A couple of months ago, as The Ohio State Buckeyes were preparing for the biggest game of the football season against Nebraska, Ohio's third-string freshman quarterback posted a tweet that received more attention than the game.
Someone with the team or the university quickly deleted the tweet and closed the player's Twitter account. However, since media coverage and messaging now are instantaneous, multiple media outlets already had seen the tweet. The message quickly became national news.
One sports/entertainment media outlet concluded that the tweet was "a childish and harmless act." It was childish, but it certainly was not harmless.
Any athlete, especially one who competes on a high school, college, or pro level, must understand that the scrutiny level is high. The "no tolerance" rules that govern fighting, sportsmanship and off-the-field behavior also oversee proper use of social media. Any comment on social media can reflect poorly on a player, for a team and for a school.
The student tweeter received a one-game suspension. For him, no doubt, this was a teachable moment and a lesson learned.
On the business side, a poor, misguided, or even a malicious posting on social media can severely damage the reputation of a company. If your company does not have a mandatory social media policy for employees, seriously consider creating one immediately. You can not afford the risk of an errant comment going viral and damaging your business, your reputation and your relationship with your customers.
If you would like assistance in developing a social media policy, my team at the Whitmore Group is here to get your started.
How Will Baseball Writers Vote?
In a few days, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the 2013 class of inductees. The vote is conducted by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. As in recent years, the media will have the honor of selecting, or not selecting, players who have tainted the game during the steroid era.
Baseball seems to have addressed the on-the-field issue of substance enhancement with its current drug testing program. However, some of the players suspected of enhancing their game over the last 25 years, and who broke cherished records during that time, now are beginning to appear on the Hall of Fame ballot.
Six years ago, Mark McGwire, who is suspected of steroid use, became eligible for Cooperstown. He never has received more than 24 percent of the vote (a player must appear on 75 percent of the ballots). Last year, he received just 19.5 percent. Baseball purists are concerned that McGwire continues to receive votes during each year of eligibility, and they are worried that other alleged substance abusers, as they are placed on the ballot, could receive enough votes to be enshrined with baseball's immortals.
The 2013 ballot is a litmus test. For the first time, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa—all alleged users of steroids—are eligible for the Hall of Fame. Will the same 19.5 – 24 percent who voted for McGwire also vote for these three players who set big records with their big muscles? Could more writers be swayed to vote for them? Could too many voters find excuses to open the doors to Cooperstown for these players?
Some writers believe that they should vote for players based solely on their accomplishments on the field. If, at a later time, a determination is made beyond a doubt that a player used illegal substances to enhance performance, then that player can be stripped of the honor. Many other writers refuse to vote for any player suspected of using steroids even when the proof is lacking.
All of this can be very confusing and frustrating for fans. It is the same for some of the voters, too. But, actually, there may be a better way for writers to judge and to vote.
One-half of the decision process includes the words "integrity," "sportsmanship" and "character." So, voting a player into Cooperstown should be no different than accepting a person as a member of a prestigious business organization or private club, or hiring a person to be part of a company. Besides accomplishments and talent, it is important to measure a person's integrity, character and the ability to perform as a member of a team.
At the Whitmore Group, we place "integrity," "sportsmanship" and "character" on the top of our list. With this foundation, we then help each employee develop or broaden his or her talents to benefit our entire team.


...it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
The bottom line is that Neo-Futurism…does not attempt to take the audience anywhere else at any other time with any other people. The idea is to deal with what is going on right here and now.
The experience of seeing the Neo-Futurists' centerpiece show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is not for everyone. And yet, it is.
I'll let Bilal Dardai, one of the Neo's two artistic directors, explain.
The ensemble's prowess results from the sum of its individual members. Heterogeneity is an asset as much as craft, skill, or experience. Questions of casting are always questions of gaps in voice—what is missing? What writer/performer would make the ensemble more inclusive, able to explore currently uncovered territory?
Because the Neo-Futurists was based on people being themselves, there was nothing I was auditioning to be cast as except for myself. So what they were looking for was not for me to fit a certain type, but for my voice to be interesting with the ensemble they already had.
We struggle with incorporating in the audience in a meaningful way. In terms of them coming as audience members and experiencing the show, we do a really good job. It's so real, so personal. They watch it and feel a connection to these people on stage. That is in our mission statement. That's constant. In terms of hands-on going into the audience or bringing people onstage, that's where everyone has different ways of doing it. It's challenging to do it for the benefit of the audience member. A lot of times the audience members are incorporated for the benefit of the performers, which, to me, is inherently not audience participation. Audience participation means that you bring them in to have a particular experience, not to enhance your performance.
Generally speaking there are two mental approaches to the audience. "Oh these people don't understand me or what I am doing." It's easy to think that, when you do a show at 11:30 on Friday and Saturday nights—and in the summertime many of them are very drunk, or they think they came to an improv show and someone's talking about their dead grandmother—it's easy to say "well, they're dumb." It takes the responsibility off of you as a performer. "These idiots aren't going to get this"—you've just decided you're not doing a show for them. Then there are other people who genuinely want to connect with the audience in a way that doesn't have that feeling attached to it. To me? That's a person who is not afraid of vulnerability. Doing anything like what we do in front of an audience who may not get it doesn't mean they are dumb, it just means they may not get us. The more people treat the audience as smart people who came by choice, the better off we all are.
I am me. You are you. The plays I write, direct, and often perform in are a reflection of me. You know this. Together, in one space over a fixed period of time, we race to experience up to thirty of these plays. If conditions are "right"—we achieve this collective goal. If conditions are otherwise—we fall short. But the more important goal—the gold medal, the winning Powerball number—is also the more intimate and intrinsic one: deep resonance with another individual through art. Personal connection. Seeing yourself in me. Knowing you are not alone.
* In manifesto monologue format, inspired by the writings of Greg Allen and meant to be presented as part of a menu with twenty-nine other short plays.


