Taceo software promises to help small businesses secure e-mail and protect against loss of trade secrets.
Essential Security Software plans to announce on Monday the release of Taceo, an e-mail encryption and rights-management product aimed at small businesses. Taceo lets users encrypt e-mail and restrict the recipient by blocking the ability to print, forward, take screenshots or cut information to the clipboard, Essential said in a statement. An e-mail can also be set to be unreadable until a certain date and time, or set to expire.
The Taceo client software costs $34.95 per year; a free version is available to view Taceo protected e-mail. Taceo does not require server software. Initially, the client is available only for Microsoft Outlook on Windows PCs. Versions that work with Mac OS X, Outlook Express and Hotmail are planned for the first quarter of next year. Essential plans to support Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client and Yahoo Mail by the third quarter next year and has a Windows Mobile version planned for 2007, the company said. Essential faces competition from PGP, Microsoft and others.


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President Obama is honoring Michael Sam, who on Saturday became the first openly gay player to be drafted by a National Football League team after the St. Louis Rams picked him in the seventh round. "The
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President Obama is honoring Michael Sam, who on Saturday became the first openly gay player to be drafted by a pro football team after the St. Louis Rams picked him in the seventh round.
"The President congratulates Michael Sam, the Rams and the NFL for taking an important step forward in our Nation's journey," said a White House statement.
"From the playing field to the corporate boardroom, LGBT Americans prove everyday that you should be judged by what you do and not who you are," said the White House of Sam, an award-winning defense end who played at the University of Missouri.
CNN notes that Sam was the 249th of 256 players selected in this year's National Football League draft:
"The 24-year-old got the news by telephone from Rams' coach Jeff Fisher, who told Sam: 'You are a Ram. The wait is finally over.'
"Sam, who was filmed by ESPN as he got the call, broke down in tears and kissed his boyfriend. 'Thank you,' he could be heard saying to Fisher.
"Later, Sam took to Twitter to post a picture of himself, smiling. 'Thank you to the St. Louis Rams and the whole city of St. Louis,' he said in the post. 'I'm using every (ounce) of this to achieve greatness!!'"
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Tense and uncompromising, A SINGLE SHOT is a bravura showcase for Sam Rockwell as a hunter who makes a series of fatal mistakes.
A Single Shot brings together a wealth of indie stalwarts, including Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Melissa Leo and Jeffrey Wright.
Check out the red band trailer for Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Seven Psychopaths. I can not think of a better cast for an upcoming film. Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, OlgaKurylenko, and Zeljko Ivanek star in the film which follows a struggling screenwriter who gets drawn into a very strange world of dog kidnapping by his two friends.
Seven Psychopaths, the new film from the director of In Bruges Martin McDonagh, has received its first trailer. A dark comedy set in the twisted world of dog kidnapping, the director's sophomore feature will star Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson among its star-studded ensemble.


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Professor Jivan Astfalck PhD
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Elizabeth Callinicos MA(RCA)
Professor Jack Cunningham PhD
Andreas Fabian MA(RCA)
Chris Knight MA(RCA) FRSA
Dr Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill
Laura Potter MA
Jessica Turrell MA
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Jivan Astfalck's artistic research activities focus on wearable and decorative objects, which exist outside the margins of a recognised design culture, signified by a continuous dynamic of rediscovery, recycling of meaning and appropriation. These objects resonate with intimacy and passionate investment, rather than a functional design agenda. It is body adornment that exists in stark contrast to the overwhelming standardisation generated by mechanised commodity production, a 'folk-art' of our own culture.
The relationship between the finding, collecting and conceptualising of marginalized artefacts and their meaning is explored within the area of metaphorical symbolisation. Jivan is interested in jewellery pieces that map out the demarcation lines, where body meets world, a place, or idea of a place, where narratives are invested in objects with the aim to negotiate that gap, complexity, confusion or conflict in relation to private and subjective mental experience.
There is a correlation between literature and creative activity. The love of reading complicated literature and continental philosophy has over an elongated period of time enabled a pattern to evolve. By isolating ideas and voices verbalised in literature and pitching against other often conflicting ones is like a kaleidoscope. You throw them around and they make a pattern, a new pattern, often more eloquent. These groups of ideas over time became her thesis.
'The made objects have features beyond material and aesthetic values; there is meaning that comes out of an analytical and reflective process, but the unverifiable and intuitive process that happens at a subconscious level must not be messed with.''A large number of my jewellery pieces, especially in the early part of my research, exemplify my intension to create narrative jewellery pieces, which informed by my readings on metaphor, aim to do in material what Ricoeur explores in written text.'1
1. Astfalck, Jivan, Narrative Structures in Body Related Crafts Objects, PhD Thesis, University of Arts, London, March 2007, pp 15.
Jivan Astfalck is a visual artist, jeweller and academic. Born in Berlin, where she was trained as a goldsmith, she has been living in London for more than 20 years. She obtained her MA in the History and Theory of Modern Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design and her PhD in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London. Dr Astfalck is now Professor at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University and combines her studio practice, which she exhibits internationally, with teaching as the MA Course Director in Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Product. Her main focus and research interest is in using hermeneutic philosophy, literary theory and other appropriate thought models as tools to investigate narrative structures embedded in body related crafts objects. In her view, the convergence of crafts, design and fine art practices is conductive to extending the theoretical vocabulary and map out new territories where crafts practices contribute to cultural production and dissemination.
Her publications and conference contributions include
TableManners, TR11/01, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 2011; Traditional craft: manufactured nostalgia or grass-root resistance?, The Journal of Modern Crafts' (online), Murray, K. (ed.), 2009; Lifelines, in 'The International Journal of the Arts in Society', volume 3, number 1, 2008; Difference and Resemblance in 'Six Views on a Practice in Change', Crafts In Dialogue-IASPIS, Stockholm, 2005; Whose Jewellery is it anyway? in 'Challenging Crafts', The Robert Gordon University, 2004
Commissions include
The Sting of Passion, Manchester Arts Galleries, 2009; Going Places, for Architecture Week and New Generation Art (NGA), Birmingham UK, 2007; I-con, for Forum für Schmuck und Design, Germany, 2005; Hide, for 'Self,' touring, Craftspace & Angel Row Gallery & Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, UK, 2004; On Memory and Loss, for 'Acknowledged Sources' exhibition project, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, UK, 2001


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Security increased as Stephenville preps for American Sniper trial
Authorities in Stephenville are amping up security around the Erath County Justice Center in preparation for the start of the "American Sniper murder trial".
Jury selection resumes on Monday for the man accused of killing Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield.
The trial's tight security is getting tighter as crews put up barricades around the perimeter of the courthouse on Saturday.
The well-publicized case is expected to draw attention from across the country, especially after "American Sniper," a movie based on Chris Kyle's time as a sniper came out in December.
Before anyone is allowed into the courthouse Monday, they'll have to go through metal detectors, have their bags inspected and leave their cell phones behind.
While the security measures may not be ideal, residents say they're necessary.
Two streets are blocked off next to the courthouse with officers at each corner and new security cameras have also been installed.
On Monday 263 potential jurors will move on to the second round of the trial's jury selection. The judge wants jury selection to end by Tuesday and the trial to start Wednesday.
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Ojciec Paneloux – bohater Dżumy Alberta Camusa, mieszkaniec owładniętego epidemią algierskiego miasta Oranu, uczony, ortodoksyjny jezuita. Współpracownik biuletynu Towarzystwa Geograficznego Oranu, w którym zamieszczał rekonstrukcje epigraficzne. Autor serii odczytów o nowoczesnym indywidualizmie.

W utworze jest przedstawiony jako zakonnik średniego wzrostu, krępy, z rumieńcami na twarzy i stalowymi okrągłymi okularami, ma dar oratorski, mocny głos zdolny przykuć uwagę słuchaczy. Cieszy się autorytetem nawet wśród niewierzących. W zakonie poważany, za pracę na temat filozofii św. Augustyna i Kościoła afrykańskiego. W czasie dżumy przeniósł się do mieszkania staruszki, która nie okazywała mu szacunku, zrażona jego lekceważącym stosunkiem do przepowiedni św. Otylii. Było to wkrótce po przemianie wewnętrznej bohatera, niedługo przed jego śmiercią.

Poglądy
Bohater przeżywa ewolucję poglądów, które wyraża w swoich dwóch kazaniach.

