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Illinois RIght to Privacy in the School Setting Act
Date Captured Thursday October 23 2014, 12:27 AM
Privacy management on social media sites
Date Captured Wednesday April 04 2012, 3:10 PM
Mary Madden Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet Project: Most users choose restricted privacy settings while profile "pruning" and unfriending people is on the rise.
ACLU: Social Networking, your privacy rights explained
Date Captured Thursday March 08 2012, 9:05 AM
The vast majority of young people living in the United States go online daily and use social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. With all this information-sharing, many questions about ownership of personal information and possible discipline for postings arise. This guide will answer some of those questions so that you can better understand the rights you have when using social networking both in and out of school.
Social Media: Federal Agencies Need Policies and Procedures for Managing and Protecting Information They Access and Disseminate
Date Captured Thursday July 28 2011, 6:51 PM
Federal agencies increasingly use recently developed Internet technologies that allow individuals or groups to create, organize, comment on, and share online content. The use of these social media services-- including popular Web sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube-- has been endorsed by President Obama and provides opportunities for agencies to more readily share information with and solicit feedback from the public. However, these services may also pose risks to the adequate protection of both personal and government information. GAO was asked to (1) describe how federal agencies are currently using commercially provided social media services and (2) determine the extent to which agencies have developed and implemented policies and procedures for managing and protecting information associated with this use. To do this, GAO examined the headquarters-level Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and YouTube channels of 24 major federal agencies; reviewed pertinent policies, procedures, and guidance; and interviewed officials involved in agency use of social media. Agency: Department of Education; Records management: Document processes and policies and record-keeping roles and responsibilities for how social media records are identified and managed: Did not develop policies and procedures for use of social media services; Privacy protection: Update privacy policy to discuss use of PII made available through social media: Did not develop policies and procedures for use of social media services; Privacy protection: Conduct privacy impact assessment for social media use: Developed policies and procedures that guided use of some but not all services; Security risk management: Identify security risks associated with agency use of social media and security controls to mitigate risks: Did not develop policies and procedures for use of social media services. ***** Appendix IX: Comments from the Department of Education:
FERPA and Social Media
Date Captured Thursday March 10 2011, 2:50 PM
When students are assigned to post information to public social media platforms outside of the university LMS, they should be informed that their material may be viewed by others. Students should not be required to release personal information on a public site. Instructor comments or grades on student material should not be made public. (Interestingly, grades given by other students on "peer-graded" work can be made public under FERPA). (ACE, 2008) While not clearly required by law, students under the age of 18 should get their parent's consent to post public work. FERPA does not forbid instructors from using social media in the classroom, but common sense guidelines should be used to ensure the protection of students.
The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades
Date Captured Saturday February 12 2011, 9:17 PM
R. Junco,G. Heiberger & E. Loken; This study provides the first piece of controlled experimental evidence that using Twitter in educationally relevant ways can increase student engagement and improve grades, and thus, that social media can be used as an educational tool to help students reach desired college outcomes. We provided evidence to suggest that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process through communication and connec- tions on Twitter. As there is continuing growth in the use of social media by college students and faculty, it is hoped that this study will motivate further controlled studies of Twitter and other social media to evaluate how emerging technologies can be best used in educational settings and to tease out the variance between the effects of the actual technology and of the 'Web 2.0 mentality.'
8% of online Americans use Twitter
Date Captured Thursday December 09 2010, 3:39 PM
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project -- by Aaron Smith, Lee Rainie: [Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. It is an online activity that is particularly popular with young adults, minorities, and those who live in cities.]
Online Privacy: What Does It Mean to Parents and Kids?
Date Captured Friday October 08 2010, 2:07 PM
Zogby International conducted a poll for Common Sense Media, asking both teens and parents about their views of online privacy and how they feel their personal information is being used by websites, social networks, and other online platforms.
On the Leakage of Personally Identi?able Information Via Online Social Networks
Date Captured Wednesday June 02 2010, 10:01 PM
Balachander Krishnamurthy and Craig E. Wills - [Abstract For purposes of this paper, we de?ne "Personally identi?- able information" (PII) as information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity either alone or when combined with other information that is linkable to a speci?c individual. The popularity of Online Social Net- works (OSN) has accelerated the appearance of vast amounts of personal information on the Internet. Our research shows that it is possible for third-parties to link PII, which is leaked via OSNs, with user actions both within OSN sites and else- where on non-OSN sites. We refer to this ability to link PII and combine it with other information as "leakage". We have identi?ed multiple ways by which such leakage occurs and discuss measures to prevent it.]
Reputation Management and Social Media
Date Captured Sunday May 30 2010, 6:57 PM
by Mary Madden, Aaron Smith - May 26, 2010 -- Pew Internet and American Life Project -- [When compared with older users, young adults are more likely to restrict what they share and whom they share it with. "Contrary to the popular perception that younger users embrace a laissez-faire attitude about their online reputations, young adults are often more vigilant than older adults when it comes to managing their online identities," said Madden. ]
A Bill of Privacy Rights for Social Network Users Commentary-- by Kurt Opsahl
Date Captured Thursday May 20 2010, 1:07 AM
EFF -- [Social network services must ensure that users have ongoing privacy and control over personal information stored with the service. Users are not just a commodity, and their rights must be respected. Innovation in social network services is important, but it must remain consistent with, rather than undermine, user privacy and control. Based on what we see today, therefore, we suggest three basic privacy-protective principles that social network users should demand: #1: The Right to Informed Decision-Making, #2: The Right to Control, #3: The Right to Leave.]
FACEBOOK - Complaint, Request for Investigation, Injunction, and Other Relief
Date Captured Monday May 10 2010, 9:54 AM
[This complaint concerns material changes to privacy settings made by Facebook, the largest social network service in the United States, that adversely impact the users of the service. Facebook now discloses personal information to the public that Facebook users previously restricted. Facebook now discloses personal information to third parties that Facebook users previously did not make available. These changes violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook's own representations. These business practices are Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices, subject to review by the Federal Trade Commission (the "Commission") under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.]
FACEBOOK privacy policy link:
Date Captured Monday April 26 2010, 8:32 PM
Facebook's Privacy Policy. This policy contains eight sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Information We Receive; 3. Information You Share With Third Parties; 4. Sharing Information on Facebook; 5. How We Use Your Information; 6. How We Share Information; 7. How You Can View, Change, or Remove Information; 8. How We Protect Information; 9. Other Terms.
How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?
Date Captured Thursday April 15 2010, 6:12 PM
Chris Jay Hoofnagle - University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Jennifer King -UC Berkeley School of Information; Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Su Li- University of California, Berkeley- School of Law, Center for the Study of Law and Society; Joseph Turow - University of Pennsylvania - Annenberg School for Communication: [Abstract: Media reports teem with stories of young people posting salacious photos online, writing about alcohol-fueled misdeeds on social networking sites, and publicizing other ill-considered escapades that may haunt them in the future. These anecdotes are interpreted as representing a generation-wide shift in attitude toward information privacy. Many commentators therefore claim that young people "are less concerned with maintaining privacy than older people are." Surprisingly, though, few empirical investigations have explored the privacy attitudes of young adults. This report is among the first quantitative studies evaluating young adults' attitudes. It demonstrates that the picture is more nuanced than portrayed in the popular media. ] [Among the findings: _ Eighty-eight percent of people of all ages said they have refused to give out information to a business because they thought it was too personal or unnecessary. Among young adults, 82 percent have refused, compared with 85 percent of those over 65. _ Most people — 86 percent — believe that anyone who posts a photo or video of them on the Internet should get their permission first, even if that photo was taken in public. Among young adults 18 to 24, 84 percent agreed — not far from the 90 percent among those 45 to 54. _ Forty percent of adults ages 18 to 24 believe executives should face jail time if their company uses someone's personal information illegally — the same as the response among those 35 to 44 years old.]
Facebook users lose privacy to developers when they add new applications
NY Daily News - ROSEMARY BLACK - [How much can strangers find out about you on Facebook? Maybe more than you think. Thousands of Facebook-approved developers that come up with quizzes, games and other applications are able to gain basic information about a user, CNN reports. It's possible when a Facebook friend starts to use the developer's app, CNN reports. And while Facebook offers instructions on how users can hide personal information from outside applications, users don't necessarily understand how to do this, according to some observers.]
FACEBOOK: Another Step in Open Site Governance
Michael Richter - Friday, March 26, 2010 at 12:04pm - [We're proposing another set of revisions to our Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to make way for some exciting new products we're contemplating. Not all of these products have been finalized and many aren't yet built at all. However, we've definitely identified some interesting opportunities to improve the way you share and connect with the people and things in your life. ]
Free Speech Coalition v. Holder
Date Captured Sunday March 07 2010, 6:12 PM
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal court judge to block two criminal statutes that unconstitutionally limit the free expression of millions of adults who use the Internet and other electronic forms of communication, bringing the threat of criminal sanctions for private, lawful speech. At issue are provisions of federal law that require anyone who produces a visual depiction of sexually explicit expression to maintain extensive records -- including copies of drivers' licenses, the dates and times images were taken, and all URLs where images were posted -- and often force public disclosure of a creator's home address. Even more troubling, the regulations allow law enforcement warrantless entry into homes or offices in order to inspect the records that are supposed to be kept. While these statutes regulate the commercial pornography industry, they also likely apply to a staggering number of Americans who create and share images of themselves over social networks, online dating services, personal erotic websites, and text messaging. The current implementation of 18 U.S.C. § 2257 unconstitutionally encroaches on the free expression of a staggering number of Americans. Section 2257, which originally targeted producers of child pornography by creating a rebuttable presumption that an individual depicted in sexually explicit expression was a minor in a child pornography prosecution if the producer did not maintain records, has been amended to expand its scope such that it now applies to individual photographers and videographers who create and publish sexual content for personal and non-commercial purposes.1 As a result, the use of social networking applications, dating profiles, personal erotic websites, sexual text messaging and other forms of adult expression are burdened by onerous recordkeeping requirements of which most speakers are likely not even aware. The price of failure to comply is potential criminal penalties and significant prison time.
FTC Probes Facebook's EPIC Privacy Fail
Date Captured Thursday January 21 2010, 8:44 AM
Media Post -- Wendy Davis writes - [In addition, a Facebook employee allegedly said recently that users' messages are stored in a database regardless of whether users attempt to delete them. "We track everything. Every photo you view, every person you're tagged with, every wall-post you make, and so forth," the employee allegedly added. EPIC alleges that these public statements demonstrate that Facebook engages in unfair and deceptive trade practices. The new filing also questions a new iPhone synching feature that transfers users' iPhone contacts to Facebook, even when the phone contacts are not Facebook friends with the users.]
Facebook fights back, disallows the Suicide Machine
Date Captured Thursday January 07 2010, 8:17 PM
Los Angeles Times reports - [The Suicide Machine is a clever Web site out of the Netherlands that was designed to free users from their social network lives on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn. You just pick one of the networks, start up the machine, and it graphically shows you unfriending your contacts, one by one, and eliminating all your other contacts with your profile. Forever.]
Teens and Sexting
Date Captured Monday December 21 2009, 9:39 AM
Pew Internet -- Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist -- December 15, 2009. [Overview In a nationally representative survey of those ages 12-17 conducted on landline and cell phones, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found: • 4% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of themselves to someone else via text messaging • 15% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have received sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of someone they know via text messaging on their cell phone. • Older teens are much more likely to send and receive these images; 8% of 17-year-olds with cell phones have sent a sexually provocative image by text and 30% have received a nude or nearly nude image on their phone. • The teens who pay their own phone bills are more likely to send "sexts": 17% of teens who pay for all of the costs associated with their cell phones send sexually suggestive images via text; just 3% of teens who do not pay for, or only pay for a portion of the cost of the cell phone send these images. • Our focus groups revealed that there are three main scenarios for sexting: 1) exchange of images solely between two romantic partners; 2) exchanges between partners that are shared with others outside the relationship and 3) exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but where at least one person hopes to be.]
Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia's Parent
Date Captured Friday November 13 2009, 6:29 PM
NYT John Schwartz writes [ Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them. The legal fight pits German privacy law against the American First Amendment. German courts allow the suppression of a criminal's name in news accounts once he has paid his debt to society, noted Alexander H. Stopp, the lawyer for the two men, who are now out of prison.]
Facebook to modify its privacy guidelines
Date Captured Saturday August 22 2009, 6:55 PM
By Matt Hartley, Financial Post [Facebook Inc. says it's on the same page as Canada's top privacy watchdog and plans to tweak its privacy and security policies to bring the world's largest social network in line with Canadian privacy law.]
The Obama Administration's Silence on Privacy
Date Captured Wednesday June 03 2009, 7:03 PM