New technologies, new toys — Oh how I love getting my hands dirty with them. Today I am going to have a look at ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) as an alternative solution to NFS in the role of a NAS/SAN implementation. We will look at both the server side vblade setup and the client side AoE kernel module along with a practical deployment setup which includes a convenience script I developed to make vbladed slightly less of a nuisance to maintain.
"ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is a network protocol developed by the Brantley Coile Company, designed for simple, high-performance access of SATA storage devices over Ethernet networks. It is used to build storage area networks (SANs) with low-cost, standard technologies.
AoE runs on layer 2 Ethernet, it does not use internet protocol (IP), so it cannot be accessed over the Internet or other IP networks. In this regard it is more comparable to Fibre Channel over Ethernet.
SATA (and older PATA) hard drives use the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) protocol to issue commands, such as read, write, and status. AoE encapsulates those commands inside Ethernet frames and lets them travel over an Ethernet network instead of a SATA or 40-pin ribbon cable. By using an AoE driver, the host operating system is able to access a remote disk as if it were directly attached."
OK, of note here is that AoE is an ATA implementation over Ethernet, being layer 2 it is a dumb protocol with no knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, as such it can only communicate in the simplest of ways inside a switched network (its packets cant be routed between multiple networks). As such, AoE is ideal when used on a private network or better yet a network dedicated to SAN (Storage Area Network), it can however be used on a public facing network as so long as the hosts in the AoE network are all within the same switched segment of the network (More info here on routable AoE).
That all said, what makes AoE a viable alternative to NFS? Well in the role of storage access in its simplest capacity, NFS is just bloated and adds a significant amount of overhead and complexity to something that deserves to be simple. Further, NFS is woefully inadequate at maintaining the level of reliability required when you are, for example, exporting an entire file system to another device for the purpose of high-availability usage such as a /home extension or MySQL file system. Personally, I am slightly biased as I hate NFS; I use it, but only for a lack of often anything better to meet the role in exporting file systems and directory trees across networks. Although it does what its supposed to just fine, more often than not you can get woken up at 4AM with the most mysterious and sudden of NFS issues that are notorious for being mind numbing to resolve. It is for this simple reason — NFS's lack of reliability, that sent me searching for a simple, scalable and reliable alternative. AoE has managed to meet two of these three points — simple and reliable, while coming up short on the scalable side, more on that in a bit.
There are two components of an AoE setup, the server side storage device that will run vblade and the client side that will access the exported storage using the AoE kernel module under Linux. I should note that although the vblade server package is for Linux, the client side drivers are available for Windows, OS X, FreeBSD and more; in Linux the AoE kernel module is part of the mainline kernel.
The server you choose to run vblade can be any device that you want to export files or devices on, there is little in the way of requirements as vblade is a pretty slim package and doesn't consume much in the way of resources other than CPU. For a modest environment where you plan to export to no more than 10-15 clients, a dual core system with 2GB RAM is more than sufficient for the vblade server. For my deployment, I run vblade on a quad core Xeon 3.0Ghz, 6GB RAM and 9TB Raid5 array that exports to 54 client servers. More on my setup later when we review scalability but for now lets jump right into the vblade setup and usage.
There is no compile time configure script or any other real configuration required, vblade installs straight into /usr/sbin and is an overall painless process. The simplicity of the vblade package comes at a cost, in that there is no support for a configuration file to control multiple vblade instances, making things slightly tedious. This should not detract from the use of vblade, it is a mature and reliable package but one with a very simple approach that does little in the way other than what it is supposed to do.
AOESLOT is a per-client identifier for EACH exported file or device to the SAME client; in other words if you configure multiple exports to the same client server then this value needs to be unique for each.
FILE is the full path to a device or file you want to export, this can be an unformatted raw device such as /dev/sdb, a preformatted partition such as /dev/sdb5 or a loopback image such as /data/server.img.
This will create a sparse, zero filled file, meaning it will be 0bytes on disk and allocate space, up to 10G, as data is stored to it. There is a slight performance hit to this as the image file must grow itself as data is written, this however is made up for in improved efficiency of space usage. To create an image that preallocates space on the disk you would run '# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/apollo.img bs=1M count=10000', be patient as this will take some time to complete, then format it as described above.
Now that we have the image/device we want to export, we need to add the definition for it into the vbladed.conf file, to do so we need to note the MAC address of the interface on apollo that will communicate with the vblade server, in our case this is a private interface eth1 but in your setup it can be a public facing interface if needed — just make sure its within the same subnet as the vblade server.
The important part there is the 'vbladed: pid 16320: e0.0, 419430400 sectors O_RDWR' entry in the log as this comes from vblade itself, the other log entry comes from the wrapper. This log entry tells us that vbladed forked off successfully and that it has exported our data for the defined server as e0.0 (etherdrive shelf 0 slot 0), you'll see the significance of this shortly.
We are now ready to move over to our client server, apollo, and import our new AoE file system. This is an easy task and if you are running a current Fedora / RHEL (CentOS) based distribution, you'll find the AoE kernel module already included. The module is also part of the mainline kernel so if you are using a custom kernel, please be sure to enable the corresponding config option (CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH).
# find /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ -name "aoe.ko"
There we have it, the module returned fine, listing the full path to it. If you did not get anything back this may be that you are running a custom kernel by your own choosing, and need to configure the CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH option. It may also be that your data center provider or a software vendor installed a custom kernel without this feature and you should contact them requesting it. As an alternative, you could download the etherdrive sources for the AoE kernel module on the coraid website and compile it against your kernel, this requires your kernel build sources or on RHEL based systems the kernel-headers package.
Apr  4 17:13:02 apollo kernel: aoe: aoe_init: AoE v22i initialised.
If for some reason you do not see the log entries described above along with no e0.0 device file under /dev/ethered, this may be a misconfiguration on the vblade server, perhaps you got the interface or mac address in vbladed.conf wrong? Double check all values. If you opted to try run things over a public facing interface, the issue may be that your network VLAN's each server (which is fairly common), in that case you may need to request that all your hardware be part of the same VLAN or the provisioning of a private switch and private links for your hardware.
You may run into an issue of unrecognized file system on the device, though the file system we created on it, on the vblade server, should show through. If it does not, simply run an 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/etherd/e0.0' on it and you will be all set. There is no hard set rule on creating the file system on the vblade server, you could just export raw images and devices then partition/format file systems on them on a per-client basis as you require it.
The rc.local script is run at boot time after all other services have started, so if you are loading a file system used for mysql, user home data or similar you will probably want to also add a line after the mount to restart said services. You'll also notice two things about the entries we added to rc.local; The first is the sleep delay before the mount, this allows the aoe kernel module to complete its discovery process for AoE file systems before we try to mount it. Then, we are using the noatime option on the mount command, which disables the updating of the last access time on files during read/write operations. This is important because traditionally whenever a file is read from disk, it causes a write operation back to disk to update the atime attribute on the file, so disabling atime usage can greatly reduce i/o calls (effectively in half for reads), which is especially significant for networked file systems.
I have had an overall good experience with AoE so far, it is incredibly simple and very reliable as an implementation. The only issue I have seen is the scalability of it and I attribute this more to the vblade server package than AoE as a protocol. There appears to be a degradation in I/O throughput performance for exported file systems that is in-line with the number of (instances) file systems you export on the same physical server. The best usage example of this is that in my environment I run vblade on one server with exports to 54 servers, the throughput when there is 1-10 instances running averages about 51MB/s (408Mbit), as that increases though to 54 instances, the throughput per client server drops drastically to an average of 14MB/s (112Mbit). This is a very sharp decrease in performance, one that makes the viability of vblade in much larger of a setup questionable.
I do need to caution that this issue may be environment specific as speaking to other vblade users has produced mixed feedback, some do not experience this kind of performance loss while others do. I will also note that I run vblade on a second storage device, on the same private network as the 54 instance vblade server, and this second storage device has only 4 instances running with an average throughput of 71MB/s (568Mbit). So the conclusion you draw from this is up to you, at the end of the day I am more than happy with the implementation as a whole and can accept the loss of performance for the larger implementation in the name of reliability and simplicity.


