week, today in fact i got my first mixology set with all of the essentials, a shaker, a strainer, bar spoon, muddler, jigger and pourers. so i'll be able to learn a little, learn a skill that can help me with my acting but it also in a way can help with my mobility and strength in my hands/arms.

i bought some fear foods went mother and i went shopping and i have been trying to push myself. especially after my blood test and how badly my body reacted to it made me realise again how much i have to fight for my health. a win for the week is that i was able to stand in the kitchen a tap without getting lightheaded or dizzy. when i am just standing about i'll often tap but i had to stop because i didn't have the energy but i am regaining my energy and my lust for life. ultimately i am getting my life back.

i've been trying to talk to people more online, i've been trying to order things at costa by myself. i am trying to improve myself. but i am finding it hard to keep going. it fucking sucks. but i will keep kicking.

let's have a great week!

[fatehbaz]

In the face of a world increasingly dominated by transitional US capital and military might, anarchists posed an alternative, egalitarian, and internationalist vision for the Americas. While Shaffer’s subjects came from and voyaged to far-flung sites in the Americas and Europe, his book focuses mainly on Cuba, Tampa, Panama, and Puerto Rico. A vibrant and expansive anarchist press connected these “nodes.”

“Between 1892 and 1929, Caribbean anarchists published over sixty newspapers and magazines” that were either entirely anarchist or that contained a strong anarchist influence (p. 31). Anarchists also published novels, plays, poetry, and short stories, producing a counterculture and “anarchist revolutionary imagination” condemning exploitation and offering internationalist, egalitarian morals (p. 275).

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As Kirwin R. Shaffer explains in his 2020 book, Anarchists of the Caribbean, anarchists had come “to see the Mexican Revolution as a step to worldwide revolution” (p. 130). Their rally cry around Mexico was just one of several internationally mobilizing causes for Caribbean anarchists in the early twentieth century. In another example, some ten thousand workers walked off the job on the US-run Panama Canal in 1916.

The Peruvian-born anarchist Víctor Recoba had founded the Maritime Workers Union, which led the strike, and its meetings were “truly transnational affairs” (p. 190). White, mestizo, and Black workers from across Europe, Latin America, and the West Indies attended, delivered speeches in Spanish and English, and read bilingual manifestos. Even the repression was an international affair. After US and Panamanian authorities collaborated to force most back to work, the Panamanian government attempted to deport the strike’s leaders -- who heralded from Costa Rica, St. Vincent, Greece, Peru, and other “underdetermined origins” -- aboard a Peruvian ship, but Peru declined to accept them and the men were scattered (p. 194). [...]

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Shaffer begins with Cuba’s final independence war, when anarchists on both sides of the Florida Straits -- and as far as Argentina, Spain, and New York -- were cautiously optimistic [...]. The anarchist-dominated Sociedad de Torcedores de Tampa’s members hailed from the US, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Canary Islands, the Dominican Republic, England, and Germany (p. 76).

In many ways, Shaffer picks up where Benedict Anderson left off with his book Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination (2007), republished as The Age of Globalization. Where Anderson focuses on anarchist struggles against Spanish colonialism, with an emphasis on the Philippines, Shaffer moves the picture to resistance against rising US imperialism in the Americas. [...] This was especially true of anarchists in Tampa, who lived under the thumb of the Anglo business community and local authorities.

This discussion of early anarchist anti-imperialism is a significant contribution to the literature on radicalism in Latin America during the era Barry Carr has called “the red years of the Caribbean and Central America.” [...] But, as Shaffer details, anarchists were “the original leftists in the region,” who “established some of the first transnational anti-imperialist solidarity networks in the Caribbean years before any orders to do so arrived from Moscow” (pp. 13, 21).