By Saul Hansell [Peter Swire, an Ohio State law professor who served on the Obama transition team, offered one reason it might be difficult for the administration to find its voice on privacy. There is a split, he told the conference, between the typical view of privacy among technology experts and the emerging view of people brought up in the social networking, Web 2.0 world. "The Web 2.0 movement is opposed to the privacy movement," he said. Traditionally, privacy advocates have pushed for a policy of "data minimization," he argued. The less information kept about people, this theory goes, the less there is for government or corporations to use to hurt individuals. The new ideology revolves around what Mr. Swire called "data empowerment." People assemble and control information about themselves through online social networking and other sites. And access to data can create political and social movements, just as volunteers met each other and organized during the Obama presidential campaign.]
A Facebook 'Bug' Revealed Personal E-mail Addresses
Date Captured Thursday May 07 2009, 7:12 PM
NY Times -- Gadget -- Riva Richmond ["In the course of one day I had Facebook go through over 10,000 e-mail addresses; ranging from reporters of prominent newspapers and CNN, to board of directors of Microsoft, Google, and Gates Foundation, and even the entire staff directories of government organizations and the World Bank," Mr. Sheppard said in an e-mail message to a New York Times editor. "Of those it did find on Facebook, over 30% had their personal email addresses listed, which Facebook gladly gave me, without any of [the Facebook users] knowing."]
Facebook Makes Another Privacy Blooper
Daily Examiner -- Wendy Davis - [Regardless of whether Facebook broke the law, users likely aren't going to be thrilled to learn that the site believes it can censor messages. If the company wants to be taken seriously as a communications platform, executives are going to have to start giving more consideration to users' privacy rights. ]
MySpace Musings Aren't Private, Appeals Court Rules
Mike McKee - The Recorder - April 6, 2009 [Moreno, a University of California at Berkeley student at the time, posted her "Ode to Coalinga" on her MySpace page fresh after visiting the town of 19,000 residents off Interstate 5 midway between Sacramento and Los Angeles. She began by saying "the older I get, the more I realize how much I despise Coalinga," and then made several negative comments about the town and its inhabitants. The entry was posted only six days, but that was long enough for Roger Campbell, principal of Coalinga High School, to find the ode and forward it to Pamela Pond, editor of the Coalinga Record. The ode was published in the newspaper's letters section.]
Why privacy plays a part in social network's fiscal future
By C.g. Lynch , CIO , 04/01/2009 [The common assumption that social networking users don't care about privacy is misguided. The majority of people who use social networks (nearly 60 percent or more) have already modified their privacy settings, according to two separate research studies from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and School of Information and Library Science. Furthermore, privacy experts warn that an unfortunate (but perhaps inevitable) security breach that exposes user data over social networks in the coming years could cause a privacy tipping point in which users push back in a more substantive and widespread way.]
LinkedIn Privacy Settings: What You Need to Know
Date Captured Monday March 23 2009, 4:11 PM
IT World --C.G. Lynch [Since LinkedIn doesn't require you to share the same types of personal information as you do on Facebook, the service's privacy settings appear to be much more straightforward than its less business-oriented competitor. But if you leave the default settings in place, you might be surprised to know what information you make public on LinkedIn.]
Facebook Bug Reveals Private Photos, Wall Posts
Date Captured Saturday March 21 2009, 12:52 PM
Washington Post Jason Kincaid (with HT to Anjool) writes [This isn't the first privacy bug to affect Facebook - users have previously been able to access private photos and view private profile information in search results. The error also serves as yet another blemish on the privacy controls of web-based services. Only two weeks ago, Google Docs revealed that it had inadvertently shared thousands of documents with users who should not have had access to them.]
RE: USE OF CLOUD COMPUTING APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
Date Captured Thursday February 26 2009, 6:07 PM
Associate Director John B. Horrigan (202-419-4500) - September 2008 - Pew/Internet - [Convenience and flexibility are the watchwords for those who engage in cloud computing activities: 51% of internet users who have done a cloud computing activity say a major reason they do this is that it is easy and convenient. 41% of cloud users say a major reason they use these applications is that they like being able to access their data from whatever computer they are using. 39% cite the ease of sharing information as a major reason they use applications in cyberspace or store data there. At the same time, users report high levels of concern when presented with scenarios in which companies may put their data to uses of which they may not be aware. 90% of cloud application users say they would be very concerned if the company at which their data were stored sold it to another party. 80% say they would be very concerned if companies used their photos or other data in marketing campaigns. 68% of users of at least one of the six cloud applications say they would be very concerned if companies who provided these services analyzed their information and then displayed ads to them based on their actions.]
"FACEBOOK INFO FUROR"
Date Captured Wednesday February 18 2009, 8:45 AM
NY Post publishes AP story: -- ["FACEBOOK INFO FUROR" -- Tens of thousands of Facebook users are protesting new policies that they say grant the social-networking site the ability to control their information forever, even after they cancel their accounts. Facebook's new terms of use, updated Feb. 4, largely went unnoticed until the popular consumer-rights advocacy blog Consumerist.com pointed out the changes Sunday.]
Twitter and status updating
Pew Internet - Amanda Lenhart and Susannah Fox -- [As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.] [The use of Twitter is highly intertwined with the use of other social media; both blogging and social network use increase the likelihood than an individual also uses Twitter. Twitter users and status updaters are also a mobile bunch; as a group they are much more likely to be using wireless technologies -- laptops, handhelds and cell phones -- for internet access, or cell phones for text messaging. Overall, Twitter users engage with news and own technology at the same rates as other internet users, but the ways in which they use the technology -- to communicate, gather and share information -- reveals their affinity for mobile, untethered and social opportunities for interaction. Moreover, Twitter as an application allows for and enhances these opportunities, so it is not so surprising that users would engage in these kinds of activities and also be drawn to an online application that expands those opportunities]
Quinn Emanuel Brochure Spills Value of Confidential Facebook Settlement
Date Captured Wednesday February 11 2009, 7:17 PM
The Reporter - Zusha Elinson -- [Facebook paid the founders of ConnectU $65 million to settle lawsuits accusing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the wildly successful social-networking Web site, according to a law firm's marketing brochure. Lawyers in the heavyweight fight had expended great effort to keep the settlement secret -- even going as far as persuading a judge to clear the courtroom of reporters on one occasion. But ConnectU's former lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges published the settlement amount in a firm advertisement trumpeting the firm's prowess.] [The ConnectU dispute got started at Harvard, where ConnectU's founders, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra hired fellow student Zuckerberg to work on code for a dating Web site for Harvard students. They sued Facebook in 2004, accusing Zuckerberg of delaying the project while using the information to start his own Web site. He quit Harvard and moved to Palo Alto, Calif., to start the company. ConnectU's lawyers argued that it amounted to trade secret theft and copyright infringement. Last February, Facebook agreed to settle the matter by paying to acquire ConnectU.]
Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies
Date Captured Tuesday January 27 2009, 5:45 PM
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force was created in February 2008 in accordance with the Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety announced in January 2008 by the Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking and MySpace. The scope of the Task Force's inquiry was to consider those technologies that industry and end users - including parents - can use to help keep minors safer on the Internet.
Health care meets social networking
Jacksonville Business Journal - Kimberly Morrison -- [Mayo Clinic, which has a campus in Jacksonville, has come a long way in just a few years, since adding a Facebook page with more than 3,000 friends, a YouTube channel with videos of doctors talking about illness, treatments and research, a health blog for consumers and another for media to improve the process of medical reporting. It's also creating "secret groups" on Facebook to connect patients to others with similar illnesses, an area it hopes to expand in the future. But that's just the tip of the iceberg in the brave new world of Health 2.0.]
Bullies Worse than Predators On Social Networks
Date Captured Sunday January 18 2009, 7:26 PM
Wired -- Kim Zetter - [encounters online often engage in risky behaviors or come from environments that make them more susceptible to risks, such as environments where there is little adult supervision or where there is drug abuse or physical and mental abuse. "Those who are most at risk often engage in risky behaviors and have difficulties in other parts of their lives. The psychosocial makeup of and family dynamics surrounding particular minors are better predictors of risk than the use of specific media or technologies," the report says. The report also says that although cyberbullying is a greater problem than predators, there is no evidence that bullying has increased because of social networking sites and that bullying still occurs more often offline than online, although social networking sites have created another avenue for expressing it. The report, titled "Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies," was commissioned by the National Association of Attorneys General, which is trying to determine the best way to combat cyberthreats against minors. It was produced by a task force headed by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and is based on reviews of existing research in the area, of which the task force says there's a paucity, as well as an examination of existing tools that offer online safety features.]
- Adults and Social Network Websites
Date Captured Wednesday January 14 2009, 6:20 PM
Pew Internet, Amanda Lenhart -- [When users do use social networks for professional and personal reasons, they will often maintain multiple profiles, generally on different sites. Most, but not all adult social network users are privacy conscious; 60% of adult social network users restrict access to their profiles so that only their friends can see it, and 58% of adult social network users restrict access to certain content within their profile.]
Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy (DRAFT)
Date Captured Monday December 08 2008, 6:08 PM
James Grimmelmann. 2008. "Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy" The Selected Works of James Grimmelmann -- [This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. Facebook offers a socially compelling platform that also facilitates peer-to-peer privacy violations: users harming each others' privacy interests. These two facts are inextricably linked; people use Facebook with the goal of sharing some information about themselves. Policymakers cannot make Facebook completely safe, but they can help people use it safely. The Article makes this case by presenting a rich, factually grounded description of the social dynamics of privacy on Facebook. It then uses that description to evaluate a dozen possible policy interventions. Unhelpful interventions—such as mandatory data portability and bans on underage use—fail because they also fail to engage with key aspects of how and why people use social network sites. The potentially helpful interventions, on the other hand—such as a strengthened public-disclosure tort and a right to opt out completely—succeed because they do engage with these social dynamics.]
Hackers: Social networking sites flawed
Date Captured Monday August 06 2007, 11:42 AM
AP reports, "Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information and could be exploited by online criminals."
Bill seeks to 'delete' Web site predators
Date Captured Wednesday July 04 2007, 8:44 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "According to the U.S. Department of Justice, one in five children are approached by an online predator and only 25 percent of those children tell their parents about the situation. About 50,000 sexual predators are online at any given time, and many of them often utilize social networking sites, according to data compiled by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children."
'Net lessons are worth restating
Date Captured Monday June 18 2007, 9:50 AM
The Daily Star opines, "First and foremost, no amount of spyware, password protection or other technological barriers will keep teens away from a site they want to visit. Because of this, Vacher emphasized the need for parents to communicate with their children and be knowledgeable about how those sites operate. One of the key reasons social-networking sites are troubling is that people's personal information is out in the open for all to see. Well, that means parents can see it, too. A teen who's gotten a MySpace friend request from Mom or Dad might be a little more careful about what she posts on her profile. The other key to Vacher's presentation was pointing out that, with the growing popularity and ubiquity of the sites, what you post today can come back to haunt you tomorrow -- or 10 years from now."
Teachers find adjusting to technology a real education
Date Captured Tuesday May 01 2007, 8:17 AM
Times Herald-Record reports, "Education is way behind, Richardson said. Business and the media, even politics, have adjusted to the wave of technology and its changes. Students have changed as well: 55 percent of them use social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook; 57 percent of students have created material for the Internet. They use information sites like Wikipedia. They blog and send instant messages, create videos and more."
1,600 educators to arrive in Ithaca today
Date Captured Friday March 23 2007, 9:33 AM
Ithaca Journal reports, "The conference offers teachers and support staff from within the T-S-T BOCES system 134 workshops, which will be held throughout Ithaca. Workshops are located at Cornell's main campus, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca High School and T-S-T BOCES. Among the more popular workshops are 'undoing racism,' 'how to lose five to 10 pounds quickly' and workshops focused on 21st Century literacy. 'Those address how to use iPods educationally or create infinity groups for kids so they can be engaged in social networking around a topic,' Fontana [director of staff development and research for the ICSD] said."
Dealing with Cyberbullies
Date Captured Wednesday January 31 2007, 12:56 PM
From the Desk of CSCIC's Information Security Officer, "Cyberbullying can occur via cell phone text messaging, email, instant messaging, or even within online games and social networking sites. The threats, rumors, abuse, and lies that are often used in cyberbullying are not only difficult to escape, they can also have long lasting, detrimental effects on children."
School district wants to inform about dangers of social networking
Date Captured Monday November 06 2006, 2:53 PM
Pantagraph.com reports, "'We take student privacy issues very seriously, and we are very careful about releasing student information,' said McArdle[Lexington school Superintendent]. 'Unfortunately, many times students are too willing to share too much information on Web sites (such as myspace.com, youtube.com, xanga.com, or webtickle.com) with no thought that someone might use it inappropriately.' In response, the school district, in conjunction with the Lexington Council of Churches, will sponsor a presentation at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday featuring Jack Bristow, former DARE officer for Livingston County. Bristow serves as the liaison for Pontiac High School and gave a social networking presentation at a recent meeting of the Illinois Principals Association."
MySpace parent company pledges millions for safety campaign
Date Captured Thursday July 13 2006, 8:01 AM
USA Today reports, "The campaign comes as parents, schools and law-enforcement officials increasingly warn about the dangers of sexual predators at social-networking sites, which provide messaging and other tools to encourage users to expand their circles of friends."


