Popular image sharing app Instagram has been updated for iOS 7, featuring a flat design that takes stretches to the edges of the screen. This makes photos and videos appear larger on the screen. Strangely, the Instagram icon has stayed the same, which features textures and shadows that are absent from Apple's iOS 7 icons.
While the design has been flattened, all of the buttons and features are still where you expect them to be. There's still a toolbar the bottom of the screen for quickly accessing your feed, nearby Instagram pictures, the camera, notifications, and your user profile. The top of the app also blends in with iOS 7's transparent status bar, turning it blue when you launch Instagram.
One more minor design change can be found with the new rounded profile pictures, which looks strikingly similar to Google+'s profile pictures. It's a bit odd as the toolbar buttons at the bottom remain square, as do the Instagram photos themselves.
Download the latest version of Instagram for iOS here.


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Red Flags at OHA
A recent, eagerly awaited independent financial review of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has been in the news lately. The review, conducted by the California-based accounting firm CliftonLarsenAllen ("CLA"), made several observations and recommendations, including the flagging of 32 transactions, representing $7.8 million, as potentially fraudulent, wasteful, or abusive.
Indeed, of the 185 transactions the firm reviewed, it had audit observations, meaning that "the results of testing revealed occurrences of noncompliance with statutory requirements and/or internal policies" or "that revealed indicators or red flags of waste, fraud, or abuse," in 85% of them. The transactions reviewed were not random but were those that the firm suspected would have a greater chance of irregularities.
OHA's chair of the Board of Trustees and chair of its Resource Management Committee issued a statement pointing out that the report "did not identify actual instances of fraud, waste or abuse."
Sure. That wasn't CLA's job. They're auditors, not prosecutors, judges, or juries. What they did observe in many instances, however, was very troubling.
Page 94 of the report, for example, mentioned a contract with Absolute Plus Advisors under which OHA paid $181,499. It was supposed to be a contract for the vendor to provide the Trustees with quarterly reports on OHA's Trust Fund and on its Trust Funds Advisor, sort of like having the vendor keep an eye on the firm who was keeping an eye on OHA's money. OHA had the contract but had no documentation either of competitive bidding for the contract as required by law, or of any deliverables under the contract. So, the money was spent, but it wasn't clear if OHA got anything it paid for.
Page 117 of the report described a contract with Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning to provide consulting services. The contract was signed for an amount just short of $100,000 but was amended to increase the contract price to $349,527. Procurement documents such as bid evaluations were nowhere to be found; nor could OHA staff find any of the deliverables related to this contract. So, about $350,000 went out the door and OHA might not have gotten anything in return.
Trustee Keli'I Akina (who, by the way, should be commended rather than pilloried for his role in getting this financial review done) put together and published a digest of the CLA report called "Red Flags: An Analysis of the Independent Audit of OHA and its [Limited Liability Companies]." The digest includes descriptions of these financial anomalies and many others.
Yes, the reports describe the smoke, but not the fire. They don't accuse anyone of committing fraud or other wrongdoing. There may be instances of ineptitude or mismanagement, which would be deplorable but not criminal, or grand theft, which would carry more severe consequences.
So, we need to seriously consider going to the next step.
OHA would be prudent to consider taking this report to the law enforcement authorities who would be able to investigate whether any of the conduct described in the report rises to the level of criminal conduct, such as fraud, theft, or bribery. OHA, you may remember, is a state agency and is funded with taxpayer money from all of us. All of us get to vote in (or vote out) OHA trustees. Thus, crimes against OHA are crimes not just against the Native Hawaiian beneficiaries but are crimes against all of us. If it is determined that crimes were committed, the perpetrators need to be brought to justice.
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It's important to get in the habit of marking our balls correctly every time we are on the green. Doing so will result in good etiquette, allow us to roll the ball more efficiently and eliminate any unnecessary penalty strokes.
In this video, SwingU instructor Josh Kelley talks about the rules around marking the golf ball.
A ball on the putting green may be lifted and, if desired, cleaned. The position of the ball must be marked before it is lifted and the ball must be replaced. If any part of ball is touching the green, then the ball is considered on the putting surface.
The position of a ball to be lifted should be marked by placing a ball-marker, a small coin or other similar object immediately behind the ball. If the ball-marker interferes with the play, stance or stroke of another player, it should be placed one or more clubhead-lengths to one side.
If a ball is replaced at a spot on the putting green other than where it was lifted from and subsequently played from this wrong place, the player incurs a penalty of two strokes in stroke play or loss of hole in match play.
The player may repair an old hole plug or damage to the putting green caused by the impact of a ball, whether or not the player's ball lies on the putting green.
If a ball is accidentally moved while it is being marked there is no penalty, provided the movement of the ball, or the ball-marker, is directly attributable to the specific act of marking the ball's position or lifting it.
There is no limit to the number of times that a player may mark and lift their ball from the putting green, providing they do not unduly delay play.
There is no penalty if the ball-marker is placed other than behind the ball, providing you do replace the ball in the correct position later. Naturally, the traditional method is to place the marker behind the ball and I strongly recommend that all golfers use this method to avoid confusion.