Pierwsze kazanie

Okoliczności
Uroczysta niedzielna msza do Świętego Rocha kończąca tydzień wspólnych modlitw zorganizowany przez władze kościelne w pierwszym miesiącu dżumy, odprawiona w katedrze przy pełnym audytorium. Rzęsisty deszcz potęgował nastrój grozy i strachu.

Poglądy
Dżuma to kara za grzechy, zesłana przez Boga na ludzi w celu ich nawrócenia. Bóg nie jest źródłem zła, ale odwraca się od człowieka zasmucony jego niegodziwością. Człowiek to grzesznik, który nadużywa Bożej miłości, powinien przyjąć karę, jaką jest choroba w pokorze, i nie buntować się. Sprawiedliwi zostaną ocaleni, natomiast źli nie unikną kary. Wszyscy jednak mają powód do radości, gdyż dżuma pomoże im osiągnąć nieśmiertelność.

Ojciec Paneloux dystansował się od odbiorców, mówił tonem oskarżycielskim, używał oratorskiego stylu i obrazowego języka, motywów apokaliptycznych (np. dobry i zły anioł porównany do Lucyfera, sąd nad ludźmi, światło i ciemność). Upersonifikowany wizerunek choroby (postać z maczugą w dłoni unosząca się nad miastem, szerząca śmierć i cierpienie) przypomina obraz Arnolda Böcklina "Plaga".

Sytuacja graniczna
Zmianę nastawienia do dżumy wywołał wstrząs psychiczny spowodowany obserwowaniem śmierci dziecka: syna pana Othona (Filipa). Ojciec Paneloux po tym doświadczeniu wstąpił do formacji drużyn sanitarnych. Zamanifestował w ten sposób bunt przeciwko zarazie, potrzebę aktywnej działalności w służbie drugiemu człowiekowi i współczucie dla cierpiących.

Drugie kazanie

Okoliczności
Ojciec Paneloux wygłosił kazania z własnej inicjatywy w tym samym miejscu, co poprzednio. Swoją mowę przygotował na podstawie własnej rozprawy na temat: "Czy kapłan może radzić się lekarza", skierował ją do mężczyzn. Mszy towarzyszył silny wiatr.

Poglądy
Dżuma to zło, które dotyczy wszystkich, nie tylko grzeszników. Bóg zezwala na cierpienie w sobie tylko wiadomym celu, powodowany miłością do ludzi Człowiek nie jest w stanie zgłębić tajemnicy zamierzeń Boga, powinien zatem w swojej wierze je zaakceptować i postrzegać ją w perspektywie szczęścia wiecznego. Każdy powinien przyjąć aktywną postawę czynienia dobra. W przeciwieństwie do pierwszego kazania bohater wypowiadał się łagodnym tonem, staranniej dobierał słowa, utożsamiał się z odbiorcami.

Okoliczności śmierci
Ojciec Paneloux umarł z krucyfiksem w ręku, na jego karcie kontrolnej w szpitalu widniał napis: "wypadek wątpliwy", sam doktor Bernard Rieux miał wątpliwości co do przyczyny zgonu. Prawdopodobnie powód jego śmierci ma charakter psychiczny i jest związany z dylematami światopoglądowymi, trudnością z pogodzeniem faktu istnienia Stwórcy i zła na świecie. Według Dariusza Trześniowskiego "Z jednej strony Paneloux nie potrafi sobie wyobrazić życia bez Boga, z drugiej- nie potrafi też żyć z egzystencjalną religią, z Bogiem, którego nie rozumie. Ucieka w dobrowolną śmierć, umiera bez wyraźnych oznak dżumy. Jest to zgodne z aksjologią Camusa wobec absurdalnego świata. Przyjąć można albo postawę buntu, albo popełnić samobójstwo."

Analiza
Postać była analizowana w kontekstach wiary i religijnej odpowiedzi na cierpienie o szerokiej skali.

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Universal_ghost wrote: I know they've done the lucky dorbz and also fruit bruit, yummy mummy and count chocula, booberry and frankenberry but what other one's would you love to see done dorbz style? I would love a tony the tiger and also captain crunch. Even maybe a big boy dorbz?
I guess Tony the Tiger dorbz will come soon, maybe this SDCC.
There was also a "Quakemobile" cereal premium, again not the prettiest toy but can you imagine the cool Ridez design they could do with this?
That Quakemobile would be awesome. It has a great look.
All the yes with a big boy dorbz. I get excited just at the prospect of that one as a dorbz.
Yes I would like to have the Target AD Icon Dorbz for sure.
I was thinking the same thing as well .
Very true. Be much easier for people to obtain.
He would be adorable as a dorbz.
I didn't really think about the lack of Dorbz until seeing this thread. It would make it a lot easier to track down big boy, tony, etc, though maybe Funko is choosing vynl like for count chocula/frakenberry 2 pack?
I agree it would be easier to get one and display proudly on the shelf.
Even if they were con exclusives, at least you know they'd be way cheaper on the secondary market than the pop versions. Least some comfort in that.
That cereal monster 3-pack was much more limited than Lucky. So long as they don't make low quantities it nothing should be as hard to find as those.
That's true. Although I remember the 3-pack being relatively easy to get at least at the beginning, but I could be wrong.
I would love to have a Bob's Big Boy Dorbz and a Pillsbury Dough Boy, too. The Coca Cola polar bears would be cute Dorbz.
Call me JoAnne. I've lost count of how many Pops I have.
I want a pillsbury doughboy Dorbz!
soooo a lot of ad Icons been releasing and the only one I seen that's coming out in dorbz form is bazooka joe, so the question is would you like to see past Icons come out in dorbz form and also any future ones as well?
PinkyJo wrote: I would love to have a Bob's Big Boy Dorbz and a Pillsbury Dough Boy, too. The Coca Cola polar bears would be cute Dorbz.
I would be down for the Coca Cola Polar Bears that would be great .
Stitch626 wrote: I want a pillsbury doughboy Dorbz!
I'd like to see a Sugar Crisp bear, both Pop and Dorbz.
Yes more ad icon dorbz would be cute. I think the honey nut cheerios bee would translate well into dorbz form.
I would love it if they continued on with the ad icons dorbz, so much easier to get than the pops.
Yeah Rice Krispies seems perfect for a dorbz 3 pack!


