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Everywhere that a DataTorque solution has been employed, Authorities report an increase in capability and efficiency, and a rise in compliance and revenue. Simply put, each solution has delivered a return on investment that has met or exceeded all expectations. This is why we've never lost a client in over 20 years of operation.
Our Revenue Management System™ (RMS) is a powerful and flexible tax management application that helps you more effectively collect and manage tax revenues.
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RMS has been designed to be intuitive so it's easy to use and understand. Delivers fast returns and success comes early.
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Its impact is immediate and felt at a grassroots level. Goods reach the marketplace faster, revenue is collected more cost-effectively and at-risk goods are better identified and monitored.
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Administrative tasks become automated allowing staff to focus on inspecting at-risk goods rather than processing manual transactions. A user-friendly online registration also encourages voluntary compliance by traders.
Using the same technology platform as all DataTorque products, means CMS is highly flexible. It can be implemented in stages and integrated seamlessly with RMS and TMS to provide a single source of truth. It can also adapt quickly and easily to changes in legislation.
CMS is a focused solution with rich functionalilty, which scales to your needs so you always have the right tools on hand.
CMS helps streamline your processes to reduce the cost of collection, while making it easier for traders to comply - helping to increase revenue.
The intuitive interface is easy to understand and quick to learn ensuring a fast and smooth transition to a modern system.
CMS aligns with standardised international systems, helping traders and customs staff 'talk the same language'.
By automating the paperwork, goods are processed faster and hit the local marketplace sooner.
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By integrating seamlessly with RMS and TMS, you get a complete picture of a customer's transactions across jurisdictions.
CMS doesn't just automate paperwork, it increases accuracy by helping staff and customers get it right first time, eliminating costly rework.
Improves the transparency of getting imported goods to market through automation, driving a more reliable flow of goods between markets.
A DataTorque solution goes beyond delivering world-leading technology. It's built on a solid foundation of wide-ranging and ongoing expert support.
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Przedsiębiorczość – rozwój – praca – strategia rozwoju gospodarczego stworzona w styczniu 2002 roku przez koalicję SLD-UP-PSL.

Składała się z czterech części:
 Strategiczne cele polityki gospodarczej.
 Strategia finansów publicznych.
 Strategia wzrostu gospodarczego.
 Strategia integracji europejskiej.

Strategiczne cele polityki gospodarczej
W części pierwszej skrytykowano politykę poprzednich rządów.
Zarzucano im doprowadzenie do:
 nierównowagi finansów państwa,
 pogorszenie warunków funkcjonowania polskich przedsiębiorstw,
 gasnącą dynamikę wzrostu gospodarczego,
 narastanie bezrobocia,
 załamanie inwestycji,
 rosnące dysproporcje regionalne,
 kryzys w rolnictwie,
 zmniejszające się poczucie bezpieczeństwa socjalnego.

Źródła problemów upatrywano w niespójnej polityce makroekonomicznej, drogich, źle oszacowanych i nieudolnie wprowadzonych reformach, braku reakcji na pojawiające się trudności. Przedstawiono również uwarunkowania mogące mieć wpływ na sytuację gospodarczą kraju (m.in. rosnące uzależnienie polskiej gospodarki od światowej koniunktury, globalizację w gospodarce i handlu światowym) oraz strategiczne cele polityki gospodarczej (stopniowy powrót w ciągu 2 lat na ścieżkę 5% wzrostu PKB, aktywizację zawodową społeczeństwa i zwiększanie zatrudnienia, skuteczną absorpcję funduszy europejskich i wykorzystanie ich dla rozwoju kraju).

Strategia finansów publicznych
Część druga zakładała zmiany zasad konstruowania budżetu oraz zmiany w systemie podatkowym mające na celu pobudzenie wzrostu gospodarczego i zmniejszenie bezrobocia. Opisano tu również źródła dopływu środków publicznych na cele rozwojowe, rozwój rynków finansowych i dochodzenie do równowagi makroekonomicznej.

Strategia wzrostu gospodarczego
W trzeciej części przedstawiono instrumenty niezbędne do osiągnięcia pożądanej dynamiki PKB.
Zawarto je w trzech programach:
 "Przede wszystkim przedsiębiorczość" (działania na rzecz likwidacji utrudnień w tworzeniu nowych przedsiębiorstw, ułatwianiu działalności przedsiębiorstw istniejących oraz zwiększaniu zatrudnienia),
 "Pierwsza praca" (działania ułatwiające absolwentom podjęcie pierwszego zatrudnienia),
 "Infrastruktura – klucz do rozwoju" (rozwój infrastruktury jako czynnik pobudzania wzrostu gospodarczego).
Oprócz trzech głównych programów zakłada się też: zmiany w strukturze gospodarki (modernizacja, restrukturyzacja, innowacyjność, przekształcenia własnościowe i prywatyzacja), zwiększenie konkurencyjności krajowej produkcji i usług, rozwój wsi i rolnictwa oraz zmiany polityki regionalnej.

Strategia integracji europejskiej
W czwartej części opisano działania dostosowawcze pod kątem wchodzenia Polski do struktur Unii Europejskiej.

Rezultaty
W latach 2002–2004 rządowi udało się nieznacznie obniżyć deficyt budżetowy, a w 2004 roku pojawiły się tendencje ożywienia w gospodarce polskiej. Uważa się jednak, iż przyczyn nie można upatrywać we wdrażaniu ustaleń rządowej strategii. Bardziej prawdopodobną przyczyną poprawy sytuacji gospodarczej wydają się czynniki natury koniunkturalnej. Nad sytuacją społeczno-ekonomiczną kraju nadal ciążyło wysokie bezrobocie, zwłaszcza wśród młodych ludzi.

Bibliografia
 Winiarski B.: Polityka gospodarcza. PWN, Warszawa 2006

Linki zewnętrzne
 Przedsiębiorczość – rozwój – praca.

Polityka gospodarcza

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Here at Express Drainage Solutions, we understand that industry activities will have an impact on the environment. We take our environmental – and social – responsibilities seriously and strive to take actions to mitigate them. This has rewarded us with an accreditation from the Environment Agency.
To move with the times, we will continually review our environmental policy and assess our performance.


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Q: Cloud Run throws error "ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'use_http2'" Deploying a TF serving container I get the following error:
ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'use_http2'

Versions
gcloud version
Google Cloud SDK 277.0.0
alpha 2019.05.17
beta 2019.05.17
bq 2.0.52
core 2020.01.17
docker-credential-gcr
gsutil 4.47

Complete output
➜  cloud_run gcloud run deploy predict --image gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/predict --port=8501 --memory=512 --platform managed --allow-unauthenticated --region=us-central1
ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'use_http2'

If you would like to report this issue, please run the following command:
  gcloud feedback

To check gcloud for common problems, please run the following command:
  gcloud info --run-diagnostics
➜  cloud_run gcloud run deploy predict --image gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/predict --port=8501 --memory=512 --platform managed --allow-unauthenticated
ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'use_http2'

If you would like to report this issue, please run the following command:
  gcloud feedback

To check gcloud for common problems, please run the following command:
  gcloud info --run-diagnostics
➜  cloud_run gcloud run deploy predict --image gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/predict --port=8501 --memory=512 --platform managed
ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'use_http2'

If you would like to report this issue, please run the following command:
  gcloud feedback

To check gcloud for common problems, please run the following command:
  gcloud info --run-diagnostics
➜  cloud_run gcloud run deploy predict --image gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/predict --port=8501 --memory=512
ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'use_http2'

If you would like to report this issue, please run the following command:
  gcloud feedback

To check gcloud for common problems, please run the following command:
  gcloud info --run-diagnostics
➜  cloud_run gcloud run deploy predict --image gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/predict
Deploying container to Cloud Run service [predict] in project [XXXXXXX] region [us-central1]
✓ Deploying... Done.
  ✓ Creating Revision...
  ✓ Routing traffic...
Done.
Service [predict] revision [predict-00005-lub] has been deployed and is serving 100 percent of traffic at https://predict-XXXXXX.a.run.app

Run diagnostics as indicated:
gcloud info --run-diagnostics
Network diagnostic detects and fixes local network connection issues.
Checking network connection...done.
Reachability Check passed.
Network diagnostic passed (1/1 checks passed).