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No one else has access to your information.
We do not release, sell, trade or rent your personal information to any third parties nor we do we participate in any co-operative database schemes.
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Why our products are so cheap???
The biggest reason of selling high quality products at unbelievable prices is because we import our own stock direct from manufacturers and when we import we buy thousands of quantities..
Think about a time when you may have purchased something only to find that you didn't really need it. Although there was nothing actually wrong with the product you still returned it because you felt you had no need for it, or for some other reason other than it was faulty. The point is that those returns are sent back to the manufacturer and then sold on as factory reconditioned. These products have been tested by the manufacturer and usually repackaged with all manuals and leads. In most cases, the products returned are unwanted gifts or end of line stock and in the vast majority of cases are not faulty products.
We are confident in the products that we sell, and we want you to be satisifed with your purchase. It is with this in mind that we offer a 7-14 day no quibble money back guarantee on all new/open box/factory reconditioned products in case your not happy with your purchase. This is further backed by our 1 year return to base warranty (unless otherwise stated in the listing - warranty varies from produt to product) which covers against parts and labour for any mechanical/technical fault which may develop within that period.
Why should I buy Open box / Factory Reconditioned products?
The products we sell are usually as good as new condition, and hence we are confident they will meet with your approval. This is why we offer a 14 day no quibble money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with any aspect of your purchase. Should your product develop a fault within the period stated in each listing (minimum 3 months), we will fix or replace it or refund you if we cannot supply it. There really is no excuse for not at least considering the option of purchasing graded equipment which is usually significantly reduced from its RRP.
All items are listed as brand new, Open box or f/recon.
you can always be assured of a high level of quality service that we try to maintain and uphold.
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*When preparing small portions for i or 2, a countertop 6-slice oven toaster can be used.
Rinse and dry chicken. De-skin and de-fat (optional) Place in oven-safe pan. Spread mustard over chicken. Season to taste. Bake 20 minutes or until done.


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COVID-19: How personal data could contribute to a solution
This article is republished from World Economic Forum under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here.
Companies are turning to technology to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Personal data could play a role in identifying trends and raising recommendations.
This could create a new type of data marketplace.
The entire state of California just joined San Francisco and Silicon Valley in a "shelter at home" order from the state's governor. Restaurants, movie theatres and schools are just some of the parts of our everyday lives that must be temporarily interrupted to curb the spread of Covid-19.
While many Silicon Valley companies had previously institutionalised work-from-home policies, this shutdown will particularly impact those in the gig economy and part-time workers. Companies across the Bay Area are working together to see how technology can be used to combat the crisis and make sure Americans are ready to go back to work.
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic requires global cooperation among governments, international organizations and the business community, which is at the centre of the World Economic Forum's mission as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
Since its launch on 11 March, the Forum's COVID Action Platform has brought together 1,667 stakeholders from 1,106 businesses and organizations to mitigate the risk and impact of the unprecedented global health emergency that is COVID-19.
The platform is created with the support of the World Health Organization and is open to all businesses and industry groups, as well as other stakeholders, aiming to integrate and inform joint action.
As an organization, the Forum has a track record of supporting efforts to contain epidemics. In 2017, at our Annual Meeting, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was launched – bringing together experts from government, business, health, academia and civil society to accelerate the development of vaccines. CEPI is currently supporting the race to develop a vaccine against this strand of the coronavirus.
One trend that had been making waves across the Valley is how to monetise personal data. It raises the important question of data ownership, access and privacy. But it also presents many opportunities.
Our phones track our steps and many – not just the rich – wear inexpensive wearable devices that can collect our vitals and lifestyle. How could we use this data more efficiently? Could users define proactively what their data can be used for, such as accelerating the cure for COVID-19, or dementia or cancer?
In a scenario where certified applications are launched for these purposes, personal data from individuals' wearable devices or smartphones could automatically be transmitted. This data would be encrypted, anonymised at the source and only the parts that are relevant would be shared, along with the digital rights management rules attached, much like how music is currently bought and sold online.
Spread of COVID-19 globally.
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It could then be enforced by blockchain smart-contracts that ensure that data cannot be used for other purposes. We could easily find ourselves in a scenario where individuals can opt in and provide anonymised data for free to accelerate a cure for certain diseases and then make some of our data accessible to businesses for a fee.
With this data available from around the world, intelligent, machine learning algorithms could then identify trends human experts can miss, then raise recommendations for professionals to review and validate. The process could speed up detection in the case of COVID-19.
If someone wants to use the data for commercial purposes, their application has to be certified, similar to the Apple App Store model. Companies could announce the type of data needed, and then owners (or data trusts acting on behalf of the owners) can opt in explicitly, and get paid.
We could see the value of data than defined by a commodity exchange, not unlike what we have for oil markets, setting the value of data for specific use cases so that the owners get paid at the moment of consumption, and the financial authorities can tax it at the moment of consumption. Data will be tokenised to provide anonymity of the owner.
This data marketplace possibility could become a reality sooner than we think. This crisis has moved many online. While many are still feeling the biggest effects, there are those looking to our more digital future and asking important questions.
Moving forward will require public-private cooperation. Governments, private citizens, businesses and NGOs all need to be involved to ensure that all of society can benefit from such advances.
This article originally appeared in the National.
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Yes. You are absolutely not allowed to ride unless you sign a waiver before your tur.
Check in 15 minutes early to be able to beginning loading the Jeeps to begin the tur.
According to industry standard a tip is customary at 15% with cash or added to your credit card. Here in the south we also include a " that a boy/girl!" to express a job well done.
These are open air Jeeps so if it is hot outside, wear outdoor comfortable clothes and bring a hat or sunglasses. Be sure to apply sunscreen as well. If you are going on the Soddy Daisy Tur, you will need to have shoes for hiking that can also go in the water while swimming to protect your feet from rocks, this tur requires you to bring a towel and change of clothes as well so you can return to the Jeep dry.
Yes, you are responsible to provide this safety feature for your child.
For each Hillbilly to enjoy the tur, items prohibited include, but are not limited to. Weapons of any kind, guns, firearms, illegal substance, professional video equipment, coolers, alcohol, glass containers, drones, cigarettes, e-cigaretts, fireworks, or knives.
The Lookout Mountain Tur is 2 hours. It includes riding in a customized open air Jeep and being able to get out to take picture of scenic views. The Soddy Daisy Tur is 4 hours. Includes Riding in customized open air Jeep, hiking 2.3 miles total, and swimming.
All of our guides are CPR certified. They are your personal guide giving you historical facts and showing you their fun personalities that will pair great with your adventure. To sum it up; fun, safe, and educational.
Services Dogs are the only animals allowed.
Everyone is welcome but for your safety each guest must have the upper body strength be able to hold themselves up right during the tur. Guest are also responsible for getting themselves in and out of your Jeeps.
Eatin' for two, come on girl. You can go on the Lookout Mountain Tur up to 27 weeks (The Jeep is on the paved road the whole time, you'll be fine). Bun in the oven, we do not recommend the Soddy Daisy Tur for you. This is physically demanding with the 2.3 mile total hike with swimming in natural swimming holes.
You sure can! We have two sizes of Jeeps one holds 6 and one hold 3. If you would like to reserve your own private tur you must purchase all seat available on that Jeep. We also add 15% gratuity for our guide that will provide you will a personalized experience through history.
Each customized Jeep Wrangler, is open air, with seat belts for all, roll bars, and awning over the top to keep the sun from beaming down or from the rain pouring down.
We have Jeeps that holds 6 hillbillies and some that hold 3 hillbillies. So the biggest group we could take out would be 15 hillbillies.
You are responsible for your valuables. We don't recommend that you bring large purses or bags as there is not enough storage in Jeep for personal items. Please bring minimal personal items.
These here turs are not off-roading turs but leisurely historical turs in customized open air Jeeps.
We run turs seasonally Tuesdays through Sundays. We are closed Mondays.


