The Spain Registrar of Companies authorizes the company name and proposed activity of Bircham International University.
The Bircham International University name and activity are subject to restrictions (p.e. banks, insurance, universities, hospitals...) and special procedures and authorization. The Spain Registrar of Companies makes sure that the required criteria is duly met before registering the company name and activity. Once registered, the company has green light to operate, then the Tax Department of the Ministry of Economy accepts the proposed activity registration, and later the City Major provides the licence to establish a physical office.
Bircham International University & College was duly registered in the year 2000 with the purpose of providing distance learning higher education.
The Madrid City Major granted a a licence to operate in the field of higher professional education.
Note that checking information at the Spain Registrar of Companies database may require a payment.


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The Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS) was an early geographic information system (GIS) developed for the Government of Canada beginning in the early 1960s.   CGIS was used to store geospatial data for the Canada Land Inventory and assisted in the development of  regulatory procedures for land-use management and resource monitoring in Canada.

At that time, Canada was beginning to realize problems associated with its large land mass and attempting to discern the availability of natural resources. The federal government decided to launch a national program to assist in management and inventory of its resources. The simple automated computer processes designed to store and process large amounts of data enabled Canada to begin a national land-use management program and become a foremost promoter of geographic information systems (GIS).

CGIS was designed to withstand great amounts of collected data by managing, modeling, and analyzing this data very quickly and accurately. As Canada presented such large geospatial datasets, it was necessary to be able to focus on certain regions or provinces in order to more effectively manage and maintain land-use. CGIS enabled its users to effectively collect national data and, if necessary, break it down into provincial datasets. Early applications of CGIS benefited land-use management and environmental impact monitoring programs across Canada.

Development
In 1960, Roger Tomlinson was working at Spartan Air Services, an aerial survey company based in Ottawa, Ontario. The company was focused on producing large-scale photogrammetric and geophysical maps, mostly for the Government of Canada.  In the early 1960s, Tomlinson and the company were asked to produce a map for site-location analysis in an east African nation. Tomlinson immediately recognized that the new automated computer technologies might be applicable and even necessary to complete such a detail-oriented task more effectively and efficiently than humans. Eventually, Spartan met with IBM offices in Ottawa to begin developing a relationship to bridge the previous gap between geographic data and computer services. Tomlinson brought his geographic knowledge to the table as IBM brought computer programming and data management.

The Government of Canada began working towards the development of a national program after a 1962 meeting between Tomlinson and Lee Pratt, head of the Canada Land Inventory (CLI). Pratt was charged with creation of maps covering the entire region of Canada's commercially productive areas by showing agriculture, forestry, wildlife, and recreation, all with the same classification schemes. Not only was the development of such maps a formidable task, but Pratt understood that computer automation may assist in the analytical processes as well. Tomlinson was the first to produce a technical feasibility study on whether computer mapping programs would be a viable solution for the land-use inventory and management programs, such as CLI. He is also given credit for coining the term "geographic information system" and is recognized as the "Modern Father of GIS."

CGIS continued to be developed and operated as a stand alone system by the Government of Canada until the late 1980s, at which point the widespread emergence of commercial GIS software slowly rendered it obsolete.  In the early 1990s, a group of volunteers successfully extracted all of the data from the old computer tapes, and the data made available on GeoGratis.

See also
 Geographic Information System

External links
GeoGratis
Data for Decision, a 1968 short documentary about the project.

Government of Canada
Science and technology in Canada
Geographic information systems

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Montgomery Middle Principal Stephanie Brown was selected Thursday from a pool of three finalists.
Federal regulator considering fewer inspections for aging nuclear power plants
The recommendations are not expected to affect the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
PG&E could face financial trouble if utility is found responsible for California's worst wildfire
In this Oct. 18, 2017, file photo, a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. worker replaces a power pole destroyed by wildfire in Glen Ellen, Calif.
(Ben Margot / Associated Press)
By Alejandra Reyes-VelardeStaff Writer
In a grim sign for the Northern California utility giant, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said Wednesday that if it is deemed responsible for the fire that destroyed much of Paradise, the liability would exceed its insurance coverage.
The cause of California's most destructive and deadliest wildfire has not yet been determined. But PG&E said a transmission line in the area went offline 15 minutes before the fire was first reported, and the company found a damaged transmission tower near where investigators said the fire began. Investigations are underway on the cause of the Camp fire, which has destroyed more than 10,300 structures and killed at least 56 people.
In a corporate filing Wednesday, PG&E said that if its equipment caused the fire, it "would be expected to have a material impact on PG&E Corporation's and the Utility's financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows."
Evacuees fear the worst for family and friends left behind in Paradise »
In a statement, the utility added: "Right now, our entire company is focused on supporting first responders and assisting our customers and communities impacted by the Camp fire. Our hearts are with the communities impacted by the Camp fire. The loss of life and property is staggering. We encourage the public to follow their directions and warnings as fire conditions continue to change."
Since the fire began Thursday, PG&E stock has lost half its value.
Ariel view of destruction from the Camp fire in Paradise off of Clark Road. The Camp Fire has burned more than 7,000 structures in Paradise.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Crews continue their search for victims of the Camp fire in Paradise, Calif., where the majority of homes were destroyed by the fast-moving wildfire.
A body is recovered from Ridgewood Mobile Home Park in Paradise, as the search continues for victims of the Camp Fire in Paradise.
Little remains of the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park in Paradise, Calif., where a team recovered one victim Monday.
The search for victims continues in Paradise, Calif., after the deadly Camp fire raced through the community.
A crew recovers the remains of a dog on Lawndale Lane in Paradise, Calif.
A horse at the Butte County Fairgrounds has its owner's phone number on its neck
Outside of Pulga, Calif., on the North Fork of the Feather River, helicopters do airdrops while ground crews try to keep the Camp fire from spreading.
Two young deer stand in the rubble of a home in Paradise, Calif.
Burned out business in the downtown area of Paradise, Calif., after the Camp fire burned through the area.
(Peter Dasilva / EPA / Shutterstock)
Silvia Johnson, age 85, said her house in Paradise, Calif., was burning when she left it, and knows it's gone. Johnson has been living in Paradise for 48 years and says of the fire, "I've never seen anything like it."
The sun rises over the burned hills near Paradise, Calif., as the Camp fire continues to burn.
Firefighters work to keep flames from spreading through the Shadowbrook apartment complex as a wildfire burns through Paradise, Calif., on Friday.
(Noah Berger / Associated Press)
Scorched vehicles at a used-car dealership in Paradise, Calif., on Friday.
Officer Randy Law tends to a rescued horse as a wildfire burns in Paradise, Calif.
A firefighter battles flames in the Butte County town of Magalia on Friday.
(Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
Abandoned vehicles on the side of a road in Paradise, Calif.
(Josh Edelson / AFP-Getty Images)
A home burns in Paradise, Calif.
Hospital workers and first responders evacuate patients from Feather River Hospital as the Camp fire moves through Paradise, Calif.
Rescue teams scramble to evacuate patients as Feather River Hospital burns in Paradise, Calif.
A statue is seen on a smouldering property as the Camp fire tears through Paradise.
A home is overshadowed by towering smoke plumes as the Camp fire races through town in Paradise
(JOSH EDELSON / AFP/Getty Images)
A home burns during the Camp fire in Paradise. At least five people have died in a massive wildfire raging in northern Calif.
A Jack In The Box fast food restaurant burns as the Camp fire tears through Paradise.
Flames consume a Kentucky Fried Chicken as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise.
A fire fighter puts water on a fire as he performs structure protection, as the Camp Fire burns out of control through Paradise.
Hillery Johnson prepares to leave here horse, Augie in a shopping center parking lot after law enforcement officers said it was time to leave as the Camp fire approached and there is no trailer to transport Augie out of the area.
Hospital workers embrace as they evacuate patients from the Feather River Hospital in Paradise, Calif.
A home burns as the Camp fire rages through Paradise.
A Paradise business is in ruins as the Camp fire ravaged the area.
Hospital workers and first-responders evacuate patients from the Feather River Hospital in Paradise.
Flames engulf a home in Paradise.
The evacuation of patients continues at the Feather River Hospital in Paradise.
The Camp fire rages through Paradise.
Flames from the Camp fire destroy a home in Paradise.
The evacuation at Feather River Hospital.
A building burns in Paradise.
Some who lost homes in Paradise have already sued PG&E, accusing the utility of negligence and blaming it for the fire.
The financial costs of the deadly blaze are expected to be staggering.
After destructive fires swept through wine country last year, PG&E faced similar liability questions. Wall Street estimates the utility giant faces up to $15 billion in liabilities from those fires, which also burned thousands of homes. PG&E has raised the possibility of bankruptcy if it cannot get some relief.
These are the victims of the California wildfires »
Investigators already have linked PG&E lines to some of the October 2017 fires, including the Atlas fire that killed six people and destroyed 781 structures, and the Redwood Valley fire that killed nine and destroyed 544 structures. Officials continue to investigate the cause of the largest of the wine country fires, the Tubbs fire, which swept into Santa Rosa, killing 22 and destroying more than 5,600 structures.
Gov. Jerry Brown in September signed a bill that will offer financial help to utility companies facing massive fire losses. Though the bill was scaled back from an earlier effort to rewrite a liability standard that applies to the companies when their equipment is involved in sparking a fire, it nonetheless offers new power to the California Public Utilities Commission to offer concessions when appropriate. The bill allows PG&E to borrow money for its 2017 wildfire costs while using money collected from ratepayers to pay back the loan.
Some consumer groups oppose the bill, though, calling it a bailout for PG&E.
The cause of the Woolsey fire, which has destroyed hundreds of homes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, is also under investigation.
On Monday, Southern California Edison reported an issue with a circuit in the utility's Chatsworth substation on East Street and Alfa Road that occurred minutes before the Woolsey fire broke out in the same area.
Edison this year announced a plan to spend $582 million for a series of improvements aimed at reducing fire risk that probably would mean higher bills for ratepayers. The proposal includes strengthening poles and using better technology to determine when winds put the power grid at risk.
Many of California's most destructive fires have been fueled by powerful winds, which in some cases have caused power lines to snap off and spark blazes. Utility companies are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and officials have warned that the losses will grow if the agencies can't find ways to reduce the risks.
Times staff writer Paige St. John contributed to this report.
7:30 p.m.: This article was updated with information about fires caused by power lines.
This article was originally published at 11:40 a.m.
Alejandra Reyes-Velarde
11 hurt in roof collapse at Gardena casino
Officials are investigating after a roof collapsed at a Gardena casino Monday morning, injuring 11 people, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
18-year-old dies in off-road accident at Oceano Dunes, the 6th death there this year
A Sacramento area man has died after crashing his motorcycle while off-roading at Oceano Dunes Vehicular Recreation Area, park officials said.
Great white shark pulls fishing boat around San Francisco Bay
Sportfishing customers had a whopper of a fish tale after hooking a great white shark off Alcatraz Island on Saturday.
Video shows L.A. Deputy Caren Carl Mandoyan trying to break into woman's home, leading to his firing
The deputy crouched down in front of the woman's sliding glass door, wedging a metal tool in its frame to pop it loose.
Los Angeles is finally ditching coal — and replacing it with another polluting fuel
L.A. will build a gas-fired power plant in Utah, even as Mayor Eric Garcetti touts a "Green New Deal" to fight climate change.
"Why the DWP's powerful employee union is fighting Garcetti over his plans to shut down gas-fired power plants."
Video shows serial robber who has hit 11 businesses in L.A. area, police say
City officials are offering a $25,000 reward for information after a string of robberies across south and west Los Angeles.
San Diego's tech scene leaps in momentum, outpacing almost every city in America, report says
San Diego may be No. 18 on CBRE's Tech Talent Scorecard, but it leapt to second place in terms of technology talent growth.
Fireworks return to SeaWorld after two-year absence
Fireworks have returned to SeaWorld on weekends as the San Diego park explores the possibility of a drone light show in the future.
University of California faculty-wide divestment vote drew nearly 77 percent support
Comic-Con 2019: Inside the massive Amazon Prime activation
The Amazon Prime video experience is 60,000 square feet and promotes three TV shows: "The Boys," "The Expanse" and "Carnival Row"

