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Xero, a popular accounting package for small businesses, is currently advertising that its popular features will ‘change your life’. We can’t promise that, but can assure you that updating software such as MYOB, Xero, and Quickbooks will allow you to make some changes that may assist in reducing compliance costs and improving your record keeping.
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English to Bengali Meaning :: advanced
English to Bengali Meaning :
Advanced :
অগ্রসর
Advanced - অগ্রসর
Adjective(1)
Verb(1)
(1) The company says talks on its new development at an advanced stage(2) And don't forget their advanced views on women in the workplace.(3) Neither the doctor nor the family can be blamed because the management of patients with an advanced stage of a disease is not yet developed in our country.(4) Many are already on the starting blocks, either in an advanced stage of research and development, or with their first commercial power stations already under construction.(5) You say you have progressed to the advanced stage of bodybuilding.(6) Sources close to the development said the process is currently in advanced stages of talk and is expected to be finalised very soon.(7) With the construction of the biggest mall in Soweto already at an advanced stage, developers have revealed the mall's branding and corporate identity.(8) The committee are at an advanced stage of purchase of four acres to develop this project.(9) The new Deel Rovers Community Sports Centre is in an advanced stage of its completion.(10) The only conclusion is that the ring road is not at an advanced stage where land must be kept free of development.(11) The hospice has provided care to patients with advanced and progressive life threatening diseases along with support for their relatives and carers since the early 1980s.(12) Sol Stein, the late editor, publisher and best-selling writer believed that ‘first person’ was an advanced point of view.(13) A specialised machine that uses the latest in optical and high speed sensor technology to search for skeleton weed is in the advanced stages of development.(14) The poor survival and high mortality rates are due to presentation in advanced stages, recurrence of the primary and development of second primary tumors.(15) Harry Kehoe, said a number of new varieties, for the seed export trade and the home market, are now at an advanced stage of development at Oak Park.(16) Our society has reached its advanced stage of civilisation by developing within a framework of rules, regulations and standards, manifested most obviously in the rule of law.
(1) advance ::
আগাম
1. state-of-the-art ::
রাষ্ট্র-এর-শিল্প
2. higher-level ::
উচ্চ স্তরের
3. modern ::
আধুনিক
4. ripe ::
পাকা
5. sophisticated ::
বাস্তববুদ্ধিসম্পন্ন
6. advance ::
7. move forward ::
সামনে যাও
8. bring forward ::
এগিয়ে আনা
9. promote ::
উন্নীত করা
10. progress ::
উন্নতি
11. put forward ::
পেশ করা
12. lend ::
ধার
13. make headway ::
14. elevate ::
চড়ান
15. gain ::
লাভ করা
17. supercharge ::
সুপারচার্জ
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● Work
Cutback (হ্রাস করা) :: In general cutbacks do not hit the huge bureaucracy involved in the provision of state services Physical (শারীরিক) :: Moreover the piece only refers to a concrete physical setting twice Physicist (প্রকৃতিবিজ্ঞানী) :: Little wonder that these machines are proving to be so popular with physicists Interviewee (সাক্ষাত্কারী) :: Author (লেখক) :: She authored many bestselling books including Forever Young Forever Healthy
Contribute (অবদান) :: The conman asks the person contacted to contribute a small sum of money to speed up the release of the funds Contribution (অবদান) :: Thanks to all the people who have made an annual contribution to this collection Control (নিয়ন্ত্রণ) :: Anger I could deal with but I hated to be embarrassed and to lose control of my emotions Controlled (নিয়ন্ত্রিত) :: Convenient (সুবিধাজনক) :: Fluid mixtures and elixirs have been used for centuries and provided a convenient method by which a measured dose could be administered to a patient
Lacuna (ফাঁক) :: He has suggested that the time may now be ripe for the passage of a Council regulation to cope with the existing lacunae of Community law on state aids Lambaste (আচ্র্ছারকম মারা) :: Critics have lambasted him for going over the top on trivia and conversely for not putting in the boot hard enough Lamentation (বিলাপ) :: scenes of lamentation Lampoon (ব্যক্তিগত ব্যঙ্গ-কবিতা) :: It lampooned the way in which women are portrayed as sex objects in the daily press radio and TV Lance (বল্লম) :: Five basic processes are involved oxy fuel gas cutting metal powder cutting chemical flux cutting oxygen lance cutting and oxygen arc cutting
Embryonic (আদিম) :: Many annelids and molluscs share patterns of development in early embryonic stages Hydrometer (ঘনত্বমাপক) :: It is therefore an everyday work guide whose vocation is to serve as a commitment to quality for hydrometry services Kedgeree (খিচুড়ি) :: During the 19th century a wide range of beers would have been sent out from Britain to our soldiers and administrators in India to be consumed alongside curries kedgerees and spicy foods Vicarious (প্রতিনিধি কাজ করে এমন) :: Just as childhood pets teach us empathy for anothers suffering vicarious experience lets us in on one of the bestkept secrets of human existence we are all cut from the same cloth
● Fabricate
Verb :: নির্মাণ করা, গঠন করা, করা, জাল করা, নৈতিক করা, সেট আপ, জাল, নকল, কামারশালা, ছল করা, অনুকরণ করা, বুনা, লপটান, ফ্রেম
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WMU's John Keenoy signs as undrafted free agent with Minnesota Vikings
The NFL passed on players from WMU during the final rounds of the 2019 NFL Draft, but at least three former Broncos will suit up for NFL franchises.
WMU's John Keenoy signs as undrafted free agent with Minnesota Vikings The NFL passed on players from WMU during the final rounds of the 2019 NFL Draft, but at least three former Broncos will suit up for NFL franchises. Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/sports/2019/04/27/western-michigans-john-keenoy-signs-minnesota-vikings-odell-miller-eric-assoua-browns-raiders/3574206002/
Nick Buckley, Battle Creek Enquirer Published 9:34 p.m. ET April 27, 2019 | Updated 9:37 p.m. ET April 27, 2019
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Western Michigan University center John Keenoy prepares to snap the ball against Delaware State at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo on Sept. 15, 2018. (Photo: Jason McMillan/For the Enquirer)
The NFL passed on taking any players from Western Michigan during the final rounds of the 2019 NFL Draft on Saturday.
But at least three former Broncos will be suiting up for NFL franchises.
Following the conclusion of round seven, WMU senior center John Keenoy signed with the Minnesota Vikings as a priority free agent, while Broncos' fifth-year tight end Odell Miller accepted a mini-camp invitation from the Cleveland Browns and senior defensive end Eric Assoua received an invite from the Oakland Raiders.
A former three-star recruit out of East Kentwood High School, Keenoy enrolled early to play as a true freshman under former head coach P.J. Fleck. A year later, he helped the Broncos to their best campaign in program history, ending the season at the Cotton Bowl with a 13-1 record and a No. 15 national ranking. Durability has never been a concern for Keenoy, as he started 51 of 52 games over four years, winning 34 games and making three bowl appearances.
Western Michigan tight end Odell Miller takes the field before a game against Eastern Michigan on Oct. 6, 2018 in Kalamazoo. (Photo: Courtesy of Walter J. Cronk Photography)
The 6-foot-3, 300-pound senior was named to watch lists for the Rimmington and Outland Trophy for the second consecutive year and was a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, also known as the "Academic Heisman." He also garnered All-MAC honors for the third straight season.
More: Battle Creek's Odell Miller is an NFL Draft long shot. He's eager to prove he belongs.
More: Unassuming John Keenoy at the center of Western Michigan's success over last four years
Miller, a Battle Creek native and Gull Lake High School graduate, will try to make the NFL as an interior lineman and measures 6-foot-3 and 301 pounds. He came to Kalamazoo as a preferred walk-on defensive end, and was converted to tight end during his redshirt freshman season. A special teams contributor, he became key reserve as an in-line blocking tight end. As a fifth-year senior, Miller helped pave the way for a rushing attack that ranked No. 38 nationally at 199.5 yards per game.
WMU senior defensive end Eric Assou has received a mini-camp invitation from the Oakland Raiders.
The Netherlands-born Asouoa was a three-star recruit out of Silver Springs, Maryland, spurning an offer from Boston College among others to play at WMU. The 6-foot-1, 231-pounder was a four-year defensive end and starter for his last two. He finished his Broncos career with 10 1/2 sacks and came on late as a senior with sacks in each of his final three games.
At Western Michigan's Pro Day, he impressed scouts with a 4.54 40-yard dash and a 30 1/2-inch vertical jump. He is projected as an edge linebacker or rush defensive end.
Nick Buckley can be reached at nbuckley@battlecreekenquirer.com or 269-966-0652. Follow him on Twitter:@NickJBuckley
Southern California Trojans quarterback Sam Darnold (14) is sacked by Western Michigan Broncos defensive lineman Eric Assoua (33) during a NCAA football game at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. (Photo: Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)
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The Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum 3 actress Mandana Karimi will also be seen in Roy, which stars Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Jacqueline Fernandez. In fact the gorgeous actress will be seen doing a cameo in Roy and will be essaying the role of one of Arjun Rampal’s girlfriends.
Born to an Indian father and an Iranian mother, Mandana grew up in Tehran, before starting her modeling career in India. Mandana has walked the ramp for fashion designers such as JJ Valaya, Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla, Rohit Bal, Anna Singha and Satya Paul.
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Maternal mortality in the Greater Accra region in Ghana: assessing completeness of registration and data quality
A. Zakariah, S. Alexander, J. van Roosmalen, and E. Kwawukume.
Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica 85 (12): 1436--1441 (2006)PMID: 17260218.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the completeness of registration of maternal mortality by comparing various data sources and to review the quality of information pertaining to individual cases. DATA SOURCE AND METHODS: Female deaths aged 10-50 years in the Greater Accra region in Ghana from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2000 were recorded. Identified maternal deaths (International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision) in four major hospitals in the region were compared with those registered in the civil registers. RESULTS: During the study period, 148 maternal deaths were identified and a total of 21,183 live births were recorded in the study hospitals, yielding a maternal mortality ratio of 699/105 live births. This ratio is more than six times the officially reported maternal mortality ratio for the whole region in the same period. Ninety-two percent of the deaths were due to direct obstetric causes and 8\% to indirect causes. One hundred and twenty-one of the cases were correctly classified and registered. By using the multiple source approach, 27 new cases were identified, an under-registration of 18\%. The sources of error were misclassification (n=25) and error in registration (n=2). CONCLUSION: The process of registration of deaths in this region is incomplete. Enhanced registration systems (including routine linkage of death and birth certificates) on a regular basis could be used in Ghana.
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13 children of firefighters killed on 9/11 graduate into NYC fire dept.
by: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff
NEW YORK (WFLA) — Among the 301 graduates into the New York City Fire Department Tuesday, 13 of them are children of firefighters killed on Sept. 11, according to KTVI.
“Every day that I came to the academy, I was grateful to be there and to follow in the footsteps of my father, brothers, uncle, and all those who came before. This is exactly where I want to be,” said Probationary Firefighter Rebecca Asaro.
Asaro’s father, Carl Asaro, was one of the 343 FDNY members killed on Sept. 11.
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Sarkodie, , Castro, , Unda Fyre, , Adonai, ,
[BY: George Awiadem Maclean EMAIL: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]
After almost five days of an intense search for the bodies of Castro and Bandu but without any hope in sight of finding the two, Ghana's BET award winner, Sarkodie, has added his voice to the calls by the many sympathizers wishing and praying to God for the safe return of the soul of his brother, Castro 'Unda Fyre'.
READ ALSO: Castro is dead and gone for good???
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Today, July 10th, marks Sarkodie's 29th birthday and the only wish on his mind is to see his brother, Castro 'Unda Fyre', being brought back to life by God!
Sarkodie wrote in a post on his facebook timeline: "My biggest b'day gift -->>> #GodPleaseBringMaBrotherHome Please!!!!!!!!!."
READ ALSO: Castro must be pronounced dead - Hammer of the last two
Even though Sarkodie didn't mention the name of the lady Castro is said to have drowned with in the Ada river in his post, but the general assumption here is that once God grants his wish by bringing back Castro to life, the lady, Janet Bandu, will surely follow suit.
The birthday wish of Sarkodie to see Castro come back to life isn't surprising at all considering the fact the two already have a great song in "Adonai"- both the original and the remix versions - which has been performed by the two on some memorable occasions.
Castro 'Unda Fyre' and Janet Bandu are said to have drowned in the Ada river in a Jet Ski accident in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
A search for their bodies, whether dead or alive, has been mounted ever since.
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By (author) Jenn Bennett
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In this romantic dramedy from the author of Alex, Approximately, a teen girl's way-too-ordinary life is driven off the beaten path when she's abandoned in the wilderness with her worst adversary--the boy who broke her heart. Ever since last year's homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other. It doesn't hurt that their families are the modern day, Californian version of the Montagues and Capulets. But when a group camping trip goes south, Zorie and Lennon find themselves stranded in the wilderness. Alone. Together. What could go wrong? With no one but each other for company, Zorie and Lennon have no choice but to hash out their issues via witty jabs and insults as they try to make their way to safety. But fighting each other while also fighting off the forces of nature makes getting out of the woods in one piece less and less likely. And as the two travel deeper into Northern California's rugged backcountry, secrets and hidden feelings surface. But can Zorie and Lennon's rekindled connection survive out in the real world? Or was it just a result of the fresh forest air and the magic of the twinkling stars?
Publisher Simon Pulse
Bestsellers rank 172,994
"A sweet and surprisingly substantial friends-to-more romance." -- Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW "Vivid plots, and endearing characters make this novel impossible to put down." -- School Library Journal "A layered adventure-love story that's as much about the families we have and the families we make ourselves as it is about romance." -- Booklist
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PBS Picks up Streit’s Doc ‘Matzo and the American Dream’ for Annual Passover Telecast
With Passover just a couple days away – and another season without Streit’s Matzo on Rivington Street – PBS announced that it’s picked up the documentary, Matzo and the American Dream. PBS will beam the venerable film around the country, from New York’s flagship station, WNET (Thirteen), to such far flung locales as Boise, Idaho. […]
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Orchard Street Haberdasher Featured as One of ‘The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side’ [VIDEO]
Posted April 4, 2019 at 5:06 am
Local celebrity haberdasher Sammy Gluck is now a television star. He and his menswear store at 62 Orchard Street (at Grand) are now the subject of a four-part documentary on Amazon Prime Video. Borrowing the name from the Magnetic Fields song, The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side explores the old-school store (and famous […]
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A (Plastic) Iron Throne from ‘Game of Thrones’ Arrives in Fort Totten
Building up to the long-awaited final season of Game of Thrones, HBO hid six Iron Throne replicas in various locations around the world, as part of its “Quest for the Throne” promotion. In case you’ve somehow escaped the nearly decade-long phenomenon based on George R.R. Martin’s fictional continent of Westeros, the person who sits on […]
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‘Punk’ Docuseries Attempts to Answer All of Your Punk Questions
Last modified March 25, 2019 at 2:01 pm
Is it punk to create a documentary series about punk? Or is that the antithesis of the spirit itself? While watching the new docu-series Punk on the Epix network, I found myself asking these questions. Was I no longer a happy nonconformist if I actually liked this series? Does punk endure, or are some of […]
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Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown Concludes with LES Finale Nov. 11
The abbreviated final season of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown is underway. Indeed, nearly over. But you’ll need to wait another few weeks for the Lower East Side/East Village treatment. The highly-anticipated episode is the finale, airing November 11 on CNN. (It actually premieres at the Food Film Festival in New York on October 24.) It’s the […]
Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Parts Unknown’ Lower East Side Episode Airs Next Month
The posthumous season of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown series premieres on September 23. And with it, the television debut of the Lower East Side episode. The highly-anticipated episode (locally, at least) first aired as part of the Tribeca TV Festival a couple weeks ago, but will finally hit the small screen next month. Scenes were […]
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‘Crossing Delancey’ 30 Years Later to See the Lost Lower East Side
Before Guss’ Pickles departed the Lower East Side in 2010 for the depths of Brooklyn, one poster in its tiny storefront always stood apart. It was a faded movie bill for Crossing Delancey, the 1988 romantic comedy starring Amy Irving that basically put the neighborhood on the silver screen. Its subtle presence at the shop […]
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Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Parts Unknown’ on the Lower East Side Airs this Fall
No longer in doubt, CNN confirmed this week that the posthumous season of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown will air in the fall. Meaning, the highly-anticipated Lower East Side treatments will follow. Apparently, only one episode was completed before Bourdain’s tragic suicide in France eight weeks ago, according to the Los Angeles Times. The remaining few […]
Spike Lee’s Netflix Series is Filming Today at ‘The Box’ on Chryste Street
Filming is currently underway on the second season of Spike Lee’s Netflix comedy-drama, She’s Gotta Have It. Today’s shoot is on the Lower East Side, and has commandeered The Box for the fictional “Hot N Trot Nightclub.” (The Box is often used in television and film for nightclub scenes.) This She’s Gotta Have It reboot […]
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Netflix Comedy ‘Otherhood’ Filming Through End of Week
Netflix will post up on the Lower East Side for the remainder of this week to shoot scenes for its upcoming feature, Otherhood. We spotted these “no parking” signs along Grand Street, west of Allen. Deadline describes Otherhood as a comedy “about three Moms who leave their suburban life to reconnect with their estranged sons in […]
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Using our powers for the good of the people: Hawaiians head for the snow, and we send them on a bobsled ride.
In the middle of winter, everyone dreams of a vacation in the tropics. But what if you already live there? Hawaii natives Alvin Imada, Michael Louie, Alex Wilt, Blenn Fujimoto, and John Doty head for the snow. "We started skiing about 15 years ago and have been going ever since," says Michael.
On previous trips, they skied Vail and Whistler; this year they decided to try Banff in Alberta. Since nearby Calgary is home to Canada Olympic Park--a winter-sports facility built for the 1988 Games--we arranged another change of pace for the Hawaiians: a private bobsled ride down the same 1,500-meter track used competitively in '88 (and the one that the Jamaican bobsled team, made famous in Cool Runnings, trained on).
A driver led the men on two runs, during which they endured gravitational forces similar to those experienced on a space-shuttle liftoff. "We thought it would be like a Disney ride," says Michael. "We didn't realize it'd be so intense. We pulled over four G's!"
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Malaysia’s VEP enforcement will be delayed until next year due to technical issues: Transport Minister Anthony Loke
Hazlin Hassan, The Straits Times - January 7, 2020
The VEP will first be implemented at the Johor Baru checkpoint before being extended to Tuas, said Transport Minister Anthony Loke.
Malaysia wants to spend RM5 million to study the possibility of building a third bridge with Singapore
Lamont Mark Smith - December 2, 2019
The 9-month study will look into the necessity of a third bridge to alleviate congestion on the Causeway, as well as possible locations for it.
Malaysians can now use MyDebit ATM cards at some shops in Singapore
Jessica Lin - November 29, 2019
Malaysia’s MyDebit ATM cards can be used to make payments at 500 acceptance points in Singapore.
Malaysia’s Natural Resources Minister says Singapore is buying water at an ‘unreasonable’ rate that is ‘too cheap’
Lamont Mark Smith - November 13, 2019
The revision is needed to address water supply in Johor, and to combat climate change issues, which would influence the availability of water, he said.
Singapore-JB RTS link agreement signing delayed again as Malaysia now wants an LRT system instead
Lamont Mark Smith - November 5, 2019
Singapore says it is not obliged to accept the changes, but will keep an open mind.
Mahathir says Singapore refuses to build new bridge although Malaysia ‘willing to sacrifice’ for it to ‘buy cheap water’
Jessica Lin - November 1, 2019
“You just see, we are willing to sacrifice money to support Singapore so that they can buy cheap water for themselves but when we want to build a bridge to solve traffic problem, they refuse to have the bridge...I don’t know why," he said.
Mahathir follows through with announcement on JB-Singapore RTS, cost lowered to RM3.16 billion
Lamont Mark Smith - October 31, 2019
Prime Minister Dr Tun Mahathir Mohamad will make an announcement on the RTS Link at 3pm today (Oct 31), Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said.
Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines plan to code-share on more routes, including Europe and South Africa
Jessica Lin - October 30, 2019
The agreement will also include SilkAir and Scoot, as well as Firefly.
‘I am much indebted to you’: Lee Kuan Yew thanked Malaysia’s current Queen for years of ‘supplying’ sambal belacan
"Can my family have a few more?"Lee Kuan Yew wrote to Malaysia's Queen after she sent some of her delicious sambal belacan.
Malaysians triggered after being left out of top 50 street foods ranking – which put Singapore at #1
Malaysians are saying that there is "something very wrong" with the list, which is based on a survey of 92,000 business travellers.
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Young Indigenous Australians working in mining
Published Monday, December 2 2013
Young Indigenous workers are well represented in the latest Queensland mining employment growth.
Almost 40 per cent of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mining industry workforce is under the age of 30, according to Energy Skills Queensland’s (ESQ) 2013 Heartbeat Report.
This has caused the average age of Indigenous mining employees to hit 36 years old, compared to the overall workforce average of 40.
The Heartbeat Report also identified current trends in overall employment across mining in Queensland, including an increasing rate of recruitment.
Overall the Queensland mining industry workforce increased by 20,000 employees over the past two years, of which 3.4 per cent were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.
“There is enormous potential for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers to contribute towards and capitalise on Queensland’s mining sector which is predicted to continue to grow,” ESQ Chief Executive Glen Porter said in a November 28 media release.
However, there is still work to be done to encourage retention as the report found Indigenous workers have an average length of service of 3.7 years, 1.8 years below the average.
Mr Porter also identified the need for ongoing support of Indigenous employment through established apprentice programs and traineeships in Queensland.
“It’s essential we continue to create opportunities in the mining, resources and energy sectors for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander job seekers through proven training and employment programs,” he said.
Historically, mining organisations prefer to hire somebody with relevant experience in the industry.
Internal Talent Pipeline employment is a recruitment sector that includes those hired in formal skilling programs, such as apprenticeships and traineeships.
This category represents 4.9 per cent of the workforce and grew by 34.7 per cent over 2012-13, the largest seen in all mining employment sectors.
Within this category, 46.5 per cent of the workforce is made up of apprentices, 28.2 per cent of graduates, 24.2 per cent trainees and 1.2 per cent cadets.
Indigenous workers account for 11.9 per cent of this pool, well above the sample average of 2.7 per cent.
“By boosting support for employment and training opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people we can increase employment prospects,” Mr Parker said.
In general, the Internal Talent Pipeline recruits younger workers. The average age of this sector’s workforce is 25.2 years, and 82.7 per cent of the employees are younger than 30.
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Here's Proof Andy Cohen's Dog Wacha Lives the Good Life
December 31, 2018, 11:19 AM ET
Andy Cohen's fur baby casually ate off a silver tray while shopping at one of New York City's most swanky boutiques.
By Jenny Berg
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On December 30, Andy Cohen stopped by the Ralph Lauren boutique to check out some duds for a very big hosting gig. (ICYMI: Andy and Anderson Cooper will co-host CNN's New Year's Eve Live again this year.) But as it turns out, the Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen host wasn't the most important shopper in the house that day — his dog Wacha was. Oh yes, believe it!
In his Instagram Stories, Andy showed off the perks that Wacha is treated to when he hits the posh boutique — and they're basically the kind of perks that we thought only Beyoncé gets. The dog was served his snack of choice (bones, of course) atop china set on a silver tray. And, he had a big, fancy bowl of water to go along with it. At least, we think it was water — it could also have been doggy Cristal. You never know!
And to think, as Andy mused aloud, Wacha had humble beginnings as a rescue dog from the hills of Virginia. How do you like him now?
Photo: @bravoandy/Instagram Stories
As WWHL fans know, Wacha will soon become a big brother. Relive Andy's baby announcement, below.
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Councillor Gabriella Giles on the importance of community spaces
September, that month when, every year, I still get that back to school feeling. After the summer break, and a chance to recharge the batteries, it’s now back to our regular routines.
Local Conservatives launch their 2020 London Mayoral campaign
Thursday, 6 June, 2019
Local Conservatives have launched their London 2020 mayoral campaign with a high profile visit on 1st June from mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and Greater London Assembly candidate Nick Rogers to Chiswick.
Conservative Councillors Elect New Group Leader
The Hounslow Conservative Group of councillors held their AGM last night, Thursday, 16th May, a meeting held once a year to reflect on the previous year, the coming year and to elect the officers for the Conservative Group for the next 12 months.
Hounslow Conservative Councillors Demand Action To Minimise The Impact On Chiswick, Brentford And Beyond Of The Closure Of Hammersmith Bridge:
The Hounslow Conservative Group of councillors has urged the leader of Hounslow Council, Councillor Steve Curran, to demand action from Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, and Councillor Stephen Cowan, leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council (LBH&F) to minimise the increasingly significant and
Mayoral Candidate Hustings
Friday, 31 August, 2018
B&I Conservatives welcomed the three Conservative Candidates for Mayor: Andrew Boff, Shaun Bailey and Joy Morrissey, to our hustings at St Paul's Church in the Chiswick Riverside Ward.
Chiswick elects Conservative Councillors
Saturday, 5 May, 2018
Voters have elected Conservative Councillors in Chiswick Homefields, Turnham Green and Chiswick Riverside wards.
Hounslow Conservatives Announce Manifesto Pledges on Environment
Tuesday, 1 May, 2018
Hounslow Conservatives will take clear and documented steps to deliver a better, cleaner and healthier environment for residents in the Borough of Hounslow. These steps will include action to reduce air pollution and fly-tipping, support for electric vehicles and the planting of trees in key pla
Hounslow Conservatives Announce Manifesto Pledges on Schools and Youth
Sunday, 29 April, 2018
Hounslow Conservatives have pledged extra cash and support for youth programmes and school services. The pledges include the saving of Hounslow’s youth centres, including the Hogarth Youth & Community Centre in Chiswick that will otherwise close as a result Labour’s 78% cut to the youth serv
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Learn all about Motorola phones and how to use your Motorola mobile for optimized professional and social pleasure. Read reviews and comparisons here in the Motorola Channel at Bright Hub where we cover all the information you need to make an informed decision on which phone to buy, as well as tips for faster use of your handset, applications and accessories. Motorola offers an impressive range of products such as flip phones, headsets, personalization add-ons, droid and more.
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The Cutting Edge of the Droid RAZR Versus the Audio Beats of the Rezound
The rebirth of the RAZR line up was a fantastic decision by Motorola and its cutting through the competition quickly. The Rezound is HTC’s follow up to the Thunderbolt, and though it had a silent release, it is definitely a monster. Which smartphone ends up being the better choice?
Motorola Admiral Review: Rugged Android Smartphone for Business Users
The Motorola Admiral is a tough Android smartphone aimed squarely at the business market. It has a full QWERTY keyboard and a great set of specs. Time to ditch the BlackBerry? Let’s take a look.
The Motorola Droid RAZR Cuts Through the Competition
Motorola pulled up their bootstraps and made it out of the trenches when they first released the RAZR in 2004. They did it again with the Droid series through Verizon. Now they’ve merged the two to form the Droid RAZR. Will it succeed just the same?
Reloading the Atrix – Motorola Atrix 2 Review
The original Atrix was an innovator in the market and most people would not have thought that a successor would be released 10 months after. The Atrix 2 doesn’t quite bring innovation, but adds a bit more of a redesign and a few minor changes. Is that enough to take on the competition?
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Motorola has been a big player in the mobile space for years now, but in recent times their fortunes have faltered. They still make great phones though, and in this buyer’s guide you’ll find the best of the best.
How to Use the Motorola Droid X as a Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot
One of the features of Motorola’s Droid X mobile phone is the ability to turn it into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. By doing so, you can connect up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices to the Internet. Here’s how to set up and use the Droid X as a hotspot, as well as information on the the extra cost involved.
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Sprint has been on a sprint, no pun intended, to dominate the smartphone market with an array of powerful Android smartphones. The Photon 4G and EVO 3D are two such smartphones, set to take Sprint customers. But pitted against one another, which one is the victor?
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The End of the Droid Trilogy – Motorola Droid 3 Reviewed
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'Systemic crisis': states responsible for fixing cladding problems
State Parliament
By Alexandra Smith
NSW has struck a deal with the states to pursue national building standards but the Berejiklian government will be responsible for fixing hundreds of buildings with flammable cladding.
The deal between the state and federal governments was reached at an emergency meeting of ministers in Sydney on Thursday amid a crisis of confidence in the building industry.
Federal Industry Minister Karen Andrews urged insurers to be part of the solution in the building industry crisis. Credit:AAP
Professional indemnity insurance premiums have skyrocketed following the discovery of severe defects at a string of apartment buildings in NSW, and Victoria's flammable cladding problems.
NSW Better Regulation Minister Kevin Anderson said reaching an agreement for the states and Commonwealth to work through issues in the building sector was "a historic day".
But Mr Anderson said no decision had been made on how to fix the cladding problem in NSW.
The Victorian government this week pledged $600 million to fix its flammable cladding crisis and, in NSW, the government's cladding taskforce has identified more than 600 high-risk buildings.
Residents have also been forced to evacuate apartment blocks at Zetland, Mascot and Sydney Olympic Park in recent months after construction defects were found in their buildings.
NSW Better Regulation Minister Kevin Anderson said the states had reached a historic agreement. Credit:AAP
"We are still working through those issues in regards to cladding," Mr Anderson said.
"We are working with local council to see how we support them ... it is a work in progress."
The federal government has stressed that building remediation is the responsibility of the states.
Federal Industry Minister Karen Andrews ruled out providing funding for rectification works of buildings with flammable cladding.
"States and territories will be determining their own path for remediation and rectification and the Commonwealth will not be paying," Ms Andrews said.
As part of the deal with the Commonwealth and states, a new taskforce will be established and will prioritise implementing the recommendations of Shergold-Weir Building Confidence report.
Ms Andrews said the ministers had "broad-ranging" discussions with the insurance industry at Thursday's meeting.
"We are also calling on insurers to take on board to what we have committed to today ... we are asking insurers to work with us to ensure confidence is restored to the sector and that insurers are part of the solution," Ms Andrews said.
The chief executive of the Insurance Council of Australia Rob Whelan said: "Today’s agreement between the states and territories on implementing nationally consistent building standards is a step in the right direction, but action is now urgently required to restore confidence in the building and construction sector."
The meeting of ministers came after Australia's five largest industry groups demanded urgent action on the nation's "patchy and inconsistent" building rules.
The construction industry has called for better enforcement of rules so that cowboy operators are held to account.
Masters Builders Australia chief executive Denita Wawn said Thursday was an "important step for ensuring confidence back into the system".
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Alternative Title: Nāgarī
Devanāgarī, (Sanskrit: deva, “god,” and nāgarī (lipi), “[script] of the city”) also called Nāgarī, script used to write the Sanskrit, Prākrit, Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali languages, developed from the North Indian monumental script known as Gupta and ultimately from the Brāhmī alphabet, from which all modern Indian writing systems are derived. In use from the 7th century ce and occurring in its mature form from the 11th century onward, Devanāgarī is characterized by long, horizontal strokes at the tops of the letters, usually joined in modern usage to form a continuous horizontal line through the script when written.
Devanagari scriptDevanagari script from a section of the Sanskrit Bhagavata-purana, c. 1880–c. 1900; in the British Library. The British Librfary/Robana/REX/Shutterstock.com
The Devanāgarī writing system is a combination of syllabary and alphabet. One of its more notable characteristics is the convention that a consonantal symbol lacking diacritics is read as the consonant followed by the letter a—that is, the a is implied rather than written as a separate character.
Another notable characteristic is that the most common traditional listing of Devanāgarī symbols follows a phonetic order in which the vowels are recited before the consonants; in contrast, most alphabets follow an order that mixes vowels and consonants together (e.g., A, B, C). Furthermore, Devanāgarī arranges the vowels and consonants in an order that starts with sounds pronounced at the back of the oral cavity and proceeds to sounds produced at the front of the mouth.
The Devanāgarī consonants are divided into classes of stops (sounds that are pronounced by stopping and then releasing the airflow, such as k, c, ṭ, t, p), semivowels (y, r, l, v), and spirants (ś, ṣ, s, h; h comes last because it has no unique place of articulation). The order for stops is: velar (or guttural; produced at the area of the velum), called jihvāmūlīya; palatal (produced with the middle of the tongue approaching or making contact at the hard palate), known as tālavya; retroflex or cacuminal (produced by curling the tongue back to the area back of the ridge called the alveolae and making quick contact there with the tip of the tongue), referred to as mūrdhanya; dental (produced by making contact with the tip of the tongue at the roots of the upper teeth), called dantya; and labial (produced by bringing the lower lip into contact with the upper lip), known as oṣṭhya.
Semivowels and spirants follow the same order, with the addition of the intermediate category “labio-dental” (produced by bringing the upper front teeth into contact with the inside of the lower lip, with very slight friction), called dantoṣṭhya, for v. Vowels follow the same general order, with simple vowels followed by original diphthongs. In addition, there are symbols for certain sounds that have no independent status and whose occurrence is determined by particular contexts: a nasal offglide called anusvāra and the spirants ḫk (jihvāmūlīya), ḫp (upadhmānīya), and ḥ (visarjanīya, visarga).
The name of each vowel is designated by its sound plus the suffix -kāra; thus, akāra is the name for a and ākāra for ā. A consonant is usually referred to by its sound plus the default vowel a and the suffix -kāra: kakāra is the name for k, khakāra for kh, gakāra for g, ghakāra for gh, ṅakāra for ṅ, yakāra for y, śakāra for ś, hakāra for h, and so on. The names of a few letters are irregular, notably repha (for r), anusvāra (for ṃ), and those of ḫk, ḫp, and ḥ, as noted earlier.
The precise realizations of particular sounds differed from area to area in Old Indo-Aryan and continue to do so in modern pronunciations. Thus, in earliest Indo-Aryan ṛ was a complex sound with r flanked by very short vowel segments (one-fourth mora each), as in ə̆rə̆. According to early descriptions, however, the quality of the vowel segments differed in various traditions of Vedic recitation. The modern Sanskrit pronunciation shows regional differences as well. For instance, ṛ is pronounced ri in the north and ru in areas such as Maharashtra; in very careful pronunciation (as taught, for example, in Maharashtra), this vowel is pronounced rɨ.
Phoneticians of the distant past described r both as retroflex (ɽ) and as alveolar. In modern pronunciation of Sanskrit, the distinction between palatal ś ([ç]) and retroflex ṣ ([ʂ]) is generally not observed—with a sound approximating [ʂ] for both—except in very careful pronunciation taught in some areas such as Maharashtra. The letter ṃ originally represented an offglide to a vowel that had nasality as its only proper quality and took on the color of a preceding vowel; e.g., aṃ was pronounced [əə̆]. In modern Sanskrit pronunciation, the value of this sound differs somewhat from one region to the next: nasality of a preceding vowel before spirants, a nasalized w ([ᴡ̃]), a stop at the same place of articulation as a following stop, and [ŋ].
The letter ḥ was originally a voiceless spirant; in modern Sanskrit pronunciation it is a voiced h followed by an echo of the last preceding vocalic segment; for example, what is spelled as -āḥ, -iḥ, -eḥ, -oḥ, -aiḥ, -auḥ is pronounced as [āɦā], [iɦ], [eɦe], [oɦo], [əiɦi], [əuɦu].
As noted above, a consonant symbol designates by default a consonant followed by a; an angled substroke is used to indicate that a consonant symbol stands for a consonant without any vowel. Syllables consisting of consonants followed by vowels other than a are designated with the use of attached vowel symbols—ā is represented by a vertical stroke to the right, i and ī respectively with strokes to the left and right connected to consonants by curved vertical strokes, u and ū with different subscripts, e and ai with superscripts; and o and au with combinations of a right vertical stroke and superscripts—and through the use of special symbols for ru and rū.
Combinations of consonant symbols are used to represent sound clusters. The precise positioning and shapes of some of these depends on whether the consonant in question has a central stroke, a right stroke, or neither. In addition, the symbol for r is different depending on whether the combination does or does not begin with this consonant. Moreover, there are special symbols and some variants for particular clusters.
In modern printing, for instance, ligatures of the type (kta), with a conjunct form of the first consonant symbol followed by the full symbol for the second consonant, are frequently used instead of single symbols of the type . In addition, there are variant symbols for single sounds that have a more old-fashioned look; e.g., instead of, . For Vedic texts, diacritic symbols are used for marking pitches and for varieties of anusvāra. A horizontal substroke regularly marks a low-pitched syllable. In the broadest notation, a syllable pronounced on a normal high tone is left unmarked, a horizontal subscript marks a low-pitched syllable, and a vertical superscript marks a svarita syllable—e.g., (agnim ī̀ḷe “I praise [invoke] Agni”).
In a narrower notation system used for texts of the Śuklayajurveda (“White Yajurveda”), there are special symbols for svarita syllables in different contexts and for variants of anusvāra and visarjanīya. The narrowest notation system, used in manuscripts of the Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā (“Saṃhitā of the Maitrāyaṇas”), not only marks different svaritas but also uses a superscript stroke to indicate high-pitched syllables. There are also Devanāgarī number symbols, though the constitution of India provides for the use of Arabic numerals as well.
The phonological systems of some modern languages require symbols not needed for others. For example, Marathi has ḷ, which in the inventory of sounds is listed after h. Modern languages that use the Devanāgarī alphabet also use some special symbols in borrowings. Such details concerning spelling conventions in various modern Indo-Aryan languages are best considered along with other aspects of these languages. Finally, there is a special symbol for the sacred syllable om: ॐ.
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Mein Auto: 1994 325i 5spd convertibl
Background: 2005 X5 4.8is. Problem started with DSC being disabled due to Steering Plausibility error.
I use a Launch GDS x431 diagnostic computer on the Bimmers and Benzes, and even neighbors' domestic and oriental vehicles.
To verify problem, I observed outputs of the sensor as I drove; I saw a movement of angle, but not smooth, sort of jerky. I did some research, and bought a steering sensor rebuild kit from a guy in Europe. Was not a bad task, and after reinstalling the sensor, the now rebuilt sensor indicated smooth angle changes. However I could not match the sensor to the vehicle. So DSC had to be disabled or would get random braking while turning.
I bought a brand new steering angle sensor on ebay from a BMW dealer. (they actually sent a second one by mistake - I just sent them a note on how to return the error.).
I installed it today. I cleared the dtc codes, and matched the sensor. The Launch computer indicates matching successful. I don't think so.
