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Liverpool City Centre
NatWest closes historic Castle Street branch - but opens new one in Liverpool city centre
Church Street centre will be one of bank's most hi-tech branches
Alistair HoughtonExecutive Business Editor
The former Parr Bank now Natwest bank on Castle street, Liverpool.
One of Liverpool city centre 's most historic banks has closed its doors to make way for a new hi-tech banking centre.
The bank says its new branch in Church Street, which opened this week, is its first "completely digitally-focused branch" in the UK.
But as it opened that branch it closed its large branch in Castle Street .
The street has in recent years turned into a new food and drink hub for Liverpool. No plans have yet been confirmed for the building – but given its neighbours, the elegant structure is likely to attract interest from hotel and restaurant operators.
The Castle Street building was built for the former Parr's Bank from 1898 to 1901.
It was designed by Richard Norman Shaw, whose other works include the massive Cragside country house in Northumberland.
The former Parr Bank now Natwest bank on Castle street
Its centrepiece is a circular banking hall - and while its furnishings have been modernised, it retains its grand pillars, dome and gold ceiling detailing.
Church Street to get new NatWest Bank - and old Dorothy Perkins store could soon be filled
There are five floors of offices above.
Nat West's new branch is on the corner of Church Street and Paradise Street, where the Select shop used to be.
The branch is "virtually paperless" and aims to encourage customers to use mobile or online banking.
Why are city centre banks thriving when other areas are losing theirs?
Michael Burrow, Managing Director North Region at NatWest, said: "Our new Liverpool branch is our first completely digitally focused branch in the country and we are delighted to welcome customers through the doors.
"With an increasing number of our customers are choosing to bank with us using their mobile phones or online, we recognise the need to provide a branch that is both digitally focused and supports customers with their financial needs. All of our staff are TechXperts who will be able to answer questions about how to use our applications and the different ways customers can bank with us
What's the future for Church Street and Lord Street?
"We will also be holding customer workshops and events about online banking as well fraud prevention as part of our continued commitment to keep customers safe and secure."


ha ha, no don't hate you - but not fond of the guy who ripped me off. Still, 10 years collecting and it's the first and only time I've really been fleeced. Bound to happen every now and then.
I once bought a load of games from Game only to find they hadn't put the CD's in. I rang and went mental and thankfully they believed me and when I went back in to collect the discs they gave me a free game to say sorry.
That's a pretty bad one, I would really like to get a NGPC one day.


BAFTA Cymru is the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. It was founded in 1987 and just like BAFTA, it holds an annual awards ceremony that is currently held in Cardiff. The awards recognise achievement in production, performance and craft categories in Welsh-made films and television programmes. Nominees have to be of Welsh birth or residence. The awards ceremony is completely separate from the UK-wide BAFTA awards but films and programmes recognised by BAFTA Cymru can feature at the national awards.
The 2017 British Academy Cymru Awards were held at St David's Hall, Cardiff and were hosted by BBC Radio 1 presenter, Huw Stephens. Other presenters at the event were actresses Alexandra Roach and Vicky McClure along with actors Tom Cullen and Peter Capaldi. A total of 28 awards were presented during the ceremony and there were 1000 guests in the audience with plenty of others watching via a live stream.


It's so easy to fall into the trap of skepticism. It's a flavour, a shade of life that sometimes denies the goodness of us as human beings. It's especially easy, if one looks up, from the downward spiral of depression or the red, reactive place of anger. Our perception will always be reinforced by our beliefs and our experiences.
Regardless of outer appearance, the nay-sayers, the negative forces, the careless attitude that some believe about the value of our species, we all have the opportunity of choice. I know, you may point your finger at those who are impoverished, imprisoned, ravaged by war and circumstances and ask how do they have a choice? There is a choice of how to respond to circumstances.
Those who, by choice, have risen above circumstances shine a light on this path. They're not always famous, sometimes they have walked the walk of addictions, illness, violence, shame and blame and so on. Anything that can defeat a human being can also be turned around to empower. This isn't to say it's easy.
Remind yourself that you are the physical manifestation of consciousness. All of us are, as one form manifest from consciousness. The journey is how we create relationship with one another. How we practice not just tolerance but coexistence.
It's an inside job. I have a practice, as I move through this life, that when I see what appears as other, I say there I go, in the form, of that mother pushing a stroller or the baby in the stroller, or the man ravaged by addictions. There I go. The journey of this short and precious life of ours is to realize how short and precious it is. It is waking up from this dream to know that we are all in this together. All of this is us.
This isn't asking us to turn a blind eye to injustice or violence, it saying that we respond to this behaviour not with more injustice or more violence but with its opposite. All of the terrors we inflict on one another when truly looked at come from a place of fear. We have a choice to realize that what is committed on one is committed on all.
Small acts of kindness ripple out.
As Bob Marley sang, "One Love! One Heart!


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JERUSALEM -- Israeli jets struck a series of Iranian military targets in Syria early on Monday, the military said in a rare departure from its years-long policy of ambiguity regarding activities in neighboring war-torn Syria.
The military said the targets included munition storage facilities, an intelligence site and a military training camp. The strikes were in response to a surface-to-surface rocket that Iranian forces fired toward Israel on Sunday that was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system over a ski resort in the Golan Heights. That followed a rare Israeli daylight air raid near the Damascus International Airport.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday's strikes lasted for nearly an hour and were the most intense Israeli attacks since May. It said 11 were killed in the strikes. The Russian military said four Syrian troops were among those killed. There were no further details on the casualties or their nationalities.
Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said the Iranian missile attack that prompted the strong Israeli response was "premeditated." Iranian forces in Syria fired the mid-range surface-to-surface missile toward Israel from the Damascus area — a missile that had been smuggled into Syria specifically for that purpose, he said. Conricus declined to further identify the type of missile, but said it hadn't been used in any of the internal fighting of the civil war and had "no business" being in Syria.
Israel only recently acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in Syria in recent years. It previously typically offered only general warnings against allowing Iran to establish a military foothold in Syria and refrained from commenting directly for fear of triggering a reaction and being drawn into the deadly fighting.
Monday's announcement went a step further, reporting the strikes in real time and detailing the targets.
Conricus would not confirm whether the measures marked an official abandonment of the policy of ambiguity, merely saying that it was a "retaliatory strike against active aggression by Iran."
He said Israel had sent warnings to Syria ahead of the attack to refrain from attacking Israeli warplanes, but that Syria ignored those warnings and fired anti-aircraft missiles. He said Israel responded by destroying Syrian anti-aircraft batteries. The Russian military said that the Syrian air defenses shot down over 30 Israeli cruise missiles, a claim that was doubted in Israel.
The military said the Mount Hermon ski site has been closed.
Israel holds Syria responsible for allowing the Iranian forces to use Syrian territory as a base of operations against Israel. "Syria yesterday paid the price for allowing Iran to conduct attacks and to plan attacks from its soil," he said.
Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue in Beirut and Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed to this report.
This article was written by Aron Heller from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to legal@newscred.com.


Nicotine is the major alkaloid compound in cultivated tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) that could potentially be converted into carcinogenic compound (nor-nicotine). The PMT gene encoding putrescine N-methyltransferase (PMT) is one of the two key genes that play a prominent role in nicotine biosynthesis. The aimed of this study was to isolate and characterize the cDNA sequence originated from Indonesian local tobacco cv. Sindoro1 (Ntpmt_Sindoro1). The results showed that the Ntpmt_Sindoro1 was 1124 bp in length. This cDNA fragment encodes for 374 amino acid residues. The predicted polypeptide from the cDNA is a hidrophilic protein, and has a predicted molecular weight of 40.95 kDa. The predicted amino acids sequence also showed high similarity to the PMT gene product Nicotiana sp. available in the GenBank data base. The amino acid sequences also exert conserved residues specifically exhibited only by PMT gene originated from N. tabacum. Clustering analysis revealed that Ntpmt_Sindoro1 belongs to the same clade as the PMT3 gene, a member of the N. tabacum PMT gene family. The Ntpmt_Sindoro1 cDNA sequence covering exon1-exon8 of the PMT gene fragment has been registered in the GenBank data base, under the accession number JX978277.


