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Once again, I am a terrorist: What I'm reading, March 5, 2016
March 5, 2016 David Benfell
Updated first with an additional story on the immunity granted in the Clinton email investigation and with election results, then second with a revised version of the New York Times story on the election results and a Politico story which assumes Bernie Sanders is no longer in the race to win.
The ever broader definition of terrorism
Paranoia knows no limits.
Sarah Lazare, "The FBI Has a New Plan to Spy on High School Students Across the Country," Truthdig, March 4, 2016, http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_fbi_has_a_new_plan_to_spy_on_high_school_students_20160304
Last-ditch attempts to stop Trump are backfiring badly. That includes Marco Rubio's suggestion that Trump has small hands (and therefore . . .).
Joel Pett, San Francisco Chronicle, March 5, 2016, fair use.
Stephen Dinan, "Donald Trump endorsers derided as 'sellouts,' 'traitors' and worse — by fellow Republicans," Washington Times, March 3, 2016, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/donald-trump-endorsers-derided-as-sellouts-traitor/
Michael Barbaro, Ashley Parker, and Jonathan Martin, "Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We're Sticking With Donald Trump," New York Times, March 4, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html
Bill Berkowitz, "Are Right-Wing Evangelicals True Christians or Just Another White Identity Cult?" Truthout, March 4, 2016, http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/are-evangelicals-true-christians-or-just-another-white-identity-cult
James Poniewozik, "A National Descent Into Trump's Pants," New York Times, March 4, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/arts/television/a-national-descent-into-trumps-pants.html
Ben Fountain, "American crossroads: Reagan, Trump and the devil down south," Guardian, March 5, 2016, http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/05/trump-reagan-nixon-republican-party-racism
Ben Kamisar, "How the GOP could stop Trump at the convention," Hill, March 5, 2016, http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/271877-how-the-gop-could-stop-trump-at-the-convention
Michael Ramirez, Washington Times, March 5, 2016, fair use.
Max Lewontin, "Clinton staffer given immunity in e-mail inquiry: sign of charges to come?" Christian Science Monitor, March 3, 2016, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/0303/Clinton-staffer-given-immunity-in-e-mail-inquiry-sign-of-charges-to-come-video
Valerie Richardson, "Pagliano's immunity deal could indicate grand jury probe into Clinton email server," Washington Times, March 3, 2016, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/brian-paglianos-immunity-deal-could-indicate-hilla/
Katie Bo Williams and Cory Bennett, "Immunity deal raises stakes in Clinton email investigation," Hill, March 3, 2016, http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/271718-immunity-deal-raises-stakes-in-clinton-email-investigation
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, "No One Here Can Save the G.O.P.," New Yorker, March 4, 2016, http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/no-one-here-can-save-the-g-o-p
David Smith, "Hillary Clinton v Donald Trump: the looming battle for the soul of America," Guardian, March 5, 2016, http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/05/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-gereral-election-battle-american-future
Annie Karni, "Bernie bogs down Hillary," Politico, March 5, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/democratic-primaries-2016-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-220314
Jonathan Martin, "Cruz Keeps Up Pressure on Trump; Sanders Takes 2 on 'Super Saturday,'" New York Times, March 5, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/us/politics/primary-elections.html
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import com.sun.istack.logging.Logger;
import com.sun.xml.ws.api.message.Message;
import com.sun.xml.ws.api.message.Messages;
import com.sun.xml.ws.api.message.Packet;
import com.sun.xml.ws.util.xml.XmlUtil;

import javax.xml.stream.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import java.util.logging.Level;

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        }

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    public static String toString(Message message) {
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    private static String toString(Message message, boolean createIndenter) {
        if (message == null) {
            return "[ Null message ]";
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                    LOGGER.finest("An exception occured when trying to close StringWriter", ex);
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                LOGGER.warning("Unexpected exception occured while closing ByteArrayOutputStream", ex);
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            // closing ByteArrayInputStream has no effect, so ignoring the redundant call
        } catch (XMLStreamException ex) {
            LOGGER.warning("Unexpected exception occured while converting message data to string", ex);
            return "[ Message Data Conversion Failed ]";
        }
    }

    /**
     * Wraps {@link javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter} by an indentation engine if possible.
     *
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     */
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        try {
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            writer = XMLStreamWriter.class.cast(c.newInstance(writer));
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            if (logMissingStaxUtilsWarning.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
                LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Put stax-utils.jar to the classpath to indent the dump output", ex);
            }
        }
        return writer;
    }
}


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Modify Your Design for Global Audiences: Crosscultural UX Design
Summary: Crosscultural design adaptations range from translation to localization. Researching general and contextual cultural differences helps you decide what type of design changes you should make.