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In early 1911, California-based anarchists from the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) invaded the Mexican state of Baja California and held territory there for over six months. Anarchists from across the globe heralded this opportunity [...]. The Havana-based paper ¡Tierra!, which was the heart and soul of Caribbean anarchism in the early 1910s, urged readers to send money to the PLM and support legal defense for the Flores Magón brothers, PLM leaders who sat in US prisons for violating neutrality laws. ¡Tierra!’s readers came through, and “from 1911 to 1914, efforts to raise money for Mexico usually outpaced any single Cuba-based issue” among the paper’s readers (p. 132). The money came from fifteen Cuban towns and cities, but also from the Canal Zone in Panama, Puerto Rico, and as far as Hartford, Connecticut. Around this time, in Tampa, Florida, a New York City-based anarchist named Pedro Esteve was selling copies of the PLM’s newspaper, Regeneración,and working with the group Pro-Revolución Mexicana. Caribbean anarchists did not just support the cause financially and ideologically; some took up arms in the revolution [...].

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Many of Shaffer’s Spanish-speaking Caribbean subjects did join the famous International Worker of the World (IWW, or Wobblies) and in fact played a key role in spreading IWW unionization along the East Coast. [...] Rather than focus on the amply covered US-based IWW, however, Shaffer highlights anarchist institutions indigenous to the Caribbean, especially ¡Tierra!. In operation for over a decade in the early 1900s, the Havana paper showed readers across the region that “their struggles were not isolated,” funneled money to various causes, and served to introduce prominent anarchists as they traveled (p. 122). [...] Plans for an Inter-American Continental Congress of Anarchists, to be held in Panama in November 1925, however, were foiled in the violent aftermath of a rent strike that began in the Canal Zone but spread to the republic. On October 10 that year, the police opened fire on a gathering of strikers. The next morning, Panama began deportations of the international leadership and called in US military support. [...]

In other words, Shaffer tells a story that comes full circle. US transnational military, political, and economic expansion set in motion the pathways that would facilitate anarchist travel and network building across the region. And, in turn, the repressive powers would collaborate internationally to move against the radicals. Shaffer reminds us that Charles Magoon was busy keeping anarchists out of the Canal Zone as US governor in 1905 before he was busy trying to keep them out of Cuba as governor during the 1906 US occupation. And interstate collaboration squashed plans for the anarchist congress of 1925. But the movement itself was not crushed. Anarchism held on longer in Cuba and Panama than it did in Puerto Rico and Tampa, where US authorities “used the full weight of the federal government” to uproot the movement (p. 185). [...]

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In short, Shaffer’s book is a most welcome contribution to the study of the early twentieth-century Latin American Left. His scrupulous research (he consulted archives spanning five countries!) reveals the deep transnational connections that sustained anarchism in the region while never losing sight of the particular local and national contexts in which his subjects operated. [...] Shaffer takes just as seriously the (often quite fun) literary imaginings of anarchist writers and reveals a counterculture that “had a different internationalist romance and dream for the region” (p. 289).

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Text by: Frances Sullivan. Review of Shaffer, Kirwin R., Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion. H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews. January 2022. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

[joaquinwhorres]

Mobile OC List

Here's a list of my OCs! In order to help mitigate some expectations, I've created a little key to let you know what to expect content-wise for them. 

CONTENT FLOW: 🟢 - Active  /  🟡 - Slow  /  🔴 - Stopped

MOTION SICKNESS UNIVERSE

🟢 Carolina Alvarez (❤ Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia — FC: Alexxis Demire)

🟢 Dalia Alvarez-Garcia (❤ David Floyd — FC: Isabella Ferriera)

PUSUIT OF HAPPINESS UNIVERSE

🟢 Audrey Herrera (❤ Javy "Coyote" Machado — FC: Melissa Barrera)

🟡 Lauren Kahale (❤ Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw — FC: Lindsay Watson)

SEPARATE UNIVERSES

🟡 Katie "Birdie" Tindall (❤ Jake "Hangman" Seresin — FC: Aimee Teegarden)

AU CHARACTERS

🟢 Rosy Kovecky (❤ Steve Barton — FC: Laia Costa)