Increased demand from the participation of the Private Equity Group (PEG) sector.
Favorable demographics for outgoing transition within the current agency owner population.
Historically low lending interest rates.
It is no surprise that the seller's market for independent agencies continues to be prevalent in large part because of the PEG involvement as well as the potential for very positive returns. We continue to view an ongoing neutral market in the captive arena.
Our sources for potential opportunities for you come through our website attraction programs (SEO), in-house research, our external research group, broken financing deals, telemarketing activities and inbound direct contact by sellers. This pipeline is supplemented by our network of consultants, attorneys, CPAs, loan underwriters, DOIs, PEGs, strategic partners and our ever-growing group of more than 5,000 sell-side intermediary relationships.
The listings below are a sample of some of the new independent insurance agencies for sale discovered through our sources during the last 30 days. Upon request, we will provide our Registered Buyer clients access to previous month's and off cycle listings.
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DC: Very disturbing that citizens had no say in this. " " [Hill; NY Times]
On 01/18/2020, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning, Asia, computer science, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, data mining, emerging technologies, ethics, human-computer interaction (HCI), Law Schools, legislatures / government / legal, morals/values, society, the downsides of technology, tools, trends, United States, vendors, youth, by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Very disturbing that citizens had no say in this. Legislators, senators, representatives, lawyers, law schools, politicians, engineers, programmers, professors, teachers, and more…please reflect upon our current situation here. How can we help?
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It — from nytimes.com by Kashmir Hill
His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.
Excerpts:
"But without public scrutiny, more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year…"
Clearview's app carries extra risks because law enforcement agencies are uploading sensitive photos to the servers of a company whose ability to protect its data is untested.
Using Cisco Webex' Meeting Room, any classroom can become an active learning classroom [Grant & Miller]
On 01/16/2020, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, active learning, attention, Bring your own device (BYOD), collaboration, colleges, community colleges, content repositories, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, education technology, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, face-to-face, faculty, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, instructional design, IT in HE, K-12 related, Law Schools, learning, learning ecosystem, learning from the living [class] room, learning hubs, learning spaces, liberal arts, mirroring and/or multiple devices, multimedia, participation, platforms, second screen apps, smart classrooms, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, tools, training / L&D, universities, user experience (UX), vendors, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian
If you are using a tool like Cisco Webex in your school, consider implementing the idea below. I'd like to thank Mr. Steve Grant and Mr. Nelson Miller from the WMU-Cooley Law School for their work in implementing/recommending this approach.
If you are using a tool like Cisco Webex, you can use it to share content to displays, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. If the professor starts a Cisco Webex Meeting Center session using their own personal room, the students can then join that meeting via their devices. (To eliminate noise and confusion — as well as to reduce bandwidth — the students should mute their microphones and choose not to send the video from their webcams.)
If you were doing a think-pair-share, for example, and you really liked what a certain pair of students had going on, one of the students could share their work with the rest of the class. By doing so, whatever was going on on that student's device could be displayed by any projectors in the room, as well as on any other devices that were connected to the Cisco Webex Meeting Room.
"So you could project any student's work as students proceed with in-class exercises. Projecting student work adds another level of accountability, excitement, and concentration to in-class exercises."
Also, using the Cisco Webex Meeting Center in your face-to-face classroom not only opens up that sort of collaboration channel, but, via the chat feature, it can also open up a running backchannel to draw out your more introverted students, or those students who have questions but don't want to have the spotlight thrown on them.
Some items re: the Computer Electronics Show for 2020
On 01/15/2020, in 21st century, algorithms, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning, augmented reality, corporate / business world, data mining, emerging technologies, experimentation, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, new business models, the downsides of technology, tools, vendors, virtual reality / worlds / learning, XR - extended reality, by Daniel Christian
CES 2020: Finding reality in a deluge of utopia — from web-strategist.com by Jeremiah Owyang
One of my strategies is to look past the products that were announced, and instead find the new technologies that will shed light on which products will emerge such as sensors and data types.
The trick to approaching CES: Look for what creates the data, then analyze how it will be used, therein lies the power/leverage/business model of the future.
Sharp's augmented windows give us an interesting glimpse of what retail could look like if every window was a transparent screen…
Rivian, the new electric truck company, which is funded by both Ford and Amazon was featured at the Amazon booth, with a large crowd, each wheel has an independent motor and it's Alexa integrated – watch out Cybertruck.
Caution: "Data leakage" (where your data ends up in places you didn't expect) is frightening, and people will start to care. The amount of devices present, that offer data collection to unknown companies in unknown countries is truly astounding. Both from a personal, business, and national security perspective, consumers and businesses alike really don't know the ramifications of all of this data sharing.
CES 2020: Panasonic Unveils World's First Ultra HD VR Eyeglasses — from vrscount.com by Kyle Melnick
CES 2020: Samsung Teases Prototype AR Glasses — from vrscount.com by Kyle Melnick
The Weird, the Wacky, the Just Plain Cool: Best of CES 2020 — from singularityhub.com by Vanessa Bates Ramirez
DC: Precursor to a next gen learning platform…? Another piece is falling into place.
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DC: Precursor to a next gen learning platform…? I think it's one of the pieces of the puzzle that's coming together.
Google just revealed that 500M people around the world are using Google Assistant.https://t.co/6uHXUUIYVb#AI #global #NLP #InstructionalDesign #learning pic.twitter.com/hSp0sa79k3
— Daniel Christian (@dchristian5) January 11, 2020
In the future, will this be happening more in the United States?
On 01/09/2020, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Law Schools, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, platforms, productivity / tips and tricks, society, tools, UK, United States, by Daniel Christian
In the future, will this be happening more in the United States? I'd say yes, most likely. I'd also add consumers to this new type of online-based offering as well.
"LawBite is an online legal platform powering a fully SRA regulated UK law firm providing fast, expert, affordable legal services for businesses of all sizes."
The inaugural winners of Training Magazine's Network Choice Awards
On 01/07/2020, in Adobe, adult learning, assessment, CMS/LMS, content development, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, digital learning, digital storytelling, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, tools, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian
The inaugural winners of Training Magazine's Network Choice Awards — from trainingmag.com
Training magazine reveals the winners of its inaugural crowd-sourced vendor awards program: the 2019 Training Magazine Network Choice Awards.
Categories include:
Custom Content/Program Development
Learning Portal/Learning Management System (LMS)
Measurement, Testing, and Assessment
'Fundamental shift' is transforming the delivery of legal services, new report concludes [Cassens Weiss]
On 01/07/2020, in change, changing business models, disruption, Law Schools, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, new business models, tools, trends, United States, universities, Using teams, workplace, by Daniel Christian
'Fundamental shift' is transforming the delivery of legal services, new report concludes — from abajournal.com by Debra Cassens Weiss
"Revolutionary changes are afoot" in the market for legal services, according to a new report.
Clients are actively managing their relationships with outside counsel, nonlaw competitors are gaining ground, and law firms are responding to market changes in innovative ways, the report says.
The 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market was released Monday by Georgetown Law's Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute. It is available for download here.
However, taking that view is seeing only one side of the story. Over this same period, there has been mounting evidence that the underlying model itself is changing, that clients, non-law firm competitors, and even many law firms are now operating with very different assumptions about the role law firm services should play in the legal ecosystem and how such services should be delivered. In the past year or so, this evidence has grown to the point that it seems apparent that a fundamental shift is now well underway.
A Future Focus: The Success of Legal Tech Depends on Transformation, Not Automation — from law.com by Zach Warren
Legal technology has incrementally shifted law in recent years, but true transformation isn't incremental. The next decade has the potential to change that.
Legal Tech's Predictions for Legal Innovation in 2020 — from law.com by Zach Warren
From blockchain and cryptocurrency to new skillsets for lawyers, here's what lawyers and technologists see as the future of law—coming in 2020.
Lori Lorenzo, research and insights leader of chief legal officer program, Deloitte: "Catching-up and keeping-up with tech advancements for the legal function will remain a top goal for chief legal officers in 2020. Of course, addressing legal team tech skills gaps may drive inclusion of professionals with diverse skillsets, like data scientists, automation experts and the like, into the legal function."
Legal Tech's Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2020 [Warren]
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Legal Tech's Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2020 — from law.com by Zach Warren
We may not have robot lawyers, but lawyers and technologists agree that artificial intelligence will have a major impact on the legal profession in 2020.
Alex Babin, CEO, Zero: "The biggest gains from automating legal practices will be time saved and improved workflow efficiencies as the AI 'takes over' more laborious tasks including litigation support, email, e-discovery, and the use of databases for case management. Lawyers will begin to trust in this process, letting AI perform these basic tasks such as auto-filing document and email for compliance. AI will enhance corporate and regulatory reporting and improves contract creation and management."
Scott Forman, shareholder, Littler Mendelson and founder of Littler CaseSmart and Littler onDemand: "Data analytics and AI have already fundamentally changed the delivery of legal services, but I expect 2020 to bring a greater understanding of how these technologies enhance, rather than overtake, the work of lawyers. While robots and technology will never replace lawyers, they provide data and insight enabling lawyers to do their jobs faster and better. This includes automating aspects of the legal process—so that lawyers can focus on top-of-the-pyramid work—as well as synthesizing and serving up information that guides litigation strategy, identifies potential areas of risk and moves toward predicting legal outcomes."
Law: How to become a lawyer of the future, with Mark A. Cohen [legalmosaic.com]
On 01/03/2020, in 21st century, career development, change, Cost of legal services - including access, data mining, future, game-changing environment, heutagogy, ideas, Law Schools, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, Lifelong learning, reinvent, social learning / networks, social media, society, staying relevant, streams of content, technology (general), tools, trends, UK, United States, workplace, by Daniel Christian
Some of the topics/items mentioned include:
Technologists join lawyers in creating the legal realm of the future.
Future lawyers will need to either have project managers on staff or be able to manage projects themselves.
Lifelong learning is now critically important. One doesn't necessarily need to be able to code, but one needs to be constantly learning.
Need to understand legal principles but you will also need to have augmented skills (which will differ from person to person)
New business and delivery models. Don't presuppose that the current model will always be around.
There will be fewer traditional roles/practices. Traditional roles are sunsetting; new skillsets are needed.
Students: Do your due diligence; read up on the industry and think about whether there's a good fit. Learn your craft. Get experience. Be who you are. Bring your unique brand to the table.
Making Waves – The Art of Cinematic Sound [Woodhall & Costin]
On 01/03/2020, in creativity, design, digital audio, digital storytelling, Media/film, story, storytelling, tools, by Daniel Christian
Making Waves — from provideocoalition.com by Woody Woodhall
Interview with Midge Costin
Making Waves – The Art of Cinematic Sound, is an outstanding achievement not only as a stand-alone documentary film, but also as one of the only films that is dedicated solely to the art of sound for film. As we all know, when films started, sound was either done live with musical accompaniment or was simply exhibited silently.
It is a huge challenge to tackle such a wide ranging and meaningful advancement for film storytelling and yet undeterred, Midge Costin, herself a working sound professional, took it on. We spoke at length about her work on the film and her work as a filmmaker with sound, and as an educator.
Web Technologies of the Year 2019 [w3techs.com]
On 01/03/2020, in career development, CMS/LMS, computer science, internet, programming, technology (general), tools, vendors, by Daniel Christian
Web Technologies of the Year 2019 — from w3techs.com
These are the technologies that gained most sites in 2019 in areas such as:
Content Management System of the Year 2019
Server-side Programming Language of the Year 2019
JavaScript Library of the Year 2019
Web Server of the Year 2019
Operating System of the Year 2019
Traffic Analysis Tool of the Year 2019
…and several more categories
AI arms race [Burke]
On 01/03/2020, in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning, career development, change, colleges, community colleges, Graphics, student-related, the downsides of technology, tools, trends, United States, universities, vendors, youth, by Daniel Christian
AI arms race — insidehighered.com by Lilah Burke
More employers are using applicant tracking systems to hire employees. Some colleges are using new AI-based tools, like VMock, to help students keep up.
When college students need help with their résumés, some now will be turning to algorithms rather than advisers.
In the last decade, a growing number of large companies have started hiring using applicant tracking systems, AI-based platforms that scan résumés for keywords and rank job candidates.
Similarly, video interviewing platforms that use algorithms to evaluate a candidate's voice, gestures and emotions have become ubiquitous in some industries. HireVue, the most well-known of these platforms, has drawn accusations of being pseudoscientific and potentially exacerbating bias in hiring.
The frustration many job candidates voice when coming up against these platforms is that they have no way of knowing what they could have done better. The systems give no feedback to candidates.
So what if students, job seekers and career advisers could use the AI for themselves?
Boston University, in a document of VMock tips for students, also advised graphic design or other creative industry students to have two versions of their résumé, one with a conventional layout.
Per my nephew, who works in a recruiting type of position within HR for a Fortune 500 organization:
Without a doubt HR recruiting is using AI to help in the selection process.
Many companies use keyword scanners, but not everyone [and, in fact, his company did not].
HireVue is very important to use when it comes to understanding a person's presentation skills since a lot of presenting is done via Skype/live video these days. So HireVue is not going away anytime soon. I think it's a great system/product.
At the end of the day, a good recruiter will identify the best talent that has applied to a position. I think it's important for students to really think about what position they're applying for and be realistic with their applications. I think that's where a lot of frustration happens with students that apply to positions and never get to the first round interview. They apply to 20-50 positions that don't reflect their experience at all…so that's where coaching and personal advisement is important
I'm thinking that a global, inexpensive, next gen learning platform will enable/integrate/address some of this. [Christian]
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DC: I'm thinking that a global, inexpensive, next gen learning platform will enable/integrate/address some of this…such as the item about stackable credits. 4 ex, I could see constantly morphing digital playlists/courses to provide up-to-date curricula.
https://t.co/ZGPAgqycRH
— Daniel Christian (@dchristian5) December 30, 2019
Legal Tech Broke Investment Record in 2019 as Sector Matures [Skolnik]
On 12/30/2019, in change, Law Schools, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, trends, United States, by Daniel Christian
Legal Tech Broke Investment Record in 2019 as Sector Matures — from biglawbusiness.com by Sam Skolnik
Investments in legal tech soared past $1 billion in 2019
Key legal tech conference boasted record attendance
Legal technology deals and investments stayed on a fast track in 2019 as the sector becomes increasingly relevant to how Big Law firms and corporate legal divisions operate. Legal tech investments flew past the $1 billion mark by the end of the third quarter. It hit that mark for the first time the year before.
Legal Tech's Predictions for E-Discovery in 2020 — from law.com by Zach Warren
From ephemeral messaging to global expansion and beyond, lawyers and technologists believe e-discovery will show no signs of stagnation in 2020.
"E-discovery sits at the intersection of two industries not known for diversity: legal and high-tech. Despite what can feel like major wins, statistics paint a bleak picture—most U.S. lawyers are white, managing partners are primarily male, and only 2% of partners in major firms are black; leadership at e-discovery companies has historically reflected this demographic. The next decade will see a major shift in focus for leadership and talent development at e-discovery providers as we join law firms and corporate legal departments in putting our money where our mouths are and deliver recruitment and retention programs that fight discrimination and actively recruit, retain, and promote women, minority, and underserved talent."
Sarah Brown, director of marketing, Inventus
Companies Say Blockchain Could Have Prevented College Admissions Scandal [Young]
On 12/28/2019, in Blockchain, colleges, community colleges, credentialing, emerging technologies, platforms, society, tools, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian
Companies Say Blockchain Could Have Prevented College Admissions Scandal — from edsurge.com by Jeff Young
One of the most eye-catching aspects of the recent Varsity Blues admissions scandal was that fake athletic profiles were created for students to help them get into highly-selective colleges through so-called "side doors."
Now, several companies that sell student-record systems based on blockchain—the technology behind Bitcoin—are pitching their products as a way to prevent that kind of fraudulent record tampering in the future.