Property diagnostic detects issues that may be caused by properties.
Checking hidden properties...done.
Hidden Property Check passed.
Property diagnostic passed (1/1 checks passed).

Seems to be all flags are valid:
NAME
    gcloud beta run deploy - deploy a container to Cloud Run

SYNOPSIS
    gcloud beta run deploy [[SERVICE] --namespace=NAMESPACE] --image=IMAGE
        [--args=[ARG,...]] [--async] [--command=[COMMAND,...]]
        [--concurrency=CONCURRENCY] [--max-instances=MAX_INSTANCES]
        [--memory=MEMORY] [--platform=PLATFORM] [--port=PORT]
        [--timeout=TIMEOUT]
        [--clear-env-vars | --set-env-vars=[KEY=VALUE,...]
          | --remove-env-vars=[KEY,...] --update-env-vars=[KEY=VALUE,...]]
        [--clear-labels | --remove-labels=[KEY,...] --labels=[KEY=VALUE,...]
          | --update-labels=[KEY=VALUE,...]]
        [--connectivity=CONNECTIVITY --cpu=CPU]
        [--[no-]allow-unauthenticated --revision-suffix=REVISION_SUFFIX
          --service-account=SERVICE_ACCOUNT
          --add-cloudsql-instances=[CLOUDSQL-INSTANCES,...]
          | --clear-cloudsql-instances
          | --remove-cloudsql-instances=[CLOUDSQL-INSTANCES,...]
          | --set-cloudsql-instances=[CLOUDSQL-INSTANCES,...]]
        [--region=REGION
          | --cluster=CLUSTER --cluster-location=CLUSTER_LOCATION
          | --context=CONTEXT --kubeconfig=KUBECONFIG] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]

DESCRIPTION
    (BETA) Deploys container images to Google Cloud Run.

A: use the Alpha version in the SDK for the time being. a fix for the problem is being implemented, check here.
gcloud alpha run ....

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E. Trier, Jean Arp Sculpture 1957-1966, London 1968, no. 232 (another cast illustrated pl. 48).
H. Read, The Art of Jean Arp, New York 1968, no. 130, p. 105 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat. Landesmuseum, Mainz, Hans Arp 1886-1966, June-August 1997, no. 15 (another cast illustrated in colour p. 43).
Exh. cat. Galerie Neher, Essen, Hans Arp Skulpturen Reliefs Gouachen, December 1987-January 1988, p. 85 (the large version illustrated).
Please note that this work was conceived in 1960 and cast after 1966.