Now the new sensor outputs no angle changes. Now I am wondering if my computer is not matching properly, or at all.
The two dtc codes I get are:
OB: sensor/vehicle allocation incorrect or not available
5EB2: Steering angle sensor adjustment
Launch screen also provided this information prior to reading codes and matching while in the DSC section:
Release VersionV46.50
531001 DSC
VIN: LE82388
Prt Number: 6768688
Coding index: 04
Diagnosis index: 0020
Varient index: 4C4E
Hardware number: 10
When in the LEW section in Launch:
Release version - V46.50
521401 - LWS
Diagnosis Index: 30
Bus Index: 60
Would anybody know - is he new sensor faulty?
Could my Launch be faulty?
Is there a known inexpensive tool that will match the steering angle sensor to my X5?
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On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorados industrial barons.
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KILLING FOR COAL is a labor history of miners in the southern coalfields of Colorado during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It may be considered an environmental history because it addresses (among the social, political, and cultural dimensions of labor relations between miners and capitalists) the natural and ecological dimensions and setting of the regions history. Problems would persist, but Ludlow massacre April 20, 1914 in which 18 strikers were killed including women and childrenand the retaliation by strikers known as the 10 Days War would mark the high point of bloody confrontations in the coal labor movement.The Ludlow-as-battle vs. Ludlow-as-massacre narratives have competed for salience in the historical review of the Great Colorado Coalfield War from 1913-1914 (in which there were at least 75 and maybe 100 casualties). In the end, however, Andrews argues that: To fully understand the Great Coalfield War and its significance, we need to move beyond partial memories and polarizing stories. While I appreciate the effort and work of making this an environmental history, I think it only offers a setting for rather than a convincing cause of the Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In other words, this is a labor history before an environmental history.
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Death could not hold Jesus. This was an important part of the first proclamation of the Risen Lord after the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Filled and emboldened with the Spirit, Peter recounted the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, and he cast it as the fulfillment of ancient prophecy.
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VATICAN CITY – Simple gestures of welcome and solidarity, when supported by faith in Jesus' resurrection, proclaim the value of life, Pope Francis said.
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WASHINGTON – Catholics and other Christians have grown up believing in the Resurrection, but the Apostles themselves were among the first who were skeptical that Jesus arose from the dead.
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Food4Kids may fold
Volunteers fiercely needed
Food4Kids volunteers Sarah Stephens and Linda Stratford ready loaves of bread for the weekend.
Since 2013, not-for-profit Creswell Food4Kids volunteers have been quietly slipping into Creswell School District (CSD) classrooms on Friday afternoons, filling backpacks with food to last the weekend. At the program's peak, they would provide food for 74 children at once. Today, Creswell Food4Kids provides food for 67 children in the District weekly. However, this service may soon come to a halt as their volunteer numbers continue to decline, unless community members are willing to step up to the plate and pitch in.
The striking numbers of free and reduced lunches served at CSD in 2013 inspired Creswell Food4Kids founders Celeste Keepers, Darcy Landers and Kim Edwards to initiate the nonprofit, said current Food4Kids Chair Bonnie Wenzl, who noted that back then, about 80 percent of Creslane students were receiving free and reduced lunches.
Forward to the present; in March 2018 the District prepared 10,445 free/reduced meals for the month - 4,113 breakfasts and 6,332 lunches, according to CSD Business Manager Anna Houpt. Those numbers are still high, especially compared to the 4,069 paid meals reportedly prepared for the month - 1,169 breakfasts and 2,900 lunches.
To date for 2017-18, a total of 70,641 free/reduced lunches were prepared, whereas paid lunches totaled 29,755, according to Houpt's summary.
While there are no financial qualifications or restrictions to participate in the Creswell Food4Kids program, the number of reduced and free lunches in the District directly speaks to the nonprofit's mission, indicating that many Creswell families have a need for programs such as this.
Creswell Food4Kids began as a bookbag system, where students would receive a bookbag containing food, and they were to return the bag the next week in order to receive another food contribution. That system grew complicated as the need grew, and was later nixed to make the transfer more efficient.
Today, the program's main goal is to keep confidential the students who receive these lunches, Wenzl said. How it works is, volunteers go into the classrooms on Fridays, go to the students' cubbies and slip the bag of food into their backpacks discreetly. If students don't have backpacks, Food4Kids volunteers will donate some to students.
The food supplied is intended to be taken home for the weekend, or over school breaks. Each child receives two breakfast items, two snacks, two entrees, two fruits, two vegetables and a loaf of bread. Food4Kids also accommodates for vegan and vegetarians.
Food4Kids operates entirely from donations and uses all its proceeds to purchase food, Wenzl said. The program used to receive help from FOOD for Lane County, but now relies strictly on donations.
In 2017, Creswell First! granted $2,500 to Creswell Food4Kids. With that grant, Food4Kids is able to supply food for an entire weekend to over 70 children in the District each week while school is in session. The Creswell Presbyterian Church's Presbyterian Women's Association (PWA) also donated $1,500 last year, Reverend Seth Wheeler said.
Right now, the organization has about 10 volunteers, but in their heyday, Creswell Food4Kids operated with up to 25 volunteers.
Matison Wenzl, Food4Kids volunteer.
Volunteers would be asked to help out on Wednesday or Thursday evenings at Creslane Elementary to help bag food for Friday's haul. Volunteers would also be needed on Fridays to help deliver the food to students at their schools.
This is Wenzl's third year in the program, and her second year serving as chair. She will be stepping down from that position in June, and is hoping a volunteer will be willing to take on her role, or help volunteer in other ways. "If no one will run it, we won't have a program," Wenzl said, "and I really don't want that to happen."
To get involved, or if you have any questions, email Wenzl at [email protected] or call her at 541-515-5560. You can also call Creslane and ask to speak with Crystal Perdue, who also assists in coordinating the program.
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Bodyguard's Richard Madden Talks Unrealistic Body Expectations For Actors Doing Nude Scenes
Apr. 9. 2019 10:06 PM
Richard Madden has shared his thoughts on the expectations surrounding actors’ bodies as they get put on display in nude scenes. No stranger to doing those kind of scenes, the Bodyguard star has weighed in. He opened up on the atmosphere surrounding how male actors are supposed to appear in them.
It turns out that he has strong feelings about it. Richard Madden reveals what he thinks about what it projects, as well as sharing the regimen that he and his fellow male stars have undergone to look a certain way. As you might have already imagined, the pressure to present with a physical form can be intense. Madden told Vogue UK:
We’re projecting a very unrealistic body image. I find myself with actor friends – after we’ve done a kind of barely eating, working-out-twice-a-day, no-carbing thing for these scenes – looking at each other going: ‘We’re just feeding this same shit that we’re against.' I’ve done numerous jobs where you’re told to lose weight and get to the gym. It doesn’t just happen to women, it happens to men all the time as well.
There you have it. Richard Madden also revealed to the magazine that he has had his skin pinched, as well as being made to wear restrictive costumes to create a certain aesthetic. He reportedly likened those wardrobe pieces to a corset. That disclosure indicates the pressure exists
Richard Madden discussing having to wear a specific costume is revealing in that it exists whether an actor’s clothes are on and off. This is not a pressure about shirtless scenes or those of a similar variety. In other words, this not just about having a 6-pack.
The Bodyguard star joins an increasing number of male actors who are giving voice to pressure men face in the entertainment industry. Last year, The Flash’s Grant Gustin fired back against those who had criticized his physique in his costume. Shazam lead Zachary Levi also hit out against body shamers in the lead up to the Marvel film’s release.
The pressure on male actors to appear in a particular shape is getting a greater spotlight. Whatever shape he is in, Richard Madden is an exceptional actor. Thankfully for Madden, buzz around Bodyguard has involved more than talk solely revolving around his body.
Whether Bodyguard will return for a second season is still open-ended. Earlier this year, Richard Madden asserted that his character, David Budd, needed a break. He cited all Budd had endured in Season 1. Madden did seem open to the possibility of continuing the series. Time will tell if a second season ends up coming together.
In the meantime, it does not sound like Richard Madden wants to stress out regarding his physique. As Madden's comments reveal, stress to conform to body expectations is something that leads to actors undertaking unhealthy habits. You do not get in good physical shape depriving yourself of food and overly working out.
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Federal Network Resilience
The Federal Network Resilience (FNR) Division plays a vital role in providing direct cybersecurity support, coordination and communications to all Federal Executive Branch agencies. Housed in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FNR partners with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), National Security Council (NSC), federal Chief Information Officers (CIOs), and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to transform Federal Government cybersecurity risk management through effective collaboration, operational governance and training, and providing meaningful metrics and assessments in support of agency decision making.
FNR offers a broad range of cybersecurity programs and services to improve an agency’s cybersecurity posture, including performance measurement and analysis, risk assessments, access to cyber-shared services, training, and technical assistance.
FNR is the bridge between DHS cybersecurity programs and services and the Executive Branch. It provides assistance and support to its federal customers through the following service areas.
Assessments: Conduct operational assessments for agencies in relation to adherence of government-wide standards and validated best practices in securing agency mission high value assets.
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Skiing represents freedom for teen born with underdeveloped limbs
BY PETER CAMERON, STAFF WRITER / Published: October 28, 2012
Q&A: Deb Jallen
She was flying down the mountain on one ski, hitting a top speed of 55 mph at the steepest part of the run, when she lost control.
For all competitive skiers, balance is crucial, the difference between a gold medal and a dangerous fall.
It’s particularly important for U.S. Paralympic Ski Team member and Harding native Stephanie Jallen, 16, who only has one full arm and leg, both on her right side.
While skiing a downhill course in Kimberley, British Columbia, last February on a mountain that has become her nemesis (“I just don’t think it likes me”), Jallen crashed for the second year in a row, this time slashing her face on the side of her ski, fracturing her shin bone and partially tearing a ligament in her knee.
“It felt like I got hit by a train,” she said.
Racing the setting sun, the team doctor sewed up her bloody cheek in a shack on the mountain. Her hospital bed had to be moved to keep her in the dim light shining through one of the few cabin windows and she needed 12 stitches. She still bears a light four-inch scar, curving down her cheek to her chin.
Just a few days later, beat up, bruised and “against all doctors’ orders,” Jallen competed again in Park City, Utah, because she needed the racing points to qualify for her first World Cup in Winter Park, Colo., the following month. Still hurting, she finished last in her three events at the Cup. But she qualified, and as the youngest competitor among all skiers, she raced.
Relative to the rest of her life, the wipe out and subsequent World Cup outing were minor setbacks for the tough-as-nails skier. Now the youngest member of the U.S. team by six years, Jallen was born with severely underdeveloped limbs on her left side. Her leg was so curled and deformed it had to be amputated above the knee, while her half arm tapers into a single finger. Because her prosthesis can provoke a nasty and painful rash on the stump of her leg, Jallen usually walks with a crutch or sits in a wheelchair.
Nicknamed “Hopper” by her father because of the way she sometimes gets around the house, Jallen has played soccer with a crutch and basketball with her prosthesis, but she discovered skiing at the age of 9, when puzzled but determined coaches at a camp for disabled kids taught her the basics.
Those first few trips down the bunny hill, Jallen was “on my butt more than I was on my foot,” she said.
Seven years and many falls later, skiing has become her passion, and thanks in part to the money raised by her foundation, she’s competing on mountains all over the world.
“I love the freedom that it gives me,” said Jallen, a junior at Wyoming Area Secondary Center who does her homework online during ski trips. “I’m usually confined to some kind of walking device. When I ski, it’s like nothing is there to help me move. It’s all me.”
To improve her strength and balance, Jallen has worked with trainer and Dallas-native Ernie Baul for the past several years.
When the one-legged skier calls the 67-year-old ex-Navy Seal a “hard ass,” she means it as a compliment. Baul has built the 5 foot 3 inch girl into a strong and slim skiing machine. Working three times a week, the two have specifically focused on strengthening her torso muscles to compensate for her lack of limbs on one side.
“She is an awesome athlete,” said Baul of Jallen, who has won about 40 skiing medals, including a gold in slalom at the U.S. National Championships for disabled skiers last January. At a session after school, Baul runs his unusual protégé through a series of drills. Jallen squats with a 40-pound dumbbell, balances on a bosu ball and hops onto the top of a huge tire, like a nimble monkey. She does everything so effortlessly, it looks as if her left leg has been photoshopped out of real life.
“She’s stronger than most average women or men,” Baul said.
Jallen has put six pounds of muscle onto her small frame since the crash last winter.
With her newfound strength, she hopes to not only conquer the mountain in Kimberley, but also reach the peak of her sport by qualifying for the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, one month after the likes of Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn compete there in the Olympics.
Kevin Jardine, her Colorado-based coach on the Paralympic Team, said despite having “the most difficult situation any athlete could have,” because of her unique anatomy, Jallen is on the cusp of Sochi. A strong ski season, beginning this month in Austria, could push her over the top. But because she’s so young, she can set even higher goals for the more distant future.
“If she continues on the track she’s on now, she can easily be a medalist in 2018,” Jardine said.
Back at the gym, Jallen is seated atop a big inflated exercise ball while her trainer tosses a 7-pound, grapefruit-sized medicine ball in her general direction.
With her good hand, the one-legged girl snags every toss without losing her balance. Between throws, Baul asks her to recite their motto.
“People with two arms and two legs,” Jallen said, breathing hard and with a twinkle in her eye, “are cheaters.”
pcameron@citizensvoice.com 570-821-2110, @cvpetercameron
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Tennessee Department of Education reports that over 50 percent of Public High School Seniors raise score on ACT Senior Retake
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Department of Education Interim Commissioner Dr. Lyle Ailshie announced today that 76.1 percent of the state’s public high school class of 2019—53,478 students—participated in the department’s third ACT Senior Retake opportunity in October 2018, the state’s highest participation rate on record.
Of those seniors who retook the ACT in 2018, more than 50 percent increased their composite score from their junior year score, a 10.2 percent point increase from 2017.
Highest participation rate on record, 3,800 new students now eligible for $61.2 million in scholarships.
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2018 TNReady Scores Show Mixed Results, Encouraging Areas of Progress
Nashville TN – Tennessee Commissioner of Education Candice McQueen announced the 2018 TNReady student assessment results, sharing that while results vary statewide, there are encouraging trends – including strong growth in English language arts for elementary grades and improvement in high school math.
Students in historically disadvantaged student groups also showed notable progress. Gaps between student groups narrowed in multiple areas, and students in Priority schools – including the Achievement School District – grew faster than their non-Priority school peers nearly across the board.
Tennessee Students improved most in early grades reading, narrowed achievement gaps; show need for deeper, more sustained work to support improvement.
Austin Peay State University’s first Saudi master’s student hopes to spread what she’s learned in home country
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Clarksville, TN – Hanan Alghamdi’s face brightened with a smile when she learned she was Austin Peay State University’s first-ever master’s degree recipient from Saudi Arabia.
“I feel proud of what I am,” said the Master of Arts in Teaching recipient.
“I started from zero and now I see myself as …” she said before breaking off, adding later as her smile returned, “I did it. I did it.”
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Tennessee Department of Education approves New Steps to Reduce Testing
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Candice McQueen announced the approval of recommendations that will reduce student testing in 2018-19.
The recommendations are the first to be released by the state’s third Task Force on Student Testing and Assessment – which includes educators, parents, and education leaders from across the state – and they resulted from months of analysis and discussion, as well as additional surveys of high school teachers and parents.
For the first time, Tennessee Department of Education eliminates two TNReady exams.
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UPDATE: Clarksville Police Report That Missing Woman Has Been Found.
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Police Department is searching for a missing woman who has Alzheimers.
Carmen n Fernandez-Rios 69, was last seen at around 10:30pm last night and was discovered missing from her residence at 1573 Buchanan Drive at around 8:30am this morning.
She recently arrived here from Puerto Rico and speaks very little English. A recent strok has given her limited mobility in her left arm.
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Tennessee Board of Education Seeks Public Feedback on Newly Implemented English Language Arts Standards
Nashville, TN – On Friday, December 1st, 2017, the Tennessee Board of Education launched an English Language Arts (ELA) standards implementation feedback survey at www.tn.gov/sbe/topic/standards-review to gather public comments on Tennessee’s recently implemented K-12 ELA standards.
All Tennesseans are invited to review the standards, and the survey will remain open through January 31st, 2018.
Feedback on recently implemented English Language Arts (ELA) standards sought from educators, parents and community members.
Clarksville Police Fatal Accident Crash Team provide educational opportunity to West Creek High School Students
Clarksville, TN – On Wednesday, October 25th, 2017, Clarksville Police Officers from CPD’s Fatal Accident Crash Team in conjunction with West Creek High School teachers, provided a different type of educational opportunity to some West Creek High students.
Students were challenged to utilize skills taught to them in a classroom environment in a real world situation.
West Creek High School Students Use Classroom Skills in a Real World Environment. (Jim Knoll, CPD)
Tennessee Public School Students Set New Record with ACT Average Score of 20.1
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Candice McQueen today announced that Tennessee public school students have crossed a new threshold, earning an average composite score of 20.1 on the ACT.
Tennessee public high school students improved from the 2016 average of 19.9, with more than 3,500 additional students taking the exam this year.
Tennessee School Students earned an average score of 20.1 on the ACT.
Tennessee High School Students Scores Improve Across All Subjects In Second Year Of New Assessment
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Candice McQueen has announced that Tennessee high school students improved across all subject areas – English, math, science, and U.S. history – on the 2016-17 TNReady end-of-course exams.
Thousands of additional students are meeting course expectations compared to last year, and the state reduced the percentage of students scoring at the lowest achievement level across all subject areas.
In 2015- 16, high school students set a new baseline in the first year of TNReady.
Nearly 70,000 Tennessee Public School Students Eligible for Second Statewide ACT Retake Day
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Candice McQueen announced today that the state is expanding its ACT Senior Retake Day to all Tennessee public high school students in the class of 2018, totaling nearly 70,000 students.
In addition, the department is making it easier for public school seniors to retake the ACT this fall by offering this second opportunity during the school day in students’ own schools.
Education Regional Partnerships Double Across the State
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High Performance Sport Planning
Evaluation by: Peter Sharpe, Head of High Performance Strategy & Planning, Australian Institute of Sport (May 2016)
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Planning is a key process that underpins the achievement of sustainable high performance outcomes. Australia's High Performance Strategy describes the Sport Australia (formerly Australian Sports Commission) and Australian Institute of Sport's (AIS) game plan for moving from world class to world best, and identifies the need for planning and review processes to be contemporary and provide for elevated accountability across the sector.
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Mark Lehman, Reporter
Tags: Local, News, Seminole County
Judge dismisses stalking injunction against Oviedo mayor
Mayor Dominic Persampiere says it's 'time to move on'
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A judge dismissed an injunction Thursday against the mayor of Oviedo after the mayor was accused of threatening to kill his neighbor during a confrontation outside his neighbor's home.
Circuit Court Judge Jerri Collins said there wasn't enough evidence to warrant the injunction for stalking, which was filed by Jennifer Bain last month.
"I wanted to prove to people bullying is not accepted nowadays, and he is a bully," Bain said.
During the May 13 incident, police were called to Suncrest Court after Bain and her husband said their neighbor, Mayor Dominic Persampiere, had threatened to shoot them.
The threat was recorded on Bain's daughter's cellphone.
Bain showed the officer a video of Persampiere at their doorstep, saying, "You ever talk to my kid like that again, I'll get my gun and I'll come over there and I'll (expletive) kill you. Take my picture, here I am, record this. She lost her damn cat. Go ahead, put it on Facebook. You're both (expletive) (expletives)," according to the report.
Persampiere explained to the officer that his daughter was using the flashlight on her phone to walk around the neighborhood, looking for her cat, and the neighbors thought she was taking pictures of their home to report a potential violation to the homeowners association.
The mayor's wife is president of the neighborhood homeowners association. Both the mayor and Bain said they've had HOA issues in the past.
Persampiere said his neighbors "verbally assaulted" his 26-year-old daughter, which Bain denied.
During Thursday's hearing, Collins said the threat from Persampiere was concerning, but case law showed there wasn't enough to permit the injunction.
After the ruling was made, Persampeire said he wanted to put the issue behind him.
"I'm very pleased at the outcome," Persampiere said. "I chose bad words, but now it's just time to move on."
Mark Lehman
Mark Lehman became a News 6 reporter in July 2014, but he's been a Central Florida journalist and part of the News 6 team for much longer. While most people are fast asleep in their bed, Mark starts his day overnight by searching for news on the streets of Central Florida.
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Ruffels wins US Women's Amateur
August 12, 2019 10:49:47 AM
Ben Portnoy - [email protected]
WEST POINT -- The clicking of camera shutters were the lone sounds on the 18th green at Old Waverly Golf Club Sunday afternoon.
Standing near the middle of the manicured surface, University of Southern California rising junior Gabriela Ruffels looked on -- nervously biting her lip as she swung her putter head into the air.
Roughly 10 feet from her spikes, Ruffels' ball caromed toward the hole. Slowly dribbling toward the cup, it hung on the precipice of the plastic-braced divot for a moment before clanking home.
"To be honest I didn't think that last putt on 18 was going in." Ruffels said. "Seeing that just drip in is probably the best feeling of my life."
With that make she capped off a 1-up, 36-hole victory over Stanford's Albane Valenzuela in the championship round of the 119th U.S. Women's Amateur.
"This is what you dream of when you start playing golf -- winning tournaments like this," Ruffels said. "This is the biggest championship in amateur golf. I'm still speechless but I guess that shows how much it means to me."
On a day that began at 7:30 a.m. with the duos' opening round of the day, the match wasn't resolved until the final two holes.
All square heading to the 17th, Ruffels teed her ball first. Aimed right at the cup on the 168 yard par-3, a shot just to the left of the pin spelled trouble as water lines the entire left side of the hole.
No matter. Ruffels went right at the flag and stuck her six-iron within 10 feet. Following a Valenzuela putt that broke just past the hole and was picked up for par, she delivered what would be the winning stroke with a birdie to take the lead.
"I knew the risk," Ruffels said. "I knew that I could either pull it off or it could be a disaster. But not really looking back on that now because I'm probably not going to play that shot ever again. Super glad it worked out."
Though the match reached a fever pitch down the stretch, Ruffels came out firing on the opening 18 holes of competition -- marching to a 3-up lead by winning hole Nos. 8 through 11 on the pairs' first go around the grounds at Old Waverly Sunday.
Valanzuela battled back by winning four of the next five holes before Ruffels evened the match with a birdie on No. 18 to send the final round of competition into its last 18 holes all square.
"Toward the middle I was struggling a lot," Ruffels conceded. "I told my caddie that it was very hot and I got my umbrella on the last nine and that really helped -- maintaining energy levels was hard."
The second 18 offered an exhilarating back and forth between the two golfers, as neither won back-to-back holes the entire round.
Adding to the drama, Ruffels' caddie and USC coach Justin Silverstein had to leave the course after hole 13 to catch a flight to Santa Barbara, California for a family funeral. Mississippi State golfer Blair Stockett carried her bag the remaining five holes.
"You made it so easy," Ruffels said of Stockett in her victory speech. "You made it so great. Thank you so much."
With the win, the USC product became the first Australian to ever hoist the Robert Cox trophy.
"I'm a proud Australian," Ruffels said. "That's where I started playing golf. I have such a huge support system back there and to win it not only for myself but everyone back home is huge and it just means the world."
Ben Portnoy reports on Mississippi State sports for The Dispatch. Follow him on Twitter at @bportnoy15.
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ICANN: PALESTINE COUNTRY CODE MEMO OF RULES
ICANN ASSIGNMENTS RFC 1060
PEOPLE WHO WORKED ON THE INTERNET RFC 1060
WIPO . CYBERSQUATTERS CAST THEIR VOTES
SANCTIONED BY THE U.S. BUT STILL DOING BUSINESS WITH ICANN
THE UNITED NATIONS, THE TALIBAN & THE IANA DECREE
GOOGLE is AMERICAs INTERNET ANTI-TRUST MONOPOLY SET UP TO BREAK DOWN THE WORLD
FCC . FTC .
RoC . USPTO Patents & Trademarks >
RACISM IS IN THE EYE OF THE USPTO EXAMINER:
SEC . FINRA . IP & ID +$ >
PRESIDENT OBAMA COMMUTATED LOW LEVEL CRIMINALS v WALL STREET NEVER JAILED
GIVE VIRGINIA FELONS RIGHT TO VOTE BECAUSE SEC "DISCIPLINED" (with no jail) KEEP THEIRs
WHY TRUMP SUPPORT OF FLORIDA AG PAM BONDI CONCERNS ME
HUSTLED BY FINRA OVER CLAIM OF DRS BEING FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT COMPLIANT
THE POLICY OF PUBLIC FINANCIALS
THE FAILURE OF SUCCESS
MADOFF DID NOT... FINRA/NASD DID
BILL H.R. 1098 >
TERESA GUIDICE WENT TO JAIL, 45 PAGES OF WALL STREET “OTHERS” DID NOT
PRESIDENT WILSON SIGNED A SECRET CALLED THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT…
DID GOVERNOR HOGAN PICK WHITE OVER LAW RIGHT IN THE ISSUE OF VOTES, CRIMES & FELONS?
SEC BARRING OF STEVEN A COHEN FOR 2 YRS IS PRIME EXAMPLE OF CONGRESSIONAL FIDUCIARY FAILURE LETTING WALL STREET WALK WHEN MAIN STREET GOES TO JAIL
YES KEVIN BACON, ELI WIESEL & OTHER HARMED INVESTORS, THERE ARE DEEP POCKETS... STILL >
& THIS BRAD PITT, ANSWERS YOU WHY THINGS AREN’T GOING TO CHANGE ON WALL STREET
SEC COMMENT: S7-18-15 >
THE SUPREMES GOT IT WRONG REJECTING BEBO v SEC
CLIFFNOTES ON FINRA, CONGRESS & DRS
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE COMMENT: CONGRESS NEEDS TO SET “FIDUCIARY” DEFINITIONS ASIDE & PUT CONS THAT VIOLATE FIDUCIARY WHERE COPS CAN FIND THEM
A BIG DAY FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFOMR THA T CAME & WENT UNNOTICED
FINRA RUSH TO THWART INVESTIGATION BURYING FINRA DRS IN FINRA REGULATION >
IF THE SEC ACT CITED ANTI-COMPETITION THEN....
FINRA CONNED BROKERS BELIEVING FINRA GRANTED S.R.O. STATUS NOT THE S.E.C. OR DID THEY
GO FUND ME, FINRA >
FINRA FORCED ARBITRATION OF INVESTORS IS UNLAWFUL & NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW CONGRESS WROTE >
WHY FINRA WANTS TO HIDE FINRA DRS IN FINRA REGULATION
WHEN CRIMINAL JUSTICE WILL HAPPEN.... REALLY
CONGRESS CREATED MADOFF >
SEC: DISCLOSURE COMMENTS
KEEPING Your (C) EYE ON CONGRESS >
GOVDELIVERY.com EMAILINGS on 12 . 4
SENATE: Keep Tabs On Senate 2D IP . ID . (C) . Commerce & Disability
JUDICIARY : Keep Tabs On Judiciary 2D IP . ID . (C) & Commerce
ENERGY + COMMERCE : Keep Tabs On E&C 2D IP . ID . (C) & Commerce >
CASHING IN ON HEALTHCARE.gov CLICKS
Energy & Commerce (Patent Troll) PATTERN AND PRACTICE
STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND IMMUNITY IN COPYRIGHT
ARCHIVE(s)
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ARCHIVE JULY 2019 (transfered)
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ARCHIVES: JULY (transferred) 2018
ARCHIVES: JUNE 2018 (transferred)
ARCHIVES: MAY II 2018 (transferred)
ARCHIVES: MAY I (Transfered) 2018
ARCHIVES: APRIL (Transferred) 2018
ARCHIVES: MARCH (Transferred) 2018
ARCHIVE: FEBRUARY (Transferred)2018
ARCHIVE: DECEMBER (transferred)
ARCHIVES: NOVEMBER 2017 (transfered)
ARCHIVES: OCTOBER 2017
ARCHIVE: SEPTEMBER 2017
ARCHIVE: JULY 2017
ARCHIVE: MAY 1/2017
ARCHIVE: APRIL 2017
ARCHIVE JANUARY 2017
ARCHIVE OCTOBER 2016
ARCHIVE AUGUST 2016
ARCHIVE JULY 2016
ARCHIVE MARCH 2016 -
ARCHIVE JUNE 2014 (a)
ARCHIVE JUNE 2014 (b)
ARCHIVE JUNE 2014 (c)
ARCHIVE JUNE 2014 (d)
ARCHIVE JUNE 2014 (e)
ARCHIIVE OCTOBER 2015
ARCHIVE * MAY 2014
ARCHIVE * MARCH 2014
ARCHIVE * JANUARY 2014
ARCHIVE 2013 - 6/2014
ARCHIVE 2013 >
ARCHIVE 2013 (a)
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ARCHIVE 2013 (c)
ARCHIVE 2013 (d)
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BASIC COPYRIGHT WORDS TO UNDERSTAND (c) Carrie Devorah :
ABANDONED: Abandoned is a term used most often in the area of Intellectual Property to describe a Trademark Application that the Applicant walked away from giving up their Claim, Right or Interest to
ACCELARATOR: A work-within site wherein to attempt move a business idea ahead further faster
AGGLOMORATE: Assemblage . Amass or collection of things ie. private data
AGGREGATOR: Also called Feed Reader or RSS Reader
ALGORITHM: An Algorithm, pre Internet age, was a way to solve a mathematical problem. In the Internet Age, an Algorithm describes a step by step procedure electronics follow or gather to do what they are supposed to do or to gather data of what others do ie. shopping habits, channels they watch on TV, sites they go to on the Internet and for how long. OMG that sounds like spying…. Ya think?
ALIAS: Assumed or false name ie. Twitter handle, User ID or other name the User is best known as. Author's use Alias. Eric Blair, the Author of 1984, used the Alias George Orwell. Lester Gillis was known as Baby Face Nelson. Synonyms for Alias are psuedoname, pen name, nom de guerre, stage name, pen name. Comes from the Latin which meant 'at another time'
AMERICA INVENTS ACT: HR 1249 America Invents Act co-authored by Leahy and Smith was signed into law in 2011
ANTI CYBERSQUATTING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT: The Act is a Federal Law enacted to oversee Bad Faith Intent to profit from the Goodwill of someone else’s Trademark
ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE: Software that features a firewall and virus/malware detection
APPLICATION: The software definition of Application is the action of putting something into operation. The Register of Copyright and USPTO definition of Application is a formal request for something to be done such as paperwork filled out to register a Copyright, a Trademark and a Patent
APPROPRIATION ART: The use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them
ARCHIVE: An archive consists of data that is determined to be worth keeping or is kept for compliance purposes then is taken off line after it is archived
ATC: All things connected by technology- house, clothes, cars, kids,
ATTRIBUTION: Attribution is the act of assigning credit to the Creator or Owner of an Intellectual Property such as a photo or an ARTS work
AUTHORS: (In A Copyright Use): Merriam-Dictionary definition of “Author” is he one who originates the Work. Copyright Law as it stands today does not clarify if the Author is Animal, Algorithm, Person, Team of People, Corporate or Individual. Amazingly, Copyright Law, Title XVII uses the word “Author” over and over again but does not define “Author.” In the regular world an “Author” is someone who wrote a book or an article or a poem or a Haiku or a tree scratch or Love Notes in sand. See where I am going…. Into the ARTS world where “Author” is defined in Section 101 of the Copyright Code, Title XVII aka Title 17, as, OMG, with all the definitions listed in this section the word “AUTHOR” is not defined but it is referred to over and over again but we can get the jist of the Code’s intention if we look at Section 102 adressing Literary Works, Musical Work including words, Dramatic Works including music, Pantomimes and choreographic works, Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, Motion pictures and other audiovisual works, Sound recordings and Architectural works. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “Author” as “one that originates or creates : source…” I use the term, “CREATIVEs”
AUTHORSHIP: Merriam-Dictionary definition of “Authorship” is ‘the source of a piece of writing, music or art’ or ‘ the state or act of writing, creating,or causing ‘
AVATAR: An AVATAR is the Internet Word for a 2D ARTS concept known as a Thumbnail (refer to Thumbnail). Avatars or Thumbnails of Other Peoples 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) is used for the most part without permission of the 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) Owner. It has become a sad reality that most entities have given in to the tsunami of loss of their 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) on the Internet with a ‘what can you do’ attitude in that it appears Legislators have dropped the Copyright Ball when it comes to applying Common Law, Code, to Technological Entities, facilitating thefts (do I hear NAPSTER anyone?)
B2B: Business to business
BACKUP: Backing up data is the process of creating a copy of files in use that are intended to be kept in use. Backups are stored away from the original data
BANKING: Putting alot of tables and chairs into a space where people can come to communally work with other people around them without necessity of interacting
BERNE CONVENTION: Berne Convention is the commonly used nickname for the “Berne Convention For The Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Almost 170 countries came together with a signed document in which they all agreed to honor the Rights of Authors who are Nationals of those same countries signed on to the Berne Convention … READ MORE
BITCOIN: Crypto currency
BLS: Bureau of Labor Statistics
BOSS BAITING: Employers sending phishing emails to test employees resisting Clicks risking Company hack
BRAND: A Brand is a Moniker or Label or Name built in industry and that an Industry can be built around
BUNDLING: Bundling is the bringing together of items or services sold for a single price or on more products. In the Internet Age, bundling is used to describe the bringing together of a Person or Entities data, including but not limited to Image, Avatars, email addresses, home addresses, phone and cell numbers, stories the person may have written, Photographs they may have taken, Works they may have created but done so mostly without the person’s permission or knowledge until they find their ‘bundle’ on the site. Take Down notices are often published on sites like Chilling Effects without the Author’s knowledge or permission a violation of the implied Confidentiality of the Take Down respect
CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 3344: California Civil Code Section 3344 was created to protect the Publicity Rights of living persons
CASH PARKING: Cash Parking is a violation of ACPA, the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. ACPA. Cash Parking allows registrants to purchase domains that resemble well known sites (i.e., AcademyAwardz.com), “park” the website, and collect a portion of the advertising revenue generated on a pay-per-click basis.
CELEBRITY IMAGE PROTECTION ACT: The Celebrity Image Protection Act also called the Astaire Celebrity Image Protection Act gave Post Mortem statutory rights, seventy years Post Mortem, to the Estate of a Deceased Personality where “that personality had been "any natural person whose name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness has commercial value at the time of his or her death", any person using such personality's "name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness on or in products, merchandise or goods" without prior consent was liable to be sued for damages and profits arising from the unauthorized use, such prior consent may only be given by persons to whom the personality had transferred such power by contract or trust prior to his death, or by trust or will after his death, or, where no such latter provision was made, his spouse, children, and/or grandchildren, "a play, book, magazine, newspaper, musical composition, audiovisual work, radio or television program, single and original work of art, work of political or newsworthy value, or an advertisement or commercial announcement for any of these works, shall not be considered a product, article of merchandise, good, or service if it is fictional or nonfictional entertainment, or a dramatic, literary, or musical work." This law is the Model from which to protect Victims of Terrorism, Military and General Persons from being abused after Death for profit or Activism, by non-entitled persons, non profits, governments and or others
CELEBRITY RIGHTS ACT: The Celebrity Rights Act was passed in California in 1985. The Act allows for a Celebrity or Personality’s Rights to survive after their death
CHAFFEE AMENDMENT: The Chaffee Amendment is also referred to as Section 121 of the US Copyright Code. The Chaffee Amendment is misquoted to convenience by Individuals and Entities wanting to avoid paying Royalties to Authors of Works. The Chaffee Amendment does not state an Author should not be paid for use of their Work to enable the Blind and Persons with qualifying disabilities. The Chaffee Amendment provides limitations on Exclusive Rights of reproductions for Blind people or people with other detailed disabilities. The Amendment says an AUTHORIZED ENTITY can produce, in special formats, specifically Braille, Audio or Digital Text, for Use by a blind person or persons with disabilities, a Copyrighted previously published Literary Work that is not dramatic. The Reproduced Work MUST state who the Owner of the Copyright is, the date of the Works first being published and that producing the Work in a way other than for the Blind or disabled is against the Law. Authorized Entity is described as a Non Profit organization or Governmental Agency whose Primary Mission is to help the Blind or Disabled. Blind and Disabled is defined by the Act
CIVIL CODE: The Civil Code are Laws and Statutes dealing with Business and Negligence
CIVIL LAW: Non Criminal disputes such as disagreements over intention and meaning of contracts, divorce, children and property are addressed through Civil Law
CLAIM: Assertion that something is the Truth such as Claim To Ownership or Claim of First Person To Publish
CLOUDTRADE: Trading within the cloud
CNV: Customer network value
CONNECTOR: An influencer archetype with volume in their social networks characterized by volume, rate and frequency of conversations producing brand impressions with followers on various platforms engaging in online viral activity
CONSUMER FATIGUE: Desensitization of a consumer to traditional advertising causing consumer apathy from a wealth of information overwhelming attention
COPYRIGHT: Copyright is an Intellectual Property, a Legal Concept giving the Works Creator exclusive rights for a limited period of time defined by Life plus seventy years. A Copyright is the right to Copy, basically. It also give the Author the right to be credited for their work, along with making the decision who else can use their Work and how it can be used. The Copyright Act of 1976 says a Copyright is protection given to Authors of original Literary, Dramatic, Musical, Artistic and defined other Intellectual Published and Unpublished Works of Authorship. An Individual’s Copyright lasts 70 years. The Supreme Court ruled that a company’s Copyright lasts 95 years. Disney didn’t want its Mickey Mouse cartoons entering public domain. Lawrence Lessig, a Standford Law School professor, had suggested a play from the Patent Law gamebook that the Holder would pay money every few years to keep their patents current. Lessig said do the same for Copyrights, charge Copyright holders to keep their Copyright out of Public Domain. Some would call being asked to pay to keep a Patent or Copyright out of Public Domain, that Blackmail or Ransom.