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Data retention risks private information leaking: Privacy Commissioner
By Ben Grubb
Updated August 8, 2014 — 3.40pm first published at 12.08pm
What is 'metadata'?
Australia's federal Privacy Commissioner says it remains "unclear" what information the Abbott government's mandatory data retention proposal would require telecommunications companies to collect for law-enforcement purposes and has indicated that collecting the data increased "the risk of a data breach".
In a statement published on the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's website, commissioner Timothy Pilgrim said it was important there was "an opportunity for public consultation and debate" on the proposals once the detail was available.
Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim. Credit:Michele Mossop
"At this stage, it is unclear exactly what type of information would be retained," he said.
"However, there is the potential for the retention of large amounts of data to contain or reveal a great deal of information about people's private lives, and that this data could be considered 'personal information' under the Privacy Act."
Fairfax Media's request for an interview with Mr Pilgrim was denied.
However, a spokeswoman for Mr Pilgrim said the Abbott government had not consulted with his office before announcing the proposal on Tuesday.
Agencies, including the federal and state police, as well as local councils and others, accessed metadata, the type of data stored under a data retention regime, 330,640 times in 2012-13. This was an 11 per cent increase in a year and a jump of 31 per cent over two years.
However, it is unclear whether this figure is a true representation of the number of Australian citizens who had their metadata accessed as the Attorney-General's Department is yet to clarify whether one request can include access to multiple users' metadata.
Further, ASIO is not included in the figures as it is exempt from having to report the number of requests it makes.
Key to the debate surrounding whether metadata should be stored for up to two years was ensuring the ongoing privacy interests of Australians, Mr Pilgrim said.
"It will also be important to consider whether a data retention scheme is effective, proportional, the least privacy invasive option and consistent with community expectations. Any scheme should also be transparent, accountable and have appropriate independent oversight," he said.
When the idea of data retention was first floated by law-enforcement agencies in 2010, Mr Pilgrim had much stronger comments.
"The privacy commissioner does not support the collection of information on the chance that it would be useful later," he said then.
"If you have data sitting around for a long time, there is great risk that something could happen to it.
"We need to understand what is the exact problem being responded to [and if that] response is proportionate to the risk."
In 2012, Victoria's then acting privacy commissioner Anthony Bendall dubbed data retention as "characteristic of a police state", arguing "it is premised on the assumption that all citizens should be monitored".
Mr Abbott's recently appointed Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has also said he does not support data retention.
"I don't support the idea of data retention at all but I do realise that there are ways that it can be more or less infringing on peoples' right to privacy. That's not really in dispute," he said.
However, Bret Walker, the former watchdog of Australia's national security laws and until April this year the first independent National Security Legislation Monitor, does support data retention.
Mr Walker told the ABC's Lateline this week that "surveillance is by far the most useful preventative means we have in dealing in advance with terrorist plots".
But he warned that suspicion and distrust of authorities may increase unless the government required warrants to access metadata. At present no warrant is needed for access.
Ben Grubb is a Desk Editor/Locum Homepage Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.


