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#pragma once
#include <aws/lakeformation/LakeFormation_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/DateTime.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSMap.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
  class JsonView;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace LakeFormation
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   *
A structure containing information about the query plan.

See
   * Also:
   AWS
   * API Reference

   */
  class AWS_LAKEFORMATION_API QueryPlanningContext
  {
  public:
    QueryPlanningContext();
    QueryPlanningContext(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    QueryPlanningContext& operator=(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue Jsonize() const;

    /**
     *
The ID of the Data Catalog where the partition in question resides. If none
     * is provided, the Amazon Web Services account ID is used by default.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetCatalogId() const{ return m_catalogId; }

    /**
     *
The ID of the Data Catalog where the partition in question resides. If none
     * is provided, the Amazon Web Services account ID is used by default.

     */
    inline bool CatalogIdHasBeenSet() const { return m_catalogIdHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The ID of the Data Catalog where the partition in question resides. If none
     * is provided, the Amazon Web Services account ID is used by default.

     */
    inline void SetCatalogId(const Aws::String& value) { m_catalogIdHasBeenSet = true; m_catalogId = value; }

    /**
     *
The ID of the Data Catalog where the partition in question resides. If none
     * is provided, the Amazon Web Services account ID is used by default.

     */
    inline void SetCatalogId(Aws::String&& value) { m_catalogIdHasBeenSet = true; m_catalogId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The ID of the Data Catalog where the partition in question resides. If none
     * is provided, the Amazon Web Services account ID is used by default.

     */
    inline void SetCatalogId(const char* value) { m_catalogIdHasBeenSet = true; m_catalogId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The ID of the Data Catalog where the partition in question resides. If none
     * is provided, the Amazon Web Services account ID is used by default.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithCatalogId(const Aws::String& value) { SetCatalogId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of the Data Catalog where the partition in question resides. If none
     * is provided, the Amazon Web Services account ID is used by default.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithCatalogId(Aws::String&& value) { SetCatalogId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The ID of the Data Catalog where the partition in question resides. If none
     * is provided, the Amazon Web Services account ID is used by default.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithCatalogId(const char* value) { SetCatalogId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The database containing the table.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetDatabaseName() const{ return m_databaseName; }

    /**
     *
The database containing the table.

     */
    inline bool DatabaseNameHasBeenSet() const { return m_databaseNameHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The database containing the table.

     */
    inline void SetDatabaseName(const Aws::String& value) { m_databaseNameHasBeenSet = true; m_databaseName = value; }

    /**
     *
The database containing the table.

     */
    inline void SetDatabaseName(Aws::String&& value) { m_databaseNameHasBeenSet = true; m_databaseName = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The database containing the table.

     */
    inline void SetDatabaseName(const char* value) { m_databaseNameHasBeenSet = true; m_databaseName.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The database containing the table.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithDatabaseName(const Aws::String& value) { SetDatabaseName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The database containing the table.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithDatabaseName(Aws::String&& value) { SetDatabaseName(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The database containing the table.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithDatabaseName(const char* value) { SetDatabaseName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The time as of when to read the table contents. If not set, the most recent
     * transaction commit time will be used. Cannot be specified along with
     * TransactionId.

     */
    inline const Aws::Utils::DateTime& GetQueryAsOfTime() const{ return m_queryAsOfTime; }

    /**
     *
The time as of when to read the table contents. If not set, the most recent
     * transaction commit time will be used. Cannot be specified along with
     * TransactionId.

     */
    inline bool QueryAsOfTimeHasBeenSet() const { return m_queryAsOfTimeHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The time as of when to read the table contents. If not set, the most recent
     * transaction commit time will be used. Cannot be specified along with
     * TransactionId.

     */
    inline void SetQueryAsOfTime(const Aws::Utils::DateTime& value) { m_queryAsOfTimeHasBeenSet = true; m_queryAsOfTime = value; }

    /**
     *
The time as of when to read the table contents. If not set, the most recent
     * transaction commit time will be used. Cannot be specified along with
     * TransactionId.

     */
    inline void SetQueryAsOfTime(Aws::Utils::DateTime&& value) { m_queryAsOfTimeHasBeenSet = true; m_queryAsOfTime = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The time as of when to read the table contents. If not set, the most recent
     * transaction commit time will be used. Cannot be specified along with
     * TransactionId.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithQueryAsOfTime(const Aws::Utils::DateTime& value) { SetQueryAsOfTime(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The time as of when to read the table contents. If not set, the most recent
     * transaction commit time will be used. Cannot be specified along with
     * TransactionId.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithQueryAsOfTime(Aws::Utils::DateTime&& value) { SetQueryAsOfTime(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline const Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>& GetQueryParameters() const{ return m_queryParameters; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline bool QueryParametersHasBeenSet() const { return m_queryParametersHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline void SetQueryParameters(const Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>& value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters = value; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline void SetQueryParameters(Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>&& value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithQueryParameters(const Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>& value) { SetQueryParameters(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithQueryParameters(Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String>&& value) { SetQueryParameters(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& AddQueryParameters(const Aws::String& key, const Aws::String& value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters.emplace(key, value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& AddQueryParameters(Aws::String&& key, const Aws::String& value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters.emplace(std::move(key), value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& AddQueryParameters(const Aws::String& key, Aws::String&& value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters.emplace(key, std::move(value)); return *this; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& AddQueryParameters(Aws::String&& key, Aws::String&& value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters.emplace(std::move(key), std::move(value)); return *this; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& AddQueryParameters(const char* key, Aws::String&& value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters.emplace(key, std::move(value)); return *this; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& AddQueryParameters(Aws::String&& key, const char* value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters.emplace(std::move(key), value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
A map consisting of key-value pairs.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& AddQueryParameters(const char* key, const char* value) { m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = true; m_queryParameters.emplace(key, value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The transaction ID at which to read the table contents. If this transaction
     * is not committed, the read will be treated as part of that transaction and will
     * see its writes. If this transaction has aborted, an error will be returned. If
     * not set, defaults to the most recent committed transaction. Cannot be specified
     * along with QueryAsOfTime.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetTransactionId() const{ return m_transactionId; }

    /**
     *
The transaction ID at which to read the table contents. If this transaction
     * is not committed, the read will be treated as part of that transaction and will
     * see its writes. If this transaction has aborted, an error will be returned. If
     * not set, defaults to the most recent committed transaction. Cannot be specified
     * along with QueryAsOfTime.