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Super Typhoon Cimaron
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The northern Philippines Island Luzon suffered a direct hit from powerful Super Typhoon Cimaron over the weekend of October 28-29, 2006. The typhoon struck the east coast of Luzon on the evening (local time) of October 29 with sustained winds of 200 kilometers per hour (124 mph) and gusts to 230 kilometers per hour (143 mph). The storm killed at least 15 people. After crossing Luzon in the Philippines, Cimaron re-emerged over open waters in the South China Sea and as of October 31 was expected to make a second landfall on the coast of Vietnam.
This image of Cimaron was captured by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite as the powerful storm was bearing down on Luzon. Places with the highest rainfall are colored red, while areas with the lowest rainfall are blue. The image was taken at 1:40 p.m. local time in Manila (05:40 UTC) on October 29, not long before Cimaron made landfall. TRMM reveals that Cimaron was undergoing eyewall replacement, during which the centermost ring of thunderstorms clouds (the eyewall) weakens and is "swallowed up" by a new eyewall of thunderstorms that encroached on the eye of the storm from the spiraling rain bands.
This eyewall replacement cycle is evident in the TRMM image from the distinct double eyewall structure. Cimaron's compact inner eyewall of intense rain (small, dark red ring) is surrounded by a nearly complete outer eyewall of intense to moderate rain (concentric ring of dark red and green). This double, or concentric, eyewall feature is only found in very powerful, mature tropical cyclones. Near the time of this image, Cimaron was a Category 5 super typhoon with maximum sustained winds estimated at 140 knots (161 mph) by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
The rain rates in the center of the swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar, while those in the outer portion are from the TRMM Microwave Imager. The rain rates are overlaid on infrared data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner. TRMM was placed into its low-earth orbit in November 1997. Its primary mission is to measure rainfall from space; however, it has also served as a valuable platform for monitoring tropical cyclones, especially over remote parts of the open ocean. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency, JAXA.
A KMZ file of Super Typhoon Cimaron is available for use with Google Earth.
Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
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Super Typhoon Cimaron struck the northernmost large island in the Philippines, Luzon, on October 29, 2006.
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Mukesh Ambani Steps Down As Reliance Jio's Director, Akash Ambani Appointed As Chairman
The board also approved the appointment of Pankaj Mohan Pawar as Managing Director of the Company for a period of five years commencing from 27 June, 2022, subject to approval of the shareholders
29 June, 2022 by BW Online Bureau
On Tuesday, the board of Reliance Jio approved the appointment of Akash Ambani as the chairman of Reliance Jio. Mukesh Ambani resigned as the company's director with effect from June 27.
Pankaj Mohan Pawar will take over as the company's Managing Director from June 27.
Reliance Jio, in its board meeting held on June 27, approved the following changes:-
Approved the appointment of Akash M Ambani, Non-executive Director as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company.
Noted the resignation of Mukesh D Ambani as Director of the Company effective from close of working hours on 27 June, 2022
Approved the appointment of Pankaj Mohan Pawar as Managing Director of the Company for a period of five years commencing from 27 June, 2022, subject to approval of the shareholders
Approved the appointment of Raminder Singh Gujral and KV Chowdary as Additional Directors of the Company, designated as Independent Directors for a period of 5 years commencing from 27 June, 2022, subject to approval of the shareholders.
In a regulatory filing Reliance Jio informed that in accordance with the circular dated June 20, 2018, issued by the Stock Exchanges, they confirm that Raminder Singh Gujral and KV Chowdary are not debarred from holding the office of Director by virtue of any Securities and Exchange Board of India order or any other such authority.
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CNN news fakes
Freedom Research, February 2020
Never before have we heard so much talk of "fake news", "deep fakes", especially from CNN and its Main Stream Media sister networks.
But having studied especially U.S. foreign policy and the behaviour of its medias, one sees that this is nothing new, but has actually been part of the system of preserving the American Empire. All through the Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin incident, to the Kuwait Incubator Babies scam, to the fake Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction story.
Even the sun has spots, and thus the truthseeker channel now and then is caught doing absolute fails, such as this one below, where CNN - "the world's leading news organization" - accidentally places Eastern Ukraine in... Pakistan!
Another more sinister and outright deception, is when CNN portrayed the same satellite image when revealing images of secret Iranian and North Korean nuclear sites in 2005.
The article "CNN's Nuke Plant Photos Identical for Both Iran and N. Korea!" reveals this CNN deception.
Then we have the trick to only label people as "Jewish" when they do something positive, like getting a Nobel Prize, directing a movie or writing a widely acclaimed book. But when they are caught peddling drugs and porn, caught pants down in pedophilia networks or Me-Too related incidents, then the Jewishness of the culprit is never mentioned.
Here below a more deceitful example, where Russian leader Vladimir Putin's best buddy is labelled by CNN as a "Russian oligarch", although the real title of this Viktor Vekselberg could as well be "Jewish oligarch", as that is the way Russians - and Jews, identify him.
Recently we saw CNN running and rerunning its hyped "Special" on Anti-Semitism: "A Shadow Over Europe: Anti-Semitism in 2018"
As a part of CNN boss Jeff Zucker and his Jewish entourage's campaign to prove that anti-Jewish sentiments are on the rise, the channel has lately put a focus reporting on "anti-Semitic" acts.
On the eve of the stabbing of Jews at a rabbis home in New York on 28th December 2019, CNN ran the following fact table, documenting "Anti-Semitic Attacks in New York".
But as this table just a ran for a few seconds each time it was aired, you wouldn't really have a chance to scrutinize the attacks listed in CNN's table. But our sharp eyes caught a real interesting entry, the one for December 26th, on the top right corner of the table.
As you can se on our screencap (taken December 30), listed as an "anti-Semitic" attack, CNN has noted:
"Woman struck with bag"
Recording a Jewish woman struck by a bag (!) as an "anti-Semitic attack" is very much in line with the findings of Israeli researcher and director Yoav Shamir, in his revealing documentary on "anti-Semitism" and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL):
"Defamation" - Israeli film on the fraud of "anti-Semitism" and the ADL
External link to the 90 min film by Israeli director Yoav Shamir
CNN Fake News during the 1991 Gulf War
Fake News Exposed in the Mainstream Media - Raw CNN Gulf War Footage
CNN fakes satellite interview between 2 reporters in the same parking lot!
See also another clip: "Two CNN reporters are caught in the same parking lot talking via satellite, AGAIN"
See also "CNN's Poppy Harlow and Jean Casarez Hold Split-Screen Interview Mere Feet From One Another" (Mediaite.com, Nov 1st, 2017)
Hint: Check the cars!
See also "CNN split-screens two anchors who appear to be right next to each other" (NewscastStudio.com, September 25, 2014)
Here below we have quite an interesting compilation of CNN's deceivious methologies, including interviewing its own staff members as "the guy from the street". Note that this video is compiled by people from the pro-Trump camp (yes, we - if any - know and have documented his Zionist leanings, of course!) Nevertheless the video contains some really good examples of CNN's modus operandi.
TOP 5 CNN FAKE NEWS FAILS & OWNED Compilation
CNN's Jewish version of "diversity"
Lists the main Jewish agents at CNN.
Zionist CNN: Lair of hypocrites
Documents CNN's long history of cynical hypocrisy
New Head of CNN, Zucker, Gives Glimpse of Inordinate Jewish Influence in Media
By David Duke, 2012. On the Jew Jeff Zucker becoming president over CNN Worldwide.
More on Jewish media influence in the U.S. and Worldwide


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The Japan international scored a phenomenal goal to give Leicester a lead over Newcastle Monday.
Leicester City's improbable title charge has been full of individual brilliance, and Shinji Okazaki presented the latest instance on Monday.
Midway through the first half against Newcastle, Okazaki put the Foxes ahead on a bicycle kick, sending the King Power Stadium faithful into a frenzy. With Leicester only up on Tottenham by two points (with a game in hand) entering the day, and with just a handful of games remaining in the season, the tension accompanying each game is only rising. Okazaki did what he could to relieve it with his spectacular effort, which landed at his feet after a series of aerial balls around the Newcastle box.
The match was notable for another reason too, as it marked Rafa Benitez's debut as Newcastle manager.


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FIU Students Watch, Discuss Impeachment Hearings
From impeachment as an imperative to impeachment as an overreach, the televised debates in the House, and the vote on impeachment, have been a chance to watch history as it happens. For a group of stu...
Brag About Millennium Collegiate Academy
Millennium 6-12 Collegiate Academy in Tamarac is really two schools in one. A middle school with all the courses, activities, and athletics you'd expect in a traditional school, along with a boutique, magnet high school which only has just over 200 students. "We pride ourselves in giving the personalized learning experience for our students," said ...
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Miami-Dade Student Turns Human Rights Passion Into Action
Among all the smarty-pants kids at the School for Advanced Studies, a public college prep school, Janet Hernandez leads the pack. Just don't call her a scientist. "I'm not a STEM major," Janet, a senior, is telling her friends. So she's not going to be a STEM major in college, even though she's acing all of her s...
Education on 6: Virtual Reality at Sheridan Tech High School
We walked into Richard Berman's physics class at Sheridan Tech High School in Fort Lauderdale and found him with some kind of sci-fi-looking goggles on his head and a controller in his hand. "You're going to click on this and it's gonna open up this world," Berman is telling his students. A world of possibilities called mixed reality, a...
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Florida Governor Requiring Graduating High School Students to Take Civics Exam
Students planning on graduating from high schools in Florida will soon have to take a civics exam similar to the one required to become a U.S. citizen. Governor Ron DeSantis, during a Wednesday event in Naples, announces the plan as an effort to "make civics important again" and said he would direct Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran to requir...
Education Dec 10, 2019
Brag About Your School: Goleman High School
Alumni might not recognize Barbara Goleman Senior High School in Miami Lakes. The place has had a face-lift. An academic face-lift. It's now a mega magnet school. 'Which means we're an all-magnet school with all magnet programs but we continue to have all the traditional activities and sports of a traditional high school so it's an amazing, amazing...
Broward Schools Dec 12, 2019
Broward Schools Approve Weeklong Thanksgiving Break for 2020-2021 School Year
Students in Broward County will get a weeklong Thanksgiving break starting next year, officials said. The newly released school calendar also highlights a new start date for the 2020-2021 school year: Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Broward students kicked off the current school year five days earlier, on Aug. 14, 2019. The last day for Broward public sc...
Education on 6: Virtual Reality at Sheridan Tech High
So far, eight high schools in the Broward County Public School district have the Magic Leap system. The Florida Panthers hockey team donated 25 of the headsets to the school district. The goal, no pun intended, is to eventually have the system in every high school.
student making a difference Dec 7, 2019
Plantation High School Junior Has 'Stratospheric' Potential
As soon as you see Janiel Douglas in the aerospace engineering workshop at Plantation High School, tinkering with rockets, consulting with her peers on design specifications, you know she's in her element. But a love for aerospace fell into her lap like a meteorite falling to earth. "I went to my first launch and I saw them ...
education on 6 Dec 6, 2019
Inclusive Schools Week Helps Students With Special Needs Adapt, Excel
Inclusive Schools Week is a national movement to encourage schools to give special needs students opportunities to take classes and participate in activities alongside their general education peers. At Miami-Dade County Public Schools, every school in the district follows a policy of maximum inclusion, but we had to choose one as an example so we s...
Hialeah High School Student Sets Pace for High Achievers
You know that kid who's always out in front, setting the pace for high achievers? At Hialeah Senior High School, that kid is Ashley Rodriguez.
Identical Twin Football Players Fight Type 1 Diabetes
The Holsinger brothers are instantly recognizable on the St. Thomas University campus in Miami Gardens. Being identical twins who play on the football team will get you noticed.
Monarch High School Senior Personifies Leadership
Lincoln Le oozes leadership. The senior at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek is the JROTC battalion commander, in charge of 186 cadets.
Broward College Program Offers Low-Cost Childcare for Students
These freshest of freshmen are in the Broward College Early Childhood Laboratory School. It simultaneously provides a teaching environment for those studying early childhood education, and affordable childcare for low-income college students.