Copyright, addressed under Section 102 of the Copyright Code, Title XVII, addresses Original Works in the categories of Literary Works, Musical Works and the Words in a Musical Work, Dramatic Works including the Music that goes with it, Pantomimes and choreographic works, Pictorial, Graphic and Sculptural Works, Motion Pictures, Audiovisual Works, Sound Recordings and Architectural Works.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: Copyright Infringement has multiple names for basically the same action of Unauthorized Use of a Copyright Owners Work without Permission. Copyright Infringement, also called Piracy, is Theft
COPYRIGHT LAW: Copyright Law is in Title XVII, Title 17, Title Seventeen of the US Code
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: A Copyright Notice identifies to the world who the Copyright Owner is. The Universal Copyright Notice is a “C” in a Circle along with the Copyright owner’s name and the year the Work was created in. Affixing a copyright notice on a Work is optional. Affixing a Copyright Notice to a Work could deter Unauthorized Use of the Work. In the digital age, Copyright information is often removed by Technology from the Work
COPYRIGHT OWNER: The Copyright Owner is the person who owns a Copyright which may or may not be the Creator of the ARTS Work or the Works Author. A Copyright Owner might be the person the ARTS Work ownership was sold to. ARTS Ownership does not transfer automatically with the sale of a Work of Art unless specifically contracted to Transfer in a written agreement a Bill of Sale
CODING: Coding is an Old School word that has been usurped by the Internet Generation to describe the combination of symbols and letters used to create software and websites. Sorry kids, been there done that. We used, duhh, colors and letters and numbers to mark files and folders on shelves and in files cabinets to access data we put away. Grin. When the lights go out, we will have to teach you to do things the old fashioned way
CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT: It is a legal document also called a CDA also known as an NDA a non disclosure agreement signed before proprietary information is shared
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: A Work is Infringed when the Work is produced in any way shape or form without permission of the Copyright Owner whether it is Reproduced, Distributed, Publicly Displayed or made into anything without the Owner’s Permission. In Legal Talk, reproduction of a Copyright Work is called a Derivative Work. The Owner isn't necessarily the Copyright Creator. The Copyright might have been transferred to the Owner as a gift, assigned or sold.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: The universal marking of a Copyright is a “C” inside a Circle or the word “Copyright” along with the name of the Copyright Owner and, traditionally expected, the Year date of the Copyright Owner. Under the UCC, Universal Copyright convention
COPYRIGHT OFFICE: The Copyright Office is the office of Public Record for Copyright registration. The Copyright office is where Copyright Material is deposited and the records and chain of title for Copyright Records are maintained. The Copyright Office is part of the Library of Congress.
COPYRIGHT OWNER: A Copyright Owner is the Person or Entity that Owns the Exclusive Right or Rights to a Copyright
COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION: The purpose of Copyright Registration is to put into the record an account from an official Government source the date and the Work in question in the event a Legal Claim of Infringement or Plagiarism arises
CREATOR: In Copyright Law, the Creator of an ARTS work is referred to as the Author
CRIME: A crime is committed when a Person or Entity takes possession of or Transfers or Uses the Identity of another Person with their intent being to defraud, commit or participate in an Unlawful activity including theft or Identity Theft
CRIMINAL: Details of the Criminal Code are laid out in Title XVIII of the US Code. Title XVIII of the Criminal Code follows Title XVII the Copyright Code
CROWDFUNDING: Crowdfunding is the funding of a Project or Venture with money raised from small amounts of money raised via the Internet more often from strangers
CRYPTOCURRENCY: Cryptocurrency is a P2P, Peer To Peer, decentralized digital currency theoretically immune to government involvement by oversight or enforcement. It is not offered by a central authority. Its use is anonymous. Principles of cryptography are used to validate and implement its use. Bitcoins are stored in Digital Wallets opened with Digital Keys assigned to their owner.
CYBER SQUATTING: Cybersquatting also known as Domain Squatting is the term given to the act of registering, hoarding, selling or using a Domain Name with the Intention of profiting from someone else’s Trademark usually with the intention of selling those names to a profit to the business who owns the Mark(s)
CYBER VOR: Russian for Cyber Thief
D2D2T: D2D2T is Disk-2-disk-2-tape, a model using disk storage as a backup reserve. The backups are stored on disk. The backup is transferred to tape for storage elsewhere usually off site. The tape is used to restore older backups. The disks are available for quicker access and restoration
DATA DELUGE: Overwhelming of consumer with information, wanted or unwanted
DAS: DAS is an anacronym for Direct Attached Storage directly connected to a computer system without an intervening network
DATA SIFT: Data mining
DEFAMATION: Defamation is the action of damaging the good reputation, name and goodwill of someone
DER: DER is an anacronym for Digital Emergency Response
DERIVATIVE WORK: Something made from the Original Copyrighted Work is called a Derivative Work whether it is a Thumbnail of the Original Work, a reproduction on a T-Shirt for example or, in the case of Martin Luther King JR’s “I Have A Dream” speech, its translation into musicals, played on News Clips and such
DETERMINATION: A decision reached in the Intellectual Property area usually through research
DEVICE TOKEN: A unique string used to identify devices
DIGITAL: (of signals or data) expressed as series of the digits 0 and 1, typically represented by values of a physical quantity such as voltage or magnetic polarization. Often contrasted with analog.
1.1relating to, using, or storing data or information in the form of digital signals: digital TV a digital recording
1.2involving or relating to the use of computer technology: the digital revolution
DIGITAL MILLENIUM COPYRIGHT ACT: The Digital Millenium Copyright Act also called the DMCA was signed by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998 President Clinton providing new rules for Copyright addressing the treatment of Online Copyrighted Material. DMCA, HR 2281, was signed during the 105th Congress, House and Senate on October 8th and 12th respectively, with the intent to strengthen International Copyright and intentionally protective oversight for domestic technologyDIRECT VICTIM: A Direct Victim is a person or entity whose Identity has been accessed, possessed, used and/or transferred by someone other than themselves and without their willing not forced permission
DISCLAIMER: A Disclaimer is a statement or declaration made with the intention of clarifying the limit the scope of one’s exposure or obligations to Users
DISCLOSURE: The act of sharing information about something new or known
DLT: DLT stands for Digital Linear Tape, a common type of magnetic tape storage
DMCA: DMCA is the abbreviation for Digital Millenium Copyright Act
DOMAIN SQUATTING: Domain Squatting is also called Cybersquatting. Domain Squatting is most often addressed for High Value Trademarks such as Coke or Apple but not for simpler word or letter combinations that are sat upon for extended periods of time and investment
DOMAIN TROLL: Someone or an Entity who sit on a Domain name with the intent to profit. More often the Domain Troll parallels a marketable name with a slight change ie. Paris Hilton and Perez Hilton with the result of confusing or entertaining the public, attracting CLICKS to generate Ad Income etc. Domain Trolls are facilitated by Domain Hosts, Sellers, Resellers and Bundlers selling the name to the Troll
DOXXING: Document tracing
DROIT DE SUITE: Droit de Suite is French for Resale Right
DRS: Dispute Resolution also called Mediation
DURATION OF RIGHTS: The Duration of Rights of a Work extend for Life of the Author Plus seventy, seventy years after the Author or Owner dies. Duration of Copyright was defined in the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990
ELECTRONIC: (of a device) having or operating with the aid of many small components, especially microchips and transistors, that control and direct an electric current: an electronic calculator
ENTREPRENEUR: French word which means Undertaker. One who undertakes, manages and assumes risk of a new enterprise. Activity of entrepreneurship goes back to medieval times
FAIR USE: Fair Use is Section 107 of the US Code, Title XVII. Fair Use is supposed to mean the Copyright Owner’s Work is protected from being used without their permission and most definitely not used if the Use of the Work hurts the value of the Copyrighted Work or the Copyright Owners ability to make their living from their Work. The term of Fair Use limits how much of the Work is used in comparison to the Whole of their Work along with the Values and Ethics and Moral s of how the Work is used including if the Work is used for a Commercial, money making purpose for a nonprofit educational purpose. A problem in the interpretation of Fair Use is many times the Non Profit is rolling in the cash while the Royalty owner is struggling to pay bills the Use of their Work by the non profit would have contributed to
FCS: Foreign Commercial Service
FEDERAL COURT: The current venue Copyright issues are legislated to be adressed. Copyright issues are issues of Commerce, often under Contract and with Commercial Value
FEED READER: Also called Aggregator or Feed Reader or RSS Reader
FINANCIAL GAIN: Financial gain is defined as receiving or expecting to receive something of Value even other Copyrighteg Works
FIFTH AMENDMENT: The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution signed by the Founding Fathers is the Founding Fathers’ promise of Property Rights to their new Nation. It reads, "…nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." Try this again “… NOR SHALL PRIVATE PROPERTY BE TAKEN FOR PUBLIC USE WITHOUT JUST COMPENSATION..” the unfortunate transparent move the Register of Copyrights has been taking 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) in since signing on to the Berne Convention, it is appearing to look like, favoring the politicking of Technological entities building War Chests from advertising monies generated from groomed consumers private lives
FINTRAC: Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada
FIRST AMENDMENT: The words of Amendment I to the United States Constitution are written sky high in the face of Congress, down the street, on the Pennsylvania Avenue front side of the Newseum, in Washington DC. The First Amendment is deferred to by persons claiming Freedom of the Press under Freedom of Speech. The First Amendment was adopted December 15 1791 inclusive of the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment is a defense often used by paparazzi and bloggers and self styled journos to defend their use of other ARTS Creators images and stories. The First Amendment reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”
FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION: First Amendment Protection is given to a Celebrity even if the Celebrity is dead, the Celebrities Image is protected. The Dead Celebrity’s Image can only be used in a News Article or Magazine as long as the author’s views are in the article containing commentary or criticism
FORCED SYNERGY: Herding people to locations to integrate
FOUNDING FATHER(s): A bit of a history lesson for a Copyright Captive audience. The term Founding Father was first used in 1914. The Term describes the men who took part in fighting the American Revolution War, the Signers of the Declaration of Independence who established the United States Constitution.
When it comes to asking WHO Are America’s Daddys there are three groups of men to choose from- the men who signed the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776; the men, delegates to the Constitutional Convention, who participating in framing the proposed Constitution of the United States and the group of men who signed the Articles of Confederation.
The First Continental Congress, fifty six delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774. Patrick Henry, John Adams, Samuel Adams (MA), John Dickinson (PA) and John Jay (NY) were amongst the Founding Fathers, along with George Washington, one of the Delegates before he commanded the Army. Many of the same Delegates reunited for the Second Continental Congress held May 10, 1775. Newbies to the Second Continental Congress included Benjamin Franklin and Robert Morris (PA) and John Hancock (MA). Peyton Randolph was replaced by Thomas Jefferson (VA). Hancock became President. The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Congress. The Article of Confederation were declared to establish the new government. The thirteen colonies named the Second Congress the Congress of The Confederation. George Washington was elected to preside over the Constitutional Convention, the result of which was the United States Convention.
The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution is the Founding Fathers promise of Property Rights to their new Nation. It reads, "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
FRAND: Fair reasonable and non discriminatory terms
FRAPPING: Masturbating while watching game porn or such
GEOLOCATOR: An application or feature that will tag a specific location, geolocation, when a picture is uploaded, a Facebook status is changed, a tweet is sent out or a phone call made
GONGOOZLER: A person who watches activity along a canal
GOODWILL: Goodwill is the asset to a business or person’s reputation
GRAYLISTING: ISPs might not deliver an entire batch of mail all at once if they don't trust the senders Internet Protocol. The ISPs might accept some of those emails, graylist the others, and send the remainder when the ISPs know it's safe to deliver messages from the senders Internet Protocol
GRAYMAIL: Graymail, email you are Opted In to receive but dont really want, is content that does not meet the legal definition of spam. Graymail is from a sender you opened the first time receiving the email but do not open the subsequent emails they continue to send subsequently. Graymail is perceived as spam-like because the recipients may not want the email and may mark it as annoying spam out of annoyance
GROOMING: Grooming, a term used to describe the preparation or training of a Person for a particular purpose of activity such as Human Trafficking or Sexual Abuse. Grooming is the apt description of the approach by Technology companies providing a free service at the onset then converting the terms of Service over time limiting access, opportunity and access to the Users Private life, not having detailed that would become part of the relationship change over time
HACK: To Hack is the act of using Technology to gain unauthorized access to data in a system
HACKATHON: A Hackathon is an event over hours or a few days in which people get together to collaboratively write computer an event taking place usually over a few days typically lasting several programs, build new web and build new services or apps for PDA devices
HACKER: A Hacker is a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data
HARDWARE: Hardware is Storage Devices and Display Devices that Software is stored in
HIDDEN SERVICE ADRESSES: Anonymous servers using a Network
HNV: High network value
HOT SWAP: Removing or adding a device such as a hard drive in a storage system while the system is running
HTML: HTML is the nickname for Hypertext Markup Language
HUB & SPOKE DIPLOMACY: Home basing in one place while spoking out to other sites
HUDDLE ROOMS: Spaces where millenials can opt to go to consult with others. Used to be called Conference rooms
HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE: HTML is a language with which to create Web Pages and other Data that will be displayed in a browser of the World Wide Web
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Human Trafficking is the movement of People. Internet Trafficking of Humans is the Transmission of Persons Identity, Information, Private or Public and their Images over a Communications System- online, cable, fibre and/or the USPS. Trafficking is a Term used in the import and export trade. It is the business of Buying, Selling or Bartering and moving of Goods between Individuals, Groups and or Businesses
IANA:
IAP: Also referred to as Internet Access Provider or Internet Service Provider (refer to Internet Service Provider)
ICANN: Internet Corporation Of Assigned Names and Numbers
IDENTITY: Identity is the way by which an ‘ Entity’s Name, Number or Data is used aloneby itself or with other Information including but not limited to their Avatar, Image, Name, Social Security number, Date of Birth, Drivers License or ID Number, Passport Number, Routing Codes, Telecommunication ID information, Access Devices, etc.
IDENTITY THEFT: The dodgy issue with Identity Theft is that statutes vary state to state and usually don’t include minor, a child under the age of eighteen using False Identification. While False Identification has been used primarily in matters of the Minor using False ID, to get booze, smokes or (other), the Internet Age has propulgated a New Minor of False ID- pretending to be older to snag a Hot Older Woman, or hacking Persons’ Social Security numbers, financial service numbers including but not limited to Brick and Click banking accounts PINS, Passwords, Electronic Signatures, biometric data and hopefully in time, the Algorithms being used to create many of the booming online models being created rapidly through technological ventures
IGF: Internet Governance Forum
INDEMNIFICATION: Indemnification is the promise or Agreement that one Party or Person will cover Losses of another party
INDUSTRIALIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY:
INFORMATION: Facts, details shared
INFRINGER: An Infringer is someone who Infringes
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: By the basest of interpretation, Intellectual Property, nicknamed IP, is what emanates from our Intellect, knowledge. Lawyers, Professors, Politicians and Lobbyists all have their fingers in making Legal decisions for what is Intellectual Property. It is a commodity, a Property, that can be bought, sold or traded hence Laws were created to regulate IP and regulate
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: Intellectual Property Law are Rights and Protections for Owners and Authors of Property. Intellectual Property is an Intangible Asset. Merriam-Dictionary defines an Asset as a “useful or valuable thing, person, or quality” and Intangible as “unable to be touched or grasped; not having physical presence.” That is not correct, though. Works that are Literary, Artistic, Discovered, Invented, Written, Drawn Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Design Rights, Trade Dress and Trade Secrets even Music can be touched in that they begin, even Music, with a written Representation, with Pencil on Paper, on Video, by Computer or otherwise
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT(s): Also referred to as IPR, Intellectual Property Right is the exclusive right of a Copyright Creator or Owner to decide whether or not they allow others to use their Work and, if so, how the Work will be used ie. what medium, what territory, length of time, and under what Terms of Commerce, TOC
INTERNET ACCESS PROVIDER: Also referred to as IAP, ISP or Internet Service Provider (refer to Internet Service Provider)
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: An Internet Service Provider, also called an IAP, Internet Access Provider is a company, made up of one or more Individuals and/or Entities, that provides to Customers, also called Users, access to the Internet, through their model, often a business model, sometimes in cooperation with Affiliates or Partners, more often than not collecting the Users “life” through the transmitted data and or Algorithms the ISP bundles and sells for Revenue, more often than not paid to the Consumer ID THEFT
INVENTOR: A person or entity who comes up with a new idea or process
IOE: Internet of everything
IPR: Also referred to as Intellectual Property Right
IPR COURTS: IPR Courts, also called IPR Tribunals are Courts dedicated to overseeing issues of Intellectual Property Rights. The Judges and attorneys are specialists in IPR other than being Judges or Attorneys who may have taken one class on IPR in Law school. The United States does not have IPR Courts, amazingly, considering many of the countries American Legislators refer to in Legislative Hearings do have IPR Courts in place for several years while the Register of Copyrights, for a while, has been bandying around Small Claims Courts for 2D ARTS IP Theft Resolution, a wrong forum for a Prolific Community, since ARTS ideas are for the most part free to create and an investment of time and under greater threat in a Technology Age.
The following is a list of Countries with, without, exploring or limited IPR Courts. Some of the Courts deal solely on Patents. Some of the Courts put 2D IP Theft into a Commercial Court in that the matter involves money and or a Breach of Contract. Requirements for a Judge or lawyers in the IPR Courts, to quote Kenya Law is the membership and composition of specialized IPR Courts and Tribunals in Kenya is drawn from persons who have impeccable academic and practical..” There are Judges in America presiding over occasional IP matters admitting to taking one Intellectual Property case in Law school.
(i) America and Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia (appellate), Brazil, Canada (none), Chile (appellate), Colombia (appellate), Costa Rica (exploring), Ecuador (exploring), El Salvador (commercial), Gautemala (exploring), Guatemala, Guyana (commercial), Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay (exploring), Peru (appellate), Trinidad and Tobago (none), United States (none), Andean Community Eastern Caribbean (considering)
(ii) Europe: Armenia (considering), Austria (patent), Belarus, Belgium (commercial), Croatia (commercial), Czech Republic (municipal), Denmark (none), Finland, France (none), Germany (district courts for patents), Greece (none), Hungary, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands (none), Norway (patents), Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia (none), Slovakia, Sweden (patent), Switzerland (commercial), Turkey, United Kingdom, European Union (considering)
(iii) Middle East and North Africa: Egypt (commercial), Iran (limited), Iraq (commercial), Israel, Jordan, Morocco (commercial), Saudia Arabia (administrative), Syria, United Arab Emirates (considering)
(iv) Sub-Saharan Africa: Eritrea (general), Kenya, Malawi (patent), Mauritius (industrial property), Mozambique (customs), Rwanda (commercial), South Africa (considering), Sudan, Suriname (appellate), Tanzania (commercial), Uganda (commercial), Zimbabwe
(v) Asia and Oceana: Australia, Azerbaijan (commercial), Bhutan, Cambodia (considering), China, Hong Kong (none), India, Indonesia (commercial), Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Sinagpore (no specialized court), South Koreah, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikstan (patents), Thailand (none), Uzbekistan (economic court)
IRC: Internet relay chat system
ISP: Also called an Internet Service Provider (refer to Internet Service Provider)
ITA: International Trade Administration
JUDICIARY: Two definitions of Judiciary are (i) the judicial authorities of a country, Judges and (ii) in Congress, a bi-partisan Committee with oversight and authority to interpret the law and write law then followed by the 'other' Judiciary in (i)
LANTERN: Lantern is a group that set up proxy in Iran to see the internet as people in Iran. It is a modern underground railroad
LEGACY-FRIEND: Legacy-friend is the person appointed to take over social online life after death
LEXICON: Language reflecting the times
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States. It is the oldest cultural institution in America. It is the research library of the United States Congress. It is located across the street from the United States Capitol joined by a new underground walkway, kitty corner to the Canon Building of Congress, and beside the Supreme Court of the United States. The Library of Congress was started for Congress in 1800. It was located in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century. Most of the Library of Congress original collection was destroyed in the War of 1812. Thomas Jefferson sold his entire personal library 6,487 books, in 1815, to the Library of Congress
LICENSE: A License is a Permission To Act. A License in the world of 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) is an Agreement signed between two or more Individuals and/or Entities giving laying out the Understanding of the Terms ie. what, when, how, for how long and for how much
LICENSING: Licensing is the concept of leasing of legally protected ideas such as Names, Likenesses, Logo, Trademark, Graphic Design, Slogan that has been Trademarked or Copyrighted
LINK DIRECTORY: Also known as Web Directory
LIST SEGMENTATION: Dividing contacts in to lists or into smaller segments that make manageable sense for your needs
LOBBYIST: A Lobbyist is a person wanting to persuade members of Government to enact a Legislation benefiting the person’s peer community. Lobbyists are often paid people. There are volunteer lobbyists too. People who are paid for Lobbying must be approved to Lobby Congress in that Lobbying is a Regulated Industry. Lobbyists attend hearings, visit Legislators offices seeking to educate Legislators on issues important to the community. The term Lobbyist was a name given to the Men and Women who waited, decades back, in the Lobby of the Willard Hotel, for the chance to tell the Legislator the story of the interest group the Lobbyist was representing. Sometimes Lobbyists write reports or send newsletters to send out to the community members which are spread across the country, often. Paid Lobbyists receive stipends ranging from a few dollars to thousands of dollars for moving or not moving the issue ball forward. Lobbying can be a lucrative career as is often reported in unsavory news stories….
LOGLINE: Logline is a one-liner used to describe a movie or TV show
MAGIC MIDDLE: Individuals who are the broker for collective network action positioned centrally in social graphs but far enough from each other to influence a greater range of individuals
MAGNA CARTA: The Magna Carta is one of the original testaments to ownership of Property Rights preceding the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Magna Carta was signed June 1215 by between British King John and Barons of Medieval England. The Bill of Rights was passed in the Parliament of England, December 16 1689
MARKETING AUTOMATION: A detailed diagram of emails sent to different places divided and directed by email engagement with the lead drawn from lead to customer
MARRAKESH TREATY: It is a work-in-progress treaty for Blind and Visually impaired people giving them the opportunity to be Normal with access to books others read too. The Marrakesh Treaty provides for Authors and Rights Holders to be compensated unlike as represented to the Judiciary by a recent witness who represented differently. Blind people WANT to pay. Blind people DO NOT want to be regarded as Charity. AND THAT IS A QUOTE that Congress needs to hear from the Blind man who will show them the Copyright light
MARKS: Another name for Trademarks
METADATA: Metadata is Data about Data. Metadata is what is used to Stalk Users as well as removing Data from 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) and ID (identity). When Metadata is removed from 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) and ID (identity) the 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) and ID (identity) becomes an Orphan Work the Register of Copyrights is working to create into a new Commodity the Register of Copyrights wants to bundle and sell for Commerce to augment the number one profitable agency in the US Government
MICRO ENTITY: An applicant who has not filed more than four patents, meet the defined gross income or isnt under contract to a macro entity under USC › Title 35 › Part II › Chapter 11 › § 123
MID TIER INFLUENCE:
MORAL RIGHTS: US Copyright Law included a concept called Moral Rights before VARA was enacted. Copyrights were protected under notions of Unfair Competition, Defamation, Invasion of Privacy and Breach of Contract. VARA Rights last only for the length of the Artist’s life not after they passed
MULGE: Bad Pitch
NATIONAL(S): A person from or comprising or characteristic of a Nationality
NIST: National Institute Of Standards and Technologies
NOA: National Oceanic and Weather Service
NODE: A computer or device attached to a computing network such as a LAN, local area network
NON PROFIT: A corporation or an association conducting business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive
NPE: Non practicing entity
NTA: National Telecommunications Agency
OCILLA: OCILLA is an abbreviation for On-Line Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
ON-LINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT LIABILITY LIMITATION ACT: Also called OCILLA, On-Line Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act was an Act passed by Congress in 1998 to protect ISPs, Internet Service Providers network, from being found and held liable for things their Users do online. OCILLA was codified as Section 512 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Section 512 of the DMCA was pushed by Technology Entities in their effort to be exempted from Copyright Infringement claims against them emanating from Customer Conduct, in an attempt to make their Customer liable for Monetary damages. This is also called a Safe Harbor provision (refer to Safe Harbor)
ONLINE SERVICE PROVIDER: Also referred to as OSP
ORPHAN WORKS: Orphan Works are the “Whose Your Daddy” of the ARTS Works world. Their ARTS owners cannot be found. They are pieces Owners or Creators did not sign possibly because they were created back in the days when the UCC, Universal Copyright Convention didn’t require ARTS works be signed to designate Possession or where to send the check to or, in the digital world, they are digital reproduced Books, Music, Records, Films, Photos and Other Visual Arts whose Metadata has been scrubbed, removed, after the Work was either sent or transmitted or removed. Technology would love Legislators to believe the Works “Daddy” died or cant be found. Excuse me? IN a world of online entities bundling and selling people’s personal data? If you believe that, I have a bridge in the middle of a desert to sell you
OSP: Also referred to as Online Service Provider
OWNERSHIP: The right of possessing something
OWNERSHIP INTEREST: The right to participate in owning something
P2P: Peer to Peer
PARODY: A parody is an imitative work created to mock, trivialize or comment or to trivialize an original work, its subject, author, style or some other subject
PARTITIONING: The division of a hard disk drive in to multiple designated portions called partitions
PATENT: Authority from a government to have the right to a title and license for a set period excluding others from making, using, or selling the patent owner's invention
PATENT TROLL: A Patent Assertion Entity, a PAE, is a person or Entity owning a patent who files either a Demand Letter or Lawsuit against a Person or Entity infringing the Patent which may or may not be in industry
The Infringer is using the Patent without a License a reality being ignored by persons being prevented from using the Patent they want to access. There really isn't a difference, is there, between a person using a 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) without Authorization or a Patent without Authorization unless the presentation is in the eye of the Complainant
PERSONALITY RIGHTS: In 1979 the California Supreme Court decided that Bela Lugosi's Personality Rights could not be passed to his Heirs after his death, unlike Copyright which survives as deceased person by seventy years after their death
PHC: Patent Holding Company sort of like the owner of a Copyright. They own what someone wants to use without paying a Fee or License for its use
PIN: Personal identification number
PIRACY: Piracy is one of those funky buzz words that has captured the imagination of Communication Officers, Witnesses at Hearings and Legislators too because it sounds cool, rejuvenating memories of Swashbucklers and such. Bottom line, Piracy and Copyright Theft and one and the same. It describes the action of something being taken by someone it doesn’t belong to. Pirates were minted Pirates way back as far as 1603. Way back in 1557, the Stationer’s Company of London was given a monopoly, a Royal Charter, to publish and, along with that Charter, the right to enforce the Charter. Those who violated the Charter were called Pirates, the cool sounding term used in 1886 in the Berne Convention For The Protection of Literary and Artistic Works to describe the Copying, Distributing and selling of Works that are not in the Public Domain but are OWNED, in Copyright, saying, "Pirated works may be seized on importation into those countries of the Union where the original work enjoys legal protection"
PRIVACY: The definition of Privacy has changed a lot from the days of Greta Garbo saying “I vant to be alone.” Privacy in the Internet Age is hoped to be the right to be free from Secret Surveillance and to decide how much and to whom Personal or Entity Information is disclosed to, sort of a notion of the past in the NSA and Internet Age
PIVOT: A social generation term for try something else when what you are doing isnt working
POP UP DIPLOMACY: Here-today-gone-tomorrow cultural showcases on foreign shores and cities
PROPERTY RIGHTS: Property Rights are the Rights of a Creator to their Work or Property, a concept defined by America’s Founding Fathers. Property Rights were easier to protect before the Age of the Internet. Technological entities with models that feed off of others 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) and ID (identity) in order to grow and profit with an eye on VC investments. Proponents of Property Rights look towards the Fifth Amendment when discussing or arguing Property Rights (refer to Fifth Amendment)
PROTECTED WORKS: Title XVII of the Copyright Code defines Protected Works as 1. “Literary and artistic works”; 2. Possible requirement of fixation; 3. Derivative works; 4. Official texts; 5. Collections; 6. Obligation to protect; beneficiaries of protection; 7. Works of applied art and industrial designs; 8. News with a very special caveat for what news is excluded
PROVISIONING: Provisioning is the process by which incoming data is matched in the most efficient manner possible with available storage capacity
PUBLIC DOMAIN: An ARTS Work, in Public Domain, according to the Copyright Act of 1976, in Public Domain, is available to be used by everyone without permission of the Copyrights Creator. The ARTS WORK is unprotected by Copyright, Patent or Trademark. Anything created on or after January 1 1978 is automatically protected from the moment it is created. The Copyright lasts for Life Plus 70. The Work, then, becomes Public Domain unless it is lucky to get special dispensation like Disney gets
PUBLICITY RIGHTS: Publicity Rights are also known as Right To Publicity. Under Right To Publicity plaintiffs assert Claims over the use of the Photographs, Images, Mannerisms, Gestures (signature or otherwise), Voice(s), Names, Signatures and so on. The Washington Publicity Rights Act eliminated photographers ability to sell photographs and videos, paintings, sculptures and other likenesses, and for either to create derivative works of the Celebrity thereof
PUNT: A social generation term for a short kick, a baby step, a 'try' rather than doing nothing at all or stopping or dropping the idea being worked on
RADIOTELEPHONY: The ABC of Pilot Talk developed by the ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization in the 1950's. Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
RAID: Raid is an anacronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Raid technology is is used in storage systems with multiple drives to control how those drives are used
RELEVANT CONTENT: Relevant content is content the recipient finds of use
RESALE RIGHT: Without any right to pass on the product to other people. It is also called Droit de Suite in French
REVERSE MENTORING: Learning from someone who is younger with an alternate beneficial POV
RIGHT OF ATTRIBUTION: The Right of Attribution is a ARTS Creators right to claim their Authorship of their Work; to stop anyone from misrepresenting themselves to be the ARTS creator of a work that Individual did not create; to stop their name from being used in attribution if their Work is Distorted, Mutilated or modified in a way that would hurt their Honor or reputation; to prevent their Work from being deliberately or negligently destroyed
RIGHT OF INTEGRITY: The Right of Integrity is a Moral Right. Moral Rights protect Works from Mutilation, Distortion, Modification or Destruction
RIGHT OF PROPERTY: The Right of Property also known as the Right To Protection of Property is understood as an Individual’s rights of entitlement, on their own or with others, to Private Property, be it an Item, Land or Real Estate, Intellectual Property including 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property) and ID (identity)
RIGHT OF PUBLICITY: Right of Publicity also referred to as Personality Rights is the Right of an Individual to control the Use of their Name, Image, Likeness or other aspects of a Person's Identity
RSS: RSS, nicknamed Really Simple Syndication, is a Rich Site Summary frequently update info from Blog Entries, News headlines, Audio, Video and more. The Metadata, including Data like the Date of Publishing, Author’s name, summary of the text or complete text, allows the Author or Subscriber to update or aggregate Data automatically
RSS DIRECTORY: An RSS directory is like a Web Directory except it is for RSS Feeds
RSS FEEDS: A FEED of Data from a Rich Site Summary
RSS READER: An RSS reader present or feeds Data it has aggregated, brought together, in reponse to a Users “search” request. The Data request is fed either through a Feed Icon on the Browser or in to the URL. The RSS Reader, if enabled, automatically feeds results to the User
SAFE HARBOR PROVISIONS: Safe Harbor Provisions are a Liability Tool designed for business entities to max out profits and not take the fall for unwitting Users enamored with their new fun toy, ie in the case of 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP(intellectual property) Users, “file sharing” whatever catches their fancy to pass forward to online contacts or be used to glam up the Users website(s), Email(s), etc. Safe Harbor Provisions shelter service providers from the infringing activities of their customers at the same time being used by the ISP to claim Fair Use as the ISPs dodge to use a USERs online persona, claiming no payment was required from them. Bottom line? Smart lawyers. NOT! If a service provider qualifies for the safe harbor exemption, only the individual infringing customer are liable for monetary damages; the service provider's network through which they engaged in the alleged activities is not liable
SANDBOXING: A tactic used for application security and data protection that separates or containers the device that can separate applications from one another and limit or completely destroy interaction between them
SCALABILITY: Scalability is the ability to make a storage system expand its capacity through upgrades along with connecting easily with additional storage that might be added in the future
SEARCH ENGINE: A Search Engine is a software system designed to search the World Wide Web for Information
SCENIUS: A group of like minded people who can help spark creativity
SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS PAGE: A Search Engine Results Page is a line of results or Clicks that turn up responsive to an online search for information. The Search Results can be PDFs, Websites, Databases, Directories, Images, Peoples Private Information both bundled and unbundled. Algorithms on a Web Crawler turn up the information in real time
SECTION 106 OF TITLE XVII: Section 106 is the part of the Copyright Code that addresses “Exclusive Rights” in Copyrighted Works
SECTION 106A OF TITLE XVII: Section 106A of the Copyright Code adresses the Rights of Certain Authors to attribution and integrity SECTION 107 Of TITLE XVII: Section 107 of Title XVII is the part of the Copyright Code that addresses Fair Use of a Copyright Owner’s “Intangible Asset.” Ummm, if its “intangible then how can someone else get their hands on it… hello? SECTION 121 Of TITLE XVII: Section 121 of Title XVII also called Section 121 is often referred to as the Chaffee Amendment SECURITY: Being safe online from invasions. NOT!
SEGMENTATION: Separating things in to segements
SEP: Standard essential patent is a patent claiming an invention that is essential to practice in an industry
SERPS: SERPS is also called a Search Engine Results Page
SMALL CLAIMS COURT: Small Claims Court is a venue for disputes that cap off at $5000 to $10000 depending on the venue, location. The Register of Copyrights is contemplatings Small Claims Court as a venue to dispute 2D ARTS IP issues within ignorant of the fact that 2D ARTS IP Creators are prolific and would be in court every day for the rest of their lives and become labelled litigious even though they are standing up for their rights that have been violated. Bottom line, if there were more speedbumps to prevent the theft of a 2D ARTS IP Creator, then Courts would not be needed at all but more jails would be needed in that Theft is Stealing which is a crime
SOCIAL NETWORKING: Social Networking has become the buzzword for people connecting online. Social Networking The Old Fashion way of nose to nose, eyeball to eyeball with an in person Grip & Greet rocks anything online Anonimity provides
SOCIOMETRIC LEADERSHIP: A measure of how much the people in the influencer's network see them as the opinion leader
SOFTWARE: Software is Computer and other machine readable Instructions or anything stored electronically in Hardware called Data Computer instructions or data
SOLOPRENEUR: A one-person entrepreneur
SOLUTION PITCHING: A presentation focused on providing an answer
SPAM: Email that recipients do not want and trash or mark as "spam" as the email(s) are annoying
SPECIALIST: An influence archetype with a small, tight knit commuity with a greater proportion of their conenctions being close and relationships in real life with a higher impact with a smaller reach through trusted networks
SPYBOT: Spybot is an anti-spyware tool with features to immunize PDAs against some spyware
SPYWARE: Spyware is software programmed by its programmer, ahem, a person, ahem, to gather Data about either a person or an entity the User of Hardware and Software without their knowing they are being spied on and the gathered Data being sent on to the Person(s) who wanted the Spying done. Corporate entities use Algorithms and Spybots for this same purpose instead justifying this Activity with claims this is to sell the person more of what they want or to tell Significant others where their partner is when they shouldn’t be. In a brick world, this is called Stalking
SSD: SSD is solid-state drive which uses NAND flash memory or DRAM, dynamic random-access memory technology
SSOS:
STALKING: The definition of Stalking is unwanted contact and or communications between when a ‘person’ repeatedly watches, follows, harasses, makes someone feel incomfortable or unsafe. It can be someone the person or entity knows. The actual legal definition of stalking varies from state to state. Stalking laws have not been updated to include Online Algorithms attitude towards Users. Stalking rules vary state to state.The UD DOJ, Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime oversees Stalking
STATUTE: A statute is a written law that was written and passed by a Legislative body
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION NETWORK: Storage virtualization involves the abstraction of logical storage. Logical storage is the designated portions of physical storage that appear as a cohesive whole but are partitions of a disk or storage pools on multiple devices from physical storage
TERMS OF COMMERCE: Terms of Commerce, TOC, is the contracted Agreement between the Owner of a Work and individual(s) wanting to use the Work. The Terms of Commerce, also called a License Agreement, spells out the date the agreement begins and ends, what each party expects to give and get in return as well as the Remedies that will be taken if there is an issue, dispute, between the Signed Parties including the location the dispute will be settled SO if you cant afford to fly to Eurasia before the Agreement is signed, don’t count your Jelly Beans early. Presume you wont be able to fly to Eurasia, picking a location closer to your pocketbooks affordability
TERMS OF SERVICE: Terms of Service agreements, also called Terms and Conditions, the rules Users must abide by for them to use the Service. TOS are legal disclaimers used both on and off the Internet in business and by Search Engines and Internet Service Providers. It is a legally binding agreement. Too many entities on the Internet tend to change their TOS often and without notice to Users sometimes leaving Users liable in that the Internet entity claims the User had the obligation to read their contract. Users are rarely aware that, not only are they liable for the TOS of the site they knowingly signed on to, but liable also for all other entities that site has Agreements with, too. Its sort of like house buying, where you go in expecting to buy a house then get hit with all these other unexpected papers, except on the Internet, the User may not find out whose TOS’ they violated until it is too late and Enforcement is knocking on their Internet door
THREAT INTELLIGENCE:
THUMBNAIL: A Thumbnail is a miniscule replication, copy, of a larger 2D (dimensional) ARTS IP (intellectual property). The idea is the Thumbnail cannot be “exploded” up in to a larger size that can be reproduced from. Unfortunately, in these days of the Internet, that is NOT the case. Web Galleries are packed with Thumbnails that when removed from the Search Engines gallery(ies) the images are able to be enlarged to Small, Medium and Large sizes able to make reproductions from, at a loss of Commerce- royalties/ earnings- to the Copyright Owner
TITLE XVII: Title XVII, is the Roman Numeral expression for Title Seventeen or Title 17, the section of American Law addressing the Copyright Code. There are rarely accidents in life, often grand plans, which makes it awesome that TITLE 17 precedes Title 18, the Criminal Code. Should be that if you take the Dime that you do the Time but for some reason Legislators are slow to grasp how the Code is Set Up… A, B, C…. you do A then B happens even maybe C… Take someones 2D (dimensional) IP (intellectual Property) or ID (identity) Copyrights valued over $400 the Criminal Code has on its books the Remedies for that….
TITLE XVIII: The Criminal Code of American Law. Ahem! Please note that Criminal Code FOLLOWS Copyright Code!!!!