     */
    inline bool TransactionIdHasBeenSet() const { return m_transactionIdHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The transaction ID at which to read the table contents. If this transaction
     * is not committed, the read will be treated as part of that transaction and will
     * see its writes. If this transaction has aborted, an error will be returned. If
     * not set, defaults to the most recent committed transaction. Cannot be specified
     * along with QueryAsOfTime.

     */
    inline void SetTransactionId(const Aws::String& value) { m_transactionIdHasBeenSet = true; m_transactionId = value; }

    /**
     *
The transaction ID at which to read the table contents. If this transaction
     * is not committed, the read will be treated as part of that transaction and will
     * see its writes. If this transaction has aborted, an error will be returned. If
     * not set, defaults to the most recent committed transaction. Cannot be specified
     * along with QueryAsOfTime.

     */
    inline void SetTransactionId(Aws::String&& value) { m_transactionIdHasBeenSet = true; m_transactionId = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The transaction ID at which to read the table contents. If this transaction
     * is not committed, the read will be treated as part of that transaction and will
     * see its writes. If this transaction has aborted, an error will be returned. If
     * not set, defaults to the most recent committed transaction. Cannot be specified
     * along with QueryAsOfTime.

     */
    inline void SetTransactionId(const char* value) { m_transactionIdHasBeenSet = true; m_transactionId.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The transaction ID at which to read the table contents. If this transaction
     * is not committed, the read will be treated as part of that transaction and will
     * see its writes. If this transaction has aborted, an error will be returned. If
     * not set, defaults to the most recent committed transaction. Cannot be specified
     * along with QueryAsOfTime.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithTransactionId(const Aws::String& value) { SetTransactionId(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The transaction ID at which to read the table contents. If this transaction
     * is not committed, the read will be treated as part of that transaction and will
     * see its writes. If this transaction has aborted, an error will be returned. If
     * not set, defaults to the most recent committed transaction. Cannot be specified
     * along with QueryAsOfTime.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithTransactionId(Aws::String&& value) { SetTransactionId(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The transaction ID at which to read the table contents. If this transaction
     * is not committed, the read will be treated as part of that transaction and will
     * see its writes. If this transaction has aborted, an error will be returned. If
     * not set, defaults to the most recent committed transaction. Cannot be specified
     * along with QueryAsOfTime.

     */
    inline QueryPlanningContext& WithTransactionId(const char* value) { SetTransactionId(value); return *this;}

  private:

    Aws::String m_catalogId;
    bool m_catalogIdHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::String m_databaseName;
    bool m_databaseNameHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::Utils::DateTime m_queryAsOfTime;
    bool m_queryAsOfTimeHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::Map<Aws::String, Aws::String> m_queryParameters;
    bool m_queryParametersHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::String m_transactionId;
    bool m_transactionIdHasBeenSet = false;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace LakeFormation
} // namespace Aws


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Jet2.com Inn-troduces New Summer Destination – Innsbruck!
Leisure airline Jet2.com has announced summer flights to Innsbruck for the first time, with services on sale from Birmingham Airport for Summer 20.
The UK Airline will operate flights to the Tyrolean capital between June and September for the first time, giving holidaymakers access to a range of adventures in the stunning Alps as well as the delights of charming Innsbruck itself. Today's announcement comes on the back of the company's first ever programme of ski services to Innsbruck, which start in December this year.
The UK's third largest airline has put 10,000 seats on sale from Birmingham Airport for its first programme of summer services to Innsbruck. This includes weekly Wednesday services which run from 3rd June through to 16th September. Flights are perfectly timed for holidaymakers, with morning departures helping customers to make the most of their stay.
Innsbruck is the fifth largest city in Austria and is surrounded by stunning high mountains and dazzling lakes, making it attractive to the increasing number of holidaymakers who are enticed by wellness, adventure and sport. With miles of mountain ranges and alpine meadows on the doorstep, adventurers, hikers and cyclists are spoiled for choice, and that's not mentioning the unique mountain trams that offer up some of the most staggering views around.
Medieval Innsbruck itself offers a fantastic city break option, small enough to get around on foot, whilst fusing modern cosmopolitan with tradition and charm. Home to museums such as Audioversum and the Grassmayr Bell Foundry, cafes serving traditional fare such as schnitzel and strudel, and criss-crossed by charming cobbled streets lined with bars and restaurants, it's not hard to see why Innsbruck is becoming so popular with British holidaymakers.
Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays said: "Innsbruck is the perfect fit for the growing number of people who are looking for adventure, scenery, and wellness on their holidays. Located in the heart of the Austrian Alps, local holidaymakers can choose from a whole host of activities from mountain biking and paragliding through to hiking, whilst being able to enjoy the unique blend of modern and old in Innsbruck itself. With perfectly timed flights and our award-winning service, we are expecting this programme to be hugely popular with holidaymakers from Birmingham Airport."
Tom Screen, Aviation Director at Birmingham Airport, said, "It's great that Jet2.com will be offering flights to Innsbruck throughout the summer months as well as winter, recognising the many wonderful things that customers can experience in this city in the Alps all year round. Once again, we applaud Jet2.com for growing the choice available for Midlands travellers."
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Women on Wheels set to launch in Karachi, plans to take trainings to more cities in Sindh
Mubashir Zaidi Published November 14, 2019
The project aims to spread across Sindh, with training schedules for Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana to be announced in January 2020. — AFP/File
Women on Wheels, a programme focused on resolving women's mobility woes, is set to launch in Karachi later this month. The initiative by the Salman Sufi Foundation aims to provide training to 10,000 women by International Day for Women in March.
Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah and Aseefa Bhutto Zardari will inaugurate WOW Karachi on November 24 at the city's Frere Hall.
"This is a project to empower women which was the dream of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto," Chief Minister Shah said during a briefing on the project, vowing to support the initiative.
Salman Sufi, who heads the project, had in 2016, launched a similar project with the Punjab government's Strategic Reforms Unit. The Punjab project which began with just 40 women led to the training of 5,000 women in five districts of Punjab by the end of the campaign. Last year, over 700 women were also provided subsidised motorbikes under this initiative.
Sufi told Dawn.com that because of the project in Punjab women in the province have started driving motorbikes in villages, towns and cities.
"Our foundation aims to bring about the same change in Sindh," he said, adding that the response in Karachi to his initiative was beyond his expectations.
"Within hours of announcing the initiative we had received 6,000 applications. And more are pouring in," he said.
Telecom Engineer Soha Pervez has registered herself to be trained on how to drive a two-wheeler. She has also joined the project as an intern.
"Women who use public transport face harassment on a daily basis. That's why I have joined this programme, so I can learn how to ride a bike and then commute independently," she says.
Training sessions for WOW Karachi will commence on November 25 at the University of Karachi. The project aims to spread across Sindh, with training schedules for Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana to be announced in January 2020.
To register for trainings, women can contact the WOW campaign here. The information required to register for trainings includes participant's name, CNIC #, a contact number, and an address.
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PORT OF LOS ANGELES SEEKS TO EXPAND ITS COMMITMENT TO DEVELOP ZERO EMISSIONS TECHNOLOGIES
Draft Document Outlines Near-Term Plan for
Expanded Testing and Development of Zero Emission Vehicles;
Public Workshop to be Held July 29
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — July 13, 2015 — The Port of Los Angeles has issued a draft white paper on zero emission technology that details the Port's testing of zero emissions technology to date, and its proposed near-term plan for encouraging zero emission technology use in maritime goods movement, particularly as it relates to drayage trucks and yard tractors. By 2020, the Port plans to facilitate testing and development of up to 200 zero emission vehicles.
"While we've made great strides in reducing emissions and greenhouse gas emissions over the last decade, the Port of Los Angeles continues to look for new opportunities to further cut pollutants, especially greenhouse gas," said Chris Cannon, Chief Sustainability Officer and Director of Environmental Management at the Port. "We think zero emission technology in key operational sectors has strong potential to help us achieve these reductions."
Developed by the Port's environmental management team the draft white paper outlines next steps regarding current and planned zero emission demonstration projects. It also includes recommendations for zero emission-related infrastructure planning, as well as strategies for pursuing local, state and federal funding for near-term zero emission equipment testing and for long-term capital investments and operations.
The Port is seeking public input and comment before finalizing the document. To gather public input and suggestions, the Port of Los Angeles will host a public workshop on Wednesday, July 29, at 3 p.m. at Banning's Landing Community Center. The public can also view the draft document on the Port's website and submit comments to [email protected] . The Port will be accepting public comment through Friday, August 7 at 5:00 p.m. PST.
The Port of Los Angeles is America's premier port and has a strong commitment to developing innovative strategic and sustainable operations that benefit Southern California's economy and quality of life. As North America's leading seaport in terms by container volume and cargo value, the Port of Los Angeles facilitated $290 billion in trade during 2014. Port operations and commerce facilitate more than 148,000 jobs (about one in 12) in the City of Los Angeles and 531,000 jobs (or one in 16) in the five-county Southern California region. The San Pedro Bay Ports support more than 1 million California jobs and 3.1 million nationwide.