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Hear from autistic people and their families about how they celebrate (or don't celebrate!) Christmas.
"A perfect Christmas is where everyone is happy and relaxed."
"Christmas in my house is always an exciting event."
"Christmas is the most challenging time of the year."
"When I was growing up, Christmas had always been a happy occasion in my family."
"Christmas is filled with mulled wine and soft twinkly lights."
Helen has a non-Christmas and she doesn't want you to feel sorry for her about that.
"My son Kieran is seven. Since the age of five, nothing has meant more to him than Christmas."
14-year-old Andy hates surprise presents, throwing up some challenges for his father, YouTuber Kevin.
"Christmas is the most IMPORTANT time of the year… It brings us all together and in a way that is so special."
"Every Christmas gets better and better as they are older and we get to have more fun with that."
"I really enjoy the sensory experience of all the sparkly lights and pretty things."
"When he was younger he used to have a melt down if someone gave him a present that wasn't on the list."
"An ideal Christmas would be spent with my family, enjoying a homemade Christmas dinner with a few beverages."


See how a group of local high school students use art to explore social issues at an ArtHop reception at Fresno Pacific University. Voice to the Voiceless is a retrospective of more than a decade of socially conscious art projects by McLane High School ArtVenture Academy students. Each school year Art Teacher Marc Patterson and other McLane High School educators lead students as they examine a social issue through art, including homelessness, immigration, civil rights, incarceration, agriculture, water, and terrorism, always with careful attention to the stories of those who are often left out of the mainstream.
In one artwork, viewers can read the thoughts of a McLane student who grew up in the foster-care system. Another illustrates the shared landscape between humans and the animals displaced by human-made structures. Every work is based on multiple research methods from books to one-on-one interviews.
"From the beginning of the ArtVenture Academy, Mr. Patterson envisioned challenging students to conceptualize important identity and social issues with visual representations or images to express their understanding of these ideas and/or issues. Rather than start by instructing students on the technical aspects of art-making with a focus on the art elements from a part-to-whole perspective, he began with a big-picture approach, engaging them with a big idea or a provocative social issue from a whole-to-part perspective," Bobbi Mason, Ph.D., professor emerita of education.
McLane ArtVenture artworks have been exhibited throughout California, including the Fresno Art Museum and Arte Americas, and in 2015 Stories of Home, the Southeast Asian Story Project was exhibited at the White House in Washington, D.C. More on the event at facebook.com/events/2060792564011132/ and fresno.edu/arthop.


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Dugoni School's American Association of Women Dentists Wins Student Chapter of the Year
The American Association of Women Dentists (AAWD) honored the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry's AAWD chapter with the Student Chapter of the Year award during their annual conference held in Savannah, Georgia. The award recognizes chapters who have connected in a meaningful way with AAWD while supporting their goal and mission.
During the past year, the Pacific Chapter organized 16 events, raised more than $600 for its chapter, and donated over $1,000 to nonprofit organizations and charities. AAWD supported organizations such as Take Back the Night, Because Justice Matters, Habitat for Humanity and Napa Fire Victims, San Francisco Women's March, and Watermark Conference for Women-Silicon Valley. They have expanded opportunities for leadership and mentorship not only among female dental students, but for the dental school community as a whole.
"The Pacific women of the AAWD are passionate, creative, energetic and motivated individuals who are committed to promoting women's causes," says faculty advisor Dr. Lisa Itaya. "Their efforts have contributed to recognizing our female faculty as role models at Dugoni and have raised awareness of women's issues in the Bay Area community. There is no end to their enthusiasm, and I am proud of their accomplishments!"
The Pacific Chapter was established in 2014 and was recognized as an official chapter of the national AAWD organization in 2017. The association supports women in organized dentistry and promotes the advancement of women in the field of dentistry. Learn more about AAWD ›
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Orland School District 135 wrapped up its summer professional development with a mini technology conference last week. On August 7 and 8, a group of teachers from all ten schools in the District came together to learn from their colleagues and even had the opportunity to experience student presentations on innovation in the classroom.
On the first day of the conference, staff members were able to choose from a variety of sessions, including workshops on podcasting, Google Forms, and a variety of other educational tools. Between sessions, a 'playground' was available in the media center for teachers to experiment with the new tools.
The second day of the conference provided an opportunity for students to present on some of their favorite tools to use in the classroom. Topics included using a green screen, creative ways to use iMovie and Keynote, making stop-motion videos, Kahoot, Canva, and more. Teachers left the student presentations feeling energized and excited to explore these tools in the new school year.
The District had an extremely successful summer full of professional development, wonderful summer school and camp programs, and facility improvements.
Forty professional development opportunities were available throughout the summer for teachers, paraprofessionals, and administrators. In addition to those programs, new teachers spent two full days working with their mentors in preparation for the new school year.
Nearly 300 students participated in summer school and the Extended School Year program, where students continued to learn and grow throughout the month of July. Over 500 students took part in camp programs, which included music, art, and sports camps.
The Buildings and Grounds Department was busy preparing facilities for the new year. One of the biggest undertakings this summer was replacing over 60,000 square feet of carpet at Meadow Ridge. The team also spent time remodeling classrooms at Park, Liberty, and Jerling Junior High. Wiring was installed at all school buildings for new security systems, continued HVAC maintenance was completed, and rooms and halls were painted.
District 135 is incredibly proud of the work that was done by staff and students alike this summer, and we look forward to a great 2019-2020 school year.
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Major damage in barn fire
A 6,000 square foot barn sustained between $150,000 and $200,000 damage in a fire that broke out shortly before 1 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28.
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Assistant chief Bruce Ferguson of the Township fire department said that there were no injuries, and no animals were in the barn.
The structure, on a farm in the 7500 block of 254 Street, was used mainly for livestock and storing equipment.
The fire does not appear to be suspicious, Ferguson said, adding that an initial investigation points to equipment malfunction as the cause.
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The exceptionally talented musicians of Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn return with Taylor Swift and The Divas. The global icon of popular music will be played by the brilliant Florence Gunn-Wilson. The Divas will portray the most influential female singers of the past fifty years with artists as diverse as Nancy Sinatra and Lady GaGa being represented by the most talented and professional of young vocalists. With a 10-piece band the singers will recreate Taylor's greatest hit singles alongside songs that span the history of popular music.


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Hilja Erika Byström, född Kallioniemi 18 april 1908 i byn Matojärvi, Hietaniemi församling, Övertorneå kommun, död 4 mars 1993 i Överluleå församling, Boden, var en svensk (tornedalsk) författare. Hon skrev på svenska, men hennes modersmål var meänkieli.