TOC: TOC is the abbreviation for Terms of Commerce, the Agreement between parties on how the Dollar or Yen or Pound or Bitcoin will cross the counter
TOUCHDOWN SPACES: A space where a person can go for Instant business purposes. Typically rent by time spent
TOUCH POINT: Where the consumer is most vulnerable or susceptible to influence
TOS: TOS is the nickname or abbreviation for Terms Of Service
TRADEMARK: A Trademark, also called Mark, is a Word, a Name, a Symbol or Device used to show the source of Goods and to help distinguish them from other Merchandise being sold. The Owner of the Trademark may have gone to the expense of registering their Mark with their respective local country or foreign country. Usually, the Mark Owners tries to predict the Markets their item will be sold in to. Rule is, the Mark must be in Commerce interstate before being sold. Too many times, Mark Applicants mock up “sales” merchandise to jump their Mark being Registered before their Merchandise is sold. To be honest, ask Applicants who have invested thousands in to Trademarks… the answers often are NOT worth the expense. Why? Duhh factor here. How much money is someone willing to spend to fight a matter they may not Win or even find a lawyer to fight for them. Besides, Trademarks had greater value before the Internet came along. Someone didn’t think this through in that Owners of Trademarks who invested millions over years in to building their Brand, were scooped on securing their Brand’s name on the Internet which the Domain Squatters profited on from, at times, selling the Domain Name back to its Trademark Owner(s). Better deal? Buy a star in the skies or a plot of land on the Moon
TRAFFICKING: Trafficking is a Term used in the import and export trade. It is the business of Buying, Selling or Bartering and moving of Goods between Individuals, Groups and or Businesses. Human Trafficking is the movement of People. Internet Trafficking of Humans is the Transmission of Persons Identity, Information, Private or Public and their Images over a Communications System- online, cable, fibre and/or the USPS
TRIGGERED EMAILS: Automated marketing messages based on a prospect's behaviours
UCC: The abbreviation for Universal Copyright Convention
UNIVERSAL COPYRIGHT CONVENTION: The longer version of UCC
UNAUTHORIZED USE: Unauthorized Use is just another term for Piracy or a Copyright that has been infringed, used without the Copyright Owner or Creator’s permission to make and or market copies of the owned Work regardless of whether the Infringed Work is being used for personal use of Commercial gain, both violate the Owners Copyright only they have the right to be the “decider’ for
UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR: A Uniform Resource Locator is an Adress to a Site, Location or Resource on the Internet
UNLAWFUL ACTIVITY: Unlawful Activity is a violation of a law. A non-felony violation of the law involves Theft by Swindling, Forgery, Fraud or giving False information of a Public Official or a non felony violation of a state or Federal law
UPPER TIER INFLUENCE:
URL: URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. and is a reference (an address) to a resource on the Internet
USAGE: Technically, photographs of celebrities are not Public Property. Images of Celebrities cannot be used and/or used to advertise without permission of the Celebrity. In order to use the image it must be licensed. The same is to be said about Designer’s Copyright Fashions & Accessories. The big names who can afford the Commerce Loss are Bi-Polar here in that Celebrities, Big Name Designers and Athletes often see Unauthorized Usage of their Images as a way to build their fan base they turn into a Cost versus Litigation calculation in that the there is usually no money in chasing Fans exploiting a Celebs Persona which is odd considering the amount of money spent chasing down ‘pirated’ movies, for example, when the same effort isnt put in to chasing the Revenue lost to Image sharing. That said, Dot.com was jailed for File Sharing yet no one is going after the Search Engines and ISPs. So, the behaviours of the big names eager for Tear Sheets of their Item or Celeb in a Magazine or Page 6, harms Copyright Conversations in that in time, the Illegal Usage becomes the New Norm
USPTO: The United States Patent and Trademark Office, found online at www.uspto.gov, is the Federal Agency is empowered by the United States Government to fulfill mandates of the Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 to, based upon the Commerce Clause to grant and register Trademarks to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries." The USPTO advises the Administration on Policy, Protection and Enforcement of IP, Intellectual Protection around the world to encourage Trade
VC: VC is the short name for Venture Capital or Venture Capitalists
VENTURE CAPITOL: Venture Capital is money given to start up firms and small businesses to start their firms and businesses with the eye on long term growth potential. People used to go to banks to borrow money against something of value like their house or their car or heirloom items. Not in the Internet Age. Outrageous sums of monies are thrown at persons with ideas with the hope one out of 10 or so ideas will pan out into a winner. Not a new concept. Not every idea can be a GI Joe or a My Little Pony but when an idea hits, it can hit big. The terms a Venture Capitalist offers the Start up is way out of whack with terms a bank is allowed by regulaltions to offer… hence the gamble and the bet…
VENTURE CAPITALIST: The person with a lot of money in it to win it…. Sometimes described as Been There Done That’s and bored wanting to do it again
VLOGGER: Video blogger
VPN: Virtual Private network
WEB CRAWLER: Web Crawler was the first Web Search Engine that provided a full text search. After changing ownership hands a few times Web Crawler repositioned itself as a Metasearch Engine producing search results from the popular search engines
WEB DIRECTORY: Also called a Link Directory, a Web Directory is a, grin, directory on the World Wide Web that links together Web sites in categories and subcategories
WONK: A Wonk is Internet slang for a Policy Advisor from a Think Tank or College which might be a Professor who believes their theory is the way forward for Governmental Legislation. Too often Wonks policies come from Theory and not from the practical world they are postulating on. Wonks dont often get down in the dirt with everyday people they are postulating theory on hence their actual hands on experience and the impact of their ideas is speculative an unproven, often, too often, a disaster if and when implemented. If advice is needed on a farmer, ask a farmer who has been doing that work for years, dont ask a Wonk, who has read about a farm. Congressmen at a Judiciary hearing discussing the ARTS and Copyright asked a Professor who had been doing a study for 6 years on Orphan Works "where are the artists" in that none of the Professor's group were artists. The Professor answered they could not find one ARTS-ist from the date the project began
WORK FOR HIRE: Work for Hire is work created for pay. All rights to the Work belong to the Person or Entity who hired the ARTS creator
WORLD WIDE WEB: Also known as WWW (no not the Wrestling dudes)
WWW: World Wide Web
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White Noise: Rosegarden Funeral Party Needs Your Help.
Garrett Gravley December 10, 2019
Rosegarden Funeral Party Needs a New Tour Van Following a Car Accident And Post Malone Gives Out Free Pairs Of His Crocs. Plus More!
As if this year hasn’t already had its share of immense tragedy, death’s sting has persisted yet again this week. This week’s biggest music story is the untimely death of Chicago rapper Juice WRLD, who was pronounced dead following a seizure on Sunday morning. Earlier this year we would have never guessed that his set at Frisco’s first (and possibly last) Unruly Citizens Fest would be his last DFW gig, but we are nonetheless grateful we had the chance to review it.
In honor of the late “Lucid Dreams” rapper, we have been listening to the song “Syphilis,” a 2019 single that was co-produced by none other than Dallas’ own Cardo:
We wish the grief stops there, but it doesn’t. DJ Big Baby, an icon in the Dallas hip-hop scene who spun in both club and radio settings, died Monday night. The cause of death is currently unknown, but mourners, including Play from Play-N-Skillz, paid tribute:
Rip Dj big baby…growing up being around watching him and my uncle Mauri do what they did all on their own was more than inspirational to me..he’ll be missed
— zay (@soulzaytx) December 10, 2019
Truly a D-town Legend! RIP Mike Martinez/DJ Big Baby https://t.co/jLWQozquWc
— Fantástico Morales (@IamFantastico_) December 10, 2019
By way of more death-related news, more details have emerged regarding the fatal car accident that took Wylie-based country singer Kylie Rae Harris’ life. On Friday, the Taos County, New Mexico’s Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Harris was intoxicated and speeding at the time of the collision. Her blood-alcohol concentration was reportedly gauged at .28, nearly three times the legal limit of .08 as she drove 102 mph.
Over the weekend we also reached the 15-year anniversary of the death of the dearly-departed Dimebag Darrell, who was murdered during a Damageplan set at Columbus, Ohio’s Alrosa Villa. Dimebag’s former bandmate and Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo penned a touching tribute via Rolling Stone.
If seeing Anselmo grieve is too much for you, you may find a recent selfie of his with Post Malone to be a tonic for such forlorn. He even threw in a lame dad joke to make it more wholesome:
Please just give us…. 5 minutes Malone! @PostMalone pic.twitter.com/OlbdWsjq5z
— Philip H. Anselmo (@philiphanselmo) December 7, 2019
Speaking of Post Malone and things that are wholesome, Mr. White Iverson treated employees and customers of the Chicken Express in Southlake, of which he is a former employee, to free Crocs. It was an exciting event, but it should be noted that he wasn’t actually in attendance. Some were bummed about this, but when you acquire 6.5 billion streams globally and become Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2019, the 168 hours of your week suddenly seem more scarce.
Surely if his time wasn’t so valuable he wouldn’t be headlining 2020’s Hangout Fest in Gulf Shores, Alabama along with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Billie Eilish. We’re talking one of the largest festivals in North America, and one that is in the same tier as Coachella and Lollapalooza. Any slot on any of these festivals is rather coveted, but to be billed as a headliner? Well, that’s a certain cloud nine for touring acts.
Speaking of Coachella, remember that brief drama between the festival and Show Me The Body? While some perceived the New York hardcore punk band as ungrateful for the opportunity, something tells us that playing a corporate festival suddenly doesn’t seem so bad.
The band was originally slated to perform Club Dada on Monday night, but over the weekend, it was forced to cancel the show after a member of its crew got arrested in Yuma County, Arizona.
A MEMBER OF OUR CREW WAS ARRESTED AS WE ENTERED ARIZONA TWO DAYS AGO. WE NEED TO CANCEL DALLAS, AUSTIN, AND NEW ORLEANS. OUR SINCERE APOLOGIES TO EVERYONE WHO WAS READY THROW DOWN WITH US, AND TO @_HEALTH_ AND @daughters_band WE WILL BE JOINING THEM AGAIN IN BIRMINGHAM pic.twitter.com/OQ7ghUZlOA
— SHOW ME THE BODY (@showmethebody) December 9, 2019
Another band that hasn’t been having much luck in the context of touring is Rosegarden Funeral Party. On Friday night, the Dallas post-punk band’s van flipped over following a sharp turn. Thankfully, the band members themselves are okay and there were no reported injuries, but this came just as the band was gearing up for a January tour. So as you can imagine, the band is in a race against time in searching for a new vehicle.
Vocalist Leah Lane created a GoFundMe listing with a modest $6,000 goal. It amassed over $2,300 in just nine hours, so if you are inclined to chip in, time may be on their side.
We’re tempted to say that the outpouring of support is an uplifting bit of news, but to do so would be to undermine the unfortunate circumstances surrounding it, so we’ll instead attempt to keep spirits high in reporting that St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein are going to Sundance Film Festival 2020. The art-pop musician and Sleater-Kinney member are both costars and cowriters in a new movie titled The Nowhere Inn, and last week, it was announced that the motion picture will be debuting at the Robert Redford-affiliated film festival.
The festival will take place between Thursday, January 23 and Sunday, February 2 in its usual Park City, Utah stomping grounds.
Moving on, Dallas rapper Jiggy Green received a pleasant surprise when his song “Crew” was played during a Dallas Mavericks game:
Big thanks to @dallasmavs & @poiZonivytheDJ for playing Crew at the game today! 🤟🏾 pic.twitter.com/GYPomncmRD
— JIGGYGREEN 👨🏾🎨 (@DonavinJaylon) December 7, 2019
Not to brag, but we’ve been hyping this single ever since we named it our Song of the Day back in October. In fact, we at Central Track try our best to keep our ears to the ground, which is why we devote the end of each White Noise segment to highlighting new releases from North Texas-affiliated artists.
Tay Money has finally graced us with her new full-length Hurricane Tay, and the album boasts features from locals like guitaremoji to heavy-hitters like DaBaby and YNW Melly:
(:hristian, another Dallas hip-hop artist whose praises we’ve been singing, uploaded a video for the compression-heavy track “i don’t need no rest”:
i don’t need no rest pic.twitter.com/pIQb6j15M1
— (:hristian (@lil_p_p_boi) December 7, 2019
Also amid this cavalcade of local hip-hop releases is a fresh music video for JOULE$’s song “Flammable”:
If you’re in the mood for a Texas band covering another Texas band, you may be stoked to find out that Bowling For Soup dropped a new video for its cover of Blue October’s “HRSA,” which was recorded for the purpose of mental health advocacy:
And finally, we don’t get new releases from Eleven Hundred Springs often, but when we do, it’s cause for celebration. That’s especially the case for the country outfit’s latest cut “This Morning It Was Too Late”:
Cover photo by Vera Velma.
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By Dennis Muritu Co-operative bank will this year sponsor about 655 needy students from across the country through its scholarship program. This is after the lender’s board of directors announced the selection of the beneficiaries of this year’s Co-operative Bank Foundation Scholarship Scheme. Of the 655 new scholarships to Form One students, 420 were identified by the bank’s Regional Delegates’ Forums and the remaining 235 scholarships, at 5 per county,awarded by County Governments in all the 47 counties, the bank’s Group Managing Director & CEO Dr. Gideon Muriuki said. “Our…
Ebrima Fatty CEO Africa Sokoni and Michael Tokunbo Orimobil CEO Bolorims.com sign an agreement which will see AfricaSokoni operate as Bolosokoni in the Nigerian Market. Africa Sokoni signs a partnership with Bolorims.com from Nigeria an e-commerce platform as they celebrate their second anniversary. This partnership is an expansion strategy considering the unprecedented growth of SMEs and the urge to reach a wider customer base through online stores. A joint report by the Communications Authority of Kenya and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics established that about 27% of Kenyans sold…
SONKO WOES PERSISTS AS ACTING COUNTY SECRETARY TAKES MANTLE
Acting county secretary leboo ole morintat during cabinet meeting Cityhall photo/Samson wire By Samson wire Things have not been rosy at the county 047 after the county boss was barred by the courts from stepping into his office by the charges from DPP. The embattled Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko was arraigned in Court and Charged with Nineteen Counts by DPP over 357million corruption related cases. Operations at City hall has been slow which skeptics alluding to the fact there has been power vacuum created after The Charges bared Sonko from…
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You can now be able to buy airtime and Electricity tokens by just sending a message to a toll-free shortcode 40512, Purchasing airtime across networks, paying postpaid bills to Kenya Power and buying electricity token has been made easier by Financial Technology Services solution provider Tsenda. Tsenda is a Safaricom PLC’s Paybill-backed system, supported by Kibo Capital’s PaymentGate LLP e-Receipting system. READ ALSO: Aspira ink deal with Xiaomi Mi Home, to enable customers enjoy flexible payment plan With a mobile phone, you can now purchase airtime for any network be it…
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By John Papanoo The Sonko Rescue Team, a non-profit organisation founded by Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko, has been awarded a certificate of recognition for it exemplary role in community services, and outstanding contribution towards the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The organisers singled out the SRT for their role alleviating poverty, provision of water and medical emergency services to the needy, while contributing immensely in conserving the environment. Upon receiving the award, the Nairobi Governor, who also doubles up as the Founder and Patron of…
New Opera-Mdundo deal to grant access to free music downloads
Global web operator Opera has partnered with Mdundo, an African music sharing platform to offer downloadable music in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Opera hopes to expand the functionalities of Opera Mini and bring African music to its users. Its popular and fast lightweight browser used by more than 100 million people around the world. Its success builds upon its great ability to speed up browsing while also saving up to 90% of data when browsing with its unique compression feature enabled. Opera Mini…
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Chinese billionaire, Jack Ma has set out to share his experience with Africa as well as financially support young entrepreneurs to build their own business empires. The Billionaire is tailoring an event dubbed the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI). The ANPI is a flagship initiative of the Jack Ma Foundation, created by Jack Ma after his first trip to Africa in 2017. The aim of the prize is to support and inspire the next generation of African entrepreneurs who are building a more sustainable and inclusive economy for the future.…
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Co-op Bank named Best Bank in Kenya at EMEA Finance Awards 2019 in London
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From left:The Publisher and CEO EMEA Finance Christopher Moore grants the Best Bank in Kenya 2019 Award to Co-op Bank Economist Anthony Muli and Head of Investor Relations and Strategy James Kaburu at the EMEA Awards gala held recently at the Law Society, in London.PHOTO:COURTESY. By Dennis Muritu The Co-operative Bank has been named Best Bank in Kenya 2019 at this year’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Finance Awards. The EMEA Finance Awards recognise financial institutions which, through their client focus and sound leadership, continue to increase profitability, deliver affordable credit to the…
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Total Building Commissioning
Re and Retro Commissioning
LEED Commissioning
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CFMS was the first company in Canada to offer independent commissioning consulting in the building industry. Founded in 1992 by Mel James in Toronto, Ontario, CFMS Consulting Inc. was created on the principle of “quality control realized through an inclusive team approach.” Mel recognized that clients could benefit from a better facility if someone was there to help them with properly designed and implemented commissioning services.
Over the twenty years that followed, CFMS expanded to new markets, offering its services to meet client needs. Buildings ranged in size from 5,000 to 2.5 million square feet and spanned a broad sector of industries ranging from libraries to oil and gas facilities.
In 2003, CFMS Alberta Ltd. was formed to provide commissioning services in Western Canada. Our Calgary-based office operates independently while maintaining our long-standing national client relationships. All CFMS offices located throughout Canada are now independently owned and operated.
Mel James is a true pioneer of the Canadian commissioning industry. A Welsh national, Mel came to Canada in the 1970s after attaining his certification in electrical and electronic engineering. He gained his experience in the UK working for Sauter Controls in London and shortly thereafter was employed by Honeywell International—a multinational conglomerate. He later worked for MCC Powers (now Siemens), and immediately prior to the establishment of CFMS Consulting, Mel was employed by Smith and Andersen Consulting. It was during his tenure there that CFMS Consulting was established.
Mel values long-term relationships with his clients and project team members. He’s worked for some of the country’s largest property managers and has been directly involved with large-scale projects such as Toronto’s Pearson International Airport expansion, where Mel designed the Building Automation System (BAS) system that monitored and controlled over 80,000 points and integrated with 14 other airport systems.
In the past 20 years, years, Mel has been instrumental in the establishment, growth and development of the current CFMS offices: CFMS Consulting Inc., CFMS Alberta Ltd., CFMS West Consulting Inc., and CFMS Atlantic Ltd. All CFMS offices operate independently.
Based in Calgary, Alberta, CFMS Alberta provides independent commissioning services to building owners and managers, architects, and construction professionals. We specialize in total building commissioning and LEED commissioning services.
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NCA says ‘no evidence’ Leave.EU and Arron Banks broke law
Jonathan Rugman Foreign Affairs Correspondent
The National Crime Agency has announced that it has dropped an investigation into the source of businessman Arron Banks’s £8 million donation to the campaign group Leave.EU.
The NCA began its inquiries after a referral from the Electoral Commission in October last year.
Today it concluded there is “no evidence” Mr Banks or others investigated by the NCA committed “any criminal offences” in relation to electoral or company law.
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Top Gun 51 Profile: IBM’s John Teltsch on Overcoming Channel Challenges
Written by Lynn Haber
IBM veteran John Teltsch says there's always more to learn despite 30 years of industry experience.
As a 30-year-plus IBM veteran, outgoing global channel chief John Teltsch brought everything he had to the general manager, IBM Partner Ecosystem position, and then some. In fact, not only did he tell us that being the global channel lead is the best job that he’s had with IBM, because it took all of the skills he’s learned in previous channel roles, and jobs across all of the brands – hardware, software, and even in services – but he also said that there was more to learn.
[After two years as the global channel chief, Teltsch was recently appointed general manager, IBM systems sales, leading worldwide sales for the IBM Storage, IBM Cognitive Systems, IBM Z, Lab Services and Technical Sales teams. IBM’s David La Rose is the new channel lead.]
IBM’s John Teltsch
If ever there were a company to work for where change, or transformation, was a constant — it’s IBM. While Ginni Rometty is the latest IBM CEO tasked with turning around the tanker of an organization, Teltsch had a bird’s-eye seat to learn from two additional exemplary leaders — Samuel Palmisano and Louis Gerstner.
We sat down with Teltsch, a Channel Partners/Channel Futures Top Gun 51 award winner, to find out what more a three-decade veteran at IBM could learn, and what makes a next-gen channel leader.
Channel Futures: Why do you think you were picked to lead the channel organization?
John Teltsch: The last four or five jobs I had at IBM have been in roles where we had challenged businesses that we had to transform and modernize, and I built a reputation that that’s what I do — in a manner that’s externally focused. Quite frankly, I think I knew enough about the channel and I knew enough partners – some that I knew for 15-20 years – that were changing their business models and they were frustrated with us because we weren’t changing.
We recently unveiled our “Top Gun 51,” a list of today’s channel executives who deserve recognition for building and executing programs in a way that drives partner, customer and supplier success.
I had a sense of what we needed to do but, in all honesty, until I got into this job, I didn’t realize how complex we really were and how challenging we were to do business with. That confirmed, within the first 90 days, that I had the right ideas, but I surely didn’t understand how large of a transformational project and journey that is underway here.
CF: While future next-gen channel leaders may not be stepping into your exact scenario, you have a lot of insight that can be extremely educational. Please share some of the challenges you encountered in your role.
JT: The first one was that our global channel had a significant impact on country performance – on our 30,000 partners – and the dependency of those partners on IBM was much greater than I ever thought. Maybe it was naïve on my part, but I didn’t understand how dependent the IBM company was on the channel and the channel is on IBM — from a hardware point of view, a software point of view.
Another challenge is around simplifying and removing barriers, or how we simplify, eliminate, and consolidate everything about our channel — the contracts, the pricing, the tooling. That was an eye opener for me as a long time IBMer. We have an incredible number of tools and capabilities, but they’re really not connected. I had disparate tools and systems and capabilities – all very positive – but difficult if you’re a global partner, for example.
Part of us going after that next generation of partners – the new partners that don’t want to do business with IBM, which was one of my big missions – is that I needed to simplify and consolidate and eliminate a lot of the internal tools and systems and pricing and algorithms that we had. This is an internal challenge, but it deeply affected and still impacts – and we’re not done – the financial viability of my partners.
So I’m very cognizant of the channel’s dependency on my simplification work.
CF: What were some lessons that you learned as channel chief?
JT: The first thing I’m very proud of, and affected my leadership roots, is that for the first 90 days on the job I …
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Dolton trustee pleads guilty to disorderly conduct but says charge was politically motivated
By Mike Nolan
Dolton Trustee Valeria Stubbs pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. (Village of Dolton)
A Dolton village trustee pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge stemming from an altercation last summer with a woman circulating petitions outside a grocery store in that suburb.
Following her guilty plea, Valeria Stubbs was sentenced by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Vincenzo Chimera to 12 months’ court supervision and ordered to have no contact with the petition passer, according to the state’s attorney’s office.
Stubbs, who appears to have lost re-election Tuesday as village trustee, acknowledged she pleaded guilty and maintained that the charge was motivated by an ongoing dispute among her and other trustees with Mayor Riley Rogers, who said Thursday he was not entirely satisfied with the outcome of the matter.
The charge was lodged last August following the encounter between Stubbs and a woman who was gathering signatures outside a Food 4 Less store to get three referendum questions on last November’s ballot.
Dolton voters in the general election approved one of the issues, which limits trustees to no more than two consecutive four-year terms. That issue didn’t address mayor or village clerk posts. Other questions that sought to do away with the village’s primary election and reduce the number of trustees from six to four failed.
In Tuesday’s primary, Dolton voters appeared to support a binding referendum question that establishes term limits for the mayor and village clerk.
Stubbs, along with current trustees Duane Muhammad and Robert Pierson, appear to have lost in the primary to Rogers-backed candidates Andrew Holmes, Tammie Brown and Edward Steave, according to unofficial returns.
Rogers pressed charges against Stubbs for allegedly interfering with a woman circulating petitions outside the store and, in a sworn complaint, alleged the trustee grabbed a clipboard of petition papers from the circulator’s hands and yelled at her “in such an unreasonable manner as to alarm and disturb (her).”
Stubbs said at the time of her arrest that she was walking into the store when she heard a store employee tell the petition circulator to move along because solicitation was not permitted on store property. Stubbs, a retired Cook County correctional officer, said the woman later approached her about signing a petition, and at that point notified a store employee about the continued solicitation.
Along with disorderly conduct, Stubbs had been charged with theft for allegedly grabbing the petition passer’s clipboard, but that charge was not prosecuted. Stubbs said she did not snatch the clipboard from the woman, but that the woman handed it to Stubbs.
Stubbs said she denies her conduct was disorderly, and said at the time charges were filed that the petition passer swore at her when they went inside the store.
“I didn’t do it (disorderly conduct) but I pleaded to it so the theft (charge) wouldn’t be on my record,” the trustee said Thursday.
Rogers said Thursday he believes the charge should have been a felony rather than a misdemeanor because Stubbs interfered with the circulation of petitions, and that the trustee should have been charged with assault.
The mayor has described village trustees as “disrespectful and uncooperative,” and that his efforts in getting the referendum questions on last November’s ballot were aimed at changing that.
Late last year, village trustees adopted a resolution in a 5-1 vote accusing the mayor of “numerous improprieties” regarding Rogers’ use of village funds and resources. Trustees sought help from the Cook County state’s attorney and sheriff’s police as well as the U.S. attorney in Chicago in investigating the allegations, which Rogers summed up as a “bunch of lies.”
Elected mayor in 2013, Rogers was re-elected in 2017, deflecting challenges from Muhammad and then-trustee Stanley “Stan” Brown, who is a Dolton Park District commissioner and was apparently unsuccessful in Tuesday’s primary to regain a trustee seat.
There were 11 candidates for three trustee seats in the primary, and only the three top vote-getters — the New Dolton Democrats candidates that Riley endorsed — will be on the April 2 ballot.
Voters’ endorsement in the primary of term limits for the mayor and clerk would appear to bar Rogers from seeking election to a third term once his current term ends, although he said he is exploring legal options and planned to contest the possible restriction on his future candidacy.
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A tour of European-themed ghost cities of China
Published Fri, Sep 4 20157:55 AM EDT Updated Fri, Sep 4 201512:16 PM EDT
Tom DiChristopher@tdichristopher
Inside China's 'Ghost Cities'
Squawk Box
Images of hundreds of empty apartment buildings in new Chinese urban areas have generated worldwide fascination in the country's so-called ghost cities in recent years.
Independent journalist and "Ghost Cities of China" author Wade Shepard said Friday there is indeed a plan to turn these unpopulated metropolises into living, breathing civic centers—some of which have European-themed feels to them.
China's policy is "'we'll build it and we'll make them come,'" said Shepard, who has been traveling to China's ghost cities for two years.
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Chinese authorities have been building these new cities for about 10 years, and the biggest challenge once they're completed is moving in industries and getting them to function like real urban areas.
"A lot of times what China will do is they'll move in universities, they'll move in state-owned enterprises, state-owned businesses, and banks just to get an economic pulse going," Shepard told CNBC "Squawk Box" in an interview. "Once that happens people do start to come in, because when new residential properties come on the market, they sell very fast in China."
As for those new Chinese cities that replicate European villages, Shepard said the imitation is largely a marketing strategy. He's taken numerous photos of these cities in his travels.
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Arc de Triomphe replica at the New South China Mall
Source: Wade Shepard
A Scandinavian-themed town in Luodian in Baoshan District District, Shanghai
A town with a German feel in Anting in Jiading District, Shanghai
A British themed Thames Town in Songjiang District, Shanghai
"A lot of these new cities are in competition with each other," he said. "They really go for monumentalization. A lot of these are the local governments' pet projects, and they want them to get attention, so they build them to be different, to be extreme."
To be sure, some of the cities will fail, Shepard said. That could be a problem because, according to Shepard, their construction has become financially essential to local governments.
"At one point land sales alone were accounting for roughly 40 percent of some municipal governments' total revenue," he said.
While speculators hoping to flip the properties at a higher price account for a significant percentage of buyers, many of the new homes are snatched up by new families, Shepard said.
About 30 percent of new housing is purchased by people expecting to be married, he added.
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College Game Plan
College applicants are stressed over paying the tab
Published Tue, Mar 27 20189:00 AM EDT Updated Wed, Mar 28 20188:10 AM EDT
Jessica Dickler@jdickler
A majority of students and parents say their biggest college concern is the "level of debt to pay for the degree," according to The Princeton Review.
Yet it could still be a mistake to cross an expensive school off the list.
Some schools with sky-high tuition prices also have the most generous financial aid packages.
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Forget about those worries about getting into that first-choice school.
More than anything, the top concern parents and students now share is affording any college at all and dealing with the debt burden that goes hand-in-hand with a degree, according to The Princeton Review's 2018 College Hopes & Worries survey.
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of the nearly 11,000 respondents reported high levels of stress around the college admission process — up 7 percent from last year and 17 percent more than in the survey's first year in 2003.
A majority of students and parents said their biggest concern was the "level of debt to pay for the degree." Contrast that to a decade ago, when the most commonly cited answer was "won't get into first-choice college."
It's no wonder. Tuition has historically risen about 3 percent to 5 percent a year, according to the College Board and, during the recession, declining public funds caused tuition to skyrocket. At private four-year schools, average tuition and fees rose 54 percent in the past 10 years. Tuition plus fees at four-year public schools, which were harder hit, jumped 71 percent over the time period.
As a result, college-loan balances in the U.S. have jumped to an all-time high of $1.4 trillion, according to Experian. The average outstanding balance is $34,144, up 62 percent over the last 10 years.
How to deal with college debt
"College costs have outpaced the rate of inflation," said Robert Franek, The Princeton Review's editor in chief. "But it's good for parents and students to know the difference between the sticker price and what many families actually pay." (That's the difference between the full tuition price and any need-based and merit aid that a student receives.)
Your net price is a college's tuition and fees minus grants, scholarships and education tax benefits, according to the College Board.
In fact, some schools with high sticker prices also have very deep pockets for financial aid, Franek said.
For this year's crop of applicants, a whopping 99 percent of students and their parents said financial aid would be necessary to pay for college and 65 percent said it was "extremely necessary," according to The Princeton Review.
When asked which part of the application process was the toughest, the majority of college hopefuls said it was completing the application and financial aid forms, followed by college admission tests.
Still, not too many people, it turns out, make their decision based on price. And nearly all students and parents believe college is worth the investment.
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Statement of Marc J. Bern on Behalf of the Law Firm Worby, Groner, Edelman & Napoli Bern About the James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act
Published Sun, Mar 21 20102:37 PM EDT
NEW YORK, March 21, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- As the attorneys representing the 10,000 workers who were injured as a result of their search, rescue and clean-up efforts at Ground Zero, we have strongly advocated for over six years that they receive just compensation. In addition to the settlement offer that we have been negotiating with the WTC Captive Insurance Co., Inc., representing the City and its contractors for the past two years, we have consistently supported the James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act which would extend "protections and services to individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack in New York City." In fact, we worked closely with the Bill's sponsors on the legislation.
Because the passage of Zadroga has been delayed - it was first introduced four years ago - the settlement offer will provide the first guaranteed and immediate relief to our clients. The settlement offer should work in tandem with Zadroga if and when it is passed. We continue to strongly support the bill and urge Congress to make it clear in the final legislation that by signing on to the settlement, workers will not be precluded from taking advantage of Zadroga.
Rather any settlement award should be an off-set to the compensation for which our clients are eligible under the legislation.
Press Release Contact Information: Ellen T. Davis Media Consultant Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern, LLP 917-301-2918 ellentdavis@gmail.com This release was issued through WebWire(R). For more information visit http://www.webwire.com.
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Posted on March 9, 2016 by Community Common
New ORSANCO committee named
The Environmental Law & Policy Center and more than a dozen other environmentally-focused non-profit organizations within the Ohio River Basin were named to a newly-formed Advisory Committee to the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO), a multi-state group charged with setting pollution and abatement standards for the waterway.
The new Watershed Organizations Advisory Committee includes representatives from water-focused environmental non-profits throughout the Ohio River Basin that will be interact with other stakeholder advisory committees and ORSANCO members during scheduled meetings. ELPC already has been an active participant in ORSANCO deliberations over mercury “mixing zones” and other issues during public comment periods and in other ways. The new committee will enable ELPC and its partners to play a more participatory role early on in ORSANCO’s decision-making process.
“The Environmental Law & Policy Center and our fellow advocacy organizations have been working hard over the past year to make sure that ORSANCO understands the environmental and public health ramifications of its decisions,” said Madeline Fleisher, staff attorney at ELPC. “We look forward to participating on this committee as a new avenue to address the serious problems confronting the Ohio River, such as mercury contamination and toxic algae outbreaks.”
Judy Peterson, Executive Director of Kentucky Waterways Alliance, was voted chairman of the committee. “On behalf of the Watershed Organizations Advisory Committee members, I thank the Commissioners for their cordial welcome,” said Peterson. “In the entire 68-year history of ORSANCO, there has never before been an official seat at the table for watershed and wildlife advocacy organizations.”
ORSANCO Chairman Douglas Conroe added, “I am delighted to see the interest that the 17 watershed organizations have offered in helping ORSANCO in its development of Ohio River studies and policies and welcome working with them at the table.”
The new committee will serve its first ex officio role at ORSANCO’s Technical Committee meeting in June 2016.
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Years had passed since the invaders had appeared in Zoran's domain, following the creation of the inter-planar rift by the breaking of Valtera's chains. Like locusts, they had swept through the cities - bearing striking resemblance to their own home world - and slaughtered the creatures of the world en masse, paying heed only to their immortals of old that had journeyed through with them. He had commanded His emissaries to the cities to speak to the invaders, to inform them of and convert them to His cause. The foolish invaders paid little attention to this, continuing their undying praise to gods that had no place in this world.
As the seasons passed, Zoran's patience faded and He decided that the invaders must be removed from His domain. With the final days of Winter Cloak upon the realm, His plan was set into motion. The foreign gods had been growing in strength; recovering from the trans-planar - travel that they were not accustomed to by any measure. The one called Valtera made the first appearance, appealing to her followers and drawing a crowd in the main city of Moorgate. As she spoke, undoubtedly unraveling plans to enslave and rule over His domain, a large storm cloud floated above the city. A slow, rolling thunder began to emanate from within.The winds howled as the storm - unusual for the winter season - continued to gather in strength, eventually drowning out the dogma being spewed from Valtera's lips. Being attuned with the aether as she was, it became clear to her that this was not an ordinary storm and the presence of something much more powerful lurked behind it.
Stepping out from alcove which she had occupied, her followers not far behind, Valtera gazed up at the clouds above the city. As she did, a bolt of lightning shot down from the sky, striking the cobblestones at her feet and deafening the mortals that had gathered around. Vile indignities were spat while Zoran's electrified form crackled but remained silent. When she had said all she was wont to say, Zoran spoke briefly and specifically. To the mortals, it was nothing more than deafening thunder:
"Your invasion has ended. Your presence is no longer welcome here. Your efforts have been for naught and your banishment absolute."
With the last words still ringing in the air, Zoran thrust His hands forward and grabbed Valtera's wrists. As He touched her, the golden shackles that had bound her for nearly a century had once again taken form. Despite her struggles, the familiar feeling of her powers been sapped away once more consumed her being. Zoran's form quickly began to break apart, turning back into the lightning bolt from which He had originally made his appearance. As the bolt rapidly shot back up to the clouds above, Valtera's body was pulled along by her binding chains. Having reached the crest of their flight, at the center of the storm cloud, Zoran and Valtera coalesced into a single focal point. The compression of energy ripped forth through the clouds in an array of blinding light and shattering thunder - the strength of which tore a rift in the very fabric of this realm.
In an instant, they had returned to a familiar scene. Valtera was standing atop mount Vlodistrov, a gathering of support and opposition surrounding her. Her chains yet broken, the blood from her pool being poured on the chains. The only difference being Zoran's presence. As Aestus swung the scepter against the chains, the fatally blinding light tore through those present atop the peak. This time, however, it was the result of a single bolt of lightning, struck through the top of the scepter and through the mechanical body of the golem. Valtera's chains would remain her prison. Effortlessly, Zoran floated down and took possession of the scepter from the disabled golem. He spoke briefly to Valtera, one final message:
"Your greed has been your undoing. I leave you now to the mercy of your creator. The consequences of your meddling have been undone."
As with before, the other old gods descended down upon the mountain peak, one by one by one. This time, however, Valtera had not been freed. No new rift between the realms had been created. There would be no pleading for her to consider her actions. Satisfied, Zoran bolted back into the sky and through the rift joining the two realms. Having return to His own domain, Zoran closed the rift; as he did, the blood curdling scream of Valtera rang between both worlds - the swan song of her and the realm from which she hailed. With the rift sealed, Zoran looked up at the sky on the last day of Winter Cloak. The chill night air had formed a layer of crystallized ice around the opening where the rift had been. In the heavens above, the tear between the worlds had shifted and pulled at the very stars themselves. Familiar constellations were nowhere to be found. In His final effort to restore His domain, Zoran began adjusting the stars to their new positions in the sky; as is His way, the history of the era would be written in the skies for the generations that follow.
As the old era had ended, so too must a new one begin. As dawn's first lights began to break against the city's walls, her citizens began their morning activities of gathering and loading wood and heading to the market for supplies. Far above, Zoran returned to His vantage in the aether beyond, to watch and to protect what was His.
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Taking Our Own Side
Foreword by Kevin MacDonald
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2010
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“Today’s college graduates emerge zombie-like, mouthing politically correct platitudes they heard from their brilliant professors, mindlessly looking forward to an impossible future of racial harmony where the White minority adapts seamlessly and joyously to life among their non-White brothers. Michael Polignano somehow managed to overcome all that. And what’s really amazing is that he did it while still a college student. . . . Mike Polignano gets it. This is about racial survival. . . . People like Michael Polignano are a rare and courageous breed. We need a lot more like him. And we have to find ways to sup-port them financially as they continue their careers as effective writers and activists on behalf of the White majority of America.”
–Kevin MacDonald, author of The Culture of Critique
and Cultural Insurrections
“Over the years, whenever there’s been a demonstration or activity to support our beleaguered people, I have run into Mike Polignano. In this remarkable collection of essays, I have discovered another Mike: a writer as well as a doer, who eloquently shatters the dogmas of our soft totalitarian system. If, when still an undergraduate, he made the learned doctors and esteemed savants of Emory University look like unlettered fools, the reader can well imagine what awaits him in this, Mike’s first book.”