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Promote cybersecurity partnerships modeled after the Singapore-US relationship.
Promote greater intellectual property protection laws to lower malware rates and strengthen the confidence of American technology investors.
Promote and encourage greater ASEAN integration.
Achieve recommendations 1-3 through regular cybersecurity dialogue with ASEAN.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional organization consisting of ten Southeast Asian countries, is a significant economic and political partner for the United States. ASEAN's increasingly wealthy and youthful population is an important market for American goods, with ASEAN-US trade valued at over $254 billion in 2014.
Additionally, Southeast Asia is the largest recipient of American foreign direct investment (FDI), receiving over $226 million on an annual basis, an amount that further illustrates the importance of Southeast Asia in American foreign relations. Furthermore, ASEAN's positioning in the South China Sea makes each nation a valuable geo-strategic ally, especially in light of increasing Chinese aggression – both physical and digital – throughout the region.
However, in spite of its immense financial and political importance, the ASEAN-US relationship is hampered by rampant regional cyber(in)security. Over the past decade, Southeast Asia has experienced rapid gains in connectivity. While connectivity yields growth in e-commerce sectors and provides new opportunities for economic ties with the United States, connectivity has not been accompanied by strong cybersecurity protections for its citizens and businesses. As a result, malware and fraud rates in ASEAN countries are among some of the highest in the world, with large financial costs – Malaysia lost nearly $900 million to cybercriminals between 2007 and 2012, cybercrime costs Indonesia nearly $2.7 billion on an annual basis, and even Singapore, a global cybersecurity leader, has a per capita cybercrime cost of $1,158. As long as these startling cybercrime figures persist, many American businesses are skeptical to fully embrace the region, in spite of its potential for mutual prosperity.
Cyber(in)security in Southeast Asia also has a distinctly political cost for American interests. In March 2015, the American security company FireEye uncovered a decade-long cyberattack designed to attack critical infrastructure and steal data related to the regional political, economic, and military operations of several prominent ASEAN nations, corporations, and individuals interested in China. Perhaps most troubling, FireEye suggests that the Chinese government was responsible for the attacks, and that ASEAN leaders were completely unaware of its intrusion.
The Chinese have also been tied to a number of more tangible cyberattacks throughout the region: after the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled against China and in favor of the Philippines in the South China Sea, over 60 Filipino government websites experienced a DDoS attack. Chinese hackers have also compromised Vietnamese intelligence networks and overridden airport-messaging systems with pro-China messages.
The political vulnerabilities present in Southeast Asian cyberspace make the region fundamentally less secure and strategic for both the American government and its businesses abroad, even if the region's geography has to become a bulwark of security against Chinese aggression.
In spite of these challenges, the ASEAN-US economic and political relationship remains one of incredible potential. The United States should work more closely with ASEAN to bolster its cybersecurity, and ultimately foster a more prosperous relationship in the process.
Singapore is a regional cybersecurity leader and its bilateral cybersecurity relationship with the United States is highly productive. Under this agreement, Singapore and the United States share a variety of information, coordinate CERTs, and share initiatives on critical infrastructure protection, cybercrime, cyber-defense, and capacity building. The bilateral Singapore-US cybersecurity relationship puts both nations in regular contact, which allows for greater collaboration and innovative problem solving.
The United States should expand this type of extensive partnership beyond Singapore, and forge stronger bilateral cybersecurity relationships with other ASEAN nations. By doing so, the United States will expand its ability to gather important security knowledge in the South China Sea, and also forge stronger economic ties.
Recommendation 2: Promote greater intellectual property protection laws to lower malware rates and strengthen the confidence of American technology investors.
Intellectual property (IP) laws in Southeast Asia are underdeveloped, and existing laws are poorly enforced due to a lack of resources. Although some ASEAN countries have recently worked to improve their IP laws, IP theft continues to proliferate, bringing malware and diminished profits for technology companies, many of which are American.
Pirated software often does not receive the security updates that licensed software does, making users vulnerable to hacking and theft. Promoting stronger IP laws and increasing local capacity to catch violations will reduce the amount of pirated software in Southeast Asia, thus reducing the amount of costly malware that takes dollars from consumers and companies.
Additionally, as IP laws are strengthened, it is important to also promote greater cyber-awareness. Many citizens in developing Southeast Asian nations are data illiterate, which may actually exacerbate regional cyber(in)security. A region with stronger IP laws and a more educated populace offers a solution that may also attract greater technology investment, giving American businesses a large, receptive market and providing millions of Southeast Asian consumers with valuable new technologies.
Currently, ASEAN countries are at very different stages of development. On one end of the spectrum is Singapore, whose economy, technology sector, and cybersecurity policies are highly developed and similar to that of most Western nations. On the other end of the spectrum are countries such as Cambodia and (Myanmar, where digitalization and development are still underway and national regulatory frameworks have yet to emerge). This diverse landscape is often difficult for investors and politicians to navigate in spite of a desire to engage with the region as a whole.
If ASEAN countries were to engage in greater social, economic, political, and legal integration, they could jointly improve regional cybersecurity while minimizing costs to individual nations – for example, if ASEAN were to adopt a bloc-wide cybersecurity framework, nations such as Cambodia and Myanmar would not have to create their own, allowing their governments time and resources to focus on other aspects of development.
Essentially, a more integrated ASEAN could improve the ease with which the United States expands its critical cybersecurity partnerships throughout the region, fostering a more prosperous and geopolitically stable region for American economic and political investments.