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Kapamilya Stars Urge Filipinos to Protect Their Loved Ones in New COVID-19 PSA
By Team Wolf November 8, 2021 0
With the threat of COVID-19 still present in the country, ABS-CBN's top stars and news personalities urged Filipinos to continue following safety protocols and to get vaccinated to ensure the well-being of their loved ones during this pandemic. In a public service ad released tonight (November 5) on various ABS-CBN platforms, actors Coco Martin, Jodi…
Star Magic and Bayan Mo, Ipatrol Mo Join Forces to Encourage Filipinos to Register for the 2022 Elections
By Team Wolf August 19, 2021 0
Star Magic artists will use their voice to encourage more Filipinos to register to vote and participate in the upcoming 2022 national elections as ambassadors of the voter registration campaign of ABS-CBN's Bayan Mo, iPatrol Mo (BMPM). Star Magic and BMPM announced their partnership in coordination with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday (August…
PascualLove: From Our Family to Yours
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July 21, 2020, Quezon City, Philippines – After a memorable digital celebration #PascualLoveLiveat75, Pascual Laboratories, Inc., one of the trusted pharmaceutical companies in the Philippines¹, extends the celebrations to more Filipinos by joining hands with health guru Dr. Willie Ong. True to its 75th anniversary campaign #PascualLove, the company found it fitting to partner with…
Evacuees Receive Aid from ABS-CBN Foundation as Taal Continues to Rumble
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"Andito kami para sa'yo," is the message of ABS-CBN Foundation together with its donors and volunteers as it responded to assist Filipinos who are once again affected by Taal Volcano's unrest. To make affected Kapamilyas feel that they are not alone, the Foundation went to Tanauan City, Nasugbu, Laurel, and Balete in Batangas to distribute…
ABS-CBN Foundation and Zarah Juan partner for the benefit of Benguet Weavers
The ABS-CBN Foundation, in partnership with Zarah Juan, launched the limited edition Aduyon Sling, the product of a dynamic collaboration for the benefit of the Weaving Arts and Crafts of Tublay (WACoT). All profit from the sale of this special collection will be ploughed back to WACoT. WACoT is a duly registered organization with the…
DOT celebrates World Environment Month, highlights responsible marine wildlife interactions
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In celebration of World Environment Month this June, the Department of Tourism (DOT) reiterates the need for tourists to educate themselves on sustainable interaction with marine wildlife. "Observing marine wildlife in its natural habitat is incredibly fulfilling and quite an experience you cannot forget," said Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat. She stressed, however, that while this…
PETA Launches Voters' Education Campaign Dubbed as 'RAK THE VOTE'
QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) together with its partners, PETA Lingap Sining, Impact Leadership, and We The Youth Vote, through the support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Philippines, and MISEREOR Germany, embark on a creative voters' education campaign called Rak The Vote: Mobilizing The Youth For Change from June…
PascualLove Live at 75!
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May 21, 2021, Quezon City –After embarking on its 75th-year campaign #PascualLove, Pascual Laboratories, Inc. or PascualLab highlights its celebration of over 7 decades of health and innovation in a night of nostalgia, music, and thanksgiving via "PascualLove Live at 75!" this May 26. "Care begins with family" On May 26, 2021, exactly 75 years…
PascualLab celebrates 75 years by spreading the love
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April 5, 2020, Quezon City – Pascual Laboratories, Inc. (PascualLab), one of the most trusted pharmaceutical companies in the Philippines¹, celebrates 75 years in the industry by highlighting the value of care that comes from the family via its campaign "PascualLove: Care begins with family". Built on a love for fellowmen by founders, chemists, and…
Bantay Bata 163 marks 24th Year with "Bawat Isa Ay Bata" music video
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ABS-CBN Foundation's Bantay Bata 163 celebrated 24 years of protecting and loving the Filipino child with a music video dedicated to its beneficiaries, donors, partners, and founder, Gina Lopez. Featuring the song "Bawat Isa ay Bata," performed by international sensation TNT Boys composed of Mackie Empuerto, Keifer Sanchez, and Francis Concepcion, the video shows how…