–Michael O’Meara, author of Toward the White Republic
“This collection of essays demonstrates, rather refreshingly, the comprehensive failure of modern university education in America. It pleases me to imagine Michael Polignano’s Leftist former professors — what one can only imagine to have consisted of a troop of bearded, sandaled, coprocephalous, foaming-at-the-mouth Marxist propagandists, perverts, freaks, weirdos, and pathological albophobes — rending their garments and banging their heads against rough granite walls, tormented, infuriated, and exasperated by their former pupil’s cheerful rejection of the ideology of progress, political correctness, and leveling-down egalitarianism.”
— Alex Kurtagi?, author of Mister
Michael Polignano first came to national attention in 2000 when, as an undergraduate at Emory University, he ignited a storm of controversy by writing in the school newspaper about the scientifically established fact that racial differences are largely genetic.
Taking Our Own Side is a collection of 45 short essays, editorials, reviews, and satires. These lucidly written, carefully reasoned essays are profound, poignant, and occasionally prophetic. They are also sometimes brutally frank and hilariously funny.
Michael Polignano shows how to make the most radical positions seductively reasonable. Taking Our Own Side establishes him as one of the most compelling and versatile writers in the North American New Right.
The Morality of White Survival
1. Taking Our Own Side
2. White Pride & White Guilt
3. The Ethics of Racial Preservation: Frank Salter’s On Genetic Interests
Diversity = Death
4. No Place Like Home
5. The All-American
6. Potemkin Equality
7. Indigenous Peoples Day
8. The Browning of America
9. Scientific American on the Reality of Race
10. Defensible Racism: Edgar Steele’s Defensive Racism
11. Educators Baffled by Stubborn Achievement Gap
12. “Just Go!”
White Racial Activism
13. A Revolutionary Act
14. Why I am Not a Conservative
15. A Party of Our Own, Part I
16. A Party of Our Own, Part II
17. My Awakening Too
18. Motivation
19. Meet, Eat, & Move Forward
20. Real History, Real Community
21. What We Can Learn from Leftists
Sexual Politics
22. Sex Differences
23. Women & White Nationalism
24. Strong Women
25. The Return of Eugenics
26. Race-Mixing vs. Diversity
Mike vs. Emory:
A Case Study of Political Correctness on Campus
27. Mike vs. Emory
28. Emory Must Choose: Unity or Diversity
29. Genes May Determine Racial Attributes
30. An Open Response to President Chace
31. The Racial Intelligence Gap is Still an Unresolved Issue
32. Political Correctness Doesn’t Bring Reconciliation
33. A Balance Must be Struck Between Nature & Man
34. Apathy Elimination: Three Suggestions
35. Is Diversity Really a Strength?
36. “What to Do?”
37. Swimming Lessons
38. Elusive American Virtues & the Olympics
Jewish Questions
39. The Christ-Killers Today
40. Fantasizing Fascism
41. Wagner: Desecrated but not Defeated
42. Nader Inspires Hope (2000)
43. September 11, 2001
44. Students for Proposition 54
45. Vote for Bush (2004)
Michael J. Polignano was born in 1980 in Frederick, Maryland. He graduated from Emory University in 2002. He is a writer, publisher, activist, and Information Technology consultant based in San Francisco. This is his first book.
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UConn commit Andre Jackson scores 1,000th career point at HoopHall Classic; talks Big East, UConn freshman and playing for Dan Hurley
Family suspects WFSB-TV news anchor Denise D’Ascenzo died from a heart attack
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Just three years after dedicating its new downtown Hartford plaza, Travelers is ripping up the pavers and concrete
By Kenneth R. Gosselin
Dec 02, 2019 | 6:00 AM
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Laborer Sean Scrivens removes material from between tiles in Travelers Plaza wher repairs are underway less than three years after Travelers spent $23 million to renovate and reconfigure the plaza. (Mark Mirko/Mark Mirko)
Three years ago, Travelers Cos. Inc. cut the ribbon on $23 million in renovations to the plaza adjoining its iconic downtown Hartford office tower, putting the memory of leaks in the garage below the plaza firmly behind it.
So why is the insurer ripping up the plaza again?
All was well until last winter, when an increasing number of areas started heaving, with gray and black granite pavers popping up.
An overhead view of Travelers Plaza in downtown Hartford shows repairs underway less than three years after Travelers spent $23 million to renovate and reconfigure the plaza. The work, which began earlier this year, is expected to be completed in the spring. (Mark Mirko/Mark Mirko)
“Water obviously had got in, and there was some leaking in the garage — not a lot, but just enough to say, ‘Timeout. We just fixed this,’” said Andy Bessette, Travelers executive vice president and chief administrative officer.
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After removing some sections of pavers and digging into the concrete below, “we found out that it was really a construction defect. It really wasn’t installed properly.” The general contractor on the project was called back in. The same problem was found throughout the plaza, and it was eventually concluded that the entire project would have to be redone.
The renovated Travelers plaza -- renamed Fishman Plaza -- is shown in the foreground to the left of the Travelers Tower at its completion in late 2016. (John Woike/Hartford Courant)
Although the repairs began earlier this year, they have become more visible as they have progressed toward the western — or Main Street — side of the plaza. The replacement will continue for the next few weeks, be suspended for the winter and be finished up in the spring.
The work is covered under warranty.
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The reconstruction of the plaza was largely driven by leaks from the plaza deck into the garage. Bessette described widespread calcification, going so far as to characterize conditions that included stalactites.
The renovated Travelers plaza during final preparations for a rededication in 2016. (John Woike / Hartford Courant)
Major changes included the lowering of perimeter walls to soften a bunker-like appearance. The walls were needed because the plaza was raised to accommodate the parking garage, but were higher than necessary.
Plaza At Travelers Tower Dedicated To Fishman »
When the plaza was rededicated, it was named in honor of former executive chairman Jay S. Fishman. Fishman had died just a few months earlier, at age 63, after a long battle with ALS.
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InvenTrust Snags Florida Grocery-Anchored Shopping Center
Tenants at the 120,000-square-foot asset include Marshalls, Ulta Beauty and Chase. At the time of sale, the property was 95 percent occupied.
InvenTrust Nabs 226 KSF Texas Retail Center
Located in the south Austin suburb, the center sits approximately 20 miles south of the Austin central business district. The property is anchored by H-E-B Plus and features nationally known tenants and is 98 percent leased.
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Episode Twelve of the TV series "OpenAir Live & Local" aired on Colorado Public Television (CPT12) on Jan. 10, 2015. Watch it in its entirety above (you can also watch it via the OpenAir and CPT12 YouTube channels).
The "OpenAir Live & Local" series features video recordings of local musicians performing in our CPR Performance Studio.
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Hold the Polls: Lower Black Turnout Makes Them Wrong
By Richard Morris & Eileen McGann
November 2, 2016 3 min read
Pollsters are excellent at figuring out how people will vote, but they do a poor job of judging whether or not they will vote. The best they can do is ask how likely a person is to vote. Since most of the marginal voters don't really know themselves what mood will strike them next Tuesday, their answers are not always a fair indicator of the truth.
So pollsters weight the results demographically to adjust for sampling error. That means they each assume a certain level of African-American turnout. But they can be wrong. And the current indications from early voting in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina indicate that they may be in error.
Since blacks cast 13 percent of the vote in 2008 and 2012, it would be logical to assume that they will replicate their turnout in 2016. Or so the models of most polling firms assume. But before Barack Obama was on the ballot, African-Americans cast an average of 11 percent of the vote in 2000 and 2004. So when pollsters weigh the black vote at 13 percent, they are likely overstating Hillary Clinton's vote by at least two points nationally. And in swing states with high concentrations of minority voters — like North Carolina and Virginia — the results are likely to be even more skewed.
Analysis of early voting in all states indicates a big drop in black participation in this election. In Florida, for example, blacks cast 25 percent of the early ballots cast in 2012 but, so far, account for only 15 percent of the votes this year — a cut of 40 percent, according to The New York Times.
In Florida, if black turnout is down by anything like 40 percent, it would throw statewide polls off by at least five points, transforming a one-point lead for Donald Trump in current polls into a six-point laugher.
One fallout of the email scandal is that it has so preoccupied the country that President Obama has not been able to hit the campaign trail for Clinton as hard as he might. Michelle Obama has been out there, but she's no substitute.
Hillary Clinton is not giving her voters any reason to turn out. Her closing campaign is wall-to-wall negative and she offers no alternative vision for the nation. Why are her voters to decide to get out of bed on Tuesday morning and vote?
The Democrats are relying on their vaunted "ground game" to produce a turnout, but the effectiveness of their phone calls, rallies and visits are likely overstated. While they produced a huge minority turnout for President Obama in his elections, it was likely voter enthusiasm rather than Democratic mechanics that generated the vote. And, this year, the enthusiasm just isn't there.
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Opinion: Tinkle offers long-awaited commitment to defense
by GRADY GARRETT
The Daily Barometer
Wayne Tinkle has more than a few things in common with his predecessor.
Tinkle, who this week became the 21st head coach in Oregon State men's basketball history, is an imposing figure, a 6-foot-10 walking giant who carries himself (albeit more gingerly) like the baller he once was.
His charisma was on full display Wednesday, when he spent his introductory press conference mixing in light-hearted jokes while making clear his desire to resurrect a once-proud program. He's a people person, having spent a portion of his first afternoon on OSU's campus handing out energy drinks to students passing through the Memorial Union quad. He embodies integrity, according to the man who hired him, and preaches discipline in the classroom.
Just like Craig Robinson. All of it.
Only Wayne Tinkle isn't Craig Robinson.
Need proof?
This ought to be enough: "If you get those guys to buy into (defensive intensity), then the byproduct is they're going to play their tails off every day," Tinkle, who comes to OSU after eight seasons at Montana, said Wednesday. "That's something we'll never compromise."
A commitment to defense. Rejoice, Beaver Nation.
That, in and of itself, is reason to believe Tinkle will prove to be a better man for the job than Robinson, whose six-year tenure in Corvallis ended after 94 wins and 105 losses.
Shortly after Robinson was fired a little more than two weeks ago, I asked Langston Morris-Walker what he'd like to see in a new coach. Morris-Walker, OSU's only returning starter, said he'd like to see a coach brought in who can "give (OSU) a defensive scheme to stop people." But, I countered, can coaches really "coach" defense?
"Not really, actually," Morris-Walker said. "But they have to be able to motivate people; get people who aren't really comfortable (playing defense) to play defense."
So were players not motivated to play defense this past season?
"Not everyone bought into playing defense," Morris-Walker said. "It hurt us."
There it is, the Beavers' 16-16 season-gone-wrong (and Robinson's undoing) explained in one honest assessment.
Morris-Walker, who was seated about 10 feet from Tinkle during Wednesday's press conference, couldn't help but smile when he heard his new coach's philosophy explained.
The Beavers, Tinkle proclaimed, will be a "disciplined" team offensively that relies on spacing, ball movement and selflessness. But offense, for the most part, will be an afterthought.
"If they're getting stops, rebounding the ball and being physical defensively," Tinkle said, "then they're going to have the freedom to go have some fun on offense."
The stats of Tinkle's Montana team prove he wasn't blowing smoke with his defense-first talk. In eight seasons under Tinkle, the Grizzlies never finished worse than third in the Big Sky Conference in scoring defense. Three times they finished with one of the top-50 scoring defenses in the country - peaking at 20th in 2011 - and twice finished among the nation's top 40 in terms of field goal percentage defense.
Oregon State, meanwhile, finished last in the Pac-12 in scoring defense each of the past three seasons. This past season, the Beavers finished 299th nationally (out of 345 teams) in scoring defense (75.6 points per game) and 240th nationally in field goal percentage defense (44.9 percent).
Robinson routinely talked about needing to get "four more stops a game." But for the most part, it was just talk. Robinson's teams prided themselves on their ability to score, and when games didn't go their way, Robinson often blamed his players for "not following the offensive game plan."
I imagine Tinkle will sing a different tune after losses.
"Some nights shots won't fall, some nights an opponent can't miss, but you can always control your effort and attitude," Tinkle said.
Here's to guessing a Tinkle-led team won't suffer any 51-point home losses to Seattle U., or (for a more recent example) a 24-point home loss to Washington.
After suffering through six mostly disappointing seasons under Robinson, Beaver fans surely have a host of questions regarding Tinkle's coaching acumen, which can only be answered once games begin.
Is he capable of making necessary in-game adjustments?
Will he figure out how to best utilize the talent he has available to him?
Is he a better "X's and O's" guy than Robinson?
Those were three of Robinson's greatest shortcomings. And we won't know if Tinkle will be any better in those areas until he's given an opportunity to prove he is.
But arguably Robinson's biggest shortcoming as a coach was his inability to get his teams to commit to the defensive end.
And that's a shortcoming we've already learned Tinkle doesn't share.
Grady Garrett, sports reporter
On Twitter @gradygarrett
sports@dailybarometer.com
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Finding justice online
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When a man felt like he could not get justice, his friends turned to Reddit. They listened.
Kevin Morris— 2011-06-29 03:50 am | Last updated 2019-02-28 07:10 am
When a man, savagely beaten by a metal baseball bat, wanted justice, he turned to the police and prosecutors. Frustrated by their slow reaction, he turned to the media. When journalists ignored him, his friend took up his case with their online community.
Redditors listened.
The story began at 3:30 a.m. June 6. That’s when 23-year-old student Thassio Mendes ran into a man outside a party who “hated him” he said, for supposedly flirting with the man’s girlfriend.
Mendes asked a friend for a ride to his car. That’s when the man, Andrew De Vaul Duran, 29, allegedly attacked Mendes with a metal baseball bat.
Mendes suffered a skull fracture, two broken arms, and a brain bleed.
De Vaul Duran was arrested and charged with aggravated battery and his bail was set for $20,000. The charges were later changed to attempted murder with a weapon, which would probably have resulted in a higher bail amount. But Duran posted the $20,000 and was released with a tracking device for home arrest.
Out of work and school because of his injuries, hammered with medical bills, and frustrated by the slow movement of the legal process, Mendes and his friends tried to turn to local media to get out his story.
But in a city overwhelmed with the Casey Anthony trial, reporter after reporter, official after offical told them over and over: They simply had no time.
So Domingo Polanco, Mendes’ friend did the next logical thing: He turned to social news site Reddit, where he’d seen the community rally around causes time and again.
The post, with pictures of Mendes’ battered and bruised body, as well as him holding a drawing of the Reddit alien, got popular — fast. It drew 714 comments and 2,514 upvotes.
Advice and donations began pouring in.
Many, including redditor gujupike, suggested opening a civil trial.
“If you can find a lawyer that will take the case on contingency it won’t cost you anything up front and you can sue the guy for intentional torts of assault, battery etc.” gujupike said.
Many others offered to donate to help (Mendes is facing about $300,000 in medical bills and his insurance will cover at most 60 percent, Polanco said).
“I never donate to random things I know little about but I did here,” wrote redditor Siggy778.
The website they created for Mendes, which includes a donation page, has drawn an average about 4,500 views a day since the post ran on Reddit.
Polanco said he put up the post simply to draw attention to the case and maybe get some legal advice. The donations were never planned — but certainly much appreciated.
“This is all new to us,” Polanco go said in a phone interview with The Daily Dot. “We don’t have any legal expertise. We’re just trying to do the best we can.”
As for Mendes, he never lost consciousness during the attack. He suffers from nightmares and is afraid of going to public places. But the reaction from Reddit is helping, he said.
“It’s awesome to see how people really care about others,” Mendes said in an interview with the Daily Dot. “There’s people in this world that can do so much damage to one person and, on the other side, so many people willing to help you.”
For more information, and to help, visit thassiomendes.weorlando.com.
Kevin Morris is a veteran web reporter and editor who specializes in longform journalism. He led the Daily Dot’s esports vertical and, following its acquisition by GAMURS in late 2016, launched Dot Esports, where he serves as the site’s editor-in-chief.
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Factory owned by firm that made the cladding for Grenfell Tower catches fire in middle of the night in 'accidental blaze'
Fire service was called to tackle blaze at production plant of Arconic in Exeter
US firm produces panels used in Grenfell Tower's cladding system
It is suspected that the material, which is coated in aluminium but has a plastic, flammable core, helped fuel the blaze in June
By Scott Campbell For Mailonline
Published: 15:43 EST, 4 November 2017 | Updated: 21:53 EST, 4 November 2017
A factory owned by the maker of Grenfell Tower's cladding panels caught fire in the middle of the night in an 'accidental blaze'.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service was called to the production plant of Arconic in Exeter just before 1.30am on Saturday.
The US firm produces the Reynobond PE panels, used as one component of the west London block's cladding system during a refurbishment.
It is suspected that the material, which is coated in aluminium but has a plastic, flammable core, helped fuel the blaze in June.
The US firm produces the Reynobond PE panels, used as one component of Grenfell Tower's cladding system during a refurbishment. It was destroyed in a blaze in June that claimed dozens of lives (stock photo)
Crews rushed to the factory on Kestral Way following reports of a fire in the casting plant at its foundry section.
The fire service said: 'Due to the potential serious nature of this incident and knowledge of the type of building involved, fire control made the decision to redirect fire appliances from other lower priority incidents in the area to ensure fire service resources were in attendance as soon as possible.'
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Eight fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze, which is said to have started accidentally, along with additional support vehicles.
By 2.30am, the fire had spread to part of the roof of the factory, but firefighters using breathing apparatus brought it under control and extinguished it before 3am.
The factory's furnace area was damaged by the fire and smoke, but no-one was injured.
The company said at the time of the Grenfell Tower fire that the panels were provided to a company which supplied them to the facade installer working on behalf of the contractor for the refurbishment. The burnt-out block is pictured (stock photo)
In June, Arconic announced it was stopping global sales of Reynobond PE cladding for tall buildings, citing concerns about the 'inconsistency of building codes across the world'.
It said in a separate statement that the panels were provided to a company which supplied them to the facade installer working on behalf of the contractor for Grenfell Tower's refurbishment.
The company wrote at the time: 'We were not involved in the installation of the system, nor did we have a role in any other aspect of the building's refurbishment or original design.'
It is understood that Reynobond panels were not produced at the the branch of Arconic affected by the blaze.
A spokesman said: 'There was a small fire at our Exeter facility this morning, which on-site and other safety personnel quickly contained.
'No one was hurt and the fire had a limited impact on the facility, which produces investment castings for aerospace and industrial use. The plant is back at full production.'
Factory owned by Grenfell Tower cladding firm catches fire
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The bizarre Jurassic insect that has baffled scientists: Insect looks and acts like a butterfly - but predates them by 40 million years
Ancient 'kalligrammatid' shows convergent evolution with modern butterfly
The insect is actually relative of modern lacewings, like fishflies or owlflies
Like butterflies, it ate nectar from flowers and had 'eye-spots' on wings
By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
The first butterflies acted just like the ones we know today; they visited flowering plants that produced nectar, and had eye-spots on their wings to ward off predators.
Except, the 'first butterflies' weren't exactly butterflies.
This insect from the Jurassic Age is an extinct lacewing that emerged 40 million years before butterflies, and it is a relative of modern fishflies, owlflies, and snakeflies.
The first butterflies acted just like the ones we know today; they visited flowering plants that produced nectar, and had eye-spots on their wings to ward off predators. Except, the 'first butterflies' weren't exactly butterflies. This insect from the Jurassic Age is an extinct lacewing that emerged 40 million years earlier
THE ANCIENT LACEWING
This ancient insect bears semblance to modern butterflies, but is actually a relative of today's lacewings.
These include fishflies, owlflies, and snakeflies.
The insect is from the genus kalligrammatid, called Oregramma illecebrosa.
They used long tongues to exreact nectar from flower-like plants called bennettitales.
Hairy legs allowed for the transfer of pollen between male and female reproductive parts in the flower.
Kalligrammatid also had eye-spots, almost identical to those on the wings of modern owl butterflies.
Researchers say this is an example of convergent evolution, where separate animals independently evolve to share similar features.
Researchers led by Conrad Labandeira, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, were able to identify the ancient insect using well-preserved fossils from lake deposits in northeastern China and eastern Kazakhstan.
The team also included Dong Ren of Capital Normal University in Beijing, China, where the fossils are housed, and David Dilcher, an emeritus professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Geological Sciences.
This butterfly-like insect comes from the genus kalligrammatid, called Oregramma illecebrosa.
Kalligrammatid is of the order Neuroptera, which has survived through to today, giving us modern fishflies, owlflies, and snakeflies.
Using microscopic clues, including the fossilized remains of food and pollen in the mouthparts of the insects, the researchers determined that they fed upon ancient seed plants called bennettitales.
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These plants lived during the Triassic period, and died out roughly 200 million years later at the end of the late Cretaceous, and were found in the same region of China as the insect fossils.
To reach the nectar, these insects used a long tongue, probing deep into the plant.
These insects (left) also donned 'eye-spots' on their wings, a 200 million-year-old marking nearly identical to that of the modern owl butterfly (right). Eye-spots are used to trick predators, giving the appearance of a large, threatening animal. The researchers say this is an example of convergent evolution
'Poor preservation of lacewing fossils had always stymied attempts to conduct a detailed morphological and ecological examination of the kalligrammatid,' Dilcher said.
'Upon examining these new fossils, however, we've unravelled a surprisingly wide array of physical and ecological similarities between the fossil species and modern butterflies, which shared a common ancestor 320 million years ago.'
Hairy legs carried pollen between male and female reproductive organs in the ancient flower-like plants, eventually spurring the relationship between insect pollinators and flowers seen today.
These insects also donned 'eye-spots' on their wings, a 200 million-year-old marking nearly identical to that of the modern owl butterfly.
Eye-spots are used to trick predators, giving the appearance of a large, threatening animal.
The team says the similarity to modern butterflies is an example of convergent evolution, where distantly related animals independently adopt similar features.
This, Dilcher says, is indicative of a simple evolutionary technique: 'if it worked once, why not try it again.'
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Lie March 31st, 2000 @ 11:43 pm PST
No, I never told anyone in line at the grocery store that I was going to eat them. Well maybe one time. But she was really hot. That’s not the point really. I just think it’s funny that someone might have actually checked to see. *sticks out his tongue and laughs*
webring March 31st, 2000 @ 11:22 pm PST
heynowhere’snews: I finally joined the webloggers webring @ jish.nu. Now all I have to do is sit back, take it easy, and watch as the world continues to glide through space. Is this planet great or what? igottatellya: It’s like one of my top two favorite planets in the solar system.
Driving March 31st, 2000 @ 5:14 pm PST
I hate driving home from work in the dark. It means I spent way too much time at work.
Boring March 31st, 2000 @ 4:44 pm PST
This is really sick. It’s almost 8 on a Friday night and I’m sitting in my office redesigning my web site. How pathetic is that?
Company Fun March 31st, 2000 @ 10:52 am PST
I wonder if I work for the only company on the planet that is using a thumb tack to hold an HP Jet Direct port onto the wall behind the IT printer.
Time March 30th, 2000 @ 9:32 pm PST
I am so tired! Sometimes I am totally amazed at how quickly the day zips by me … It seems like I just woke up late for work and now I’m already late for bed (again). I meant to update a bunch of stuff here – most notably the news from India – but I […]
Tampa March 30th, 2000 @ 11:09 am PST
I spent the afternoon in Tampa yesterday. [html fun: the Tampa link opens in a new window; it’s a “bay_window”! get it? heh heh] I saw some cool houses but most had little curb appeal, as the realtors like to say. One was pretty shweet, but it had the funkiest hallway in the middle … […]
Update from Sylvia March 29th, 2000 @ 5:43 am PST
Update from Sylvia (02): It’s 4:30PM here. We are relaxing after a couple of hours spent sightseeing. Today we went to Lodhi gardens which houses the tombs of some unknown people from the 1400s. Afterwards we had lunch with Bhrett’s dad at a local Indian restaurant under … [message interrupted] … Anyway we had the […]
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On being aware of things
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India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I: Weather Forecast, Pitch Report - Will Rain Play Spoilsport at Holkar Stadium?
The good news is the chances of rain is pegged at a mere 14 per cent tomorrow.
With the World T20 approaching later this year, India missed out a great opportunity to fine-tune their combinations ahead of that when the first T20I at Guwahati was washed out without a ball being bowled due to rain and a damp pitch on Sunday. The Virat Kohli-led outfit will now take on Sri Lanka in the second T20I at the Holkar stadium in Indore and all eyes would be on the weather to see what is in store.
India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I: Weather Forecast
The forecasts show that rain is not expected and a full 40-over match will take place which should come as good news for fans. It is going to be cold at Indore with temperatures fluctuating between 14-16 degrees. The humidity is going to be 74 per cent according to Accuweather.
India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I Weather Report
It should be pleasant conditions for the players for the game to take place.
Pitch Report:
It is expected to be a high-scoring game. Co-incidentally, India versus Sri Lanka is the only T20I game played at the venue in 2017. In that match, India scored a mammoth 260 for five in which Rohit Sharma top-scored with 118 off 43 balls. India won the match by 88 runs.
It would be a great opportunity for India to get their house in order ahead of the upcoming World T20 in Australia.
The match starts at 7:00 PM IST.
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Sarfaraz Ahmed says, their fielding let them down against Australia
by International Cricket Council & Cricket World Wednesday 12 June 2019
Pakistan's Sarfaraz Ahmed
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Pakistan skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed admitted frustration with his side’s fielding performance as Australia’s total proved just too much to chase down at Taunton.
Pakistan were beaten by Australia by 41 runs in Taunton
Sarfaraz Ahmed and Wahab Riaz put up a fight for the eighth wicket but Pakistan were unable to chase down the target of 308
Sarfaraz’s team won their ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup match against England last week largely because Eoin Morgan’s side produced an uncharacteristic poor display in the field.
And roles were reversed against Australia, as dropped catches, mis-fields and overthrows made a big difference, Pakistan’s chase falling 41-runs short of their 307 total.
Asif Ali dropped opener Aaron Finch on 33 and then saw him go on to add another 49 runs to his score, in an ultimately decisive first wicket partnership with David Warner.
Asif’s day didn’t get any better when he dropped the simplest of chances later on, his relief palpable as Warner went a few balls later for 107.
“We made too many mistakes in all departments,” said Sarfarez.
“I’m very disappointed with our fielding, it is not up to the mark or standard expected. We will have to work hard to improve on this before we play India, there can be no excuse.”
But there are some positives for Sarfaraz to take into this weekend’s clash with India at Old Trafford. Mohammad Amir produced a brilliant display of swing and seam bowling to bank career best figures of 5/30 as Australia lost their last seven wickets for just 86 runs.
And they looked doomed when seven wickets down and 108 runs short of their target, only for Sarfaraz and Wahab Riaz to put on a record eighth wicket stand for Pakistan at the World Cup.
But the turning point came when Riaz was caught behind by Alex Carey off the bowling of Mitchell Starc.
"I'm very disappointed. We lost three wickets in 15 balls and that's why we lost,” added Sarfaraz.
"We conceded too many runs in the first 20 overs, we came back and restricted them well but it was a 270-280 pitch.
"We made some runs and got starts but we've got to convert them and go long. If you want to win matches your top four must score runs."
Sarfaraz did save some praise for the performance of Amir, originally left out of Pakistan’s World Cup team but now the leading wicket taker at the tournament after his first-ever five wicket haul.
“If you take a positive from this match it is how Mohammad is bowling for us, that is a big thing to take into our next matches,” he said.
Indian captain Virat Kohli regards Amir as one of the toughest bowlers to face and Warner, who ducked and dived under an barrage of his deliveries, admits he will be key if Pakistan are to progress in the tournament.
“He's a world-class bowler. When he's swinging it, it's very difficult to try to get on top of him. Then when it's seaming and swinging, it's even harder,” he said.
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Op-Ed / Europe & Central Asia 18 February 2016
Originally published in New Eastern Europe
Paul Quinn-Judge
Former Senior Adviser, Ukraine and Russia
One of the most dangerous elements of Ukraine’s nearly two-year-old conflict remains the unpredictability of its neighbour Russia’s tactics. Despite repeated expressions of support for the Minsk peace process and recognition of Ukraine’s sovereignty over the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR, LNR), Moscow’s current actions in eastern Ukraine seem designed to strengthen those entities than prepare them for dismantlement.
The cease-fire agreed in Minsk in February 2015 has mostly held since September. But with little progress in the implementation of the overall Minsk accord, the situation remains volatile and tens of thousands of troops face each other along a 500-km line of separation. Those living in the separatist-controlled regions are left wondering what their future has in store for them. Meanwhile, close on 10,000 people have been killed since mid-2014.
The Kremlin, on the other hand, views Ukraine’s shift towards the EU and NATO as a major security threat and the 2014 overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych as a Western-backed campaign aimed at isolating Russia. As a result, Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to keep Ukraine unstable and embroiled in an open-ended, not-so-frozen military conflict with the aim of eventually returning it to its sphere of influence.
Anything, including more serious fighting, is possible. Until there is a clear positive change in the Russian approach, the international community needs to build its policy toward Moscow over eastern Ukraine on that assumption. Large Russian units have already fought twice in Ukraine, even during peace talks in February 2015. Moscow could resort to such means again should the lower-cost, lower-visibility approach of supporting the Donetsk and Luhansk entities in a protracted conflict fail.
Should Moscow want to prove its attachment to the Minsk process, however, there are concrete steps it could take. It could, for example, withdraw the regular military units that it maintains in the DNR and LNR. It already has substantial forces on the Russia side of its border with Ukraine, which are at most an hour or two away from the line of separation. The quiet removal of these units would substantially increase Ukrainian and Western confidence that Russia is indeed committed to Minsk.
Russia could also reduce military supplies to the entities. Cuts in fuel, lubricants and ammunition for artillery and other heavy weapons would gradually diminish their forces’ mobility and effectiveness. As Russia still denies providing such items, this could be done with minimal publicity or face loss. The international community, including the US, might offer confidence-building measures in return, perhaps including a security dialogue in the region, or consultations on ways to dismantle the poorly-disciplined LNR and DNR militaries.
A bill of $1 billion
Russian policy towards the DNR and LNR abruptly changed in the autumn of 2015. The majority of Russian advisers (kurators), who ensure that both entities’ leaders toe Moscow’s line, were replaced, frequently by officers from the FSB, the Federal Security Service. Without explanation, Moscow also began to provide money for pensions, other social payments and government and military salaries – something Russian officials had previously intimated Moscow could not afford.
The fact that the entities can now pay pensions, government salaries and social benefits with money coming from Moscow is significant, both politically and socially. Separatist officials had previously been told that Russia would intervene in the event of a mortal military threat to them or a major humanitarian crisis, but that otherwise support would be limited. Now, however, Moscow’s total outlay in pensions, allowances, state and military salaries is likely to exceed $1 billion million a year in eastern Ukraine.
After ignoring internal DNR political dynamics since the beginning of the war, Moscow has thrown its weight behind the top leaders of both entities – despite their ambiguous standing among many separatists. It is pushing for the creation of two political parties in the DNR, both tightly linked to Donetsk’s separatist leadership, so unlikely to differ in much but name. One, Oplot Donbassa, will probably be headed by Alexander Zakharchenko, the DNR head; the other, Donetskaya Respublika, by Denis Pushilin, a politician known for unquestioning loyalty to Moscow. This suggests a somewhat belated effort to organise politically in preparation for local elections stipulated by the Minsk agreement. Whatever the decision, a separatist official said, “you will find out about it at the same time as us – or maybe earlier”.
Expendable leaderships
Separatist leaders admit they are accidental rulers who moved into the political and security vacuum created by the collapse of Victor Yanukovych’s presidency on 22 February 2014 and the subsequent paralysis of the provisional central government. Few knew each other well, if at all. Their various backgrounds include links to Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, a Ukrainian oligarch, Russia’s radical nationalists, and, increasingly, organised crime. They were guided not by a single ideology or thinker, but by mixed motives: rejection of the Maidan’s “anarchy”, deep suspicion of any post-Soviet Kyiv government, reflexive pro-Russian sentiments and opportunism. Their diversity, fragmentation and distrust, along with near-total lack of political or administrative experience, has militated against emergence of coherent administrations or functional political parties. This is only happening now with Moscow’s prodding.
One thing the leaders of both entities have never doubted is that Russia views them as expendable. Donetsk and Luhansk were never Moscow’s main prize. For two months after Yanukovych’s fall, Moscow hoped for an uprising in the rest of the “historically Russian” oblasts of the south east and was deeply disappointed when it did not happen. Even the most pro-Russian, separatist leaders openly say Moscow could drop them at any time. Asked about this, one official believed at the time to have good contacts in Moscow sidestepped what he called this “a complex, slippery question”. Another, widely believed to have stayed at the top thanks to extensive Russian support, refused to rule out such an eventuality, referring to what he complained was constant in-fighting in Moscow.
Moscow control
DNR and LNR leaders admit their role is very circumscribed. They are completely excluded from decision-making process on Minsk implementation. There, Moscow controls “every phrase, every comma”, a senior DNR official says. A top figure explained that Moscow is playing a long game: sometimes the small separatist islets are helpful, sometimes a distraction, but the main aim is ultimate return of the whole of Ukraine to Moscow’s sphere of influence.
While publicly insisting that Moscow’s political and military influence over the entities is minimal, DNR leaders privately admit their total dependence. Alexander Khodakovsky, the DNR security council secretary, recently spoke of the leadership’s constant efforts to balance the desires of the Donbass population and of “the top political powers”, by which he meant Russia. In the same interview, he said Russian “material support” is 70 per cent of the DNR budget. Many observers and officials believe it is at the very least 90 per cent. Russia provides everything, another leader said, expressing frustration at the public’s lack of appreciation. “They don’t realise who is providing gas for heating, fuel for vehicles, money for basic goods. How do they think we got through last winter and will survive this one?”
Russian troops are the key to LNR and DNR survival. Following Putin’s December 2014 acknowledgement of a very limited Russian military presence in the east, one of the best informed Russian pro-separatist activists, Alexander Zhuchkovsky, broke the code of silence on the Russian presence and laid out succinctly the regular army’s central role:
“It is a given that the prime ministers and defence ministers of LNR/DNR take no key [military] decisions. The command of military corps, military intelligence, planning, supply of troops with ammunition and fuel are all in the hands of “the people who decide certain questions”, as Putin would say … and one should also understand that hundreds of these people – career military and intelligence officers (including high-ranking ones) risk their lives, and many have already died.”
On the other side of the line of separation, Ukrainian security and military specialists admit they are more observers than participants in the current stage of the conflict. “Everything depends on one man, Putin”, said a prominent Ukrainian security analyst. The Ukrainian side can only watch and try to guess what Russia is planning. Russia’s reorganisation of the LNR and DNR militaries seems, he said, aimed at creating large, well-equipped border guard forces, with impressive armour resources, should Russia decide to keep the entities alive for a few more years.
The civilians: Victims, bystanders or accomplices?
There are no reliable opinion polls in the east and no clear estimate of even the population of the separatist entities. Fragments of information and conversations with residents suggest that the separatists lack broad social support, but that acceptance will grow if easterners continue to feel Kyiv has no interest in them.
The popular mood, a Donetsk resident said, seems to be “to avoid contact with the regime as much as possible”. An active civil society figure said the population is split roughly three ways: for the regime, against it and neutral. The strongest pro-separatist constituency is probably pensioners, villagers and unskilled workers; the middle class generally keeps its distance, he said.
The recruiting difficulties the DNR and LNR face is one of the clearest measures of popular attitude towards the separatists. In May 2014, at the height of the battle for Slavyansk, the separatist commander in chief, Igor Girkin (Strelkov), complained of the difficulties of finding even 1,000 volunteers among Donetsk Oblast’s 4.5 million people. Unable to raise able-bodied fighting men, he scornfully opened recruitment to women. To support the armed struggle, Russian nationalists recruited and equipped volunteers to fight, raising money by appeals on the Internet and metro stations in Russia’s big cities.
Support for the separatists may grow if easterners remain cut off from Ukraine’s economic mainstream. Zhuchkovsky, the activist blogger, recently offered a sobering account of the situation in the DNR, where he spends much of his time:
“People survive. There’s a crisis in Russia too, but our crisis has totally different criteria …. The conditions are wartime. People are reduced to the limit … something to eat, and to dress for the cold .… They mostly live on savings. Of course some government offices are working, but the pay there is on average 5,000-7,000 roubles [$65-$90] a month.”
Economic hardship and the financial restrictions risk intensifying the feeling among residents of the east that Kyiv has written them off. This will further complicate the region’s future reintegration into a united Ukraine. The Kyiv government urgently needs to work on long-range contingency planning to address this issue.
Tactics, strategy, and fatalism
Senior DNR and LNR leaders watch Moscow closely for subtle changes in mood or message. In the short term, they are confident they will be protected if Kyiv attacks. Many believe Putin warned Poroshenko in mid-2015 that Russia’s response to use of force by Ukraine would be devastating: “going all the way to Kyiv.” But they have no idea of their ultimate fate. “There is one thing our kurators cannot explain,” one of the highest said. “That is what is happening in the Kremlin. They don’t know themselves”.
A sophisticated DNR analyst views the opacity of its intentions as proof Moscow is not yet agreed on a way out of the eastern Ukraine morass. Division in the Kremlin on Ukraine is manifested on the ground by lack of both political and military coordination. Different “towers of the Kremlin” are fighting each other, the analyst said. Both Moscow and Kyiv would love to escape this situation, but “need to be able to offer their people the illusion of victory”.
Indications that Moscow is simultaneously examining several possible outcomes are not new in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Improvisation is an inherent part of its policymaking process. Some prominent Russian analysts, in public unflinchingly supportive of their president, say he is neither a tactician nor strategist, but a fatalist, making bold but uninformed decisions and embarking on risky political courses without fully knowing where they will lead.
Public support for the Minsk peace process is steadily waning in Kyiv – a well-regarded Ukrainian poll in late November reported 16.1 per cent of respondents were positive towards Minsk, down from 34 per cent in March 2015. Ukrainian political leaders are aware that international attention has shifted from their conflict to Syria’s and believe that the EU consensus in favour of sanctions will end in the next half year, though senior Western diplomats say that US and key Western leaders are firm about maintaining them.
Contradictory pressures
Full Minsk implementation might allow Moscow to exit the east with some dignity intact. But It would require Russia to wind up the separatist enclaves, thus abandoning the political thorn in Kyiv’s side that it had hoped would further slow political and economic reform in Ukraine.