Native American hand wrought vintage sterling silver ring. Produced circa 1980 this ring has very fine and detailed silver work, in a lovely leaf, flower and berry setting - it's a particularly elegant deisgn with a smooth feel and detailed silver. The stones are four little blue rounds, in a delicate sawtooth bezel setting. I'm unsure of the stone as it does not have the usual finish of polished turquoise, there is a chalky finish to it so it may be dyed howlite or block turquoise or another dyed stone. Either way it is nicely crafted, elegant and and signed sterling silver ring.


Truth time for a minute, because every bride has big worries for her big day. Are her flowers going to look good? How many of her bridal party members will show up polished and put together? Will she last in her wedding heels for more than a few hours? The list goes on and on and on, but we'll tell you something that probably doesn't get first priority in terms of concern: #1 and #2. Yes, pee and poop. If you're a bride, you've probably prepped for everything you can think of for your wedding day, but if you haven't yet thought about your trips to the toilet in that big ole dress, well then you haven't considered all of it. We caught up with the industry's best kept secret for slaying the bathroom stall situation when you're wearing a wedding dress, and Bridal Buddy, we're forever your besties!!!
I'm pretty sure I didn't think about peeing on my wedding day until I was four mimosas in that morning, dressed, hair finessed, and already starting to feel my photographer start stressing about the pre-ceremony timeline and whether or not we'd get all the girl shots we needed to at the venue done before we needed to be in the limo. And as soon as I realized that I needed to void ALL the champs like a champ, I grabbed my sister, dragged her into the bathroom with me, and literally had her uncorset my entire gown and hold it before I could go into the stall (utterly and completely naked, I'll have you know. So much fun).
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Territory worker, Brickhouse Brown, dies at age 57 after battling cancer.
Brickhouse Brown died on July 29th, 2018. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer in April of 2017.
The territory worker was mostly known for his work in the 80s.
It appeared to be a false finish for Frederick Seawright, better known as territory worker, Brickhouse Brown.
The 57 year old flatlined while in hospice care in Mississippi on July 20th, 2018.
Brian Blair, President of the Cauliflower Alley Club first reported Brown's death, and as expected, the social media tributes poured in. Blair had grown close to Brickhouse Brown, the Cauliflower Alley Club had been helping Brown pay his rent after his cancer diagnosis in 2017.
That's when Brickhouse decided it wasn't quite time to go.
Victoria Timmins, Seawright's mother, said that she slept next to her deceased son awaiting the coroner, when she miraculously heard her son speak. "Mom, I'm hungry", he first said. The two continued to speak.
Brickhouse would fight an additional nine days.
On July 29th, 2018 at 9:45am, Brickhouse Brown was officially pronounced dead.
Brickhouse Brown enters the ring to take on Dutch Mantel.
Trained by Terry Funk (with whom he would later feud) Brickhouse Brown made his debut back in 1982, boasting a career that lasted three and a half decades.
Brickhouse would work multiple territories in the 80s and 90s, mostly in the south east including the AWA, USWA, CWA, and WCCW.
In July of '87, Brown won the AWA Southern Championship – defeating Jerry Lawler.
Brickhouse Brown briefly worked for the WWF as enhancement talent in 1995, including a match against a relatively unknown Hunter Hearst Helmsley aka Triple H on an episode of Superstars.
Brown worked the indies in the 2000s, all the way up until his cancer diagnosis in April 2017.
In April of 2018, Brickhouse Brown was honored with the first ever 'courage award' from the Cauliflower Alley Club. He received the honor in tears. During his speech, he noted that his cancer was terminal and that he had less than six months to live.
Over the spring and summer of 2018, Brown's health deteriorated quickly, the cancer spreading to his brain.
His eyesight was poor, and his bones were weakened from cancer, effectively breaking both of his legs. Brown's weight was down to 150 pounds.
Frederick Seawright was pronounced dead on July 29th, 2018 – nine days after he was first reported to have died.
Strangely, two other wrestling stars died on July 29th, 2018 – Nikolai Volkoff, and Attitude-era star Brian Christopher Lawler, who was only 46. The death of three wrestlers in a single day made national news.