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Ether for Authors: Why Are the Big Six So Silent?
In Discussion by Porter Anderson June 25, 2013
"Seems Inevitable…Big Publishers' Power Is Reduced"
Why the Silence of the Grands?
Financing Fan Fiction
Those "Toxic" eBook Royalties
Author Services, Not Disservices
No Money in It?
Last Gas: Paris in the Machine
It's hard for a publishing giant to catch a break these days.
Mike Shatzkin
Mike Shatzkin, longtime senior-statesman consultant to the industry! the industry! is answering reader Jack W. Perry there in a comment on Shatzkin's article, Anybody Press is the new member of the Big Six (for ebooks, at least).
Prompted by Perry to talk about the merging Penguin Random House (PRH), which Perry sees as having a bright future, Shatzkin writes:
The others [the major publishing houses] have a lot of capabilities, but they're in a race against time to develop additional distribution among them to match what PRH will be able to create or, alternatively, to change what they are from a general trade publisher to a multi-niche publisher with *strong* community capabilities that can be leveraged for other business models.
Yup. My songsshowsbooksmessagesfriends are alllllll over the place too. http://t.co/NJro7VZVdw
— rick joyce (@rickjoyce) June 23, 2013
Feel like catching your digitally disrupted breath this week? Yeah, me, too. Shatzkin is giving us just the thing. This is the kind of walk through the park that gives you a little perspective. The Frisbees are in other hands and dogs' mouths. We're watching. One concept he offers: "indie entities." He writes that those entities:
…are more likely to be disruptive on a larger scale than indie authors have been so far. So we might have Any Organization Press growing even faster in the next few years than Anybody Press has for the past few.
"Anybody Press" and "Any Organization Press" are Shatzkin's aggregations of the rising force of entrepreneurial publishing.
Anybody Press is almost certainly growing faster in ebook sales than any of the other Big Six.
He's responding to the reports issued earlier this month from Bowker, indicating that some 12 percent of ebooks may be self-published. As we've long pointed out in Ether-eal moments together, such estimations, despite the best efforts and capability of Bowker's research folks, are highly suspect.
One of the perils of working from home is that sudden wildlife can render you into inexplicable silence during a phone call. — ljndawson (@ljndawson) June 24, 2013
Many self-publishing authors and "entities" aren't registering their output with the ISBNs Bowker sells and uses to track active titles directly. And major retailers of ebooks, including Amazon, aren't reporting numbers to us, they're holding such figures close to the chest as proprietary data. This is their right, by the way, no question. It just has the unfortunate side effect of meaning that we don't have an accurate picture of how large the ebook universe is, nor of how much of it is self-published.
So if 12 percent sounds low to you, you'll find company among some of your colleagues. Nor is a better guess readily available. This is, actually, a very serious problem, in that without the full spectrum of numbers from some of the very biggest retail players, we really don't know what we're talking about when we try to quantify the impact of self-publishing on the business. Nevertheless, Shatzkin soldiers on, these best-latest-proposed-figures in hand, to sketch out several useful elements of the self-publishing landscape as we can glimpse it from one high point to the next.
For example, he notes:
The self-publishing or Amazon-publishing route still requires pretty much giving up on bookstore or other retail distribution.
When traditional-to-self-publishing author Barry Eisler turned that around and suggested that retail distribution is big publishing's best, last power, he almost had his head handed to him, as you might recall from the Pikes Peak incident.
He was trounced by suggesting this in a keynote address at a writers' conference. Shatzkin, reading the self-published handwriting scrawled on the outer walls of some major houses, is watching the digital-to-traditional balance of sales shift—and yes, all roads lead him to roam the endless shelves of cyberspace for best potential. Here he is, emphasis mine:
If I were the business development manager for Anybody Press (and, on some consulting projects we are working on, I am) I would see lots of target markets for growth. I'd encourage…doing the calculation of what the sales times royalty rate is for the "bought online" portion of the market versus what the sales times royalty rate is for a conventional deal that gets you the "whole" market. As the "bought online" share grows, more and more genres and authors will find that giving up the retail sale in favor of a bigger share of the revenue per sale online is to their financial benefit.
I'm not on the Moscow – Havana flight either. #spartacus — Don Linn (@DonLinn) June 24, 2013
Mind you, it's a good moment not to run entirely to one side of the room. And yet, change is still coming:
Particularly viewed in a global context and aside from straight narrative books, the print-at-retail component has a long way to go before it becomes irrelevant. But when I say that, I mean "many years," not "many decades."
All in all, this is a quieter, more contemplative, and—I mean this as a compliment to our good colleague Mike—a less combative write than we may have seen during the springtime offensives of conferences and trade shows. Less defensive. More watchful. Hell, maybe we're all just crazy from the heat.
And it's not as if Shatzkin doesn't have a confab to sell you now. His and Michael Cader's Publishers Launch program is working with Digital Book World to produce with consultant Peter McCarthy the September 26 two-track Marketing and Publishing Services cotillion. But even for a longtime roller-with-the-punches like Shatzkin, these are new punches incoming, and I like seeing the footwork slow down every now and then to try to suss out the dynamics before going to the mat for one strategy or another. As Shatzkin puts it:
What people spend for books won't necessarily shrink drastically, but where the money goes will shift drastically. The challenge for today's leading revenue producers will be to find the ways their business models can adapt to the shift.
Apparently it's #agentsday. So I'd like to thank all my clients for being such great writers, and so lovely to work with. — Ginger Clark (@Ginger_Clark) June 24, 2013
And in answering that original constant commenter, Robert Gottlieb, Shatzkin brings it into the sharpest focus yet. Note that "early days" caution. But pay attention to what "seems inevitable":
I think it is early days from which to draw any broad conclusions, but it seems inevitable to me that the big publishers' power is reduced as the parts that nobody else can do (putting books on shelves) become less important compared to the parts that others with much less scale can do (delivering ebooks to the marketplace).
Fotos: The Solstice and the Supermoon http://t.co/7j28SsDSfZ
— Ian Huckabee (@ianhuckabee) June 24, 2013
Just a note before we go on, in reflection of the ideas Mike Shatzkin has put forward here.
Molly Barton
Over the weekend, I enjoyed a great discussion with some readers of Writer Unboxed, on the topic of royalty issues around ebooks. And I found myself in one response echoing what I'd said to Len Edgerly in his Kindle Chronicles podcast: I really regret the relative silence of leadership in the major publishing establishment. It's bad enough that we all look to the Big Six-becoming-Five as "Old Publishing." Even with the PRH merger coming in, two oldsters don't make a new. But this is tradition, of course, and not to be dismissed lightly. A concept of what is dignified, proper, appropriate has been in place for a long time. It's far easier for the Bermuda-shorted entrepreneurial class to yak its business all day and night than it is for those who were trained to the pinstripe and have corporate overlords who don't want to hear their business passed around on the street. Having come from deep inside a news industry that once instructed us to "set the agenda" for the population—gatekeeping at its finest—I know how hard it is to let go of the concepts of propriety and decorum.
BC members: You should have received an email from us about the #newbookcountry we launched today. Read the email & come play on the site! — Book Country (@BookCountry) June 24, 2013
But as a whole, the business in recent years has been poorer, I think, for the fact that the new, more experimental, reachier elements empowered by the digital dynamic have had the luxury of talking (and talking and talking and talking) and the older guard has not. Unless a session is convened by Judge Denise Cote—who many of us probably see as an honorary member of the publishing community by now—we hear precious little from the main players.
Sure, there's a word here or there at conferences, guarded comments on congenial panels; a carefully sanitized statement to authors or agents might arrive from one tower or another from time to time. But for the most part…silence
So I'm especially grateful for a recent bit of commentary from Molly Barton, Penguin's Global Digital Director and an architect of the Book Country read-review-and-publish community. In New York Isn't Book Country Anymore at the Huffington Post, Barton writes from a personal perspective of her 11 years' experience, first in a highly centralized Brooklyn-and-Manhattan business that today, of course, is no longer sensibly defined by geography.
I edited a number of women writers who were not born or raised in Manhattan or Brooklyn, and I wrestled with how to build more inclusive, collaborative ways for writers to begin their careers. I began to think about all the writers in other places who didn't have access to other writers (never mind agents or editors), or to the critical feedback they needed to improve their book. Who could share war stories with them, and help them learn all they need to know about the craft and the business of writing.
Eventually, of course, a lot of the problems of author isolation have been solved by the many booming social media (still a plural word, damn it) that now create so much inter-connectivity and distraction in the publishing community that nobody can get any work done. Maybe we should go back to having everything centered in New York. Just kidding. (I think.)
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— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) June 24, 2013
But, seriously, the chance to have a major house's executive's commentary mixed in with the crowd-roar of the mighty marching self-publishing platoons is too good, let's take note of it. Some will say that Barton is pushing Book Country, of course. And it's certainly true that as Barton winds into her recitative—"I Set Out To Build a Platform Called Book Country"—we're reminded of the many times we've read what seemed like a wholly informative blog post from an author only to find the other shoe dropping: "So that's why I wrote this how-to book, to help you with your writing," etc., you know the drill.
Until ebook sales are transparent we cannot move forward as an industry. #liberatEbooks
— jonny geller (@jonnygeller) June 19, 2013
Having spent some time talking with Barton, though, I believe her to be a genuinely thoughtful and motivated soul with that most important of characteristics we're probably missing from so many silent, tailored suits: a sense of humor. And you know what? From an executive in one of the two merging biggies—surely the most ominously quiet Penguin in creation—this isn't half bad:
I am happy to say that New York no longer has a lock on being "Book Country." Your desk, your laptop, your tablet, is book country.
Thanks for contributing to the conversation, Molly.