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Staying healthy and ensuring you limit your health risks is a very important thing all seniors need to consider. The more you focus on staying healthy and having a plan to deal with health issues, the longer and more enjoyable life you will live. While much of the attention is placed on prevention, and rightfully so, not enough seniors think about what to do during and after a medical emergency. You need to have a plan to call for assistance, and one of the best options is an emergency device for seniors.
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Q: Complex Mongo query, checking simultaneously on several attributes Here is what my database could look like :
[
    {
        _id       : xxx,
        languages : [
            { lang: "French",  level: 1 },
            { lang: "English", level: 3 },
            { lang: "Spanish", level: 4 }
        ]
    },
    {
        _id       : yyy,
        languages : [
            { lang: "French",  level: 5 },
            { lang: "English", level: 2 }
       ]
    }
]

I have that kind of list :
[
    {
        lang  : "French",
        cmp   : "at least",
        level : 3
    },
    {
        lang  : "English",
        cmp   : "at most",
        level : 2
    }
]

My goal is to build a query that, with this example :

*

*Select all the users who speaks French with a level >=

*AND who speaks English with a level <= 2

*the selected users can have others languages for which I do not care
In other words, I want to build a query that finds every users who have ALL the languages specified in the list, each languages having to match the level comparison to be valid.
It's kinda hard, as I'm not used to such complex queries in MongoDB.
Currently, I'm not looking for level comparison. I just query for the users matching the good languages, no matter the level, using "profile.languages.lang" : { $all: languagesArray }, with languagesArray a list of strings I get with a .map on my comparison's object list.
My problem is that I don't know how to spevify so much constraints on a single attribute / list of my document. Of course, I could fetch to refine my search, but it would be really costly over time, as my database is growing pretty fast.
Could anyone guide me ?
Thanks.

A: Users.find({
  $or: [
    {
      languages: {
        $elemMatch: {
          lang: 'French',
          level: { $gte: 2 }
        },
      }
    },
    {
      languages: {
        $elemMatch: {
          lang: 'English',
          level: { $lte: 2 }
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}).fetch();

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Biografia
Edmond Desnoyers de Biéville è il figlio di Charles Adrien Desnoyers e Anne Raison Le Duc de Biéville (figlia del gestore dell'hotel Le Duc de Biéville), nonché fratello di Fernand Desnoyers. Allievo della Scuola Militare di Saint-Cyr nel 1832, iniziò poi, con lo pseudonimo di "Edmond de Bieville" (che in seguito ha ottenuto il permesso di portare), nei vaudevilles, che hanno fornito principalmente il repertorio di scene di genere. Scrisse alcune opere teatrali con Emmanuel Théaulon e Narcisse Fournier, poi fece amicizia con Eugène Scribe e Jean-François Bayard, di cui divenne uno dei più assidui collaboratori. In tutto, ha prodotto una cinquantina di opere teatrali che sono state rappresentate al Gymnase, al Vaudeville, alle Varietés, al Palais-Royal, alla Gaîté, alle Folies-Dramatiques, all'Opéra-Comique, al Théâtre-Français.

Nel 1856, in sostituzione di Matharel de Fiennes, scrisse drammatici reportages per il quotidiano Le Siècle fino alla sua morte, quando fu stroncato in pochi giorni da un'infiammazione al torace. Appartenne alla Società degli Autori Drammatici. Al cimitero di Montmartre, dove fu sepolto, parlarono Eugène Labiche e Oscar Comettant, seguiti dal pastore Dide, che pronunciò un discorso elogiandone il coraggio durante l'assedio del 1870-1871: nonostante l'età, fece il servizio, ma perse i suoi due figli, uno dei quali aveva diciannove anni. Era il fratello del poeta Fernand Desnoyers (1826-1869).