Hilja Byström utbildade sig till lärare vid småskoleseminariet i Haparanda. Hon fick sin första tjänst i Karungi och under den tiden gjorde hon sin litterära debut med novellsamlingen Ett år i Järvi. De senare romanerna Byn (1940), Ungfolk (1941) och Bondfolk (1943) utgör en romantrilogi och bygger vidare på hennes debutromans skildring av Tornedalen. År 1934 gifte hon sig med Engelbert Byström, kyrkoherde i Råneå och änkeman med fem barn. Sedan fick makarna ett gemensamt barn, sonen Kjell. Sommaren 2008 firades 100-årsminnet av hennes födelse med musikalen Sånger från Matojärvi med text av Bengt Pohjanen och musik av Kaj Chydenius samt med sopranen Carina Henriksson och tenoren Ulric Björklund i huvudrollerna. Hon har kallats för Tornedalens första skönlitterära författare. I och med 100-årsjubileet väcktes nytt intresse för hennes författarskap, som länge varit bortglömt. Byström har framför allt uppmärksammats för skildringar av tornedalskt folkliv och læstadiansk andlighet i hennes första fyra romaner.

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A 2-Dimensional Model for the Transmission Dynamics of Schistosomiasis in the Human-Snail Hosts
G. Besigye-Bafaki
The modes of transmission of schistosomiasis are considered. The transmission model is developed with an aim of establishing possible endemic equilibria within the community. Analysis of the model reveals that if the recovery rate β of human infectives and the death rate of snails δ are increased and if at the same time the contact rate κ of the human hosts with infested water is reduced, the disease gets eradicated from the community. Otherwise, the disease becomes endemic within the community which is a very much undesirable condition for the human population because of the debilitating nature of schistosomiasis. It is found out that this endemic state becomes stable if both the recovery rate β of human infectives and the death rate δ of snails are reduced. It can be made unstable by de-worming the human infectives and killing snails by use of molluscicides. Educating the community about the modes of transmission of the disease helps in reducing the contact rate with infested waters and hence disease prevention.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2006.1846.1852
Submitted On: 8 May 2006 Published On: 31 May 2006
How to Cite: Besigye-Bafaki, G. (2006). A 2-Dimensional Model for the Transmission Dynamics of Schistosomiasis in the Human-Snail Hosts . American Journal of Applied Sciences, 3(5), 1846-1852. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2006.1846.1852
Copyright: © 2006 G. Besigye-Bafaki. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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MPs call for 'urgent rebuilding' of government IT capacity
The Commons Public Administration Select Committee has published its report into government IT, and to be frank, it's all a bit predictable. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be welcomed: the four highlighted points – better management information, greater transparency, more involvement of SMEs, agile working – are all good. But if we haven't heard it all before, we probably should have done.
The report's opening factoid – that 'some departments spend an average of £3,500 on a desktop PC' – will almost certainly grab the headlines. (Update: step forward Sky News, who do a textbook job of it, including under-informed talking head.) It shouldn't – but the report doesn't help itself by putting this figure in the second paragraph of its introduction, without any context (as Paul Clarke has already noted).
The real story, such as it is, is the Committee's apparent recognition that the current process – reliant on a small number of large suppliers being given over-spec'ed, over-detailed, over-sized and over-priced projects – is the 'root cause' of the problem. And it's quite nice to see them challenging the Cabinet Office, about whether its initiatives are tackling that root cause, or just the symptoms (paras 10-11).
Para 13 goes on to list what the Committee sees as the 'six underlying causes of failure in government IT':
Inadequate information, resulting in the Government being unable to manage its IT needs successfully;
An over-reliance on a small number of large suppliers and the virtual exclusion of small and medium sized (SME) IT contractors, which tend to be less risk adverse and more innovative;
A failure to integrate IT into the wider policy and business change programmes;
A tendency to commission large, complex projects which struggle to adapt to changing circumstances;
Over-specifying security requirements, and
The lack of sufficient leadership and skills to manage IT within the Civil Service, and in particular the absence of an "intelligent customer" function in Departments.
It acknowledges that outsourcing has often gone too far, leaving Departments short of people able to manage suppliers – the 'recipe for rip-offs' which gives the report its inflammatory title:
Currently the Government seems unable to strike the right balance between allowing contractors enough freedom to operate and ensuring there are appropriate controls and monitoring in-house. The Government needs to develop the skills necessary to fill this gap. This should involve recruiting more IT professionals with experience of the SME sector to help deliver the objective of greater SME involvement.
I'm not sure about the need to hire too many new people: Whitehall already has a decent number of insightful specialists, dotted around various Departments, and it would certainly be a start to concentrate their skills and experience within the evolving Government Digital Service (as outlined in the engagement-centric contribution I made to Alphagov, along with Neil and Steph). Speaking for myself, I wouldn't apply for any such recruitment exercise: for now at least, I think I can do 'my bit' better from outside, rather than inside.
On engagement itself, it's good to see the report recommending 'that Departments exploit the internet and other channels to enable users to provide direct online feedback both in the design of services and in their ongoing operation and improvement' – as that's broadly what we put in the Alphagov proposal.
Not for the first time, data transparency is presented as a silver bullet to eliminate the profligate spending – except that, as Paul Clarke notes, the report rather undermines itself by 'intentionally' (Paul's word) throwing opaque figures around. Can transparency solve the problems? In theory, I want to agree – but a year into Cameron's open data revolution, I can't think of many grand successes.
And there's surprisingly little about open source per se – although you could argue it's probably implicit in references to greater SME involvement, supplier lock-in and use of non-proprietary data formats.
So, personally, I'm struggling to get excited by the report. It's not the first time any of these things have been said: and the government response will contain a lot of 'we're doing this already'… which, in fairness, they probably are. If the report helps keep those plans on the straight and narrow, I suppose it's done its bit. As long as we get there in the end.
Posted on 28 July 2011 9 July 2020 Categories e-governmentTags cabinetoffice, parliament1 Comment on MPs call for 'urgent rebuilding' of government IT capacity
An MP for the blogosphere?
Tom Watson, soon-to-be former Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East, has been the greatest advocate for, and representative of the 'digital industry' in the past few years: not just in his time as Cabinet Office minister, but just as much (and arguably moreso) in the period afterwards. I've no idea if he has been a good representative of the good people of West Bromwich; but I do know that he raised more issues of direct relevance to me, my work and my areas of interest than the MP who notionally represents me, solely on the basis of where I live.
So I'm intrigued by Tom's move today, to ask the online community to help him draft a one-man manifesto on technology. He explains:
I want to stand on a platform that is avowedly supportive of the generation that seek to use the Internet to make the world a better place. To do this I have to be able to draw authority from an electoral mandate from electors in West Bromwich East. So I'd like to produce a leaflet that sets out what I stand for. It will be delivered to as many homes in West Bromwich as my campaign team can manage.
There's a fascinating subtext to that plea: Tom clearly sees the representation of the digital community as one of his key purposes in public life, but he needs the electorate of a geographically-defined area to back him first. The message to the constituency is effectively that the country needs him, and they need to do their duty, whether or not they really understand why.
This is an idea I've been quietly contemplating for some time: the notion that a political system based on geographic location is increasingly anachronistic. The World Wide Web has reduced, if not eliminated the need to define oneself on the basis of place. If you're supposed to judge me by the company I keep, that company exists – for the most part – 'in the cloud', not in the immediate vicinity of my house.
Which brings me to the concept of 'functional constituencies' – a term I came across in relation to Hong Kong, when working at the Foreign Office in the mid-1990s. Half of Hong Kong's 60-seat Legislative Council is elected on the basis of geographical constituencies; the other half is elected by 'functional constituencies', defined by people's professions or interests. So for example, there's a 'representative for accountancy', voted in by 22,000-odd individuals registered as working in accountancy; and there's a 'representative for Information Technology', voted by a combination of 364 institutions and 5,000-odd individuals. Wikipedia has the full breakdown.
There's a not dissimilar situation much closer to home, in Ireland. The Irish Senate (or Seanad) consists of 60 people, 43 of whom were chosen by five panels representing – very broadly defined – vocational interests, and a further 6 by the graduates of two particular universities. (See Wikipedia for details.)
Neither system is perfect, with democracy campaigners seeking changes to, if not the complete abolition of the arrangements. And I'm claiming no expertise whatsoever in the design of democratic systems. But there's certainly something appealing about a system that recognises – or can be made to recognise – that the nature of community and representation is evolving.