A textbook should not just be written for oneself as a reminder; it should be made easy for other readers to understand. For example, there is a small gap in the last equality in [Guo, p.366, l.- 1] and a large gap in [Guo, p.367, (5)]. Guo should have referred the readers to [Wat, p.58, l.4-l.5] to fill the small gap and [Wat, p.61, l.12-p.62, l.6] to fill the large gap. Omitting the references and leaving the readers to fill the tricky gaps on their own is like asking someone to climb to the roof and then taking his ladder away. There are many new things for one to learn. It is not worthwhile to spend time and energy in rediscovering other people's tricks.
In [Hob, p.206, l.5], Hobson fails to explain why he differentiates [(m+1)/(m-1)]m/2 with respect to m. This is because he wants to apply the l'Hôpital's rule. For this small gap, Erdélyi's approach is to follow suit: Hobson leaves a gap, so Erdélyi does the same [Erd, vol. 1, p.149, l.9]. Guo's approach : Hobson leaves a small gap in his proof; Guo does not even bother to refer to any available proof [Guo, p.261, l.7]. Both approaches are confusing to the readers, a better approach is to quote [Hob, p.205, l.-14-p.206, l.-4] and make a comment to fill the gap.
[Wat] is a classic because there are few mathematicians have such profound knowledge now. However, most of the textbooks that it refers to are from the early 1900's. Only the old schools have these old books. Some old books are very fragile. When I borrowed [Hob] (1931) from the library, I found that many pages of the book contained large cracks. These cracks are most likely due to old wounds. Perhaps 70 years ago, someone touched the pages and slightly damaged the paper. At that time they did not crack, but now they have because the paper of the book has become like withered leaves. You cannot dog-ear any page of the book because the dog's-ear will fall off. If Cambridge University Press had thought that their publications could not last more than 80 years, it would have been appropriate to use this kind of cheap paper. Otherwise, they should have used better paper so that readers from later generations would not have to deal with a pile of ashes.
A reference should ask readers to fetch a simple, modern and powerful weapon to attack a special type of problem. It should not ask readers to go to a graveyard to exhume skeletons. [Wat] was published in 1944. When dealing with the justification of term-by-term integration, it was appropriate at that time for Watson to refer his readers to Bromwich, Theory of Infinite Series (1925), §176 [Wat, p.385, l.-7]. In contrast, [Guo] was published in 1989. Guo imitates Watson and still refers the readers to the same book. When I went to the library and found the book, the book's binding was severely damaged. It required a box to put its entire contents together just like an old man requires assistive devices to live. To prove that the integral of a sum equals the sum of integrals, Bromwich's method is too complicated (Bromwich unnecessarily divides his method in §175 & §176 into too many cases) and out of date. In contrast, the theory of the Lebesgue integration is a modern and powerful tool to deal with this type of problem. Thus, a more proper and up-to-date reference would be [Ru2, Theorem 1.27 & Theorem 1.34]. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Watson says that [Wat, Chap. XIII] needs to be rewritten [Wat, vi, l.-14].
A reference should be as specific as possible.
If the application and the quoted source are expressed with different wording, the reference should be as specific as possible. Otherwise, the readers will have a hard time finding the needed reference. For example, it would be better if [Wea1, p.83, l.-7] referred the readers to [Wea1, p.80, l.15] instead of Art. 35.
Line-by-line references are a good practice adopted in N. Bourbaki's books. They explain a theory by quoting the needed sources exactly and explicitly. No matter how deep the theory is, the explanations he provides remain clear. This practice shows the prudence of a scholar and the rigor of his reasoning.
[Wea1, p.83] is written in a style as though it were an article presented in a modern journal. There are no references. Weatherburn assumes that his readers read his book from the first page and memorize all the material in between. Anything said before will not be mentioned again. A poor memory is not an excuse.
Sometimes a textbook fails to include a needed reference that is not in the book. The readers must expand their readings beyond the textbook. For example, [Wea1. p.46, l.14-l.15] should have referred to readers to [Kre, p.51, l.-10-l.-7] and [Wea1, p.99, l.18-l.16] should have referred the readers to [Kli, p.16, Proposition 1.4.1].
A reference should be as original as possible.
The reference in [For, p.48, l.-2-l.-1] shows the years that Mainardi and Codazzi published their works, while the reference in [Wea1, p.95, l.1-l.4] does not.
[For, p.50, l.-1] refers to §173 of a book of its 3rd edition. Hale Library at Kansas State University has only the book's 2nd edition and the 5th edition. I wonder if §173 of the 5th edition is the same as §173 of the 3rd edition. Book companies issue a new edition every few years in order to make more money. Some popular books even have more than ten editions. Librarians do not want to keep ten copies of the same book in the library, so they usually only retain the newest edition. All the references to the previous editions become nearly useless. Scientists will be blocked and puzzled at every turn. However, if the book is a textbook, the situation is entirely different. A university science library will purchase only the first edition. This is because the university fears that if the library purchases the updated editions, the student will not buy the expensive textbook and the university bookstore will lose business. As a result, the library prevents its patrons from finding the updated information. Making money is applauded by capitalism, but is devastating to science.
References should not be used for rhetoric. Clarity and precision rather than big fancy words are essential to quoting a reference.
[Kre, p.185, l.18] says, "The solution of this composition problem can be obtained by means of function theory." It should have said, "The solution of this composition problem can be obtained by means of the Riemann mapping theorem [Ru2, p.302, Theorem 14.8]." [Kre, p.185, l.20-l.21] says, "Difficulties …may be overcome by the theory of uniformization." I wonder what the theory of uniformization is. Maybe it is common in German textbooks but not in English textbooks. In fact, we do not need a theory. All we need is a few lines of explanation such as follows: Step 1. Based on [Spi, vol. 1, p.624, Theorem 1(a)], we choose countable local mappings whose domains cover the entire surface. Step 2. We use the Riemann mapping theorem to compose two local mappings [Kre, p.185, Fig. 58.1]. Step 3. Using Step 2 and mathematical induction we extend the domain of the mapping to the entire surface.
References should focus on the point being discussed and should not divert attention from the text to promote someone else's work.
In [Spi, vol.1, p.200, l.-4-l.-3], Spivak says "If f: U ® Rn is Ck, then the flow a: (-b,b)´Ba(x0) ® U is also Ck." Then he claims that this is a very hard theorem [Spi, vol.1, p.200, l.-2]. In [Arn1, p.285, l.12], Arnold proves it using plain language . In [Spi, vol.1, p.200, l.-2-p.201, l.8], Spivak promotes Lang's work because Spivak pretty much uses Lang's language and follows Lang's scheme and style. The purpose of mathematics is to use a familiar language to write about content with depth. Shallow content even if written with difficult language simply cannot last no matter how hard it is promoted.
A reference should provide complete information.
The reference given in [Dug, p.144, l.7] is inadequate. Dugundji should have added [Dug, p.224, Theorem 1.4(4); p.233, Theorem 1.2] to his reference.
Since the advent of the Internet era, search engines have played an important role in finding what we want. However, there is a lot of junk in cyberspace which prevent us finding the right stuff. Idealistically, future books will be in the CD form which saves space in a library. However, for the present, textbooks in book form still play the dominant role in study. Consequently, it is important for an author to design an index in a textbook to enable readers to use it as a reference. Many word processors have features such as word search or word count. I wonder if any current word processor has the feature of automatic or manual indexing. Suppose we choose a term as an index entry. If the computer will automatically record the pages on which the term appears as one writes a book, then the indexing is called automatic indexing. If one has to manually record its occurrence at selected spots, then the indexing is called manual indexing.
An index is arranged in alphabetical order using the key word. If an entry contains many words, then we have to ask ourselves which words are key words, the noun or adjectives. For the entry "simple order", [Mun00] uses the adjective as the key order. If one wants to find "simple order" in the index of [Mun00], one has to look under "S". If one looks under "O", one will not find it. The most closely related entry one can find there is "order relation". For the entry "non-degenerate bilinear forms", [Jaco, vol. 2] uses the second adjective as the key word. Obviously, Jacobson considers "bilinear" to have more weight than the other two words. For the entry "Euclidean geometry", [Jaco, vol. 2] uses the noun as the key word. For important entries such as "differential forms" or "differentiable manifold", both the adjective and the noun are considered key words in [Spi, vol. 1].
We should avoid the use of the secondary index. For example, if we want to find the meaning of H1(X) under "H", the index of [Jack] tells us to look for another entry: first homology group.
[Spi, vol. 1] contains a notation index in addition to the main index. The notation index in some books is inadequate. For example, the notation index given in [Dug, p.xvi] is too selective. A list of important symbols with their meanings attached is concealed in the middle of the book [Dug, p.3]. The readers often meet a notation that they have seen before but cannot find what meaning it represents in [Dug]. [Zyg] mingles its notation index with its main index. How about Greek letters? [Zyg] uses the equivalence between Roman letters and Greek letters for indexing, while [Mun00] uses the English spelling of a Greek letter for indexing. How about Arabic numerals or Hebrew letters? Again, we use the English spelling. See "4-vector" in the index of [Rob].
In the index of [Spi, vol. 1], the notations in each chapter seem to be grouped in the following order: alphabetical order, from capital letters to small letters, Greek letters, and then miscellaneous. In [Spi, vol. 1], if an entry appears in chapter 7 for the first time, then one has to look for the entry under "Chapter 7". [Spi, vol. 1] only records the pages on which it appears in chapter 7. Beyond chapter 7, the notation index of [Spi, vol. 1] does not record its occurrences. One interpretation is that after one has served his apprenticeship, he should be on his own. The following story might provide another interpretation. In one's hometown, one writes down the phone numbers and addresses of one's friends for mutual help. However, if one goes to a foreign country, one won't do so because one does not trust foreigners.
[Inc1, §7.231] uses [Wat1, §14.11] and [Wat1, p.197, l.1-l.3] uses [Har, p.70, Theorem 10.1]. Thus, a book on differential equations can use a calculus book as a reference book [Inc1, p.160, l.-1] and a calculus book can use a book on differential equations as a reference book [Wat1, p.194, l.-5-l.-3]. There is no conflict in mutual references. If Book B is a reference book of Book A, it does not mean that Book B is a prerequisite for reading Book A. All we need to do is read a small part of Book B in order to understand the point in discussion in Book A.
In order to fully describe the ideas involved and leave no room for doubt or confusion, a reference should provide a complete list of quoted theorems.
The statement in [Wat1, p.368, l.13-l.16] is given without indicating what theorems to use in order to prove its truth. In contrast, [Guo, p.378, l.-5] provides a quoted theorem. However, the quotation is not complete. A complete quotation should include two theorems: [Guo, p.307, (2)] and [Wat1, p.345, l.-8]. For a complete illustration, read .