Retired Vice Adm. John M. McConnell, sworn in yesterday as the second director of national intelligence, said new technologies and capabilities are needed to collect and analyze intelligence "because today's threats move at increasing speeds."
"The time needed to develop a terrorist plot, communicate it around the globe and put it into motion has been drastically reduced," he told the audience of 300 at his swearing-in ceremony, which included President Bush and the leaders of the nation's intelligence agencies. "The timeline is no longer a calendar -- it is a watch."
McConnell becomes the president's chief intelligence adviser and manager of the 16 agencies and about 100,000 people making up the U.S. intelligence community.
Bush described McConnell's job "one of the most difficult and important positions in our government in this time of war -- and we are a nation at war." And although the president and his advisers have been criticized for ignoring prewar intelligence about the dangers in Iraq, Bush said yesterday: "He'll find that I value the intelligence product. . . . He's going to find that the intelligence product is an important part of my strategic thought."
Bush also paid tribute to McConnell's predecessor, Ambassador John D. Negroponte, who has moved back to the State Department as deputy secretary, saying he served with "talent and distinction." Nevertheless, Bush said that many elements of improving the intelligence community remain, including information sharing and the hiring of employees with the right language and cultural skills. McConnell repeated yesterday a plan he disclosed to Congress at his confirmation hearing: that he will change security rules to make it easier for intelligence agencies to hire first- and second-generation Arabic-speaking Americans for very sensitive jobs.
Although it was not mentioned yesterday, another of McConnell's highest priorities will be in proposing a deputy DNI, a position that has been vacant since Gen. Michael V. Hayden moved to the CIA last year. He told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that his preference would be someone from within the community on the civilian side who is working on terrorism-related issues.