When the manifestos are published this week, we're almost certain to see all three main UK parties offering proposals for an elected (or 'mainly elected') House of Lords. But a second chamber consisting of more members of the same old political class, no matter how proportionally elected, is not particularly enticing. I actually quite like the idea that the House of Lords includes appointees who have demonstrated excellence in their professional field; but I can appreciate that any system based on party nominations doesn't exactly pass the democratic test.
So why not a system where professionals democratically select those from their own ranks, who best represent their community's expertise, experience, knowledge and concerns? On the face of it, it has the potential to take representative democracy in a whole new direction, and make it more immediately relevant to all parts of society. Defining the right 'functional constituencies', and the eligibility criteria to become an elector for each, would be a hell of a job. But it couldn't fail to end the notion of 'them and us'.
Hey, we could even call them 'peers'. 🙂
Posted on 11 April 2010 9 July 2020 Categories politicsTags democracy, functionalconstituencies, parliament5 Comments on An MP for the blogosphere?
BBC's Democracy Live site goes, er, live
On the day the BBC launches its Democracy Live website comes news that MPs speaking in the Commons chamber are 'to be discouraged' from reading out text stored on an electronic device. No, seriously.
But hey, back to Democracy Live. There's a lot to like about it. The front page 'video wall' owes a lot to Sky Sports on a Champions League night, albeit without the drama. The 'Your representatives' databank (from Dod's) is nice, with the ability to search by postcode – although it only gives you MPs, MSPs/AMs/MLAs and MEPs, not councillors; and it would be nice if there was an API onto the data too.
The bit they're clearly most excited about is the ability to search the video coverage by text – using 'speech-to-text' technology with a success rate 'slightly higher' than the industry standard. However the results, in my experience so far, have been disappointing: it seems pretty good at finding results, but it drops you in at the start of the debate (etc), not at the moment your word or phrase was mentioned.
(Update: Ah, I see now. The search results' main link is to the start of the clip; you have to click to expose the 'deep links' to the right place in the clip. Interface fail? Although actually, it takes you right to the very word: should probably start a few seconds earlier?)
Oh yeah, and then there's the whole embedding thing:
At the moment, we do not have permission to enable the embedding of video from the House of Commons or the House of Lords. Discussions are continuing with officials at Westminster.
If there's one thing the Beeb have really cracked, it's quality video streaming. So there's no arguing with the site's TV-esque aspect. But there's nowhere near as much depth of coverage as on the official Parliament Live site, which includes video – live and recorded – of each committee. Besides, is video an efficient means of reviewing the proceedings of Parliament? I can read the Hansard transcript much faster than an MP can speak it.
So whilst it's a nice enough site in itself – and don't get me wrong, it is a nice site – it doesn't feel like it's adding a tremendous amount, in qualitative terms, to what's already out there. Yet. But a look at the source code suggests more exciting developments to come: there's a lot of stuff 'commented out' or not yet enabled. Give it time.
Posted on 3 November 2009 9 July 2020 Categories politics, technologyTags blackberry, commons, parliament3 Comments on BBC's Democracy Live site goes, er, live
No awards for MPs' websites this year
Bad news for anyone who's just put a massive amount of work into an innovative, cutting-edge website for an MP. (Ahem.) I've received confirmation from the British Computer Society – oops, sorry, 'BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT' – that their annual awards recognising the best websites by Members of Parliament aren't quite as 'annual' as the label might suggest.
I noticed that the new BCS website seemed to be downplaying the info on their MP Website Awards – and emailed to ask if it was still happening this year. The response – quite telling in its own way – came back:
The decision was taken earlier this year not to hold the competition this year. We decided that would give MPs time to have another look at their websites as, while some had really made efforts to improve their sites as a result of our first year competition, a significant proportion had not. BCS is still very much interested in the competition and we hope we can take it forward in the future.
A pity. But then again, I suppose those websites will be facing the ultimate test of their effectiveness – with their constituents in a general election – next spring.
Posted on 30 September 2009 9 July 2020 Categories politics, technologyTags awards, commons, MPs, parliament1 Comment on No awards for MPs' websites this year
MPs who use WordPress
I had a bit of a brainwave earlier, which led me to wondering how many MPs run websites on WordPress. Taking as my starting point the Total Politics directory of Parliamentarians' blogs, I soon received a number of extra suggestions from Twitter folks… leading me to the following list of MPs whose blogs (or non-blog websites) are powered by WordPress:
Alan Johnson – although he hasn't updated since, er, April.
Adam Price
Ben Bradshaw
Bruce George – WordPress running within Joomla 😕
Chris Huhne
David Amess
David Evennett
David Jones (at wordpress.com, with custom domain)
David Kidney (at wordpress.com, quiet since March)
David Lidington (at wordpress.com)
David Willetts
Eddie McGrady (needs fixing)
Gisela Stuart
Graham Stuart (Atahualpa theme)
Helen Goodman
Henry Bellingham (Sandbox theme)
Hilary Armstrong (at wordpress.com)
Jim Hood
John Redwood
Liam Byrne (at wordpress.com)
Lynne Featherstone (by yours truly)
Mike Gapes
Ming Campbell – Kubrick theme. Old-school. 😉
Nick Brown (Atahualpa theme)
Oliver Heald (on wordpress.com)
Oliver Letwin – not a blog, a series of 'letters in West Dorset papers'
Paul Clark (wpremix theme)
Rob Marris
Richard Benyon
Sion Simon
Steve Pound (on wordpress.com)
Sylvia Hermon
Tom Harris
If anyone knows any more, I'd love to add them to the list. Oh, and for the record… with such low take-up (so far), my brainwave may be a little ahead of its time.
Update: a special thanks to Danny Dagan (whose Blogminster project is in development) and PSF's Ian Cuddy for providing a load of new ones I didn't know about, even one or two at Cabinet level. I now count three Cabinet ministers on WordPress: Messrs Byrne, Bradshaw and Johnson… plus Nick Brown, who 'attends' Cabinet as chief whip, but isn't 'in' it.
Posted on 10 August 2009 9 July 2020 Categories politics, technologyTags parliament, wordpress2 Comments on MPs who use WordPress
Visual aids in Parliament?
I wrote last year about the insanity of the annual Budget speech(es), in which the Chancellor stands up and reads off a list of numbers. In business, you'd never contemplate doing that without some kind of visual aid. But come on, visual aids in Parliament?
Let me take you to Canberra, where there's been an outbreak of visual aiding on the floor of the House of Representatives. In recent days, the ABC reports, Kevin Rudd and his government have been 'taunting the Opposition by waving photos of projects funded with stimulus money'. The opposition have responded by wielding 'a mock credit card to make its point about debt and a hard hat to mock Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's appearances at infrastructure sites'.
But by common consent, things went a bit far on Thursday when, with the assistance of his front bench colleagues, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey unfolded a three metre-long chart, over six panels, illustrating the growth in government debt. The speaker ruled this was too much; Hockey responded by producing a pair of scissors, and cutting the chart into its constituent panels for individual presentation.
'Pity they couldn't have cut through the noise and silliness of a question time that added nothing to the sum of human knowledge,' says Sky News Australia's commentary on the 'farce'.
Posted on 28 May 2009 9 July 2020 Categories politicsTags australia, kevinrudd, parliament3 Comments on Visual aids in Parliament?
Lords committee on online engagement
Did you know the House of Lords is currently inviting opinions on how it, and Parliament generally, can relate better to the public? No? Neither did I, which kind of proves something in itself.
It's the Lords' Information Committee, it's called People And Parliament… and it closes in two days. The deadline for full written submissions passed on 5 May. Having bumped into details about it earlier today, I've been looking at the transcripts of an April session featuring such luminaries as Ben Hammersley and Tom Loosemore. It was a feisty session at times – listen to it here. I was particularly taken by one contribution by Tom, which I will probably find myself quoting in business meetings to come.
I used to run the BBC's message boards and forums and it is a thankless task because you end up spending millions of pounds censoring people, and I fear you will do the same, if you are successful. I do not think you will be successful as being the home for those national debates, a genuinely democratic cross-section of the country coming along and discussing issues in a constructive way. I do not think Parliament's website itself will ever be the home for that debate.
Having said that, what I think the Web does do is open up all sorts of possibilities for you, as representatives in this place, to go out and consult. So if you want to go and find out what people think about immigration, there are many, many places on the Web where there are constructive conversations about immigration and you can go and join in and listen there. You do not have to insist that everybody comes here. That is how the place has always worked. It does not always rely on five people sat in front of a table talking to you.