By Feifei Liu
on 2021-03-21 March 21, 2021
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International Users International Users,
When brands and organizations seek growth by expanding into a global market, they may find that their digital products are not as popular as in the domestic market.
Beyond marketing factors, one frequent cause is that their websites and apps are initially developed for and tested within a local demographical profile. What has been working well for that domestic group may not make any sense to people from a different cultural background. This is why designers must modify the products for a global audience and test with that target audience to validate the modifications.
Two Types of Adaptation
For digital products with crosscultural audiences speaking different languages, there are two adaptation approaches:
Translation means that the interface language changes depending on the target audience. The look and feel of the product stays the same; the only difference is the language.
Localization refers to making the design of the digital product culturally relevant to the target audience. This type of change is often more dramatic: visual presentation and content strategy can be totally different.
These types of adaptation are two ends of a spectrum of possible approaches to cultural differences: a product can fall anywhere on this spectrum.
For example, the New Zealand fashion brand Shekou Woman offered various language options on its website. For each language, the visual design and content stayed the same: only the language changed. Shekou is an example of a translation-only approach to dealing with diverse audiences.
Shekouwoman.com. This website allows users to choose from multiple languages; the UI stays the same for different languages. The English version (top) is nearly identical to the Chinese version (bottom).
In contrast, Pharmacy Online, an Australian pharmacy website, showed different designs to its Chinese and English-speaking visitors. The navigation, information architecture, visual design, and promoted products were all different.
Pharmacyonline.com.au. The English version (top) and the Chinese version (bottom) had different information architecture, visual design, and content presentation. This website is fully localized. For example, the Chinese version adapted the hero image to celebrate a holiday (the Year of the Ox) that was a major event in China at the time this screenshot was taken.
Many other digital products fall in the middle ground between localization and translation, tailoring their content and visual presentation to a certain degree.
For instance, H&M's Chinese and American versions had a similar look and feel: they used the same information architecture and visual design. However, the Chinese version emphasized Lunar New Year Sales on all its banner pictures and used Asian models; the US version promoted a special collection with local models.
The H&M website used both translation and localization. The US (left) and Chinese (right) versions looked similar, but the models and sale events were localized. The American design promoted a new special collection, while the Chinese one emphasized Chinese New Year sales.
Ideally, you should have a culturally specific version for every country or region you provide services for; this approach is pretty typical for big global companies. For each version, the localization level depends on how people with the respective cultural background differ from domestic users.
Still, sometimes it's not feasible, worthwhile, or even necessary to have local designs for every culture, especially for smaller businesses. In this case, products or services rely mostly on translation and simply offer multiple language options.
There isn't a one-for-all solution when you modify your design for global audiences. Next, we discuss some key factors you should consider to decide where your product should sit on this spectrum.
Factors Impacting Crosscultural Designs
For a specific digital product targeting international audiences, you must decide how much to tailor the products to users from different cultural backgrounds.
Here are some factors to consider:
The heterogeneity level of your target audiences
General cultural differences between your target audience and domestic users
How much cultural factors impact user behavior and the tasks supported by your product
The brand image that you want to establish
The potential value of your target market
First, identify culturally distinctive segments and their percentages, especially when your users are scattered all over the world.
If, like H&M, you already have culturally specific versions of your products, you're getting a head start. However, if so far you've only relied on translations, it's time to assess how culturally diverse your audience groups are. Even people using the same language may not be culturally homogenous. Users in France and in Quebec, Canada may both use the French version of your site, but they belong to different cultural groups and their behavior patterns may differ.
Apple.com: The French versions for France (left) and Canada (right) shared the same language, but their content and promotions were totally different. (Compared to the France version, the Canada version was culturally closer to the Canadian English version.)
Within each of the languages spoken by your audience, define: (1) if there are any culturally distinct subgroups; (2) how big these subgroups are.
If none of these subgroups reach a sizeable portion of your general audience, then rely mostly on translation to deal with the users who speak that language. If one subgroup is a big part of your total audience, then consider creating a localized, culturally specific site for that group.
(For relatively smaller subgroups speaking the same language with your dominant users but from a different cultural background, offer a translated, culturally neutral 'International' version if possible. If that's not feasible, stating the culturally specific content clearly, like promotions only for visitors from certain areas, can prevent minorities from misunderstanding.)
For example, Stylenanda, a South-Korean makeup and fashion brand offered international shipping, allowing shoppers all over the world to place orders on its website. However, it only provided 5 languages: Korean, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. Shoppers from Europe, Africa, and North America all had to use the English version. Stylenanda's English website was not customized to any of these audiences because it would be too expensive and complicated to design multiple culturally specific versions for all English speakers worldwide, especially if most of the company's revenues came from Asian purchasers.