Freezing the conflict has its attractions. Moscow’s allies would remain in control and pressure would be maintained on the Ukrainian government. A situation of neither war nor peace would hamper reform in Kyiv, but benefit corrupt figures there, rich separatist leaders and possibly some among the Moscow elite. It would also postpone thorny problems, such as what to do with the DNR and LNR militaries and reinforce warnings to other neighbours of the risks of closer ties with the West. But it would cost Moscow a lot of money.
The EU, US and allies must keep up the pressure on Moscow to take steps to clarify and demonstrate its intentions. And they should never forget that the military option is still on the table for Russia, which has kept its pipeline to the entities open and has shown itself ready to use its troops on Ukrainian territory.
The European Union (EU), especially member states Germany and France, and the US should avoid the trap of letting a potentially lengthy resolution process and different interpretations of its provisions undermine their vital consensus on maintaining sanctions until Minsk is fully implemented. While pressing Moscow on its plans international actors should both warn President Putin explicitly of the dangers of substituting something else for Minsk and remind him that if and when he wishes to extricate himself from eastern Ukraine, they can help.
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Op-Ed / Middle East & North Africa 18 September 2019
Last weekend, the presidents of Turkey, Iran and Russia met in Ankara to discuss, among other things, the latest developments in Syria amid Turkish concerns over the consequences of a Syrian government offensive in the last rebel enclave, Idlib.
Dareen Khalifa
Senior Analyst, Syria
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The Russian-backed offensive against that last opposition enclave is aimed at keeping the rebels at arm’s length from the Russian air base in Latakia, re-opening the Damascus-Aleppo highway and eventually retaking the city of Idlib, the provincial capital that has been held by the rebels since 2015. As such and for the past six months, much of Idlib and its environs have been under intense attack from the Syrian Arab Army on the ground and Russian warplanes in the air. The government forces have been able to seize strategic villages, including the medieval fortress town of Qalaat al-Madiq, a major crossing point into Idlib, and the towns of Kafr Nabudah and Khan Shaykhoun. The long-dreaded offensive has left 1,089 civilians dead and 600,000 displaced.
In September 2017, the three Astana guarantors, (Turkey, Iran, and Russia), negotiated a partial ceasefire in Idlib under a “de-escalation” agreement, monitored on the opposition side through twelve Turkish military outposts deployed along a blurry deconfliction line between the rebels and government forces. A year later, a deal between Turkey and Russia, announced in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, headed off a seemingly imminent Syrian army offensive and reinforced the earlier deal. The Turkish-Russian agreement tacitly committed Turkey to oversee the withdrawal of jihadis along with all heavy weapons, tanks, rockets systems and mortars held by all rebel groups from a 15-20 km “demilitarised zone” bordering government-controlled areas, and allowed the re-opening of the Latakia-Aleppo and Damascus-Aleppo highways, which pass through Idlib.
The fate of Idlib Governorate and its three million inhabitants could be determined by the leaders of the Astana trio.
Ankara and Moscow, however, remain at odds over the interpretations of the Sochi deal and its implementation. Moscow has made clear that a de-escalation arrangement is by no means a permanent alternative to the eventual return of the state to north west Syria. On the other hand, Turkey views the deal primarily as a tool to prevent a Syrian offensive on Idlib, and preserve a “de-escalation zone” out of Syrian government control until a broader political settlement can be reached for the eight-year old Syria crisis. As such, Turkey has agreed that moderate rebel groups would be separated from radicals and the latter would lay down arms and move out of a defined demilitarised zone. However, Moscow and Ankara remain at loggerheads over which rebel groups in Idlib should be designated as terrorists. When the agreement was announced, Hai’at Tahrir al Sham (HTS), a group formerly linked to al Qaeda, controlled around 50% of Idlib Governorate; today they control almost all of it. Ankara believes that much of HTS is fundamentally pragmatic and a potential ally for eliminating radical transnational jihadists, while Russia treats HTS uniformly as a terrorist group, and describes the Sochi ceasefire as conditional upon HTS’s removal from the demilitarised zone and “separation” from the armed opposition. In terms of implementation, Turkey claims that they have successfully rolled back jihadis and cleared the demilitarized zone of all heavy weaponry. On the other hand, the Russian Ministry of Defence has stated that HTS attempted to attack Russia’s Hmeimim Airbase twelve times in April 2019 using unmanned aerial vehicles.
The fate of Idlib Governorate and its three million inhabitants could be determined by the leaders of the Astana trio. It is no secret that if Russia greenlights an all-out offensive, an opposition-led infantry ground force will not be able to stop it. Nonetheless, a military solution in Idlib would still be exceptionally costly for all parties, Russia included. Retaking Idlib militarily would strain Moscow’s relations with Turkey and would require force levels that could only inevitably lead to a bloodbath in the densely-populated province. More significantly, capturing Idlib militarily would risk scattering jihadi militants now inside Idlib across Syria, and globally, including into post-Soviet states. If Russia hopes to avoid that, it needs to consider an alternative to a catastrophic military victory.
Today, a return to the existing Sochi understanding will do little good, in part because – to acknowledge an uncomfortable reality – any agreement that is to prove sustainable needs to address the divergent views between Russia and Turkey over some of the key actors in Idlib, including HTS. Russia can help the Syrian government crush Idlib, if it so chooses, and if it is willing to absorb the grave cost of victory, including thousands of jihadis scattered across Syria and beyond. If it hopes to spare itself that cost, however, it needs to consider alternatives to a military victory, which would have grave security consequences.
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2 arrested in death of 39-year-old Carlsbad man; 2 more sought
Scott Barnes and Jerha Hedgecock were arrested in the murder of Justin Swenson, of Carlsbad. Eddy County Sheriff's Office is looking for two others.
2 arrested in death of 39-year-old Carlsbad man; 2 more sought Scott Barnes and Jerha Hedgecock were arrested in the murder of Justin Swenson, of Carlsbad. Eddy County Sheriff's Office is looking for two others. Check out this story on CurrentArgus.com: https://www.currentargus.com/story/news/2019/05/31/2-arrested-carlsbad-murder-justin-swenson-2-more-sought/1304384001/
Michael Smith, Carlsbad Current-Argus Published 4:05 p.m. MT May 31, 2019 | Updated 9:42 a.m. MT June 1, 2019
Stetson Barnes of Carlsbad is being held on a no bond warrant at the Eddy County Detention Center in the death of Justin Swenson. (Photo: Eddy County Detention Center)
Two Eddy County residents were arrested Friday and charged with an open count of murder in the death of Justin Swenson, of Carlsbad.
Stetson Barnes, 30, of Carlsbad, was charged with an open count of murder, tampering with evidence, shooting at a dwelling, felon in possession of a firearm and conspiracy, read a news release from the Eddy County Sheriff’s Office.
Jerha Hedgecock, 30, of Artesia, was arrested and charged with an open count of murder, armed robbery, tampering with evidence and conspiracy, per the release.
Arrest warrants for two others in the connection with the incident are outstanding.
Jerha Hedgecock of Artesia faces multiple charges in the death of Justin Swenson of Carlsbad. (Photo: Eddy County Detention Center)
Donald Busch, 31, of Carlsbad, was charged with an open count of murder, armed robbery, tampering with evidence and conspiracy, and currently has a warrant for his arrest, read the release.
Tyson Terrell, 35, of Carlsbad, was charged with armed robbery, tampering with evidence, conspiracy, felon in possession of a firearm, receiving or possessing stolen property, and currently has a warrant for his arrest, the release said.
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Swenson, 39, of Carlsbad, was found shot around 1 a.m. on May 28 by Eddy County sheriff’s deputies in a home on Nymeyer Road, said Eddy County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Capt. Matt Hutchinson.
“There were multiple search warrants executed at different residences within the county,” Hutchinson said. “These search warrants allowed for various firearms to be recovered from the houses as well as other pertinent evidence for this case.”
MORE: Eddy County Sheriff's Office investigates possible homicide of Carlsbad man
Barnes is being held on a no bond warrant at the Eddy County Detention Center, Hutchinson said.
No court date was set for Barnes, per online court records.
Hedgecock is being held at the Eddy County Detention Center on a no bond warrant, according to Hutchinson.
No court date was set for Hedgecock, according to online court records.
Hutchinson said the case is still under investigation and anyone with information should contact him or Det. Tim Satterfield at 575-887-7551.
MORE: Artesia man pleads guilty in security guard murder, sentenced to prison
Mike Smith can be reached at 575-628-5546 or by email at MSmith@currentargus.com or @ArgusMichae on Twitter.
Editor's note: This story was updated June 1 to reflect the correct first name of Stetson Barnes.
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Lori Loughlin claims feds concealing evidence in ‘Varsity Blues’ college entrance scam
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Posted on December 15, 2019 by ABC News
(LOS ANGELES) — Fighting charges they lied and paid $500,000 in bribes to secure entry for their two daughters into the University of Southern California, actress Lori Loughlin and her husband filed court papers claiming federal prosecutors are concealing evidence that can clear their names in the nationwide “Operation Varsity Blues” college scam.Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, asked a federal judge in Boston for “urgently needed” help in forcing the government to fork over evidence they say disproves charges they bribed a USC administrator to get their daughters, Isabella and Olivia Jade Giannulli, into the school.”The Government appears to be concealing exculpatory evidence that helps show that both Defendants believed all of the payments they made would go to USC itself — for legitimate, university-approved purposes — or to other legitimate charitable causes. The Government’s failure to disclose this information is unacceptable, and this Court should put a stop to it,” lawyers for Loughlin and Giannulli wrote in documents filed in Boston federal court.“If, for example, USC knew of Singer’s operation and accepted donations to the university from Singer’s clients as legitimate, then not only was there no bribery at USC, but also no fraud conspiracy at all.”Federal prosecutors have yet to respond.Loughlin, 55, and Giannulli, 56, were among more than 35 parents indicted in March in the largest college cheating scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.Prosecutors say that between 2011 and 2018 parents paid bribes of up to $25 million to ringleader William “Rick” Singer, who schemed with his cohorts of coaches, school administrators and college entrance exam proctors to rig the system in order to get the children of wealthy clients into elite colleges that also included Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and Georgetown.Loughlin — best known for her role as Aunt Becky on the ABC sitcom “Full House” — and Giannulli allegedly paid bribes to Singer in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team, despite never having participated in crew in high school, according to federal prosecutors.Giannulli and Loughlin have pleaded not guilty to the charges.The couple was initially charged conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Prosecutors have since added money laundering and federal programs bribery charges against them. If convicted, they each face maximum prison terms of 20 years.Many of the other parents ensnared in the scam, including Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman, have pleaded guilty.In October, Huffman served 11 days of an initial 14-day prison sentence.The “Desperate Housewives” star was also fined $30,000, ordered to complete 250 hours of community service and serve one year of probation. She admitted paying Singer $15,000 to arrange for someone to correct and improve her daughter’s SAT exam.Singer pleaded guilty in a Boston federal court in March to charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice. He has yet to be sentenced.Donna Heinel, the former senior associate athletic director at USC, has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy and her attorney says she is looking forward to restoring her reputation in the college athletic community.“At trial, Giannulli and Loughlin will help establish their innocence by showing that they understood both sets of payments to be legitimate donations and did not understand or intend that either set of payments would be used to directly or indirectly bribe Heinel,” according to the court documents.Lawyers for Loughlin and Giannulli claim in court papers that prosecutors are concealing interview notes taken by federal investigators that detail “Singer’s representations to his clients regarding payments to the University of Southern California, as well as all information about USC’s knowledge of Singer’s operation.””More fundamentally, the Government is applying a flawed disclosure standard that systematically deprives Giannulli and Loughlin of information necessary to prepare their case and ensure a fair trial,” the defense attorneys wrote in the court filings.The defense lawyers added, “The Government’s failures directly threaten Giannulli and Loughlin’s constitutional rights to a fair trial and due process of law.”Copyright © 2019, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
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US Deploys Sea-Based X-Band Radar To Counter North Korean Nuclear Missile Launch
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US department of Defense has deployed high-tech sea-based X-band radar to look out for a North Korean long-range-missile launch in the coming months.
The deployment of sea-based X-band radar (SB-X) is the first US military response to North Korea’s threat that it could launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. The radar is able to track the long-range launches and provide crucial data.
The Sea-based, X-band Radar (SBX 1) transits the waters of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, CNN reported today.
Generally the SB-X is sent north of Hawaii and stationed about halfway to Alaska for the optimum spot to track a potential North Korean missile launch headed for Alaska, Guam or the West Coast of the US. Additional surveillance assets are also being identified to monitor activity on the Korean Peninsula.
Defense officials have stressed that if North Korea were to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile, it might not be shot down by a US missile defense system.
"If the missile's threatening, it will be intercepted. If it's not threatening, we won't necessarily do so," Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters Tuesday.
"It may be more to our advantage to, first of all, save our interceptor inventory, and, second, to gather intelligence from the flight rather than do that (shoot it down) when it's not threatening." Carter added.
"The SB-X radar will increase the US ability to collect that type of missile data," North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently said the test launch of an ICBM is in its final stages.
However, US still does not believe that North Korea has gained mastery over the technology required for the missile to reenter the atmosphere. “There have been launches of three-stage long-range rockets with a satellite on the front end being boosted into space. The two technologies are very similar, but it is re-entry of the warhead that has not yet been demonstrated,” US officials said.
On Wednesday, the US Treasury froze all US property interests and assets belonging to seven North Korean government officials. The Treasury imposed the sanctions because North Korea continues to engage in grave human rights abuses and actively uses censorship policies to conceal those abuses.
Most of the seven sanctioned North Koreans on the blacklist work in top-level security and prison operations. They include Kim's younger sister, Kim Yo Jong -- Vice Director of the Korean Workers' Party Propaganda and Agitation Department.
The Treasury further sanctioned the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Labor, slamming the two government bodies for coordinating forced labor -- including in North Korean mines.
This is the second time the US has imposed human rights sanctions on Kim's government, after blacklisting Kim and other top officials in July.
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Good Morning! Good Morning! Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/17UD1e3
Jill Terreri, ROC Published 5:08 p.m. ET May 16, 2013 | Updated 2:24 p.m. ET Dec. 1, 2010
Monroe County has declared a human services program a success, and is ending it, saying it has saved $22.2 million
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ELEANOR GOLDSTEIN
Greenland 1 - Watercolor
"Every subject I paint (no matter the medium) I need to show in its strength-- not in delicacy. I push the images forward for the impact to be experienced."
Rivertown (Double) - Solar Etching
Eleanor Goldstein is a painter and sculptor from New York City, working in a variety of mediums. She is a mother, wife, social worker, teacher-- and always a passionate supporter of all the arts, having spent most of her 84 years painting.
I am a Jewish girl from the Bronx approaching 85, and I paint as much as I can. I have lived through a world of tremendous change. I trained at the New York City Ballet School, and played piano for seven years. When I did discover I had to paint- I was so young that I needed written permission to draw the nude models at the Arts Student League in Manhattan. From there, I have kept at it -- majoring in sculpture at Bennington College, teaching art in the NYC school system, and taking part in residencies in America and abroad. I still go to classes at the Arts Student League, and I am back to sculpting again after 5 or 6 years; learning to cast in Bronze! I am always trying to push my work forward and experiment.
Construction Site - Watercolor Diptych
"Sometimes I start in one medium and it will not work until I find The Right One for the job."
Smaller Bridge at Night - Watercolor
Tell us about your work and why it is unique.
When I start a new project, a certain kind of fear literally takes hold of me. But then I’ll reach a breaking point and paint a passionate response to that feeling of fear. I typically paint large (I like the paper to be my size or larger), which enables me to attack the paper. I can only paint when I cannot stand NOT to paint any longer. I have done a lot of work in just about every medium: painting (oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic), as well as sculpture, solar etchings/monoprints, and mixed media/college. Each subject chooses its own medium to best express or capture it: with people and figures it was clay/wood/pastel primarily, with the cityscapes it was oil/monoprints, with landscapes it was water-color. Sometimes I start in one medium and it will not work until I find The Right One for the job. I want to use the medium that most forcefully allows me to express a feeling. Every subject I paint (no matter the medium) I need to show in its strength-- not in delicacy. I push the images forward for the impact to be experienced. It is unusual for me to paint something from a great distance. I want the here-and-now of the work up front, almost as if one is able to step into the image.
Storm Warning - Oil Painting
Eleanor in Greenland
"I am driven to catch beauty before its destruction."
The cyclical nature of life and death is often a theme. I am driven to catch beauty (whether urban or natural) before its destruction. Silence and solitude are other true sources of inspiration. I also love discovering the works of other artists, which is absolutely essential.
Tell us about some of your achievements.
The most exciting achievement of my career was the commission of a 19-foot mural for St. John the Divine Cathedral -- that was a total gift to me, a magnificent experience. Also, this piece of sculpture (Risen) was a real accomplishment.
Last Lights - Pastel
Down River - Oil
I am passionate about the patterns of shadows cast across highways; the marsh in October turning from green to the color of wheat; the sound of a violin played in the empty columbarium of a Church, and by the cry of need heard across our world.
Share with us the back-stories.
I have made two trips to Greenland in the last year to see the icebergs in their true majesty before their destruction.
I am fixated on the warming of our Earth and the pending loss of life, and beauty- particularly in this landscape. My first trip to Greenland was on a converted fishing boat, up the shoreline, where we touched the Arctic Circle. On my second trip, I chose to see and experience this endangered world on my own. One night, standing in darkness, I was surrounded by complete silence, not a sound by man or nature. I have been trying to capture those moments in my studio ever since.
Tell us about your upcoming projects..
In early 2019 my first series of works on Greenland was presented in a show called Requiem. I continue to paint this subject, what has become to me a crie d’couer. I hope in the next year to have another showing responding to this second expedition to Greenland.
Risen - Bonded Carrara
St. John Cathedral - Wall Mural
"I am passionate about the patterns of shadows cast across highways; the marsh in October turning from green to the color of wheat; the sound of a violin playedin the empty columbarium of a Church, and by the cry of need heard across our world."
While I have traveled the world to remarkable places, I was born in the Bronx, and have continued to live in and around New York City ever since. New York is a vibrant city-- diverse in its people and its art. A cauldron from which I drink and gain energy! I was compelled to memorialize the dynamic time in New York in which I was raised (post WWII) and do honor to the workers who built my city. They worked hard (Union guys!) and I really wanted to capture their landscape before all the old neighborhoods were torn down.
How do you feel about art and its role in the world?
Not art -- but The Arts (plural)-- are a diary of what is, of the moment, how it relates to our past and future. Do we celebrate, or are we the voice of nightmares? Or both? I applaud the diversity of artists now being recognized. We were so oriented to Western Art for so long, and so minimally invested in global art -- and the broadening of what constitutes art, legitimate art, is now acknowledging the power and beauty that is created in many places of the world,which is very exciting and inspiring to me. I think it creates a broader understanding and respect.
How you want your art to affect the viewer/ world?
I want them to stop, truly look, and feel. That’s it!
www.eleanorgoldsteinart.com
"The Arts are a diary of what is, of the moment, how it relates to our past and future. Do we celebrate, or are we the voice of nightmares? Or both?"
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I have a flexible image: Adah Sharma
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Mumbai, July 22 (IANS) From playing the possessed woman in her debut film "1920", to a police inspector in "Commando 2", Adah Sharma has tried a few varied shades in her roles. Her tryst with different roles continues in her upcoming film, "Man To Man", where she plays a man who has undergone sex change to become a woman.
"I play a man who becomes a woman after sex reassignment surgery in 'Man To Man'. It is a love story. I have received messages from the LGBTQ+ community saying they are happy that I am doing the role. I hope I have justified the opportunity. The roles so far I have got are different from who I am in real life," said the actress.
Adah experiments not only with her roles but also her looks. Her experimentation with looks in the past has included tri-colour hair and wearing a dress with newspaper print motif. "Whether it is in South Indian films or in Hindi films, my fans expect me to do something different. I tend to do performance-oriented roles, and fans' people's expectations have given me the confidence to experiment," Adah told IANS.
Starting her Bollywood journey in 2008 with the horror film "1920", Adah's prom,inent outings also include the Karan Johar-produced "Hasee Toh Phasee". Some of her commercially successful films down south are "S/O Satyamurthy", "Garam", and "Kalki".
"Since I started with a horror film, I have a flexible image. I can be a glam-doll or a girl doing action scenes like the guys. I think casting directors easily imagine me in different avatars," she shared.--IANS
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Liverpool have wasted no time in strengthening their squad ready for next season, and have targeted Stoke's Xherdan Shaqiri.
The winger, who was relegated with city at the end of the season, admitted he will probably leave the bet365 Stadium, with a return to the Premier League likely.
Now, The Daily Star report Jurgen Klopp wants to bring the 26-year-old to Anfield, who is available for just £12m due to a release clause in his contract.
Xherdan Shaqiri is wanted by Liverpool (Image: Getty)
The same paper claims Liverpool's neighbours Everton are also monitoring the Switzerland international's future.
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The Reds have already bolstered their forward options with the £40m signing of Monaco midfielder Fabinho, and will also have Naby Keita available next season after he spent last season on loan at Bundesliga side RB Leipzig.
Elsewhere, two of England's top clubs are chasing the signing of Newcastle United defender Jamal Lascelles, that's according to the Evening Standard.
Jamaal Lascelles had a fine season with Newcastle United (Image: Getty)
The 24-year-old had an impressive season wit the Magpies, leading to speculation about the captain's future at St James's Park.
Although Chelsea are thought to have been long-term admirers of Lascelles, it is now understood that Tottenham are also keen to sign him.
Spurs are set to lose star defender Toby Alderweireld after the Belgian rejected a new contract offer, with Manchester United the favorites to sign him.
Liverpool target Gent winger, Chelsea and Spurs want West Brom striker, Manchester United interested in Lenglet
If he does leave for Old Trafford, the North London club will be looking at possible replacements, with Lascelles also reportedly wanted by Everton.
But he won't come cheap as it is claimed Newcastle want in the region on £45m.
Finally, new Derby County manager Frank Lampard wants to bring former Chelsea teammate and friend John Terry with him to the Championship club.
Could Frank Lampard and John Terry work together once again? (Image: Getty)
Terry, 37, is a free agent after leaving Aston Villa following their play-off final loss to Fulham.
And according to The Mirror, Terry is being lined up to join the Rams, but only if their captain Curtis Davies leaves Pride Park.
The 33-year-old is reportedly wanted by new Stoke City boss Gary Rowett, who worked with Davies last season at Derby.
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Terry earned around £60,000 at Villa, and has been linked with several other clubs, particularly in the USA and China.
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/ Publications / Japanstudien / Japanstudien 8
1996, ISBN 3-89129-371-2, € 56,00, iudicium Verlag, Munich, 426 p., hardcover [Order]
Gebhardt, Lisette
Kreitz-Sandberg, Susanne
Japanstudien 8
Interkulturelle Perspektiven Japan - Deutschland
Der 8. Band der »Japanstudien« ist dem Thema »Interkulturelle Perspektiven Japan – Deutschland: Sprache, Literatur und Ideengeschichte – Gesellschaft« gewidmet. Das Institut ist sich bei der Wahl dieses Themas sehr wohl bewußt gewesen, daß das Schlagwort »interkulturell« derzeit fast so etwas wie ein Modewort geworden ist und vielfach sehr sorglos verwendet wird. Angesichts der gegenwärtig laufenden Diskussion um einen »Zusammenprall der Kulturen« einerseits, um »Globalisierung von Zivilisation« andererseits, glauben wir jedoch, mit einem Sammelband von Forschungserträgen, der der deutsch-japanischen Perspektive gewidmet ist, Neuland erschließen zu können.
Narrog, Heiko
Maschinenlesbare Textkorpora im Japanischen. Erstellung und Nutzung [Computerized Text Corpora in Japanese: Availability and Use]
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Electronic text corpora play a major role in literary and linguistic study in European languages. The same has not yet been true for Japanese, for among other problems the complexity of the writing system has posed a major obstacle in Japanese text computation. However, a number of major corpora have been published recently, especially in the fields of classical literature, newspapers and language data collections in support of computational linguistics. This article tries to give a critical overview of representative corpora in the first two of these fields, and discusses the possibilities of creating one’s own electronic texts. Furthermore, it introduces software for the analysis of text corpora. The descriptions of the text corpora and programs contain information about availability and price.
p.223-237
Gössmann, Hilaria
Von der Kernfamilie zu alternativen Lebensformen? Ein Vergleich der Lebensentwürfe in japanischen und deutschen Fernsehserien [From the Core Family to Alternative Models of Living? A Comparison of Life Styles in Japanese and German Television Series]
Serialized television dramas reflect social tendencies and may equally encourage new trends and intensify those already in existence. A comparison of plot patterns and messages in German and Japanese television series may serve to substantiate this assertion.
Up to the 1970s, TV serial dramas in both countries generally presented families living in harmony, whereas alternative life styles – such as one-person households or single-parent families – were introduced only in the nineties. The dependent wives in German series and the devoted mothers of Japanese dramas are now women determining their own courses in life. At the same time, men are frequently depicted as they confront the sudden responsibility for their children’s upbringing. This happens either because the wife died, as is common in German series, or because she broke out of her role of wife and mother, which has become a topic in Japanese television dramas.
The portrayals of these men show prominent distinctions. In the German series, they usually leave the household and child care duties to female relatives or domestic servants. In contrast, in some Japanese series fathers learn to deal with these challenges on their own. The fact that alternative models of living are increasingly depicted in television series leads one to the assumption that they are increasingly accepted by society. Simultaneously, such series may help advance the general awareness of alternative life styles and their acceptance as an ordinary part of social life. In the case of Japan, this is of special importance, since the social pressure of living in a conventional family environment is still significant.
Shimada, Shingo
Die soziologischen Grundbegriffe "Gemeinschaft" und "Gesellschaft" - aus der Perspektive der interkulturellen Kommunikation [The Concepts of "Gemeinschaft" and "Gesellschaft" in Sociology From the Viewpoint of Intercultural Communication]
The academic dichotomy of “Gemeinschaft” and “Gesellschaft” assumes that the formation of theoretical concepts includes the cultural experience of difference. This notion originated in Europe in the 19th century and was in turn adopted by the Japanese social sciences as part of an intercultural discourse. The article describes the process by which this idea was incorporated into Japanese thought since the middle of the 19th century. Using classical academic texts, it elucidates the different perspectives which form part of the ideas of “the Self” and “the Other”. This will demonstrate that, both in the West and Japan, a discourse of self-awareness began through such key academic concepts, a discourse which helped construct cultural identity.
Suizid bei Jugendlichen in Japan und Deutschland. Ein Beitrag zur kulturvergleichenden Jugendforschung [Suicide in Japan and Germany. A Comparison from the Perspective of Youth Studies]
Suicide among Japanese adolescents is a popular topic in the media. However, a comparison of data and research from both countries, tracking the changes from the 1950s to the 1990s, shows that Japan’s present per capita rate of juvenile suicide is lower than that of Germany. Therefore, it seems that cultural interpretations of suicide are responsible for the impression of high suicide rates among Japanese adolescents. This article reviews several recurring arguments about the context of juvenile suicide; for example, suicide as a reaction to a rigid social system or to pressure in the schools. The recently discussed connection between suicide and bullying (ijime) will be given special attention. Different types of media, such as newspapers, popular publications, and scientific reports, address suicide in specific ways. There is a conformity among the international perspectives which is clarified by a review of the research papers. Such a review also elucidates the irrelevance of national stereotypes.
Tōyama-Bialke, Chisaki
Alltagsstruktur und Schulleistung. Eine Untersuchung zur Sozialisation von deutschen und japanischen Jugendlichen [Scholastic Achievement and the Structure of Everyday Life: a Study of the Socialization of Adolescents in Germany and Japan]
This essay compares the structures of adolescents’ daily lives in Germany and Japan. A survey was used in each country, using questionnaires for eighth grade students in four schools with different academic achievement levels. The lives of German students are structured by various activities influenced by subcultures or social status, whereas school-related activities dominate and homogenize the daily lives of Japanese students. Cultural differences in correlation patterns between structures of daily lives and scholastic achievement are related to culturally sanctioned behavior and views of adolescence.
Fuhrt, Volker
Von der Bundesrepublik lernen? Der Vergleich mit Deutschland in der japanischen Diskussion über Kriegsschuld und Vergangenheitsbewältigung [Learning from the German Model? The Comparison with Germany and its Impact on the Japanese Debate on War Responsibility]
Since the early 1980s, the comparison with the “German model of mastering the past” has become an important aspect of the Japanese discussion on war guilt. The 1982 textbook scandal in particular forced Japan to confront the legacy of its wartime past for the sake of its diplomatic relations with China and Korea. This article analyses the impact of the “German model” on the debate in Japan using three case studies: the 1982 textbook scandal, the official commemoration at the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, and the question of compensation payments to war victims. The comparison with Germany in this debate falls into three basic patterns:
– Enthusiasm for the German model (especially the famous speech of former president von Weizsäcker) combined with harsh criticism of the prevailing attitude towards Japan’s militaristic past seen in Japanese politics and society. This argument does not offer any solutions to Japan’s problems with its neighbors.
– Nationalistic refusal to compare Japan’s history with the “absolute evil” of Nazi terror. This approach is based on an affirmative view of Japan’s past and tends to deny or diminish the need for reconciliation with Japan’s former enemies and colonies. Such a view of history implies a tendency towards isolationism for present-day Japan. Although this kind of revisionism has lost much of its former influence on Japanese politics, it is still able to prevent a more active stewardship of war guilt and compensation.
– The search for a home-grown approach to reconciliation with the Asian peoples invaded and colonized by the Imperial Japanese army, an approach which would oppose both the eurocentrism and nationalism of the first two patterns. A small group of citizen activists is eager to learn from German achievements as well as from its failures. However, this kind of grass-roots movement is still too weak to influence Japanese politics.
Mehl, Margret
Awaya, Kentarō; Tanaka, Hiroshi; Hirowatari, Seigo; Mishima, Ken'ichi; Mochida, Yukio; Yamaguchi, Yasushi: Sensō sekinin - sengo sekinin. Nihon to Doitsu wa dō chigau ka [Kriegsschuld, Nachkriegsschuld. Worin unterscheiden sich Deutschland und Japan?] . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha (Asahi sensho 506), 1994. 272 S., 1400 Yen
Blechinger, Verena
Masumi, Junnosuke: Contemporary Politics in Japan. Translated by Lonny E. Carlile. Berkeley, Los Angeles und London: University of California Press, 1995. 514 S., Hardcover DM 148,-; Paperback DM 50,-
Bauer, Detlef
Ian Buruma: The Wages of Guilt. Memories of War in Germany and Japan. (Erbschaft der Schuld. Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Deutschland und Japan). New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. $ 25,-. Deutsche Ausgabe: München: Hanser, 1994. 405 S., DM 49,80
Goch, Ulrich
Albert und Lina Mosse: Fast wie mein eigen Vaterland. Briefe aus Japan 1886-1889. Hrsg. von Shirō Ishii, Ernst Lokowandt und Yūkichi Sakai. München: iudicium, 1995 (Eine Publikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG) Tokyo). 535 S., DM 98,-
Wippich, Rolf Harald
Masako Satō: Karl Florenz in Japan. Auf den Spuren einer vergessenen Quelle der modernen japanischen Geistesgeschichte und Poetik. Hamburg: Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens e.V., 1995. (MOAG Bd. 124). 240 S., DM 58,-
Matsue, Mariko
Kida Jun'ichirō: Nihongo hakubutsukan. Akuma no moji to tatakatta hitobito [Das Große Museum des Japanischen. Die, die mit der Teufelsschrift fochten]. Tokushima, Tokyo: Just System, 1994. 312 S., 4800 Yen
Löhr, Marc
Kirsten Plitsch-Kußmaul: Die Entstehung und Ausprägung der Mediensysteme in Japan und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ein Strukturvergleich 1945-1990. Neuried: ars una, 1995 (=Deutsche Hochschuledition ; 31). 492 S., DM 98,-
Richter, Steffi
Shingo Shimada: Grenzgänge - Fremdgänge. Japan und Europa im Kulturvergleich. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 1994. 275 S., DM 49,-
Frobenius, Sebastian
Hamano Teru: Gendai no misshingu rinku kara miru Nihon kokukenpō to shinsekai chitsujo [Japans Staatsverfassung und die neue Weltordnung aus der Perspektive des missing link der Moderne]. Tokyo: Ryūsei Shuppan, 1996. 2200 Yen
Kreiner, Josef
Vorwort [Foreword]
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Pekar, Thomas
"Augen-Blicke" in Japan. Schlüsselszenen der literarischen Fremdbeschreibung bei Engelbert Kaempfer, Bernhard Kellermann und Roland Barthes [Augen-Blicke" in Japan. Eye Contact as a Key Scene in Literary Descriptions of Japan in the Works of Engelbert Kaempfer, Bernhard Kellermann and Roland Barthes]
In Western culture, eye contact plays a fundamental role with regards to human relations and identity. But in relation to the Japanese this fundamental role is put in question, because the Japanese concept of eye contact seems different from the Western. Three examples of Western descriptions of Japan are discussed in this paper to demonstrate this collision of Western and Japanese concepts of eye contact.
Hayashi, Masako
Geistesgeschichtliche Beziehungen Japan - Deutschland. Eine Auswertung der Zeitschrift Taiyō [The Reception of German Thought and Culture in the Monthly Review Taiyō]
Taiyō (The Sun) – the monthly Review of Politics, Economics, Sciences, Literature, and Art, published from 1895 to 1928 with a circulation of 100,000 – plays an important role as a mirror which reflects contemporary currents of thought and culture. This paper introduces a representative sampling of articles from this review related to German matters, and analyzes the writings of three well-known intellectuals which appeared in this review. Three debates command particular attention: the “Dispute About Aesthetics” (1896) between Takayama Chogyū and Mori Ōgai, the correspondence between Chogyū and Anezaki Chōfū,(1901-1902) and its literary significance, and the contrary opinions of Ōgai and Chōfū concerning studying abroad and the Yellow Peril. Central to this analysis are patterns of transmission and reception of German thought in late Meiji Japan, a transitional stage in Japanese history when the spiritual basis of modern Japan was rapidly being solidified. The conclusion confirms the cultural and literary significance of the review Taiyō as a conduit for matters German into the wider currents of Japanese thought and culture of the period.
Siemer, Michael
Konkrete Abstraktionen. Takayama Chōgyūs Entwicklung einer eigenständigen japanischen Ästhetik im Japan der 1890er Jahre und die Verarbeitung ästhetischer Theorien des Westens [Concrete Abstractions in the Aesthetics of Takayama Chogyū. The Change in Aesthetic Paradigms during the 1890's]
This essay argues that the Japanese thinker and aesthete Takayama Chogyū (1871-1902) did not theorize within concrete dimensions of rock-bottom logic, but rather within concrete abstractions. Thus, he aspired not so much to the creation of ideals and forms of beauty, but rather tried to illuminate how beauty is born somewhere between the ideal and so-called reality. Furthermore, that this technique of combining the ideal and the real is a pivotal point in his thinking becomes obvious in his attitude towards the German philosopher Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906), well-known in Japan at the time, whom he criticized harshly. This essay aims to show, moreover, that Takayama’s criticism of Hartmann was driven not so much by nationalism but rather by a deep concern for aesthetic ideas.
Uerlings, Herbert
"Ehre, Ehre, Ehre". Zu einem deutsch-japanischen Thema bei Mori Ōgai und Theodor Fontane ["Ehre, Ehre, Ehre" On the Concept of Honor in the Literature of Mori Ōgai and Theodor Fontane]
The 1890s saw the birth of two key literary works in Japan and Germany: Mori Ōgai’s Mahime and Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest. Both confront as their central theme an old order in deep crisis in a mix of spiritual, cultural and social critique. This contribution shows that – despite all the cultural differences between the two countries – this crisis has a common core: the disintegration of the supporting pillar of society, as represented by the masochism of honor.
p.77-104
Mae, Michiko
Zur Möglichkeit weiblicher Subjektivität in der Moderne. Schreiben und Leben als Schriftstellerin in Japan und Deutschland um die Jahrhundertwende [The Possibility of Female Subjectivity in the Modern Age - Writing and Living as a Woman Writer in Japan and Germany]
The possibility of achieving financial independence as a writer – Higuchi Ichiyō (1872-1896) was the first to achieve this in Japan – enabled women to realize their female subjectivity through their literary work, relatively free of the dictates of society . Beyond the artistic sphere, in their material lives, they necessarily encountered difficulties and conflict in their pursuit of self-realization. The following essay considers two examples of turn-of-the-century women writers, the Japanese Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945) and the German Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow (1871-1918), as the starting point for addressing the following questions. Why, on the one hand, does the concept of the autonomous subject, fundamental to the modern age, serve to impede the female search for identity. And why, on the other hand, did unity of art, life, and love for these two women constitute the precondition for their self-realization? For both women, female subjectivity appears to mean that an individual identity could only be forged in the simultaneity or interplay between demarcation or delimitation with regard to others and the dissolution of barriers in togetherness with one person. The intercultural comparison demonstrates basic structural similarities between the two women despite all differences. From this one may conclude that the process of modernization in Japan and the modern age in Europe constituted the precondition for women to be able to develop their own subjectivity, but that it nevertheless hindered the development of a (collective) female subjectivity. Here we may recognize the ambivalence of the modern age and its fundamental concept of the subject.
"Trümmerliteratur". Am Beispiel von Shiina Rinzō und Wolfgang Borchert [Post-War Japanese and German Literature in Comparison; a Case Study]
Prompted by the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Japanese literary world once again looked back at the core texts of the post-war period. However, there was an astonishing absence of thorough new studies which examine the literature of the immediate post-war era in their historical context. This article is a small-scale, concrete analysis comparing two representative texts of Japanese and German postwar literature; Shiina Rinzo’s “Banquet at Midnight”, and Wolfgang Borchert’s “Draußen vor der Tür”. The article considers the parallels and differences in the manner of representation, for example with regard to gender descriptions, and critically evaluates these texts from today’s perspective.
Giacomuzzi-Putz, Renate
Die japanische Literatur in deutschsprachigen Printmedien [The Reception of Japanese Literature in German, Austrian, and Swiss Dailies and Weekly Magazines]
This essay presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of newspaper and magazine articles on Japanese literature which appeared in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland between 1988 and 1994. The first part evaluates statistically the subject matter (i.e. pieces of Japanese literature) as well as authorship and publication of the newspaper entries themselves. The second part discusses typical patterns in German-language essays about Japanese literature since the early seventies. The case study of Ōe Kenzaburō. in the final section presents an example of the reception in Germany, Austria and Switzerland of a single Japanese writer.