Secondo Francisque Sarcey, "Biéville conosceva il teatro come nessun altro. Dotato di una memoria prodigiosa, conosceva perfettamente tutto il repertorio della Restaurazione e del regno di Luigi Filippo. Charles Monselet fu molto meno clemente:

Opere

Teatro
 1836: L'Homéopathie, commedia-vaudeville in un atto con Narcisse Fournier;
 1837: Sans nom! ou Drames et Romans, mystère-folie-vaudeville in un atto con Emmanuel Théaulon;
 1837: De l'or! ou le Rêve d'un savant, commedia in un atto mista a distici con Jean-François Bayard;
 1838: La Vie de garçon, commedia-vaudeville in 2 atti, con Paul Duport;
 1839: Geneviève la blonde, commedia-vaudeville in 2 atti con Bayard;
 1840: Les Enfants de troupe, commedia in 2 atti mista a canti, con Bayard;
 1841: Le Flagrant Délit, commedia-vaudeville in un atto, con Armand d'Artois;
 1842: Talma en congé, vaudeville in un atto con Charles Redier;
 1843: Le Héros du marquis de quinze sous, commedia-vaudeville in tre atti, con Armand d'Artois;
 1844: Au bord de l'abîme, ou Un roman à la mode, commedia-vaudeville in un atto con Fournier;
 1845: La Contrebasse, vaudeville in un atto;
 1845 : Les Couleurs de Marguerite, commedia-vaudeville in 2 atti con Bayard;
 1845: La Gardeuse de dindons, commedia-vaudeville in tre atti, con Achille d'Artois, musica originale di Eugène Dejazet;
 1847: La Sirène du Luxembourg, ou l'Amour et la Police, commedia-vaudeville in 2 atti;
 1848: La Femme blasée, commedia-vaudeville con Fournier;
 1848 : Éric ou le Fantôme, dramma in 3 atti con Fournier;
 1849: L'Année prochaine, ou Qui vivra verra, commedia-vaudeville in un atto con Bayard;
 1852: Los dansores espagnolas, jocosa toquadillas in un atto con Bayard;
 1852: Une poule mouillée, vaudeville in un atto con Bayard;
 1852: Le Fils de famille, commedia-vaudeville in 3 atti con Bayard;
 1856: Les Fanfarons du vice, commedia in 3 atti con Dumanoir;

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ISME has asked the Minister for Justice to revisit the Defamation Act
By Ciara Whooley
Last Friday, May 3rd, marked World Press Freedom Day. All Irish newspapers carried editorials over the weekend in support of changes to Ireland's Defamation Act. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has already found that safeguards in Irish law against disproportionate financial awards in defamation cases were improperly applied by the Irish Supreme Court.
Despite this there is no sense of any political imperative to address changes to our defamation laws. It appears to ISME that most of our legislators are satisfied with the status quo.
While we acknowledge it is natural for the media to focus on how deficiencies in the Irish defamation regime hurt them, we ask them to remain alert to the chilling effect defamation has on all businesses.
The Courts Service Annual Report shows an overall 39% increase in the number of incoming defamation cases before the courts over the previous year, with an 85% increase in cases taken before the Circuit Court.
These figures do not account for the number of threats by plaintiffs to issue proceedings; and ISME understands that the great majority of claims received are settled without proceeding to court.
Unlike defamation actions against media outlets, those against small businesses typically involve shoplifting; driving (or attempting to drive) from a forecourt without paying for fuel; leaving a restaurant without paying; paying for goods with a counterfeit note; and refusal of admission to (or request to vacate) premises. The typical settlement range for these actions is €5,000 to €30,000.
ISME has asked the Minister for Justice to revisit the Defamation Act with a view to preventing these injustices. We have asked Minister Flanagan to amend the Act as follows:
The defamation alleged must be material and demonstrable.
It must cause serious harm to the plaintiff.
It must be damaging; the plaintiff must explicitly set out the quantum of the damage caused; and the plaintiff must pursue their action in a court of appropriate jurisdiction for that quantum.
Plaintiffs in defamation actions must be able to give meaningful and reliable undertakings for their costs before they take an action against a defendant; a revised Defamation Act must require this.
The Defamation Act must strike a fair balance between the protection of the property rights of one person with the right to a good name of the other,consistent with Art 40.
ISME's submission to Minister Flanagan is available here