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I realised that Amazon Worlds is a whole new revenue stream for aspiring writers and established writers, it's co-opting the edge and making it mainstream and crucially introducing a revenue model that work for everyone.
Eoin Purcell
I love how our colleague Eoin Purcell just gets right out there and tells you he missed a major part of the Amazon Kindle Worlds initiative. His post is headlined Somehow I Missed This Incredibly Important detail of Kindle Worlds: MONEY.
What has called him to have a second look at that late-spring development is the news, of course, that new licensees have been added to the program. Headliner Hugh Howey's Silo Saga trilogy, Barry Eisler's John Rain books, Neal Stephenson's Foreworld Saga, and Blake Crouch's Wayward Pine series now are fair game for the busy writers of fan fiction through the program.
Perhaps the heaviest hitter of the new additions to the program is Valiant Entertainment, which opens up Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, Archer & Armstrong, Harbinger, and Shadowman to the avid creativity of the fans.
It's this part of the Kindle Worlds program that seems to have escaped Purcell and now has his admiration. I'm quoting here from Seattle's press release:
Amazon Publishing will pay royalties to both the rights holders of the Worlds and the author. The standard author's royalty rate (for works of at least 10,000 words) will be 35% of net revenue. Amazon Publishing will also pilot an experimental new program for particularly short works—between 5,000 and 10,000 words. For these short stories—typically priced under one dollar—Amazon will pay the royalties for the World's rights holder and pay authors a digital royalty of 20%.
When Purcell read that, he writes: I was struck by how many of those new writers came from or were converts to the world of self-publishing and it reminded me once again how powerful and useful Amazon's policy of accommodating self-publishers and small publishers has been in their development of a digital publishing platform.
Valiant Entertainment is one of several licensees newly added for fan-fiction work at Amazon Publishing's Kindle Worlds. Image: ValiantUniverse.com
Like Mike Shatzkin in the previous item, you see, Purcell is looking at the ascendant power of the self-publishing movement and how integral this is looking to be to strategies "going forward." (It's great, the corporate world's use of that term, isn't it? "Going forward." As if anyone has ever had any success with strategies "going backward.")
Purcell is outspoken in his regard for the ingenuity of the Amazonian fan-fiction model. I'm going to give him to you at a little length here because his late understanding of how Kindle Worlds works gives us a valuable second chance to review just what's afoot here. So bear with me and catch these cogent points:
Before I read those words, I thought Amazon Worlds was a clever piece of distraction from Amazon, a way to get more people on the Kindle platform, perhaps a mine for future talent and a stick to beat publishers with….What's more in this model, because they own the platform and delivery system they still keep a chunk of the revenue. …Think about this new model for a few seconds. Successful writers, who in genre fiction were already pretty supportive of fan-fiction anyway, now have an active reason to support and encourage fan-fiction that is licensed by Amazon. They have a reason to drive people onto the kindle platform because when they see stories based on their worlds and characters, they will profit from them.
Hey, influencers. You know thought leaders are laughing at you behind your backs, right?
— Mark O'Connell (@mrkocnnll) June 24, 2013
This is not Purcell's only view of the Amazonian approach. On Medium, in Ebooks & The Exclusivity Factor (written before he picked up on the licensing/commercial factors of Kindle Worlds), he writes about Kindle Direct Publishing's exclusivity arrangement with authors, KDP Select.
From Amazon's perspective KDP Select is a clever program. It gives the company a chance to see how self-published material performs before anyone else or at least during the period while it is exclusive to Amazon. Such data is surely valuable in determining whether an author might be a profitable acquisition for Amazon Publishing and what genres perform best among readers. Maybe more important than that though is the power of the exclusive content the program generates to drive new readers to the Kindle ecosystem (after all, readers can only buy those titles enrolled in KDP Select from Amazon) or in convincing new members to sign up for Amazon Prime or indeed in convincing existing members of Prime to stay on the package, reducing churn as the industry puts it.
France to ban Amazon discounting books, no free delivery. This won't save indie bookselling, I'm afraid. http://t.co/gK2SEutk62 — Litopia (@Litopia) June 24, 2013
In both pieces, Purcell—himself, a publisher, by the way—is showing you something even more valuable than several elements of Amazon's successful understanding of consumer appeal. He's demonstrating a willingness to learn, to study, to sort out why something is working and how it was conceived. Rancor isn't hindering him from analyzing. Nor is he entirely impressed. His comments at Medium include misgivings about the exclusivity involved in Amazon's offer:
I think the issue of exclusivity is less attractive than Amazon believes and it is here, I believe that Amazon has misstepped. The offer Amazon makes would be a decent one if Amazon still controlled 80-90% of the ebook market but when you know that Amazon controls less than 60% in some markets and even in the US, its dominance is not what it used to be, allowing the company exclusivity sounds like a recipe for smaller sales and reduced exposure.
Looking especially closely at subscriptions and their potential for Amazon and others, Purcell produces this and his newer piece on Kindle Worlds with respect, clarity, and a calm eye. These posts are well worth your time.
Made some lovely American Style fluffy #pancakes today, they were delicious! pic.twitter.com/A67h2bsaaL — Eoin Purcell (@eoinpurcell) June 23, 2013
Publishers have put themselves in an interesting position. Ebook sales are rising against paperbacks, and many authors are becoming – encouraged by their editors – their own best advocates in the online setting. On the one hand, such authors may be less willing to carry this weight if they're not being properly remunerated for digital sales. On the other, those who are most effective in this arena may feel less and less interested in being published by a major house.
Author Nick Harkaway handily has picked up where we left off in that weekend look at ebook royalties I've mentioned at Writer Unboxed. In Get Your Geiger Counter Out (ebook royalties are back, and this time they're toxic), he lays out the authorial view of Old Publishing's negotiating tone:
The red lines drawn by publishers – we MUST have ebook rights, you WILL accept 25% – start to look both shaky (as they are crossed by writers coming into a publishing deal from a self-publishing success) and demonstrably unfair.
"Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know anything about either." – Marshall McLuhan — Dave Morris (@MirabilisDave) June 23, 2013
In the WU piece on the subject, in fact, A Major Publisher Jumps the Shark, I quoted agent Brian DeFiore asking what I think is the very pertinent question here about
The author who gets a reasonable advance and whose book sells much better than expected (is) the one who suffers the greatest loss. How can anyone in this industry see that as defensible?
Brian DeFiore
As was pointed out helpfully by DeFiore in WU discussion, the HarperCollins demonstration of ebook profitability for News Corp backers that touched off the debate is "a simplistic look at a complex issue" because it represents one profit scenario devised for investors' eyes, an example that can be affected and changed by "all kinds of pricing experiments and price points." This is important, as is DeFiore's assertion—with my agreement—that a good publisher still has a lot to offer an author in many if not most cases. Nevertheless, the overall e-trend indicated in this academic model is greater profitability for publishers and lesser royalty revenue for authors. In DeFiore's original example, without fixed costs and many other conditions factored in, he parses the potential this way:
$27.99 hardcover generates $5.67 profit to publisher and $4.20 royalty to author. $14.99 agency priced e-book generates $7.87 profit to publisher and $2.62 royalty to author. So, in other words, at these average price points, every time a hardcover sale is replaced by an e-book sale, the publisher makes $2.20 more per copy and the author makes $1.58 less.
Just unfollowed someone for literally posting the number of times they've "checked in" via Foursquare. Mostly because I do not care. — Brett Sandusky (@bsandusky) June 21, 2013
Harkaway gets the hypothetical nature of the example, and its implications, writing:
Let's assume for a moment that this holds roughly true across the industry. Absent some really powerful, clear, and unhedged explanations, authors are going to be miserable and furious. The question is how they will respond.
I appreciate the personal context in which Harkaway looks at the issue, too. You may find resonance in what he's saying here:
I've been wrestling with a sense of confusion for a little while now. It all seemed to be going so well for the traditional trade, and yet so many of the things I think are important in the digital transition remain completely untouched. I would have expected to see publisher-branded ereading software by now, direct sales and reading clubs, bundled digital and physical copies with deals on audiobooks, loyalty schemes, communities, discovery engines, price experiments, more DRM-free books, a faster transition of manuscripts to books and a partial end to the seasonal nature of the trade, with at least some books coming to market when they're ready. These things just don't seem to be on the menu.
And he positions what we must consider to be a serious potential:
If the industry is achieving this happy stasis through a perpetual blood transfusion from its authors, that would explain a lot, but it would also leave open the possibility of a sudden collapse as disenchanted creators demand a better slice of the action or find other ways of doing their thing.
Those last 3 retweets are why I spend so much time on Twitter. Fascinating.
— Damien Walter (@damiengwalter) June 24, 2013
Harkaway is careful here, as DeFiore is, as we all must be. "That sounds a bit over the top, perhaps," he writes. Indeed, the author corps at this point may not be so organized or unified in its understanding of its potential. A spacious fragmentation still is in place as newcomers to the industry retrace each others' steps toward publication and replicate both successful and unsuccessful formulas. But in Harkaway's view, that means the situation needs attention in the present, not the future:
It is now time for that 25% to shift, and shift properly. Taking a bite out of authors is neither a long term answer nor an acceptable one.
Photo: brucesterling: crfashionbook: ANATOMY OF A BAG: HERMÈS In the first part of an ongoing series, we… http://t.co/i6vrmRw5Yy — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) June 24, 2013
Here is one of the most interesting points you'll encounter this week about author services:
Not all authors want to self-publish, but in order to maximise their chances of getting picked up by an agent, authors who want a traditional deal should make sure that they produce the best quality manuscript they possibly can — the less work an agent or publisher thinks a manuscript needs, the more positively they will view it. For traditional authors, it's worth considering working with a literary consultancy which focuses on the editorial side of things.
Suw Charman-Anderson
In An Introduction To Author Services, Part 1 at Forbes, Suw Charman-Anderson has comments from several players in the field, including the highly regarded whitefox group in London.