The best mechanism with which to encourage stronger cybersecurity partnerships, greater IP protection laws, enforcement, cyber-awareness, and ASEAN integration is dialogue, particularly in the form of ASEAN Regional Forums (ARFs) and joint workshops.
ARFs are annual security dialogues held by ASEAN countries and their regional partners to discuss common challenges, share best practices, and promote collaborative solutions. The United States co-chaired its first cybersecurity-related ARF in 2015 on cybersecurity confidence-building measures, and in 2016 held a joint ASEAN Cybersecurity Workshop with Singapore. Additionally, the United States should continue to encourage and engage with bloc-level security organs, especially the newly formulated ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Plus (ADDM) and its Cybersecurity Working Group.
While both workshops are a step in the right direction, the United States should increase the frequency of its cybersecurity involvement in the region in order to consistently promote transparent and cooperative solutions, especially as ASEAN nations grow increasingly authoritarian. The rise of authoritarianism in Southeast Asia means that the majority of cybersecurity laws do not adequately protect consumers and businesses from malware and fraud, and instead bolster the power of the state while infringing upon individual privacy rights. It is essential that the United States continue to push for more resilient policies respectful of fundamental human freedoms; cybersecurity policies that recognize individual rights to privacy and expression are more effective at protecting economies and critical infrastructure than restrictive policies designed to preserve the state alone.
While dialogue alone cannot overhaul cybersecurity policy in a nation, continuous engagement through ARFs and workshops can model best practices and build stronger bilateral partnerships that will increase local cybersecurity capacities, and ultimately increase opportunities for joint prosperity.
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A Kind of Murder – DVD Review
Posted on 3 Oct 2017 11 Oct 2020 by Ian Schultz
A Kind of Murder is the latest in a long line of Patricia Highsmith adaptations. It's based on one of her earliest novels The Blunderer which has been renamed for the purpose, to this even more generic title. The genericness of the title is unsurprisingly reflected in the film which has some virtues not many though.
Patrick Wilson who has always have a likeable but slightly creepy screen presence stars as Walter Stackhouse who is a pulp writing architect. He wants to leave his wife and soon becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder case of another man's wife who he suspects is the killer. Of course there is another younger woman involved and soon a detective is on the heels of both of the men.
The film's director is Andy Goddard is a Brit who has mainly worked in TV except for the Dylan Thomas film Set Fire to the Stars. It has that VOD bordering on TV visual style that you expect but it has flourishes of noir lighting especially during the all to brief climax. It also looks like an extended episode of Mad Men for long periods with it's early 1960 setting which is only increased by the presence of Vincent Kartheiser as the detective. The film's cinematography has normally worked in TV but did work with Goddard on Set Fire to the Stars hence why he was hired.
The rest of the cast is pretty good Wilson is effective and Biel as his wife gives her best performance. Biel's career in recent years has taken a massive nosedive into VOD work which is a shame because she has an old-school Hollywood glamour to her which is especially effective in neo-noir. Haley Bennett pulls off the young bohemian singer which intrigues the bored and repressed straight-laced Stackhouse.
However despite a strong cast and decent murder mystery it's never able to escape just the pure generic feel of the whole film. You can't help but wonder what it could've been if a more experienced and visual director had been given the same material. The book was originally adapted as a French film in the '60s with the title Enough Rope but it seems near impossible to find today.
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Climate change confirmed but global warming is cancelled
Owen McShane
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:18 UTC
Unlike so many of the hapless victims on TVOne's daily Crimewatch (also known as One Network News) I have recently been lucky enough to be in two right places at the right time.
In December last year, at the UN conference in Bali, I heard Viscount Monckton present a paper prepared by himself, the Australian Dr David Evans and our own Dr Vincent Gray (who were at Bali, too) that showed while the IPCC models predict that greenhouse gases would produce an extensive "hot spot" in the upper troposphere over the tropics, the satellite measurements show no such hotspots have appeared.
Monckton and Evans found a large part of this discrepancy is the result of some basic errors in the IPCC's assessment of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation. When they applied their revised factor to the effect of greenhouse gases, the temperature rise was about a third of that predicted by the IPCC.
So by late last year we not only knew IPCC forecasts of atmospheric global warming were wrong; we were beginning to understand why they are wrong.
The key issue in this debate is whether anthropogenic greenhouse gases or natural solar activities are the prime drivers of climate change. A closely related argument is whether the climate is highly sensitive to carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere.
Doubtful predictions
Put together, these uncertainties raise doubts as to whether the IPCC models can accurately forecast the climate over the long term. If they cannot, then we have to wonder how much damage we should risk doing to the world's economies in attempts to manage the possibly adverse effects of these "predictions."
The findings that the predicted "tropical hot spots" do not exist are important because the IPCC models assume these hot spots will be formed by increased evaporation from warmer oceans leading to the accumulations of higher concentrations of water vapour in the upper atmosphere, and thereby generating a positive feedback reinforcing the small amount of warming that can be caused by CO2 alone.
Atmospheric scientists generally agree that as carbon dioxide levels increase there is a law of "diminishing returns" - or more properly "diminishing effects" - and that ongoing increases in CO2 concentration do not generate proportional increases in temperature. The common analogy is painting over window glass. The first layers of paint cut out lots of light but subsequent layers have diminishing impact.
So, you might be asking, why the panic? Why does Al Gore talk about temperatures spiraling out of control, causing mass extinctions and catastrophic rises in sea-level, and all his other disastrous outcomes when there is no evidence to support it?