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Harry N. MacLean
HARRY N. MACLEAN is a lawyer and writer based in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of In Broad Daylight, which won an Edgar Award for Best True Crime and was a New York Times bestseller for twelve weeks; his second book, Once Upon A Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder, and the Law, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and his third book, The Past is never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Search for Redemption, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Award, given by Stanford University.
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The Joy of Killing: A Novel

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What Henry Louis Gates Thinks About The "Beer Summit" Incident, 11 Years Later
Henry Louis Gates Jr. rarely speaks about one of his most publicized moments — the July 2009 arrest by Sgt. James Crowley at his Cambridge home, leading to the infamous "beer summit" at the Obama White House.
Now the multi-hyphenate — historian, TV host, executive producer, editor, Harvard professor and Anisfield-Wolf jury chair — reflects on that incident, some 11 years later, in a new interview with New York Times magazine.
"President Obama made an innocent comment that the arrest was stupid, which it was," he told the publication. Then all of a sudden all these racists are beating up on him. My whole attitude was channeled through the desire to protect our first black president."
Throughout the interview, Gates toggles from subject to subject, from myths of the slave trade to his thoughts on the remaining Democratic presidential candidates. (No official endorsement yet but he's got his eye on Michael Bloomberg.)
On his perspective of the beer summit" incident:
I thought that it would be hubristic and dishonest if I compared what happened to me to what happens to black people in the inner city….Well, that might be related to police excesses and abuses, but it's a far end of the scale, and I was able to reverse what happened to me, unlike an Eric Garner.
On America's responsibility for reparations:
I do believe that it's impossible for any rational person not to understand the cost of 400 years of slavery and then another century of Jim Crow. We have to find ways to compensate for that cost. Affirmative action, to me, is a form of reparations. So is health care — Obamacare or a variant. And there's reform of public education. One of the most radical things we could do to reform public-school education would be to equalize the amount of money spent per student in every school. That is never going to happen, but that would constitute a radical shift.
On the quiet objective of his PBS show, "Finding Your Roots":
I'm trying to use the popularity of "Finding Your Roots" to get these political messages in there without being a scold. I am trying to deconstruct notions of racial purity. There is no racial purity. We are all diverse. Showing diversity is important to me politically and insofar as we can achieve that, our series has an educational value for the larger country, particularly at a time when we're at Redemption [the period of white rollback of black progress following Reconstruction] redux.
Read the full interview here.
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BTS CEO and founder, Henrik Ekelund, created a better way to engage organizations in strategic execution.
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Our culture is the key reason why world-leading companies do business with us and it is why our employees consider BTS a great place to work.
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We strive to build long-term relationships with our clients to create a legacy for the client and their organization. We focus on driving results forward - in learning, improved behavior and business performance. We encourage the learning, development and rewarding of BTS and its staff. We create our growth through our clients' success and our active business generation.
We strive to deliver top quality solutions and services, within deadlines, to exceed client expectations. We balance client and BTS competencies, best practices and methods to achieve optimal results.
The overall goal of BTS's communications is to provide shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders with an up-to-date, true and fair view of the Company and its business operations.
BTS believes that high-quality communication efforts actively help bolster confidence in the Company and management, making it easier to achieve business objectives.
Read more about BTS's leadership below.
In the early 1980s, Henrik Ekelund and three investors from one of Scandinavia's most prominent strategic consulting firms grew frustrated developing strategies for clients only to see them struggle with execution. The team sought tools to support the strategy implementation process and found an innovative new approach: business simulations. Their first implementation employed an off-the-shelf business simulation. They found that the client had good results and an enjoyable experience. Then, one of the client's division leaders requested a customized simulation to deal with a specific challenge facing the business.
What does BTS stand for? Serious sounding English company names were all the rage in Sweden in 1986. BTS originally stood for Business Training Systems. Over the years, we've kept our initials but moved far beyond training.
What they discovered was . . .
The alignment and results from the customized simulation far exceeded the off-the-shelf experience.
This breakthrough led to the founding of BTS Group AB in Stockholm, Sweden in 1986.
At the time, its founders could only have imagined the reach this small firm would eventually have. Thirty years later, the firm has grown into a global organization serving 30 of the world's 100 largest companies and 60 of the Fortune 100.
Corporate social responsibility has long been a fundamental part of BTS's company culture and values. This belief has guided us since our inception, and continues to shape who we are.


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The poor sanitary condition alarmed this team, which is a startup, out of National Incubation (NIC) in Lahore, and they took the matters into their own hands.


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Hidden dimensions of the mining boom
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The pronounced cyclical character of resources booms has directed attention to certain features of the current mining boom– its scale, duration, and impacts on the balance of trade and other sectors of the national economy - and diverted attention from others. According to the US economist, Robert Reich, capitalism is currently undergoing a mutation: from the age of democratic capitalism to what he calls 'supercapitalism'. This involves a transformation in which economic power progressively invades every domain of life, empowering people as economic actors (investors, consumers), whilst weakening forms of collective life, citizenship and public institutions. Arguably the resources sector is presently operating at the frontier of supercapitalism's transformative reach over Australia's economy, society, and politics.
One of the most conspicuous features of the current mining boom is the rapidly expanding reliance on a non-resident fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) or drive-in/drive-out (DIDO) workforce. Although predominantly sourced from within Australia at present, the trend and industry pressure is towards a growing reliance on imported labour. With the quite rapid expansion of the 457 visa this trend is pronounced in, but far from confined to, the resources sector. The rise of a mobile mining workforce is in turn related to the intensification of the production process, the growth of contract labour at the expense of traditional employment relationships and concerted efforts to minimize the intrusion of extraneous, non-economic factors on productivity: like the human solidarities and commitments arising from family, community, trade union membership and so on.
In the past, townships and communities went hand in hand with mining development. However, since the 1980s, and under the growing influence of global economic forces, mining companies have moved progressively to an expeditionary strategy for natural resources extraction. Non-resident, contract work forces, typically work block rosters (seven days on, seven days off is common), reside in work camps adjacent to existing communities and travel large distances from their homes. This new regime of resource extraction operates a continuous production cycle involving 12 hour shifts alternating day and night with each roster cycle. Post-industrial mining regimes take neo-liberal logic to an extreme, one perhaps encapsulated in the figure of the fly in, fly out worker – contracted, non-unionised, with bulging pay packet, compressed work roster, fragile job security and truncated family and community life.
This also carries major implications for the sustainability of traditional regional communities at the frontier of resource extraction. Where communities are overnight made to play host to perhaps thousands of transient workers living in work camps on their fringes there can be huge impacts on quality of life (including housing affordability, infrastructure, services and amenity). Tensions between residents and non-resident workers are fuelled where so many of the benefits 'fly-over' the very communities that are bearing the major social and economic burdens of resource developments. There are also significant concerns in relation to the impact on the long term health and well-being of non-resident workers and their families.
More flexible work arrangements are part of a larger global trend in the pattern of employment in a post-industrial world. In crude terms, the resources sector has been at the forefront of a trend to encourage the trading of rights, security and conditions for high wages. A longer term, more holistic, view of the role of work in relation to well-being, personal identity, family and community is giving way to a narrower, shorter term focus on immediate economic benefits. Precarious work practices may have a range of diffuse, often adverse, social consequences for individuals and communities, even if work is generously rewarded. The problem is that these regimes, by their very nature, occlude recognition of these wider, longer term consequences because they emasculate the forms of collective representation (communities, trade unions) through which such consequence have traditionally been registered.
There is also evidence that governments who bear the responsibility to safeguard collective well-being are cowered by the sector and have substantially abdicated their responsibility to regulate the mining industry, compelling compliance with laws and standards that safeguard the long term public interest. Paul Cleary, in his two recent books on the mining boom (Too Much Luck (2011) and Minefield: The dark side of Australia's Resources Rush (2012)) points to the DIY character of much regulation. Environmental impact statements are left to companies and a growing corps of freelance consultants in their pay. Social impacts are largely ignored. There is also a paucity of independent, transparent monitoring of industry practices by state regulatory agencies.
It is clear that any regard for the overall social and environmental impacts of the mining boom are being subjugated to short term economic considerations, primarily those of industry profits and state governments greedy to get their hands on mining royalties. In particular, although projects are proliferating with impacts across the country, there is no effective mechanism for assessing cumulative environmental, social or economic impacts even in the short, let alone the long, term. Also, little regard is given to the impact on economic diversification, despite its importance for the long-term prosperity of localities, regions and the national economy.
The benefits of the boom are coming at the expense of a hollowing out of communities and institutions. Private corporations seeking to maximise their share price and their competitive position on the global stage cannot be relied upon to weigh these considerations. They lack the expertise, let alone the incentive, to do so. It is the job of government to reflect and safeguard the public interest and compel adherence to it. The oxymoron of corporate social responsibility simultaneously masks the private self-interest driving corporate sector demands for deregulation whilst diverting public institutions from their core responsibilities
According to the Federal Government's principal advisor on the mining sector, the mining boom has not ended and is not about to end. Rather, one phase of the boom, the price boom, in which record commodity prices delivered record company profits, is giving way to another phase, the volume boom. This shift has seen a few projects shelved, but with only a limited impact on the overall investment pipeline. The principal response of mining peak bodies and executives has been to launch ever louder complaints about declining productivity and the high cost of doing business in Australia. Meanwhile, the social costs of the supercapitalist trends described above are likely to intensify – the subjugation of social to economic considerations, the long term to the short term, the public interest to private corporate interests.
Russell Hogg is Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England. He and his colleagues - Kerry Carrington, Alison McIntosh and John Scott - have been conducting research in mining communities as part of a project funded by the Australian Research Council.