So I would encourage you as Members and as Lords of this place to go out and use the Web to engage with the different issues and avoid like the plague hosting conversations on your own website. When I left the BBC I left them with a document which said, 'Do not host conversations on the BBC's website, link to them instead.'
There's not a little irony, then, in looking at the forum set up by Parliament to discuss the subject: only to find a handful of responses, whose quality is, to be frank, mixed. Not for the first time then, Tom Loosemore shows he knows what he's talking about. He also made some fine points about making Parliament's data easily reusable as a first step towards wider engagement, and handled questions about sustainability with great tact. I heard his name mentioned as a possible Director of Digital Engagement; for the record, I think he'd have been fantastic.
There are two more meetings scheduled: one happens to be tomorrow, and features none other than Tom Watson. It'll be streamed live online, and archived for later viewing: you'll find it here.
Posted on 19 May 2009 9 July 2020 Categories e-governmentTags engagement, houseoflords, parliament2 Comments on Lords committee on online engagement
Let freedom of information ring
It would appear that the plan to exempt MPs and Lords from Freedom Of Information provisions has been ditched. The Mail's Benedict Brogan is trying to unpick what just happened:
Gordon Brown claims that Tories have pulled out of a cross-party deal to introduce the change. The suggestion from No10 is that up until yesterday the Tory and Labour Chief Whips were agreed that the Tories would vote with Labour in favour of the scheme. In effect the accusation is that David Cameron took fright when he realised what that would mean for his stand on transparency. The Tories are expressing mystification, suggesting that there was no deal. So either it's embarrassment for Dave because Brown has revealed that the Tories were ready to back the exemption. Or it embarrassment for the PM because the Tories have forced him to back down.
Arguably, it doesn't matter. A bad thing has been averted, and we – the citizens of the Internet – should take some credit, and pride in that. 'Today we stopped moving in the wrong direction. Tomorrow we start moving the right way.' Not Obama's inauguration address, as I initially assumed; that's from Tom Steinberg's blog post on the subject. 🙂
But it's been a depressing couple of days, watching this come to a head. The potential implications, if such stories are true, aren't pleasant to contemplate, if (like me) you believe it's inherently a good thing for the country to know what its leaders are doing, and why. The two parties conspiring, behind the scenes, to get the measure through, undermining any claims they've ever made about transparency – and, while we're at it, any claims of affinity to the Obama message:
As president, Obama will restore the American people's trust in their government by making government more open and transparent and by giving regular Americans unprecedented new tools to keep track of government officials, who they are meeting with, who is giving them money and how they are spending taxpayer dollars.
It would have been sheer hypocrisy. As a small business owner, I have to be able to present receipts for every sum I try to claim back from the public purse (in the form of the Tax Man) as expenses incurred in the course of my work. I'm not allowed to deliver a top-level summary under either 9 or 26 headings. And quite simply then, MPs should have to do likewise – and be seen to do so.
And let's give due credit to the Liberal Democrats here. It was Jo Swinson who tabled the (relatively poorly supported) EDM on Monday; and Nick Clegg had imposed a three-line whip on his MPs to oppose the move. Their credentials are reinforced today.
UPDATE: The story is evolving. 'Tory HQ are desperate to claim that there was no deal or collusion between their backbenchers and Labour over the issue,' says Sam Coates at The Times. 'The decision, apparently made in the 45 minutes between the mid-morning lobby briefing and the beginning of PMQs, looks shambolic at best – but the Conservatives' ire has been fuelled by what was said (and left unsaid) at PMQs,' says Niall Paterson at Sky News.
Posted on 21 January 2009 9 July 2020 Categories politicsTags foi, freedata, mpexpenses, parliament1 Comment on Let freedom of information ring
Bong! Parliament goes WordPress
The Parliament web team have launched a new News site for the new parliamentary session – and hurrah, it's done in WordPress.
I can't really claim any credit for actually doing any of it, despite what you may have read elsewhere. The internal development team did a considerable amount of customisation, most of which won't be immediately visible to the reader, before I ever came along. I didn't do a lot more than pick holes in it for a day or so.
It's definitely a 'news site' rather than a blog, and the layout sits comfortably alongside the likes of the BBC. It's a brave move to commit to putting big photos on every story, but if it's sustainable, it'll pay dividends. There's a little way to go as regards the editorial; but these are early days, and the direction is unquestionably the right one.
Their plan is to make heavy use of WordPress's fantastic RSS functionality. There's already a very detailed subject (category) taxonomy showing on the site; and of course, once everything's tagged, it's relatively easy to use category-specific RSS feeds to surface the headlines on other sites. Other departments might, for example, want to integrate into their own pages a list of Parliament's latest news on their particular topics..?
Posted on 5 December 2008 9 July 2020 Categories company, e-government, politicsTags news, parliament, puffbox, wordpress3 Comments on Bong! Parliament goes WordPress
An MP's guide to blogs
Labour MP for Newport West, Paul Flynn has apparently 'been stripped of a Parliamentary allowance for making fun of other MPs on his blog', if you read today's BBC piece on the subject. Flynn himself tells the story slightly differently, on said blog.
I've had a similar run-in with my own MP, Newbury's Richard Benyon (Con). Back in September, the first posting on his new blog made some undeniably party-political comments: he talked about Labour being in a state of 'desperation', and his boss David Cameron '[continuing] to look like a Prime Minister in waiting'.
Good old political knockabout, nothing wrong with that… except his website proudly declared on every page that it is 'paid for from his Communications Allowance', which is explicitly not to be used 'to promote, criticise or campaign for or against anyone seeking election'. To his credit, he made swift if superficial amends: I don't see from a technical viewpoint how it's possible for www.richardbenyon.com/blog 'not [to be] connected to www.richardbenyon.com'.
The point is this: as both Flynn and Benyon have said, playing by the Parliamentary allowance's rules would have meant a 'totally non-political, fence sitting and boring' blog. With the cost of setting up a basic blog being so low, indeed zero in most cases, it doesn't make sense to take a chance with the 'Byzantine complexity of the House of Commons rules' (to quote Mr Benyon, although frankly I'm not buying that; the rules couldn't be much clearer).
If you're an MP, and you want to start a blog, here are the facts:
Most political blogs live on Blogger.com, a hosted service owned by Google, and free of charge. It's not the most sophisticated platform in the world, but it does allow you total freedom to customise your pages… if you so wish. It's good enough for Guido Fawkes and Iain Dale, generally seen as the #1 and #2 in the UK; they've gone to considerable lengths to design their sites. Others, like Lynne Featherstone, John Pugh, David Jones or Andy Love really haven't.
Personally, I find WordPress.com a better blogging tool; but in its free, hosted incarnation, it's limited in its scope for (full-on) customisation. See Tom Harris's top-rated blog, or the Lords Of The Blog group effort.
But there are other free alternatives. Adrian Sanders runs his blog on MySpace – hey, why not? Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has a blog on the Telegraph's website; and whilst his is technically on the 'columnists' side of the fence, rather than the 'public' my.telegraph.co.uk service, there's nothing to stop you doing that either. It's not ideal, but maybe it suits you and your situation.
If you want extra functionality, extra control or extra customisation, you're looking at spending some money – but frankly, it needn't be more than the price of a (very modest) dinner for two. Typepad used to be the service of choice for those who wanted to take things more seriously; their 'pro' service costs £75 a year, and gives you all the customisation and room for expansion you're likely to need. Paul Flynn's site lives there, as does ConservativeHome, and the blogs of lobby journalists Benedict Brogan and Paul Waugh (among others).
These days, the (generally) preferred option – certainly in these parts! – is to download and run your own copy of WordPress. It's free, and it's the best; but you'll need to pay a few quid to put it somewhere – say £22.99 a year from Eukhost; and running it yourself does take some effort. Tom Watson, John Redwood and Richard Benyon use it, as does the remarkably popular PoliticalBetting.com; but for a simple blog, it's probably overkill. When you want to do something more, though, it's perfect: ask Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and Jim Murphy.
There's absolutely no shame in using the free options; and if you decide you need more, for whatever reason, you're looking at a couple of hundred quid, tops… with most of that going to the friendly geek who sets it up for you. I dare say many MPs could find that kind of sum down the back of their sofa.
Spending a portion of your Communications Allowance on a blog is just The Wrong Thing To Do. And frankly it calls into question the purpose of the 'totally non-political, fence sitting and boring' Allowance in the first place. £10,000 times 646 MPs, times 4 years in a typical Parliament equals… no, don't, it's a terrifying answer.
PS: By sheer coincidence, I note that the British Computer Society held its MP Website Awards today: winners were Derek Wyatt, John Hutton, Alan Johnson and Kerry McCarthy. All Labour, for the record.
Posted on 19 November 2008 9 July 2020 Categories politics, technologyTags blogger, blogging, parliament, paulflynn, richardbenyon, typepad, wordpress4 Comments on An MP's guide to blogs