In contrast, its Simplified Chinese version offered a special online-chat feature that wasn't available on any other versions, using a popular Chinese instant messaging service, QQ. This feature is due to the relative homogeneity of shoppers using the Simplified Chinese version.
Stylenanda.com. The English version (middle) was a translation of the Korean version (top), with no additional localization, because of the high heterogeneity of English-speaking shoppers. The Simplified Chinese version (bottom) offered a culturally specific online chat feature based on an IM service popular in China.
General Cultural Differences
After you identify a culturally homogeneous user group from your target audience and consider modifying your designs for it, you need to analyze how different they are from your domestic users and other cultures you target.
There are many possible approaches to this analysis. One is based on Hofstede's cultural-dimensions theory, which defines 6 dimensions on which different national and cultural groups differentiate most. They are:
Power distance: The extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally.
Individualism vs. collectivism: Whether people put more weight on the interests of the individual (individualists) or on the the interests of the group (collectivists).
Masculinity vs. femininity: Whether strong, very different emotion stereotypes are associated with traditional genders (masculine societies) or emotions are allowed to overlap across genders (feminine societies).
Uncertainty avoidance: The extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations.
Long-term vs. short-term orientation: Whether the society fosters virtues such as perseverance or thrift, oriented towards future rewards (long-term orientation) or virtues related to the past and the present.
Indulgence vs. restraint: Attitude towards enjoying life and having fun, ranging from free gratification of human desires (indulgence) versus adhering to strict social norms (restraint).
You can use a comparison tool such as the one provided by Hofstede Insights to figure out how two countries differ. For instance, we can learn that Australia and the United States are relatively similar in terms of all 6 dimensions, while the Japan and US have different scores for individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation.
According to Hofstede Insights, the cultural differences between Australia and the United States (top) should be smaller than those between Japan and the United States (bottom).
Another possible way of identifying cultural differences is through the theory of high-context vs. low-context cultures, proposed by anthropologist Edward T. Hall. Hall believes that people from high-context cultures prefer face-to-face communication and look for both less-direct verbal and subtler nonverbal cues during the communication. High-information density for various media formats is preferred by high-context cultures such as Chinese and Japanese. In contrast, people from low-context cultures (like the US and Scandinavian countries) rely on direct, explicit verbal cues during communication.
No matter which means you use to learn about the culture you're designing for, noticeable cultural differences indicate the necessity of localizing the design. However, only looking at the general cultural differences is not enough; learning how cultural differences may impact your target audience's use of your offerings is vital.
Cultural Differences on Product Usage
Though cultural differences do exist, they don't all influence how people interact with digital products.
Some factors are listed below for you to consider:
Frequency. How frequently does your target audience use your product? The lower the frequency of use, the less localized the product has to be. However, if your product completely violates a local mental model and people use it rarely, there's a high chance that they will make the same mistake again and again, in the few instances when they use it.
Context. Where and how do your target users use your product? For example, do they solely use your site on a computer or do they need to check it on the go, on a mobile device as well? The more complex the context in which people use your products or services, the more localized the design should be.
Interpersonal cooperation. Conduct a task analysis and learn how users achieve their primary goals. Does the task involve collaboration and communication between multiple users? If that's the case, localized designs are more likely to be helpful since cultural differences can impact organization structures and hierarchies. For instance, an educational game designed to facilitate teaching may need more localized components than a time-killing single-person mobile game. The former involves more engagement of multiple roles.
How local competitors differ from yours. Conduct competitor analysis or observe how your target audiences use products similar to yours. Analyze the differences between your product and its competitors and see whether they're culturally specific, to uncover cultural mental models for common interaction patterns. For instance, during our ecommerce research, we observed that people in India and China preferred one-time passwords when asked to check out. Email registration wasn't welcomed. In China, login through third-party platforms like AliPay and WeChat was also very popular. When a Chinese participant saw that a British-Portuguese ecommerce website, Farfetch, supported registration through WeChat, he was pretty amazed. "That's wonderful and convenient. I have my mobile phone number and personal information on WeChat. If I use it to log in, there's so much information I don't need to fill in manually."
The Chinese version of the British-Portuguese fashion retailer Farfetch.com allowed users to login with WeChat (the green button in the screenshot), which impressed a participant during usability testing.
In general, the more your products or services are involved in daily life, the more localized your design should be. Thus, deciding how localized your design should be or which components need localization requires understanding the full picture of how people from different cultural backgrounds use your product in their daily lives.
Deciding how localized your product should be also influenced by your branding. Designs can evoke emotional responses. Those emotional responses help people appraise your product and form an impression on your brand. Sometimes, making your product look a little bit exotic isn't bad — it can contribute to establishing your brand's image if people know that you're foreign.