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'La Casa De Papel 3': How is Character "Nairobi" according to Alba Flores?
No one knows Nairobi better than Alba Flores.
She is quite a lousy milk, but She is the most faithful and noble of the entire team of thieves. She did Conquer the hearts of every member of The Resistance of the House of Paper. Nairobi has something special in her, and She has a different charm.
With a rather sketchy background which includes her son that was Lost, An ability to lose her nerves and recover them in a blink of an eye. She is a born leader who is capable of knowing what she has to say in each moment and situation. She marched a revolution in social networks when she pronounced for the first time, "The Matriarchy Begins."
Yes, Everyone like Nairobi. Admittedly, the actress got into her skin when she debuted the series in 2017. She also has her Indistinguish opinion about the character. That is why we have asked Alba Flores what She likes most about her Character Nairobi.
And It Is Clear When Alba Told Us: "It is her ability to be focused on the plan. With everything that happens in this series, it seems like a virtue. She does everything leading with her kind heart."
READ: "Home Before Dark" Season 2: Here's What We Know So Far!!
Nairobi has something bright in lifelike Get The Pasta. Well, She had it in the previous seasons where her only goal in life was to go out with a bag full of Mint and Bell.
In this new season which is available on Netflix since July 19, surely her ambition has turned to something else. Because She already has her money. Although her loyalty and desire to help remain equally present.
But there is something else that Flores Aka Nairobi likes well. That is being able to represent a character in general. She declares that She wants very much " her dark part." She loves to find out everything about her ambition" because "it's nice to be able to represent her," explains Flores.
"Representing the darker sides of the characters is very liberating, " She adds. "I love it when I can do something like her."
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But anyway conjecture is just that, conjecture, they are more tgan kjkely going to find a good player from the QCup.
I can confirm that Gareth Widdop's hair is no longer blonde and has returned to its natural colour!
Last season as we all know the moment he dyed his hair was the exact moment the wheels fell off.
Thankfully he too seems to have realised this and is giving the dragons every chance of winning in 2019.
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This is of course, is major news for us dragons fans.
Public Notice - If you are indeed a hairdresser, please ensure that over the next 12 months, no colour is added to the scalp of Mr Widdop.
If you do not follow suit, you will be considered a Nulla Narks supporter, hence being tarred & feathered before being dunked.
If you are a law biding Dragons supporter, please disregard this message.
Footnote - No animals were hurt in the writing of this important post.
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There is a story on Foxsports about George Burgess being linked to a possible move to Brisbane, to alleviate salary cap pressure, but Brisbane would apparently have to offload someone to fit him in. I think George Burgess would top our pack off beautifully. If we could offload either Aitken or Lafai to accommodate George Burgess, I would be all for it. Although I doubt that it will happen.
There is plenty of truth to George heading to the Donkeys.
Just prior to Christmas he was having a few drinks with Seibold at the Normanby Hotel in Brisbane just after Seibold was announced as Coach.
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Now Now Frank...George wont be coming so no point dreaming and planning for this one.
To play under Mary..or Seibold at Brisbane. Who do you reckon is a bigger draw card and has deeper pockets.
Just like the Val Holmes to the Dragons wish. Reckon Val Holmes to Dragons is over million-1 odds now Barba has conveniently opened the door for the Cowboys.
It will be interesting to gauge his level of commitment this season.
We can only hope he doesn't 'Do a Packer' and go missing after signing elsewhere.
I trust he will stay committed but if he changes hair colour mid season, anything could happen!
I'm confident he'll give his all.
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Not sure if it's been mentioned but I have it on good authority that Pearson will be starting on the wing round 1 vs Cows.
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Barring injuries or suspensions, Lomax will be playing centre.
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Don't know how reliable this is but there is a video of two big name NRL players on whatsup doing some fd up chit. Both will get sacked if true. 1 from Qld and 1 from NSW.


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This was a 12-week syllabus that I negotiated with my learners in February 12th 2014 and ran until June 11th 2014.
To be honest I was absolutely exhausted after putting so much effort into the first syllabus, planning all the lessons, writing a blog every week and collecting feedback – it was a lot of work! So syllabus 2 could have been better, primarily for this reason. But the first syllabus was a real intensive course in planning and executing lessons and an entire syllabus without using a coursebook and I think my teaching really improved. I learnt a hell of a lot and the feedback from learners was great, so I'm still glad I did it.
In syllabus 2, we also fell back on using some coursebook lessons, as it just made planning easier. I picked up some new teaching contracts at this time which I knew would take up a lot of my time so I knew I wouldn't have as much time for planning this time round. But there's only 8 activities taken from a coursebook (Advanced Business Result), and the learners chose these themselves.
To my surprise, with this syllabus almost all the participants left during the course and were replaced by a whole new group of learners. The joys of working at a startup! So after 10 weeks we decided to organise a totally new syllabus. It isn't really fair to ask a new group of learners to do a syllabus decided by a completely different group of people.


