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The Book of Echoes Reviews
The Book Of Echoes
Rosanna Amaka
Category: General & Literary Fiction, Fiction
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Hannah Beckerman
"a lyrical and affecting debut"
Amaka's impassioned novel is narrated by a woman taken into slavery in the early 19th century whose spirit continues to roam the earth 200 years later. We meet Michael, of Jamaican descent, growing up in south London in 1981 during the Brixton riots. Meanwhile, in a village in Nigeria, a young girl, Ngozi, is desperate to escape the poverty she has been born into as she becomes a maid to a wealthy family in the city. Exploring themes of generational trauma, colonialism, racism and resilience, it's a lyrical and affecting debut.
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Whether you're sick or not, most people go to the doctor for an annual check up. Your doctor will check your eyes, ears, heartbeat, lungs, and discuss anything else you may have concerns about. Even though your website is not a living, breathing, organism, it does need to be an evolving, expanding, entity online to reach its full potential. Every now and then, it's good to give your site a check up. Here is a five-point check up you can complete on your own website to make sure it has a clean bill of health.
Check to see how recently you have updated your blog. If your blog hasn't been updated since 2009, you need to add a new post. Consistent weekly posts are suggested to create a steady stream of new content growth on your website. This is helpful to optimizing your site for search as you're expanding and validating keywords on your site. Consistency is also important; it helps search engines build trust in your website.
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I learned of my wife's death via a newspaper obituary.
I actually overlooked it on first skim, Hilda's children having listed her under Danks rather than her current married name. To readers of the Dudley News family announcements, she was the 'devoted widow' of Leonard Rudge and Albert Danks, 'adored mother' of eight (all named), 'cherished nan' to thirteen (ditto), 'treasured aunty' to innumerable more. I could hardly expect any reference to her latterly being the estranged wife of Cyril Nock.
I nonetheless digested the news in distress. My pal Vern, with whom I had been staying since the locks were changed, poured me a hefty brandy.
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Seven months later, I was a bachelor no more – and as dazed by the wedding as anyone.
I involuntarily rubbed my forehead, though the bruise from the plate she hurled at me had long since vanished. I'd told her about her grandson scraping my car with his skateboard, and she chose not to believe me.
It was after one such visit I arrived to find the locks changed and a suitcase of my belongings deposited on the lawn.
I never learned what lies must have convinced poor Hilda I was a monster.
I had nowhere to go but Vern's, where within days I received her solicitor's letter warning me a divorce petition were imminent. Hilda passed away before it was drawn up, though as I discovered not before changing her will to omit me as a beneficiary. I had, as I said, no inclination to fight the family for any legacy.
That was six months ago. I'm renting a flat now. No point buying again at my time of life. Vern assured me I could lodge as long as I wished, but I hate to exploit hospitality. I never returned to the dancing classes.
I did drive past my old place yesterday, for the first time since selling. Mum's rose bush has gone. I miss that house. Despite everything, I miss Hilda much more.
You'll see that for the purpose of this blog I've gone well over the 500-word limit. I felt the need to expand the piece and attempt to do it a bit more justice.
I aimed to portray Cyril as a kind man – a doormat actually – who strives to please others and is sad but not bitter about his situation.


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In this article, I'll share with you some tips on "how to be happy"? Live the life you always wanted to live and some sure – fire steps that you can take in the right directions to help you get there quickly and without much hassle (I'll try my best to back this up ?. But this path is not easy, nor am I promising anything. You'll see any change in your life if and only if you decide to work on it. So, I can only give you advice and then sit back and then you will have to do your thing, that is take actions for my tips to work.
Now, happiness comes from living the life of YOUR dreams, not someone else's. But the sad reality of life nowadays is that people have become cowards and they become timid when it comes to taking important decisions in their lives. They leave it to the hands of someone else and want them to make those decisions, which will ultimately make their life pathetic and miserable.
Being happy is doing something that you love, each day every day without having a care about anything else on this planet. It's being able to live the life that you always wanted to live, with the people you want to live it with and having freedom enough to listen to your inner heart's desire and fulfill some of your darkest fantasies as well. It's being confident in yourself and your abilities that no matter what you'll do something and you'll make it. It's about your surity in you that you exude and the calmness that you show.
I know the life I just described sounds crazy and almost unrealistic, but almost. What if I told you that there are some people out there who are actually living this life. Would you not want to know how they're doing this and how you could do it too? These people seem to have this magical formula for happiness as well as success. Wouldn't you want to know about this as well?
I'll let you know about it, but before that you must promise me that you will work on it and give it your best to make it a reality. No matter what happens you'll be absolutely committed to it, until you have finally did it, you have finally created that life for yourself. Okay?
I'll share three very useful tips with you and hopefully if you get the hang of them, then you'll love living life and happiness is a guarantee for you.
Now, what has started to happen is that we are too busy in our busyness that we have forgotten how to live and open our eyes to the various miracles that this world presents us with. We have closed ourselves into a world of our own and there's is not much room to grow, think and open our minds. We have stopped being enthusiastic about things.
Be Excited. About everything and anything that you do in your life. And that can only happen if you do the things that you love. Stop being a robot, living a life as if somebody has programmed you to live it that way and go listen to your heart. Do, something that pleasures you. And stop giving a f*ck about what others will think about it.
All that is nature's way of communicating with you and making you alive and present.
Whatever work you are going to do, if you're not excited about it then visualise it in it's funniest form ever. Try to make it as appealing and as exciting as you can. After all it's your vision, you can manipulate it as you can. But still don't make it so unrealistic that it almost seems impossible.
Visualise it until you're excited about it. It should be in the utmost detail. Use your brain power. It's very important to visualise everything as they give you the positive stimulus that you require.