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Mayhew Steel buys Basque Plastics to add in-house molding
Frank Antosiewicz
Mayhew Steel Products Inc. is tired of sourcing its plastic handles overseas and has purchased Basque Plastics Corp. of Leominster, Mass., to provide its own supply of plastic components.
Basque has been renamed Mayhew Basque Plastics LLC, according to its former owner Cliff Basque. It will retain its current management and employees and continue to supply its current customers.
"Their goal is to consolidate their molding in place — right now they do most of their molding overseas," said Basque, during a phone interview.
"They wanted to bring the work back and give themselves better control of their inventory," he added.
He said that what made the deal attractive was that he and his brother Greg will continue to co-manage the plastics operations and that Mayhew will help grow its business.
Since the deal was completed at the end of February, Basque said that they have added two used vertical shuttle Autojector presses to boost its capabilities. It is also looking at doing pad printing and hot stamping.
Right now, the company is gearing up to provide plastic handles with rubberized grips, and discussing other plastic components that it can add to Mayhew's capabilities.
Mayhew Steel Products has a 158-year-old history of making hand tools. It is a private family-owned business that got its start in Shelburne Falls, Mass., in 1856 and now makes pry bars, scrapers, chisels and punches for various specialty industries including construction and automotive.
Basque Plastics was started by the late Norman Basque, the father of Cliff and Greg, in 1972. With the two presses, it now has 19 machines that range up to 400 tons. The company has 13 fulltime employees and operates in a 30,000-square-foot facility.
Basque is a custom molder, producing a wide variety of components. They include corner guards for mattresses, as well as parts for the food service and firearm industries.
Cliff Basque admitted that the company was not looking for a deal, but the combination does solidify its future and provides the added resources of Mayhew.

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Home / Banking/Finance / OSU regents raise tuition by 4.85 percent
OSU regents raise tuition by 4.85 percent
By: Murray Evans June 17, 2011 0
OKLAHOMA CITY – Regents who govern Oklahoma State University approved a 4.85-percent tuition increase on Friday, while University of Oklahoma students waited to learn how much more they'll be paying during the upcoming school year.
The Oklahoma State/A&M board voted on the increase at a meeting in Tulsa. State higher education regents also must approve the increase, although that often is a formality. They'll meet Thursday in Oklahoma City.
At Oklahoma State, an in-state undergraduate student taking a typical two-semester load of 30 credit hours would pay $7,107 in tuition and mandatory fees. That's about $328 more than during the school year that just ended.
The increase comes as state funding to the university for the fiscal year that begins July 1 was cut by 4.8 percent. That amounts to $12 million.
"In order to continue to grow and expand our land-grant mission, we've got to provide the resources, but you can't overly rely on any one thing or it's going to be counterproductive," university President Burns Hargis told The Associated Press. "We knew we were going to have to do something about tuition but try to keep (the increase) in the low single digits."
He said the goal is for Oklahoma State "to remain one of the best bargains in America, and I think we are." During the past several years, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma have had the lowest tuition costs of schools in the Big 12 Conference.
Regents also approved a $1.079 billion budget for the university that includes a 3-percent merit pay raise for employees, except for Hargis and the presidents of the university campuses in Oklahoma City, Okmulgee and Tulsa, who won't receive raises. Lower-paid staff will receive a minimum $1,000 raise.
"It was a real challenge to do it in this environment, and we're still going to lag behind a lot of peer institutions," Hargis said. "It's always a challenge to compete and attract and retain great faculty. The advantage for us is, most institutions have not been able to do raises for the last couple of years, but we don't want to do what we did in the early '90s and stay flat."
In other action, regents approved the hiring of former state Commerce Secretary Natalie Shirley as the president of the university's Oklahoma City campus. Her annual salary will be $150,672.
The University of Oklahoma on Friday said it is seeking a 5-percent increase in tuition and mandatory fees during the upcoming school year.
According to an agenda for Wednesday's meeting of university regents, a student carrying an average annual load of 30 credit hours will pay $7,124. That's about $340 more than during the just-completed school year.
Out-of-state students also will see a 5-percent hike, with costs rising to $18,077.
According to a preliminary agenda for the meeting, university President David Boren plans to present a $1.6 billion budget plan to regents. That proposal includes a 2-percent across-the-board pay hike for employees at the university's Norman and Tulsa campuses – with a minimum increase of $1,000 for all eligible employees – and a 2-percent merit increase for employees at the Health Sciences Center campus in Oklahoma City.
The agenda also notes the OU Foundation has allocated $900,000 to the university for an additional Norman faculty pay increase of 1 percent.
Burns Hargis Murray Evans Oklahoma State University University of Oklahoma 3:44 pm Fri, June 17, 2011 The Journal Record
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SEATTLE – Feb 23, 2015 – Today it was announced that Chef and Microsoft Azure have joined forces to provide global enterprises with the automation platform and DevOps practices that increase business velocity to meet customer demand in the digital age. This agreement builds on 12 months of engineering work to integrate Chef's IT automation platform withthe Microsoft stack, helping customers rapidly move Windows and Linux workloads to Azure.
Working together, Chef and Microsoft will provide enterprises with the tools, skills, and guidance to make IT innovation more rapid and frequent within Azure. By automating both compute resources and applications, Chef enables developers and operations to best collaborate on rapidly delivering high-quality software and services.
Engineering Collaboration: Chef and Microsoft will further enhance native automation experiences for Azure, Visual Studio, and Windows PowerShell DSC users. Microsoft Open Technologies has its own collection of Chef Cookbooks, providing rock-solid code for automating the provisioning and management of compute and storage instances in Azure. 2015 will bring additional deliverables across Windows, Azure, and Visual Studio with a focus on empowering customers to automate heterogeneous workloads and easily migrate them to Azure.
Sales Training and Customer Support: Chef will deliver hundreds of hours of DevOps education in Microsoft's expansive ecosystem across industry events, digital channels, and community meetups. Chef will work with Microsoft to enable their field sales organization to support customers embracing automation, DevOps practices, and Microsoft Azure. Microsoft users interested in Chef and DevOps can already access a wealth of content, new online training tutorial on the Windows platform and a webinar series on Automating Azure with Chef.
On March 19th, Microsoft's Kundana Palagiri and Chef's Steven Murawski and Michael Ducy will showcase the technical integrations between Chef and Azure. This webinar will demonstrate real-world use cases, providing attendees with a step-by-step guide to achieving the benefits of Chef within Microsoft environments. Register today.