Coriander is very common in Asia e.g. for making food. This herb is known worldwide and was used in ancient medicine. Coriander oil has been extracted for thousands of years and it is among the most popular aromatherapeutic oils. It is a great source of nutrients so you should definitely use it more often.
Coriander oil is most often used for reducing stress and tiredness, and treating cold and flu. You can use it for inhalation, massage, bath or aromatherapeutic oil burner. On the other hand, coriander oil has lots of beauty properties so you can apply it directly to the skin or hair.
What is coriander oil composed of?
Natural coriander oil is an aromatic substance rich in many nutrients that are essential for skin and hair. Most of all, these are valuable minerals: potassium, calcium, manganese, iron and magnesium. Coriander oil also contains lots of vitamins, including vitamins A, C, K, as well as folic acid, beta carotene and extra nutrients. No wonder coriander is known as a wonderful herb; it is unquestioned, looking at its composition.
Coriander oil works for healing digestive system ailments yet you can make use of its antibacterial properties in a completely different way. It is effective in the treatment of acne so it reduces the problem. Coriander oil nourishes and moisturises very well thus delivers amazing results in hair, skin and nail care. Coriander oil prevents hair thinning and stimulates hair growth, which is the effect of its reinforcing properties and increasing blood circulation to the scalp. What is more, the oil has anti-inflammatory qualities so it can soothe irritations.
Discussing coriander oil is the first step towards learning more about essential oils in hair and skin care. You must know that essential oils (no matter what plant they are extracted from) can cause irritation. They contain aromatic compounds that can trigger allergic reactions, especially in sensitive skin. It is a far better idea to use coriander oil in aromatherapy. If you really want to use it for hair care, you'd better add it to a different product. It is similar in case of other essential oils. Try to choose products including all-natural, vegetable, unrefined and cold-pressed oils.
Let's take a look at the best hair care products and their effects. Do they include natural or essential oils?
There are three of them. Each is composed of a mixture of natural oils that are suitable for a given hair porosity. They both look fancy and bring maximum effects. What is the key? The content of fatty acids and the sizes of their particles. Thanks to such an approach, you can expect full support from Nanoil – oils that work from within.
It contains 9 natural oils. Nanoil For Low Porosity Hair is designed for straight, easily weighed down and difficult-to-style hair that dries very slowly. Thanks to the oil, your hair holds styles and is no longer curl-resistant. It also dries more quickly. Low porosity hair requires non-stop protection that UV filter enriched Nanoil provides. It reduces water loss and keeps hair in shape. The lightweight formula doesn't weigh hair down; it boosts hair at the roots. Voluminous hair grows more quickly and doesn't get greasy.
It is the combination of 6 best oils. Nanoil For Medium Porosity Hair is recommended for wavy, frizzy and dull hair. So far greasy at the roots and dry at the ends hair gains protection against loss of moisture and regains health. Nanoil Hair Oil controls the function of sebaceous glands thus reduces oiliness and dandruff, and reinforces bulbs and hinders fall out. It protects fragile hair tips from splitting. It delivers resilience, smoothness and shine. Say goodbye to frizz caused by dampness.
It works thanks to 6 valuable oils. It is a perfect choice for curly, damaged, splitting and over-processed hair. Nanoil works both inside your hair and on its surface – rebuilds damage in keratin structure and seals hydro-lipid layer, locking in moisture. Nanoil Hair Oil regenerates hair, adds bounce, reduces falling out and enhances growth. It takes care of delicate hair ends and scalp thus your hair has no problem with frizz or dandruff.
Elegantly designed Redken Diamond Oils come in two versions – black and gold. They look tasteful in glass bottles in the shape of irregular diamonds.
The product contains only three natural oils. It is an oil for damaged hair that needs regeneration. It penetrates the hair and activates repair processes: nourishes, rebuilds and reinforces. The oil defrizzes and protects from heat damage. Sadly, the cosmetic is full of quite harmful ingredients whereas the formula is very thick and can weigh hair down. Nevertheless, the product enjoys popularity.
This version is composed of as many as seven natural oils yet they don't match each other and the needs of hair as number one in the review. Diamond Oil Shatterproof Shine Intense is also intended for dry and damaged hair. Regrettably, Redken didn't design products that would work for different hair types with different problems.
The most famous hair oil duet with Moroccan argan oil. It is said they have started the trend for using argan hair oil. That is why Moroccanoils are so popular among women. Moroccanoil is a normal hair treatment.
The original version of the product. It is intended for all hair types. Its lightweight formula is supposed to deliver healthy looks and silky shine. Moroccanoil Treatment Original has been created to work as a conditioner, hairstyling or fixing product. It fails to provide in-depth action yet brings nutrients, smoothness and gloss.
The other version is recommended for fine or fair hair. It seems to make no sense. Why buy the oil for fine hair if the original version Moroccanoil Treatment works for all hair types, also fine hair. The product is also designed for nourishing, styling and fixing a hairdo. It adds shine and smooths your hair.
They look interesting and are one of the most recommended by women who don't need an intensive and precise hair care. The range offers four oils; three of them work for hair.
The product doesn't offer rich ingredients: it is based on two natural oils. The oil is designed for every hair type. It delivers moisture and essential nutrients. The oil is well-absorbed and provides delicate protection from harmful factors. L'Oreal Mythic Nourishing Oil is a lightweight hair oil.
This version also contains only two natural oils, which isn't impressive. Mythic Rich Oil is intended for stiff, frizzy and unruly hair. It facilitates styling, conditions the strands, eases detangling, prevents tangles, smooths and adds shine. It is a pity it can weigh fine hair down.
This product contains twice as many oils as the two other versions. Thanks to four natural components, it is in harmony with colour-treated and bleached hair, providing reinforcement. It protects the colour from fading, increases softness and eases detangling. Sadly, it doesn't work from within so the effects are only temporary.


Step 2Sift the chickpea flour with 1/2 teaspoon of salt into a bowl. Slowly add the water, whisking constantly to form a paste. Beat with a wire whisk until smooth. Let the batter stand, covered, at room temperature for 30 minutes.
Step 3In a 10-inch nonstick, ovenproof skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil over medium-high heat. Stir the batter and pour 1/2 the batter into the skillet, tipping and swirling it to evenly coat the pan. Cook over medium-high heat until the bottom is golden and crisp and the top is almost set, 2 to 3 minutes. Burst any large air bubbles with the tip of a knife. Sprinkle 1/2 of the tomato and green onions along with pepper to taste on top.
Step 4Place the pan under the broiler and cook until golden and crisp, about 2 to 3 minutes. Slide the pizza onto a work surface. Sprinkle with salt to taste and half the Parmesan cheese. Cut the pizza into wedges and serve hot. Repeat with the remaining batter.
136 calories; 163 mg sodium; 5 mg cholesterol; 10 grams fat; 2 grams saturated fat; 8 grams carbohydrates; 5 grams protein; 1.56 grams fiber.


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Customary closing costs are a huge part of buying a home and during the purchase of a home you'll find escrow plays a huge part in calculating these closing. It's a fee charged by the title company. Escrow Fee is pretty much the same as a closing fee. It actually has nothing to do with an actual escrow account for taxes. Understanding escrow closing costs and third-party fees can be difficult. Read our comprehensive guide on escrow fees and other third-party closing costs!.
Check out a sample Closing Disclosure, which outlines terms and costs of your Settlement: This fee is paid to the settlement agent or escrow holder. Pro-rated property taxes from recording date to June 30th; All new loan fees, tax and insurance impounds, if required by lender; One-half escrow closing fee. The SELLER can generally be expected to pay for: Owners Title Policy; Real Estate Commission; Escrow Fee; Document preparation fee for Deed; Request for. Trouble understanding the complex terminology associated with closing a real estate Escrow fees are fees charged by a title company to service a transaction .