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Star Control II
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Star Control II is a computer game, the sequel to the original Star Control. It was a milestone for non-linear gaming and an undeniable influence on modern space travel games such as Homeworld; many consider it one of the best computer games of all time. The player takes the role of the captain of a single Vindicator wandering a detailed environment of stars and planets, gradually building up information and resources in order to defeat a mysterious and implacable enemy.
It is difficult to pin SC2 down to a single genre; it contains elements of exploration, scavenging, diplomacy, and combat. The simulationistic resource management required to maintain the flagship is reminiscent of strategy games like the original Star Control, but much of the game turns on intense, real-time "melee" arcade-game space combat; the meat of the game, however, is the gathering of information and unique inventory items through conversation and exploration in the grand tradition of adventure games.
Gameplay is divided into six basic modes:
Conversation - Interact with other sentient species; Learn from them, trade with them, and form alliances (or attack them).
Solar system exploration - Navigate a solar system with your flagship and contact or avoid other ships in the region.
Planetary exploration - Control the Planet Lander to collect minerals and biological data while avoiding earthquakes, hotspots, and lightning.
Hyperspatial travel - Travel from star to star in HyperSpace (and later, QuasiSpace) while being chased by gravity wells.
Flagship/fleet managment - Outfit your flagship for whatever lies ahead and build up a fleet of up to 12 escort ships.
Space combat - The most exciting part of the game! Fly your armada against alien ships in an all-out brawl to the death.
Star Control II was released for the PC in 1992, and later for the 3DO system. The 3DO port included remixed music, spoken dialogue, and 3D-rendered cutscenes. The Ur-Quan Masters source code is derived from the 3DO code, as the original PC source was lost.
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How to Create a Phishing Campaign
Read this tutorial, or watch our Phishing-related videos on our Tutorial Videos page, to learn about the various functions of KnowBe4's Phishing area.
Creating a Phishing Campaign
Different Types of Phishing Tests
A campaign can consist of either a single phishing test or a recurring series of tests done Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly. You can choose one or more groups to target or phish all your users. You can also select individual phishing templates for a one-time test or fully randomize the templates so that users are receiving different phishing templates at different times.
Remember to import your users into the console before conducting your phishing tests. This is how we know which users to send our tests to. Click here to learn about importing users.
To create a new Phishing Campaign, click the +Create Campaign button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. This will take you to the campaign creation screen.
Campaign Creation Screen:
1) Name:
The first option is to choose a name for your Phishing campaign. This will help you determine the purpose or scope of the campaign at a glance in other areas of the product.
2) Deliver To:
Choose which users should be phished as part of this campaign. Select All Users to phish everyone in your console, or limit this campaign to specific Groups. You must make a selection to continue.
3) Frequency:
Set the frequency for the campaign using one of the options provided, or leave it as a one-time campaign. For ongoing phishing, we recommend testing your users at least monthly.
4) Start Time:
Set the time this campaign begins. This is useful if you want to plan out specific campaigns in the future, or do not want to start the campaign immediately. Note the default start time is 10 minutes from when you entered the campaign creation screen. You can select a specific time zone to phish your users in as well.
5) Sending:
In this section, you'll decide if you want to do an email blast to users, meaning they will receive the phishing test emails all at once, or if you'd rather spread the emails out over a specific duration of time.
Selecting Send all emails when the campaign starts will send all the emails to your users all at once, while the Send emails over 'X' Business days/Weeks/Months will randomly spread them out over the selected duration. The minimum sending duration is 1 day, while the maximum is 6 months. The digit entered must be from 1 to 6.
6) Set your Business Hours:
When you choose to send the emails out over a specified duration, you'll also be able to define your organization's business days and hours to limit the period of time when emails will be sent to your users. Business days and hours will be respected no matter what sending duration you choose, meaning if you choose for your campaign to send emails for a week or a month, emails will only be sent on the business days selected and during your defined business hours.
You can set your organization's default settings in your Account Settings so that it will default to the proper time zone, date format, business days, and hours.
7) Track Activity:
Choose how long you'd like to track activity on your phishing campaign. This period will begin after the last email is sent. At a minimum, we recommend tracking activity for at least 3 days (here, days = calendar days, rather than business days).
Activity includes clicks, attachment opens, replies, data entry, as well as reporting by the Phish Alert Button. The minimum tracking duration is 1 day, while the maximum is 6 months. The digit entered must be from 1 to 6.
8) Track Replies to Phishing Emails:
With this setting, you can track if your users are prone to responding to phishing emails. For more details on this feature, view our article on Reply-To Phishing.
9) Templates:
Choose the type of emails you will be sending in your phishing test. This consists of selecting one or more categories of emails. These categories will determine the types of emails you can have your campaign send out.
Click the drop-down list to choose the categories you'd like to select emails from. You can select more than one category of emails by clicking on them.
If you see categories that you'd rather not use, you can hide categories in your System Templates area so that they don't appear in your list of available categories when setting up a phishing campaign.
Next, choose the email(s) you'd like to send out in the campaign. The list will change dynamically based on the categories you chose from the email templates. You can select a specific email from the drop-down list and use the preview button to see what it will look like. You will also be able to quickly view the estimated difficulty rating of each template.
You can also select one of two randomizing options (explained below).
Randomizing emails:
There are two other options available when choosing emails that can help you with the effectiveness of your campaign:
Option 1: Random (same random email to all users)
This option chooses a random email from the selected categories and sends the same email to all users in the test. A different email is chosen for subsequent tests if the campaign is recurring. For this option, we recommend that you send all the emails out at once.
Option 2: Full Random (random email to each user)
This option will randomly select a different email for each user in the test. The email chosen will come from among all the categories you checked. This is ideal to prevent users from easily identifying when a phishing test is occurring. For this option, we recommend that you send the emails out over a longer duration of time.
10) Difficulty Rating:
The Difficulty Rating is a setting we apply to a template to estimate how sophisticated it is (meaning, how likely it is to trick your users into failing). Here you can select which difficulty rating(s) you'd prefer to use for your campaign. Select one or more difficulty ratings and your list of templates will dynamically update to match this specification.
11) Phish Link Domain:
This is the domain that will appear if a user inspects the phishing link by mousing over it (without clicking). There are a variety of domains to choose from (some more obviously "phishy" than others!). The default setting will randomize the domain for each campaign.
These domains are owned by us and are only used for phishing tests.
12) Landing Page:
If you'd like to change the landing page that all users who are a part of this test will see, you may do so by selecting a landing page here. If you leave Use Defaults as the option, the system will use the landing page that is associated with that particular email template. Alternatively, you have the option to set a default landing page under your Account Settings. Your default landing page will be used across all phishing campaigns.
13) Add Clickers To:
This option allows you to select a group to which any "Clickers" from this campaign will be added. Essentially, if a user clicks on a phishing link or opens an attachment in any of the tests in this campaign, it will add them to the group you specify here. This can be helpful if you'd like to set up remedial training campaigns for phish-prone users. Please note that if any modifications are made to this field after the phishing campaign is created, the changes will not take effect until the next time a phishing test is run.
For information on setting up remedial training, you can click here. If you're a Platinum or Diamond-level customer, you can use our Smart Groups feature to automate remedial training for your phish-prone users. Click here to learn more.
14) Send an email report to account admin after each Phishing Security Test:
This will send a report to all admins on the account each time a phishing test is completed and include metrics such as phish-prone percentage, attachments opened, etc.
15) Hide this campaign from reports:
This option removes all phishing campaign information from affected users and from phishing reports. Hidden campaigns will not affect risk scores or Phish-prone percentages. Campaigns used to test phishing functionality should be hidden. For example, phishing campaigns that are created to test for whitelisting or the tracking of clicks on phishing links.
Once you are done specifying your campaign settings, click Create Campaign.
Our phishing emails allow you to test your users on multiple attack vectors.
Phishing link test
A typical phishing test is an email that has a link to a supposedly malicious website. You can use our built-in templates for your phishing tests, customize them to your specifications, or create them from scratch. These emails can appear to come from any sender email address, such as a reputable organization or a spoofed email address that the user may recognize.
We will track who clicks on the links in the phishing email. See more on how phishing link clicks are tracked here.
Attachment tests
Attachment tests are phishing emails that are sent out with an attachment included, allowing you to test if your users are vulnerable to this method of social engineering. The data for users who fail your attachment phishing tests will be available in your reports. Our built-in attachments can be added to any email template while in the template editor. Just select an attachment type and provide a name for the file.
See all of the different types of built-in attachments you can add to your email templates and how they work by checking out this article. You cannot modify our built-in attachments or upload your own attachments to a phishing email template.
Our phishing templates (under System Templates and Community Templates) will show the attack vector (Attachment, Link, etc.) in the Template Name, so you can search for templates that have a specific attachment type that you'd like to test out.
Data entry tests (Phishing for Sensitive Information)
A data entry test, referred to also as "phishing for sensitive information", is an email that contains a phishing link which will redirect the user to one of our pre-made landing pages that resemble actual login or data entry screens for legitimate websites. These tests record not only who clicked on the link, but also who entered data.
We will never save or record in any way what the user submits or types into these boxes. We only track that they did type in and submit some data into the text fields.
In order to make sure the data is not logged on our servers, you must use, for the form field names, one of the following: password, password_confirmation, old_password, credit_card, ssn, social_security_number, domain_name, uname, number, verification_value, brand. See this article for more information.
Spear phishing tests
A spear phishing test is a directed test at a particular user or set of users that uses more targeted information or even personal information to try to trick the user into opening the attachment or clicking on the link in the phishing email. You can spear phish your users within your console. You can create customized email templates to phish certain users with if you think they are prone to a certain type of phishing technique or scam and would like to test this.
If you would like more assistance with a spear phishing test, please contact support and we'd be happy to advise you on how to craft these tests.
Reply-to test
You can test your users with phishing emails while optionally allowing our system to both track and record any replies that they send to that phishing email. This is recommended, especially for departments (such as Accounting) that are often the target of real-life business email compromise or CEO fraud attacks.
For more details on our reply-to phishing feature and how it can be useful, click here.
Clicking on the Campaigns tab will let you manage current and past campaigns. You can choose to see Active, Inactive, or Hidden campaigns. You can see the status, duration, and other helpful information about the campaign.
Campaign Monitoring Screen
Editing a campaign:
You can edit a recurring campaign by clicking the drop-down arrow on the right side and selecting Edit. You can change certain campaign settings here if you wish.
Do not change a recurring campaign into a one-time campaign. Deactivate a campaign if you'd like to end it.
Cloning a campaign:
You can clone any existing campaign to expedite the process of making similar phishing campaigns. All of the same settings will transfer to the cloned campaign, aside from the original start date and time. The title will remain the same, but with "Clone" added to the end.
Deactivating or reactivating a campaign:
You can deactivate or reactivate a campaign by clicking the down arrow on the right side of the campaign. Note that one-time campaigns do not need to be deactivated as they only run once.
Note: We recommend that once you deactivate a campaign, that you start a new one instead of reactivating it.
Hiding a campaign:
You can choose to hide certain campaigns from your reports by clicking the drop-down arrow on the right side and selecting Hide from reports. This option removes all phishing campaign information from affected users and from phishing reports. Smart Groups that reference phishing security test failures will be impacted. The details for hidden reports can still be viewed under the Hidden tab under Campaigns.
Deleting a campaign:
You can delete a campaign or even a single phishing test from within a campaign. This will delete all data associated with that test or campaign including who it went to, who clicked or did not click and the record of what email was used. This is permanent and cannot be undone. You can use this if you'd like to conduct a sample phishing test to see how it works and purposely click on a phishing link, and in this way, you would be able to remove that test or campaign from your overall results.
Clicking on a campaign will take you to the campaign overview screen for that specific campaign. If the campaign was a one-time test, you will see an overview of your phish-prone percentage, clicks in the first 8 hours, clicks by day, as well as other useful information. If the campaign was a recurring campaign, running on an ongoing basis, you can see the Phish-prone percentage over the course of the campaign, as well as the top 50 users that clicked on phishing links over the campaign's duration. On recurrent campaigns, you can click on Phishing Security Tests to see a list of all the tests that have run as part of that campaign. You can drill down further and see test-specific information by clicking on each test.
Users tab under each phishing test:
Clicking the Users tab next to the Overview tab will let you filter statistics such as who clicked a link or opened an attachment within the phishing email or any users who entered data on a landing page.
Under the Clickers tab, you will be able to view the date and time each user clicked the link, as well as their IP address, operating system, and browser.
You can remove any phishing test failure as needed. See more here.
For more details on the individual campaign results, click here.
Customizing Emails & Landing Pages
How are Clicks Tracked in Phishing Security Tests?
Advanced Reporting Guide