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June 3, 2019 Economy
Peking Under the Hood: The Debt Behind Beijing's Glitz
Everyone knows Beijing has an air pollution problem, but few know that the Chinese capital also has a debt problem. A massive city dotted with gleaming skyscrapers, major companies foreign and domestic, and top-notch infrastructure, Beijing exudes economic dynamism. Yet based on the findings in our new "Debt Drag Indicator," Beijing is the second-worst when it comes to debt's drag on the local economy, only marginally better than last place Guizhou.
Guizhou, of course, has long been known to be weighed down by debt, particularly as a result of bad investments from local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). Other provinces, such as Inner Mongolia and Liaoning, also have earned the reputation for accumulating sizable LGFV debt. How can Beijing, one of the wealthiest urban centers, be lumped at the bottom with those debt-laden provinces? And if the municipality's LGFV debt level is so high, why are there no ghost towns in sight?
That's because Beijing's LGFV debt is hidden in plain sight. Surprisingly, the capital has long been a national champion in terms of the size of its LGFV debt—a title it has held for over a decade. As early as 2008, Beijing already led the country with an LGFV debt/GDP ratio of 61%, which has mushroomed to the current 140%. This is due to two main reasons. First, a large share of the LGFV debt is used to finance industrial policy and support local state firms. Second, LGFV debt is also used to fund Beijing's infrastructure and subsidize their operations. In other words, the gleaming façade of the Chinese capital was brought to you by LGFV debt.
Funding public works with debt isn't out of the ordinary—many governments do it in fact. The problem for Beijing's LGFV is its poor performance, with return on assets (ROA) below 1% in recent years. On average, the difference between the LGFV's ROA and cost of capital has been around 4% over the past decade, which means the LGFV cannot adequately service its own debt. This is in part because Beijing's LGFV has to pay higher interest on its debt than the national average (see Figure 1), somewhat puzzling given the soundness of the local economy.
Figure 1. Beijing's LGFV Pays More Interest than the National AverageSource: Wind; author calculations.
So what explains the LGFV's high debt level, poor return, and high cost of capital? The answer lies in politics and perceptions.
Much of it has to do with Beijing's special political status as the Chinese capital, which makes banks believe that Beijing's LGFV is inherently safe. They are not wrong, since the probability that Beijing would let its own LGFV fail is miniscule. But such an expectation of being fully backstopped by the government also leads to the perverse outcome of the LGFV taking on too much debt. Without such political cover, LGFVs in Inner Mongolia or Liaoning have a higher bar to cross to convince creditors to lend to them and are under more scrutiny to meet a lower debt/GDP ratio.
The accumulation of debt eventually erodes the LGFV's advantage of being owned by a wealthy local government such as Beijing, and it ends up having to pay a relatively higher interest. Had Beijing's LGFV debt/GDP ratio declined to that of Inner Mongolia or Liaoning, the LGFV would have much higher returns and pay a lower interest rate.
This pattern is not limited to Beijing. In fact, many ostensibly dynamic provincial economies such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang also have high LGFV debt levels. When ranked by LGFV debt's drag on the economy, it turns out many vibrant local economies actually come out worse than those provinces considered economically weak.
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With today's development of modern technology, pharmaceutical labs have been successful and consistent in creating medicines that can absolutely cure serious diseases. There are a lot of medicines that you can now buy in your local pharmacy even for other less serious problems and diseases. Having said that, majority of efficient treatments in the local pharmacy can be definitely pricey that individuals would like to choose natural therapies just like yoga, herbal medication, or acupressure.
The excellent news is that there are natural solutions that you can even come across at your house. The most effective tool in our modern world is the internet. Today, you can locate everything and anything and can make almost everything on the web. There are plenty of internet sites that you can go to to educate yourself about natural remedies that you can make use of and create in your house. In fact, through these websites, you will find out that you can use common ingredients that you have in the kitchen such as ginger.
Ginger is an excellent natural treatment for pain. Besides being an inflammatory agent, ginger is packed with several antioxidants too. It is effective for hemorrhoid relief as its antioxidant properties removes all the toxic substances from the body. It enhances the blood circulation in your body and raises up the healing process. Put 2 tsp of very finely chopped ginger to 2 cups of warm water for 10 minutes. You can include honey to sweeten it and consume it to cure the pain.
Ginger also takes care of motion sickness, altitude sickness, nausea, and morning sickness, constipation and helps bring about good digestion with no negative effects. The main cause of constipation is incorrect eating behavior just like eating an excessive amount of food or ingesting food items which are hard to digest. When constipated, the bowel movements of a person are difficult, hard, and even hurtful. You can add ginger to your tea and the hot water will stimulate digestion and provide constipation relief. It can help your body to generate more heat inside and this can speed up sluggish digestion.
Pineapple is also an effective natural remedy for constipation because it is very rich in fiber. It features a nutrient known as bromelain which delivers purifying benefits and can help support digestion. Tush M.D. is an all natural supplement that is developed to cure hemorrhoids and constipation and makes use of pineapples as the primary ingredient. Pineapple as well as ginger are equally organic laxatives which allows to enhance bowel movement.
One of the best ways to treat constipation naturally is to eat pineapples or small cuts of ginger or drink fresh ginger-pineapple juice. This is a yummy way to achieve many excellent health gains, like making your bowel movements regular and even. In a blender or a juicer, simply blend one whole pineapple peeled and cut (include the core as well) and a thumb sized ginger with 1 cup water. Drink this natural supplement once everyday to support proper digestion, detoxify the colon, manage bowel movements, and to reduce constipation.
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The main purpose of the P&F Association is to continue to build partnership between parents and the school for the benefit of the boys. Social interaction and spirit-building are also very important components.
Over the past 10 years the P&F has raised many thousands of dollars for improvements. This can be seen with The Marist Centre opened in 1995, the Vaughan Centre in 1996, the Champagnat Technology Centre in 1999, providing first class Information Technology and computer facilities, and more recently the funding of the refurbishment of Marcellin College sporting fields.
The first Thank God It's Friday social evening raised over $30,000 for the John Hennessy Financial Hardship Bursary.


