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Ticwatch E review: the cheapest smartwatch with Android Wear Two months ago I ordered a Ticwatch E, a smartwatch produced by a Chinese company named Mobvoi. Since then I have said that I owe a review, so here, I'm going to tell you, in short, what this watch can do. Ticwatch E is an Android Wear 2 smartwatch, so it does not make sense to bore you with details about the operating system. It's the same on all watches. Originally Ticwatch E came with Android OS 7 but after a month and a little bit got an update to Android 8. I say honestly, I did not feel any improvement, maybe even on the contrary.  Let me tell you what I like and what I do not like at Ticwatch E. pluses The clock looks relatively good, it does not look like a toy. It looks worse than in the presentation photos but better than you expect. The display is bright and clear and because it's OLED you have Always-ON. In general, everything moves fluently, from interface to application. Well, I have not installed much. I often use Strava when I ride a bicycle, and Sleep as Android to monitor my sleep and wake me up when needed. The battery is charged within an hour. The pulse sensor works pretty well. A lot of watchfolds, you can practically find anything for anyone and any occasion. Relatively small price, I gave 657 lei on it and it was delivered using the OnePlus logistics. I mean, in about 3-4 days. You can connect to your Google Fit account and synchronize all your daily activity there, which makes Mobvoi applications unnecessary  minuses The battery lasts between half a day (~ 12 hours) and 2.5 days. Depends on how you use it. Almost on (notifications, GPS, Wi-Fi), the battery does not run for 12 hours. Quite off you can reach 2.5 days, but only see the time. I have noticed though that in day-to-day use (it can hold for 24 hours, but with indulgence) the battery keeps your Wi-Fi turned on more than without. But it must be stopped The clock is not waterproof, except for accidental splashing. So do not think you can take a bath with him in no shape. Sometimes the notifications come late or no longer come. I feel like I've been here since I went to Android 8. I still do not know if it's on the phone or the clock. I gave it a factory reset and things are better, but it's not great. Conclusion Now we come to the conclusion and to the most audacious question: do you recommend it? I think the answer is: it depends. If you really want a colorful screen with good resolution, a decent design (no more) and a heartbeat sensor but you're willing to load it daily or twice a day then yes, I recommend it. Otherwise, for sports and simple notifications, there are other variants, but they do not have the same good looking screen. Acquisition details in the original article.  In other words, on the screen, I usually put a foil from SmartProtection. It's almost invisible and makes sure I do not accidentally scratch the display, Soon I come with a short review for the Xiaomi Amazfit Bip, the battery watch lasts for two weeks.  For now, I'm thinking if a Garmin Fenix 3 is not right for me.

The European Union desperately gree on a plan to curb the influx of migrants, possibly by creating vast holding camps in Africa. Donald Trump’s America wants to frighten off migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador by locking them up and taking away their children. Neither will work but here’s a canny immigration control strategy that might. Next month, the tourism bureau for Dahar in Tunisia will begin to advertise the country’s south eastern region to European travellers. The organisation, described by its Swiss government sponsors as the first such body in Tunisia, will sell the troglodyte dwellings seen in Star Wars and the spectacular mountains in The English Patient to the adventurous and the jaded. It will market the Dahar region, on the edge of the Sahara Desert, as a unique, untapped tourist destination. The region has little name recognition, with British and European tourists mostly heading instead for the nearby island of Djerba, with its picturesque whitewashed buildings and the oldest synagogue in Africa. The most interesting part is that the Swiss government is spending $4m on the initiative and is frank about its motivation. Through an implementing agency, a tourism strategy was developed for the 100km stretch between Tataouine of Star Wars fame and Matmata, the region’s largest troglodyte city, where Luke Skywalker’s home is supposed to exist. The Dahar tourism bureau was formed and dozens of small hotels and B&Bs were helped to improve the facilities they offer and their staff was trained in how to cater to European tastes. Troglodyte structures were fixed up and a marketing budget provided to advertise the region. TOP ARTICLES4/5READ MORELord Steel suspended: Liberal Democratsinvestigate peer after evidence to child sex abuse inquiry on Cyril Smith “It’s meant to contain illegal immigration,” Olivier Bovet of the Swiss Embassy in Tunis, tells me. “We are interested in creating employment so that Tunisians can envisage a future in this country.” Melania Trump visits child immigration center in Texas Clearly Switzerland wants to give Tunisians an incentive to stay home rather than leave for Europe. After the Arab Spring, several thousand Tunisians reportedly turned up in Switzerland, which led Swiss policy planners to hastily create a North Africa Programme and rejig the list of countries to