For instance, when a Chinese participant browsed the Chinese version of the Bose website during our study, he described it as a "high-end website, like those foreign brands selling luxurious products." He didn't want to make purchases on this website because the information density was very low compared with other Chinese retailers like Taobao and JD.
However, the site didn't provide any purchase options, either; it only redirected people to authorized third-party shops, like the official Bose shop on JD.com. If the intention behind the Chinese Bose website was to create a luxurious brand image rather than sell products, it worked for this participant: after his experience, he believed that Bose was a luxury brand.
A product-detailed page on the Chinese version of Bose.com (left) vs. the official Bose shop on JD.com (right): The former had much lower information density and created a luxurious brand image; the latter, with a higher information density, was more familiar to Chinese online shoppers, and they were more likely to make purchases there.
On the other hand, localized components can make people trust your products or services, since it shows that you spent time learning about them.
For example, another middle-aged female participant commented on the QR code featured on an Australian pharmacy website, Amcal+. "I can follow them on WeChat and get to know their deals more quickly. This increases the credibility of this website."
Amcal.com.au. A localized component, the QR-code of the company's official WeChat account, made a participant trust the site.
The Potential Value of the Target Market
The last but most important factor that you need to consider is the potential value of the target market. Localizing your design costs much more than mere translation. It requires commitment and communication between researchers, designers, content writers, developers, and even marketing teams.
Calculating the ROI of the localization effort is crucial before deciding to localize a product instead of just hiring a translator and translating all the content. Also, prioritizing the localized components you want to add is vital. A UX roadmap can help you prioritize, plan, and coordinate the research, design, and development efforts.
Test with Your Target Audience
Even though you may have learned a lot about the culture you want to design for, you still need to remember that you're not the user!
At the beginning of designing a cross-cultural product, conduct field studies, like contextual inquiries, with your target users. These studies can identify the role of your products or services in people's daily lives. Observing the environment and context of use for your products and its local competitors can uncover cultural differences and potential localization directions.
Once you have your products (or prototypes) ready, conducting usability testing with international audiences can be very useful, as well. When combined with interviews, international usability testing can identify fundamental usability issues and cultural-specific practices, expectations, and mental models.
All in all, it doesn't matter how localized a design looks if it's hard to use. As a Chinese participant who shopped at international sites a lot stated, "The visual style doesn't matter that much. The ease of use is the key. If my shopping experience is bad, it doesn't matter if it looks beautiful or not."
Tips for Crosscultural UX Design
Organizations that are just beginning to expand into a global market may want to build up international impact but may lack resources to create specific versions for every region they've reached. In that case, you may have to start with minimal international versions. Try the following techniques:
Provide specific language versions that cover as many of your international audiences as possible. In the beginning, rely mostly on translation instead of localization.
Cut down culturally specific elements to avoid possible confusion and frustration. Follow universal UX conventions. Use imagery to help shoppers navigate on ecommerce sites, for instance.
Analyze the most valuable market and consider a design that is localized for that segment first.
When designing for a sizeable target audience with a cultural background that is different from yours, follow the steps below:
Understand the general cultural differences. Identify the ones most relevant to your products. Based on these general differences, write down questions and assumptions to examine in subsequent research activities.
Identify how cultural differences impact users' interactions with your products in context. Use field studies, diary studies, and competitor analysis to identify culturally specific practices your target audience may engage in when using your products.
Identify those product components that would benefit most from localization and prioritize them for localization. Use a combination of research data, brand-image goals, and ROI to single out those features.
Test early and test often. Conduct usability testing with your target audience. Depending on the size of your target market, establish a professional local usability team if necessary.
Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, and Michael Minkov. 2010. Cultures and Organizations, Software of the mind (3rd. ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Edward T. Hall. 1976. Beyond culture. Anchor.
Feifei Liu (刘菲菲) is a User Experience Specialist with Nielsen Norman Group, conducting research on a broad range of design issues, including the distinction between high-value user tasks and lower-value interactions and eyetracking studies of content usability. She has also researched the Internet user experience for children and the structural differences in the experience architecture of the web in China vs. Western countries.
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Home Technology Did we evolve insomnia as a way to survive?
Did we evolve insomnia as a way to survive?
A sound night's sleep grows more elusive as people get older, but what some call insomnia may actually be an age-old survival mechanism.
For people who live in groups, differences in sleep patterns commonly associated with age help ensure that at least one person is awake at all times, a study of modern hunter-gatherers in Tanzania shows.
The findings suggest that mismatched sleep schedules and restless nights may be an evolutionary leftover from a time many, many years ago, when a lion lurking in the shadows might try to eat you at 2 am.