Stalph, Jürgen
Pro litteris iaponicis oder Vom Schaden schlechten Übersetzens [Pro litteris iaponicis or On the Damage Done by Bad Translating]
In translating works of art there is no room for mediocrity. Translated art is art or it is nothing. The indifference of European or German readers towards Japanese literature is for the most part caused by bad translating, i.e. by transformation of art into nothing. Citing representative examples, the author reveals the various kinds of damage done by such transformation, the worst being the creation of myths that not only dominate common views of Japanese language and literature in Germany, but views of Japan itself.
Philipps, Susanne
Manga für ein deutschsprachiges Publikum: Möglichkeiten der Übertragung von Text-Bild-Verbindungen [Manga for the German Readership: Possible Transferences of Combinations of Text and Pictures]
Prompted by the rising publication of manga in Germany, this article deals with the problems occurring when manga are transferred from the Japanese original to books for Western readers. After listing the constituent components of a comic/manga, the article gives three examples of transferred manga: works by Ōtomo Katsuhiro, Genji monogatari Asakiyumemishi by Yamato Waki and Ironfist Chinmi by Maekawa Takeshi.
The first problem which must be resolved is whether to remount the pages, which in the original form are read from right to left and now must convey the story from left to right for a Western readership. When remounting the pages, written Japanese characters in the picture have to be prepared separately. By duplicating the pages in mirror-image form, a new and different story is born: right-handed persons become left-handed and clocks show different times.
The article discusses the pros and cons of transferences which – for example by coloring and remounting the pages – primarily speak to the expectations of the Western readership as well as those transferences which mainly try to convey elements of the manga in their original form.
Schlecht, Wolfgang E.
Elektronische Nachschlagewerke, Schreib- und Übersetzungshilfen für die japanbezogenen Wissenschaften [Electronic Reference Works, Writing Aids, and Translation Aids for Japanese Studies]
Scholars interested in Japanese studies have at their disposal a steadily increasing number of electronic reference works on CD-ROM and similar media. Most of these electronic aids are dictionaries, both monolingual and bilingual, as well as specialized reference works in the technical, medical, economic or legal areas, to name just a few. However, ever more multiple-volume general encyclopedias are making their debut on the market as well. This report centers on a description of the present state of the art in order to give readers a clearer picture of which electronic dictionaries might be of use to them in their studies of things Japanese. It also considers how to better use this new media and explains which technical conditions must be met, in terms of hardware and software. Finally, it tries to give a brief preview of developments expected in the near future and how such developments will force us to gather information in new ways.
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After Girl Meets World and Raven's Home, Disney's now looking to continue another teen series, Lizzie McGuire!
Hilary Duff is feeling excited about the possibility of returning to one of her most iconic roles. ET's Katie Krause caught up with the 31-year-old actress at Love Leo Rescue's 1st Annual Cocktails for a Cause Fundraiser at Rolling Greens in Los Angeles, where she revealed that there have been discussions about reviving Lizzie McGuire, her Disney Channel show that ran from 2001 to 2004.
"There's been some conversations," Duff teased of a revival, before cautioning, "It's definitely not a go. I don't want to get everyone wild talking about it."
For Duff, though, the possibility of returning to the role is certainly a happy thought. "I mean I love her so much," she gushed of the lovable character and her animated alter ego. "I think she was so important to girls at an important time in their life. If she could be important to them again at this age, I think that would be amazing."
While Duff played coy about where Lizzie would be today -- "There's been lots of conversations about that," she said -- there's one thing she doesn't think Lizzie has experienced quite yet. "I'm racking my brain," Duff said. "I don't think she's a mom yet, but she might be getting there soon." Though she continued to caution that nothing's set in stone just yet, Duff admitted, "It's fun. I feel excited. It could be a possibility or it could be nothing, so we'll see," she added.
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Well, this is not a surprise, due to how Lizzie McGuire was Disney's cash cow once. It won't be surprising if Disney will run a Hannah Montana-reboot in the future
Just wondering, what were your thoughts about Lizzie McGuire, Sotiris?
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This could be something special in the revival era though if they brought it to ABC and marketed it to the generation who originally watched the show. Make it about her finding her way into adulthood, motherhood, etc. And with most of the original cast still gushing about how they’d like to return, I don’t see why this couldn’t be a more suburban Sex and the City, or even go the friend/family route and pull almost an extended family comedy that focuses on her the most... sort of in an Arrested Development framing. Plus with Disney’s streaming service coming out, they may not need ABC at all. And from the interviews she did give, she said the character wouldn’t be a mom yet, which means no kids and no way it would go to Disney Channel. I really think if they took a leap of faith on this and marketed to the original audience who are now almost 30, it could be a big deal.
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I'm happily surprised (even though I don't have cable and only have seen some pilot Disney Channel episodes for newer shows since Disney uploaded them to YouTube); in the past Hilary has flip-flopped on whether she'd ever like to play Lizzie again:
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a831 ... e-revival/
Yay!! It's officially coming back!!!
‘Lizzie McGuire’ Sequel Series Starring Hilary Duff Set At Disney+ From Creator Terri Minsky & Disney Channel
https://deadline.com/2019/08/lizzie-mcg ... 202702120/
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A Lizzie McGuire revival makes sense. I look forward to watching this one!
JeanGreyForever
This should be interesting and I hope they reference the film because I always loved that.
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A shame this will be on Disney+, I think I’d actually like to watch a couple of episodes of it. I hope they bring Gordon back somehow…
Maybe eventually it’ll sink down to Freeform after a few years.
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If you want absolutely no spoilers, don't even read the full link!
Hilary Duff Says Lizzie McGuireIsn’t Engaged to Gordoin Disney+ Reboot
https://people.com/tv/hilary-duff-says- ... do-reboot/
That never even crossed my mind, and while I would have been 100% fine with Lizzie and Video being together, I like that the show will be more realistic, that most people don't find their future spouse in middle school/junior high,as much as that would sometimes make life easier!! It's like how I feel that Enchanted and Pocahontas 2 are realistic in showing the reality of relationships!
Is Video supposed to be Gordo? I can't remember a character named Video in the show.
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Must admit, I'm looking forward to this way more than I probably should. I just have really fond memories of the original.
JeanGreyForever wrote:
Just seeing this now...my phone autocorrected it to Video from Gordoand I didn't read before posting...
*Just now it did it, too ...
Oh ok, just wanted to clarify since I wasn't sure.
It seems obvious to me they will have her drop her engagment for gordo later. Shows love to play the will they or wont they game.
Group pic of the McGuires!! I'm so excited you guys!!!
https://mobile.twitter.com/getFANDOM/st ... 0282084352
Oh wow, it's so great to see them all again. I don't even recognize the dad.
Did some snooping, and saw Hilary Duff is now following Lalaine and Clayton Snyder (Miranda and Ethan) on Instagram. Just a few months ago she wasn’t. My guess is they are on board as well, and we’ll be getting announcements about additional returning cast members periodically to keep the hype up.
Strange that she wasn't following them before. I guess they don't keep in touch or were never really friends all these years. The Zoey 101 cast, in comparison, all seem pretty close and tight-knit to this day.
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 10:18 am
We have learned that the upcoming revival of ‘Lizzie McGuire’ will include an openly gay character and an agoraphobic character. These two characters will be neighbours of Lizzie McGuire as the series follows her navigating life in New York City. One neighbour is codenamed Carson Lang (it is unknown if this will be the character’s actual name in the series), Lang will be a neighbour and friend of Lizzie McGuire, he will likely feature in a series regular capacity in the series. The other neighbour is codenamed Sooz who will be Lizzie’s neighbour who dislikes leaving home and also has agoraphobia.
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Scientists at MIT, Stanford University and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) have published research detailing a system to predict the useful life of lithium-ion batteries before their capacities begin to decline.
After the researchers trained their machine learning model (a combination of comprehensive experimental data and artificial intelligence) with a few hundred million datapoints, the algorithm predicted how many more cycles each battery would last, based on voltage declines and a few other factors among the early cycles. The predictions were within 9% of the actual cycle life.
Separately, the algorithm categorized batteries as either long or short life expectancy based on just the first five charge/discharge cycles. Here, the predictions were correct 95% of the time. This machine learning method could accelerate R&D for new battery designs, and reduce the time and cost of production.
“The standard way to test new battery designs is to charge and discharge the cells until they die. Since batteries have a long lifetime, this process can take many months and even years,” said co-lead author Peter Attia, Stanford doctoral candidate in materials science and engineering. “It’s an expensive bottleneck in battery research.”
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UK: Books open for DS 3 Crossback E-Tense
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The all-electric DS 3 Crossback E-Tense can now be reserved in Great Britain. Prices start at 32,350 pounds (incl. 3,500 pounds for plug-in car grant). PSA’s premium brand also revealed details on charging options.
The compact SUV is the first all-electric car that DS designed from the ground up and this BEV has a potential range of 200 miles (certified on the WLTP drive cycle, or 267 miles on the NEDC drive cycle). The electric drivetrain of DS 3 Crossback E-Tense has a 100kW (136hp) electric motor with 260Nm of torque, linked to a 50kWh Lithium-ion battery and a system for recovering energy during deceleration and braking. PSA’s premium brand says that acceleration from 0 to 30mph is possible in 3.3 seconds.
When the DS 3 was first announced in September last year, very few details were given about the BEV’s charging abilities. Now DS Automobiles has revealed that a connected smart wall box (single phase), can enable a 100% battery charge in 8 hours or at a standard public terminal in around 5 hours. The fully-electric crossover also carries a high-capacity onboard charger, available as single phase (7kW) or three phases (11kW) and offers several charging options. Since single phase infrastructure is standard in the UK, the single phase (7kW) onboard charger will be the standard offering for the UK market.
A heat pump with reduced electrical consumption optimises thermal comfort in the passenger compartment without affecting battery temperature control. Rémi Seimpère DS 3 Crossback E-Tense project director says that “such control also lets us offer an attractive battery warranty: eight years or 100,000 miles”.
The DS 3 Crossback E-Tense is the first all-electric vehicle designed in full by brand. DS Automobiles launched in 2015 as the PSA Group’s Premium brand.
Yves Bonnefont, CEO of DS Automobiles asserts that “from this year onwards, each of our models will be offered with an E-Tense, BEV or PHEV, version, which uses energy in the most efficient way supplemented by regenerating energy during deceleration. DS 3 Crossback E-Tense and DS 7 Crossback E-Tense 4×4 are the realisations of our electrification strategy with no compromise in space, while unparalleled in style and comfort.”
Reservations are now opening ahead of formal ordering and deliveries are due to start from January 2020.
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» Review: Allen's 'Rome' delivers lackluster love
by David Germain, published on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 12:13 PM
Woody Allen's "To Rome with Love" began with better titles. Yet despite the exquisite locations of the filmmaker's first story of love, Italian style, this bland ensemble romance deserves the generic name rather than the clever working titles it started with.
Allen initially called it "Bop Decameron," then changed it to "Nero Fiddled" before he and his distributor decided to slip in the name of the Eternal City.
Hey, it helped to have the City of Light mentioned in the title of last year's Allen hit "Midnight in Paris." So putting Rome in the name makes good marketing sense to hint that his latest continues the trend of light romance in a beautiful Old World capital.
Unfortunately, "To Rome with Love" lives up - or rather, lives down - to the superficial postcard sentiment of its title.
Weaving four stories of Italians and American visitors, the writer-director creates a lot of clever moments with his ensemble comedy that features Allen's first on-screen appearance since 2006's "Scoop." In between the good times, the story and characters just drift about awkwardly, stuck on a walking tour of Rome that continually bumps up against dead ends, or worse, circles back so we wind up seeing the same things a few times too many.
It's hard to even pick out a highlight among the four stories. Parts of each story work quite well, while other portions just weigh the scenarios down.
The film almost comes down to how well the actors inhabit their roles. Allen's known for giving his cast plenty of leeway. That's often resulted in Academy Award performances, and just as often has left Allen's stars nervously milling around.
There are no Oscar prospects on screen in "To Rome with Love," but Alec Baldwin conveys a sense of wistful nostalgia as an architect seemingly strolling into his own memories of Italy in his youth.
Baldwin's a wry, omniscient commentator wafting in and out of a love triangle involving Jack (Jesse Eisenberg), Sally (Greta Gerwig) and her seductive pal Monica (Ellen Page). Gerwig's sadly cast as a flavorless third wheel, but Eisenberg and Page are so tentative and cold in their supposedly impetuous fling that they seem like neutered pups alongside old hound Baldwin.
Roberto Benigni manages a few laughs as a dreary but contented family man hurled into notoriety after Rome's press and paparazzi inexplicably choose him as a person of interest, shadowing him like an A-lister and hanging on his every word about what he had for breakfast. It's a lightweight commentary on fleeting fame, and the gimmick quickly wears thin.
The weakest of the stories centers on naive newlyweds Antonio and Milly (Alessandro Tiberi and Alessandra Mastronardi), who come to Rome for a fresh start but end up separated and tossed into romantic misadventures with others. Antonio winds up with a bombshell hooker (Penelope Cruz, an Oscar winner for Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"), Milly with an Italian movie star (Antonio Albanese).
Antonio and Milly's meanderings are pointless and uninvolving. Cruz, however, knows how to play voluptuous in her sleep, so she makes her little corner of the scenario fun and sexy.
Allen co-stars as retired music producer Jerry, who comes to Rome with his wife, Phyllis (Allen veteran Judy Davis) to meet the Italian fiance of their daughter, Hayley ("Midnight in Paris" co-star Alison Pill).
After Jerry hears the sublime opera vocals of Hayley's future father-in-law, Giancarlo (Italian tenor Fabio Armiliato) from the shower, he's determined to make the humble undertaker into a star. Giancarlo insists he sings only for personal pleasure, and when he auditions at Jerry's insistence, he discovers that his talent fails him outside the shower.
You can guess the rest. The scenes of Giancarlo performing on stage could have become as repetitious as the media's pursuit of Benigni, but Allen shows enough restraint and gives the sequences enough diversity that they remain consistently funny.
The time away from the screen hasn't helped Allen's acting chops. He's curiously listless as Jerry, and Davis, who was razor-sharp in Allen's "Husbands and Wives," rarely rises above dreary hen-pecking as his wife.
The ineffable magic that made "Midnight in Paris" click eludes Allen here. When in Paris, Allen's gimmicks coalesced into a sly, engaging romantic fantasy.
When in Rome, though, it's not Nero who's fiddling, but Allen, bopping and dithering around the city like a tourist so desperate to cram in all the sights that he comes away only with a few crisp highlights and a lot of out-of-focus snapshots.
"To Rome with Love," a Sony Pictures Classics release, is rated R for some sexual references. Running time: 112 minutes. Two stars out of four.
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158 Spadina Road, Toronto, ON, M5R 2T8 Map
http://www.owjn.org
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS)
CAEFS is an association of self-governing, community-based Elizabeth Fry Societies that work with and for women and girls in the justice system, particularly ... more
151 Slater Street, Ottawa, ON, K1P 5H3 Map
http://www.elizabethfry.ca
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CANGRANDS is a not-for-profit organization devoted to providing support for Kin caregiver families across Canada. Approximately 57,000 children are being ... more
1613 Central Ave, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 2T4 Map
http://www.cangrands.com
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence (NCFV) is a one-stop source for information for professionals working on violence and abuse within the family. It ... more
200 Eglantine Driveway, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0K9 Map
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/in...
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Women's Shelters Canada
"We are a unified voice collaborating, educating and innovating for systemic change that ends violence against women making Canada a model for safety in ... more
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1279 Willowdale Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1H 7S7
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Areas Served: Ottawa-Carleton, LHIN Champlain, North
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24/02/2017, 10:27 am Updated: 24/02/2017, 12:02 pm
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Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) said today that it plans to suspend output from the Buchan Alpha platform in the North Sea in April.
RSRUK said it had agreed a revised safety case with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) that would lead to the platform being removed from the Buchan field by 2018.
Buchan Alpha is a converted drilling rig which has served the field since 1980.
HSE had concerns about the design and longevity of the platform. Primarily, it was concerned about fatigue in the rig’s legs.
A spokesman for RSRUK said: “In compliance with the current safety case, as accepted by HSE, Buchan Alpha is scheduled to be permanently removed from its current location during the third quarter of 2017.
“In recognition of this safety case obligation and to allow off-station activities to progress, Repsol Sinopec is also applying to the Oil and Gas Authority for approval to suspend production of both the Buchan and Hannay fields, commencing April 2017.”
He also said that RSRUK was looking at potential opportunities for redeveloping the Buchan field, which currently produces about 3,700 barrels of oil per day.
The Buchan field, which was discovered in 1974, lies 96 miles north-east of Aberdeen.
RSRUK added there was no immediate threat to the platform.
The spokesman said: “Repsol Sinopec has invested significantly in measures to mitigate concerns and ensure continued safe operations on Buchan Alpha since the agreement of the revised safety case.
“These have included the implementation of an extensive state of the art continuous integrity monitoring system, coupled with a robust Severe Weather Action Plan – implemented 15 times since 2013 – to ensure personnel have been kept safe at all times.”
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8 TED Talks to Help You Overcome Your Fear of Failure
Eight videos that will help inspire you to go for your dreams.
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Debbie Millman told me her biggest regret was not “going for it” after she graduated college. She took the “safe” option, got a job and built a career. And a great career she built, becoming the president of Sterling Brands, and working with over 200 of the world’s largest businesses.
Yet, she chose this route not because she wasn’t good enough to make it on her own, but because she was scared to.
Fear took over, and it was the fear that she would fail.
Fear itself isn’t a problem. You’re allowed to worry and stress. This doesn’t make you weak, and it does not define you. But, if you wish to get to where you desire, you must fight your fear.
It took Debbie Millman years to figure this out, but once she embraced her creativity, with shows like Design Matters and books like Look Both Ways, she began to overcome her fear of failure.
Millman also told me about a chat she once had with her good friend, Dani Shapiro, who said, “We think we need confidence to do something and take action, but confidence isn’t what we need. What’s more important than confidence is courage and competence.”
Like anything, learning how to overcome your fear of failure is a skill. It takes practice. You need to learn how to embrace it, because once you do you can build real success on the back of it.
As Shapiro says, you don’t need confidence, only a little courage and competence.
Here are a few inspiring TED Talks to help you find some.
‘Smash Fear, Learn Anything’ by Tim Ferriss
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To say Tim Ferriss is a high achiever is an understatement, but this doesn’t mean he’s immune from fear and failure. As a young child, he feared water. He avoided swimming for many years. In this inspiring TED Talk, he shares how he overcame this fear, and how this experience helped him re-examine the role it plays in learning (and life).
It set him on an incredible journey, and the realisation that “fear is your friend. Fear is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do. More often than not it shows you exactly what you should do.”
Watch the talk here.
‘Rethinking Failure’ by Barbara Corcoran
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Despite a great deal of success, Barbara Corcoran is no stranger to failure. In this TEDx Talk she did for Barnard College, Corcoran dives into the role failure has played in her success, and how she’s learned to embrace it by pushing her fears to one side.
Your fear, for the most part, is something you have made up in your own head. You too can re-imagine and redefine what it means to you. And like Corcoran, you may find your “best successes come on the heels of failure.”
‘Turning Fear Into Fuel’ by Jonathan Fields
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A common fear many people share is public speaking. But, like Jonathan Fields finds, this fear often vanishes once you begin and get into your groove. Today, Fields is a bestselling author who works with creative people to build more meaningful and connected lives. But, in his TEDx Talk for Carnegie Mellon University, Fieldsdives into how he suffered with fear for years, before he turned this into the fuel to produce his best ever work.
A former source of anxiety and paralysis can soon fuel action and achievement. However you feel right now, the only way to make it disappear is to do something. For as Fields asks, “If you are a little unhappy now, do you think doing nothing for 10 or 20 years will keep you a little unhappy?” Like most things in life, your fear only gets worse until you do something about it.
‘The Power of Not Always Fitting In’ by Marianne Cantwell
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One of the most common fears I’ve found in entrepreneurs is “imposter syndrome.” On the outside you look cool, calm and in control. On the inside, you’re riddled with self doubt and insecurity. I can relate to this, and when Marianne Cantwell broke down this subject for her TEDx Talk at Norwich Education, I hung on her every word.
After eight years of building a community of lifestyle entrepreneurs, Cantwell recently scrapped a successful online program despite ongoing demand -- because it no longer aligned with her version of success
As you can imagine, this created a lot of inner turmoil, but it’s this turmoil that often unearths a hidden strength. This fear that you’re not good enough (or doing the wrong thing) can often spark your biggest success yet. Like Cantwell, you may find life isn’t black or white.
‘What I Learned From 100 Days of Rejection’ by Jia Jiang
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As Jia Jiang describes an embarrassing moment from his youth in this TED Talk -- watched over three million times -- it’s easy to understand why he developed a fear of rejection later in life. He had dreams and aspirations, but for a long time placed these to one side, choosing the easier option, instead.
But, it’s this that led to his adventure into “rejection,” and a community that today helps people overcome their own fears of rejection so they can fulfil their own dreams. Such fear is something that affects us all, but as Liang says, “When you get rejected in life, when you are facing the next obstacle or next failure, consider the possibilities. Don't run. If you just embrace them, they might become your gifts as well.”
‘Why You Have To Fail To Have A Good Career’ by Michael Litt
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Michael Litt believes that “failure provides the ultimate experience needed for success.” Most people dream about overnight success, and maybe they admire someone who started their business or career with a bang.
The truth is, most successful people sneak into success, growing slowly over time, as they make one mistake after another. Or, as Litt says, “You will fail to have a great career, unless you fail to have a great career.” Today, Litt is living proof of this, founding and growing Vidyard into a company that’s changing how brands connect in the digital age -- but only after a lot of trial and error.
‘Embrace The Near Win’ by Sarah Lewis
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As a renowned art curator who has worked with some of the world’s biggest artists and galleries, Sarah Lewis has had the privilege to learn how creative people work and how they form successful careers. In her TED Talk, Lewis shared one of these invaluable lessons, and how she’s learned to appreciate the “near win.”
She talks about how success is a moment, but how successful people always strive for more. Pursuit is in the mastery, and making one progress after another. Each “near win” pushes you further, meaning your fear of failure isn’t only pointless, but has a direct impact on the progress you make today.
‘Success Is a Continuous Journey’ by Richard St. John
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As well as fearing failure, many people fear success. In this inspiring TED Talk, Richard St. John, the bestselling author of The 8 Traits Successful People Have in Common dives into why so many people reach success, only to then fail.
He says, “We think success is a one-way street. So, we do everything that leads up to success, but then we get there. We figure we've made it, we sit back in our comfort zone and we actually stop doing everything that made us successful.”
Success is a continuous journey, and failure, fear and mistakes play a role in this. It isn’t a straight line. Your journey is unique to you. It never ends, so why would you let your fear of failure hold you back?
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Titchfield Canal Self Guided Walk
Duration: 1 hr 40 mins - 2 hrs 15 mins.
Parking: Car park off bridge street.
Accessibility: Some stiles and kissing gates.
Comments: Path can become flooded in bad weather, no short cuts.
From the car park turn left, through the kissing gate, onto the path that leads alongside the canal. Continue along this path, straight past two farmers' bridge across the canal, until after some distance you will see a third bridge across the canal with a rights of way marker on a post.
Go through the narrow gap, around the wooden post and over the bridge, which will lead you onto a track, curving round to the right, through farmland. Continue straight along this path northwards between the fields, past a number of turnings, until after some distance a track cuts across.
Straight ahead you will see a stile leading to a path that runs alongside a horse field. Go over this stile and follow the path over the stile at the other end, where you will enter a housing estate.
Follow the road out of the housing estate turning into Lower Bellfield, which will lead you to Coach Hill. Turn right on Coach Hill and continue down to the mini roundabout, where you will need to turn right into Bridge Street. Follow Bridge Street carefully until you see the car park to your right.
From M27 Junction 9 follow signs for the A27. You will quickly reach a large roundabout. Take the turning for the A27 East, towards Fareham. Go straight ahead at the first roundabout.
You will pass a set of traffic lights - get in the right hand lane and follow the right hand turn in a loop around. The second turning off this loop is to Titchfield Village - take this and follow this road which turns left through the village centre (High Street). Continue along High Street until you reach a mini roundabout. Take a left hand turn into Bridge Street. Directly after you cross the canal you will see a turning to the right, off which is a small car park.
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There are a number of pubs in Titchfield Village. Turn left onto Bridge Street and then right into High Street at the mini roundabout.
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Article 45 TFEU which regulates the issue of mobility, is considered to be one of the most important rights of EU citizens. The concept of a European labour market is underpinned by a right of workers to full mobility and, in the European Union (EU), this right is extended to cover the movement of workers between Member States. Free movement of workers was guaranteed to EU nationals by the Treaty of Rome and was regulated by Regulation 1612/68. The scope of this fundamental freedom was extended by Treaty amendments to provide a right of free movement of citizens of the EU. Free movement rights may also carry rights to remain (worker’s right to remain) and of residence, provided that EU citizens do not become a burden on the finances of the host Member State. This means that Member States are entitled, under the Treaty, to impose public policy limitations on the free movement of workers, for example on specified grounds of public security and public health. However, procedural requirements (Council Directive 64/221/EEC) must be observed when such limitations are imposed.
The Treaty provides a wide definition of persons covered by the term ‘worker’ (worker and employee) to cover all those engaged in economic activity, but also to include students engaged in vocational training and unemployed persons looking for work. Free movement of self-employed workers was also guaranteed through Treaty provisions on freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services. Protection of such migrant workers extends to their family members (spouses, registered partners, children, relatives and dependents) and includes social advantages such as entitlement to housing and education.
The Treaty promotes the removal of barriers to the mobility of workers and particular attention is paid to the mobility rights of frontier workers, who live in one Member State and work in another. Occupational mobility is an important element in achieving this objective. The importance of the acquisition of skills in new technologies to promote participation in new labour markets is regarded as paramount to securing the employability of workers. The European Employment Services, EURES, provide services for the benefit of workers, employers and citizens wishing to benefit from the principle of free movement. The task is to identify the main barriers to the development of these labour markets, particularly in the area of skills and mobility.
To help facilitate the free movement of workers and services, the EU passed legislation to facilitate the recognition of professional qualifications in 2005. Council Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications, which Member States had to transpose into national law by 20 October 2007, was designed to streamline 15 directives relating to recognition rules. The consolidated directive states that EU citizens have ‘the right to pursue a profession, in a self-employed or employed capacity, in a Member State other than the one in which they have obtained their professional qualifications’.
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Currently, the majority of EU15 Member States do not impose restrictions limiting the free movement of workers, as far as the countries from the 2004 accession round are concerned. These include the Ireland, Sweden and the UK which permitted free movement of citizens with effect from 1 May 2004. They were followed by Finland, Greece, Portugal and Spain as of 1 May 2006 and by Italy as of 27 July 2006. The Netherlands lifted all restrictions on 1 May 2007 and Luxembourg on 1 November 2007. In relation to Bulgaria and Romania which joined the EU on 1 January 2007, there was provision for Member States to limit the right of free movement of persons for the first two years, with provision for further transitional measures for another three years. These restrictions are to end on 31 December 2013.
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Game of Thrones Episode 2 Gets a Teaser Trailer
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Despite being released fairly recently, Telltale Games have already released a new trailer showing off the next upcoming episode for the Game of Thrones Telltale video game. The new episode will continue on from the first episode, and will be launching on PlayStation 3, 4 and Steam on February 3rd. Episode 2 will then be released on Xbox One and Xbox 360 on February 4th, before launching on iOS and Android on February 5th.
Episode 2 has been named 'Lost Lords' and it will contain a lot of interesting story content that players of the original episode should enjoy.
Here is the teaser information for Game of Thrones Episode 2 by Telltale Games
"House Forrester is in disarray. Their liege lord and his heir are dead, and Ironrath is occupied by Whitehill soldiers. The survival of the family depends upon those who are left. Placed at King's Landing, the epicenter of intrigue, Mira Forrester must weigh her loyalty to Margaery Tyrell against the needs of her family, while choosing how to play the political games of Tyrion Lannister. One misstep could spell doom for Mira and her entire family.
"To the far north, Gared Tuttle finds that the wall and its crows hold little love for a squire from the Wolfswood, but finds kinship in the bastard son of Ned Stark. Gared must prove worthy of becoming a ranger in order to carry out the mission given him; one that is vital to the future of those he serves. To the east, Asher Forrester, the exiled son, is called back to Westeros to aid his family, but how can one man help when the Boltons rule the north with an iron fist? Meanwhile, an unexpected source of hope returns to the Forresters, but Ironrath is no place for the weak."
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USA hit reset with ‘Berhalter-ball’
Gregg Berhalter named USA head coach in December 2018
Tasked with leading Stars and Stripes back to World Cup
First test: friendly v Panama on 27 January
Ever since 10 October 2017 when USA failed to qualify for a FIFA World Cup™ for the first time since the 1986 edition, US Soccer has been having somewhat of an existential crisis: Who are we? What do we stand for? Where do we go from here?
The powers that be at the top of the U.S. Soccer Federation took a long, hard look in the mirror before any next step was taken. After a prolonged season of reflection, they came to their decision, and they didn’t have to look far. Former Columbus Crew head coach Gregg Berhalter was appointed to the USA men’s national team role on 2 December 2018, 415 days after Bruce Arena stepped down from the role - Dave Sarachan was interim manager during that period. It was a sign that the decision was calculated, thorough and hugely significant for the trajectory of the men’s programme.
On the eve of Berhalter’s first match in charge on Sunday against Panama, a team that pipped the USMNT to qualify for Russia 2018, FIFA.com looks at three qualities you can expect in this new era for the Stars and Stripes.
Structured, possession-based style of play
In his five-year tenure with Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer (MLS), Berhalter’s teams were known for having a clear identity. A tactical philosophy developed from his playing days in the Netherlands, it is a system in which defenders build play from the back and the team uses possession and passing to disorganise opponents, breaking the lines with longer passes once opponents are caught playing a high line.
His teams use the width of the pitch with overlapping full-backs and wingers that have the freedom to cut inside, metronomic midfielders like Will Trapp, who will also be available to him with the USMNT, and defenders who are comfortable with the ball at their feet.
Where things may differ with the national team and how he approaches the game will be in how it defends. You can expect the team to press their opponents more aggressively immediately following any loss of possession.
Competitive and cohesive unit
Berhalter has brought in mostly domestic-based players for a January camp to build cohesion and relationships as a team on and off the pitch. The staff has given the players crossword puzzles to help each other with at breakfast time, the team have enjoyed barbecues and late night Fortnite and FIFA video game sessions.
This accountability and familiarity is an attribute of Berhalter's teams in the past. The Crew were known across MLS for being a resilient club that was continuously hard to beat and to play against. The Crew qualified for the play-offs four of the five seasons Berhalter was in charge.
Young European-based players shining
Failure to qualify for the World Cup has given USA the opportunity to give youth a chance and there is a core crop of players waiting in the wings to shine. To put that into perspective, Borussia Dortmund’s (and soon-to-be Chelsea-based) Christian Pulisic (20) is one of the more experienced players in the group.
Expect Schalke’s Weston McKennie (20), RB Leipzig’s Tyler Adams (19), Werder Bremen’s Josh Sargent (18) and Paris Saint-Germain’s (currently on loan at Celtic) Timothy Weah (18) to all be key players and to make significant strides under Berhalter’s leadership.
2019 is an important year for Berhalter to lay a successful foundation, with the CONCACAF Gold Cup, held from 15 June-7 July, highlighting the calendar year.
"Our job is to get the most out of the players and to give the public a reason to be excited," 45-year-old Berhalter told The Athletic. "I’m a fan also, and I can certainly understand the point of view of a fan who says, ‘Man, we are on a bad run with the men’s national team.’ And our job is to restore that faith."
Berhalter factfile
First American to coach in Europe
First Crystal Palace player to play in a World Cup match
Played as a defender and won 44 caps with USA
Spent majority of playing career in Europe (Zwolle, Sparta Rotterdam, Cambuur Leeuwarden, Crystal Palace, Energie Cottbus, 1860 Munich)
Managed at Hammarby and Columbus Crew before taking national team job
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Transportation in Fiji
You can get to Fiji by air or by sea. There is also a well developed road network within Fiji, whereby an asphalted highway connects Lautoka in the north to Suva and Nausori. Nausori is the airport at Suva. This highway skirts the southern and western areas of Viti Levu. Another highway connecting the northern and eastern sections of the island is under construction, after which the entire island will be connected by a tar sealed highway.
Travel to Fiji, make the most of your vacation at this blue tropical paradise!
This Fiji transportation guide tells you all you need to know about travelling in and getting around Fiji. We also have many Fiji tours to help you see this tropical paradise.
Fiji Transportation Guide
Fiji has two international airports, Nadi International Airport on its west and Nausori International Airport in Viti Levu, near Suva on the east. These airports connect Fiji to many major cities through direct flights to and from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea. Fiji’s national carrier is Air Pacific, which has a fleet of Boeing 747s and 767s servicing its international flights. Most places within Fiji are also accessible by air thanks to their airstrips and airports.
Two domestic airlines, Sun Air and Air Fiji, operate flights between these two airports and between the other islands of Fiji.
For transport from the airport to the city (or from the city to the airport), we recommend that you ask our consultants on bookings@hotels-fiji.com.au, who offer eco-friendly airport transfers in hundreds of destinations around Fiji.
If you want to sail into Fiji then the port at Suva is the main point of entry. This port handles both international passenger and cargo vessels. You can also enter Fiji from the ports of Lautoka, Savusavu and Levuka. Inter-island ferry services take you between the various islands of Fiji.
Getting Around Fiji
If you prefer to cover the island by road, you can hire a car from the airport, towns, hotels or resorts. Hertz rent-a- car, Budget rent-a-car or Avis, all have counters at Nadi International Airport or offices on the island.
For a picturesque drive take the highway from Rakiraki, the north eastern end of Viti Levu and drive via Tavua through Ba, Lautoka, Nadi and the coral coast, to reach Suva. Another highway connecting Rakiraki to Suva through Korovou which the scenery are magnificent. You can also arrange to rent a car in Vanua Levu and other islands.
Limousines and Chauffeurs
Are you in a mood to indulge and pamper yourself? Then go ahead and arrange for a special limousine and a personal chauffeur for the duration of your visit, by informing us in advance. .
Ferry Services
One of the best ways to capture the beauty of Fiji and get a whiff of the local flavour is to travel by ferry across islands. These ferries carry passengers and cargo. If you have the time to spare and are in the mood for some adventure, then jump onto one of the ferries that traverse the various islands. If you are skillful enough to jump in first you might get a cabin, or else just hang out on the deck and soak in the experience. You could also cruise along in one of the luxury ships.
Buses and Public Transportation
Within Fiji, you can use the extensive local bus network that runs scheduled services covering Viti Levu and other prominent islands, towns and cities of Fiji.
Travelling in Fiji by the open windowed bus is an experience by itself. You not only get a chance to drink in the scenery of the interiors, but also get to socialize with the Fijian who is essentially warm hearted and hospitable to the core. It’s a quaint journey through villages and towns, since this is the most widely used form of transport.
But if you prefer to travel in greater comfort, then book yourself in the modern air conditioned buses from resorts, hotels and towns.
In the remote and interior parts of Fiji, passenger vans and mini trucks that accommodate many passengers are very popular. The ticket rates are lower than the tariff of cabs. In some routes, the fares are on par with the bus service. Great fun, but only if you can rough it out!
Taxis in Fiji
You can also travel by metered taxis in Fiji. Most Fijians do not own vehicles, so taxis are freely available at rates that are very reasonable. For about FJ$5, you can travel anywhere in the city or town. In the rural areas, however, the taxis don’t run on a fixed price. Rates depend on the taxi meters to the destinations.They enjoy it! If your trip is a long one, or you allow him to pick up more passengers along the way, or hire him for the whole day, then he will certainly reduce his fare!
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Hilton Hotels to open first upscale African Canopy in Cape Town
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Hilton Hotels has announced the signing of a management agreement with Growthpoint Properties, South Africa's largest real estate investment trust (REIT), to open a hotel under its lifestyle Canopy by Hilton brand.
The 150 guestroom Canopy by Hilton Cape Town Longkloof is expected to open in 2021 and will be the brand's debut property in Africa. It will be located at Long Kloof Studios on the corner of Park Road and Kloof Street.
According to a statement, Canopy by Hilton launched in 2014 to appeal to travellers "seeking locally inspired stays and wishing to immerse themselves in the culture and history of local neighbourhoods". It currently operates in nine destinations around the world with more than 35 properties in the pipeline.
Located close to the historical Company's Garden, the project forms part of a precinct redevelopment by Growthpoint, representing a R550m investment in the city.
Rudolf Pienaar, chief development and investment officer of Growthpoint Properties, said the investment reflects its confidence in Cape Town as well as Hilton's exceptional upscale lifestyle hotel brand.
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According to Patrick Fitzgibbon, senior vice president, development for Hilton in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said Cape Town is one of the world's most sought-after destinations, offering an array of attractions to suit every travel occasion.
"Canopy by Hilton becomes our third brand to gain a presence in the city and we are eyeing further expansion. The decision to locate Africa's first Canopy by Hilton here, is testament to not only the strength of the destination, but the quality of partners at Growthpoint, as we seek to create a showcase interpretation of the brand to introduce to the African continent," he said.
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Northern Trust Acquires BEx to Expand Foreign Exchange Offering
BEx is a financial technology software firm dedicated to developing automated FX trading solutions.
Aziz Abdel-Qader | Technology ( Institutional FX ) | Tuesday, 04/12/2018 | 19:31 GMT+2 2018-12-04T17:31:19+00:00 2018-12-06T14:19:59+00:00
Delaware-based financial services firm Northern Trust has closed a deal to acquire software provider BEx as it looks to enhance its FX offering to clients, whose trading strategies continue to evolve, and require more refined support and expertise.
The asset manager stated the transaction would enable deeper collaboration between its operations business and Chicago-based BEx to provide solutions to institutional clients worldwide. This includes algorithmic FX trading, global liquidity aggregation, execution, and pricing solutions.
Founded in 2013, BEx is a financial technology software firm dedicated to developing automated FX trading solutions.