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Jada Koren Pinkett-Smith (Baltimore, 18 september 1971) is een Amerikaans actrice. Zij werd in 2009 samen met haar medehoofdrolspeelsters uit The Women genomineerd voor de Razzie Award voor slechtste actrice. Daarentegen won ze in 2010 een Image Award voor beste actrice in een dramaserie voor haar hoofdrol in Hawthorne. Pinkett-Smith speelde van 1991 tot en met 1993 Lena James in A Different World en debuteerde in 1993 op het witte doek als Ronnie in Menace II Society.

Pinkett-Smith speelde sinds haar filmdebuut in meer dan twintig bioscooptitels. Sommige rollen speelde ze daarbij meer dan eens. Zo speelde ze Niobe in zowel The Matrix Reloaded als The Matrix Revolutions en sprak ze de stem van nijlpaard Gloria in voor zowel de animatiefilm Madagascar als diens opvolgers Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa en Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.

Pinkett-Smith trouwde in 1997 met acteur Will Smith en voegde vervolgens zijn achternaam toe aan haar geboortenaam Pinkett. Samen kregen ze in 1998 zoon Jaden Christopher Syre Smith en in 2000 dochter Willow Camille Reign Smith. Willow is in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa te horen als de stem van de baby van Gloria, het personage met de stem van haar moeder. Pinkett-Smith is samen met haar echtgenoot te zien in Ali. Haar broer Caleeb verschijnt dan weer als barman in haar regiedebuut The Human Contract uit 2008.

In 2018 maakte ze bekend dat ze volgens de artsen lijdt aan alopecia.

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Gotham - Fish Mooney (2014-2017, 28 afleveringen)
Hawthorne - Christina Hawthorne (2009-2011, 30 afleveringen)
A Different World - Lena James (1991-1993, 36 afleveringen)

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stranger than fiction. – static confusion.
as harold [crick] took a bite of bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank god for bavarian sugar cookies. and, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten danish, soft-spoken secrets, and fender stratocasters, and maybe – the occasional piece of fiction. and we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. they are here to save our lives. i know the idea seems strange, but i also know that it just so happens to be true.
i never had the desire to watch will farrell's attempt at honest, somber acting – especially in a movie where an author was narrating the life of an actual human being whom, coincidentally, was also the main character of her new book. i mean, seriously, how is this even a convincing plot? but being a polite house guest i sat down on the last night of my holiday vacation to watch a movie that i was silently dreading.
perhaps it is the deep allegorical meaning to the purpose of living that the audience can attempt to decipher (note: i would like to refute the above citation of italo calvino – not necessarily the two categories of life but that definitely the former, the continuity of life, doesn't necessarily need to be through a union or marriage but more so through one self finding a new meaning, or purpose, in life) or the subtle philosophical undercurrent that triggers us to reflect on our own existence in which the film's appeal stems from. or perhaps it allows us – for a split second – to question if we do in fact control our own fate….if we have control over how noisy our lives can become.
after all, isn't that what each of our respective lives are anyway – a mere story unfolding with each day we wake up breathing; our own self playing the main character?
indeed, each one of us is a harold crick.
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Hi – I haven't seen Stranger than Fiction, but it sounds good from your post.


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Amazonia: Short Waves Return of Vatican Radio's Program in Brazilian
For more than 25 Million People
July 16, 2019 16:10Anita BourdinMedia
"The Brazilian program of Vatican Radio-Vatican News resumes its short-wave transmissions in the Amazon region," announced the portal of Vatican News in Brazilian today, Monday, July 15, 2019, given the proximity of the holding of the Synod for Amazonia (October 6-27, on the theme: "New Ways for the Church and For An Integral Ecology."
"For over 61 years, Brazil has been listening to the Pope's voice through Vatican Radio. On August 1, after a period of absence, the Brazilian program of the papal station will return to Amazonia in short wave," announced the same source.
And it adds: "Thus Vatican Radio-Vatican News shows its attention to an important region of Brazil, for which the radio is its main means of communication. The Pope's voice will be listened to again on radio by more than 25 million people, who live in this lung of the planet. The decision to broadcast in short wave responds to the geographic reality of Amazonia."
Vatican News recalls: "Created in March of 1958, twenty-seven years after the foundation of Vatican Radio, on February 12, 1931, the Brazilian program has followed seven pontificates, from Pius XII to Francis. At present, the Brazilians of Vatican Radio-Vatican News offer a wide gamut of daily programs in a multi-media style through different platforms: radio, Web and social networks."
It also recalled: "On the occasion of the 50th anniversary, in March 2008, Benedict XVI expressed his gratitude to the said program for the inestimable service of proclaiming the Gospel and promoting communion between the Church and the people of Brazil."
July 16, 2019 16:10Media
About Anita Bourdin
France. Journalist accreditated to the Holy See press office since 1995. Started Zenit in french in january 1999. Classical litterature (Paris IV-Sorbonne). Master in journalism (IJRS Bruxelles). Biblical theology (PUG, Rome).
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You've seen all the stats. You've scoured over the infographics. You know email marketing is not going away anytime soon. So where do you begin? How do you get started and send that first email?
As we've been sending regular email newsletters ourselves, and on behalf of clients since 2007, we know a thing or two about them. We've tended to use two systems: Campaign Monitor and more latterly, Mailchimp. Both have superb features to enable you to send emails that work across multiple devices –especially mobiles. This is important as towards the end of 2013 mobile email opens exceeded desktop for the first time, and this is set to continue. It's no longer something you can ignore.
I'm going to focus more on Mailchimp as straight off the bat it allows you to send up to 12,000 emails to 2000 or fewer subscribers per month, absolutely free. This is a great option to start with, without costs inhibiting you. But there are many other systems around such as Mad Mimi, Constant Contact and bluehornet amongst others, where the same principles outlined below apply.
When creating a newsletter, you need to have people to send it to! That should go without saying. First tip: don't go out and buy a list. The whole point of email marketing is that it's permission-based.
When we were setting up our list to send out RMLalchan newsletters, we could have simply added you, our clients and previous clients automatically. This would have created a nice big list to send to. However, we are strong believers in permission-based marketing so sending an email to all our contacts, asking if you wanted to join our list, made much more sense. You'll end up with a smaller list, naturally, but it's worth so much more as every subscriber has given their permission. Read our email strategy blog post which explains this in more detail.
Look to offer something to entice visitors to sign up. Remember, they are parting with their own email address. What's in it for them?
Once your list is set up and the email subscriptions start to increase, you now need to put together your first email. If you're going to be doing this yourself, before even thinking about the look and feel make sure you focus on the content. Use some of the advice we posted previously, and keep thinking 'What's going to connect with my target audience?'. Don't just think about the information you need to 'blast' out.
Here are a few ideas for content that you might include in your newsletters. Note these are general ideas and not all will be relevant to your industry or type of newsletter and will also vary depending on size of your business. You also don't need to use several of them. You could easily have a simple newsletter with one actionable tip of the month.
Don't overcrowd your newsletter, but at the same time, don't assume it has to be extremely short. You have to remember who is reading it, when and where they are reading it. Sometimes, subscribers may scan your email when its delivered, not having the time to read it there and then, but then read it in full days later as they get more time. I must admit, I do this a lot.
The look and feel of your newsletter is also important. It should connect subscribers with your brand, being consistent and maintaining the same styling and personality.
Mailchimp have recently revamped their system to include a fully fledged, drag and drop, email designer. This really does allow anyone to get up and running quickly, and to produce professional-looking emails. However, it still does require some design know-how to match with your existing branding and we are often commissioned to design high-quality templates for clients who don't have the internal resource to do this.
Now you've constructed your email, it's time to test it. Make sure you send a test to yourself, ideally using the email system that your target audience are likely to be using. For example, if you have lots of Gmail users, make sure you test on Gmail. Same for Outlook and mobile email apps.
A lot of importance is attached to the subject line of your email. Think about the email newsletters you receive - what are the subject lines of those you immediately click on, as opposed to those you don't? There has been an awful lot of research carried out on creating the best subject line. Take note of it. In Mailchimp you have a wonderful feature called A/B Testing. This allows you to send out two batches of newsletters to a proportion of your mailing list and the most successful subject line is then used when sending the newsletter to the rest of your subscribers. Let's give a more specific example relating to subject lines.
You may have two good subject lines and you're not sure which is going to be the best. You can pick 10% of your list to be sent the newsletter with subject line A and another 10% with subject line B. Whichever has the most opens after a given period will determine the subject line used when sending the final 80%.
You're not limited to doing this testing with just subject lines. You can also test the best time to send your email or even different 'From' names. Very useful.
The good thing about almost all email marketing software is that you can schedule your emails to go out at a specific time. Just like subject lines, a lot of research has been carried out about the right time to send your newsletter. However, as good as the statistics are, each business is different and the best way to find the most appropriate time is to keep trying different times and check your open rates yourself. I would test for the first three - six months (or issues of your newsletter, if weekly) and then you should have the data to make the correct decision.
Another advantage of scheduling is that you can create several newsletters in advance. It's not unknown for me to schedule three weekly newsletters ahead of time, which enables me to plan ahead. If I'm in 'newsletter writing mode', it's sometimes easier to just copywrite content for several ahead of time.
This is all extremely useful information. However, it's easy to get too caught up in the statistics and read the wrong thing into it. For example, most people's email opens dropped at key points last year. If you didn't know that Gmail had introduced a couple of new features (marketing tabs and automatic image downloading) you could be at a loss as to why your newsletter suddenly seemed unpopular. Keep checking sites like litmus.com as they provide a very informative monthly video about stats on email marketing industry performance.
So that's it. You should be well on the way to having a successful newsletter, allowing you to keep regularly connected with your customers. It doesn't end here of course. You need to keep on top of each issue, refining it where necessary, to keep on making your newsletters even more effective.