🟡 Kristina Taylor (❤ Bucky Barnes — FC: Flavia Santiago)

MCU CHARACTERS

🟢 Murphy  (❤ Joaquin Torres — FC: Ludovica Martino)

🟡 Julia Schroeder  (❤ Shang-Chi — FC: Olivia Liang)

🔴 Bronwen  (❤ Loki — FC: Natasha Liu Bordizzo)

PARTING SHOT UNIVERSE

🟡 Kay Barton (❤ Steve Rogers — FC: Alicia Vikander)

🟡 Nat Barton (❤ None — FC: Taron Egerton)

🟡 Molly McKay (❤ Clint Barton — FC: Rebecca Hall)

🟡 Saoirse Nolan  (❤ Bucky Barnes — FC: Carey Mulligan)

🟡 Grace Owens  (❤ Peter Parker — FC: Zoey Deutch)

🟡 Iris Tate (❤ Pietro Maximoff — FC: Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey)

MIND OVER MATTER UNIVERSE

🟡 Leela Garcia  (❤ Hector Garcia (OC) — FC: Hina Khan)

🟡 Rocio Garcia (❤ Miles Morales — FC: Reem Shaikh)

🟡 Mina Kaminski (❤ Bucky Barnes — FC: Melanie Chandra)

🔴 Sekai Williams  (❤ Sam Wilson — FC: Lex Scott Davis)

NON POWERED CHARACTERS

🟢 Francesca Vives-Soler (❤ Diego Hargreeves — FC: Natalee Linez)

POWERED CHARACTERS

🟡 Maeve Walsh (❤ Ben Hargreeves — FC: Lize Ferryn)

🔴 Skye Williams (❤ Klaus Hargreeves — FC: Matthew Clevane)

🟢 Philippa Van Metre (❤ Stiles Stilinski — FC: Anjelica Bette Fellini)

MARAUDER ERA

🟡 Corinne Berenger (❤ Gideon Prewtt — FC: Hermione Corfield)

🟡 Soraya Hosseini (❤ Remus Lupin — FC: Golshifteh Farahani)

🟡 Florence Saise (❤ Sirius Black — FC: Gabriella Wilde)

GOLDEN TRIO ERA

🟢 Wren Collings (❤ Fred Weasley — FC: Annelise Judge)

🟢 Mattie Crenshaw (❤ George Weasley — FC: Nora Dari)

🟢 Nora Randolph (❤ Lee Jordan — FC: Casimere Jollette)

🔴 Bryony Hewitt  (❤ George Weasley — FC: Taylor Russell)

🔴 Yaren Nacar  (❤ None — FC:)

NEXT GENERATION

AU

THE 100

🟡 Leta Cole (❤ Bellamy Blake — FC: Suki Waterhouse)

BIG TIME RUSH

🟡 Autumn Mayes  (❤ Kendall Knight — FC: Bridget Satterlee)

🟡 Jemima Yeung  (❤ Logan Mitchell — FC: Courtney Eaton)

CHARMED

🟡 Olivia Graham          (❤ Chris Halliwell — FC: Camilla Belle)

THE COVENANT

🟡 Johanna Frye (❤ Reid Garwin — FC: Alexa Davalos)

GAME OF THONES

🔴 Iseld Cassel  (❤ Theon Greyjoy — FC: Jona Walsh)

INCEPTION

🟡 Brigitte Thayer  (❤ Arthur — FC: Gemma Arterton)

🔴 Sandrine Moreau  (❤ Eames — FC: Stana Katic)

LORD OF THE RINGS

🟡 Estwyn (❤ Eomer — FC: ?)

🟡 Sírainel (❤ Haldir — FC: ?)