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Trickle-down Economics: Pricing H2O : The Indicator from Planet Money What's the best way to price water in a drought, to ensure people get what they need without breaking the bank?
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STACEY VANEK SMITH, HOST:
This summer, many parts of the world have seen extreme water shortages, including Iran, India, Australia and South Africa.
JAY FAMIGLIETTI: All over the world. We can pick spots on every continent.
CARDIFF GARCIA, HOST:
Jay Famiglietti is the director of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan. But before he moved to Canada, he spent more than a decade in California, where he helped the state deal with its six-year drought.
VANEK SMITH: And Jay says water is this funny thing. In some ways, it's a commodity, like oil. We pay for water. Businesses pay for it. They need it to operate. There's real demand for water. And when a commodity is scarce, when demand is high and supply is low, you just raise the price of the commodity. When you raise the price, people use less of it.
GARCIA: But this gets a little bit tricky with water because, obviously, people need it to survive. So you can't always just jack up the price whenever supply gets low. In some cases, communities just have to make sure that water is affordable for regular folks.
So there's this question that more and more places around the world are facing, which is how do you get people to conserve water without raising the price beyond what pretty much everyone can afford? This is THE INDICATOR from Planet Money. I'm Cardiff Garcia.
VANEK SMITH: And I'm Stacey Vanek Smith. Today on the show, water shortages. Obviously, this is a big and growing problem facing many parts of the world. And today on the show, we look at the day-to-day solutions from two people from two different parts of the California economy.
(SOUNDBITE OF DROP ELECTRIC SONG, "WAKING UP TO THE FIRE")
GARCIA: When the drought in California hit in 2011, a lot of the focus and the blame went to farmers. Agriculture uses about 80 percent of the water in California.
VANEK SMITH: At the time, Jay Famiglietti had been studying satellite images for NASA, looking at water tables and aquifers. And he was brought into communities that were facing shortages to explain his findings and try to offer solutions.
FAMIGLIETTI: There's not a lot of love. Even though I was just the messenger and I'm not a water manager, it was just not a lot of love for the work that I was presenting, and for the message, which was one of the need to conserve and better manage. But that...
VANEK SMITH: Were people, like, throwing tomatoes at you and stuff? Like, what...
FAMIGLIETTI: Almost. Almost.
VANEK SMITH: Almost tomatoes.
FAMIGLIETTI: Yeah.
GARCIA: Not a huge exaggeration, as you can see in this documentary about the California drought called "Last Call At The Oasis," in which there's footage of community board meetings in California, where Jay is presenting his findings.
(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "LAST CALL AT THE OASIS")
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Your arguments just don't make any sense. You have to live in the Valley. You have to understand the management of water here.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Well, that's bad management. And you're one of the managers. I'm sorry.
VANEK SMITH: So the emotion from these farmers makes sense. I mean, less water means less livelihood for them.
CANNON MICHAEL: It was tough.
VANEK SMITH: Cannon Michael is a sixth-generation California farmer based in Los Banos, Calif. He grows tomatoes, garlic, onions, carrots, wheat. When the 2011 drought hit, he really felt it.
MICHAEL: Our supply was not cut entirely, but it was cut back dramatically. And then we had neighbors and friends in different areas nearby that had, you know, zero surface water supply.
GARCIA: Cannon says that for farmers, water is a raw material for their business. Kind of the way steel is to a car, water is to a tomato.
MICHAEL: Kind of consider it transforming water into something that people want. Ultimately, I'm returning water back in a different form to people. So I think that sometimes gets overlooked, and agriculture gets kind of label of being this heavy water use. But ultimately, for me to put a tomato on the table for somebody to enjoy, it just takes water, and it shouldn't be something that we're ashamed of.
VANEK SMITH: But there was just less water starting in 2011. So Cannon did a few things to save his business. First, he just grew way less - about a third less than in a normal year. And this was hard because leaving those fields empty meant he was growing less stuff, bringing in a lot less money. But also, it meant he needed less water.
GARCIA: Yeah. Second, Cannon switched out his crops. So he went from a lot of alfalfa, which is used for cattle feed, to crops like tomatoes, which use just a lot less water.
VANEK SMITH: He also drilled more wells to try and ensure a steady water supply and installed drip irrigation, which is very expensive to install, but which concentrates water to the roots of plants so they only use what they need.
MICHAEL: That was a, you know, multimillion-dollar investment. There's a lot of additional costs that come along with some of the conservation evens.
GARCIA: The drip irrigation involves a lot of expensive equipment that has to be replaced. And it also uses a lot of energy. So Cannon's power bills went way up.
VANEK SMITH: Cannon says now water accounts for about 20 percent of his total expenses. How much of your time is spent dealing with water issues?
MICHAEL: For me, personally, and I'm probably more active than others, I would say it's about 30 to 40 percent of my time.
VANEK SMITH: Wow.
MICHAEL: Yeah. It's quite a bit. But again, I'm also involved in our local water district board. And then I've been pulled in to speak on the issue or be on panels. And so it does take quite a bit of time, but it's an important thing, obviously, for agriculture. And I also, ultimately, feel like it's very important for the entire state, I feel.
GARCIA: Today's first water indicator, or actually indicators, are 20 percent and 40 percent. Twenty percent is the portion of Cannon's farm expenses - his money - that has to do with water. And 40 percent is the amount of his time that Cannon estimates he spends dealing with water. He says he expects both of those numbers to only get bigger.
VANEK SMITH: And those numbers are really big. But Jay Famiglietti, the water scientist, says there is a positive side to that. He said as water got scarcer and more expensive, he saw farmers get more creative and start to think about water differently.
FAMIGLIETTI: The drought in California was just so epic. And the ag industry - I saw it change. I saw it change, you know, while I was living in California. And I thought that that was a very, very positive thing.
GARCIA: But farmers were not the only ones looking at water shortages. Cities were, too. Southern California has one of the fastest growing populations in the country, and a lot of its water comes from hundreds of miles away, from Northern California and from the Colorado River.
VANEK SMITH: What is the weather like outside right now?
PAUL COOK: Hot (laughter). It's hot. For us, I think it's about 90.
VANEK SMITH: What about rainfall?
COOK: Yeah. Rainfall in the summer is pretty much nonexistent.
VANEK SMITH: Paul Cook is the general manager of Irvine Ranch Water District. It provides drinking water to about half a million people in Orange County, Calif. - cities like Tustin and Irvine. And in 2011, when the drought hit, the area was looking at shortages.
GARCIA: Paul and his team were up against a problem. How do we keep water affordable for everyone but still get people to conserve?
COOK: We call it budget-based tiered rate structure.
GARCIA: The budget-based tiered rate structure. And it works like this. Every home was allocated a certain amount of water.
COOK: And if they do stay within their means, they're billed at a very, very low rate.
VANEK SMITH: Apparently, 80 percent of residents stayed within this range and paid less than $2 for every 800 gallons of water. Eight-hundred gallons is roughly a week of water use for the average Californian.
COOK: Now if you exceed your budget, you're into the next tier, which is inefficient.
VANEK SMITH: Inefficient - when you hit this tier, you start paying about 4.75 for 800 gallons of water.
GARCIA: And if you exceed that, you're now in the wasteful category.
VANEK SMITH: They actually put that on your bill.
GARCIA: I love it.
VANEK SMITH: Shaming.
GARCIA: You will actually spend more than $13 per 800 gallons of water. That, by the way, is our second indicator - $13, the shameful, wasteful tier.
VANEK SMITH: Paul says once water use hits that level, the monthly water bill gets really high.
COOK: It could quickly get to 80, 90, $100. That's going to get somebody's attention. It might create a behavioral reaction from me that would cause me to go out in my yard and look for a broken sprinkler head. It might cause me to go ask my young sons why are they taking so long in the shower? It might even engender a call to the water district saying, why is my bill so high? And we have a whole department of folks who will kind of walk people through.
GARCIA: Paul says the tiered pricing seems to have worked. People cut back their water use, and the city was able to use some of the money it raised to build a water recycling plant and help educate the population on how to conserve water.