The alarmists argue that increased CO2 leads to more water vapour - the main greenhouse gas - and this provides positive feedback and hence makes the overall climate highly sensitive to small increases in the concentration of CO2.
Consequently, the IPCC argues that while carbon dioxide may well "run out of puff" the consequent evaporation of water vapour provides the positive feedback loop that will make anthropogenic global warming reach dangerous levels.
This assumption that water vapour provides positive feedback lies behind the famous "tipping point," which nourishes Al Gore's dreams of destruction, and indeed all those calls for action now - "before it is too late!" But no climate models predict such a tipping point.
However, while the absence of hot spots has refuted one important aspect of the IPCC models we lack a mechanism that fully explains these supposed outcomes. Hence the IPCC, and its supporters, have been able to ignore this "refutation."
So by the end of last year, we were in a similar situation to the 19th century astronomers, who had figured out that the sun could not be "burning" its fuel - or it would have turned to ashes long ago - but could not explain where the energy was coming from. Then along came Einstein and E=mc2.
Hard to explain
Similarly, the climate sceptics have had to explain why the hotspots are not where they should be - not just challenge the theory with their observations.
This is why I felt so lucky to be in the right place at the right time when I heard Roy Spencer speak at the New York conference on climate change in March. At first I thought this was just another paper setting out observations against the forecasts, further confirming Evans' earlier work.
But as the argument unfolded I realised Spencer was drawing on observations and measurements from the new Aqua satellites to explain the mechanism behind this anomaly between model forecasts and observation. You may have heard that the IPCC models cannot predict clouds and rain with any accuracy. Their models assume water vapour goes up to the troposphere and hangs around to cook us all in a greenhouse future.
However, there is a mechanism at work that "washes out" the water vapour and returns it to the oceans along with the extra CO2 and thus turns the added water vapour into a NEGATIVE feedback mechanism.
The newly discovered mechanism is a combination of clouds and rain (Spencer's mechanism adds to the mechanism earlier identified by Professor Richard Lindzen called the Iris effect).
The IPCC models assumed water vapour formed clouds at high altitudes that lead to further warming. The Aqua satellite observations and Spencer's analysis show water vapour actually forms clouds at low altitudes that lead to cooling.
Furthermore, Spencer shows the extra rain that falls from these clouds cools the underlying oceans, providing a second negative feedback to negate the CO2 warming.
Alarmists' quandary
This has struck the alarmists like a thunderbolt, especially as the lead author of the IPCC chapter on feedback has written to Spencer agreeing that he is right!
There goes the alarmist neighbourhood!
The climate is not highly sensitive to CO2 warming because water vapour is a damper against the warming effect of CO2.
That is why history is full of Ice Ages - where other effects, such as increased reflection from the ice cover, do provide positive feedback - while we do not hear about Heat Ages. The Medieval Warm Period, for example, is known for being benignly warm - not dangerously hot.
We live on a benign planet - except when it occasionally gets damned cold.
While I have done my best to simplify these developments they remain highly technical and many people distrust their own ability to assess competing scientific claims. However, in this case the tipping point theories are based on models that do not include the effects of rain and clouds.
The new Nasa Aqua satellite is the first to measure the effects of clouds and rainfall. Spencer's interpretation of the new data means all previous models and forecasts are obsolete. Would anyone trust long-term forecasts of farm production that were hopeless at forecasting rainfall?
The implications of these breakthroughs in measurement and understanding are dramatic to say the least. The responses will be fun to watch.
Alarmists, 'experts' face a new inconvenient truth
Christopher Pearson, of The Australian newspaper (March 22), has written up a remarkable ABC television interview with Dr Jennifer Marohasy, a senior fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs, a Melbourne-based think tank.
Dr Marohasy says the impact of the Aqua satellite and Spencer's interpretation of the data and prompts the reporter to conclude with some pungent observations of his own:
"If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting.
"A great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN, most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed. Let us hope it is a prolonged and chastening experience.
"With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along.
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RAIN CHECK: Spencer's analyses based on new satellite data pour cold rain on warming theory
"The poorest Indians and Chinese will be left in peace to work their way toward prosperity, without being badgered about the size of their carbon-footprint, a concept that for most of us will soon be one with Nineveh and Tyre, clean forgotten in six months.
"The scores of town planners in Australia building empires out of regulating what can and can't be built on low-lying shorelines will have to come to terms with the fact inundation no longer impends and find something more plausible to do. The same is true of the bureaucrats planning to accommodate 'climate refugees."
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Hummmm..?
I have a hard time understanding this new language on the subject of man-made climate change leading to golbal warming
I don't mind being wrong, but I will have to see more data about this thesis, and less about the other, before I think that the entire Mississippi River basin is NOT destined to become a vast inland sea, and other great changes; before tipping dramatically toward a global ice age.
I do not sense that there is any appreciable change in the frantic human insanity that drives warming, like: war, fossil fumes, and destruction of green cultures like forests.
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Q: Speed up pgr_dijkstraCost I have a pgRouting network graph of ~ 1 mio edges and ~ 0.4 mio vertices. I want to find out something like "nearest facility" for bigger subsets.
E.g. i have a bigger number of source vertices and a bigger number of target vertices. I need to know the cost (!) of the shortest path from every source vertex to the closest (lowest cost) target (and it's id). Nothing more. The graph itself won't be changed anymore.
At the moment I use pgr_dijkstraCost which takes ~ 0.05 s per source vertex. This is fast, but I need to run thee whole query (with up to 20.000 sources and up to 100 targets) within < 15 s.
Is it realistic to reach this goal just by optimizing the graph?