which they gave development aid. And it’s not just Tunisian migration they’re hoping to curb – Tunisia is a key transit country for migrants from across sub-Saharan Africa. Traditionally, the Swiss supported countries that were rather like them – small, landlocked and mountainous – which is why Nepal, Rwanda and Bolivia for instance received aid. But after the 2011 Arab uprisings, Tunisia and Egypt were added on. In 2014, the Swiss government decided it could best support Tunisia by helping it help itself and the idea of “building a destination” in the geographically unique Dahar area was born. Read more Michael Gove is spouting nonsense about migration and Brexit The Swiss project in Tunisia is exactly the sort of template we need at a time “no entry” signs are going up across much of the rich world, with both asylum-seekers and economic migrants increasingly unwelcome. Countries that want to discourage immigration need to do more than dehumanise migrants. WhenTrump says migrants will “infest” the United States, it may play well to his base but such statements are of little practical use. So too the threat by Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini to “purify” his country through mass deportations. It is not enough for countries and regional blocs to do short-term desperate deals to prevent migrants from setting foot on their soil. Europe’s 2015 agreement with Turkey temporarily helped because it stemmed the flow of harried Syrians, but migrants are now using another route, across the Mediterranean rather than the Agean. Walls similarly will not keep out the uninvited. The US could better use the $25bn Trump wants to spend on a “big beautiful wall” on America’s southern border by investing in the Mexican economy and in governance, security and rule-of-law mechanisms deeper in Central America. Undocumented immigration across the US-Mexico border Show all 14 With the number of displaced people worldwide setting new records every year – it was 68.5 million in 2017, according to the UN Refugee Agency’s latest report – migration is not a crisis with a clear start and end point. It is a process, a continuous flow of people seeking refuge from persecution, or chasing dreams of a better life. As a recent paper co-authored by sociologist Hein de Haas of the International Migration Institute of Oxford University says: “Migrants from an increasingly diverse array of non-European-origin countries (are) concentrating in a shrinking pool of prime destination countries.” The issue is no longer about the deserving and undeserving, refugees versus economic migrants, and mostly there is hardly any distinction anymore in the real or rhetorical treatment meted out to either category. Watch more Brexit was never about immigration and it's time we said it Practical steps to create jobs in poorer countries are the only real way to prevent the ceaseless flow of migrants towards the opportunities seemingly offered by life in the west. It is not about “governing from the heart”, in the fatuous words of US first lady Melania Trump. It's about governing from the head. Countries that want to tackle immigration must put their money where it can make the biggest difference – in the failing homelands from which migrants flee.

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When Rolls-Royce first floated the idea of an SUV model in 2013, in dustry observers accepted it with a sigh of inevitability while brand purists flinched and promptly spilled Grey Poupon on their tuxedos. The Anglo-Germanic luxury automaker's SUV experiment doesn't seem so heretical today, helped in no small part by the fact that Bentley sneaked into the SUV party first and was joined around the same time by Maserati, Lamborghini and Alfa Romeo. Aston Martin will follow in just a couple of years, and from the looks of it, Ferrari will too. In fact, the Cullinan has proved to be so po[CENSORED]r that Rolls-Royce, which officially shunned the term SUV shortly until the Cullinan's debut, can barely keep up with the demand, Automotive News reports. The marque's state of the art Goodwood, U.K., factory is running at 100 percent capacity while the order bank is full through July 2019 -- Goodwood has even hired 200 employees to keep up, Automotive News says. And that's for an SUV that starts at $325,000 and whose option book can "fit" the price equivalent of several other SUVs -- the one we drove back in October was optioned up to $380,000 and most will be about $450,000 out the door. That's $125,000 in options Half of Cullinan buyers are new to the brand, Martin Fritsches, CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Americas told Automotive News. "I would like to have a little bit more supply," Fritsches added. "And I don't get it because we are running on 100 percent of production capacity, increasing the production capacity throughout the weeks and months, but still not being able to catch up to demand." Is this a temporary rush for a model that has just launched a few months ago, or a longer-term trend for all luxury brands? Rolls-Royce fully expected the Cullinan to become the brand's best-selling model, a mantle held by the Dawn convertible until the Cullinan's debut. This means the company knew it would have a hit on its hands long before the first example rolled out of the gates at Goodwood, back when the economy was a little less receptive to $450,000 SUVs. Now, in 2019, the question may very well be: Can Rolls-Royce keep up with the demand