While the good whitefoxers can't seem to find a capital W on their keyboards (is it really so clever to write your company name all-lowercase? Maybe they just want to be seen as German…), its principals include Peter Collingridge, formerly of just about everything and now with Safari.
Charman-Anderson is getting at an important point in this time of entrepreneurial author development: even the surest-looking walk to a traditional contract now needs to be all but camera-ready. Good author services, especially in the area of developmental edits and copy-editing can be indispensable.
The hunt for Snowden reminds me of the hunt for Leeson. Related – switching from Twitterrific to Tweetbot so I can filter it out. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) June 24, 2013
But, needless to say, the quality and ethical foundations of author services—let alone the outright author fury encountered in conversations about some vendors such as the Author Solutions companies (now facing an attempted lawsuit)—surrounds every consideration in this field. The mere mention of pricing for editorial services can get you an hour or two of hair-tearing tweets these days.
Charman-Anderson's Part 2 is a look at "Choosing Who To Work With." Pack a lunch.
7 common myths you thought were true http://t.co/1GKGbFQLWM
— HuffPost Books (@HuffPostBooks) June 24, 2013
"There's a whole generation of kids who are really bright and who are interested in this work. None of them have been trained as reporters and it's disastrous. Reporting is a craft. Like other crafts, you learn it through apprenticeship and by doing the job. You can't substitute blogging on the Huffington Post for writing long reported pieces for magazines or working your way up from the Quad Cities Times to the Chicago Tribune."
Noah Davis
That's writer David Samuels quoted by Noah Davis in a revealing, candid essay at the Awl, I Was Paid $12.50 An Hour To Write This Story. At issue is not only the Internet's "democratization," which has flooded the industry with unprepared and frequently unpaid workers. There's also the alarming collapse of pay rates which teeter between the still-questionable models of digital-only publications and what one speaker in the story, Ann Friedman, describes as unwise management of resources in print magazines. She says to Davis:
"I actually think it would be possible for old-school print outlets to pay better if they wouldn't over-assign or if they didn't have super-fancy real estate in Midtown. The notion that media is both a struggling industry and a glamour profession is totally ridiculous. If you're a struggling industry that's worried about declining advertising revenues, fucking pack up, move to Brooklyn, and stop triple-assigning every issue."
This is a complex and well nuanced write, worthy of some time in a quiet moment.
I think the least believable thing about Superman as a character is his steady job in print media
— Hayden Wright (@HaydoAtHome) June 23, 2013
If you have a publishing conference in the offing, let me know about it via my contact page, and I'll be happy to consider including it in my site's listing and in columns as I have the chance. Here's a look at conferences coming in the near term. Please note that a listing here is not my endorsement of a conference or other event, but an informational inclusion.
June 27-29 Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Jackson Hole Writers Conference: "Each year distinguished speakers, editors and agents join our resident faculty to deliver a weekend of active and engaging dialogue, collaboration and the opportunity for all of us to raise the stakes on our work.Manuscript critiques are an important part of our conference, providing a way for you to discuss your work one-on-one with experienced writers, editors and agents." The program also features a pre-conference writing workshop.
June 29 San Francisco: digi.lit: Litquake's Digital Publishing Conference: "Litquake's digi.lit is a full-day conference that will explain and demystify the new digital publishing landscape.digi.lit will put you in the same room with authors, publishers, editors, marketers, agents, and booksellers who are defining the future of reading and publishing." Note speakers include April Eberhardt, Jon Fine, Laura Miller, Neal Pollack, John Tayman.
July 8 London Southbank: The Bookseller Design Conference: "Great design is a collaborative effort. The conference will focus on effective use of design across every element of the book business. We'll explore ways in which we can all be braver, have more fun and escape the trap of the copycat cover into which we are all forced far too regularly." List of speakers.
July 9 London Southbank: The Bookseller Marketing & Publicity Conference: "The Bookseller Marketing & Publicity Conference launches as a full-day event (Tuesday 9th July 2013 at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre), for the first time. The programme will reflect that the lines between publicity and marketing are blurring. The aim of the conference is to provide inspiration and practical tips to drive sales and reader engagement. We'll be bringing marketing, publicity and brand leaders from outside the industry to give us some time to look up from our books and understand the wider trends." List of speakers.
July 14-19 New Haven (Greenberg Conference Center): Yale Publishing Course – Leadership Strategies in Magazine & Digital Publishing: "The Yale Publishing Course is designed for mid- to senior-level professionals from all over the world. Our mission is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to be more effective leaders and advance their careers." List of speakers and topics.
July 21-26 New Haven (Greenberg Conference Center): Yale Publishing Course – Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing: "The program provides a mixture of overviews of the current and future state of the industry and in-depth explorations of specific topics in editorial content, design, marketing, circulation, advertising, finance, and management. The carefully-selected industry experts and distinguished faculty from the Yale School of Management present real-world business models and case studies from both large and small publishers." List of speakers and topics (including Publishing Perspectives' Ed Nawotka, Perseus' Rick Joyce, Sourcebooks' Dominique Raccah, and Craig Mod).
July 25-28 Seattle: Pacific Northwest Writers Association: "This annual summer conference is an opportunity for writers of all levels to meet other writers, attend sessions focused on different aspects of the craft, and pitch your ideas to agents and editors. Sessions led by industry experts are crafted to address many aspects of the publishing industry. From keeping track of your expenses to crafting the perfect pitch, sessions give you a chance to interact with experts and ask questions in a friendly and open environment." Speakers include Donald Maass, Debbie Macomber.
September 26 New York City (Metropolitan Pavilion): Marketing + Publishing Services Conference & Expo: "This innovative conference & expo is really two related shows, held together. The Marketing Conference is a full-day dedicated event that presents a comprehensive strategy for marketing in the digital age. ThePublishing Services Expo offers three finely-targeted "mini-conferences" for important and often-overlooked publishing constituencies. Each track is an affordably priced, efficiently programmed two-and-half-hour session that pairs concise educational sessions with vendor speed dating to learn about new solutions." Produced by Digital Book World and Publishers Launch (Publishers Lunch's Michael Cader and Mike Shatzkin).
September 27-29 Los Angeles: Writers Digest Conference West: "You'll make real connections with fellow writers, experience the thrill of pitching your work to literary agents and editors, and get practical publishing-industry advice and writing inspiration from successful authors at Writer's Digest Conference West."
October 12 San Francisco: Writing for Change Conference: "The Fifth San Francisco Writing for Change Conference is the place to discover whether your book can change the world. The theme of the conference is "Changing the World One Book at a Time," and the goal is to encompass business, politics, technology, social issues, the environment, culture, the law, and much more." The event will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Center at the corner of Geary and Franklin in San Francisco.
November 21, London: The Bookseller FutureBook Conference: Once again at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, the conference is industry-focused and usually includes both plenary and breakout sessions during the course of the day. Details as they become available.
February 13-16, 2014: San Francisco Writers Conference: "Attendees have access to more than fifty "how to" sessions, panels, and workshops. An Independent Editor consultation and Ask a Pro are included in the registration fee. Our famously popular Speed Dating for Agents is still only $50 to pitch to a room full of agents. And you will find there are plenty of one-on-one opportunities to pitch your work to well-known publishing professionals during the weekend. The Conference features large and small traditional publishing houses, but also gives attendees the latest e-publishing, social media, and self-publishing information."
Lightning hits the Eiffel Tower, Paris. pic.twitter.com/FtvpXkMyUL
— Our Beautiful World (@Globe_Pics) June 24, 2013
When you leave the guide books behind, you experience a place not as a checklist of sites to see, but a continuous flow of the details that define it – architecture, typography, color, doorways.
Is there anything more fulsome and yet more compelling than travel writing? It's not unlike the potency Noel Coward attributed to "cheap music."
Still, if you find yourself not in Paris this summer and would like to be—before August when everyone will be not in Paris, of course—The Paris Journal is an app that might interest you. It's not available for anything but iOS now, of course. Insert the usual Sigh of the Inconvenienced here, my fellow Android-ians. "Coming soon." Hold your breath.
It's based on the work of Nichole Robertson and her book Paris in Color, described as a digital book, and:
Combines fine art photography and minimalist video into visual stories of Paris neighborhoods. Each volume covers one neighborhood over the course of one day, from morning to night.
The offering's product page promises:
It was important to us that the visual narrative was uninterrupted. There are no technological distractions, travel tips or editorial comments – just a tranquil, virtual escape to the city's streets.
Swimming pic.twitter.com/wza3E9YbE3
— Sebastian Posth (@sposth) June 23, 2013
Porter Anderson is a Fellow with the National Critics Institute, a 32-year journalist with several newspapers and three networks of CNN, as well as a producer posted to the Rome headquarters of the United Nations' World Food Programme. This column, Ether for Authors, appears here at Publishing Perspectives on Tuesdays. Anderson's Writing on the Ether is read on Thursdays at JaneFriedman.com, and he is a regular contributor to WriterUnboxed.com. His all-new London on the Ether for The Bookseller was inaugurated during the London Book Fair. More about him is at PorterAnderson.com.
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Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair's 2019 International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He is also co-owner and editor with Jane Friedman of The Hot Sheet, the newsletter for trade and indie authors. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller. Anderson also has worked as a senior producer, editor, and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA, and as an arts critic (National Critics Institute) with The Village Voice and Dallas Times Herald.
Tags: Amazon, authors, digital publishing, digitization, e-book royalties, E-books, fiction, UK, USA