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Small Businesses, Once Off-Limits to Solar, Get Greenlight From SolarCity
July 28, 2015 | 7:00 a.m. EDT
The sun could soon shine on small business.
For all of the solar industry's explosive growth in the past six years – expanding faster than each fossil fuel last year, for example, thanks to cheap prices and government incentives – what may be the most lucrative market in the U.S. has also remained the most elusive.
That may soon change.
On Tuesday, the country's largest solar installer of 2014, California-based SolarCity, declared it had figured out how to install solar panels atop small and medium businesses while also turning a profit – potentially opening a market estimated to be worth at least $10 billion a year.
"When you fly into any airport, you see these industrial areas – what are small warehouses with small businesses in them – and there's no solar," CEO Lyndon Rive said in an interview with U.S. News ahead of Tuesday's announcement. "We now have a solution that makes it cost-effective."
The country's solar capacity has surged by more than 400 percent since 2010. On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she would seek to build more than 500 million panels by 2020, and the power source has been a key part oflocal, state and federal efforts to reduce the heat-trapping carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.
Yet that growth has occurred in just two markets: small set-ups for residential homeowners and giant installations for companies, schools and government agencies.
Risk is a big reason. Most solar installers require no money upfront. Homeowners have FICO scores that can quickly be used to determine if they have good credit, while most large companies and government agencies are similarly backed by investment-grade credit ratings. Small businesses, however, lack either credential – that means solar companies have to spend much more time and money to figure out whether the business owners will pay their bills on time.
Then there's the issue of scale: Most homes are small enough to be outfitted with a few panels in a couple days. Huge buildings, by contrast, take much longer – sometimes two to three weeks – but they're buying so many panels that it's worth the investment.
SolarCity, a company headed by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, claims it's solved these challenges. First, in 2013, the company bought Zep Solar, a startup which developed an innovative "snap-together" solar panel and mounting system that fits more panels and is much faster to install. The installations are also done in-house, rather than through subcontractors, helping squeeze a few more pennies per panel.
"It's really a dramatic difference," says Jonathan Bass, vice president of communications for SolarCity.
Then there's the financing: By harnessing a vehicle known as PACE, or property assessed clean energy, SolarCity says businesses in more than a dozen states can now pay for their panels through their property taxes.
"They must pay in order to retain the deed to the property," Shayle Kann, senior vice president at GTM Research, explains in an email. "This should reduce the default risk significantly, which makes the project easier to finance and the credit requirements a bit less stringent."
Together, these approaches are a path that other solar installers will also likely soon follow, he says.
"There's a whole swath of companies who are looking for every opportunity to drive costs out of commercial solar," Kann says. "None of these things is revolutionary on their own. What SolarCity thinks they've done is they've squeezed out from each part of the system the numbers that pan out at the end of the day."
Originally published by Alan Neuhauser in US News & World Report.


The drones revolution is here and a big piece of it is Software and Compute Power. The near future is going to be about networks of autonomous flying robots amplified with sensors and performing diverse missions in real world scenarios.
Companies will want to optimize their use and manage them in a secure and efficient infrastructure.
In this session I will present you a Cloud Services Architecture to manage a fleet of drones. We will talk about Unmanaged Autonomous Systems and the key role of technologies like IoT Hub, Data Lake, Spark and HDI.