Whatever thing you're doing, don't just think of it from one angle or one point. See it from a lot of ways. Ex – You're doing business. Then you can think- What if i try this method? What if i add this thing into that and try to make something new? What if i try to find a completely new way of doing it, etc….
Always have a lot of point of views and perspectives. It also gives you a lot of options and makes you a man of abundance.
I wrote above that stop living as if you have been programmed by someone. SO, you reprogram yourself. Change yourself and become the person that you want to be. No need to live a pathetic life which you don't want to live. Reprogram yourself into believing that you're good and smart enough and you can live the life that you choose to live for yourself.
You can also reprogram yourself into getting excited about something that is actually boring for you. You do this by finding the hidden benefits or opportunities that it can give you, but you were not aware of it right now.
So, this is how you can reprogram something that is boring to you into something that has become exciting and adventurous.
Freedom starts once you accept yourself for what and who you are NOW and then are willing to work on yourself. You no longer care about your past, your future nor do you care who's better than you and who's ahead of you at something, or generally in life.
You must first accept yourself and your current condition. It is what it is. So, what? You'll change it.
You're my DUDE. I believe in you.
So, once you start accepting it all, you become flexible and strong to face all the challenges that get thrown at you. Hence, you get free of all the tension and all the sh*t in your life. You focus on what's important and what's your priority.
Usually you get freedom in the form of financial, societal and freedom from the past.
Now, i'm not one of those so called "gurus" who say that you expect less, have less, need less and you'll never need more, so you'll always be free from the illusion that is money.
In fact, I preach the exact opposite. I believe that there's nothing wrong in expecting more from yourself and also backing up those expectations with great hard work and knowledge.
But if you're going to have financial freedom then you need to do self-education, and not just formal education. Formal education will make you a living, but self-education will make you a fortune. I'm not suggesting that you leave whatever you're doing and start to educate yourself financially, but you can at least find some time each day to read some books which you think can help you make more money from the side..
Societal freedom is a freedom when there's no outside pressure in your life, you're not bound by anyone, nor is anyone trying to manipulate you and your life in any way or form. You're free from all this sh*t and in no way or form is anyone making you do something that you don't want to do.
For ex – If you don't want to go to X college, then nobody else is putting a pressure on you to go there. That is freedom from the society.
This is very important to have as this is your life and you must be it's master. Nobody, and by that i mean absolutely nobody can tell you what to do with your life. Only you and what your heart says matters, when it comes to taking decisions of your life.
So, societal freedom comes when you stop giving a f*ck.
You stop giving a f*ck when you have strong boundaries made by strong values. You must know what your life values are, the things that you stand by, the things that you believe in you ought to know them clearly and follow them with absolute discipline. Once you start living by those values, then you develop a very strong and healthy boundary in and around yourself and then no one can breach that boundary of yours and rule your life.
For ex – If you believe that honesty is the best policy, then you will never even listen to or want to talk to a person who is a liar. Your boundaries just won't let him get past and he will never be able to manipulate his way in your life.
Are you stuck in the past? Are you not able to get over a past break-up, or a mistake or a failure? This is another chain that has caged you and holding you back from your true freedom. And the thing is if you are actually stuck there then only you can get yourself out of there. So, i'll give you one simple advice and if you follow it then you'll be free from the past as well.
You need to accept things as it is. Whatever happened, happened. You be patient and allow the natural flow of things to take place. There is no secret formula, except that you take actions and focus on your present. And the rest that is out of your control, you accept it. Time changes and trust me it will change this as well. The real beauty of life is that it's unpredictable.
Nothing is permanent, everything changes; and of course, a lot of things can happen that will transform who you are and have an impact on your life.
You need to cultivate the ability to truly accept whatever comes and embrace it. Nothing in this life is permanent, everything changes. And maybe someday you can have what you desire, but if today you can't, you need to let it go and accept that right now you can't have what you want.
Yesterday is history, and future is mystery. But today, today is a gift. That's why it's called present.
Love is a magic wand that heals all wounds. It is one of the most amazing feelings on this planet and i suggest that one must try this in his life. Even if you have tried before and failed, then try again. And i don't just mean the boyfriend-girlfriend love, i mean the love of this world. This world loves you so much, it provides you with such abundance, so don't you think you should love it back. Same with your parents, or your friends or just about anybody who loves you and want your betterment. You should love every single one of them.
But love starts with two very important things.
When you love yourself, life is limitless. So, think about this. Do you hesitate speaking your minds off? Feel a lack of confidence while expressing yourself? Self-sabotage your dreams and your goals? You feel depressed and anxious at times? Did you ever wanted to feel the magic of love or have lost that magic and now you have no idea how to get it?
All this happens because of the lack of self-love. You don't love yourself enough. When you love yourself, then you know no barriers that could stop you from achieving your dreams and your dream life. You exude a level of calmness and composure that everybody gets mesmerised by you.
By becoming more aware of how much you value yourself, you can begin to heal any negative gaps between what you think of yourself, and the true reality of a person with unlimited potential.
You can do anything you want. It's time to break the shackles of expectation and judgment, and start living from your heart. It's time to astound yourself with how beautiful your life can be. Time to treat every single day like a celebration!
Too many people seem to believe that they are not allowed to put themselves first or go after their own dreams out of fear of being selfish or sacrificing others' needs. Whether you want to achieve weight loss, land your dream job, find your soul mate, or get out of debt, it all comes back to self-love and accepting yourself first.
To learn to love yourself, practice re-framing events in your life in a positive light, and don't worry about trying to be perfect. Instead of allowing outside opinions to affect how you see yourself, focus on the things you like about yourself and keep working towards your goals. Be your own biggest cheerleader.