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Othman Chehaibi (born 23 December 1954) is a Tunisian football forward who played for Tunisia in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Jeunesse Sportive Kairouanaise.

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External links
FIFA profile

1954 births
Tunisian footballers
Tunisia international footballers
Association football forwards
1978 FIFA World Cup players
1978 African Cup of Nations players
Living people
JS Kairouan players


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Somailand parliament approves the deal with DP World over Berbera port
(MoFA)- On 4 August, the Somaliland Parliament approved a landmark deal between the Government and Dubai Ports World of the United Arab Emirates to manage and develop the port at Berbera.
Following a robust debate, the Parliament approved it by sixty-nine votes to three. The deal between Somaliland and DP World is valued at $442 Million over 30 years.
The agreement forms part of a larger government-to-government Memorandum of Understanding between the Emirate of Dubai and the Government of the Republic of Somaliland. The deal will spur cooperation in a number of areas ranging from agriculture, tourism, and energy to industry and trade in addition to management and development of the port itself. It will also involve the setting up of a 300 km2 free zone to help support the development of Berbera's trade corridors.
The dealis vital for Somaliland's future economic development and will turn Berbera into a regional logistics hub, and encourage investment in the road corridor that links Berbera with Ethiopia. This will reduce Ethiopia's dependence on Djibouti as an outlet to the sea. Ethiopia is growing rapidly and has committed to bring up to 30%of its exports and imports through Berbera. The development of Berbera is therefore a vital part of efforts to pursue closer regional economic integration between East African countries including Somaliland. It is also yet another sign that, 25 years after reclaiming independence, Somaliland is increasingly being treated as a sovereign state.
The Somaliland government considered several potential bids before ultimately agreeing to DP World's offer. It received extensive legal and accounting advice from reputable international providers.Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr.Saad Ali Shire said that the government had chosen DP World's offer because "it represented a better deal for the people of Somaliland than any other, offering the prospect of a comprehensive development compact in addition to fair and attractive terms for the management of the port." DP World's proven record in developing port and in pioneering the use of free-zones also contributed to the government's decision.
The government understands that existing port workers may be worried about the impact of the deal on jobs in the area. It is confident that the deal will in fact create many additional jobs, attract further investment from other countries and encourage economic diversification. The Government will embark on talks with local communities in order to show how the benefits of Berbera's development will be shared by local communities across the country.The Government also plans to engage in talks with neighbours and international partners in order to raise awareness and promote understanding of the deal.
-MoFA Somaliland
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All the best shouting, attention seeking and scandal caught on camera.
IT WAS A YEAR of big issues with debates on abortion, Seanad reform and, of course, our dire economic situation, topping the agenda.
Our fiery public representatives were there, ready to fight the big fights and in some cases, it got a bit ugly. Here are just some of the times it was caught on camera.
Senators got fairly riled up ahead of the referendum to abolish the Seanad. This anger reached a peak in July when David Norris said Regina Doherty, who was Deputy Director of Elections during the campaign, was "talking through her f***y". He later apologised.
In July, Fine Gael TD Tom Barry pulled his colleague Áine Collins onto his lap in the Dáil during a break in the debate of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, sparking public outrage and stirring up questions again about whether TDs should be allowed to drink in the Dáil bar during debates.
Speaking of the Dáil bar, there was an absolute uproar in the chamber in February when Gerry Adams suggested that the bar be closed or that TDs should be breathalysed on their way back in the door.
At a Dublin pub during the summer, Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte was heckled by a group of anti-austerity protesters shouting "Run Rabbitte, run". The response to this particular method of protest was mixed.
In October, the Dáil fell silent for two minutes as TDs debated a motion on the issue of cochlear implants for children who are deaf. Cork North Central TD Jonathan O'Brian, who called for the gesture, said it was "to get some understanding of what those children have to endure".
Former Fine Gael TD Peter Mathews had a right go at Bank of Ireland executives when they appeared before the Public Accounts Committee in September. In a rare display of solidarity, he agreed several times with previous comments made by Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins.
In May, Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy told the European Parliament that he would not be registering for the property tax, which he called 'the bailout tax'. He ripped up his return, telling the parliament to "let the rich pay their taxes, working people have paid enough".
TD Clare Daly launched a blistering attack on the government for turning us into a 'nation of pimps' during the Obama family's visit in June. She accused the US President of exploiting his Irish ancestry and called him a 'war criminal'. Basically, she pulled no punches.
In March, Independent Roscommon TD Luke Ming Flanagan brought something new to the debate on the quashing of penalty points for politicians, telling the Dáil it happened to him and he wants those points back.
In the heat of the moment during a Dáil debate, Fine Gael TD Jim Daly suggested he didn't believe in Santa. After the government confirmed the existence of Santa and said they hoped Daly would not end up on his naughty list, the TD withdrew his remarks and apologised "unreservedly" to Mr Claus.
The recent controversy about high-level staff at the Central Remedial Clinic receiving top-ups to their salaries from a charity fund caused quite a fuss in Leinster House. When the board appeared before a committee, TDs gave them hell, with Shane Ross accusing them of 'giving two fingers to the HSE'.
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The Iowa Wesleyan University/ Student Nurses Association will host a community blood drive today from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm at 601 N. Main St. inside the Social Hall. To donate, please contact Kathy Moothart at 319-385-8021 or visit www.bloodcenterimpact.org and use code 5030 to locate the drive.
Mt. Pleasant Arts Impact has launched a community project that involves coloring the sacks used in the summer sack program thru the Fellowship Cup. The Mount Pleasant Public Library's "kick off" to coloring will be held from 3:30-5pm. All kids, families and anyone else interested in coloring sacks are welcome.
Enjoy tacos every Wednesday at the New London VFW post from 5 to 7:30 pm.
Wayland City Council Meeting at 7:30 p at the Wayland City Hall.