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Patients undergoing cancer treatment at greater risk of contracting breakthrough Covid infections: Study
Patients with hematologic cancer, which begins in blood-forming tissue, and those receiving active treatment for any kind of cancer are at a greater risk of contracting breakthrough Covid-19 infections, particularly those who receive anti-CD20 therapy, according to a study.
Scientists also found that the third Covid-19 vaccine dose was associated with lower infection rate and coronavirus complications, except for patients receiving anti-CD20 therapy.
The study conducted by University of Toronto, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, St Michael's Hospital-Unity Health and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Oncology.
Patients receiving cancer treatment and those with hematologic cancer, regardless of the treatment status, should be prioritised for booster vaccination, pre-exposure prophylaxis and, in the event of SARS-CoV-2 infection, early antiviral therapy, the study said.
Patients with cancer are known to have an increased risk of COVID-19 complications including death.
According to the study, a total of 2,89,400 vaccinated patients with cancer, 39,880 hematologic and 2,49,520 solid, with 11,57,600 matched non-cancer controls were identified. The cohort was 65.4 per cent female and the mean age was 66 years.
SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection was higher in patients with hematologic cancer, but not in patients with solid cancer.
Covid-related severe outcomes, including hospitalisation and death, were significantly higher in patients with cancer compared to patients without cancer. The risk of severe outcomes was higher among patients with hematologic cancer than patients with solid cancer, the study said.
The objective of the study was to determine the association of Covid-19 vaccination with breakthrough infections and complications in patients with cancer compared to non-cancer controls, it said.
The study was a retrospective population-based cohort study using linked administrative databases in Ontario, Canada, in residents aged 18 and above who received Covid-19 vaccines.
Three matched groups were identified based on age, sex, and type and date of vaccine.
There was a 1:4 match for patients with hematologic and solid cancer to non-cancer controls with hematologic and solid cancers separately analysed. There was a 1:1 match between patients with hematologic and patients with solid cancer, the study said.
Outcomes occurring 14 days after the second COVID-19 vaccine dose were taken into account. The primary outcome was SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection and secondary outcomes were emergency department visit, hospitalisation and death within four weeks of SARS-CoV-2 infection with the end of the follow-up period being March 31, 2022.
Finding High-Quality Medical Aids for Health Issues: A How-to Guide
Respiratory Outbreak Declared at Chartwell Thunder Bay Retirement Residence (Arundel Street)
Good oral health is essential in people with sickle cell anemia (SCA), according to a new study from Saudi Arabia that found that several disease-causing bacteria species — including Enterobacteriaceae — were significantly more abundant in a group of patients with poorer dental health than in those with better oral care.
"A healthy mouth has a balance of bacteria, but inadequate oral health narrows the range of bacteria, resulting in oral dysbiosis, a state in which beneficial bacteria decrease and potentially pathogenic [disease-causing] bacteria increase," the researchers wrote.
The findings also indicated that patients with low levels of hemoglobin F — a type of hemoglobin normally produced during fetal development — had a significantly higher prevalence of harmful bacteria species than those who had higher levels of the protein.
"Our data further emphasise the importance of routine oral hygiene visits for patients with SCA," the team wrote, adding, "This is especially important for patients with SCA and low [hemoglobin F], who have a higher probability of hospitalisation and clinical complications compared to patients with SCA and high [hemoglobin F]."
The research's findings were reported in "Oral microbiota analyses of Saudi sickle cell anemics with dental caries," a study published in the International Dental Journal.
Examining good versus poor dental health in SCA
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is caused by mutations in the HBB gene that lead to the production of a faulty version of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that is responsible for carrying oxygen through the body. This faulty version is called hemoglobin S.
People with sickle cell anemia or SCA, the most common and often the most severe form of SCD, have two faulty gene copies encoding hemoglobin S.
Complications of dental caries or tooth decay, including acute pain, are often observed in patients with SCA — and have been associated with poor quality of life.
In a healthy mouth, different bacteria species co-exist in a balanced ratio. However, in cases of inadequate oral health, the number of beneficial bacteria decreases, while that of potentially harmful ones increases. This can lead to dental caries, which often result in cavities and other oral health problems.
"Although ample evidence indicates a causative correlation between the disruption of the oral [bacteria] and dental caries, the effect in SCA has not been investigated," the researchers wrote.
Now, a team from the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia conducted a study to examine oral bacteria composition in people with SCA. Their aim was to compare bacteria species in patients with a high decayed, missing, and filled permanent teeth (DMTF) index — a measure of dental health — compared with others who had a low index.
In addition, they evaluated the effect of hemoglobin F levels on bacterial composition by comparing the profiles of patients with low and high levels of the protein. Fetal hemoglobin or hemoglobin F is considered a major modulator of disease severity in SCA.
This type of hemoglobin normally is found in fetuses and newborn babies, but is typically replaced by another hemoglobin variant after birth. However, hemoglobin F is more effective at transporting oxygen than its adult counterpart, and may, therefore, help to counteract the harmful effects of hemoglobin S on blood flow and oxygen transport.
In some individuals, the levels of hemoglobin F remain relatively high during childhood, and only start to decline later on in life, rather than immediately after birth.
High levels of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria found
This new study was conducted in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, where the disease is highly prevalent. It included 100 patients, ages 5–12, from whom saliva was collected.
Among the patients, 27 had high dental caries — reflected by a high DMTF index of five points or more — and 73 had low dental caries, indicated by a low DMTF index of four points or fewer.
The research team identified 416 bacteria species in the patients' samples. When analyzing their prevalence, seven were found to be significantly more abundant in patients with a high DMTF index than in those with a low index.
In addition, eight bacteria species were found to be significantly more prevalent in patients with low hemoglobin F levels compared with those with high levels of the protein.
In particular, the Enterobacteriaceae bacteria species, which have been associated with severe infections and high rates of antibiotic resistance, were found in great abundance in both patient groups, being the most significantly abundant bacteria species among those with low levels of hemoglobin F.
"It has been suggested that the presence of the Enterobacteriaceae species in the oral cavity is favoured when an individual's immunity is compromised," the researchers wrote, adding that "patients with SCA are immunocompromised."
Overall, these findings indicate that Saudi SCA patients with poorer dental health and low levels of hemoglobin F have a higher predominance of harmful bacteria in their mouth.
Our data further emphasise the importance of routine oral hygiene visits for patients with SCA.
"Our results provide a valuable addition to the global microbiome reference data set in an underexamined community," the researchers wrote, adding, "These efforts are essential and warranted given the scarcity of [bacteria composition] data in Middle Eastern populations."
Nevertheless, a study with a large sample size evaluating how oral bacterial species can relate to dental caries in SCA patients is required, the team noted.
The researchers said their findings indicate the important of good dental health in people with sickle cell anemia, given that the bacteria species otherwise found "are thought to drive the development and progression of dental caries."
Good Oral Health Crucial in People with Sickle Cell Anemia, Study Finds – Oral Health
A new study from Saudi Arabia found that good dental health is vital for people with sickle cell anemia (SCA). The findings observed that multiple disease-causing bacteria were seen much more in the patients with poorer oral health than those with better oral health.
Patricia Valerio, PhD, noted, "The findings also indicated that patients with low levels of hemoglobin F – a type of hemoglobin normally produced during fetal development – had a significantly higher prevalence of harmful bacteria species than those who had higher levels of the protein."
This research shows how important good oral hygiene is for patients with SCA and low hemoglobin F.
Read more about this study from Sickle Cell Disease News.
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Respiratory viruses on decline: Province – Brandon Sun – The Brandon Sun
Hospitalizations due to influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have all decreased in Manitoba, according to the province's latest epidemiological respiratory virus surveillance report.
Data for the week of Jan. 15 to Jan. 21 indicates this respiratory virus season may finally be nearing its end, after it began earlier than usual and caused surges of severe illness and hospitalizations, particularly among babies and toddlers.
There were two flu-related hospital admissions that week, none requiring intensive care, while the Influenza A test positivity rate fell to 0.8 per cent, compared with 1.9 per cent the previous week. No cases of Influenza B have been detected provincially yet this season.
There were 105 detected cases of RSV, with a weekly RSV test positivity rate of 8.3 per cent. The previous week, the test positivity rate for RSV was 8.7 per cent.
There were seven patients with COVID-19 in hospital, as well as three in intensive care. No new COVID deaths were reported, but the province retroactively updated its COVID-19 death toll. There were 15 deaths added to the total count last week, for an overall number of 316 Manitobans who lost their lives to COVID since this fall.
» Winnipeg Free Press
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Q: Equivalent of windows gdi regions in linux I sometimes use windows gdi regions for graphics drawing and invalidation/validation. For example the program http://www.maxerist.net/main/soft-for-win/tubicus (oss) was made using only regions (no bitmaps or off-screen buffer). The drawing was made with FillRgn and FrameRgn, invalidation and painting with  InvalidateRgn and CombineRgn,  every cell (see screenshot) is a simple region created with CreateEllipticRgn, CreatePolygonRgn and CombineRgn.
I have plans to port it to Linux. As I understood, there are many graphics libraries in Linux. Are there ones that support windows-like regions?
Thanks