STAR TREK UNIVERSE

🟡 Priyanka Joshi (❤ Leonard McCoy — FC: Nazneen Contractor)

🔴 Keyona Hale  (FC: Gugu Mbatha Raw)

🔴 Meia Kwan  (FC: Catherine Haena Kim)

🔴 Elizabeth Mackenzie  (❤ Scotty — FC: Jules Wilcox)

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

🔴 Jill Fletcher  (❤ Roger Taylor — FC: Felicity Jones)

🔴 Eleanor Grey  (❤ Brian May — FC: Sophie Skelton)

🔴 Sylvia Tyler  (❤ John Deacon — FC: Margarita Levieva)

CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA

🔴 Edith Farrington  (FC: Morgan Taylor Campbell)

🔴 Matilda Goode  (FC: Elise Gatien)

🔴 Vanessa Scratch

LOGAN

🔴 Theresa Ramos  (❤ Donald Pierce — FC:Veronica Echeguí)

KNIVES OUT

🔴 Aster Hearst   (❤ Ransom Drysdale — FC: Inbar Lavi)

🔴 Grace Reyes  (❤ Ransom Drysdale)

RIVERDALE

🔴 Bree Reilly  (❤ Sweet Pea — FC: Ella Purnell)

🔴 Roxanne Roy  (❤ Sweet Pea — FC: Holland Roden)

🔴 Sage Saylor  (❤ Reggie Mantle — FC: Malia McMullen)

STRANGER THINGS

🔴 Wendy Buckley  (❤ Steve Harrington — FC: Annie Kreighbaum)

🔴 Kimberly Finch  (❤ Billy Harrington — FC: Matilda Lutz)

🔴 Louisa Mitchell  (❤ Steve Harrington — FC: Maika Monroe)

UNDRAFTED

🔴 Ginny Hickey  (❤ Pat Murray — FC:Anna Chlumsky)

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

So, in Brazilian education and possible corruption news, it's been revealed that a government bidding predicts purchase of school buses at quite inflated prices, 54% above expected. The government seems to be accepting to pay up to R$ 480,000 (~US$ 102,990) per bus -- but according to the technical sector, it should cost at most R$ 270,600 (~US$ 58,060).

The operation was set up within the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE), which concentrates the largest share of resources earmarked for investments in education. The fund is headed by Marcelo Ponte, who took office on the recommendation of the Minister of the Civil House, Ciro Nogueira, for whom he was chief of staff. The bidding process shows that the FNDE trampled the guidelines of the control bodies and the technical area itself, which pointed to a risk of overpricing in the values ​​of buses that the government accepts to pay.

The auction will allow the acquisition of up to 3,850 vehicles as part of the Caminho da Escola ('Way to School') program. The total price, at the end of the purchase, may jump from R$ 1.3 billion (~US$ 280 million) to R$ 2.045 billion (~US$ 440 million), with an increase of up to 55%, or R$ 732 million (~US$ 157.05 million).

“We understand that the discrepancy of the quotations presented by the suppliers in relation to the approved price of the last trading session (...) implies an unjustified increase in the price, without corresponding link with the economic projections of the current scenario.”, warned the technical area of ​​the fund. In another opinion, the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) reinforced: “It is observed that the values ​​obtained (...) are on average 54% above the estimated values”. Alerts were also made by the Attorney General's Office (AGU).

The documents also point to the direct action of one of the directors of the agency, Garigham Amarante, in defining the overestimated values. He was nominated for the position by Valdemar Costa Neto, president of the Liberal Party (PL), the party of President Jair Bolsonaro. In at least two orders, the director determines that the process should continue, with minor adjustments, but keeping costs inflated, despite overprice warnings.

Even after the considerations, Garigham and Marcelo Ponte signed an order proceeding with the bidding process: “We approved the Terms of Reference, the Preliminary Technical Study, and the Price Survey, as well as authorizing the reopening of the bidding process”. The contest was suspended in February this year. But later resumed by the two directors of the Fund.

Created by the Ministry of Education to help municipalities and states reduce the number of students dropping out of schools, the program is particularly relevant in rural regions with precarious roads and difficult travel. Many students give up studying due to mobility difficulties.

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