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package com.cloud.network.dao;

import com.cloud.legacymodel.network.LoadBalancer;
import com.cloud.network.rules.FirewallRuleVO;
import com.cloud.utils.net.NetUtils;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.DiscriminatorValue;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.EnumType;
import javax.persistence.Enumerated;
import javax.persistence.PrimaryKeyJoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.Table;

/**
 * This VO represent Public Load Balancer
 * It references source ip address by its Id.
 * To get the VO for Internal Load Balancer rule, please refer to LoadBalancerRuleVO
 */
@Entity
@Table(name = ("load_balancing_rules"))
@DiscriminatorValue(value = "LoadBalancing")
@PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(name = "id")
public class LoadBalancerVO extends FirewallRuleVO implements LoadBalancer {

    @Enumerated(value = EnumType.STRING)
    @Column(name = "scheme")
    Scheme scheme = Scheme.Public;
    @Column(name = "lb_protocol")
    String lbProtocol;
    @Column(name = "name")
    private String name;
    @Column(name = "description", length = 4096)
    private String description;
    @Column(name = "algorithm")
    private String algorithm;
    @Column(name = "default_port_start")
    private int defaultPortStart;
    @Column(name = "default_port_end")
    private int defaultPortEnd;
    @Column(name = "client_timeout")
    private int clientTimeout;
    @Column(name = "server_timeout")
    private int serverTimeout;

    public LoadBalancerVO() {
    }

    public LoadBalancerVO(final String xId, final String name, final String description, final long srcIpId, final int srcPort, final int dstPort, final String algorithm,
                          final long networkId, final long accountId, final long domainId, final String lbProtocol, final int clientTimeout, final int serverTimeout) {
        super(xId, srcIpId, srcPort, NetUtils.TCP_PROTO, networkId, accountId, domainId, Purpose.LoadBalancing, null, null, null, null);
        this.name = name;
        this.description = description;
        this.algorithm = algorithm;
        this.defaultPortStart = dstPort;
        this.defaultPortEnd = dstPort;
        this.scheme = Scheme.Public;
        this.lbProtocol = lbProtocol;
        this.clientTimeout = clientTimeout;
        this.serverTimeout = serverTimeout;
    }

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    @Override
    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }

    @Override
    public String getAlgorithm() {
        return algorithm;
    }

    @Override
    public String getLbProtocol() {
        return lbProtocol;
    }

    public void setLbProtocol(final String lbProtocol) {
        this.lbProtocol = lbProtocol;
    }

    @Override
    public Scheme getScheme() {
        return scheme;
    }

    public void setAlgorithm(final String algorithm) {
        this.algorithm = algorithm;
    }

    public void setDescription(final String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }

    public void setName(final String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    @Override
    public int getDefaultPortStart() {
        return defaultPortStart;
    }

    @Override
    public int getDefaultPortEnd() {
        return defaultPortEnd;
    }

    @Override
    public int getClientTimeout() {
        return clientTimeout;
    }

    public void setClientTimeout(final int clientTimeout) {
        this.clientTimeout = clientTimeout;
    }

    @Override
    public int getServerTimeout() {
        return serverTimeout;
    }

    public void setServerTimeout(final int serverTimeout) {
        this.serverTimeout = serverTimeout;
    }
}

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Can I use narrower wheels on my 17 GS Corvette?
I am 68 years old I don't drive aggressively, or race my car, I just tour around with it. The Michlin tires on it ware out to fast and they are expensive. Can I buy some narrower wheels with the correct set back and put some narrower touring tires on it and drive it that way?


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Fresh out the Dustbin
There is always a thrill that washes over me when I reminisce about the unabashed creativity LISOF allowed me to explore when I was in first year and this, paired with the freedom to do whatever, wherever with whomever, rendered in my mind as a memory that shall be eternity cherished.
This year's first years, however, shall have more to cherish: From a new and stimulating environment to a plethora of excitingly fresh courses and lecturers.
To orient this year's first years into the fast-paced world of fashion, the design lecturers – including Tyra Banks (played by Shana) – gave all the competitors' one, simple brief: Make a garment made completely out of newspaper and a pile of recent Elle magazines.
"I'm not sure I can do this", said a learner in passing, who looked like she hadn't slept in a fortnight. The two days leading up to the fashion show was remarkable: Seeing such raw creativity and watching tomorrow's 'it-designers' starting to plant their seeds riled me right up. More so, seeing the process from conception to garment is one so organic and beautiful that it always serves as a reminder as to why we chose this particular industry.
When Friday reared its head, the excitable atmosphere that came along with it was almost palpable. Like a scene from MTV'S 'Running In Heels', girls – and some fabulous boys – clicked around in their stilettoes finishing off hems, stapling this and pasting that. Luckily, no one – contrary to popular beliefs about fashion – had a nervous breakdown.
The show was spectacular. From the impromptu front row, I saw dresses that ranged from haute – absurd to commercially viable; two concepts that you fully explore throughout ones first year and, on a macro scale, in the world of fashion.
"If I was a buyer, I'd but this entire collection", said LISOF Socialite Nathacia Mokoena as our tongues wagged from the craftsmanship; especially considering that the material used was not conventional. Obviously, there were garments that stole the show; like Cleo De Gennaro, who made a cape and cap combination made of crisp white paper, folded and manipulated like the great oriental oragamists like Humiaki Huzita or cutting-edge patternmakers such as Tomoko Nakamichi. I approached the designer afterwards, who panted saying it had taken her two days just to prepare the folds. Another hit was by the fascinatingly dark Lyndsay Samson, who translated her sense of style straight into the garment. Both these learners won first and second place respectively for their dedication and sever attention to detail.
All in all, LISOF first years keep getting better and here I thought our class were the dons – we were clearly delusional. Take a look at the rest of the garments that had me frowning in bitter envy.


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Speaking of choice, the ONDA is available in various versions to suit user requirements: a straight version, with the two rack bays positioned in parallel at either side of the sizeable work surface — perfect for siting smaller-sized mixing consoles or DAW controllers, such as Solid State Logic's popular Nucleus, for example — or angled at 15 or 30 degrees to form a trapezoidal-shaped work surface, widening towards the rear. ONDA is ably supported by four stylish, sturdy legs, with the two central legs angled towards the rear to leave plenty of legroom and also provide perfect access to all parts of the media workstation itself. Indeed, a nice touch.
Another nice touch is the lowered panel at the rear of the work surface to allow any computer screen — or any model from Apple's all-the-rage, all-in-one iMac desktop computer range, perhaps — to be positioned on its base stand with the computer screen itself at desktop level for optimum viewing angles when working with centrally-positioned mixing consoles, DAWs, or master keyboard controllers. Below that, an integrated cable management system helps keep things neat, tidy, and professional with access passageways positioned in all the right places. What more could a media professional need or want?
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Delete Any File That Windows Can't Delete.
1). Cannot delete file: Access is denied.
2). There has been a sharing violation.
3). The source or destination file may be in use.
4). The file is in use by another program or user.
5). Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
Wise Force Deleter allows you to access it via a context menu. Right after installing it, a new option named "Force Delete" will appear in the context menu. To unlock&delete a locked file, you just need to right click it, select 'Force Delete', Wise Force Deleter will be launched. Then you can unlock and delete the file from your Windows system immediately, which is real convenient.
Wise Force Deleter is freeware that allows you to delete any file in your Windows system(64 and 32-bit). It has been developed and fully tested to work great on Windows 10 and other Windows operating systems, from Windows XP and up. No matter what you own - a desktop or a laptop.
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using Aspose.Cells;
using Aspose.Cells.Rendering;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Worksheet_to_Image
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string MyDir = @"Files\";

            //Create a new Workbook object
            //Open a template excel file
            Workbook book = new Workbook(MyDir+"Sheet to Image.xls");
            //Get the first worksheet.
            Worksheet sheet = book.Worksheets[0];

            //Define ImageOrPrintOptions
            ImageOrPrintOptions imgOptions = new ImageOrPrintOptions();
            //Specify the image format
            imgOptions.ImageFormat = System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg;
            //Render the sheet with respect to specified image/print options
            SheetRender sr = new SheetRender(sheet, imgOptions);
            //Render the image for the sheet
            Bitmap bitmap = sr.ToImage(0);

            //Save the image file
            bitmap.Save(MyDir+"SheetImage.jpg");
        }
    }
}


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