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Tae (Korean name)
Sattawat Sethakorn
Tae, also spelled Tai, is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, and an element used in many two-syllable Korean given names. As a family name, it is written with a hanja meaning "great", while in given names, it may have a variety of meanings depending on the hanja used to write it.
As a family name
As a family name, Tae is written with only one hanja, meaning "great" (太). The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,165 people with the family name Tae. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 28.5% of people with that surname spelled it in Latin letters as Tai in their passports, vs. 57.1% as Tae. People with this surname trace their origins to various bon-gwan, including Namwon, Jeollabuk-do and Yeongsun-myeon (영순면), Gyeongsangbuk-do, both in what is today South Korea. They claim descent from King Go of Balhae.
People with this family name include:
Go of Balhae (died 719), founder of Balhae
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A Korean name consists of a family name followed by a given name, as used by the Korean people in both North Korea and South Korea. In the Korean language, ireum or seong-myeong usually refers to the family name (seong) and given name (ireum in a narrow sense) together.
Traditional Korean names typically consist of only one syllable. There is no middle name in the English language sense. Many Koreans have their given names made of a generational name syllable and an individually distinct syllable, while this practice is declining in the younger generations. The generational name syllable is shared by siblings in North Korea, and by all members of the same generation of an extended family in South Korea. Married men and women usually keep their full personal names, and children inherit the father's family name.
The family names are subdivided into bon-gwan (clans), i.e. extended families which originate in the lineage system used in previous historical periods. Each clan is identified by a specific place, and traces its origin to a common patrilineal ancestor.
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Tae may refer to:
Tae' language, Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Tae, Uthumphon Phisai, tambon (local government unit) of Uthumphon Phisai District, northeastern Thailand
Tae (rugby union), player on Japan's Panasonic Wild Knights
Tae, a Filipino translation of Feces
TAE (actor), Thai actor in the Chinese-language entertainment industry
TAE buffer
TAE connector
TAE – Trabajos Aéreos y Enlaces, Spanish airline that operated from 1967 to 1981
Technicien aéronautique d'exploitation
Transportable Applications Environment
Tri Alpha Energy, Inc., a company developing fusion power
IATA code for Daegu International Airport, South Korea
ISO 639-3 code for the Tariana language, Maipurean language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil
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Sattawat Sethakorn (ศตวรรษ เศรษฐกร; rtgs: Sattawat Setthakon; born 26 April 1982), also known by his stage name Tae (Thai: เต๊ะ; rtgs: Te) or his Chinese name Tang Chenyu (Chinese: 唐宸禹; pinyin: Táng Chényǔ), is a Thai television and film actor active in the Chinese-language entertainment industry. He began his career in Thailand, moved to Taiwan in the early 2000s, and has since worked on productions in mainland China as well.
At the age of 19, Sethakorn decided to move to Taiwan to develop his career further. He quickly improved his Chinese language abilities, only occasionally needing translation assistance in the course of his work.
Sethakorn was born in Kanchanaburi. His maternal grandfather was of Teochew Chinese descent, while his other grandparents were native Thai people. His parents are schoolteachers. He has one sister, younger than him by three years. He attended high school at the Sethaburbampen School, where he graduated after completing all the required coursework in just two years. He got married in a ceremony held in Japan in June 2013.
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Korean may refer to:
Koreans, an ethnic group originating in the Korean peninsula
Korean cuisine, a national cuisine originating from the Korean peninsula and Southern Manchuria
Korean diaspora, people descendant from emigrants from the Korean peninsula
Korean language, an official language in North Korea, South Korea, and a minority language of China.
Culture of Korea, traditional culture historically shared by North and South Korea
Korean Peninsula, a peninsula in East Asia
Korea, a former kingdom on the Korean Peninsula
North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
South Korea, the Republic of Korea
New Korean Orthography
Korean War, 1950–1953 war between North Korea and South Korea
Korean name, names as used by the Korean people
Names of Korea, various country names used in international contexts
History of Korea, the history of Korea up to 1945
Korean Air, flag carrier and the largest airline of South Korea
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The Koreans (Hangul: 한민족; hanja: 韓民族; alternatively Hangul: 조선민족; hanja: 朝鮮民族, see names of Korea) are a historic people based in the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria. In the last century and a half, the 7 million people of the Korean diaspora have spread along the Pacific Rim, especially to China, United States and Japan.
South Koreans refer to themselves as Hanguk-in (Hangul: 한국인; hanja: 韓國人), or Hanguk-saram (Hangul: 한국 사람), both of which mean "Korean country people." When referring to members of the Korean diaspora, Koreans often use the term Han-in (Hangul: 한인; hanja: 韓人; literally "Korean people").
North Koreans refer to themselves as Joseon-in (Hangul: 조선인; hanja: 朝鮮人) or Joseon-saram (Hangul: 조선 사람), both of which literally mean "Joseon people". Using similar words, Koreans in China refer to themselves as Chaoxianzu (Chinese: 朝鲜族) in Chinese or Joseonjok (Hangul: 조선족) in Korean, which are cognates that literally mean "Joseon ethnic group".
Ethnic Koreans living in Russia and Central Asia refer to themselves as Koryo-saram (Hangul: 고려 사람; Cyrillic script: Корё сарам), alluding to Goryeo, a Korean dynasty spanning from 918 to 1392.
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Korean (한국어/조선말, see below) is the official language of both South Korea and North Korea, as well as one of the two official languages in China's Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. About 80 million people speak Korean worldwide.
Historical linguists classify Korean as a language isolate. The idea that Korean belongs to a putative Altaic language family has been generally discredited. The Korean language is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax.
For over a millennium, Korean was written with adapted Chinese characters called hanja, complemented by phonetic systems such as hyangchal, gugyeol, and idu. In the 15th century, Sejong the Great commissioned a national writing system called Hangul, but it did not become a legal script to write Korean until the 20th century when the Japanese government in Korea was established. This happened because of the yangban aristocracy's preference for hanja.
Korean is descended from Proto-Korean, Old Korean, Middle Korean, and Modern Korean. Since the Korean War, through 70 year's of seperations North–South differences have developed in standard Korean, including variance in pronunciation, verb inflection, and vocabulary chosen.
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Een organisatieopstelling is een onderzoeksmethode die gebaseerd is op het systeemdenken. Deze aanpak vindt haar oorsprong in het werk van de Duitser Bert Hellinger. Oorspronkelijk als opstelling ontworpen om familiesystemen (rangschikking van familieleden) te onderzoeken, wordt de werkwijze inmiddels ook toegepast op verhoudingen binnen bedrijven, instellingen en verenigingen, waar zij de naam organisatieopstelling draagt. Deze manier van onderzoeken wordt voornamelijk gebruikt om hardnekkige organisatievraagstukken te doorgronden.

Achtergrond
Binnen het systeemdenken wordt een organisatie beschouwd als een zogenaamd sociaal systeem. Een dergelijk systeem bestaat dan uit een geordend geheel van onderling afhankelijke en elkaar continu beïnvloedende onderdelen. Elk systeem is gericht op een bepaald evenwicht. Wanneer er zich verstoringen in dit evenwicht voordoen, komt het hele systeem in beweging. Deze (onzichtbare) beweging wordt de systeemdynamiek genoemd. Deze dynamieken kunnen zorgen voor verstrikkingen en knelpunten in het systeem, waardoor dit niet meer optimaal werkt. De organisatieopstelling legt deze onzichtbare verstoringen bloot en geeft een beeld van mogelijke oplossingen.

Hoe gaat een opstelling in het werk?
Een organisatieopstelling is een ruimtelijke weergave van een organisatie, waarin medewerkers, afdelingen, klanten, producten of doelen (vertegenwoordigd door 'representanten') in de ruimte worden opgesteld in verhouding tot elkaar. Deze weergave (het opstellen zelf) gebeurt door de vraaginbrenger; onder begeleiding van een begeleider. De begeleider gaat met de opgestelde stand-ins (plaatsvervangers) aan de slag om de aard van het probleem vast te stellen en een oplossingsrichting te vinden. Dit gebeurt in een aantal stappen.
Stap 1, OpstellenOp aanwijzingen van de begeleider gaat de vraaginbrenger een ruimtelijke weergave van de onderhavige verhoudingen maken door plaatsvervangers een plek te geven in de ruimte. De vraaginbrenger kiest ook een plaatsvervanger voor zichzelf en blijft na het opstellen van de elementen aan de zijkant zitten om, afstand houdend, te kunnen bezien wat er gebeurt.
Stap 2, OnderzoekEr staat zo een tableau vivant, een groep die iets uitbeeldt, dat achterliggende kanten van het vraagstuk laat zien, doordat de begeleider de opgestelde mensen ondervraagt over hun gevoelens en houdingen ten opzichte van elkaar en de omstandigheden. De patronen die leiden tot stremmingen en ondoelmatigheden in de ordening komen aldus aan het licht. Hierdoor worden oplossingsrichtingen zichtbaar die eerder verscholen bleven.
Stap 3, HerordeningDe begeleider brengt herordening aan in het opgestelde systeem waarmee oplossingsrichtingen getoetst kunnen worden en/of het systeem gezuiverd wordt.
Stap 4, Inzetten vraaginbrengerSoms wordt de vraaginbrenger op de eigen plek ingebracht in de opstelling om het her-ordende systeem aan den lijve te ervaren.

Andere toepassingsgebieden
Familieverhoudingen : hierbij wordt onderzocht waar gevoelens van onevenwichtigheid vandaan komen of wat de oorzaak is van terugkerende geschillen; gevoelens van minderwaardigheid; gevoelens van niet tot je recht te komen enzovoort. Er is dan geen sprake van een organisatieopstelling, maar van een familieopstelling.
Marketing : hierbij wordt de methode gebruikt om onbewuste kennis zo veel mogelijk te activeren voor het nemen van een merkbeslissing, men spreekt dan van een merkopstelling.