A: As you mentioned, your current response is quite fast already, but you could try to run all computations in one query with pgr_dijkstraCostMatrix if you need a full matrix, or recently the shortest path functions  also allow so called "combinations" as input,for example https://docs.pgrouting.org/latest/en/pgr_dijkstraCost.html#combinations. This way your network graph is only loaded once.

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Seres Therapeutics Issues Statement Regarding U.S. Food and Drug Administration Safety Alert Related to Use of Fecal Microbiota Transplantationse
FDA alert does not impact Seres' microbiome investigational therapeutic candidates
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 19, 2019-- Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRB) ("Seres") today provided a statement on a safety alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding bloodstream infections with multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) transmitted through fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). On June 13th, 2019, the agency stated that two immunocompromised adults who received FMT developed invasive infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing E. coli and that one individual died. The donor stool used was not tested for the pathogen linked to the infection.
Seres' investigational therapeutic candidates, highly purified consortia of spore based commensal bacteria, are fundamentally distinct from FMT and are not impacted by the FDA alert. In contrast to unapproved FMT, Seres' therapeutic candidates are being evaluated in controlled clinical studies conducted under an Investigational New Drug application (IND) with rigorous safety monitoring and reporting procedures. The Company's therapeutic candidates are manufactured under GMP conditions and quality-controlled using stringent standards to ensure product quality and consistency.
Unapproved FMT is widely used under an FDA Enforcement Discretion policy for the treatment of recurrent C. difficile infection (CDI) not responsive to standard therapies. This policy does not require the safety monitoring and oversight that are standard requirements for investigational therapies under an IND. The new FDA safety alert indicated that additional protections are needed for any investigational use of FMT, including appropriate donor screening questions, testing of donor stool for MDROs and informing patients of the potential risk of infection and serious adverse reactions. The agency encourages healthcare providers to report suspected adverse events to the FDA.
Until a safe and effective FDA-approved microbiome drug is available for the treatment of C. difficile, Seres remains supportive of continued patient access to FMT, particularly for those patients who may lack access to clinical trials. However, Seres believes that all FMT use should be performed under an IND using pre-specified and mandatory safety reporting requirements appropriate for unapproved investigational therapies. In addition, Seres also supports increased FDAscrutiny regarding unproven promotional claims related to FMT efficacy and safety.
About Seres Therapeutics
Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRB) is a leading microbiome therapeutics platform company developing a novel class of biological drugs that are designed to treat disease by restoring the function of a dysbiotic microbiome, where the state of bacterial diversity and function is imbalanced. Seres' SER-287 program has obtained Fast Track and Orphan Drug designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is being evaluated in a Phase 2b study in patients with active mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis. Seres' SER-109 program has obtained Breakthrough Therapy and Orphan Drug designations from the FDA and is in Phase 3 development for recurrent C. difficile infection. Seres is also developing SER-401 in a Phase 1b study in patients with metastatic melanoma. For more information, please visit www.serestherapeutics.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including statements relating to FDA approval of Seres' therapeutic candidates. Any forward-looking statements represent management's opinions as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
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Toni Morrison – Nobel Laureate in Literature
Posted on November 4, 2013 by Michele Genthon
How does one write about Toni Morrison using ordinary words?
Toni Morrison has won nearly every book prize awarded and in 2006 The New York Times Book Review named her novel Beloved, the best novel in the previous 25 years. She is a renowned author but also an influential teacher.
Morrison credits her parents, a welder and domestic worker, for instilling in her a love of reading and music. She knew the classics by reading great works of European literature and studying Latin when she was young. Her favorite authors were Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Flaubert and Austen, but her aspiration was to become a ballerina like her idol, Maria Tallchief. She graduated from high school, in an integrated neighborhood, with honors.
At Howard University she joined a repertory company and toured the South, seeing for the first time the life of others with the same skin color as her own. She graduated with a degree in English and a minor in classics. At Cornell she wrote her Master's thesis on Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner.
After completing her education she taught English at Texas Southern University and later returned to her alma mater, Howard. There she joined a writer's group on campus and began her first novel.
When she became a single mother, she moved with her sons to Syracuse, New York and worked as an editor for Random House. She edited books by Muhammad Ali, Andrew Young, and Angela Davis and later moved to New York as associate editor.
Her first novel, Bluest Eye, was not a big seller but her next book, Sula, was nominated for the American Book Award. Song of Solomon, which followed, was a featured selection in the Book-of-the Month Club. In the early 1980's she was appointed to the National Council on the Arts, became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine. In the late 1980's she was given a chair in the Council of Humanities at Princeton University, the first black woman to hold a named chair at an Ivy League University.
She was already well known, but it was her novel Beloved that skyrocketed her into another fame's rare atmosphere. The novel earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. Five years later she received a Nobel Prize for Literature, once again the first black woman to break a barrier.
As an author she wrote novels and children's books. She explored the play format and wrote lyrics for "Four Songs" in collaboration with composer André Previn. She also wrote lyrics for composer Richard Danielpour and a libretto for the American opera Margaret Garner. She has written non-fiction and won a Grammy for a spoken word album.
As a teacher, she established the Princeton Atelier, a workshop for writers and performers, and only retired from her professorship at Princeton in the last decade. She also teaches by editing the work of other writers.
One of her passions is protecting art from censorship. Her fervor, as well as her poetic language, is evident in her views on this topic:
"The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists' questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, canceled films—that thought is a nightmare. As though a whole universe is being described in invisible ink."
Toni Morrison Society: http://www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/society.html
Written biography and video: http://www.biography.com/people/toni-morrison-9415590?page=1
There are a number of biographies about Toni Morrison. Danielle K. Taylor-Guthrie has also written Conversations with Toni Morrison.
You can also view the film Beloved, starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover
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Autism and childbirth: A Link?
A new study published in the JAMA Pediatrics suggests autism might be linked to inducing or speeding up labor. The findings have many expecting moms concerned, but the study comes with caveats. Anderson spoke with chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
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Survey of parents shows autism rise
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"I think in part it depends how you count these cases," says Sanjay. "I don't think there's been that significant an increase, but this is more reflective of increased awareness, an increased diagnosis."
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JRC lawyer: Electric shocks for students 'humane'
A report from a human rights organization goes into graphic detail with horrifying claims about what's happening at a school for students with severe behavioral and developmental issues. They call it torture. Anderson spoke with Michael Flammia, an attorney for the Judge Rotenberg Center and Dr. Louis Kraus, a board member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Senator: Shock device burns students
Mass. state Sen. Brian Joyce fights to close a school that uses electric shocks to control kids at a special-needs school.
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FDA stance on shock device unclear
Anderson Cooper and Tom Foreman discuss what the FDA report will say about an electronic shock device used on students in a special needs school.
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Tonight on AC360: FDA inspected school using shocks on students
A Massachusetts school for special needs students uses a controversial method for trying to control the children's behavior. They administer electric shocks. The number of shocks and the reason for using the device is at the discretion of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) staff.
JRC has students as young as 3-years-old. Their website says they've provided "very effective education and treatment to both emotionally disturbed students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems and developmentally delayed students with autistic-like behaviors."
One graphic video, that school officials didn't want the public to see, shows Cheryl McCollins' autistic son Andre receiving 31 electric shocks in a seven hour timeframe. McCollins was distraught about the treatment and wants JRC shut down.
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KTH: Mass. school called 'house of horrors'
Anderson Cooper talks with Massachusetts state Senator Brian Joyce and autism expert Dr. Louis Krauss of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry about a school for special needs kids that uses electric shocks to try to control their behavior.
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The Director of Research for a school that administers shocks to change children's behavior defends the method. The Director of Yale's Child Neuroscience Laboratory, and a father of autistic children, disagrees with the treatment; he says punishment doesn't treat the underlying cause.
Tonight on AC360: School uses electric shocks on autistic students
Can zapping emotionally challenged children with painful electrical shocks - like cattle - actually help them? The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Massachusetts claims it does. But as Anderson Cooper reported last week, there's a new push to close the school.
The renewed effort to shutdown JRC comes after a graphic video surfaced that school officials didn't want the public to see. The video shows Cheryl McCollins' son, Andre, receiving 31 electric shocks from school staff in a seven hour period. His family's attorney says he was later treated for post traumatic stress disorder.
However, another mother, Marie Washington, said JRC saved her son's life by using the shocks to treat him, instead of medications. Washington calls the program a "godsend."
JRC is a special needs school for children as young as 3-years-old. Their website says they've provided "very effective education and treatment to both emotionally disturbed students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems and developmentally delayed students with autistic-like behaviors."
Critics disapprove of the method used by the school to change students' behavior. JRC calls the shocks "aversive therapy," opponents call it torture. They invented the device used to administer the shocks, and they're the only school using the technique.
Tonight, Anderson explores the medical research behind the shock therapy. He'll speak with one of the top autism researchers in the country, Kevin Pelphrey, who's the Director of Yale's Child Neuroscience Laboratory, and Nathan Blenkush, Director of Research at JRC, who has worked at the school since 2006. Tune in to AC360 at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.
Outcry against school's shock therapy
A disturbing video shows an autistic teenager strapped down and repeatedly zapped with electrical shocks at his school. Anderson Cooper spoke with the student's mother about why she's outraged and wants the school to close. He also talked with a lawyer for the school, a former teacher's assistant, and another mother who says the controversial treatment saved her son's life