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A strange, little being found nearby Kyshtym, in Chelyabinsk region, Russia, that looks very similar to the Chilean being, The La Noria Being, Chile. It might the same kind.
As is often the case, the English articles about this being are short and often contain mistranslations and contradictory information. So I looked at the Russian sites, and managed to find a number that had reliable and in-depth information of this case. It turns out that this case was very well studied, although the deceased body of the being disappeared soon after it died. This is almost always the case when a humanoid being or body is found. Anyway, I have puzzled together the information from the different sources (links are the end of this article).
Kyshtym is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, a Federal Subject of Russia, located on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains 90 kilometers (56 mi) northwest of Chelyabinsk.
It is often called the Kyshtym alien because the mummified corpse was analyzed in a hospital in the city of Kyshtym. The being itself was found in the village Kaolinovyy, just south of Kyshtym.
Tamara Vasilievna Prosvirina
Tamara Vasilievna Prosvirina, was a retired old woman who lived in an apartment in the village Kaolinovyy (Каолиновом), which is a couple of miles south of the city of Kyshtym (a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast). She had a mental disorder and had been in a mental hospital before, because she was a little weird. She used to gather flowers from the graves and decorated her room with these flowers almost every day.
On August 13, 1996 (according to other information it might have been two months earlier) she found the creature in the forest lying under a tree (and not on the local graveyard as was erroneously reported). She took the creature to her home, and cared for it for at least two weeks.
The being when it was alive, based on eye-witnesses descriptions.
Source: Vadim Chernobrov
The body of Aleshenka (the diminutive name she gave to the creature, after the name of her deceased grandson) was plump and was swaying like jelly. The skin on the body was gray, and it had dark brown spots on the head. No hair, small holes instead of ears. Small flat nose enabled the creature to breath. Dark-gray eyes. No eye-lids. The vertical pupils of the eyes were constantly narrowing and expanding. Long fingers had small sharp claws. No genitals to reveal the creature's sex. The creature had no navel. The woman could not figure out how to feed Aleshenka. Its mouth resembled a tiny hole and had no lips, but it could stretch itself widely. The lower jaw was very small, and a huge scarlet tongue occupied almost the entire mouth cavity. It would not be able to chew.
Tamara Vasilievna put a caramel candy into the creature's mouth, and the alien started sucking the candy. She gave Aleshenka some milk and water with a teaspoon. Moist sweat appeared onto the creature's body after eating. Aleshenka started disseminating a sweet smell soaking clothes and furniture. Tamara wiped Aleshenka with a rag from time to time. The creature was lying and did not move most of the time. From time to time it started stretching its legs. It squeaked in response to light and moving subjects. Its eyes showed that it was suffering.
The next day all the villagers heard of the news. The woman was telling everybody that she got a child and his name was Aleshenka. At first many people thought that Tamara was imagining the child because of her mental condition. However, one day her daughter-in-law (also named Tamara) came to her place. After sitting and talking in the kitchen for a while, the old woman said it was time to feed her child. Her daughter-in-law followed her into another room and saw the weird creature wrapped into a cloth.
Although both mother and daughter-in-law knew of the creature, they did not report it to the police. They said if Aleshenka was a human child, they would report the police. But the creature was not a human being, and this it must be an animal, and there is no reason to report it. The daughter-in-law said: "Let it be Tamara Vasilievna's pet. She will take care of it, and she will have something to do". However, a neighbor reported Tamara Vasilievna to the psychiatrists, and one day an ambulance came and took the woman to psychiatric hospital in Novogorny. Tamara Vasilievna tried to explain that she left a child in the house, but the doctors did not take her words seriously. Her relatives were not aware of her being taken to hospital, and therefore there was nobody to feed the creature. Soon it died of thirst and hunger.
However it is also possible that the creature died by an accidental crushing of a drunken man. As empty houses in that area often are hangouts for drunkards, a drunken man, according to his testimony, said that he had accidentally crushed the creature. He said that he sat down on the sofa not knowing that the being was lying in a blanket on that sofa, and thus crushed the skull.
Later, the daughter-in-law, Tamara Prosvirina Jr., testified that he had seen this creature alive: "I used to visit my mother-in-law twice a week. She was living on her own. On that day I brought her foodstuffs just like I did before. I was about to leave when she told me: 'We'd better give some food to the baby too.' Then she showed me to the bed. I took a closer look at it and saw him. He was on top the bed, squeaking some funny sounds. I could see his mouth shaped like a small pipe. His tiny scarlet tongue was moving. I also spotted two teeth inside. In a way, he looked like a little baby. His head was brown, and his body looked gray. I didn't see any eyelids. He didn't have any genitals either. His head looked like an onion. And the pupils of his eyes were widening and narrowing just like the cat's eyes do when you turn on the light and turn it off again several times in a row. The fingers on his hands and feet were pretty long. I only bothered to ask my mother-in-law where on earth she'd got the monster from. She told me she'd found him in the forest. She kept calling him 'Alioshenka'. She gave him a candy and he started sucking on it. I thought it was some kind of animal." Tamara Prosvirina Jr added: "He was giving off that smell, you know, one of a kind. You can't take it for any other smell. Actually, the smell was pretty agreeable yet somewhat nauseous at the same time. And he didn't pass any liquid or solid waste matter. He was sweating, and that was all. I saw the mother-in-law wipe the sweat off his face with a rag."
After the alien's death, its body started drying out and becoming mummified. Only one person, Vladimir Nurdinov remembered about the creature. He used to come to Tamara Vasilievna's place, and saw Aleshenka. After hearing that the lady was taken to hospital, the man came to her apartment to take Aleshenka to his house. He found the mummy lying in bed. "I was about to throw it away like a piece of trash. But that thing looked like a real alien, I kind of liked it. Finally, I put it on the garage roof," Nurtdinov said. The sun desiccated and tanned the body of Alioshenka to the utmost. Then Nurtdinov hid the body in a garage.
Then, one day, the police detained Vladimir Nurtdinov. He was suspected of stealing electrical wire in Novogorny. He promptly told the police about the strange object hidden in the garage. The police confiscated it. Having removed a piece of red cloth from the object, the police were amazed to see a small mummified body of the strange creature. They confiscated the strange body and videotaped it. The creature looked stone-cold and lifeless. It felt the same by touch. Major (Ret.) Vladimir Bendlin, a former investigator with the police department of Kyshtym was assigned to the case to figure out what it was. Bendlin thought it might be the body of a child and took it for expertise. This was not an official investigation, and he did this in his spare time. The fact that the police did not an official organization into what looked like a possible aborted baby, or a young child, can only mean that they did not consider this a human being in the first place. Bendlin said that "When the question arose about the registration of accounting department of internal affairs, the sound consensus was that this is a different form of life and the issue of registration of this fact lies outside the competence of the police."