Northern Trust will continue to collaborate with BEx to develop customized FX software, including components used in its electronic FX trading platform. The acquisition will also allow Northern Trust, which manages nearly $10.7 trillion in assets, to customize its offering to meet both client and regulatory requirements.
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The deal is also part of a broader industry push to empower market participants with greater levels of transparency and control over their respective trades. The ability of users to not only control how their orders are placed but also how their trades are executed represents one of the more versatile and hands-on approaches in the industry.
Recently, Northern Trust has taken steps to further embrace blockchain and cryptocurrencies into its operations. The 129-year-old company has added blockchain services for managing its private equity workflow. Additionally, the company has reportedly begun offering its fund administration services to a small number of cryptocurrency hedge funds.
Commenting on the news, Pete Cherecwich, head of institutional services at Northern Trust, said: “BEx has been a key differentiator for Northern Trust, increasing the depth and breadth of our global FX execution capabilities. In an evolving FX marketplace, this acquisition provides a foundation for sustained growth and innovation on behalf of our clients.”
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Festive season begins! Offline retailers hope for cheer in run-up to Diwali
By: Devika Singh |
Value fashion retailer V-Bazaar, too, saw a drop in footfalls during Dussehra and Durga Puja. “While we haven’t seen a de-growth, there isn’t much of growth either,” admits Hemant Agarwal, chairman and managing director, V-Bazaar Retail.
As per Anurag Mathur, head, retail and partner, PwC India, product categories such as smartphones and consumer durables have been performing well, while apparel and FMCG have seen a low single-digit growth.
Even as e-commerce players claim to have sold products worth crores during their recently concluded sale period, the festive season is yet to bring cheer to their offline counterparts, who have been reeling from a consumption slowdown. Most offline retailers have reported a flat to low single-digit growth in the first half of the festive season, say experts, but they are optimistic about the second half as footfalls have started picking up.
“The first 15 sales days were good for us, but we could have seen better numbers,” says Sundeep Chugh, CEO and MD, Benetton India. “However, we were quite apprehensive given the situation three months back and considering that, we have fared well.” Value fashion retailer V-Bazaar, too, saw a drop in footfalls during Dussehra and Durga Puja. “While we haven’t seen a de-growth, there isn’t much of growth either,” admits Hemant Agarwal, chairman and managing director, V-Bazaar Retail.
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As per Anurag Mathur, head, retail and partner, PwC India, product categories such as smartphones and consumer durables have been performing well, while apparel and FMCG have seen a low single-digit growth. Ethnic brands in the apparel segment, however, have seen better than expected business, with players such as Fabindia and BIBA reporting 10-13% growth in the first half of the festive season. Most malls, meanwhile, have seen a decline in footfalls during the first half of the season.
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English Grammar and Composition
We will discuss how easy to use English grammar and composition and the usage of it in daily routine. Grammar is the set of rules that changes the form of words and join them into sentences. One often hears linguists claim that the grammar of a language is caught and not taught. English grammar helps students to learn the nuances of a language which is not their mother tongue and the rules of which need to be reiterates for better retention. Here it is based on the fundamentals of English grammar and concentrates on and attempts to correct and the most frequent grammatical mistakes made by the students. To avoid wrong usage of Grammar we present grammatical facts clearly and assimilate them thoroughly so that students can apply them to communicate in everyday life.
Elements of English language, presented in these meaningful contexts, are then reinforced through a variety of activities such as puzzles, quizzes and dialogues. There are logical progressions of items from one topic to the other, from the simple to the complex aspects of language use.
We also ensure that the language we used here is simple and contemporary. We initiate the student or learners into the process of writing by asking them to supply a suitable word or two to complete a sentence meaningfully. Following that, students are encouraged to write a sentence on their own and finally they are made to compose a meaningful paragraph. Gradually, we provide ample opportunities to expand their skills in English language through the writing skills i.e., a comprehensive unit which covers every aspect of writing, composition and vocabulary components. New topics have been added on for example, notices, messages, telegrams, post cards, advertisement, diary writing, etc., Each concept of grammar is explained in detail and examples are given and simple worksheets are added which will help the students to grasp its functions.
We need words to express what we have in mind so that others may understand us. But words are not enough. Words have to be put in a definite order so that they may make sense. Such a group of words is called a Sentence.
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The Phrase and the Clause
Noun and Its Kinds
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Pronouns and its Kinds
The Adjectives and its Kinds
Adjectives Used as Nouns
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The Correct Use of some Adjectives
Definite and Indefinite Articles
Correct use of ‘A’ and ‘An’
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Personal Pronouns and Its Forms
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Relative Pronouns and Its Use
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Can a $15 basketball shoe have game?
Updated 10/6/2006
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Although a lot of shoes have needless decoration on the top and sides, multicolored soles in athletic shoes often are there for a reason. Some of those different colored materials are denser than others, so they're placing it strategically for control. It's somewhat hard to assess the construction of the Starbury One because the leather extends to the bottom of the shoe, thus obscuring its depth.
Drs. Bob Baravarian and Gary Briskin, University Foot and Ankle Institute
Stephon Marbury and his $15 basketball shoe, a price that almost any family can afford.
Stepping out of a snow-white stretch Hummer, NBA star Stephon Marbury arrives in style at the spanking new Steve & Barry's University Sportswear store in Culver City.
The lavish ride is somewhat out of sync with the radically affordable $14.98 Starbury One basketball shoe he's promoting, but the folks waiting in line for more than an hour to see him don't care. They're here to see the maverick N.Y. Knicks point guard.
Some are even interested in the shoes.
The low price of the Starbury One -- which Marbury plans to wear on the court this year -- has generated huge publicity and plenty of debate about the quality of the shoe. Marbury insists that it is comparable to other high-end basketball shoes. "It's the same shoe. The same shoe," he says, laughing in exasperation as he sits down and begins signing shoes and other apparel.
Well, yes and no, says Dr. Bob Baravarian, chief of podiatry at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Baravarian took the shoe for a spin in the waiting room at the Foot & Ankle Institute in Santa Monica, where he's co-director.
Hopping around in blue scrubs, with a 5-foot waterfall in the corner drowning out the sound of traffic on Wilshire Boulevard, Baravarian jogged a few laps down the hall then came back into the room.
"I've really been wanting to try these out," he says.
He then sat down, took off the shoe and examined it closely. He put one hand on the toe and the other hand on the heel and gave it a good twist, like a dishrag.
His colleague Dr. Gary Briskin, co-founder of the institute and an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, popped in and tried on the shoe next.
He then took it off and gave it a good twist as well. Apparently twisting a shoe is like thumping a watermelon. The way it twists tells a lot about the stability.
Baravarian found the shoe to be a little soft, though Briskin found it "a lot soft." That's a key point. The softer, or more flexible, the shoe is, the less support it will provide.
Although a lot of shoes have needless decoration on the top and sides, multicolored soles in athletic shoes often are there for a reason. "Some of those different colored materials are denser than others," says Briskin, "so they're placing it strategically for control."
It's somewhat hard to assess the construction of the Starbury One because the leather extends to the bottom of the shoe, thus obscuring its depth.
"So you don't know the level of technology," says Baravarian, "but just from the looks of it, it's got a standard sole, a foam layer." A top-of-the-line shoe will often have more dense materials, such as a piece of plastic in the sole for added support and to prevent roll motion.
The high degree of flex, or torsion, in the shoe is actually intentional, says TJ Gray, who crafted the shoe with his colleagues at the sports gear design firm Rocket Fish in Portsmouth, N.H. Gray estimates that he has designed hundreds of shoes for Nike, Puma, Reebok, Saucony and others.
How much torsion an athlete prefers will depend in part on the sport and in part on the athlete's personal preference. "Basketball has more lateral, or side-to-side movement, so these big guys want some of that torsion," says Gray. "Stephon specifically wanted a very flexible, very fluid shoe that moved with him, versus restraining what he did. He wants to feel the court."
The shoe, made exclusively for Steve & Barry's, was developed over an eight-month period, as the designers went back and forth with Marbury, tweaking the design to meet his specifications.
"When we first heard they wanted to sell the shoe for $15, we thought they were joking," says Gray. "But we didn't take any shortcuts, and the shoe you see is the shoe we designed. It has the same materials, everything."
But the high degree of torsion could cause pronation problems for people with low arches, Baravarian says. Pronation, a condition in which the ankle turns inward, can cause bunions, tendinitis and plantar fasciitis over time. However, he says, a simple fix for this is to purchase a stiff insole, available at sporting goods stores.
Common foot problems among many high school and college athletes that Baravarian and Briskin treat are often directly related to shoes. A shoe that is too soft, for example, may create heel pain. Stitching on the inside of the shoe can irritate the foot.
The two deemed Starbury's insole acceptable, without excessive cushioning. Too much cushioning, they say, can cause the foot to roll to its side and won't provide enough leverage with which to push off properly, thus reducing acceleration.
But for the average 16-year-old, with good feet or, lacking that, a proper insole, the shoes are structurally acceptable, Baravarian says. The price tag, he adds, elevates them to "awesome."
According to Baravarian, kids' feet are more forgiving than adults, for whom the slightest abnormality can cause pain. "A kid's body is so loosey-goosey, they adapt much easier," he says.
Can a $15 shoe have game?
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Leicester City’s James Maddison seems concerned after Harry Wilson’s incredible goal
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What must’ve been going through James Maddison’s head as he watched Harry Wilson smash in that incredible free-kick against Manchester City?
Over the past 12 months the Leicester City midfielder has built up a reputation of being the league’s number one dead-ball specialist, but that crown may be slipping away from him.
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Indeed, Maddison scored more free-kicks than anyone else in the division last term, but that was before Wilson came onto the scene.
Much like the former Norwich man, Wilson has been cutting his teeth in the Championship over the past few seasons where he has produced banger after banger – including five free-kicks last term.
He’s scored more goals from outside the box than any other player in England since the start of last season, and his second strike of this campaign certainly caught the eye of Maddison.
??? @harrywilson_
— James Maddison (@Madders10) August 25, 2019
Maddison posted a series of emojis that could be conveyed in a couple of different ways.
The midfielder was either admiring the strike from the Liverpool loanee, or he was showing that he’s concerned about Wilson usurping him in the free-kick rankings.
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Night of the Condor
Night Of The Condor by Sara Craven released on Oct 23, 1987 is available now for purchase.
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The story starts with the 22 yr old h, who has more of dad's money than God, taking herself off to Peru to find her unhappy fiance. The letters from her fiance sound more miserable with each epistle and she is going to rescue him, no matter if she has to take on cranky archaeologists, raging rivers, altitude sickness and Incan gods to do it. She winds up in Lima and starts seeking ways to get to the remote native village where there is an ongoing archaeology dig and an attempt to help the native population. Then we get some Inca and Peruvian tourism and we find out the the h DOES NOT APPROVE of Pizzaro ( the guy that killed the last Incan king after stealing a ton of gold from him,) so we know that the h is culturally aware now too and not just another pretty English party girl. Mr. Incan God shows up as planned and the h is dressed to impress and doles out the charm like a geisha. Her plan goes fairly well on the Machu Picchu part, and then she starts running into a bit of trouble. Then she runs into Mr. Incan God and she has a horrible headache too, he is harnessing up a mule at a native house and she thinks it is hers that he has stolen. The H and the people he is staying with nurse her over the next three days - SC throws in the traditional native treatment of using Coca leaf tea for altitude sickness and here is where her research comes through, she actually gets it right and has the H explain that yes you can make cocaine out of it, but in unprocessed leaf form, it is a mild stimulant and tonic for various ailments and it is non addictive and won't get you high. The H also tells her she has to go back to civilization, but the h swears that Mr. Incan God or not, she will trail along in his footsteps if he won't take her with him. Mr. Incan God is Mr. Crankypants all the way, even tho the h manage to impress him by not freaking out when she was admiring the cute little guinea pigs the couple they were staying with kept and wondering how they could afford to keep pets and the H asked her what she thought was in the stew. (Word to the travelers here, if you go to Peru or Machu Picchu don't eat the cuy, get the vegetarian option - srsly- meat is not readily available in cow form and most of the natives rely on vegetative proteins so they are really good at cooking vegetarian style and most dishes are quite tasty with no guinea pigs being harmed.) The H and h are trekking along, the h is valiantly keeping up even tho this whole experience is completely outside her realm of prior existence and then she starts getting feet blisters. The H is not happy at all, he lends her a shirt and hands her a blanket, so the trekking stars up again with h on the mule and one really angry Incan god lookalike. The h gets some borrowed clothes and when she is ready to rejoin the H, she hears his friend going on to the H about how useless women like her are and reminding the H of Isabella. The h falls asleep, but wakes up in time for the village's fiesta - it is an reenactment of the battle between the Conquistadors and the Incans symbolized by a dance fight between a dancer wearing a bull mask and a dancer wearing a condor mask. There is a night of love but the H doesn't want to know the h in the morning and the h is now sick with love, so she gives the ring back. We find out Isabella was another society rich party lady who was engaged to the H, until she realized that he loves his archaeology dig and helping the native people far too much to leave. Too bad, says the h, she trekked this far and her dad's money is running the place, she wants to see what is going on. She let the fiance know that she wasn't that into him anymore and that she wants him to give back what ever artifacts he stole, she thinks he might have found some Incan gold. The h has no clue where they are going, but she knows it isn't good and then she sees a condor above her and she starts singing to it, hoping the condor will take a message to the H.
Leigh has come to Peru because her fiancé has stopped answering her letters. Now, Leighs a stubborn person and she wants her fiancé, regardless of what Daddy says about him. Shes even, when she meets Rourke and hes crap to her and shes crap back, prepared to invite him up to her room and get her flirt on, to see if it makes any difference. Leigh is another one of Sara Cravens spoiled princess heroines who are most admirable because they are super confident and wont give up. Her fiancé has disappeared, shes getting no help. Leighs got a bee in her bonnet, and shes going to get the job done. He naturally finds Leigh irresistible, and also naturally thinks shes a terrible person. Leighs fiancé had hinted to her that he was planning a bit of artefact smuggling, so she thinks maybe its about that, but shes going to make sure that he doesnt do it, and anyway, why do they think shes involved at all? She also cant look too much like an indecisive ho, so most of the hotness between Leigh and Rourke is at a simmer.
Chooses to run behind her boyfriend to far away Peru. The Spaniard is a hot hunk, stinking rich and incharge of some major Peruvian project. Hot and sexy hero who is crazy about the girl.
For under the magical spell of the Andes, real love changed Leigh's life..
When the heroine went in search for her fiance she met the hero, only for him to be absolutely cruel to her.
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Al Baker fires off warning to Boeing about continuing 787 problems
By Max Kingsley-Jones2013-09-17T13:10:00+01:00
Qatar Airways is growing frustrated by the ongoing teething problems being suffered by its 787 fleet, warning Boeing that future orders could be in doubt unless remedies are quickly found.
The Doha-based airline has firm orders for 30 787s, of which six have been delivered, and holds 30 additional purchase rights. It aims to take all its 30 firm orders as 787-8s and is considering firming up the purchase rights as the larger -9 variant. But chief executive Akbar Al Baker says this will depend on how quickly Boeing can address the frustrations with its in-service fleet.
The outspoken CEO, who has previously been critical of problems with the airline’s 787s, says there are “still issues and Boeing is aware of that. And they need to resolve these issues very quickly because Qatar Airways is getting very frustrated with them.
“There are so many teething problems... although it is not anything major that would require us to ground our aircraft, it is enough to give us grief on our dispatch reliability,” says Al Baker.
Qatar Airways is considering whether to take up its 30 purchase rights as the stretch 787-9, but the ongoing 787-8 issues are playing into its -9 evaluation, which also includes the A350.
Qatar has 80 A350s on order, of which 42 are -900s and 38 -1000s. The airline is due to receive its first A350-900 by the end of 2014.
“We will either make a decision to take the -9, or take additional A350-1000s. And we have to decide soon,” Al Baker says. “They are different sizes, but we think that the seat-mile cost efficiency of the A350-1000 will do a better job.”
The decision about which aircraft to order will be driven by “how the problems are fixed and how we are convinced that we have confidence that the problems will be fixed. With the amount of problems they’re having with the 787-8, we don’t know if this will be translated into the -9.”
Al Baker says the airline still plans to take its 30 firm orders as 787-8s, but warns that “it all depends on how much pain we are prepared to sustain”.
Although an earlier proposal to place an order for interim A330s has cooled as A350-900 deliveries are “now so close”, Al Baker says that he may revisit that possibility if the 787 problems are not resolved: “If we have to move away from the -8 due to the issues we have, then we may look at interim A330s.”
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Air Greenland has tentatively agreed to take a single Airbus A330-800 to replace the carrier’s ageing A330-200. The 305-seat aircraft – currently the subject of a memorandum of understanding, according to Airbus – is set to be delivered in 2021. It will mark a powerplant switch for the ...
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Flybe has dismissed suggestions by rivals Ryanair, EasyJet and IAG that the UK regional carrier is receiving unfair and illegal state subsidies, following the government’s decision to provide a bailout package.
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ESMA has been concerned about the provision of speculative products such as CFDs, rolling spot forex and binary options to retail investors for a considerable period of time and has conducted ongoing monitoring and supervisory convergence work in this area. In this context, ESMA has previously published a number of Q&As on CFDs and other speculative products[1] to foster supervisory convergence, having established a CFD Task Force in July 2015, and also issued a further investor warning on the sale of CFDs, binary options and other speculative products in July 2016[2].
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Singapore captain Mahboob explains how they beat top-ranked Scotland
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With 19 runs to get off two overs and a well-set Calum MacLeod at the crease, all signs pointed to Scotland holding their nerve and avoiding slipping on a first-day banana skin at the T20 World Cup Qualifier. But Singapore captain Amjad Mahboob had other plans and got a little help from his friends to spark the tournament's first upset on Friday at the ICC Academy.
"Before the second-last over, we had 19 to defend," Mahboob said after the two-run win over Scotland. "I told [Janak Prakash] if you give me eight to ten runs, I am definitely going to win the match for Singapore. I had self-belief, confidence in me that I could do it and God helped me, and I did it."
While Mahboob got most of the limelight for defending eight off the final over, Prakash's role in the denouement was no less significant. The 19-year-old allrounder had scored a vital 20 off 11 balls at No. 6 to bolster Singapore late in the first innings. On the first ball of his second over, Kyle Coetzer's straight drive pinged Prakash just over the right eye, splitting open a sizable gash as blood poured onto the ground and physios from both teams ran out to assist.
But Prakash was able to get to his feet with a towel pressed against his head and walked off on his own power. It looked like he might not take any further part in the match, yet he was back on the field just 17 balls later with his head stitched up and wrapped in bandaging. Then he bravely came back into the attack and conceded 11 off the 19th. It set the stage for Mahboob to deny Scotland by claiming MacLeod and Safyaan Sharif to brilliant catches at deep midwicket by Tim David before a last-ball run out ended the match.
"I was very confident because this ground is not easy to hit boundaries," Mahboob said. "So I just bowled in the right areas. The first three balls I bowled with variations and that helped me. The last ball, I knew only if they hit a six, they could win. I bowled the leg-stump yorker and the result was in our favour."
"When the batsman hit the ball, some of the boys had started celebrating already. I was shouting at my keeper to throw the ball to me, the batsmen are still running. The fielder threw the ball again to the keeper end. Aritra [Dutta] was there and he took off the bails and the result was ours. It's a great feeling. Beating Scotland is not an easy thing. We know they are one of the strongest teams and we are very happy. We want to carry on with the same momentum in the tournament."
David's placement at deep midwicket was not the original plan either. It took some prodding from Manpreet Singh behind the stumps to reposition David on the boundary into the area where Manpreet felt Scotland were most likely to target.
"I think he is an all-round package," Mahboob said of David, who only made 1 but was instrumental in the field with four catches and a runout. "If he never clicks with the bat, he can do well in the bowling and the fielding. Thanks to my keeper, he asked me to put Tim David on the leg side. I listened to him and I think that helped me."
On the flip side, Scotland's fielding cost them badly as several missed stumpings and a drop on the boundary resulted in bonus runs for Singapore. Coetzer said his side needs to be more clinical when opportunities in the field present themselves.
"I guess it's about being a little bit more ruthless in terms of taking our opportunities," Coetzer said after his side's loss. "In T20 cricket, it's fine margins sometimes. I think both sides missed opportunities at key times in the game. We missed a couple in the first half, which possibly could have put them on the back foot, with three-four wickets down. But that's how the game goes. We seemed to have it under control towards the end. As we all know, there is no team you can underestimate in this tournament and Singapore are a very good side. In the end, they deserved their win."
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Brain Scans as Evidence Research Proposal
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Brain Scans as Evidence
"Brain images provide insight to understanding behavior.
Additionally, the images themselves carry great impact, particularly when used to show differences in either the anatomy or the biological functioning of two different brains.
For these reasons, brain images have increasingly been used
in both criminal and civil trials"
Even though images from brain scans may be used as "evidence" in trials, researchers regularly relate a number of concerns that currently challenge the perception the quote introducing this study asserts. In fact, lshani Ganguli (2007), Harvard University, cites Nancy Kanwisher, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT, to assert in the article, lshani Ganguli "Watching the Brain Lie": "[Functional magnetic resonance imaging] fMRI Is a Messy Muddy Mixed Field...[That Requires] Extremely Well Trained People. That's the Last Kind of Technology You Want to Use in the Legal System" (Kanwisher, Ganguli, 2007, Anatomy of…section, ¶ 8). Distortions attributed to the "hardware" of fMRI, as well as a number of other issues, contribute to uncertainty regarding the reliability of the methods utilized to detect and record brain functionality as it relates to concepts such as pain, lying, and other sensations and behaviors relevant to factual issues in the courtroom. While scientists may successfully study and surmise areas reportedly related to certain behaviors or sensations across a number of human brains, confirmation regarding the reliability of this practice remains evasive as findings primarily evolve; subject to the interpreter's subjective observations.
The lack of consensus in the Medical and Neuroscientific community regarding what specific areas of brain activity influence particular behaviors and sensations reveal that one's understanding of the human brain prevents one from accurately interpreting the data to provide a consistent and reliable source of information with regard to matters relevant to a court case, such as intent, deception, or pain. A distinct possibility exists that these hurdles will eventually be overcome, perhaps even in the near future. Current credibility concerns relating to data collected directly from the human brain and rendered into images through fMRI technology, albeit, impede one's ability to predict and analyze behavior and sensations. In light of these comprehensible, challenging yet fatal shortcomings and concerns, the researcher asserts that just as a polygraph test should not be admitted in court as evidence, the fMRI should not likewise inadmissible.
Functional MRI Lie Detection
Mark Pettit, Jr. (2007), Professor, Boston University School of Law, asserts that although the science behind fMRI appears sophisticated, the basic concept may be readily understood. Pettit explains that fMRI involves creating a series of brain images to reveal "changes in blood levels in the various areas of the brain over time. & #8230; the & #8230;immediate use of fMRI, & #8230; that has generated the most interest and debate about possible courtroom use, is lie detection.
The theory purports that blood levels depict how hard the brain works. As lying requires more "brain work" than telling the truth, comparisons from brain scans reportedly reveal when the individual may be lying. (Pettit, Jr., 2007,
Dr. Laurence R. Tancredi, a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine and Dr. Jonathan D. Brodie (2007), the Marvin Stern Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, as noted in the quote introducing this study, assert that brain imaging constitutes a credible courtroom tool. Tancredi and Brodie (2007) explain that fMRI works on the principle that changes in the brain's hemodynamics, "which relate to mental operations, can be detected and mapped using basic MRI instrumentation. At this time [during 2007], the most widely used method to measure cerebral blood flow using MRI has been the Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) technique."
The fundamental physiological notion supporting this technique, contingent on the 70-year-old observation that the hemoglobin properties in a strong magnetic field depend on its state of oxygen saturation, contends that increased neural activity in a particular brain region results in greater consumption of oxygen from the blood close to these neurons. Increased blood flow, as well as, blood volume of the local vasculature of the brain's activated regions accompany the increased oxygen consumption.
Simpson (2008), Staff Psychiatrist, VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, California, investigatges the proposition that fMRI may serve as a potential new lie-detection technique, not based on the measurement of autonomic reactions. In the journal publication, "Functional MRI Lie Detection: Too Good to be True?," Simpson asserts that the application of fMRI, a frequently used tool in neuroscientific research may be utilized to obtain measurements of cerebral blood flow in individuals engaged in deception. "Within the past two years, two separate research groups have devised experimental paradigms and statistical methods that they claim allow identification of brain activity patterns consistent with lying."
Researchers relating findings from these groups claim the approaches may be used on individual subjects, with approximately 90% accuracy.
fMRI and the Legal System
In the journal article, "A Double-Edged Sword: The Role of Neuroimaging in Federal Capital Sentencing," Abram S. Barth (2007), M.P.H. Candidate, Boston University School of Public Health, admits that brain dysfunction is detectable by neuroimaging and also indicates both future dangerousness and impaired capacity. He explains that structural neuroimaging may be conveyed through computerized tomography scanning (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These two tests produce images of the brains soft-tissue structure. Functional neuroimaging may be administered by conducting a positron emission tomography scanning (PET) test, which records the brain's activity and measures cognitive activity. A combination of structural and functional neruoimaging constitutes a functional MRI (fMRI) test, which combines information about brain activity extracted from functional scans with structural representations.
Barth argues against fMRI evidence being admitted in court. He stresses "that even the most scientific predictions, based on thorough examination, diagnosis of mental symptoms, past patterns of behavior, and probabilistic assessment are wrong nearly as often as they are right."
If courts did admit frontal lobe dysfunction evidence as evidence of future dangerousness, Barth asserts, two significant difficulties would arise.
1. Frontal lobe dysfunction works in conjunction with other environmental or psychological factors to produce criminal behavior. & #8230;if these corollary factors are controllable, then future dangerousness will be less predictable. For if a frontal-lobe dysfunction sufferer is able to excise his frontal lobe tumor, remove alcohol and drugs from his environment, or receive behavior modification medications, such as antidepressants or mood stabilizers, then frontal-lobe dysfunction may no longer signify future dangerousness, thus removing itself as an aggravating circumstance
2. & #8230;Future dangerousness in the general population is not generalizable to future dangerousness in the prison population. When courts consider the future dangerousness standard, it would be a mistake to focus on the general public, rather than a well-controlled and regulated prison. Since future dangerousness is an aggravating factor that would increase a life sentence to a death penalty, the decision is not whether the defendant would ever be a future danger to the general public. Instead, the correct context for adjudicating future dangerousness is within prison walls, where the defendant will be housed, if he is not put to death.
Tancredi and Brodie (2007) concur that when a specific brain image relates to a clinical evaluation or a set of neuropsychological tests, a fMRI image may, in turn, serve as a partial "marker" for particular behaviors. In some instances, the presence of the marker could actually substantiate a presumption that individual "X" evidenced "a particular set of characteristics, such as proneness towards violence, emotional instability to the point of lack of control, and cognitive incompetence, to explain the behavior in question."
Perhaps, in conjunction with other more specifically focused behavioral evaluations, the image could reliably explain cause and effect. Ultimately, albeit, no single test should be used as each technological tool possesses limitations that affect the capacity legal and medical practitioners possess to infer causal relationships.
Simpson (2008) asserts that even if a number of obstacles were eventually overcome regarding fMRI, the technique would still face additional challenges to being used in criminal proceedings. "The Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination appears to rule out compelling a criminal defendant to submit to the technique."
In addition, another uncertain consideration, potential Fourth Amendment implications, would be whether an fMRI scan does or does not constitute a search.
Advantages of fMRI
Tancredi and Brodie (2007) explain that along with being readily available to researchers and clinicians; reportedly providing enhanced detail and resolution over comparable imaging methods, fMRI offers two distinct advantages over alternative methods for imaging brain activity.
1. The introduction of radioactive isotopes is not required for the production of the signal for measurement; making fMRI essentially non-invasive. In turn, the process may be repeated frequently, if necessary, on the same person without the concern of adverse radiological effects.
2. " fMRI allows for the integration of anatomical (structural), neural, and molecular information in a single session. The gleaning of data on brain activity along with information about the anatomy of the region can be achieved within seconds."
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Weekly Jobless Claims Drop 6K Last Week
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, government data showed on Thursday, but remained too high to signal any major improvement in the labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 386,000, the Labor Department said. The prior week's figure was revised up to 392,000 from the previously reported 387,000.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims easing to 385,000 last week. The four-week moving average for new claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends, slipped 750 to 386,750. The labor market has lost a step in recent months as uncertainty spawned by the debt crisis in Europe and an unclear fiscal policy path at home has made businesses reluctant to hire. However, there are no signs in the claims data that companies are responding to that uncertainty by laying off workers.
Jobless claims have barely moved since April and the lack of improvement suggests a fundamental weakness in the labor market. Concerns about the jobs market prompted the Federal Reserve last week to ease monetary policy further by extending a program to re-weight bonds it already holds toward longer maturities to hold down borrowing costs.
A Labor Department official said there was nothing unusual in the state-level data and no state had been estimated. The number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid fell 15,000 to 3.3 million in the week ended June 16. That covered the survey period for June's unemployment rate. The jobless rate rose in May for the first time since last August and could remain elevated as most states stop offering extended benefits to the long-term unemployed.
Only six states and the District of Columbia were offering extended benefits in the week ended June 9. A total of 5.9 million people were claiming unemployment benefits under all programs during that period, up 71,724 from the previous week.
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Apollo Credit Management, LLC is an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, LLC, a global alternative investment manager, founded in 1990 by Leon Black, Joshua Harris and Marc Rowan. Apollo’s long/short credit strategy is designed to take advantage of market volatility, inefficiencies and liquidity premiums primarily in the U.S. and in Europe. The strategy is expected to invest in event-driven and relative value opportunities, sourced through the Firm’s integrated platform, in credit instruments, derivatives and selective equities, and utilize hedges to minimize non-core risks to the portfolio.
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Scarlett Johansson responds to backlash over diversity comments, says she was "taken out of context"
By Jack Shepherd 2019-07-15T13:05:43Z
Black Widow actress Scarlett Johansson said the comments were "edited for click bait"
(Image credit: Paramount)
Scarlett Johansson has said that comments she made on the “authentic casting” debate were taken out of context and that she supports diversity in movie casting.
The Black Widow movie and Ghost in the Shell actress was under fire over the weekend after saying she should be “allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal because that is my job and the requirements of my job.”
The comments arose after Johansson was asked by As If magazine about her decision to step down from playing a trans man in the drama Rub & Tug. Her initial casting received widespread backlash from trans and queer actors, who said a trans actor should have been cast in the role.
Johansson has since said the As If report was edited for “click bait”, saying in a statement: “An interview that was recently published has been edited for click bait and is widely taken out of context. The question I was answering in my conversation with the contemporary artist, David Salle, was about the confrontation between political correctness and art.
“I personally feel that, in an ideal world, any actor should be able to play anybody and Art, in all forms, should be immune to political correctness.
“I recognize that in reality, there is a wide spread discrepancy amongst my industry that favors Caucasian, cisgender actors and that not every actor has been given the same opportunities that I have been privileged to.”
The actress was previously criticised for taking a leading role in Hollywood's live-action remake of the Japanese manga Ghost in the Shell. She told Marie Clare: “I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive.”
Johansson will next reprise her role as the Avengers character Black Widow in her forthcoming solo movie. Read everything you need to know about the Black Widow movie - including cast and potential release date - here.
The Black Widow movie is expected to be officially announced at San Diego Comic-Con this week. Find out more about Marvel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019.
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A Scalable Hybrid Approach to Accurately Simulate Biomolecules on SuperMUC Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V.
A Scalable Hybrid Approach to Accurately Simulate Biomolecules on SuperMUC
Gerald Mathias
Lehrstuhl für BioMolekulare Optik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Detailed knowledge about the structural and dynamical properties of biomolecules is essential for Life Sciences, from fundamental research to medical drug design.
Molecular dynamics simulations are a valuable tool that complement experimental results and help to understand them. Molecular mechanics enable simulations of large systems, such as a protein in solution with several ten thousand atoms, up to a microsecond time scale. However, such simulations are by far not accurate enough for tasks like calculating infrared spectra. In contrast, high-level quantum mechanical methods like density functional theory provide the required accuracy, but are computationally limited to much smaller length and time scales.
These issues are resolved by hybrid approaches, which combine the quantum mechanical treatment of a small subsystem with the molecular mechanics description of its environment. These hybrid methods have become a standard tool in life sciences for applications like studying the structure and energetics of enzyme reactions, excited-state properties or charge-transfer processes, as has been acknowledged by the Nobel price in Chemistry 2013 to Warshel, Levitt and Karplus..
Within a KONWIHR-III funded project, a team of scientists from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, and Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Garching, combined the program packages CPMD, a well known application for density functional calculations, and IPHIGENIE, an in-house developed program package for molecular mechanical simulations. This combination enables an optimal utilization of HPC platforms. The new approach significantly enhances the accuracy compared to conventional hybrid molecular dynamics approaches, and, furthermore, covers interactions of the inducible dipoles from polarizable molecula mechanics with the electron density. For each of the two program parts, the optimal number of MPI processes and OpenMP threads can be used.
First tests on the HPC system SuperMUC at LRZ show that even for a small input data-set (alanin-dipeptide with 22 atoms as quantum mechanical fragment in a periodic box filled with 2,112 water molecules described by polarizable molecular mechanics), the combined application scales up to 2,048 cores.
In another project, DFT/PMM replica exchange schemes will be implemented, which further extends the parallelism of the program. Several 10,000's of cores can then easily be utilized for rapid conformational sampling of the biological molecule at high accuracy.
A typical QM/MM simulation setup consisting of an alanin-dipeptide molecule (described by QM) solvated in about 2,000 MM water molecules. The close-up shows the MM solvation shell of the solute molecule together with a sketch of its electron density, which is accessible only through the use of a QM method. Copyright: © Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching/Munich
Dr. habil. Gerald Mathias
Lehrstuhl für BioMolekulare Optik
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
e-mail: gerald.mathias@physik.uni-muenchen.de
Tags: LMU LRZ Health and Medicine Life Science
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SpaceX does fiery rehearsal of worst-case scenario for Crew Dragon spaceflights
NASA picks Dragonfly mission to send a nuclear drone to Saturnian moon Titan
by Alan Boyle on June 27, 2019 at 3:09 pm September 11, 2019 at 10:52 am
An artist’s conception shows the Dragonfly probe on the dunes of Titan. (NASA / JHUAPL Illustration)
NASA has chosen to commit up to $850 million to creating an interplanetary probe unlike any seen before: a rotor-equipped spacecraft that will fly through the smoggy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon.
The Dragonfly mission will be managed by Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory on NASA’s behalf, with its launch scheduled for 2026 on a rocket to be named later, and its landing due amid the dunes of Titan in 2034.
This won’t be the first landing on Titan: That happened back in 2005, when the Cassini spacecraft dropped off the Huygens lander to send back the first pictures from the moon’s cloud-obscured surface. Observations from Cassini and Huygens confirmed that chilly Titan held rivers and lakes of liquid methane and ethane, and that methane fell like rain on the icy terrain.
“Titan is the only other place in the solar system known to have an Earthlike cycle of liquids flowing across its surface,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, said in a tweet. “Dragonfly will explore the processes that shape this extraordinary environment filled with organic compounds – the building blocks to life as we know it.”
Today’s announcement was the climax of a years-long process to choose the next mission for NASA’s New Frontiers portfolio, which supports projects costing no more than $850 million. Past selections include the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the Juno mission to Jupiter. and the OSIRIS-REx mission to bring back a sample from asteroid Bennu.
Dragonfly was chosen over the other finalist, CAESAR (Comet Astrobiology Exploration SAmple Return), which proposed bringing back samples from the comet that was visited by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe. Word of the decision sparked cheers of joy and sighs of disappointment on Twitter, as well as at gatherings such as the Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wash.
How did #AbSciCon19 feel about the #Dragonfly announcement? Sound on pic.twitter.com/aCfG1ast8w
— Laura Fattaruso (@labtalk_laura) June 27, 2019
Dragonfly is shaping up as the first full-featured space mission to take advantage of extraterrestrial aerodynamics, following in the rotor wash of the experimental helicopter that’s due to be included on NASA’s 2020 Mars rover. It’s basically a dual-quadcopter that draws power from a plutonium-fueled nuclear electric generator.
JHUAPL’s Elizabeth Turtle, the mission’s principal investigator, acknowledged that a flying space probe may sound unorthodox. But she insisted that the golf-cart-sized craft would be better-suited to the Titan environment than a wheeled rover. Titan’s atmosphere is four times as dense as Earth’s at the surface, and its gravity is only one-seventh of Earth’s, she said.
“Flying on Titan is actually easier than flying on Earth … so it’s the best way to travel, and it’s the best way to go long distances,” Turtle said during a NASA webcast.
If something looks interesting at a site several feet away, Dragonfly could hop on over to take an up-close look, said Curt Niebur, lead program scientist for the New Frontiers program at NASA Headquarters. It could also fly long distances for a total change of scenery.
The current itinerary calls for the probe to travel from the Shangri-La dune fields to the 50-mile-wide Selk Crater, which is thought to hold evidence of organic chemicals and past reservoirs of liquid water. Mission planners expect Dragonfly to take a couple of dozen flights and fly a total of 110 miles over the course of its 2.7-Earth-year baseline mission. And they hope the probe will last significantly longer than that, following the examples set by NASA’s long-lived Mars rovers.
The spacecraft and its instruments are currently in development, with testing conducted under Titan-like conditions at JHUAPL and other locations.
The 10-foot-long spacecraft will be equipped with two drills built into its skids, and suction tubes designed to transfer the drilled-out material into a mass spectrometer for analysis. There’ll be a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, plus an onboard neutron generator, to check out the chemical composition of Dragonfly’s surroundings. A seismometer and geophones will document Titan’s quakes and gain insights into the nature of the Saturnian moon’s frozen crust of water ice. There’s even a chance of documenting ice volcanoes.
Titan’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere and its surfeit of organic chemicals have led some scientists to compare its environment to what might have existed on Earth billions of years ago, before the emergence of life. One big difference has to do with the chilly weather: Average surface temperature is in the range of 290 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, or -180 degrees Celsius.
Some even speculate that Titan’s low temperatures and the absence of atmospheric oxygen could allow for exotic silicon-based life. Starting in 2034, we just might find out if that’s the case.
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