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On July 14, my husband, dog, and I set out on the adventure of a lifetime. We had been living in Atlanta for a while, but our apartment lease was up and the timing felt right to make a big change. So we set out on a full-time camper life adventure to give nomadic life a try while working from the road and exploring the country.
Over the past couple months, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about how this kind of lifestyle actually works from worried family members, envious friends, and curious strangers. We’re not new to long-term travel, or camping for that matter, but this trip feels different. It has no end date, and there’s no place to go back to. These are concepts that don’t sit well with some people, but for me, it beats looking at the same four walls in an apartment day after day.
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Amsterdam is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world, famous for its beautiful canals, top art museum, cycling culture, and Red Light District. It is the capital and most populous city in the Netherlands and often referred to as the “Venice of the North” because of its expansive system of bridges and canals. Here are some of the key points to remember as you plan your trip to Amsterdam.
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Allegations from the United States that British spy agency GCHQ snooped on Donald Trump during his election campaign are "arrant nonsense", the deputy head of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) said in an interview on Saturday.
President Trump has stood by unproven claims that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the 2016 White House race. On Thursday his spokesman cited a media report that Britain's GCHQ was behind the surveillance.
Richard Ledgett, deputy director of the NSA, told BBC News the idea that Britain had a hand in spying on Trump was "just crazy".
"It belies a complete lack of understanding of how the relationship works between the intel community agencies, it completely ignores the political reality of 'would the UK government agree to do that?'", Ledgett said.
There would be no advantage for Britain's government in spying on Trump, given the potential cost, he said.
"It would be epically stupid," said Ledgett, who is due to retire shortly.
Current and former NSA officials have described an acrimonious relationship between intelligence agencies and the Trump administration.
Trump, who became president in January, tweeted earlier this month that his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him during the late stages of the 2016 campaign. The Republican president offered no evidence for the allegation, which an Obama spokesman said was "simply false".
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There is growing concern about the impact of automation on employment - or in crude terms - the threat that robots will eat our jobs.
Be that as it may, on the off chance that you need to perceive how imperative mechanical autonomy and manmade brainpower can be to a business Ocado is a decent place to begin.
"Without it we essentially couldn't do what we do at this scale," the online retailer's main innovation officer Paul Clarke let me know. With edges in the general store business slender, persistently hunkering down on expenses and waste has been key.
At its Hatfield dispersion focus I got a look at how far the way toward robotizing the sorting of thousands of basic supply orders has come. For the present, you will battle to detect a robot - unless you check a machine that supplements plastic shopping packs into boxes - yet programming is making an extremely complex showing with regards to of sending the correct merchandise in the correct cases to the correct human pickers.
That is certainly the view of Laura Gardiner, of the Resolution Foundation, who points out that jobs are becoming more multi-faceted, so that even if one task is taken by a robot, there will still be others left for the humans.
But she does accept that for certain categories of worker life may get harder: "It is right to be concerned about specific occupations - secretarial work, processing jobs in factories - moderately skilled jobs which used to pay quite well."
What is clear is that in an evolving job market, some skills will become redundant, while others will be in higher demand. And the best advice? Train as a robotics engineer.
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