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Jordi Casamitjana campaigning for the League Against Cruel Sports.
A landmark court ruling will decide whether a sacked charity worker's veganism is a philosophical belief, just like a religion.
He says he was discriminated against because he is a vegan, something the charity denies.
Now a tribunal will rule on it, and decide whether veganism is a category which is protected in law, akin to religious belief.
Casamitjana told the BBC: "Some people only eat a vegan diet but they don't care about the environment or the animals, they only care about their health.
"I care about the animals and the environment and my health and everything.
"That's why I use this term 'ethical veganism' because for me veganism is a belief and affects every single aspect of my life."
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When Casamitjana worked for LACS he says he discovered that pension funds were being invested in companies that experiment on animals.
He says he spoke to managers about this – and then to other staff members, before he was sacked.
Casamitjana insists his ethical veganism is the core reason for his dismissal.
In a statement, LACS responded: "Mr Casamitjana was dismissed from his position because of gross misconduct.
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Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary
by Scott Abbott, Zarko RadakovicScott Abbott
In 2008 the authors published, in Belgrade, Vampiri & Razumni recnik, which is now published in English as Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary. Vampires is Radakovic's fictionalized account of a Serb living in Cologne, Germany while his former country disintegrates. He travels in the American West, ostensibly looking for the vampires causing chaos in his own country, and then returns to Europe, having found no vampires. It is a dark text, a story of destruction told in a narrative that refuses all the solaces narrative has traditionally afforded. A Reasonable Dictionary is Abbott's personally troubled account of his and Radakovic's trip up the Drina River between the civil wars, a journey made with Peter Handke, a trip during which some of Abbott's specifically American stories lost their moral structure.
Both works, along with Radakovic and Abbott's earlier work Repetitions (published by punctum books in 2013), examine generic distinctions and question storytelling in general, all in the context of travel in Yugoslavia, in the former Yugoslavia, and in western America. Two aspects make the books unique. First, they are written about experiences shared by two authors whose native languages are Serbian and English respectively (German is their only common language). The authors' perspectives contrast with and supplement one another: Radakovic grew up in Tito's Yugoslavia and Abbott comes from the Mormon American West; Radakovic is the translator of most of Peter Handke's works into Serbo-Croatian and Abbott translated Handke's provocative A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia for Viking Press and his play Voyage by Dugout: The Play of the Film of the War for PAJ (Performing Arts Journal); Radakovic was a journalist for Deutsche Welle in Cologne and Abbott is a professor of German literature at Utah Valley University; Radakovic is the author of several novels and Abbott has published mostly literary-critical work; and so on. Two sets of eyes. Two pens. Two visions of the world.
Scott Abbott is the author of Fictions of Freemasonry: Freemasonry and the German Novel. He was the jazz critic for the Salt Lake Observer and co-author, with Sam Rushforth, of the series "Wild Rides, Wild Flowers: Biking and Botanizing the Great Western Trail" which appeared for four years in Catalyst Magazine. He has translated Peter Handke's A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia (Viking) and Handke's play Voyage by Dugout: the Play of the Film of the War (Performing Arts Journal). A translation of Handke's "To Duration, A Poem" is forthcoming with Cannon, Amsterdam. Abbott has published reviews of books and art in The Bloomsbury Review, Open Letters Monthly, and Catalyst Magazine. He is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley University and has published literary-critical articles on Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Grass, and Handke. He lives in Woodland Hills, Utah.
Zarko Radakovic is the author of several books published in Belgrade, including Tubingen, Knifer, Emigracija (Emigration), Pogled (The View), Strah od Emigracije (Fear of Emigration), Era, and Knjiga o muzici (A Book about Music, with David Albahari). He has translated more than twenty of Austrian author Peter Handke's books into Serbian and has been traveling companion and translator for Handke during repeated trips to Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. His recent work with Serbian/German artist Nina Pops includes collaboration on a series of collages that feature manuscript translations of Peter Handke's novel Bildverlust (The Loss of Images, or Crossing the Sierra de Gredos) and Pops' "translations" of the text into images. Radakovic edited an edition of the German literary magazine Nachtcafe on the theme of Walking, and more recently, with Peter Handke, an edition of the German literary magazine Schreibheft on "Literature from Serbia." He has published essays on art, music, and literature. David Albahari described Radakovic as "one of the few absolutely isolated, independent, creative personalities of contemporary Serbian prose. . . . He deals with our language like a foreign language in the same way Beckett uses the English language and Handke the German language. . . . I think I will not be wrong when I say that Zarko . . . is the most radical Serbian writer of the present time." He lives in Cologne, Germany.
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Yesterday saw the launch of the new Henhousebeads Winter 2018 collection featuring the first of the new Element glass; a type of frosted finish. Incidentally if you have yet to shop those, there are just a few of the Air Element remaining.
A second new glass design (or finish might be a more accurate description,) is launching too. This isn't part of the winter release, rather just a finish that was created based on a lot of requests from customers.
The Henhousebeads Velvet is the new matte finish. It's named due to it's lovely tactile finish and it will eventually be available in all of the current colours. For an initial launch we just listed a small number of Duomo, Blue Lakes, Lavender and San Juan!
For fans of Henhousebeads do please note that as part of our Winter Wonderland Event there will be another Scrambled Eggs (unique) listing later this evening too. You can find the link for the new Velvet finish beads below.
Matte glass brings a much more organic feeling to a bracelet compared with it's usual glossy finish and it's an aesthetic I've always enjoyed, especially for the cooler months. It can also make a beautiful backdrop or contrast to standard glass, particularly when using a very flashy focal piece against a palette of matte muted colours.
As always I love to hear from my readers. What are your thoughts on the new Henhousebeads Velvet finish? Hit the comments and let me know!