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import org.springframework.context.*;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.*;
import org.springframework.core.io.*;
import org.springframework.ws.config.annotation.*;
import org.springframework.ws.transport.http.*;
import org.springframework.ws.wsdl.wsdl11.*;
import org.springframework.xml.xsd.*;

@EnableWs
@Configuration
public class WebServiceConfiguration extends WsConfigurerAdapter {
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            ApplicationContext applicationContext) {

        MessageDispatcherServlet servlet = new MessageDispatcherServlet();
        servlet.setApplicationContext(applicationContext);
        servlet.setTransformWsdlLocations(true);
        return new ServletRegistrationBean(servlet, "/ws/*");
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        return new SimpleXsdSchema(new ClassPathResource("document.xsd"));
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Childhood mental health services are in crisis. When a child who feels helpless, hopeless and out of control is brave enough to tell their parents, only to discover that they can't find a way to solve the problem either, the world very quickly becomes a much scarier place. Small issues can become huge and unmanageable if they're not effectively and quickly nipped in the bud. It can take months or sometimes even years to get access to Children's and Adolescent's Mental Health Services (CAHMS). And this underfunded division of the NHS is buried in an avalanche of acute cases which it doesn't have enough resources to deal with.
The upshot is that things have to be pretty bad for any kind of treatment to be available. When is it ever acceptable for a suicidal child who has made repeated attempts to take their own life to be told not to 'prove a point' by trying again by the very professional sent to intervene, as was the case highlighted recently on Panorama?
I can only imagine that the CAHMS crisis specialist concerned was hardened to the traumas they were dealing with on a daily basis and able to easily dismiss the extreme distress this family were suffering (knowing there was little they could do to help anyway).
Sadly, I wasn't shocked or surprised by the cases Panorama highlighted, just deeply saddened by the fear and frustration of those suffering without meaningful support. Their plight is not unfamiliar to me as I see a steady stream of children and teens whose parents have been through all other available channels before finding me, usually through word of mouth referrals. I am often their last resort.
First contact may be an email or phone call from a distraught parent detailing a litany of failed attempts to find solutions to their child's mental distress. They describe how countless tears are shed over discussions with teachers, sessions with school counsellors, trips to the GP, referrals to CAHMS for an assessment which can take months and then still lead to no support, visits to NHS psychiatrists or to private child psychiatrists and psychologists (who cost a bomb). Of course, all these services are doing a sterling job of scratching the surface of a sore which just festers and grows. And I'm typically only seeing the ones who the system fails so I don't get to hear about those who may be delighted with the support they get elsewhere.
By the time they get to me, they can be traumatised by the treatment for their trauma. Most anxious children do not enjoy being the focus of attention and many struggle to articulate their feelings. They might be angry or resistant to the prospect of being grilled by yet another well-meaning stranger. And they have little or no expectation of anything changing or getting better. Also, they may have suffered years of deteriorating mental health and disappointment over multiple failed interventions.
Generally, the first thing I'll ask them is how they're getting on with their friends. Peer approval is everything to them, whether they be eight, 14 or 19. They are often socially isolated or marginalised because of the symptoms of their anxiety. It's hard to chip in during break time banter when you're feeling like you might throw up any minute. And concentrating in class is not easy if you urgently need the loo and don't want to draw attention to yourself by asking to be excused.
I advise parents to look out for signs of nausea on a Sunday night or difficulty eating breakfast. Busy parents often miss the clues that their child is suffering from social anxiety. So, I suggest they encourage discussion about what's going on outside of lessons at school. There might be a lot of seemingly trivial 'well she said this' and 'then they did that' but these are not trivial things to a child who has no one to hang out with.
Neither school nor parents are good at dealing with exclusion bullying, casual shoving around in the corridors or the verbal insults an anxious child is often subjected to, which are now all over social media as well as being in their faces. The best thing for parents to do is to equip their children with tools and strategies to handle their social problems themselves and go in to school only when all else has failed. The worst thing to do is to do nothing. Open channels of communication between parent and child are essential or you simply won't know there's a problem until it's escalated to the point of being unbearable.
Different school environments present different problems which highlight bigger issues: Gang infighting and knife crime at one extreme in schools in some deprived areas and self-harming and eating disorders at the other extreme, typical of academic high achievers. Add the wide availability of recreational drugs to the mix, across the entire social spectrum, and it becomes evident just how difficult it is for parents, schools and the health service to safeguard the children in their care.
If the problems are to do with conflict, dysfunction, breakdown or abuse within a family, then they become social issues as children raised in such environments are often hidden from the view of any agencies that might be able to help them. And then they have a tendency to repeat their experiences in adulthood with their own families. Parents in these circumstances often don't compute the damage being done to their children and very often need help themselves.
I always take into account the family situation when working with the young. The relationship dynamic between siblings, parents and extended family is an important factor in emotional development. That sometimes means helping parents to understand how their children are influenced by their behaviour, a tricky line to tread when mum and dad are doing the best they can and aren't always aware of their own problems.
In these times of uncertainty, high expectations and multiple demands on time an energy, there is no one size fits all, easy fix for the many complex issues which afflict our children. Given that we understand so little about neurological development, it is inevitable that some troubled children will grow up to be anxious adults who struggle to cope with the stresses of daily life. Luckily, we are now more aware of the consequences of doing nothing to prevent this mental health epidemic. And maybe CAHMS will soon get the funding it needs to fill the gap in services so effective, timely preventative treatment can be available.