The following four pictures are from the original video made by police investigator Vladimir Bendlin. They show how different the skull is from a human. This being has four petal shaped skull plates, and a crest on top of his skull.
Igor Uskov, an urologist with a local hospital was the first medical professional to examine the body. He reckoned that it might as well be a human fetus, some 20 weeks old. Dr. Uskov asked his colleague Irina Ermolayeva, a gynecologist, for a second opinion. Dr. Ermolayeva agreed that the body looked very much like an underdeveloped fetus expelled from the womb prematurely i.e. a miscarriage. Bendlin expected to close the case right after getting an opinion from a pathologist from the city morgue. Stanislav Samoshkin, a physician-pathologist, and head of of morbid anatomy department at the Kyshtym hospital performed a thorough visual inspection of the body of the body, as he was not allowed to cut into it. And then he announced that the creature was neither a human being nor an animal. According to him, it was some new life form. Dr. Samoshkin said: "The creature was not by any means a human being. The human skull consists of six bones. The skull of that creature was made up of 4 bones. There were other differences in the skeleton structure. Those anomalies didn't look like any congenital malformations known to date." The skeleton was different than that of a human, especially the pelvis, which would allow the creature to walk on all fours. Arms and hands are different than those of a human. The skull consisted of four plates: occipital, frontal and two parietal-temporal. The pelvis was typical for a bipedal creature. Proportionally, the skeletal structure does not conform to that of a human. The hands, when stretched would reach up to the knees. It had no teeth, and it was impossible to examine the bottom of the mouth. It had no ears, and very large eye sockets. Internal organs could not be determined because the body had mummified. There was no navel, an no genitals.
Drawing of the creature.
Accurate measurements were made when the mummified body was examined. Click on picture to see an enlarged version.
Head details, cat like pupils, and very strange mouth features.
As the creature was non-human, police investigator Bendlin decided to consult the UFO organization "Star Academy UFO Contact in Zolotov Method". The Academy was 200 kilometers away, in the town of Kamensk-Uralsky of Sverdlovsk region. The head of the organization was Galina Semenkova came over to see the creature. She told Bendlin that the it was a biological but artificial creature, that it was programmed to study the environment and life in space, among other tasks. She persuaded Bendlin to hand over the body of the creature, so she could do her own research, and promised the give him the results in the future. Although Bendlin didn't believe their claims, he gave them the mummy because his wife wanted the mummy out of the house.
When Bendlin contacted the organization later on, he was told not to worry, they are studying the mummy. Then, Bendlin was unable to contact her again. Every time Bendlin called her, he got all kinds of excises from the person at the other end of the line: "she went shopping", "she went for a walk" or "she is away on a trip".
Then a Japanese TV crew phoned the relatives of the daughter, Tamara Vasilievna's. The Japanese were working on a documentary about Aleshenka and wanted to interview her. However, just several days before the Japanese TV crew arrival, the mental hospital released her, late at night on August 5, 1999. Tamara Vasilievna somehow showed up on the road. Tamara had rushed out without shoes. Eye-witnesses say it looked like the woman was reacting to somebody's call. People wanted to take the woman off the highway, but she became the victim of a hit-and-run accident. People saw not one but two cars converging on her and running her over. The police did not want to do an investigation into the accident.
All that was left now was a video, made by Vladimir Bendlin when the features of the creature were inspected, and a piece of cloth with bodily stains from the creature when it had been wrapped after its death. Major Bendlin also managed to locate some people who had seen the creature while it was still alive. Several adults and children had seen a number of these creatures in the village, and had chased them as if they were animals. Tamara had picked up a wounded one, and tried to take care of it.
Nemdlin also heard from the locals that the group of beings had moved away from their village, and every year they were seen further and further away towards the Ural mountain range.
Two beings seen by a motorist alongside a road.
A local woman found a similar being inside her house when she was counting a large amount of money (the salaries for employees). She felt a gaze, and turned around to see a being stare at her. She was perplexed because all the doors were locked. As in a hypnotic trance she went to bed and slept through the might. In the morning, one of the doors was unlocked and left open. The money was still all there. This was July 1996.
Later on, the cloth was examined by Vadim Aleksandrovich, coordinator of the Association "Kosmopoisk", in 2004, he found that the cloth had the outlines of the creatures produced by sweat. At the place where the head had been, he found traces of blood and a white substance that he thought was brain tissue. This would have been oozed out of the skull, as two of the four skull plates of the creature were pulled apart, as this was still visible in the mummified body. This would tie in with the statement of the man who accidentally crushed the being (see above).
Scientists carried out five series of laboratory studies investigating the DNA samples of the creature's biological material, found on the cloth. The study conducted by a Moscow-based Institute of Forensic Medicine produced sensational results. "A gene discovered in the DNA samples doesn't correspond with any genes pertaining to humans or anthropoid apes," said Vadim Chernobrov, a coordinator with the public research center Kosmopoisk. "No gene samples available at the laboratory match the gene. The experts in DNA research haven't come across any creatures with such an elongated DNA molecule," Chernobrov added.
However the results of the genetic analysis did not match any genes from humans or animals. Its gene sequence was not in any DNA data bank, which has all gene data from all living creatures on Earth.
He also went to the house of one of the 'ufologist' who had taken the body and took off with it. Her name was Ms. Semenkovo, from Kamensk-Uralsky. She never opened the door for him. He also noticed that he was being followed by a man.
Only recently Galina Semenkova, the head of the UFO organization, who had taken the mummy, said at a UFO seminar in Tokyo that after having taken the mummy from the police investigator, when she was driving home from Kyshtym to her home town, a flying saucer appeared in the sky and made her car stop. Aliens from the flying saucer demanded the body of their dead fellow, and she handed the body over to them. (if we are supposed to believe that...)
However, somebody else went to Galina's house and managed to ask her a couple of questions. Interestingly, she said the body did not disappear, but that the Federal Security Service had examined it. (the FSK counter-intelligence is the internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance as well as investigating some other types of grave crimes and federal law violations in the Russian Federation. Well, this makes more sense! The FSK told her that they would release the information when it would be the right time. (ah well, another empty promise)
I did not manage to find the source of the following pictures. They seem to have been made with a special camera under special lighting condition that bring out the detail of the mummy.
http://www.cartman.tv/storage/incredible/id_4780_lang_en.html
http://www.pravdareport.com/science/mysteries/24-03-2007/88603-alien_dna-0/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170830065933/http://www.pravdareport.com/science/mysteries/05-04-2007/89132-russian_alien-0/
http://www.pravdareport.com/society/anomal/18-02-2004/4883-alien-0/
http://www.ufo.obninsk.ru/kyshtym.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20190107235733/http://pronlo.net/interes/857-sledovatel-rassekretil-delo.html
http://avantyra.com/kyshtymskiy-karlik-500
the Ren-Tv documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJf_lo30xX4