Kritiek
Critici wijzen erop dat er geen enkel wetenschappelijk bewijs is dat ondersteunt dat organisatieopstellingen werken. Ze stellen dat de ontwikkelaars dit proberen te verdoezelen door de materie ingewikkeld te laten klinken en door niet relevante onderzoekers en wetenschapsgebieden met autoriteit erbij te betrekken. Denk aan het citeren van Albert Einstein of het introduceren van kwantummechanica. Hierdoor klinkt het wetenschappelijk, terwijl dit niet het geval is.

Literatuur
 Jan Velsen; 3-Dimensionaal Systemisch Werk; Velsen & Partner B.V. (2020)
 Jan Jacob Stam; Het verbindende veld: organisatieopstellingen in de praktijk; Het Noorderlicht (2004)
 Marlies Holitzka; Systemische organisatieopstellingen; Panta Rhei (2004)
 Gunthard Weber; Het succes van organisatieopstellingen; Altimira-brecht (2003)
 Bill Bryan e.a.; Systeemdenken, ontdekken van onze organisatiepatronen; SDU (2008)
 Els van Steijn: De Fontein, vind je plek

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PROVENANCE : Made for the Pavillon de l'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris - Personal collection of Georges Hoentschel, 15 cité du Retiro, Paris, probably until his death in 1915 - Collection of George Aboucaya, Paris, 1980's Luc Choveaux, Paris, 1990's - French private collection since the early 2000's.
SIMILAR PIECES : These two vases are presumed to be unique pieces. However, Hoentschel designed several other ceramics for the 1900 Paris Exhibition, including a pair of 'torchères' acquired in 2014 by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and another monumental vase in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
EXHIBITION : Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900 - These vases were shown in the 'Salon de Bois' built by Hoentschel in the Pavillon de Marsan.
LITERATURE : Joseph Blamont, 'Le Pavillon de l'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs à l'Exposition Universelle', dans Revue des Arts Décoratifs, volume 20, 1900, page 171 - Gustave Soulier, 'L'Exposition de L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs' dans Art et Décoration, volume 8, 1900, page 22 - Alastair Duncan, Paris Salons, 1895-1914 : Objets d'Art and Metalware, volume 5, page 256 - Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, Salvaging the Past : Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1907-2013, 2013, page 227, figure 180a.


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Refugee and Asylum issues
Guidelines and reports on international protection of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers.
Invisible in the City
Five years ago, there was little discussion of the challenges of LGBTI refugees; today HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) and other refugee/human rights agencies—with full support of the UNHCR—are blazing the trail for enhanced protection of sexual-minority refugees. This report is the result of a one-year qualitative and quantitative research project conducted by HIAS on sexual minority refugees in the urban centers of Ecuador, Ghana, Israel, and Kenya. During the course of the research, interviews were conducted with sexual minority refugees, refugee protection professionals, and sexual minority civil society organizations.
The 43-page report presents the protection gaps facing sexual minority refugees and asylum seekers and offers recommendations for mitigating these gaps.
Addressing this, the report recommends:
UNHCR and refugee NGOs must conduct outreach to sexual minority refugees where they live and work.
UNHCR, governments, and resettlement countries must implement mechanisms to expedite the registration, claim evaluation, and resettlement of at-risk sexual minority refugees.
UNHCR, government agencies, refugee NGOs, service providers, and sexual minority and refugee advocates must coordinate protection strategies and build referral pathways to ensure the greater protection of sexual minority refugees.
UNHCR, government agencies, refugee NGOs, and service providers must regularly train all levels of staff on sensitively serving and protecting sexual minority refugees, and take other steps to create welcoming environments for sexual minorities.
Donors should prioritize funding safe shelter options for sexual minority refugees in urban environments.
Informal Meeting of Experts on Refugee Claims relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
On 10 September 2011, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ) and the European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA) of the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), convened an expert meeting aimed at discussing the common issues and challenges facing the judiciary and lawyers/legal representatives in examining asylum claims related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
The focus of the meeting was on the European framework and practice, however, other jurisdictions were also discussed.
Around the world, people face abuse, arbitrary arrest, extortion, violence, severe discrimination and lack of official protection because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This latest issue from April 2013 includes 26 articles on the abuse of rights of forced migrants who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex. Authors discuss both the challenges faced and examples of good practice in securing protection for LGBTI forced migrants.
Fleeing homophobia - Asylum claims related to sexual orientation and gender identity in Europe
Thousands of LGBTI asylum seekers apply for international protection in Europe each year. The European Union and European States have already taken some concrete and positive steps, such as recognising sexual orientation as a persecution ground in Article 10 of the Qualification Directive.
This report (2011), however, shows that there are considerable differences in the way in which European States examine LGBTI asylum applications. As Europe aims at creating a Common European Asylum System with a uniform status, this is highly problematic. For example, LGB asylum applicants are regularly returned to countries where they have a well-founded fear of being imprisoned or sentenced to death for engaging in sexual activities with a person of the same gender.
A further example is that serious human rights violations against trans people, occurring on a large scale in many parts of the world, often do not lead to asylum. The study treats specific asylum seekers case stories from a broad range of EU countries. It focuses on 8 concrete issues which affect LGBT asylum seekers that apply for international protection: criminalization, State Protection against non-State Persecution, concealment of sexual orientation or gender identity, internal protection, credibility assessment, late disclosure, country of origin Information, reception and detention.
The report includes 9 main recommendations (page 11) and every chapter ends with a conclusion and recommendations.
Envisioning LGBT Refugee Rights in Canada
Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights is an international participatory action research project that is studying developments in selected nations that were colonized by the British Empire.
The report (2012) is based on a Round Table Dialogue with members of 14 organizations who work with LGBTI asylum seekers in the Toronto region, as well as two conference presentations. It provides a preliminary overview of the issues for LGBT asylum seekers, including: their experiences and obstacles; ways that service providers are trying to meet their needs; service gaps; and the impact of changes to immigration and refugee laws.
Generelly the projects participants discussed various issues related to LGBT refuge and asylum seekers.
As a important future item they stated that documenting different cultural expressions and increasing the awareness and knowledge on SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) issues in the global south should be an area for action. They also discussed how many lawyers serving immigrants and refugees are not familiar with SOGI issues, including the points raised above about understanding cultural differences. Their lack of expertise in these types of cases has the effect of putting their clients, who are refugees fleeing persecution on the grounds of sexual or gender identity/expression, at a disadvantage because they often aren't able to properly represent the case.
Overall, there is a lack of LGBT and refugee positive services and programs, as well as insufficient training on LGBT issues. These were identified as areas for further research and recommendations.
The research project's overall recommendations are on page 12-13.


Several more pages showing the progress of this litter are available from the links below.
These photos were taken at 6 days. The puppies visited the vet two days earlier for a first checkup, tails, and dewclaws. This was the first evening that Sissy and family were together in the living room with us, instead of enjoying the privacy of the whelping box.
#1 is the firstborn puppy, a fawn female with black mask and a white streak down her face to the chest. She has white toes, as do most of the puppies.
#2 is dark enough to be called reverse brindle. He's a male with a white streak on his face, extending to his belly, and white toes.
#3 is the puppy that most resembles her daddy, Thurman. She's a brindle female with black mask, a touch of white on the face, white chest and belly. Her toes are white.
#4 is a little fawn male with a black mask and some white markings. He needed some supplemental feedings to get started, but he's right in there looking for dinner when Sissy is feeding. Denise calls him her "Pocket Puppy".
#5 is a whopping-big fawn female with a white streak beginning at the eyes and extending down over the chest. She tipped the scale at 1.75 pounds at 4 days, a quarter-pound more than the other puppies.
#6 is a dark brindle female. She has a white streak down her face, a white chest and belly, and four white socks. She has a full white collar and a distinctive white star at the back of her head.
#4 and #5 pictured together. Its easy to see why the Pocket Puppy has to work harder for dinner.
Five puppies together. #5 is the largest but not by much.
#2 is known to follow his own directions.
Our big girl, #5, is On Hold for her new owner. Photo taken 5 January.
Pocket Puppy visited the vet for a checkup, dewclaws and docking on 3 January. He almost doubled his weight in a week to 1.25 pounds. Here he is pictured with big sister, #5.