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14th Suryodaya IT Fest was held from 10 - 12 April 2017 at The Scindia School. The participating schools were Welham Girls School, Dehradun, Mayo College Girls School, Ajmer, Mayo College, Ajmer, Maharani Gayatri Devi School, Jaipur, Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior and the host school, The Scindia School. The students took part in various competitions such as multi-media, website designing, digital photo editing, computer whiz kid, poster making, quiz and cartoon making competition.
The theme for this year's Suryodaya IT Fest was 'The Internet of Things'. The IoT can provide humanity with experiences and a way of life that seemed to be possible only in movies.
The event was inaugurated on 10th April 2017 by Principal, Dr Madhav Deo Saraswat under the leadership of Mr R K Kapoor, Dean of ICT. This year's Suryodaya IT Fest was a dream, which was achieved through persistent hard work, sweat and a lot of determination.
Mr Siddhartha Sharma was the Chief Guest on the closing ceremony. He studied in Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication and is currently the Editor for Technology and Automobiles at News18.com. He is the creator of the selfie interview and the first in India to experiment with Mobile Video Filming, Periscope, Facebook Live's and 360-degree videos for communicating with audiences. Before taking over the Tech and Auto verticals at News18, Siddhartha worked as the Editor for Technology at The Quint. He was the head of The Quint's TecQ and TorQue division. He has also worked with India Today's Television division, spearheading their technology vertical. He was the creator and face of, the Gadgets & Gizmos Show on Headlines Today and Techno Dilli on Dilli Aajtak.
Mr Siddhartha Sharma conducted a workshop for the participants and gave his candid feedback on the presentations. It was pointed out quite categorically that information in future will be a very powerful tool and technology will help to distribute information. There are varied mediums and gadgets to accomplish the task.
Mr Sharma was highly appreciative of the apt use of multi-media in accordance with sound and video editing as a form. Mr Sharma appreciated the efforts of the young boys and girls and found them to be better than professionals. He liked the use of Adobe after effect even though an easier option was available. Mr Sharma felt glad that their schools have the latest innovations to experiment with and they need to just polish their skills.
He asked the boys what they intend to do with technology in future. The techno savvy students said that that they want technology to be truly integrated in their lives. He gave examples of poplar companies such as Uber and Samsung whose core competency offers technical solution to everyday issues.
He advised the boys to find a solution for a problem that exists by trying to make a software/ gadget. With reference to their multi- media presentation on use of IOT in agriculture, he remarked that they did not mention finding a solution to an existing problem.
To another observation, Mr Sharma said that soon efforts would be made to find innovations from space, which requires a lot of research and exploration. For instance how to move away from Earth and have habitable colonies in Mars. He referred to a drastic change in technology as people switched over from use of Blackberry to touch screen. He asserted that innovation still holds key to future programs and development. He made frequent references to modular phone, digital wallet, Intex phone, technology in the field of medicine, augmented and virtual reality etc.
At the end of a very interactive session, Mr Siddhartha Sharma motivated the children to keep inventing and never give up despite any hurdle. They must have faith in their ideas and consider every learning process as a stepping-stone to success. They must find a solution by using technology in life.
The school is also grateful to NIIT who have sponsored and guided us since the very conception of this event. The school also extended its heartfelt gratitude to IIITM, MITS and Press for their support without which this fest would not have been possible.


Thailand's Itthipat Buranatanyarat fired an impressive seven-under-par 63 to set the early pace in the opening round of the Butra Heidelberg Cement Brunei Championships on Wednesday.
The Singha Laguna Phuket Open will return to the Asian Development Tour (ADT) schedule for its third consecutive edition from May 16 to 19 next month.
Japan's Naoki Sekito sizzled with an eight-under-par 64 to surge one shot clear of the field in the penultimate round of the PGM ADT Penang Championship on Friday.
Thai star Kiradech Aphibarnrat is set to defend his title at the Butra Heidelberg Cement Brunei Championships, which will celebrate its second straight edition on the Asian Development Tour (ADT) next week.
Thailand's Nirun Sae-Ueng posted a three-under-par 69 to take a share of the halfway lead with countrymen Kasidit Lepkurte and Poom Pattaropong at the PGM ADT Penang Championship on Thursday.


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Algoma Steel and USW L2251 Reach Tentative Agreement
Algoma Steel Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTL; TSX: ASTL) ("Algoma" or the "Company") and United Steelworkers Local Union 2251 ("2251"), the union representing Algoma's hourly employees, announced today that the parties have reached a tentative collective agreement. The USW Local 2251 bargaining committee is unanimously recommending the offer and the parties have agreed to extend the current contract until August 30, 2022, to allow for a ratification vote to occur. Voting is scheduled for August 25 and August 29, 2022. The Company will release details of the tentative agreement after the Union has held its information meetings with its members.
USW Local 2251 President Mike DaPrat remarked, "We are pleased to inform our membership that we have been able to negotiate a fair agreement with Algoma Steel. We believe that this agreement will serve our needs for the next five years. The negotiating committee wishes to thank its members for their continued support throughout the process."
Commenting on the tentative agreement, Algoma President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Garcia said, "We are very encouraged to have reached an agreement with our union partners on a settlement that will allow us all to focus on serving our customers safely and reliably while transforming our business to electric arc steelmaking. This agreement avoids disruption to our operations and directs our attention to continuing the exciting momentum we have generated together on course to becoming a leading provider of green steel in North America."
This agreement follows the agreement with the United Steelworkers Local 2724, the union representing its technical, professional, and front-line supervisory employees ratified on July 26, 2022.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively, "forward-looking statements"), including statements regarding an anticipated new labour agreement with Algoma's hourly employees, and Algoma's transition to electric arc steelmaking, its future as a leading producer of green steel, and Algoma's expected enhanced long-term profitability, cost-cutting initiatives, modernization of its plate mill facilities, transformation journey, investment in its people, processes, optimization and modernization, and growing capability and courage to meet the industry's challenges. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "believe," "project," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "plan," "pipeline," "may," "should," "will," "would," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections, and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this document. Readers should consider the risks and uncertainties set forth in the section entitled "Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" in Algoma's Annual Report on Form 20-F, filed by Algoma with the Ontario Securities Commission (the "OSC") (available under the company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com) and with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") (available at www.sec.gov), as well as in Algoma's current reports with the OSC and SEC. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Algoma assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
About Algoma Steel Group Inc.
Based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, Algoma is a fully integrated producer of hot and cold rolled steel products including sheet and plate. With a current raw steel production capacity of an estimated 2.8 million tons per year, Algoma's size and diverse capabilities enable it to deliver responsive, customer-driven product solutions straight from the ladle to direct applications in the automotive, construction, energy, defense, and manufacturing sectors. Algoma is a key supplier of steel products to customers in Canada and Midwest USA and is the only producer of plate steel products in Canada. The Company's mill is one of the lowest cost producers of hot rolled sheet steel (HRC) in North America owing in part to its state-of-the-art Direct Strip Production Complex ("DSPC"), which is the newest thin slab caster in North America with direct coupling to a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) melt shop.
Algoma has achieved several meaningful improvements over the last several years that are expected to result in enhanced long-term profitability for the business. Algoma has upgraded its DSPC facility and recently installed its No. 2 Ladle Metallurgy Furnace. Additionally, the Company has cost-cutting initiatives underway and is in the process of modernizing its plate mill facilities.
Today Algoma is on a transformation journey. Algoma is investing in its people and processes, optimizing and modernizing to secure a sustainable future. Our customer focus, growing capability and courage to meet the industry's challenges head-on, position us firmly as your partner in steel.
About United Steelworkers Local 2251
A United Steelworkers Local representing 2171 hourly workers at Algoma Steel Inc.
Brenda Stenta Mike DaPrat
Manager Communications & Branding President
Algoma Steel Group Inc. USW L2251
Phone: 705.206.1022 705.942.3900
E-mail: brenda.stenta@algoma.com E-mail: pres2251@usw2251.ca
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