Think that this whole world is a stage that has been set especially for you to showcase your magic and talents and mesmerize everyone. Work towards overcoming obstacles instead of calling yourself names or assuming the worst will always happen.
Many people have trouble letting go of negative thoughts that they have about themselves. These negative thoughts often come from outside people whose opinion we value and from whom we seek love and acceptance. But REMEMBER : Someone else's opinion of you doesn't have to be your reality.
Realize that you cannot control the words and actions of others, but you can control your responses and reactions. Decide how you will deal with negative thoughts you do have. You may need to give yourself a time-out to meditate or breathe. Acknowledge your feelings and re-frame your negative reaction with positive reminders of your self-worth.
Self-Confidence is the ability to move out of you comfort zone and take risks with no guarantee of success. It's walking into hidden, undiscovered paths and still knowing that you'll come out fine.
It is the way you project yourself and how secure you feel about yourself. Are you happy with yourself and the way your life is panning out so far? Do you have a positive, go-getter attitude and you don't procrastinate while doing something important? Are you needy or do you have an abundance mindset?
All these things are very important to build up your self – confidence. You need to first of all have an abundance mindset. This means that you must know that there's a lot for everyone on this planet. Nobody is running out of things. It"s just a matter of deserving to have it. So, you must know that if you want something and are willing to work for it, then you'll get it. Even if someone else has it, you can have it too. There's enough for everyone in this world.
Now, another way to build your self – confidence is to improve your projection of yourself. What i mean by this is what do you think about yourself? Are you an amazing jaw dropping masculine man or a wimp in your eyes? Do you believe that you're better than anyone you have seen in your life? Always see yourself as superior in everything you do. You should have no doubt, no shame and definitely no insecurities in whatever you're going to do. Self-esteem isn't everything, it's just that there's nothing without it.
How you see yourself is how other people will see you.
A very amazing way to be happy is to take actions. Whenever in doubt, whenever you feel like you are not feeling happy, or you just ain't got it. Then get up, shake up and start taking actions in an area which you absolutely love. Trust me this is an amazing tip to break your rut of negativeness and it fills your mind with positivity.
It's easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than to think yourself into a new way of acting.
Now, a big excuse a lot of people make while taking actions on the things that they love is that they're not old enough to do some thing. They say – Once they get to certain age, then they'll do it as they'll have more experience on their side. This is the biggest B.S. I've ever heard.
Experience doesn't come with age, it comes with taking actions. For ex – If you're a photographer, and you start at 50, are you sure it is going to make you a better, or a more experienced photographer compared to the person , who's 25 and have been into photography for some years now and he has been taking actions on it constantly.
So, your happiness doesn't lie in sitting and waiting for something. It lies in you taking actions, betting on yourself and going for all that you ever wanted from life.
This article was an honest attempt to help you understand how to be happy in life. From this article you learned how to be excited and various techniques that you could use to be excited such as visualization and being present and mindful.
I also covered the different forms of freedoms and which actions you can take to make yourself free again. And, if you're stuck into any kind of thing that you don't want to do, then just escape out of it. Don't force yourself into doing it. And how do you escape out of it? By taking actions.
Then finally I covered how important it is to love, not just some girl but this whole world in general. And an amazing way to love is to do random acts of kindness, which you can do right now as well by sharing this article with as many people as you can so, that they could also read this article and it can make a positive impact in their lives. That's how you spread love.
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The US embassy is set to move to a new site after planning permission was granted to change up one of the country's most famous sites close to the Aviva Stadium.
The upmarket Lansdowne Place development and the former Jurys hotel in Dublin 4 are currently on the same plot, but a fence will now be erected between the two properties. An underground carpark will also be cut off.
The decision means that the site now meets the security requirements of US officials. Last year they successfully petitioned Dublin City councillors to move from their current location, saying they had outgrown the iconic 1960s building that currently houses the embassy.
The embassy will now move just across the road to the site of the former hotel, which closed in 2019, although it might be several years before they're in and set up at their new address.
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Speaking to Extra.ie, a spokesperson for the US embassy said: 'We are aware of recent developments. Plans to purchase the site are still ongoing.'
The site in Ballsbridge has been in the spotlight for years, since it was sold to controversial developer Sean Dunne in 2005 for €240million. He had planned to turn the area into Dublin's version of Knightsbridge, but it never happened due to the objections of locals.
Then in 2008, the property bubble burst. It was seven years before land developer Joe O'Reilly's Chartered Land acquired the site after doing a deal with Dunne's lender Ulster Bank.
Lansdowne Place is one of the most expensive apartment complexes in the country, with units selling for up to €6.5million. Residents include rocker Rod Stewart, who owns one of the penthouses.
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Dublin City Council has confirmed that permission has been granted to divide and secure the site.
A spokesperson said: '(Permission has been granted) for the construction of a new boundary treatment between the existing Lansdowne Place development and the existing adjacent hotel comprising a low wall with railing, so as to define the boundary of the separate Lansdowne Place development.
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How blockchain will influence open source
Interactions between users and developers via smart contracts will give new power to open source.
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What Satoshi Nakamoto started as Bitcoin a decade ago has found a lot of followers and turned into a movement for decentralization. For some, blockchain technology is a religion that will have the same impact on humanity as the Internet has had. For others, it is hype and technology suitable only for Ponzi schemes. While blockchain is still evolving and trying to find its place, one thing is for sure: It is a disruptive technology that will fundamentally transform certain industries. And I'm betting open source will be one of them.
The open source model
Open source is a collaborative software development and distribution model that allows people with common interests to gather and produce something that no individual can create on their own. It allows the creation of value that is bigger than the sum of its parts. Open source is enabled by distributed collaboration tools (IRC, email, git, wiki, issue trackers, etc.), distributed and protected by an open source licensing model and often governed by software foundations such as the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), etc.