"The idea that there's a benefit to living with grandparents has been around for a while, but this study extends that idea to vigilance during nighttime sleep," says coauthor David Samson, who was a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University at the time of the study.
Hadza women walking in northern Tanzania. (Credit: Alyssa Crittenden, U. Nevada, Las Vegas)
The Hadza people of northern Tanzania live by hunting and gathering their food, following the rhythms of day and night just as humans did for hundreds of thousands of years before people started growing crops and herding livestock.
They live and sleep in groups of 20 to 30 people. During the day, men and women go their separate ways to forage for tubers, berries, honey, and meat in the savanna woodlands near Tanzania's Lake Eyasi and surrounding areas. Then each night they reunite in the same place, where young and old alike sleep outside next to their hearth, or together in huts made of woven grass and branches.
"They are as modern as you and me. But they do tell an important part of the human evolutionary story because they live a lifestyle that is the most similar to our hunting and gathering past," says coauthor Alyssa Crittenden, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
"They sleep on the ground, and have no synthetic lighting or controlled climate—traits that characterized the ancestral sleeping environment for early humans."
For the study, 33 healthy men and women aged 20 to 60 agreed to wear a small watch-like device on their wrists for 20 days, that recorded their nighttime movements from one minute to the next.
Hadza sleep patterns were rarely in sync. On average, participants went to bed shortly after 10 pm and woke up around 7 am But, some tended to retire as early as 8 pm and wake up by 6 am, and others stayed up past 11 pm and snoozed until after 8 am.
In between, they roused from slumber several times during the night, tossing and turning or getting up to smoke, tend to a crying baby, or relieve themselves before nodding off again.
As a result, moments when everyone was out cold at once were rare. Out of more than 220 total hours of observation, the researchers were surprised to find only 18 minutes when all adults were sound asleep simultaneously. On average, more than a third of the group was alert, or dozing very lightly, at any given time.
"And that's just out of the healthy adults; it doesn't include children, or people who were injured or sick," says Samson, now an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.
Yet participants didn't complain of sleep problems.
The findings may help explain why Hadza generally don't post sentinels to keep watch throughout the night—they don't need to. Their natural variation in sleep patterns, coupled with light or restless sleep in older adults, is enough to ensure that at least one person is on guard at all times.
"Maybe some of the medical issues we have today could be explained not as disorders, but as a relic of an evolutionary past in which they were beneficial."
"If you're in a lighter stage of sleep you'd be more attuned to any kind of threat in the environment," says coauthor Charlie Nunn, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke.
Previous studies have found similar patterns in birds, mice, and other animals, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been tested in humans, Samson says.
The misaligned sleep schedules were a byproduct of changing sleep patterns common with age, researchers say. Participants in their 50s and 60s generally went to bed earlier, and woke up earlier than those in their 20s and 30s.
The researchers call their theory the "poorly sleeping grandparent hypothesis." The basic idea is that, for much of human history, living and sleeping in mixed-age groups of people with different sleep habits helped our ancestors keep a watchful eye and make it through the night.
"Any time you have a mixed-age group population, some go to bed early, some later," Nunn says. "If you're older you're more of a morning lark. If you're younger you're more of a night owl."
The researchers hope the findings will shift our understanding of age-related sleep disorders.
"A lot of older people go to doctors complaining that they wake up early and can't get back to sleep," Nunn says. "But maybe there's nothing wrong with them. Maybe some of the medical issues we have today could be explained not as disorders, but as a relic of an evolutionary past in which they were beneficial."
Author: Robin Smith-Duke University
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LOS ANGELES - July 16, 2016 - PRLog -- Editor-In-Chief, Kimberly Steward, names Los Angeles based, celebrity makeup artist Paija Hudson Model ::: Diary's first Junior Beauty Editor. The fashion portal relaunched it website www.model-diary.com in February this year and has published several Get The Look articles by Hudson. Her new role will see more real estate on the site being dedicated towards it's new MD ::: Beauty section.
"Writing for Model ::: Diary allows me to connect with readers in a way that helps them understand products and the industry on their level," says Hudson. "It's not just about sharing my favorite products or showing my talent, it's about making beauty relatable and achievable for all."
As a makeup artist Paija Hudson has beat faces for celebrities and models alike. Her more recent celebrity work was seen on HGTV's Property Brothers and an episode of E!'s Rich Kids Of Beverly Hills. Hudson's talent has also been lended to New York Style & Couture Fashion Weeks. Her work as an artist also aids her expertise as an influencer and public speaker as seen at Summit Live's annual event in San Francisco.