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Q: How i get width and height of a image in Laravel Framework? In this image,

I can get the width and height of the image in the directory.
But i want to get the width and height of a picture before i upload the image.
How can i achieve this?

A: [$width, $height] = getimagesize($filename);

A:  $data = getimagesize($filename);
 $width = $data[0];
 $height = $data[1];

A: run
composer require intervention/image

Then add this to your config/app.php
 return [
       ......
       $providers => [
          ......,
          'Intervention\Image\ImageServiceProvider'
       ],
       $aliases => [
          ......,
          'Image' => 'Intervention\Image\Facades\Image'
       ]
 ];

then use like this.
$upload_file = $request->file('gallery_image');
$height = Image::make($upload_file)->height();
$width = Image::make($upload_file)->width();

A: Through Intervention Image you can do it as
$upload_file = $request->file('gallery_image');
$height = Image::make($upload_file)->height();
$width = Image::make($upload_file)->width();

A: You can use
 <?php
$imagedetails = getimagesize($_FILES['file-vi']['tmp_name']);

$width = $imagedetails[0];
$height = $imagedetails[1];

?>

A: If you are using an s3 or some file system other than local, you can use getimagesize($url).  The laravel Storage::disk('s3')->url($file_path) can provide what the url, however your s3 must be configured as public.  Any url/route to the file will work.

A: If you don't want to install intervention/image package use this function:

    /**
     * Get file dimension
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile $file
     * @return array
     */
    public function getFileDimension(UploadedFile $file): array
    {
        $size = getimagesize($file->getRealPath());

        return [
            'width'     => $size[0] ?? 0,
            'height'    => $size[1] ?? 0,
        ];
    }

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For WVC Members >
MidAm Concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday, June 15, 2020, 8 PM.
Photos courtesy of the Carnegie Hall web site: www.carnegiehall.org
April 5, 2020: Carnegie Hall has cancelled all events up through July 2020.
This includes the June 15th concert that we were to have participated.
Visit www.carnegiehall.org/events.
See also: www.carnegiehall.org/Coronavirus-Information
"Tentative" schedule and other information about WVC's participation in
MidAmerica Production's concert in Carnegie Hall
on June 15th, 2020.
This page will be updated regularly as new information comes in.
MidAmerica's "tentative" schedule is now on this page. See below.
Signups for the bus to rehearsals and the concert are on going.
Fare is $75.00, bring a check made out to "Warwick Valley Chorale".
The form for ordering discount tickets for family and friends for the June 15th concert
can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
Based on the informal show of hands at the rehearsal on Feb 18th,
we will be sending about 70 singers to this concert.
Click here to see MidAm's web site about their concerts at Carnegie Hall in 2020.
Here is a link to Carnegie Hall's web page.
On Monday, June 15, MidAm will be putting on two concerts at Carnegie Hall: one at 1PM and the other (ours) at 8 PM. These concerts follow MidAm's standard format where each concert consists of three "acts", each of about 35 - 40 minutes and with about 10 minute intermissions between "acts" to exchange choirs and reset the orchestra chairs. Our concert has the following "acts" (MidAm will finalize the order later):
Act I:
JOHN RUTTER: The Sprig of Thyme
NOEL WEAVER, Conductor
Participating Choruses
Poteau High School Choir, Poteau, OK (Alisha Smedley, Director) 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016*
Ballard High School Concert Choir, Louisville, KY (Noel Weaver, Director) 1998, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2016*
Lakeland Chorale, Wanaque, NJ (James Weber, Director) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019*
Great Lakes Youth Choir, Petoskey, MI (Kevin Wells, Director)
Act II:
1. ENNIO MORRICONE, arr. Lloyd Larson: Declare Your Maker's Praise!
2. CRAIG COURTNEY: Come, Thou Fount
3. BRAHMS: How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place (from A German Requiem)
4. CHESNOKOV: Salvation is Created
5. JAY ROUSE: Give Me Jesus
6. Arr. Mack Wilberg: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
7. JOEL RANEY: Hymn of Grateful Praise
LARRY G. DICKENS, Conductor
LISA MOXLEY, Pianist
Festival Singers, Campbell University Divinity School, Buies Creek, North Carolina (Larry G. Dickens, Director)
Chancel Choir and Friends, Hayes Barton Baptist Church, Raleigh, North Carolina (Larry G. Dickens, Director)
Warwick Valley Chorale, Warwick, NY (Stanley Curtis, Conductor).
Act III:
McCallum High School Band, Austin, TX 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013
Program to be Announced.
Carol Nelson, Director
Click Here for a blurb about our conductor, Larry Dickens of Campbell University.
This is the "tentative" schedule for NYC rehearsals and concert (as of March 2, 2020.)
(MidAm will send us the "final" schedule later this Spring.)
So right now there are a lot of "tba" (to be announced) in this schedule.
Tuesdays, May 19. 26 & June 2: 7:30 - 9:30 pm. Rehearsals at the Warwick Reformed Church
- learn the Brahms and Rouse pieces.
Tuesday, June 9, 7:30 - 9:30 pm: Final tune up at Warwick Reformed Church.
Saturday, June 13: Rehearsal at InterContinental Times Square, 300 West 44th Street [212 803-4500].
Bus pick up at the Warwick Police Station (*) - departs no later than tba am.
12:30 pm: Report to the Hotel's Ballroom for rehearsal.
1:00 - 5:00 pm: Rehearsal.
Immediately after rehearsal Bus returns to Warwick. Approximate arrival at 7:00pm.
Sunday, June 14: Rehearsal at InterContinental Times Square, 300 West 44th Street [212 803-4500].
8:45 am: Report to the Hotel's Ballroom.
9:00 - 11:30: Rehearsal.
Monday, June 15: Dress rehearsal on stage at Carnegie Hall.
Bus pick up at the Warwick Police Station(*) - departs no later than tba.
4:00 pm (tbc) Report to Carnegie Hall's Backstage Entrance (161 W. 56th St.)
where we will proceed to Orchestra Room tba to wait, warm up, line up and be escorted to the stage.
Sometime during 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm, the dress rehearsal with orchestra.
Plan on having a light dinner in the area around Carnegie Hall (7th Ave at 57th St.)
Or take a sandwich and a drink and enjoy a spot in Central Park - 3 blocks from Carnegie.
Monday, June 15, 8pm: Concert in Carnegie Hall featuring
Chorus Call: ~ tba pm in Orchestra Room tba
where we will wait, line up, warm up and proceed to the stage for
our part of the 8:00 pm concert.
Concert attire: same as what we wore to our May concerts.
It is possible to change into/out of concert attire at Carnegie Hall,
but many people keep it simple and wear their concert attire all day!
Bus departs Carnegie Hall after the concert at about 10:30 PM.
The traditional, always fantastic, post-performance party on the bus!
-- Marie Rubenstahl and Chris Hart are the organizers for the party.
Bus arrival in Warwick will be about at midnight.
Bus info: WVC's Treasurer, Amelia DiCarlo, is finalizing the details on the bus for taking WVC members to/from NYC rehearsals and the concert. Sign-ups for the bus have commenced. Fare is $75.00, bring a check made out to "Warwick Valley Chorale". Stay tuned for further announcements pertaining to the bus schedules.
Ticket Information: Tickets for family and friends:
(1) The form for ordering discount tickets for the main floor area and the 1st two tiers of box seats at Carnegie Hall.
You can view, download and print this form from the bottom of this page.
This form will also be available at rehearsals. Deadline for discounted tickets is May 20, 2020.
Also you can order discounted tickets online at www.piptix.com/MAP Event Code: JUN15E.
(2) After April 15th tickets for the balcony sections (which are less expensive) will go on sale
at the Carnegie Hall Box Office: www.carnegiehall.org or by calling 212-247-7800.
WVC singers on concert day - April 23rd, 2018.
(*) The bus pickup/drop off is the roadway just off of Kings Highway between Public Works Road and the Warwick Police Station.
Look for the snow plow at the intersection of Public Works Road and Kings Highway ==>
From MidAmerica's Concert Info Sheet (download this sheet at bottom of the page):
° Rehearsals must begin on time.
° All performers must have a pencil during each rehearsal.
° Extensive rehearsals at home greatly enhance the quality of the performance in
New York. Remember, this is your concert.
° There is only one rehearsal, the dress rehearsal, at Carnegie Hall.
° No photos are to be taken by group members in Carnegie Hall. This includes flash and non-flash photographs, and videos. Carnegie Hall is a union hall and prohibits unauthorized photographs or recordings of any kind. There are no exceptions to this rule of the hall.
° The dressing rooms in Carnegie Hall are very cramped, but we must have patience and "make do," as all other artists have done in the hall's 100+ year history. Although there will be a security guard at the backstage door, we recommend performers bring only what they need, and we advise against leaving valuables unattended backstage.
° Upon entering the building, all performers should act like professionals.
° Please be advised that there will be some climbing of stairs. Dressing rooms are on the 1st and 3rd floors, with the stage level on the 2nd floor. All possible effort will be made to convey to their proper places those who have difficulty with stairs.
° Ensembles will be led directly onstage, and escorted directly offstage. No one is allowed in the stage area before or after the performance.
Concert Dress
° Concert dress is what you wear for your local concerts. However, there are some restrictions:
° Please do not wear sparkling jewels on stage. The stage lights
reflecting off your jewelry will cause visual distractions to the audience.
° Because of the closeness of the performers, please do not wear hair spray or cologne.
° Please be sure to turn off all beeping watches and cell phones.
° Because there is a good deal of walking and standing on the day of the dress rehearsal and performance, it is very important to wear comfortable shoes!
Send questions and comments to your faithful webmeister: cholmes@warwickvalleychorale.org
Carnegie Hall Concert Ticket Form.pdf
WV Chorale,
Concert Information Sheet.pdf
Schedule - Sacred Choruses (local).pdf