One interesting aspect of the open source model is the lack of financial incentives in its core. Some people believe open source work should remain detached from money and remain a free and voluntary activity driven only by intrinsic motivators (such as "common purpose" and "for the greater good"). Others believe open source work should be rewarded directly or indirectly through extrinsic motivators (such as financial incentive). While the idea of open source projects prospering only through voluntary contributions is romantic, in reality, the majority of open source contributions are done through paid development. Yes, we have a lot of voluntary contributions, but these are on a temporary basis from contributors who come and go, or for exceptionally popular projects while they are at their peak. Creating and sustaining open source projects that are useful for enterprises requires developing, documenting, testing, and bug-fixing for prolonged periods, even when the software is no longer shiny and exciting. It is a boring activity that is best motivated through financial incentives.
Commercial open source
Software foundations such as ASF survive on donations and other income streams such as sponsorships, conference fees, etc. But those funds are primarily used to run the foundations, to provide legal protection for the projects, and to ensure there are enough servers to run builds, issue trackers, mailing lists, etc.
Similarly, CNCF has member fees and other income streams, which are used to run the foundation and provide resources for the projects. These days, most software is not built on laptops; it is run and tested on hundreds of machines on the cloud, and that requires money. Creating marketing campaigns, brand designs, distributing stickers, etc. takes money, and some foundations can assist with that as well. At its core, foundations implement the right processes to interact with users, developers, and control mechanisms and ensure distribution of available financial resources to open source projects for the common good.
If users of open source projects can donate money and the foundations can distribute it in a fair way, what is missing?
What is missing is a direct, transparent, trusted, decentralized, automated bidirectional link for transfer of value between the open source producers and the open source consumer. Currently, the link is either unidirectional or indirect:
Unidirectional: A developer (think of a "developer" as any role that is involved in the production, maintenance, and distribution of software) can use their brain juice and devote time to do a contribution and share that value with all open source users. But there is no reverse link.
Indirect: If there is a bug that affects a specific user/company, the options are:
To have in-house developers to fix the bug and do a pull request. That is ideal, but it not always possible to hire in-house developers who are knowledgeable about hundreds of open source projects used daily.
To hire a freelancer specializing in that specific open source project and pay for the services. Ideally, the freelancer is also a committer for the open source project and can directly change the project code quickly. Otherwise, the fix might not ever make it to the project.
To approach a company providing services around the open source project. Such companies typically employ open source committers to influence and gain credibility in the community and offer products, expertise, and professional services.
The third option has been a successful model for sustaining many open source projects. Whether they provide services (training, consulting, workshops), support, packaging, open core, or SaaS, there are companies that employ hundreds of staff members who work on open source full time. There is a long list of companies that have managed to build a successful open source business model over the years, and that list is growing steadily.
The companies that back open source projects play an important role in the ecosystem: They are the catalyst between the open source projects and the users. The ones that add real value do more than just package software nicely; they can identify user needs and technology trends, and they create a full stack and even an ecosystem of open source projects to address these needs. They can take a boring project and support it for years. If there is a missing piece in the stack, they can start an open source project from scratch and build a community around it. They can acquire a closed source software company and open source the projects (here I got a little carried away, but yes, I'm talking about my employer, Red Hat).
To summarize, with the commercial open source model, projects are officially or unofficially managed and controlled by a very few individuals or companies that monetize them and give back to the ecosystem by ensuring the project is successful. It is a win-win-win for open source developers, managing companies, and end users. The alternative is inactive projects and expensive closed source software.
Self-sustaining, decentralized open source
For a project to become part of a reputable foundation, it must conform to certain criteria. For example, ASF and CNCF require incubation and graduation processes, respectively, where apart from all the technical and formal requirements, a project must have a healthy number of active committer and users. And that is the essence of forming a sustainable open source project. Having source code on GitHub is not the same thing as having an active open source project. The latter requires committers who write the code and users who use the code, with both groups enforcing each other continuously by exchanging value and forming an ecosystem where everybody benefits. Some project ecosystems might be tiny and short-lived, and some may consist of multiple projects and competing service providers, with very complex interactions lasting for many years. But as long as there is an exchange of value and everybody benefits from it, the project is developed, maintained, and sustained.
If you look at ASF Attic, you will find projects that have reached their end of life. When a project is no longer technologically fit for its purpose, it is usually its natural end. Similarly, in the ASF Incubator, you will find tons of projects that never graduated but were instead retired. Typically, these projects were not able to build a large enough community because they are too specialized or there are better alternatives available.
But there are also cases where projects with high potential and superior technology cannot sustain themselves because they cannot form or maintain a functioning ecosystem for the exchange of value. The open source model and the foundations do not provide a framework and mechanisms for developers to get paid for their work or for users to get their requests heard. There isn't a common value commitment framework for either party. As a result, some projects can sustain themselves only in the context of commercial open source, where a company acts as an intermediary and value adder between developers and users. That adds another constraint and requires a service provider company to sustain some open source projects. Ideally, users should be able to express their interest in a project and developers should be able to show their commitment to the project in a transparent and measurable way, which forms a community with common interest and intent for the exchange of value.
Imagine there is a model with mechanisms and tools that enable direct interaction between open source users and developers. This includes not only code contributions through pull requests, questions over the mailing lists, GitHub stars, and stickers on laptops, but also other ways that allow users to influence projects' destinies in a richer, more self-controlled and transparent manner.
This model could include incentives for actions such as:
Funding open source projects directly rather than through software foundations
Influencing the direction of projects through voting (by token holders)
Feature requests driven by user needs
On-time pull request merges
Bounties for bug hunts
Better test coverage incentives
Up-to-date documentation rewards
Long-term support guarantees
Timely security fixes
Expert assistance, support, and services
Budget for evangelism and promotion of the projects
Budget for regular boring activities
Fast email and chat assistance
Full visibility of the overall project findings, etc.