In the new MD ::: Beauty section readers can expect to see more tutorials, products reviews, new product information, product launches and more. "Influencing beauty and retail on a platform like Model ::: Diary provides an outlet for me give my honest review on products in order to help guide people as they choose to spend their hard earned money," says Hudson about her new role.
"We are extremely excited to have Paija on the Model ::: Diary team," says Editor-In-Cheif, Kimberly Steward. "She has great experience in influencing brands and has an organic audience that loves what she does."
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The London Parks & Gardens Bromley Recorders Group has been researching the history of many of our local parks and green spaces in the borough. The group includes members of various Friends Groups and has published an online magazine entitled "Bromley: Historic Parks, Gardens & Green Spaces" with articles on six of such spaces. Click here to read more.


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When you haven't slept or you're sick or stressed or brutally hung over, putting on a full face of makeup is the very last thing you want to do. Fortunately, on super trying days, less really is more. Instead of hiding behind a thick mask of cosmetics, just concentrate on making little tweaks. We've asked top makeup artists for their best quick-fix tips to help you look and feel like you're back among the living.
"Skin that is fatigued can look dull and dehydrated,"says makeup artist Margina Dennis, who has worked with Lea Michele and Jane Lynch. She recommends using a cleanser with lactic acid to wake up your face. "Philosophy Miracle Worker Lactic Acid Cleanser and Mask is a great way to remove dull, dead skin and quickly perk up the complexion," she says.
"Try mixing a dime-sized amount of luminizer into your moisturizer. That way when you apply your favorite foundation product you'll get a subtle glow without looking like you tried too hard," says editorial makeup artist Gilbert Soliz, whose work has appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and V Magazine. Try Nars Luminator in Copacabana for an easily-spreadable, gorgeous glow or try NYX Born To Glow Liquid Illuminator for a more budget-friendly fix.
"Jouer Luminizing Moisture Tint evens out the skin tone by using light-diffusing pigments to keep your skin looking completely natural, like you aren't wearing any makeup. The ginseng also increases skin circulation and SPF20 offers sun protection," notes Dennis.
"One thing I always have in my arsenal for days when no matter what makeup product I use I still look dry and tired, is rose water. This will freshen your makeup and look naturally dewy," explains Marina Gravani, Los Angeles-based makeup artist to celebs like Mariah Carey, Robin Wright and Diana Agron.
"I love a cream blush by CK, it really blends the best, looks so natural and leaves the skin with a silky semi-matte touch. Use a fresh rosy pink, it's simply the best color to wake up the whole face!" says makeup artist Riku Campo, author of Best in Beauty: An Ultimate Guide to Makeup and Skincare Techniques, Tools, and Products whose work has appeared in Vogue, Elle, Glamour and more.
"I also like to add radiance to the cheekbone to give a freshness to the makeup. Tom Ford's Illuminating Highlight Pen in Lavender Voile is great for giving that 'put together' sheen," says Gravani.
"The eyes are the first dead giveaway that we are sleep deprived," explains Michelle Phillips, makeup artist and media personality for the Oxygen network and Martha Stewart Radio. "Keep your eye cream refrigerated and apply just after getting out of the shower. The cool creme will reduce puffiness while hydrating the thin tissue under our eyes."
"My first step to looking amazing when everything is against you is to grab a metal spoon and freeze it. Right before you're heading out the door apply it to the under eye area it will instantly tighten and reduce puffiness," says makeup artist Stephanie Flor, a backstage regular at Alexander McQueen, DKNY and Victoria's Secret runway shows.
"One fail-safe and easy trick to looking amazing while running on empty is to curl your eyelashes," hints Mary Guthrie, commercial makeup artist for Topshop, Lacoste and Shopbop. "Angle the curler as close to the lash-line as possible, squeeze hold for 8-10 seconds and release. Your eyes will instantly perk up to give your face a quick, effortless lift."
"Skip eyeliner and mascara underneath the eyes if you have dark circles or puffiness. Apply mascara and line your eyes just on your upper lashes only. The trick is to open your beautiful eyes, not close them in like a raccoon!" warns Phillips.
"Tuck and smudge black waterproof eyeliner into the roots of your upper lashes to instantly define and open the eyes," says Soliz. "Then apply a navy mascara to make the whites of your eyes appear much brighter."
"Shading our waterline with white eyeliner is a practice most of us know. Instead try a natural skin color eyeliner like beige. It'll still open up your eyes without looking bright white," explains Flor.
Don't Have Time for Makeup?
"Just apply some Vaseline onto your lips, but also swipe some across your eyelid for extra shine. It looks as if you've done something without much effort," says Flor.
"Lighten up and brighten up your lips. Darker hues tend to look muddy," notes Phillips. "Think of soft, beautiful petals from a flower – shades like rose, coral and peach help create a more flawless appearance."