A: You want to use The X Window System, a.k.a. X11, as your graphic platform. Its client library is called Xlib. The platform supports polygonal regions.
There are many libraries written on top of Xlib (Gtk, Qt, wxWindows and more) but you always can use the low-level Xlib API directly with any of them. Qt even supports elliptic regions. I don't know the details but I guess it's implemented on top of X11 polygonal regions.

A: Qt has a lot of options for painting, and using QPainter with QPainterPath objects might suit you well. (There are samples in the Qt distribution). You can combine (add/intersect/substact) paths.
The QGraphicsView framework is a good alternative too.

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August 18, 2018 – John J. Higgins and Barb Adams, Accountability | Michael Robartes, The Rabbit Hole Experience | Tami Urbanek, Empowerment Through Healing | Ken Goldstein, Life Planning
August 15, 2018 by Barb Adams
Hour 1 – John J. Adams and Barb Adams, Accountability
Credit: insidehighered.com
America is suffering from a lack of accountability.
Look around—behind the problems that plague our institutions and culture are individuals who are either unwilling or unable to speak or step up to deal with these issues. From bad behaviors displayed in public to friends and family members failing to live up to commitments, nobody says a word. No one is holding anyone accountable. And when push does come to shove after repeated infractions and action is taken, too often it is taken in such a manner as to create a whole new set of problems.
This failure to speak up, this silence, isn't just a morale killer, it's becoming an institution killer, and America is suffering.
Our political system is a prime example of lack of accountability. As Katherine Gehl and Dr. Michael E. Porter point out in their Harvard Business School report, Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America: A Strategy for Reinvigorating our Democracy, "Unlike other industries, which are subject to federal oversight or face threats from competition if they don't serve customer needs, there's no higher authority lording over the political system. Though the Federal Election Commission is nominally tasked with ensuring that election and financing rules are followed, the panel is stocked with political appointees and under constant pressure to operate with a very light touch."
In theory, voters are supposed to be the ultimate check. If you don't approve of what's happening, vote the party or officials out. But as Gehl and Porter point out, "The real problem is that our political system is no longer designed to serve the public interest, and has been slowly reconfigured to benefit the private interests of gain-seeking organizations: our major political parties and their industry allies." Without accountability, as Gehl and Porter point out, our system "…may have worked better than ever for the constituencies that it was built to serve best: primary voters, donors, and lobbyists for special interests, including businesses. Unfortunately for the American public, most ordinary voters are not among those leading beneficiaries." And with gerrymandering (redistricting), the process of selecting representatives has reversed—politicians now get to choose their voters rather than voters choosing their politicians. Our unwillingness to speak has been complicit in creating a self-serving system which has basically left We the People out of the loop.
Although the system is not broken, it has now become our country's greatest challenge. Fixing the system will require sustained initiative and accountability. We must all be willing to do our part by holding one another and those in power accountable. We must learn to speak up when we witness injustices, and we must learn to do so in such a way that solves the problems without doing additional harm.
It's time to begin having the courageous conversations we need in this country and to turn those conversations into the actions and resolutions we seek for the greater good of all Americans.
JOIN Barb and John as they discuss Accountability.
Hour 2 – Michael Robartes, The Rabbit Hole Experience
Joining the show during the second hour is the lead investigator of Scientific Paranormal, Michael Robartes. Michael will be discussing and co-author Paul Conroy's book, The Rabbit Hole Experience: On Sasquatches, Spirits, and the People Who See Them.
Have you ever seen a ghost or experienced something you can't explain, from UFOs to picking up the phone before it rings? When you go through something you don't understand and you can't tell what's real, you've fallen down 'The Rabbit Hole.' What does that mean, and what are some true-life stories of people recovering from such experiences?
Michael Robartes is a Paranormal Investigator whose new book, The Rabbit Hole Experience (Capehouse Books, July 2018), offers a unique look at how people react to experiencing the weird, bizarre, or supernatural. During Robartes' and Conroy's interviews with witnesses of the unexplainable, a pattern of commonalities emerged. What people saw shattered their belief structure about what is possible, leaving them in some cases with nothing left to believe in. The aftermath of such experiences cause some people to have a spiritual awakening, others to have a psychological breakdown, and many just deny anything happened. What determines how a person reacts to the mysterious? And how did Robartes and Conroy react when they came upon their own mystical experience? As an example, Robartes will discuss the time when they entered their remote cabin in the woods after four (4) days of field research, and they found a candle still burning, which was impossible!
Michael Robartes leads Scientific Paranormal, a paranormal investigation team in the Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) Family network. A life-long explorer of unexplained phenomena, he knows what eyewitnesses go through and helps them integrate their experiences into a new world view. Robartes lives in New York between the Adirondack Park and the Canadian border.
For more information, visit https://www.rabbitholeexperience.com.
Hour 3 (Rebroadcast) – Tami Urbanek, Empowerment Through Healing
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Springbok, Namaqualand
The oldest Anglican Church in South Africa', found in Springbok, built in 1921.
Namaqualand's largest town, is Springbok. You can enjoy the wild flowers and dramatic landscapes of the Northern Cape, a South African destination that stands apart for its rugged beauty. The pretty town of Springbok is found in the heart of the Namaqualand within spitting distance of other typical Namaqualand towns like Alexander Bay, Pofadder, Garies, Kleinzee and Port Nolloth, 570 kilometres north of Cape Town.
Originally called Springbokfontein, Springbok is the administrative capital of the region as well as the last major town in South Africa on the only main road north, before the border into Namibia. Springboks perfect position as a stopover en route to Namibia and its repute as the flower capital of Namaqualand have placed Springbok on the map. It's not difficult to imagine the prominence of Springbok antelope in the narrow valley wedged between the high granite domes of the Klein Koperberge (copper mountains) that must have lead to the town's rather obvious name.
By all accounts the attractive town of Springbok is formed around a central koppie or hill, known by locals as 'klipkoppie' (stone hill) that was used by the Boers during the Second Boer War as a fort for its incredible vantage point. Views from here across the valley are beautiful, as are the examples of flowers during spring every year that not only blossom on the little hill but in the surrounding scrubland as well. The koppie is also the site of a modest stone church built in 1921 and the remains of the walls of the original fort.
There's enough reason to spend a couple of days here to visit; the Skilpad Wildflower Nature Reserve, particularly in August and September, the Augrabies Waterfall, the Goegap Nature Reserve, the Blue mine - Springbok's first mine, and the war graves from the Anglo Boer War.
17° 51' 3.6", -29° 39' 25.2"
https://www.sa-venues.com/attractionsnc/springbok.php
https://www.ancestors.co.za/all-saints-namaqualand/
Kamieskroon, Northern Cape
Abbasas Mountains, Namaqualand
'Abbervlaack', a Railway Station in the Northern Cape
Aggeneys, a Town at the foot of the Aggeneys Mountain in the Namaqualand
Pofadder, Northern Cape
Namaqua National Park
Goegap Nature Reserve, Springbok
Louw House Museum, Sutherland
Vredendal, Western Cape
Soebatsfontein, Northern Cape
Namaqualand, Flower Route
Port Nolloth, Namaqualand Northern Cape
Alexander Bay, Namaqualand
Garies
Kleinzee, Northern Cape
First Anglo Boer War