If you haven't guessed, I'm talking about using blockchain and smart contracts to allow such interactions between users and developers—smart contracts that will give power to the hand of token holders to influence projects.
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The usage of blockchain in the open source ecosystem
Existing channels in the open source ecosystem provide ways for users to influence projects through financial commitments to service providers or other limited means through the foundations. But the addition of blockchain-based technology to the open source ecosystem could open new channels for interaction between users and developers. I'm not saying this will replace the commercial open source model; most companies working with open source do many things that cannot be replaced by smart contracts. But smart contracts can spark a new way of bootstrapping new open source projects, giving a second life to commodity projects that are a burden to maintain. They can motivate developers to apply boring pull requests, write documentation, get tests to pass, etc., providing a direct value exchange channel between users and open source developers. Blockchain can add new channels to help open source projects grow and become self-sustaining in the long term, even when company backing is not feasible. It can create a new complementary model for self-sustaining open source projects—a win-win.
Tokenizing open source
There are already a number of initiatives aiming to tokenize open source. Some focus only on an open source model, and some are more generic but apply to open source development as well:
Gitcoin - grow open source, one of the most promising ones in this area.
Oscoin - cryptocurrency for open source
Open collective - a platform for supporting open source projects.
FundYourselfNow - Kickstarter and ICOs for projects.
Kauri - support for open source project documentation.
Liberapay - a recurrent donations platform.
FundRequest - a decentralized marketplace for open source collaboration.
CanYa - recently acquired Bountysource, now the world's largest open source P2P bounty platform.
OpenGift - a new model for open source monetization.
Hacken - a white hat token for hackers.
Coinlancer - a decentralized job market.
CodeFund - an open source ad platform.
IssueHunt - a funding platform for open source maintainers and contributors.
District0x 1Hive - a crowdfunding and curation platform.
District0x Fixit - github bug bounties.
This list is varied and growing rapidly. Some of these projects will disappear, others will pivot, but a few will emerge as the SourceForge, the ASF, the GitHub of the future. That doesn't necessarily mean they'll replace these platforms, but they'll complement them with token models and create a richer open source ecosystem. Every project can pick its distribution model (license), governing model (foundation), and incentive model (token). In all cases, this will pump fresh blood to the open source world.
The future is open and decentralized
Software is eating the world.
Every company is a software company.
Open source is where innovation happens.
Given that, it is clear that open source is too big to fail and too important to be controlled by a few or left to its own destiny. Open source is a shared-resource system that has value to all, and more importantly, it must be managed as such. It is only a matter of time until every company on earth will want to have a stake and a say in the open source world. Unfortunately, we don't have the tools and the habits to do it yet. Such tools would allow anybody to show their appreciation or ignorance of software projects. It would create a direct and faster feedback loop between producers and consumers, between developers and users. It will foster innovation—innovation driven by user needs and expressed through token metrics.
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The cast of HBO's live-action adaptation of the Playstation game, The Last of Us, continues to grow.
Speaking to The Guardian, actor Murray Bartlett (Frank) name-dropped Offerman, who wasn't a previously known member of the cast. "It's co-created by Craig Mazin, who did Chernobyl. The scripts he's written blew my head off. It's an epic show, but beautifully human and intimate. We filmed it in Calgary," said Bartlett "A lot of my scenes are with Nick Offerman. Playing off him was awesome."
While he didn't say who Offerman was set to play, if Bartlett himself is playing Frank it seems very likely that Offerman will take the role of Bill, a major character from the game that helps Joel and Ellie. We'll have to wait for official confirmation from HBO to really see, however.
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Despite TDP winning Nandyal bypoll, Brahmananda Reddy can still be disqualified
/ Aug 29 2017
According to sources close to Mr Reddy, Mr Kishor's team had predicted a 6,000-vote victory for YSRC candidate Shilpa Mohan Reddy over TD candidate Bhuma Brahmananda Reddy . Nandyal By Elections were held on 23rd August. YSRCP has been successfully ousted from the competition at Nandyal bye elections. Silpa Chandra Mohan Reddy was a TDP rebel who quit the party on June 13 and joined YSRCP, just before the bypoll date was announced.
It's a mandate for development: Andhra CM on bypoll victory
Accusing the ruling party of misusing the power, Jagan said that YSRCP had to take a step back because TDP retorted forcefully by not only spending 200 crore rupees just for one byelection but also deploying its cabinet in Nandyal . The government polytechnic college in the norms is counting in 19 rounds of 14 tables. As per present trends TDP going to win in huge for sure. Nandyal By Elections were held on 23rd August.
Ruling parties hold their ground in assembly bypolls
Bypolls to Nandyal Assembly constituency of Andhra Pradesh and two seats in Goa witnessed a high turnout percentage of over 70 while only 45 per cent voters exercised their franchise in Delhi's lone seat of Bawana. "It's a repeat of the 2012 Assembly elections ", Mr Parrikar said soon after the result was declared. The by-election was held following the demise of TDP MLA Bhuma Nagi Reddy in March.
CBS to Acquire Struggling Australian Broadcaster Ten Network
Neither party disclosed details of the deal, but analysts and local media valued Ten at A$200-million to A$250-million (124.16 million pounds to 155.20 million pounds). The CBS Corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with a current market capitalisation of about U.S. $28 billion. CBS Corporation is buying Australia's Ten Network .
Guatemala's president plunges into constitutional crisis
Morales released another video at midafternoon affirming his decision to boot Velasquez. Although right leaning Morales was elected in 2016 on an anti-corruption ticket, his popularity among the country's 16 million populous nosedived after he faced accusations of receiving some $800,000 (670,000 euros) in unexplained contributions to his campaign.