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Q: Implementing dotted progress bar in Salesforce using lightning aura I am looking for implementation of progress bar using lightning aura components in below fashion:

We have an object with a picklist containing stages(or steps). On completion of each stage we want to display the progress with that many dots filled and remaining dots as blank. We want its implementation in such a way that it can be reusable for any record with n number of stages/steps and varying stage/step names. Any pointers on how to implement this functionality/code sample would be very helpful. Thanks..

A: You need to look this lightning:progressIndicator.
Official documentation -
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/bundle/lightning:progressIndicator/example#lightningcomponentdemo:exampleProgressIndicator
SLDS documentation  - https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/components/progress-indicator/


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What is the shrinkage of textile fabrics
Update:20 May 2020
The shrinkage of fabric refers to the percentage of fab […]
The shrinkage of fabric refers to the percentage of fabric shrinkage after washing or soaking. Shrinkage is a phenomenon in which the length or width of fabrics changes in a certain state after cleaning, dehydration, drying and other processes. The degree of shrinkage involves different types of fibers, the structure of the fabric, the different external forces that the fabric is subjected to during finishing, and so on.
The smallest shrinkage is synthetic fiber and blended chemical fiber fabrics, followed by wool, hemp, and cotton fabrics, silk fabrics shrink more, and the largest are viscose fibers, artificial cotton, and artificial wool fabrics. Objectively speaking, Cotton fabrics have some problems of shrinkage and fading. The key is the subsequent finishing. Therefore, the general home textile fabrics are pre-shrinked. It is worth noting that the pre-shrinkage treatment does not mean that it does not shrink, but means that the shrinkage rate is controlled at 3% -4% of the national standard. Underwear materials, especially natural fiber clothing, will shrink.
Therefore, when choosing clothes, in addition to selecting the quality, color, and pattern of the fabric, the shrinkage of the fabric should also be understood.
1. The influence of fiber and shrinkage
After the fiber itself absorbs water, it will swell to a certain degree. Generally, the swelling of fibers is anisotropic (except nylon), that is, the length is shortened and the diameter is increased. The percentage of the difference between the length of the fabric before and after launching and its original length is usually called shrinkage. The stronger the water absorption capacity, the more intense the swelling, the higher the shrinkage rate, the worse the dimensional stability of the fabric.
The length of the fabric itself and the length of the yarn (filament) used are different, and the shrinkage ratio is usually used to indicate the difference between the two.
Shrinkage rate (%) = [yarn (filament) thread length-fabric length] / fabric length
After the fabric is launched, due to the swelling of the fiber itself, the length of the fabric is further shortened, resulting in shrinkage. The shrinkage rate of the fabric is different, the shrinkage rate is different. The structure and weaving tension of the fabric itself are different, and its shrinkage rate is different. Weaving tension is small, the fabric is dense and thick, and the shrinkage rate is large, the shrinkage rate of the fabric is small; when the weaving tension is large, the fabric is loose and light, and the shrinkage rate is small, the shrinkage rate of the fabric is large. In dyeing and finishing, in order to reduce the shrinkage rate of the fabric, the method of pre-shrinking and finishing is often adopted to increase the weft density and increase the shrinkage rate in advance, thereby reducing the shrinkage rate of the fabric.
2. Reasons for shrinkage
When the fiber is spun, or the spun yarn is woven and dyed, the spun yarn fiber in the fabric is elongated or deformed by external force, and the spun yarn fiber and the fabric structure generate internal stress, which is in a static dry state , Or static wet relaxation state, or dynamic wet relaxation state, full relaxation state, the release of internal stress in different degrees, so that the spinning fiber and fabric return to the original state.
Different fibers and their fabrics have different degrees of shrinkage, mainly depending on the characteristics of their fibers-hydrophilic fibers have a greater degree of shrinkage, such as cotton, hemp, viscose and other fibers; while hydrophobic fibers have less shrinkage , Such as synthetic fibers.
When the fiber is in the wet state, it will expand under the action of the immersion liquid, making the fiber diameter larger. For example, on the fabric, the radius of curvature of the fiber at the intersecting point of the fabric is increased, resulting in a shortened fabric length. For example, cotton fiber expands under the action of water, the cross-sectional area increases by 40-50%, and the length increases by 1-2%, while synthetic fibers shrink against heat, such as boiling water, generally about 5%.
When the fabric fiber is heated, the shape and size of the fiber change and shrink, and it cannot return to the original state after cooling, which is called fiber heat shrinkage. The percentage of the length before and after heat shrinkage is called the heat shrinkage rate, which is generally expressed by the boiling water shrinkage test. In 100 ° C boiling water, the percentage of the fiber length shrinkage is expressed; also using the hot air method, hot air above 100 ° C The percentage of shrinkage is measured in the middle, and the percentage of shrinkage in steam exceeding 100 ° C is also measured by steam. The fiber performance is different under different conditions such as internal structure and heating temperature and time. For example, the shrinkage of boiled water in finishing polyester staple fiber is 1%, the shrinkage of vinylon in boiling water is 5%, and the shrinkage of chloroprene hot air is 50%. Fibers have a close relationship with the fabric finishing and the dimensional stability of the fabric, which provides some basis for the design of the subsequent process.
3. The shrinkage of general fabric
Cotton 3% -10%
Chemical fiber 4% -8%
Cotton polyester 3.5% -5.5%
3% for plain white cloth
Mao blue cloth is 3-4%
Poplin is 3-4.5%
3-3.5% for fabric
4% for twill
Labor cloth is 10%
10% for rayon
4. Reasons affecting the shrinkage rate
Different fabrics have different raw materials and different shrinkage rates. Generally speaking, for fibers with high hygroscopicity, the fiber expands after immersion in water, the diameter increases and the length decreases, the shrinkage rate is large. If the viscose fiber has a water absorption rate of up to 13%, and the synthetic fiber fabric has poor moisture absorption, its shrinkage rate is small.
Different fabric densities have different shrinkage rates. If the density in the latitude and longitude direction is similar, the shrinkage in the latitude and longitude direction is also close. For fabrics with high warp density, the warp shrinkage will be larger. Conversely, for fabrics with weft density greater than warp density, weft shrinkage will be greater.
Yarn count
The thickness of the fabric yarn is different, and the shrinkage rate is also different. The shrinkage rate of the fabric with thick yarn count is larger, and the shrinkage rate of the fabric with fine yarn count is smaller.
Different fabric production processes have different shrinkage rates. Generally speaking, in the weaving, dyeing and finishing process of fabrics, the fibers must be stretched many times, the finishing time is long, and the shrinkage rate of the fabrics with large applied tension is large, and vice versa.
Fiber composition
Compared with natural plant fibers (such as cotton and hemp) and plant-regenerated fibers (such as viscose) and synthetic fibers (such as polyester and polyacrylonitrile fibers), they are simple to absorb moisture and expand, so the shrinkage rate is larger, while wool is due to the surface The scale structure is simple and felting, which affects its dimensional stability.
In general, the dimensional stability of woven fabrics is better than knitted fabrics; the dimensional stability of high-density fabrics is better than that of low-density fabrics. In woven fabrics, the shrinkage of plain weave fabrics is generally less than that of flannel fabrics; while in knitted fabrics, the shrinkage of plain stitches is less than rib fabrics.
Production finishing process
As the fabric is colored, printed, and post-finished, it is inevitable that it will be stretched by the machine, so there is tension on the fabric. However, the fabric simply releases the tension after encountering water, so we will notice that the fabric shrinks after washing. In the actual process, we generally use pre-shrinkage to solve this problem.
Cleaning care process
Washing care includes washing, drying and ironing. Each of these three steps will affect the shrinkage of the fabric. For example, the dimensional stability of hand-washed samples is better than that of machine-washed samples, and the temperature of washing will also affect its dimensional stability. Generally speaking, the higher the temperature, the worse the stability. The drying method of the sample also has a greater influence on the shrinkage of the fabric.
Commonly used drying methods include drip drying method, metal mesh tiling method, hanging drying method and tumble drying method. Among them, the drip drying method has the smallest effect on the size of the fabric, and the rotary arch drying method has the greatest effect on the size of the fabric. The remaining two are centered.
In addition, choosing an appropriate ironing temperature according to the composition of the fabric can also improve the shrinkage of the fabric. For example, cotton and linen fabrics can improve their size reduction by ironing at high temperature. However, it is not that the higher the temperature, the better. For synthetic fibers, high-temperature ironing can not only improve its shrinkage, but will damage its performance, such as the fabric is hard and brittle.
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UAE chairs Arab Governors' meeting within IMF and World Bank Group's Annual Meetings 2020
ABU DHABI, 8th October, 2020 (WAM) -- Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, chaired today the virtual Arab Governors' meeting within the International Monetary Fund, IMF, and World Bank Group, WBG's, Annual Meetings 2020.
David Malpass, President of the WGB, Mirza Hassan, Executive Director of the Arab Group at the WBG, and several governors and ministers of the WBG Arab Group member states attended the meeting.
In his opening remarks, Al Tayer praised the WBG's efforts in taking quick and appropriate measures to limit the repercussions of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. He also stressed the importance of these meetings, as they are platforms to exchange experiences in the fields of government financial work and financial and economic policies, and to discuss views on the latest economic and social developments regionally and globally.
He said, "The G20, under the Presidency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with the support of the World Bank and the IMF, was swift and effective in implementing the Debt Service Suspension Initiative, DSSI. We realise that there is a need for an extension of the DSSI, therefore the private sector must participate in this initiative. Currently, the private sector accounts for over 40 percent of the long-term debt within DSSI participants."
He added, "Digitalisation will be a key factor in fighting poverty and boosting shared prosperity, and we are confident that the World Bank can be a key partner in supporting our region in its transition to the next phase of digitalisation."
He noted that in the pursuit of leveraging technology to the betterment of the region, the UAE has reached an agreement with the World Bank to establish a technological hub in Abu Dhabi. The objective of the hub is to support the MENA region, through building the necessary infrastructure, setting best practices and governance guidelines, and strengthening capacity and human capital.
He said, "This pandemic has disproportionally impacted women, most of whom are either employed by the informal sector, hold less secure jobs, or earn less. At only 20 percent in 2019, women participation in the labour force in MENA is less than half of that of the world. It is safe to assume that this rate has experienced a drop as a result of the pandemic. We, therefore, hope that the Bank tackle this issue urgently by mainstreaming women employment in its programs, and replicating initiatives such as the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, in which the UAE had the pleasure of participating."
WAM/Tariq alfaham/MOHD AAMIR