- Mr Aaron Abner Ang with the Dual Scented Oil Diffuser.
Shopping for automotive fragrance? Do check out the on going roadshow of Refresh Your Car at 1 Utama Shopping Centre. Today is the last day to shop there, you can check out the full range of Refresh Your Car! scents and products formats available in Malaysia, with four booths evoking the scent categories - Fruit Garden, City, Beach and Snow-Capped Mountains.
"In recent years, Malaysian residents are registering more than half a million new passenger vehicles every year. Meanwhile, in this tropical climate, unpleasant odours can often linger in our cars despite our efforts to keep our cars looking and smelling good. We see this as an opportunity for us to enter the automotive fragrances segment in Malaysia. With Refersh Your Car!'s patented odour elimating and masking technology, we are extremely confident that we can offer an impactful difference to car owners in Malaysia, who face the impact of humid weather on their cars every day," said Aaron Abner Ang, Senior Brand Manager - Malaysia, Singapore & Indonesia, Energizer Holdings Inc.
Energizer Malaysia expanded its brand portfolio in Malaysia on 23 March 2018 with the official launch of the Refresh You Car! automotive fragrance brand - one of the leading automotive fragrance brands in the United States. Energizer Malaysia's holding company, Energizer Holdings bought over HandStands Holding Corporation, the former parent company of Refresh Your Car! in 2016.
Consumers will be able to experience the brand's odour eliminating and masking technology in action through demonstrations and also enjoy the Virtual Reality Drive with Refresh Your Car! at the roadshow.
That one big road show.


In this webinar, we discuss eCOA instrument migration principles and requirements, as well as the methodologies for different types of validation activities (usability testing, cognitive interviewing, equivalency testing). Our guest speakers are Paul O'Donohoe, Kai Langel, and Diane Wild.
Data integrity and validity have got to be the number one concern for anybody gathering data from subjects. Electronic Clinical Outcome (eCOA) solutions can help.
Migration of a clinical study from paper to electronic requires technical, regulatory, and patient experience considerations. Follow these best practices to ensure an effective transition to eCOA.
Is equivalence testing necessary to establish comparability between electronic and paper-based clinical trial questionnaires? A meta-analysis of several years of equivalence tests provides insights.
Dr. Keith Meadows and Paul O'Donohoe discuss highlight important considerations and benefits of migrating a clinical study from paper to eCOA, with particular focus on a case study in diabetes.
Diane Wild and Kai Langel discuss clinical outcomes validation from the perspective of actual re-search, noting key terms and identifying challenges and best practices. Recorded January 19, 2012.
Members of an industry panel discuss ePRO deployment in clinical studies, including the lessons learned, best practices, as well as advantages of electronic over paper. Recorded November 19, 2009.
Diane Wild and Kai Langel discuss ePRO instrument development and validation within the scope of the FDA PRO guidance and outline CRF Health's 4-step ePRO validation program. Recorded April 15, 2010.
Sonya Eremenco and William Lenderking report on ISPOR ePRO task force discussion, new pub-lication, and draft document, then introduce new instruments (EXACT-PRO and PROMIS). Rec-orded May 21, 2009.


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When Everything is a Crime Reply
by Keith Preston • Education, Law/Justice, Police State/Civil Liberties, Political Correctness/Totalitarian Humanism, Uncategorized
Few people understand the price of overregulation like Harvey Silverglate. Over his long career as an attorney and journalist, Silverglate has seen the rising bureaucratic class enact hundreds of thousands of federal regulations and vaguely-worded statutes. The result has been the criminalization of everyday life. From university campuses to corporate boardrooms, ever more citizens are facing severe punishments for behavior that was once considered harmless.
Silverglate himself has been repeatedly pursued by the FBI, only to see the investigations come to nothing.
But the longtime civil libertarian is optimistic for change. Now that the regulatory state has grown so complex that powerful people are getting tripped up in their own rules, Silverglate thinks reform is possible. Regarding the trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell for the vague charge of honest services fraud, he said: "People who wouldn't agree on what day of the week this is, agreed that the Department of Justice was becoming almost a terrorist organization with respect to state, local, and even federal public officials. That's what causes change: the people in power begin to get hurt by their own system."
Silverglate is the co-founder of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the author of Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent and co-author of The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses. He spoke with Reason TV from his Boston office.
0:42 – What is overcriminalization?
4:37 – Why do we need mens rea reform?
7:06 – How did we get all these regulations and bureaucrats?
11:11 – How can we get out of this mess?
12:50 – Speech codes, kangaroo courts, and the overregulation of our universities.
17:28 – The changing student population and the end of in loco parentis.
23:26 – Herbert Marcuse and his "wacko theory" of differential rights.
27:07 – Is freedom of speech moving forwards or backwards in society?
30:25 – How the F.B.I. came after Silverglate.
34:00 – Silverglate discusses his background and influences.
38:44 – Silverglate's upcoming book and movie.
Runs 42 minutes.
Produced by Todd Krainin. Interview by Nick Gillespie. Cameras by Meredith Bragg and Jim Epstein.
Visit http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/06/15… for full interview text, links, and downloadable versions. Subscribe to Reason TV to be notified when new videos are released.
Corrupt Politicians and Corrupted Money Go Hand in Hand
The Case for American Secession
Why Political Libertarianism Doesn't Stand A Chance In the UK


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Le qualificazioni del doppio  del Davidoff Swiss Indoors 1998 sono state un torneo di tennis preliminare per accedere alla fase finale della manifestazione. I vincitori dell'ultimo turno sono entrati di diritto nel tabellone principale. In caso di ritiro di uno o più giocatori aventi diritto a questi sono subentrati i lucky loser, ossia i giocatori che hanno perso nell'ultimo turno ma che avevano una classifica più alta rispetto agli altri partecipanti che avevano comunque perso nel turno finale.

Le qualificazioni del doppio del torneo Davidoff Swiss Indoors 1998 prevedevano 4 coppie partecipanti di cui una è entrata nel tabellone principale.

Teste di serie

 Menno Oosting /  Pavel Vízner (Qualificati)

 Tuomas Ketola /  Aleksandar Kitinov (ultimo turno)