Nitish's JD(U) to seek Sharad Yadav's disqualification as Rajya Sabha MP
He further predicted victory for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led-BJP Government in the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Rajya Sabha membership of former MPs like Capt. The Political heavyweights like Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav, Trinamool Congress supremo and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav will also be seen at the event.


Just to be clear, it was a long, long time ago. The fatal wound took place in the Reagan era. What we're observing now is not even the death throes. It just took some of us longer than others to realize we were dealing with a corpse. L'Affaire Salaita, if nothing else, laid that truth bare.
A certain forensic fascination remains in picking through FOIA-ed emails, the way we close-read tweets last summer. Was Salaita subject to procedural irregularities? Yup--procedures are, as a result, being altered to it easier for those outside the faculty chain of shared governance to intervene when necessary. Did administrators lie? YES! They lied. Will we be censured for their malfeasance? The official decision still lies a few weeks away, but it looks like, yes, we will be censured. Does anyone care?
Well, that's the thing. Some people care very much. They read my blog and my live-tweeting/facebooking of the relevant meetings. They ask the probing questions at these events, they make their anger known, they speak to colleagues elsewhere who decry what is happening here.
They attended last month/s IPRH event to discuss the likelihood of AAUP censure and they were eloquent in their shock and dismay.
They asked trenchant questions at the first Town Hall with the new University of Illinois President, Timothy Killeen, and they elicited stirring boilerplate from him about the centrality of the arts and letters and the importance of academic freedom (even if the real questions remained unanswered).
What becomes increasingly clear, however, is that none of this matters. There may have been a time when these stalwart voices from the liberal arts lay at the core of the university's purpose and mission, but that time is long past. All year the administration has granted us, and we have supplied ourselves with, echo chambers in which to hear ourselves amplify our outdated convictions about our significance--senate meetings, academic freedom symposia, town halls, colloquiums, meetings. Over and over we've seen representatives of the administration--Chancellor Wise, most notably, but also, at the IPRH symposium on AAUP censure, the outgoing academic senate chair, Roy Campbell--nurture our illusions by allowing us to vent our impotent rage at them.
Meanwhile the real work of the university, the grantsmanship, the corporate partnerships, the entrepreneurial endeavors, the channeling of state funds into lucrative endeavors, goes on.
What happens next? I don't know. But a meaningful answer that changes things can only come from us.


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What we know so far about submissions on the Jury issue
FAIR submission to MAG Consult on Civil Juries June 15 2020
OTLA Submission to MAG on Civil Juries
Rastin Letter to MAG re civil juries June 15, 2020
Access to Justice Group Elimination of Civil Juries
Patrick Brown, McLeish Orlando LLP Submission May 29 2020 re changes to jury system and covid
Canadian Defence Lawyers https://issuu.com/enzadel/docs/submission_re_civil_juries_cdl
Zarek, Taylor, Grossman, Hanrahan http://ztgh.com/system/frame/posts/pdfs/000/001/397/original/Zarek_Taylor_Grossman_Hanrahan_-Submissions_on_Civil_Jury_Trials_dated_June_15__2020.pdf?1592247977
Legal community given until June 15 to provide input as Ontario considers eliminating civil-jury trials https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-legal-community-given-until-june-15-to-provide-input-as-ontario/
IT IS TIME TO ABOLISH JURY TRIALS IN CIVIL MATTERS https://www.mcleishorlando.com/blog/it-is-time-to-abolish-jury-trials-in-civil-matters/
Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey should not be rushing to axe civil juries, FOLA warns https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/litigation/ontario-attorney-general-doug-downey-should-not-be-rushing-to-axe-civil-juries-fola-warns/330582?utm_source=GA&utm_medium=20200617&utm_campaign=Newsletter-20200617&utm_content=AE1FF389-FA2E-4B96-8FEA-FEEF64C1AAE4&tu=AE1FF389-FA2E-4B96-8FEA-FEEF64C1AAE4
Ontario considers scrapping civil jury trials to deal with courts backlog https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/ontario-considers-scrapping-civil-jury-trials-to-deal-with-courts-backlog
The use of credit reports in Ontario's car accident injury claims and what PIPEDA said
The Personal Insurance Co. Privacy Breach Class Action
This proposed breach of privacy class action is brought in Federal Court on behalf of all persons resident in Canada who made insurance claims under their automobile insurance policies with The Personal Insurance Company between January 18, 2012 and February 8, 2018, and who had their credit score information accessed by The Personal or its agents. http://waddellphillips.ca/class-actions/the-personal-privacy-class-action/
FAIR response to Brian Mills June 6 2017 re use of credit reports in claims
Letter from FSCO regarding PIPEDA and use of credit reports in injury claims
FAIR letter to Brian Mills April 28 2017 re use of credit reports in claims
The PIPEDA report http://www.fairassociation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Office-of-Privacy-Commissioner-of-Canada-report-re-use-of-credit-scores-in-auto-claims-handling.compressed.pdf
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (PIPEDA) http://www.fairassociation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Letter-from-Office-of-Privacy-Commissioner-of-Canada-re-use-of-credit-information-in-auto-insurance-claims.pdf
What the federal privacy watchdog did after an insurer pried into crash victim's credit rating/National Post http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/insurer-violated-crash-victims-rights-by-accessing-his-credit-score-federal-watchdog-rules
Calgary interview on 770 Newstalk with Rhona DesRoches about use of personal information and credit reports in claims adjusting to air on Monday, March 3, 2017 http://www.newstalk770.com/
Breach of Privacy: "Psychological Battery" and 'intrusion upon seclusion' http://www.litigate.com/breach-of-privacy-psychological-battery
Petition for Inquiry into Medical Evidence in our courts
Link to: Inquiry into Medical Evidence petition
FAIR has put together a paper version of the petition calling for a Public Inquiry into the medical evidence used in our courts and administrative tribunals. It is the same as the one we have asked you to sign online.