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Arsenal 3 Southampton 2 – Premier League Match Report
ArsenalBy Niall HenryMatch ReportPremier LeagueSouthampton | 12 April, 2018
Sunday witnessed Arsenal emerge 3-2 victors over Southampton at The Emirates Stadium, as Mark Hughes's side remain 18th in the Premier League table.
Arsene Wenger's evident ambition for the club is a trophy this year, as seven changes were made to the starting line-up following the success in their Europa League tie against CSKA Moscow, awarding 18 year old Nelson his first professional start for the Gunners.
Southampton started the brighter side as Tadic played a ball across the 18 yard box for James Ward-Prouse to strike. The young midfielder was unlucky as his effort was cleared off the line by Hector Bellerin, a smart piece of movement to stop them conceding.
A period of pressure from Southampton put Arsenal on the back foot. Soares crossed the ball in to the six yard area, which should have been an easy clearance by Mustafi or collection by Petr Cech. However, lack of communication between the two allowed for Shane Long to pounce between the statued players and prod the ball in to the back of the net in the 17th minute, the Irishman netting his second goal in 48 games.
Southampton had remained solid for the first half an hour of the game, but with a player like Aubameyang on the field there will always be a threat. The Saints were made well aware of this as in the 28th minute a lovely flick from Danny Welbeck found Aubameyang lurking in the box, to prod past McCarthy into the Southampton goal and as Arsenal's first attempt on target – the Saints may well have felt hard done by.
The goal gave Arsenal a new lease of life in the game, as their standard fast flowing, easy to watch football was now starting to be demonstrated on the field. It did not take long for Arsenal to capitalise on their pressure as the 38th minute saw Danny Welbeck cut inside on the edge of the box and unleash a shot, which cruelly evaded McCarthy in goal, aided by a deflection from Southampton defender Maya Yoshida. This goal saw Arsenal enter in to the half time break confidently, giving Mark Hughes plenty to think about.
Southampton came extremely close to equalising with two efforts on goal coming from Shane Long, seemingly his first goal giving him confidence to try for another. One of those effort beat Petr Cech and rustled in to the back of the net, only to be flagged up for offside. Southampton needed goals and they needed them quickly. Having Charlie Austin as a substitute can really benefit a team in need of goals, and benefit it did. It took Austin just 73 seconds to come from being on the bench to putting the ball in the back of the net. A quickly taken free kick caught Arsenal napping, which allowed Cedric Soares to skip down the right hand side of the box and play the ball straight to Austin's feet, a chance he couldn't, and didn't miss.
Southampton's happiness was short lived as seven minutes later Danny Welbeck scored to make it 3-2 to Arsenal. After missing what seemed an unmissable chance from three yards out, just minutes earlier, Welbeck made no mistake heading in the cross from Iwobi. Frustrations from Southampton were personified with Jack Stephens losing his head and the final minutes of the game, and throwing Wilshere to the ground resulting in a red card for the centre-half. Elneny was also sent off for an altercation with Cedric Soares, noticed by the fourth official. Since the incident the red card has been challenged and retracted and he will no longer face suspension.
With Arsne Wenger's men 13 points off the pace for fourth, winning the Europa League seems the only possible way for them to reach the Champions League in the 2018/19 season. It provides an opportunity for Wenger to present young players chances to play in the Premier League, with little worry about the result.
Results for Southampton however, are not going their way. With six games remaining and three points off safety, its going to be a difficult task for Mark Hughes to avoid the drop. Especially with Chelsea, Leicester and Manchester City all to play in their final run in.
Written by Niall Henry.
20. Loughborough University student with a big passion of playing and writing for the beautiful game.
Niall Henry


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Let the merriment begin as you reunite with long-time colleagues, meet and mingle with new ones, and get your week started right. You don't want to miss the first hospitality event of WAA 2017—our largest hospitality event of the conference!
Nothing will put you in a sunnier mood than a big ol' melty ice cream cone firmly in your grasp, so come do a little socializing at our Ice Cream Social! Cover your elegant vanilla cone with pretty berries or go all in with M&Ms, Oreos and caramel drizzle on your chocolate. Napkins optional.
Pop by to power up your morning. We're serving up pomegranate smoothie shots, berry and walnut yogurt parfaits, peeled oranges and edamame snacks. So healthy, it hurts.
Present your WAA credential upon arrival to enjoy small sandwiches, cheeses, and bite-sized desserts before the show. Shuttles provided.
*Showcase hospitality concludes promptly at 4:30.


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