Teaching health-related topics such as nutrition, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs (ATOD), sexuality, including human reproduction, and interpersonal relationships.
The Hawai'i State Department of Health requires accurate and complete medical records for school attendance. These records also are necessary to give your child good medical care. The school doctors and nurses use three forms: the Student Health Record, Physical Examination form, and the Dental Examination form. These forms must be completed and returned to the school by June 15 so they can be processed and on file by the time the student arrives at school. Students who do not have current health records on file will not be allowed to register for classes. Parents of a new student should contact their child's previous school and have all health records forwarded to the Health Services Department at HPA.
The K-8 infirmary is located in the Village Campus administration building and is open every day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The HPA Health Services Department believes that healthy students are best equipped to benefit from any learning opportunities. The health staff promotes the health of students by providing health and counseling services and by working with the administration, faculty, and staff to ensure a healthy school environment. Students with questions or concerns regarding any aspect of their health are encouraged to visit the health center at any time to speak with the nurse on duty.
Nurses are available to speak to students about health or other concerns. Nurses also can make referrals to the counselor or other health providers. Students may contact the school counselor directly (ext. 4038).
Case precedent concerning the use or possession of contraband on campus began as of August 28, 2008. Dispositions in cases in previous years have obviously been well-intended, but these dispositions seem to have sent mixed messages to certain members of our community. In an area as important as this, mixed messages derived from past cases serve no one well. We can do better. Toward this end, please be advised that these earlier dispositions will no longer be regarded as setting precedent for the school to follow in cases arising henceforth. Any past cases are history. They will have no bearing on similar cases arising from this point forward. Our building of case precedent begins now.
We are not naïve. We recognize that we are not immune from the same issues with which society at large must grapple. Thus, we know that a few students can make mistakes in an area such as this, and we believe that some students making such a mistake are entitled to a healthy dose of compassion if they recognize the mistake and ask for help. With these thoughts in mind, an HPA student who self-discloses to the Upper School principal, the dean of student life, or the assistant headmaster the use of a substance BEFORE that particular student has been identified by administration officials for urinalysis or other drug testing, that student will be given a chance to remain at HPA. This chance will be extended provided that the student complies fully and successfully with any treatment or counseling which the school will arrange (at the family's expense) and, provided further, that the student successfully completes such period of probationary enrollment as the school may determine to be appropriate. This is our "One Chance Policy." All students, parents, and guardians are asked to commit this policy to memory and to take it to heart.
A student who has availed herself/himself of our One Chance Policy and then later possesses or uses contraband on campus will either be dismissed from school or, depending on the facts and circumstances of the case, be permitted to withdraw in lieu of dismissal.
A student who, without any previous One Chance Policy involvement, is discovered for the first time to be using or possessing contraband on campus will be dismissed for a minimum of one semester. Depending on the facts and circumstances of the case, the student may be extended the opportunity to re-apply for admission, provided that the student has successfully complied with such terms and conditions as were imposed at the time of the student's separation from HPA. If re-admitted, the student's status will be probationary until the student is advised otherwise. A student who commits a first offense, is dismissed, is re-admitted, and later commits a second offense of possessing or using marijuana or other illicit substance on campus will be dismissed permanently from the school or, perhaps, offered the opportunity to withdraw in lieu of permanent dismissal.
A student found to be distributing contraband or who has possession, custody, or control of contraband with the intent to distribute will be dismissed permanently without any opportunity for withdrawal or re-enrollment in the future.
Any student possessing contraband or use paraphernalia, contraband residue in any amount, or any compound or agent designed to mask the use of contraband will be subject to severe punishment as determined on a case-by-case basis by the headmaster or the assistant headmaster following the receipt of a report from either the Honor System or the Citizenship System or an administrative panel convened to weigh the facts and develop a dispositional recommendation.
Ours is a fine school and with a boost of clarity and consistency in this important behavioral area, this will remain the case. The vast majority of our students are here for all the right reasons. This being the case, we need to make sure we do our level best to maintain for these young people an environment in which living and learning in the healthiest of ways is promoted and where rules and expectations are not subject to misunderstanding or varying interpretations.
Parents and guardians, we ask for your assistance in this endeavor. As we will be doing here on campus, please connect with your sons and daughters regarding the importance of this subject matter. Please impress upon them that HPA is all about being a safe, hospitable, and healthy community of learning.
If your boarding child wears contact lenses or glasses, it is recommended that he/she bring an extra pair to school in case of breakage or loss. Please include a copy of his/her prescription with the health forms. If your child needs glasses for sports, please be sure he/she has an appropriate pair to wear.
Many of our students have their own family physicians and we encourage them to continue to schedule appointments with them as needed. As a convenience to our students who might not have a local physician, or for those students who are unable to travel off campus during the school day, HPA works with Waimea pediatrician Dr. Virginia Hatch-Pigott. Dr. Hatch-Pigott offers clinics for HPA students several times per week and by appointment, or as needed, on Fridays. Appointments can be scheduled for illness, general health maintenance, and HPA physicals by calling the HPA Infirmary at 808-881-4022 during regular office hours, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday.
Students are urged to complete routine dental work, eye examinations, and any procedures requiring lengthy appointments, e.g. application of braces and tooth extractions, during vacation periods in order to minimize school absences. If a health appointment must be scheduled during the school day, the student is required to bring a health provider's note to the nurse upon his/her return to school. Students leaving campus for health appointments need to sign out and sign back in at the health center.
Boarding Students: The Health Services Department works with the health providers in the area to schedule appointments when they are needed and at times that will minimize the negative impact on the student's academic schedule and the nurses' work schedule. We ask that parents of boarding students allow the nursing staff to schedule any health appointments.
The nursing staff will provide transportation to health appointments for boarding students. When necessary, transportation to health appointments outside of Waimea will be arranged and a transportation fee of up to $90 will be charged. In some instances when a nursing staff member is not available to drive, the student may need to use a taxi service. To avoid prolonged class absences and extra charges, we strongly urge students to use the services of health providers located in Waimea.
Nurses on duty provide health care and counseling and make referrals as needed. There always is a nurse on call whenever the Health Services Department is closed. As an additional precaution, all dorm faculty members are trained to deal with minor illnesses and injuries. The health center is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to noon when school is in session.
Students who become ill or injured while on campus should report to the health center immediately. If a nurse is unavailable, the student should contact the Upper School Office (ext. 4002) or the nearest faculty member. If a day student becomes ill during the school day and wishes to go home, the nurse will require permission from a parent or guardian before the student will be allowed to leave campus. All students must report to the health center when they are too ill to attend sports.
Boarders who are ill and wish to be seen by a physician should report to the health center between 7:30 and 7:45 a.m. The nurse on duty will determine whether a student should see a doctor. In an emergency, the student will be taken immediately to the doctor or to the emergency room. If a student is too ill to leave the dorm room, he/she should contact the health center (ext. 4022) through the dorm head or faculty member on duty so a dorm visit can be arranged with the nurse. A student will not receive a medical excuse from class, sports, or other required activity unless he/she has seen or spoken to the nurse. Absence without a medical excuse from the nurse is considered a cut.
For a Request for Exemption from Immunization on Religious Grounds form please click here.
Non-prescription medications such as Tylenol and Tums will be administered as deemed appropriate by the nurse or other HPA staff.
A completed "Request for Administration/Storage of Medication" form must be on file. This form can be obtained from the Health Services Department or downloaded from the HPA Web site (www.hpa.edu/enrollment).
Students who self-administer their medications must complete the "Self-Administration" form and may only bring a one-day dose to school each day. This form can be obtained from the Health Services Department or downloaded from the HPA Web site (www.hpa.edu/enrollment).
Injectable medications and supplies will be stored in the health center and administered there.
Students are not to give any medications to another student. Disciplinary action is warranted should this occur.
If a day student will be self-administering his/her own controlled and/or psychoactive medications, the Request for Self-Administration of Medication form must include a waiver signed by parents/guardians stating the parents/guardians are responsible for making sure that their child properly stores and self-administers his/her medication.
Boarding Students: Parents/guardians of boarding students who take non-prescription or prescription medications on a regular basis are required to inform the school health staff. A student taking a prescription medication on a regular basis is required to have in his/her health file an evaluation by a physician, which provides a diagnosis, the name of the medication, and a treatment plan. Any changes in medication or dosage must be ordered by a physician.
A permission form signed by the student's parent or guardian authorizing the administration of medication by school staff. Forms can be obtained from the Health Services Department. Controlled and/or psychoactive medications must be administered by the nurses or designated school staff. In accordance with standard nursing practice, the school nurse may refuse to administer any medication, which, based upon her assessment and professional judgment has the potential to be harmful, dangerous, or is inappropriate until the prescribing physician has been consulted. The school nurse also will communicate significant observations regarding medication effectiveness and adverse effects to the prescribing physician and parents/guardians.
On occasion, a boarding student may need to remain in the infirmary overnight. A $95 per night fee will be charged to the student's account to help cover the cost of hiring a night nurse.
With the support of HPA's 'Ohana Association, our Health and Wellness team introduced the Voluntary Random Drug Testing Program (VRDT) in the 2010-2011 school year. This program, though voluntary, requires every Upper School student and family to complete a form either enrolling in or declining to participate as part of the beginning-of-school enrollment process. Both the student and at least one parent (or legal guardian) are required to sign the form, which is sent to parents by e-mail and available online.
HPA continues to provide a myriad of drug education and prevention activities for students and families through our Health and Wellness program; VRDT is just one more facet of our existing programs. VRDT is designed to empower our students to say "NO" to drugs and to help families communicate with their children about this threat to our youth.
We would like to acknowledge the support and assistance we've received from Mid-Pacific Institute on O'ahu. Mid-Pacific Institute adopted a VRDT program in 2005, which has proven to be very successful since its inception.
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Marc De Meulenaere (15 juli 1961) is een Belgisch dammer.