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Govt invites public inputs on draft amendments to IT Rules for social media content monitoring
The amendment proposed to rule 3(1)(b)(v) pertains to obligations of social media and other intermediaries regarding sharing of information which is patently false and untrue or misleading in nature.
Press Information Bureau of the Central government shall be the sole authority to decide whether a piece of content is fake or false.
With an objective to ensure an open, safe and trusted and accountable internet for citizens (Digital Nagriks), the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has invited comments from stakeholders and general public on amendment proposed to rule 3(1)(b)(v) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules) with respect to obligations of social media and other intermediaries regarding sharing of information which is patently false and untrue or misleading in nature.
Earlier, the ministry had notified the IT Rules, 2021 to provide that social media and other intermediaries shall observe due diligence by making reasonable efforts to cause their users not to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share information which is patently false and untrue or misleading in nature. Under the proposed amendment, the due diligence by intermediaries shall include making such efforts to not upload, publish, transmit or share information identified as fake or false by the fact check unit of the Press Information Bureau (https://factcheck.pib.gov.in/ and Twitter handle @PIBFactcheck), which takes cognizance of fake information both suo motu and by way of queries sent by citizens on its portal or through e-mail and WhatsApp and responds with correct information when the same pertains to the government.
It will also cover that information which relates to government business and which is identified by the department concerned as false. The rules also in addition mention other agencies may be included in list of authorised agencies for such fact-checking in future by the government.
The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said: "The draft amendments to IT Rules are in pursuance of our commitment to an Open, Safe & Trusted and Accountable Internet. We have circulated amendments for consultation with stakeholders. As is the practice meticulously followed by government these amendments will also be put through open consultations - to reflect, discuss and deliberate on these amendments or any other such effective means through which we can prevent misinformation/ patently wrong information circulated on the Internet by state/ non-state actors."
The ministry had earlier initiated public consultation on amendments proposed to the said rules in relation to online gaming, the last date for which was 17th January 2023. The last date for the same has now been extended to 25th January 2023.
The ministry shall also hold a consultation on the proposed amendment to rule 3(1)(b)(v) of the IT Rules with stakeholders on January 24.
Comments and suggestions on both the proposed amendments are also invited from the public by January 25 and can be submitted through the MyGov platform: https://innovateindia.mygov.in/online-gaming-rules/.
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Altor and Stordalen new owners of Vinggruppen
Yesterday, the new ownership trio of the Ving Group was presented, it consists of Altor Fund V (Altor), Strawberry Group, controlled by Petter Stordalen and TDR Capital. The ownership group ensures a strong and long-term Nordic majority ownership of the Nordic business, consisting of 2,300 employees. Early Thursday morning, the deal could be formally closed, which means that, as of today, the new Nordic Leisure Travel Group, formed by the owners, owns Ving, Spies, Tjäreborg and the Nordic airline, which has now changed its name to Sunclass Airlines.
"It is a fantastic business that ended up in a very unfortunate situation. The Ving Group is the market leader in the holiday business, thanks to its own hotel concepts such as Sunwing and Sunprime and has also been the leaders in the transition to online bookings. Through a financial restructuring, we, as new owners, together with other financiers, have secured about SEK 6 billion in liquidity and guarantees. It secures jobs for employees and vacation trips to all customers and it creates a stable base for future development" says Harald Mix, partner at Altor.
"I am extremely pleased that Altor, Stordalen and TDR will be our new owners. It secures the business, all booked trips and our employees' jobs. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the employees who have worked day and night over the past few weeks to keep our business alive and to all the guests and partners who have shown us fantastic support. Of course, I would also like to extend a big thank you to the new owners. I am incredibly proud and happy that we are here today and I am convinced that our new owners will bring fantastic opportunities for us in the future" says Magnus Wikner, CEO of the Ving Group in the Nordic region.
Since inception, the family of Altor funds has raised some EUR 8.3 billion in total commitments. The funds have invested in more than 60 companies. The investments have been made in medium sized predominantly Nordic companies with the aim to create value through growth initiatives and operational improvements. Among current and past investments are Dustin, Byggmax, Navico, Infotheek, Orchid, Wrist Ship Supply, Sbanken, Rossignol, Helly Hansen, SATS and Carnegie Investment Bank. For more information visit www.altor.com.
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Eleventh Arab Robotics Championship
The eleventh Arab Robotics Championship was organized by the Arab Robotics Association, Techno Future and Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), under the auspices of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), in Sharm El-Sheikh, on March 23-26.
The Arab Robotics Championship is one of the most powerful competitions held in the Arab world in the field of robotics, for different age groups from six-years till university students, aiming to encourage student teams from Arab countries to participate and pay due consideration to technology, math, science and engineering.
The ICT Minister Yasser ElKady and the Governor of South Sinai Khaled Fouda have inaugurated the Championship. The opening ceremony of the Arab Robotics Championship was attended by the President of the Arab Robotics Association Ismail Hassan Yassin, Chairman of Techno Future and President of eleventh Arab Robotics Championship Ayman El Qabbani, and the Director of the Planetarium Science Center (PSC) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the head of the arbitration committee Ayman El Sayed.
Kafr El-Sheikh University's team, representing Egypt, won the first place and best project in the Championship, where 144 teams from 11 countries participated. The competition entailed a number of technological events with 800 participants. Seven robot competitions— covering the age range of six years till university students— were organized with various technological techniques to encourage participants to pay due consideration to technology, math, science and engineering and create a distinguished generation capable of creativity, innovation and excellence in the fields of technology sciences. The winners will qualify for the world championship that will be held in the United States.
24 March 2018 ICT Minister, South Sinai Governor Open Eleventh Arab Robotics Championship
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