The Ontario Legislature ONLY accepts ORIGINAL petitions, on paper, with 'hand signed' signatures. There are strict rules for petitions so NDP MPP Jagmeet Singh's office has generously agreed to receive the paper petition in his office and present it at Queen's Park.
If you or a loved one were injured in an auto accident, at work or elsewhere wouldn't you want an honest, unbiased and qualified medical opinion/report of your injuries? That's just not happening in Ontario for injured and disabled individuals who make a claim for benefits through their private or public insurers. What if it was your fault that something happens to someone else? You'd want them to have the best chance at recovery wouldn't you?
Please print, sign and circulate the petition because quality and qualified medical evidence shouldn't be something we need – it should be something we already have because there is no real justice without it.
Make a copy and mail the ORIGINAL copies to: MPP Jagmeet Singh, Room 172 Main Legislative Building, Queen's Park 111 Wellesley St. Toronto, ON M7A 1A5
Thanks for being part of the collective voice needed for change!
Other On-line petition: https://www.change.org/p/the-legislative-assembly-of-ontario-support-a-public-inquiry-into-medical-evidence-in-ontario-s-courts-and-tribunals (these signatures are also important to make our point elsewhere and it gives those on-line the power and opportunity to use their voice)
Astounding – applications for hearings at FSCO up to March 31 2016
FSCO Mediation filed in Feb/March (compared to earlier figures that incl Jan 2016) 10,961 application (+ 2742 in Jan)
FSCO Arbitration filed in Feb/March (compared to earlier figures that incl Jan 2016) 4,206 applications (+737 in Jan)
FSCO Total med/arb from Jan to March 31 2016 = 18,646
FSCO Total open files cases pending to March 31 2016 = 26,623
Med-Arb-Timelines 2007-Mar 2016
Copy of Med-Arb-Timelines 2007-Jan 2016
AABS Statistics
Automobile Accident Benefits Service – Statistics
April 2016 May 1 – May 12, 2016
# of Applications received 137 112
# of Case Conferences scheduled 0 29
# of Case Conferences conducted 0 0
# of Hearings conducted 0 0
Recognition of bias of Ontario IME provider in our courts
http://canlii.ca/t/gpqm3
Positions of the Parties
[4] The plaintiff's position is two-fold. Firstly, the plaintiff submits that the defendant is not entitled to an independent medical examination by a psychiatrist as the plaintiff was never treated by a psychiatrist and because there is insufficient evidence of why an assessment by a psychiatrist is warranted. The plaintiff asks that the motion be dismissed. Secondly, the plaintiff submits that Dr. Monte Bail, the psychiatrist chosen by the defendants, has demonstrated such clear and definitive defense bias in many previous cases that the court should decline to make any order allowing any independent medical examination by Dr. Monte Bail in particular.
[5] The defendants' position is that they can decide what speciality of medical doctor they wish to have examine the plaintiff. The defendants submit that to properly defend the claim, they need to provide opinion evidence as to the plaintiff's depression and mental health–related injuries from a psychiatrist and that they can select any qualified psychiatrist of their choice. Dr. Monte Bail is the psychiatrist of choice selected by Mr. Todd McCarthy, trial counsel for the defendants, in spite of objections raised by the plaintiff as to previous findings that Dr. Bail was not credible and failed to honour his written undertaking to the court in Rule 4.1.01. The defendants ask that the motion be granted. A tentative date for the examination by Dr. Bail has been booked for May 30, 2016.
[26] While it is unnecessary for me to decide the second issue of the relief requested by the plaintiff—namely, whether to not allow Dr. Monte Bail to conduct a defense psychiatric examination due to his failure to adhere to the principles of fairness, objectiveness and impartiality and his defense bias—I make the following observations and comments by way of obiter dicta. I find the plaintiff's argument on this issue compelling. Rule 4.1.01 makes it clear that an expert's duty to the court prevails over any obligation owed by the expert to a party. The Supreme Court of Canada has held that an expert witness who is unable or unwilling to comply is not qualified to give expert opinion evidence and should not be permitted to do so. (See White Burgess Langille Inman v. Abbott and Haliburton Co., 2015 SCC 23 (CanLII), [2015] 2 S.C.R. 182).
[27] When an expert and that expert's report is notably partisan, acts as judge and jury, advocates for the insurer rather than being impartial, is not credible, and fails to honour the undertaking to the court to be fair, objective, and non-partisan, it directly affects a party's right to a fair trial.
[28] Kane J. in Bruff-Murphy v. Gunawardena, 2016 ONSC 7 (CanLII), held that Dr. Bail was not a credible witness and that he failed to honour his obligation and written undertaking to be fair, objective and non-partisan pursuant to Rule 4.1.01 (see paras. 53-125). He did not meet the requirements under Rule 53.03. Justice Kane found that Dr. Bail's report and testimony was not of a psychiatric nature but was presented under the guise of expert medical testimony and the common initial presumption that a member of the medical profession will be objective and tell the truth. He further held that the purpose of Rule 4.1.01 is to prohibit and prevent such testimony in the guise of an expert, and that "Dr. Bail undertook and thereby promised to not do what he did in front of this jury." Importantly, Justice Kane held that, "I will not qualify witnesses as experts in the future whose reports present an approach similar to that of Dr. Bail in this case."