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Ondanks dat hij pas op 27e begon te dammen, groeide hij uit tot een van de sterkste Belgische tactische spelers. In 2001 wierp zijn trainingsarbeid eindelijk vruchten af met de Belgische titel. Het jaar hierop wist hij zijn titel te prolongeren.

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 Kampioen van België: 2001, 2002, 2010
 Kampioen van Vlaanderen sneldammen: 1999
 Kampioen van België Rapid: 2011

De Meulenaere, Marc

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There are hundreds of APIs that are used in the financial world today, with more to come every year. It's next to impossible to find the best ones - the best are those, which suit your needs best - but it's much easier to pick the useful pieces of code. Let's say that the five below represent the most popular and utile APIs you can find among startups and mature institutions in the fintech industry.
The widely known and most popular payment provider would probably be PayPal, but it is Stripe, which gained much hype lately. Stripe's API drives payments for such big Internet players as Kickstarter, Twitter, Pinterest, Lyft, Reddit, Wired, TED or Alipay. Its solutions were also chosen by Apple for the Apple Pay system.
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Do we need a bank or other institution to get a loan? No, we don't - especially when there is none around. Yet, we can lend the money directly from people who have some. And this is exactly what Kiva and its API does: as the world's first peer-to-peer micro-lending website it allows lenders to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world, where the financial system is scarce.
Kiva is a nonprofit organization that relies on a network of microfinance institutions on five continents in order to provide small loans to people who do not have access to traditional banking systems. One hundred percent of a granted loan is sent to these microfinance institutions, which are called Field Partners - they administer the loans in the field. Then, there are over 450 volunteers, who work with the Field Partners, edit and translate borrower stories, and ensure the smooth operation of other Kiva programs. Kiva does not take a cut, neither does it charge any interest to the Field Partners.
The average loan size is $415.86, and the repayment rate is as high as 98.71%.
There are plenty of payment providers and their APIs on the market, like Stripe described earlier. But one of the hottest British startups, GoCardless, is a bit different from them: it's an online direct debit provider. Using GoCardless' API, any business or individual can take debit payments, avoiding credit card fees or the need of having a merchant account.
The idea of this startup founded in early 2011 is simple: to make the chore of setting up direct debit payments as easy as pie. When you want to receive recurring payments such as monthly subscription fees, you can either rely on your client's memory to send you a transfer in a timely manner, or be paid with cash/credit card every month. And direct debits, which charge the payer's account automatically on behalf of the payee, take time and effort to fill out, and send the consent forms.
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GoCardless operates mainly in the UK and Eurozone. Its biggest competitor, Dwolla, which helps to send and receive funds between people directly from their bank accounts, is still limited to the US. It will be interesting to see the two competing on their own markets.
It's almost certain you've heard of NFC and making payments using mobile devices equipped with this technology. And you probably know that until now these solutions had limitations, which halted their widespread adoption: mostly because they relied on partnerships between mobile carriers and banks. When you wanted to use an NFC wallet in your smartphone, you had to subscribe for a plan from a certain operator who had a deal with your bank - or vice versa. In other words, a specific banking app was bound to a specific carrier's SIM card.
Then, the two SimplyTapp founders came with an idea of Host Card Emulation (HCE) - the future of mobile NFC payments. Thanks to this technology, anyone can develop a mobile application that can be used as a smart card. HCE creates secure, identical card representation on a mobile device for the purposes of payments, transit and access.
In 2014, the company opened its APIs to card issuers and app providers with a developer platform that could make it cheaper and easier to include digital cards in mobile apps. SimplyTapp's APIs are available to developers for running HCE pilots or full-blown programs in accordance with Visa/MasterCard guidelines. The Admin APIs can be used by the user to create new users, wallets and individual cards. By providing open and secure APIs, SimplyTapp allows developers and users to include HCE payments in their applications.
A banking API doesn't have to be limited to banks only. The solution provided by Kontomatik can be used in a variety of scenarios: for finding better deals on the financial market, user authentication, credit scoring, contextual offers, enabling new services in startup apps.
First of all, the Kontomatik banking API collects data from a customer's bank account - with his or her consent, of course. This information ranges from detailed personal information, through extensive financial data to transfer senders' and recipients' names. Huge amounts of data that can be processed in many ways in order to fulfill specific needs.
One of the simplest, but very robust and trusted applications, would be to use the Kontomatik banking API as an authentication tool: when a user logs on to his or her bank account, the institution gets an instant KYC with all the necessary personal data, along with the ID number already verified by the bank.
With your client's identity confirmed, you can go further and analyze his or her incomes and spending to get credit scoring and offer a loan within minutes, not hours. You can also offer a PFM tool, which could find better deposits or credit cards for your customer, and even suggest a cheaper or more flexible bank account.
If your company leverages big data processing, you can find consumer patterns related to a specific merchant, product, service, area, or other factor. The possibilities are limitless with such a small API and so much information available thanks to it.