Qualificati
 Menno Oosting  /   Pavel Vízner

Tabellone

Collegamenti esterni

Davidoff Swiss Indoors 1998
ATP Tour 1998


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On January 10th, I was being reminded by fans from all over the world that it was my father's birthday. Indeed, he would have been celebrating his 108th. I am so happy that you all remember him, enjoy his films and care enough to send me notes and write comments about how much you love him, cheer for him, cry for him and sing along with him. Thank you. My heart is full.
It was suggested that I start a blog so, here we go … I would like to tell you a story … his story … well, the beginning of his story.
It was the turn of the 20th Century, The Belle Epoch, and Austria was booming especially Vienna. Art, Music, Modern architecture and design, progressive liberal thinking … the time of Klimt and Mahler, Freud and Jung.
However, there was a dark cloud hovering…the dark cloud of old Russia and the Czar…the cloud of ethnic cleansing, long before there was such a phrase. Jews were being eliminated, exterminated. Families were fleeing, abandoning their homes or at the very least, changing their names.
Emil and Laura Hirsch still managed to have a fulfilling life. Laura's family had already changed their name so when in 1904 all their sons but one were ready to change their name, it didn't come as a surprise. And so Hirsch became Hernried. Karl, Erwin, Robert, Theo and Rudolph were now Hernrieds . Otto and his parents held to Hirsch.
Karl married Maria who was born into a Roman Catholic family from Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) and so their sons, Paul born in 1908 and Robert born in 1909 were raised as Catholics. Both boys were born in Trieste, which was then a bustling cosmopolitan city and the major port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As this was also considered the Austrian Riviera and gathering place of the upper classes of Central Europe, it attracted artists and philosophers and a then 'starving artist' writer by the name of James Joyce.
The well bred and demanding Maria seemed to enjoy motherhood. She attended to the boys at her convenience as there was a Nanny. However, she doted on Bobby. He was becoming the favorite.
With Karl's career as a banker and appointment as financial adviser to the Kaiser Franz Josef, they lived more than comfortably in the heart of the old city. Soon Karl was relocated to Prague and ultimately back to Vienna.
The First World War had begun. The city was tense, the populous on edge.
Karl being a strong minded, strong willed man did not always stay within the rules of the Kaiser. He was shot by a guard when refusing to tell his coachman to reroute his carriage. The bullet didn't kill him but the following years of reduced health did. He died napping in his favorite chair. There he was discovered by his eldest son, 8 yr old, Paul.
And so the story of my father begins. This event changed his life … changed the status of the life he had lived and the direction his life would take in the future.
There has been some speculation among my associates and fellow researchers that Karl was 'an agent' of the Kaiser. As a banker, he could easily have traveled to and from the Hapsburg Empire's three most important cities,Trieste, Vienna and Prague, without much question or attention….even during WWI. We know he received his title Ritter von Wasel Waldingau, not because he was of noble birth, but rather for services 'above and beyond' for the Kaiser and Crown. Unfortunately we have not come across an accurate paper trail as yet because so much has been destroyed between and because of the two wars. However, we are delving into the official bank and three city archives while I'm there this winter.
Dear Monika, I am thrilled with the extent of your research and interviews. It must be difficult to put into words the emotions of actually walking, seeing, and discovering your father's and mother's amazing and heroic journeys. To meet and interview those who knew them is a very special link bonding the generations. Remember to savor each day's adventure.
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'Inside intelligence' is the future of advertising
Posted By: TMO Contributoron: November 19, 2021 In: Agencies
The pandemic has accelerated some of the biggest brands 'in-housing' their creative teams, this trend continues but what does this mean for the future of advertising?
The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has found that the pandemic has accelerated the trend to the tune of 57% among multinational companies.
Paul van den Berg, CE for Middle East & Africa at Oliver, a leader in the digital inside agency model, says that there is an upward trend of companies opting for an in-house or inside agency model.
"Dedicated and bespoke agencies that are within the clients businesses able to integrate with and even influence the client's entire marketing eco systems are the future," he says. "They can bring inside ideas and inside intelligence, providing a faster, more transparent way to fulfil marketing needs with an agile client-agency relationship rather than the client doing it themselves."
He adds that with the in-house adoption curve becoming more extreme it's difficult for brands to suddenly have to build or run their own agencies, it's not within their core competencies. That's why he says that more and more companies will look to companies like Oliver to help gather and garner the companies inside intelligence and make sense of all of the data.
"Sometimes companies are too close to their own problems, too close to their own business, too close to their own data, so they can't actually see it without the help of external viewpoints that are close enough to understand the business but far enough away as an external business," Van den Berg says.
Despite the pandemic, Oliver, which designs, builds and runs bespoke in-house agencies and eco systems in 46 countries had a bumper year in South Africa last year, doubling revenues and head count by working for brands like Unilever and Diageo largely because they were already riding the in-house wave in a different way to other agencies.
"Even though we are inside we are an agency and not just a team that are employed. So we can provide the best of both insourcing and outsourcing, to help companies drive that change," he says.
"Building 'Inside Intelligence' is a big part of it, which involves tailoring the bespoke model to every client's business through a blend of talent, teamwork, and technology and then optimising it for speed. This ensures the client gets outstanding creative that's delivered fast and delivers great results."
The more ideas you generate, the more you understand the clients' pain points. "This applies when we meet a new client for the first time when we first play the role of consultants. We ask where does it hurt? Where in the ecosystem are your biggest pain points? Where are the throughput issues, the quality control issues? And once we are inside that business, we ask these questions consistently."
Clients also ask a lot of questions: "How do we do this? What do we do with content management services? How do we use this data? What are we doing in terms of data content optimisation?"
"As an 'inside agency' we are able to be a springboard to the client, sometimes a mentor, and sometimes a change manager. And in this digital revolution, evolution, whatever you want to call it, play a transitional transformational role."
"Importantly, now more than ever in this age of digital, in-house marketing teams need speed and agility and an in-house set up that can be scaled that's a lot more rapid and a lot more agile, which is capable of doing all things digital."
And, he says that Oliver's sweet spot right now in South Africa is the digital ecosystem. With the explosion of digital, the list of skills needed for an in-house scenario could include multi-channel creativity that goes across multiple platforms, SEO and content marketing, UX design (for better agility), social media marketing, data analytics, augmented reality, production, as well as e-commerce and virtual shopper capabilities.
But not all in-house models are the same. He cites Oliver's client Unilever for which they have set up 22 U-Studios around the world, and while similar with regard to ways of working, each is different in the way they are tooled.
However, in-house does not necessarily mean on-site in these pandemic times. "The realities of the pandemic have meant that our teams and their brands rapidly evolved 'in-house' to mean 'at home' too, "he says.
He adds that the company quickly adapted going from everyone being onsite to few being onsite with many 'insiders' working at home and even launched new clients during the pandemic where everyone has been virtual.
For example, Oliver launched Diageo in Nigeria in June last year in the middle of COVID with nobody actually meeting in person. But as soon as people are able to meet in person, he says that Oliver will be on-site again and says that they are already seeing a return to that scenario in the UK and the US, with France and Ireland back to almost 100% on-site.
"More and more companies are considering the in-house model because brands are under pressure from a capital and speed point of view, and everyone's under pressure from a consistency and quality point of view, therefore an in-house agency model is ideal."
He continues: "The in-house model solves the money thing to a large degree, it solves the speed, because you've got dedicated 'always on' teams, with higher degrees of consistency and fast turn-around times, that if necessary, can push out an entire campaign in a day."
"In the creative world when you've got five or ten different agencies doing little pieces of work for you when you take all the pockets of spend brands are spending with a multitude of agencies and you add it all up, they will realise just how much they're actually spending across the entire ecosystem," he says.
"Consolidating the agency outputs, with fewer people working on the brands who are inside the brand teams and thinking in the digital space while tapping into a global network like ours, this brings all kinds of tools to the fore that are needed while effectively doing it faster and cheaper, with consistency, plus you get a bespoke built solution."
He believes that an outsourced agency like Oliver can bring the best talent in-house who are completely immersed in the client's business, who will push the boundaries, build great brands, win awards, which is what they are paying an agency for.
"And because we are closer to our clients we have a better understanding of the DNA of each of the brands we work with and there is less of a knowledge gap between the brand and agency and we are more invested in our clients' success," he adds.
And, yes, he says that it might be cheaper in the short term to own all the resources yourself and create an in-house agency within your company. But he asks, What calibre of creative are you attracting? How will you retain grow, develop? How will you retain creative talent?"
Brands are looking for effectiveness and more digital skills are needed than ever before. However, he says that agility is key. "Nothing's simple and nothing is standard. You need to be able to tool up and tool down and re tool and reshuffle people because who knows if in a few months they might need half the people or they might need double the people and this is another reason why the cost effective outsourced in-house model works," he explains. "Not sure the current client agency RFPs have quite come to terms with this reality but our elastic scalability resourcing can deliver this."
"We try to drive a lot of what we're doing with our sister companies in the You & Mr Jones Group, the world's first Brandtech group, who help us to be even more effective through our tech, process and talent approach which is further underpinned by our own, bespoke, software management platform, OMG. This enables us to approach brands in a different way, and this, we believe is part of the agency and the way of the digital marketing future."
For more information visit the website or view the agency case studies and work here and follow Oliver on LinkedIn.
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NDIA is a strong advocate for improving the protection of unclassified controlled technical information against cyber threats. While DoD and industry have focused much effort on protecting their business and engineering information systems, less action has been taken to improve protection of technical data in factory networks and control systems, which are increasingly subject to cyber threats. The Cybersecurity for Advanced Manufacturing Joint Working Group is a collaboration between the NDIA Manufacturing and Cyber Divisions.
The mission of the Cybersecurity for Advanced Manufacturing Joint Working Group Manufacturing Division and Cyber Division is to heighten awareness of emerging threats, vulnerabilities and consequences in manufacturing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) of the Defense Industrial Base to protect the defense contractors' manufacturing capabilities essential to the Department's technical strength. This joint government- industry working group aims to develop approaches for effective ICS cybersecurity solutions.
Objective: Government and industry members of the Cybersecurity for Advanced Manufacturing (CFAM) Joint Working Group (JWG) are working collaboratively to build on the recommendations in the 2014 NDIA white paper, Cybersecurity for Advanced Manufacturing. The CFAM JWG will identify the types and boundaries of cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences in the manufacturing environment and define actions to mitigate those risks.
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The CFAM JWG will identify ways to incentivize and assist manufacturers (particularly small and medium enterprises (S&ME) in defense supply chains) to improve cybersecurity in manufacturing systems by evolving policies and contract requirements, enhancing security practices, and offering industrial / contractor workforce cybersecurity training. Implementation plans will be developed for the updated courses of action.
Today, the CFAM JWG membership stands at 49 with representation from four NDIA divisions: Cyber, Logistics, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering. Industry participation ranges from large companies to a woman-owned small defense manufacturer. In addition to defense businesses, the JWG has members from academia, trade organizations, and a federally funded research and development center.
Government representation comes from two branches of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Office of the Chief Information Officer and Acquisition, Technology & Logistics), the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Department of Energy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command - Pacific, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
– What defines a manufacturing environment?
– What use cases are important across the life cycle of the manufacturing environment?
– What actions and activities can improve cybersecurity in the manufacturing environment?
– What types of education, training and cultural changes are required?
– What technical solutions can increase cybersecurity in the manufacturing environment?
– What existing policies regulations, and standards are applicable and what needs to be augmented, and by whom?
– What activities implemented outside the Department of Defense can be leveraged?