[29] Additional critical findings in relation to Dr. Bail can be found in Gordon v. Greig (2007), 46 C.C.L.T. (3d) 212 (Ont. S.C.J.), at paras. 43-48;Sidhu v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 2014 CarswellOnt 18595 (F.S.C.O. Arb.), at para. 68; Sohi v. ING Insurance Co. of Canada, 2004 CarswellOnt 3236 (F.S.C.O. Arb.), at paras. 35-41; Gabremichael v. Zurich Insurance Co., 1999 CarswellOnt 4480 (F.S.C.O. Arb.), at para. 132; and Rocca v. AXA Insurance (Canada), 1999 CarswellOnt 5506 (F.S.C.O. Arb.), at para. 66.
[30] The recent changes to the Rules to require experts to undertake to the court to be fair, objective, and non-partisan has done little if anything to curb the use of certain favoured biased "hired guns" by the parties. The consequences of an expert signing the undertaking and failing to honour their obligation in their expert report or evidence is simply the rebuke of the court. This does nothing to prevent that same expert from being further retained and repeating the process over again in other trials as long as trial counsel are willing to retain them.
[31] Rule 33.02 provides that the court shall name the health practitioner by whom the independent medical examination is to be conducted. It could be argued that the court, in the exercise of its discretion, should therefore consider and determine in appropriate cases whether or not the proposed named health practitioner is biased in favour of a party on the balance of probabilities and therefore fails to qualify as an expert under Rule 4.1.01. The court's discretion would therefore include the discretion not to name a particular health practitioner if that health practicioner fails to meet the criteria set out inRule 4.1.01 on the basis of bias. While it would be uncommon to find an expert biased and impartial, such an expert so found should not be allowed to have any role in the court process.
[32] Considering the highly intrusive nature of these independent medical assessments, and the serious issue of ensuring a fair trial, the plaintiff's argument to deny the right to have an expert that has been found to be biased conduct the assessment in the first place is worthy of consideration in appropriate circumstances considering the potential for a miscarriage of justice that can be caused by such an expert biased in favour of one party, particularly in front of a jury.
[33] As the defendants have failed to establish that they are entitled to an independent medical examination to be conducted by a psychiatrist, the motion is dismissed. Costs of the motion are reserved.
[34] If counsel are unable to agree on costs, I will receive brief written submissions on or before May 31, 2016. Thereafter, I will determine the issue of costs based on the materials filed.
Also see: http://www.fairassociation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Bail-Monte-Psychiatrist.pdf
Canada Social Report Social Assistance Summaries, Ontario, 2015 Published March 2016
In 2014-15
894,954 individuals were dependent on Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program
http://www.canadasocialreport.ca/SocialAssistanceSummaries/ON.pdf
Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) Rules of Practice and Procedure, Version 1 (April 1, 2016)
LAT adjudicates matters in a variety of diverse areas such as alcohol and gaming regulation, motor vehicle impoundments and driver's licences, new home warranties, consumer protection, regulation of various occupations and businesses, and starting on April 1, 2016, in relation to automobile insurance Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS) disputes.
Information about LAT's Automobile Accident Benefits Service (AABS) is available here: www.slasto.gov.on.ca/en/AABS
2.3 "AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT BENEFITS SERVICE (AABS) CLAIM" "Automobile Accident Benefits Service (AABS) Claim" means an application to the Tribunal pursuant to s. 280(2) of the Insurance Act seeking resolution of a dispute involving statutory accident benefits.
2.23 "STATUTORY ACCIDENT BENEFITS SCHEDULE (SABS)" "SABS" means the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule, Ontario Regulation 34/10 (Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule—Effective September 1, 2010), made under the Insurance Act, as revised from time to time, or a previous version of the SABS.
INFO: http://ow.ly/103AM9
FAIR submission to CPSO re transparency
For many auto accident victims their biggest obstacle to recovery is the CPSO members who are the third party vendors of medical opinion evidence for Ontario's auto insurers. Whether it is auto insurance MVA claims, WSIB claims, Long Term Disability claims or Canada Pension Plan Disability claims, what Ontario's medical opinion 'experts' say in their reports and testimony can have a profoundly negative effect on recovery outcomes for very seriously injured individuals.
FAIR submission to the Proposed By-Law Amendment Posting of Quality Assurance Committee SCERPs Feb 10 2016
Automobile Insurance Dispute Resolution System Transformation Project Update – November 26, 2015
Safety, Licensing Appeals and Standards Tribunals Ontario (SLASTO) is providing regular updates about the transformation of the Auto Insurance Dispute Resolution System (AIDRS) and its transition from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) to the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT).
The new system at LAT will begin accepting applications on April 1, 2016. The LAT AIDRS will be streamlined to a single direct review and hearing process in front of an independent adjudicative tribunal.
http://www.slasto.gov.on.ca/en/Documents/What%20New-EN/AIDRS%20Project%20Update%20%20-%20Draft%20-%20EN.htm
Ontario's Shame and Scandal – how the injured and disabled are punished by government policy
Victim's group calls for the Auditor General and the Ontario Ombudsman to investigate what is happening to Ontario's injured and disabled citizens
TORONTO, November 17, 2015 PRESS RELEASE – Ontario auto insurers are poised to make higher profits on the backs of Ontario's disabled and injured MVA victims in 2016 while continuing to build up the provincial deficit by downloading the expense of victims to the taxpayers. Recently passed legislation means that coverage for the most injured MVA victims will be cut in half.
In October Ontario's over 9 million drivers learned through the Lazar Prisman Report that they had been overcharged for auto insurance and likely overpaid by $1.5 billion in the last two years alone.
In recent weeks we learned just how challenging recovery is and how poorly the WSIB injured workers are treated in the Prescription Over-Ruled: Report on How Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Systematically Ignores the Advice of Medical Professionals. Press release Nov 2016 Ontario's Shame and Scandal – how the injured and disabled are punished by government policy