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Concussion concerns for George
By Tom King
North Geelong coach Ayden George. (krockfootball.com.au Image/Darren Phillips)
NORTH Geelong coach Ayden George revealed he has contemplated his playing future following a fourth concussion in less than two seasons.
George, who has missed two games since being knocked out at training before the Round 5 loss to Inverleigh, was concussed three times while at Maryborough Castlemaine League club Carisbrook last year.
"I just bumped into a teammate, and I didn't get my hands out quick enough to stop my fall, and I smacked the back of my head on the ground," George said of the latest incident.
"I'm hopeful (of playing) this week, but we'll see how we go," he said.
"I had three last year, and especially after hearing the Paddy McCartin interview on the weekend, it makes you think twice."
George trained for half of North Geelong's training sessions heading into the win over Corio and hopes to do more on the track this week.
"Predominantly, it's more my neck, and the major issues are not things that have been documented with some of the other cases," he said.
"But, definitely at 34, I don't want to be having any more, that's for sure."
George's concussion has continued a tough start to 2019 on the injury front at Keith Barclay Oval.
The returning Lachie Wright suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in the pre-season, while a broken leg has sidelined former coach and star midfielder Daniel Kee, with a return in 2019 "more unlikely than likely" according to George.
Off-season ruck acquisition Jacob Foot (thumb) is still facing at least another six weeks on the sidelines, with Mick Govus joining him after damaging ligaments in the win over Corio.
However, Brent Schwennesen is a chance to return for a massive clash with Geelong West after missing two games due to work commitments, while George is hopeful Jake Balacki (adductor) and Lachie Hayes (ankle) will be right.
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Q: "unexpected end of stream" when downloading a large file I try to download a large file using the snippet from the following url: Download a file with Android, and showing the progress in a ProgressDialog. However, it only works with small file. When I try to download a large file such as this one, I get this exception:
java.io.IOException: unexpected end of stream at libcore.net.http.FixedLengthInputStream.read(FixedLengthInputStream.java:48)

What's the problem? Is it because the server closes the connection for long connection?

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New Games: Demon Stone and Dungeon Siege II
Demon Stone (Xbox)
Demon Stone is a Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms adventure. The story was written by popular D&D novelist R.A. Salvatore, and the game features the voice talent of Patrick Stewart and Michael Clarke Duncan. The game was designed by the same folks who did the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers game, and it shows; the control scheme and combat systems in the two games are nearly identical.
I'm normally not one to buy an Xbox game unless I've had an opportunity to play it first, but my decision to purchase Demon Stone untested was driven by three factors:
It's a Dungeons & Dragons game. This is nowhere near a guarantee of quality (see Eye of the Beholder for the GameBoy Advance), but I've had very good luck in the past with D&D titles for the Xbox (Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes, for example).
I ran out of free game rental coupons for Blockbuster. Now that Blockbuster has brought about "the end of late fees," they've also brought about exorbitant rental prices for video games. Eight bucks to rent a video game? I'll pass.
It was cheap. Thirteen bucks cheap.
I would have added "Patrick Stewart" to the list, but I didn't learn that he was involved until I started reading the manual.
Demon Stone follows three heroes (a fighter, a mage and a Drow elf rouge) in their quest to defeat two warring bad guys who have escaped from the demon stone in which Professor Charles Xavier imprisoned them n hundred years ago (where n is either 1 or 4, I can't remember which). When these two bad guys (they have names, but I don't remember those, either) first appeared, Jean-Luc Picard realized that if either of them triumphed over the other it would mean the doom of Faerûn, so he imprisoned them in the aforementioned demon stone. I guess he was a pretty badass wizard back in the day. How the two bad guys managed to escape has yet to be revealed, but I'm guessing that Superman destroyed the demon stone in deep space, unaware of the danger imprisoned within. We'll see.
I've only played Demon Stone for about twenty minutes, but in that time I've gotten a pretty good idea of each character's strength. The fighter, obviously, is good at melee combat, while the mage is better at range, firing a sort of mystical projectile (or "magic missile," if you will) from his staff. The rogue has the ability to hide in the shadows, and when she is successfully doing so she appears to be transparent. She is then able to sneak up behind enemies and dispatch them very quickly with her twin scimitars. Snicker-snack!
As with Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, each character has upgradeable combat and/or magical abilities. There doesn't seem to be any sort of inventory management mechanism, so I'm guessing that their effectiveness in combat is based solely upon purchasing upgrades to those abilities, and not at all on acquiring the legendary +4 Broadsword of Killing the Living Hell out of Your Enemies.
Demon Stone looks like it could be promising, though it would have been nice if the developers had included a multiplayer mode. I'm not sure whether The Two Towers has such a mode, but I know Return of the King does, and it's pretty enjoyable when it's not making you want to launch your copy of the game into geosynchronous orbit.
Dungeon Siege II (PC)
The original Dungeon Siege (which I have finished) and its expansion, Legends of Aranna (which I have not), have provided me with many, many hours of enjoyable gameplay. With that in mind, I jumped at the chance to snag the sequel for thirty bucks. Yeah, it'll be twenty bucks come August, but I'm Señor Gratificación Instantánea, and I've already held off purchasing it for a couple of months.
Dungeon Siege II is a four-CD install, which is fairly significant. One of these days I'm going to have to get me one of them fancy DVD-ROM drives for my computer so I can go back to single-disc installs (though I have no idea whether DSII is even available on DVD-ROM). I'd love to elaborate on the story and gameplay of Dungeon Siege II, particularly how the latter compares to that of the original Dungeon Siege, but I can't; not yet.
See, it's a four-CD install, and by the time I finished I was too tired to actually play the game, so I just went to bed.
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4 responses to "New Games: Demon Stone and Dungeon Siege II"
Thagg
It's a Dungeons & Dragons game.
You lost me – already. Outgeeked again.
Eight bucks to rent a video game? I'll pass.
OUCH!!!!!!
Got any Movie Galleries nearby? Last I checked, it was a mere $4 or so. Maybe I'll have to check again to be sure.
I know they just added a used DVD $5 movie-of-the-week bin at the local store. Plus all the used games and (non $5) movies are buy two get two. Then there's the outlet – you might even like the outlet store.
Since we're relatively new to Xbox, we buy used at EBGames. I think the most we've paid so far is $17.
it's pretty enjoyable when it's not making you want to launch your copy of the game into geosynchronous orbit.
Preach it, brother!
KJToo
Nary a Movie Gallery in sight. We've got a Hollywood Video, but their rates seem to be even worse than Blockbuster.
I have frequented both EBGames and GameStop (formerly Funcoland) for used games. The nice thing about EBGames is that they still sell used PC games, in addition to console stuff.
All is one. GameStop owns EBGames and Babbages, and I heard they just picked up yet another company.
Yeah, Funcoland used to be owned by Barnes & Noble, but then I believe GameStop bought 'em. Once GameStop bought EBGames, they shut down the GameStop right next to the Chinese restaurant Miscellaneous G and I frequent, which has severely cut down on our trips to GameStop.
I did go to the one in Willoughby last night, though. Picked up Lords of Everquest and Dead Man's Hand for seven bucks each.


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