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The Dunkin' Donuts Decision: Franchisors' Liability for Letting Bad Apples Spoil the Bunch
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Given the prevalence of wrongful termination cases in the franchise context, it may seem strange for a court to find that a franchisor would not only be justified in terminating certain franchisees but in some cases obligated to terminate those franchisees. However, in the recent case of Dunkin' Brands Canada Ltd. v. Bertico Inc.1 , the Quebec Court of Appeal found that Dunkin' failed to take reasonable steps to protect and enhance the brand which failure was illustrated, in part, by its tolerance of underperforming franchisees in the system.
On appeal, Dunkin' argued that the trial judge had misread the franchise agreement and imposed obligations on the franchisor that were not expressly assumed by it. Rejecting this argument, the Court explained how the implied obligation to terminate the "bad apples" was supported by its express promise to promote the brand and was also a necessary extension of its express right to enforce brand standards:
The explicit contractual "right" it has to insist that the franchisee respect the uniform standards of the system brings with it a correlative obligation of means, owed collectively and individually to the complying franchisees, to see that the franchisees adhere to those standards 2 .
The concept of implied obligations described in this case might be disconcerting to franchisors at first blush. Although, the implied obligation to ensure brand standards are followed across the system is not surprising and in any event, benefits both franchisees and franchisors. From a fairness standpoint, underperforming franchisees should not be allowed to "free-ride" on the goodwill produced by those franchisees diligently complying with the system's standards. As identified in this case, the more egregious problem for both Dunkin' and its franchisees was the impact of free-riders spoiling the Dunkin' Donuts experience for customers and thereby deterring patronage of all other Dunkin' Donut stores.
An important take-away for franchisors in this case is the need to be alert to obligations that are owed to the network of franchisees. For example, when dealing with non-compliant franchisees and deciding whether to terminate them, franchisors should consider their obligations owed collectively to the network of franchisees (i.e., considering the impact of underperforming franchisees being and remaining in the system) in addition to their obligations to individual franchisees (e.g., ensuring there are proper grounds for termination). This type of consideration of the "collective" is also seen in other aspects of franchise relationships, such as a franchisor's right to allocate advertising fund monies in a way that benefits the whole system as opposed to pro rata each franchisee's contributions. Franchisors have also been able to enforce obligations upon franchisees in past court decisions in part because of the impact that a non-performing franchisee can have on its fellow franchisees. This decision is consistent with that sentiment.
Ultimately, franchisors of successful systems already fulfill their implied obligation to promote the health of their brands and consider the interests of their franchisees as a whole; in which case, this decision merely reinforces those best practices.
1 Dunkin' Brands Canada Ltd. v. Bertico Inc.
http://www.canlii.org/en/qc/qcca/doc/2015/2015qcca624/2015qcca624.html
2 Ibid para 85
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Home » News » SME finance expert joins ThinCats' North-West team
ThinCats has announced a senior hire to cover the North West region.
Richard Lamb joins ThinCats to lead new business origination throughout the North West, after nearly a decade as relationship director at NatWest, and having been in corporate banking since 1992. He joins the company's growing team of experienced bankers who have turned to specialising in alternative finance.
Richard's brief at ThinCats is to support the structuring of lending facilities for growing and ambitious SMEs across the region. He will specialise in senior secured loans from £100k- £10m for funding growth, acquisitions, refinancing and restructuring of debt.
Damon Walford, chief development officer at ThinCats, said:
"We're extremely pleased to have Richard on board. He joins us after three decades of being embedded in the North West SME economy, giving meaningful advice and helping business owners make informed decisions to improve company performance and support growth. He is able to draw on vast experience in supporting SMEs with management buy-outs and buy-ins, alongside growth funding and turnaround situations to help businesses return to financial health.
"I have spent my career working with SME businesses. With the changing landscape seen in the UK funding markets over the last 10 years there is an increasing need for borrowers to have access to alternative sources of finance to those traditionally provided by the banks. I am delighted to be joining ThinCats and providing businesses in the North West with a true alternative finance provider, dedicated to funding growing and ambitious SMEs."


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Poultry farms make profit at the expense of animals and humans. A recent investigation by the Charlotte Observer revealed that the poultry industry has masked the extend of injury that workers are likely to suffer by not reporting them. The most common being: carpal tunnel syndrome, bringing injured employees back to the factory hours after surgery, failing to record injuries on government safety logs, dismissal of workers' requests to see a doctor, etc.
Humanity has to realize that they are consequences for all Creation, including us, when we exploit God's animals. We like to think of ourselves as immune to the wrongs we are causing, but sooner or later, we pay the consequences.