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Professor Magda Teter discusses "blood libel" in historical context
January 24, 2011 by mteter
Professor Magda Teter's piece commenting on Sarah Palin's use of the term "blood libel" in the aftermath of the Arizona shootings places "blood libel" in historical context. The piece "Putting 'Blood Libel' in Historical Context" has been published at the Harvard University Press Blog.
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Upcoming Events in Jewish and Israel Studies at Wesleyan
November 10, 2015 January 19, 2011 by mteter
The Spring semester has started and it will be busy not only with classes but also with events. Two thematic series: The Ring Family Israel Film Festival and a series of talks and concerts on East European Jewish Culture.
The event that will inaugurate the semester will be the annual Frankel Memorial Lecture. February 1 Director Andrzej Krakowski will present his film Farewell My Country about the 1968 exodus of Jews from Poland. Powell Family Cinema at the Film Studies, 8pm.
The Frankel Lecture will also inaugurate a series on the East European Jewish Culture.
Ring Family Israeli Film Festival at Wesleyan at the Goldstein Family Cinema:
February 10: Five Hours From Paris: the story of a dream, an obstacle and unique friendships between an Israeli taxi driver and a Russian music teacher. Speaker: Haim Tabakman, a film director and Jewish and Israel Visiting scholar in Residence.
February 17, Eyes Wide Open: a forbidden love story between a married Orthodox man and a mysterious young man. Speaker Haim Tabakman, director of the film and Jewish and Israel Visiting scholar in Residence.
February 24, Ajami: Israel Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film combines five stories which take place in Ajami, a religious and ethnically diverse neighborhood of Jaffa. Speaker: Laura Blum, film critic.
March 3, The Beetle. A man's obsession with his Beetle car brings him to Jordan in a desperate attempt to fix it. Speaker: Anne Peters, Wesleyan Assistant Professor in the Government Department.
March 31, a screening of two Israeli TV shows: Serugim (the dating saga of young Religious Israelis) and Arab Labor (An Arab journalist's hilarious attempts to fit into Israeli society). Speaker: Isaac Zablozki, director of Film Programs at the JCC Manhattan.
April 7, Wrist cutters: A Love Story. This is an adaptation of the internationally renowned writer, Etgar Keret's novella Kneller's Happy Campers (interesting translation….). Featured guest speaker, Etgar Keret.
This film festival is sponsored by the Ring family and the Jewish and Israel Studies.
Eastern European Jewish Culture Series:
February 15, Hankus Netsky will speak on American klezmer, CFA Hall, 7pm
February 22, Michael Winograd's klezmer performance, CFA Hall, 7pm
March 29, Sam Kassow will speak on Yiddish poetry in the Holocaust era, CFA Hall, 7pm
April 5, Olga Litvak will speak on Sholem Aleichem, CFA Hall, 7pm
And a special event, related to our Service-Learning Class:
April 13, Professor Shalom Sabar from Hebrew University will give a talk "The Sabbath in Jewish Art and Folklore."
More events will be announced, including our annual showcase of students' research in Jewish and Israel Studies. Please check back for updates, and become a friend of Wesleyan's Jewish and Israel Studies Program on Facebook, where you can get the latest updates about the Program: www.facebook.com/WesleyanJIS
Categories CJS Lectures and Events, Israeli Film Festival
Looking back and looking forward
November 10, 2015 January 4, 2011 by mteter
The fall semester is well behind us, grades have been submitted and now we are preparing for the Spring semester.
The fall was full of events and exciting courses. Jewish and Israel Studies Program offered eleven courses, enrolling a total of 192 students, 107 of whom were taught by our core faculty. In the Spring we will offer eight courses in History, Music, Art History, Religion, Film Studies, and of course Hebrew language and literature. JIS sponsored seven events, among them were two in our New Israeli Voices series, which brought to campus Joshua Sobol, the acclaimed Israel playwright and director, and Michal Govrin, a noted Israeli writer. The series is tightly integrated into our Hebrew curriculum. We also hosted JJ. Goldberg from the Forward who spoke on "The Next American Judaism: Israel, Intermarriage and the Seinfeld Effect" and Professor Susan Einbinder who spoke on "Medieval Jewish Martyrdom, Poetry, and Hysterical Blindness." These events were also linked to our curriculum, the American Jewish History class, Medieval Jewish History class, and a class on Medieval Literature.
In November, Professor Magda Teter met with alumni and parents in San Francisco to talk about Jewish and Israel Studies at Wesleyan and brainstorm about what we can do for those who are not on campus. We had some terrific ideas that we plan to work on! Stay tuned.
Spring looks like an exciting semester. Jewish an Israel Studies Program will offer eight courses, including for the first time, a small cluster of courses on East European Jewish History and Culture. Professor Mark Slobin will teach a course a course "Yiddish Cultural Expression: Music, Theater, Literature, Film." The course "will ground modern Yiddish expressive culture in its 19th-century Eastern European homeland, then follow its dispersion to North America, through the present." Professor Magda Teter will teach a course on East European Jewish History, from the beginning of Jewish settlement in medieval Poland through the modern day efforts to create vibrant, if small, Jewish communities in Cracow and Warsaw. This is also our first service learning course. Students will work with the Congregation Adath Israel in Middletown and study its Judaica collection. Aside from learning about Jewish history in Eastern Europe, students will be engaged in learning through material culture and curating a small exhibition. Finally, in our small cluster, Professor Annalise Glauz-Todrank will teach a course on "Hasidism: European Origins and American Identities."
Among other highlights is our Mervin and Gittel Silverberg Distinguished Visiting Scholar. This year the position will be held by the Israeli director and producer, Haim Tabakman, whose most recent film "Eyes Wide Open" has received wide acclaim. Haim Tabakman will teach a course on "Revival of the Israeli Cinema" and he will also play an active role in our Ring Family Israeli Film Festival organized by Professor Dalit Katz.
Our cultural programming also looks exciting–a more detailed schedule will be announced shortly, so here is just a taste:
On February 1, 2011, as our annual Frankel Lecture Series, Director Andrzej Krakowski will screen his film "Farewell to My Country" about the 1968 exodus of Jews from Poland.
Our Ring Family Israeli Film Festival will include six films screened on Thursdays, beginning on February 10, 2011.
There will be a series of events related to our East European Cluster–talks, concerts, and performances.
On April 13, 2011, Professor Shalom Sabar from Hebrew University will give a talk "The Sabbath in Jewish Art and Folklore."
There is much to look forward to in the Spring 2011 and we hope you will join us.
Categories CJS Lectures and Events, Contemporary Israeli Voices, Distinguished Scholars, Israeli Film Festival, Jewish and Israel Studies


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See Boston Transformed Into New York City for Ghostbusters Shoot
Kristen Wiig is seen on the set of 'Ghostbuster' in Boston on June 18, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stickman/Bauer-Griffin—Getty Images
By Sarah Begley
Though the new Ghostbusters movie takes place in New York City, it's being shot in Boston. (Who you gonna call? Apparently not New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.) That means the set designers have had to transform elements of Beantown to make the shift realistic.
Bostonians have been documenting the process on social media with photos of Manhattan design transplants in the middle of their city, from taxi cabs to street signs. Here are a few of the best that have been shared on Twitter and Instagram:
Best of all is a green goo-filled subway station for the N/Q/R line that close observers have pointed out invents a subway stop—there is a 49th street location of the line, but none at 50th street.