Quarterly, Squire Patton Boggs' Insurance and Reinsurance Disputes Team researches, reviews and analyzes reinsurance cases in US state and federal courts and publishes a high-level digest of those cases in the Squire Patton Boggs Reinsurance Newsletter. The Newsletter also periodically addresses insurance regulatory developments affecting the reinsurance industry and the impact on contract negations and risk mitigation, and occasionally discusses reinsurance cases from outside the US.
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"Sorry For Any Party That Fails To Field A Northerner For 2023 Presidency" – Arewa
By Akahi News1 on 19/09/2019
The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF) has said any political party that fails to field a Northerner as its presidential candidate for the next presidential election should have itself to blame.
There are speculations in some quarters that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) might fizzle out of power should it fail to allow a Northerner as a presidential candidate in 2023.
When the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held sway from 1999 to 2015, the party used to rotate where to choose its presidential candidates, mainly from the two protectorates in the country.
When the ruling party was formed in 2013, the issue of zoning presidential tickets was not one of the issues tackled by the merger parties involved in the formation.
It is on this note that some persons considered influential in the Northern part of the country are insisting that the party either field their son or loose power to any other opposing party willing to do so.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who is from the North, began his second term in May and will step down in 2023. Some leaders of his party are insisting power must shift to the South.
Yerima Shettima, the National President of AYCF, while speaking with Sun Newspaper said nobody or group has the constitutional right to prevent the region from fielding candidate in 2023.
Mr Shettima, who said the people of the zone would make use of its numerical strength to determine the outcome of the election, advised any political party that refuses to zone its presidential ticket to the North should blame itself.
"The beauty of democracy is the rule of law and the Nigerian Constitution does not restrict any area or region from having a candidate in a general election," he said.
"Any political party that fails to field a candidate from the North would blame itself after the election because the North would use their numerical strength to determine the outcome democratically," Shettima added.
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PR Act of Vengeance on Blu-ray and DVD Jun 5
Millennium Entertainment
After an unsuccessful and bloody raid in Istanbul, two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to capture a notorious terrorist known only as Dejjal (Arabic for Antichrist). Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of a suspect who may or not be the notorious Dejjal, but when events escalate, the foreign agents must take things in their own hands to avert disaster.
Act of Vengeance
Danny Glover, Gina Gershon, Robert Patrick, Haluk Bilginer and Mahsun Kirmizigul
On Blu-ray and DVD June 5th
LOS ANGELES (April 27, 2012) - Millennium Entertainment proudly announces the DVD and Blu-ray release of Act of Vengeance , an action-packed film starring Danny Glover (2012, Lethal Weapon), Gina Gershon (Killer Joe, P.S. I Love You), Robert Patrick (Safe House, Terminator 2), Haluk Bilinger (W.E.) and Mahsun Kirmizigul who also wrote and directed the film. Act of Vengeance will be available on Blu-ray ($29.99 SRP) and DVD ($28.99 SRP) June 5, 2012.
After an unsuccessful and bloody raid in Istanbul, two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to capture a notorious terrorist known only as "Dejjal" (Arabic for Antichrist). Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of a suspect who may or not be the notorious Dejjal, but when events escalate, the foreign agents must take things in their own hands to avert disaster.
Act of Vengeance was written and directed Mahsun Kirmzigul and produced by Murat Tokat. Clark Peterson also served as producer.
Act of Vengeance - Basics
Street Date: June 5, 2012
Pre-Order Date: May 1, 2012
Subtitles: English SDH & Espanol
Act of Vengeance - Blu-ray
Cat # & UPC: ME-13636 / 687797136367
Act of Vengeance - DVD
About Millennium Entertainment
Formed in 2010 and led by CEO Bill Lee, Millennium Entertainment is a leading independent supplier that acquires and distributes feature films. Next up the company will release Richard Linklater's Bernie, co-written by Skip Hollandsworth and Linklater, starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey; A Little Bit of Heaven, Nicole Kassel's romantic drama/comedy, featuring an all-star cast led Academy Award(R) nominee Kate Hudson with Academy Award(R) winners Kathy Bates and Whoopi Goldberg as well as GaelGarcia Bernal; Little Birds, starring Juno Temple and Kay Panabaker, with Leslie Mann and Kate Bosworth; Red Lights, written and directed by Rodrigo Cortes, and featuring an all-star cast led by Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Toby Jones, Joely Richardson, Elizabeth Olsen, Craig Roberts, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Adriane Lenox; and Jay Chandraekhar's The Babymakers, starring Olivia Munn, Paul Schneider, Aisha Tyler, Kevin Heffernan, Wood Harris and Constance Zimmer.
May 1, 2012, 7:35 am - PR
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