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The 2017 Season is underway!
April 30, 2017 probelgiumgaa	Leave a comment
So I've been a bit late getting this up for 2017. Apologies for that – long story involving our website and some domain snipers from China… but that's besides the point! The main thing is, we're back in business and so is Belgium GAA – back in action for the 2017 season and rearing to go!
As always we'll be challenging on all fronts and aiming to become European Champions across 4 codes – we've held all titles at the same time before, but we have yet to win them all in the calendar year – a bit like Tiger Woods with the majors 🙂 – so maybe 2017 is the year!
So what's new? Well, to be honest, quite a lot! Here's what you need to know!
Men's Gaelic Football
The footballers will be looking to pick up their first European Championship since that famous day in Maastricht in 2012 when a win over Guernsey brought the trophy back to Brussels – how time flies! The team is under new management this year with Olof Gill handing over the reigns to Declan Treanor as manager. We take this opportunity to thank Olof for his efforts over the last couple of years; now he can concentrate on continuing to do the business on the field! Declan has been around the club on and off since 2012 and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the group. A former Dublin panel member, Declan is an extremely high calibre coach and it is fantastic for the team that he's taking over. Joining Declan on the management team will be former team member Ciaran Hudson, along with Damien Columb (statistics) and Paul Quinn (Football Officer).
The first outing of the year was in the Den Haag tournament on the 8th of April. The side looked strong throughout the day, reaching a final against Luxembourg where they were unfortunately beaten thanks to a late goal on a scoreline of Luxembourg 1-8 1-6 Belgium. The Shield side were also in action, but had a disappointing day in a particularly strong Shield competition. Still plenty to build on, and both sides have picked themselves up already and used the defeats to spur them on in training.
What does a team do after they win their 9th Championship in a row? Try to make it 10-in-a-row of course! That's the challenge facing our ladies footballers this year, and what a milestone that would be! Our club's most successful team have done it all since the team was formed in 2008, winning every European Championship that has been available to them, and even going on to win games over British Champions. This year they have a chance to really make history – how many teams can you think of that have won 10-in-a-row? I can't think of any. We're all rooting for you, girls – bring the cup home again!
It won't be easy of course, and the competition is set to be stronger than ever this year. The effort being put into training thus far shows that the girls are really tuned in to that reality. Changes aplenty on the management side for the girls, with Marla Candon coming in to take over the coaching alongside Margaux Mansanarez who has been named as team captain for the 2017 season.
The ladies footballers also had their first competitive outing of the year on the 8th of April in Den Haag. They met Holland in the final and controlled the game throughout, winning by a scoreline of Belgium 1-11 0-6 Holland. A great start to the year, and Marla and Margaux will be looking to ensure the team build on that early momentum in the upcoming tournaments.
We've been going through something of a golden spell of hurling in the club over the past few years, and the win in Dresden in October 2016 secured a famous four-in-a-row for the lads. This is a significant achievement, particularly given how competitive the European Championship tends to be, and so it is great to see Belgium performing consistently well year-on-year.
The new season brings change to the management setup. Manager Dave Barrett stays on for the coming year, but 2016 Championship winning captain Caoimhin Ó Coighligh has stepped down from the role and is replaced by Brendan O'Donoghue. Brendan is the 2016 hurler of the year and having shown much leadership last season, he is a perfect fit for the role. The new management team also inititially included former UCD Freshers manager Eoin Ryan, however Eoin will unfortunately be leaving the setup in the coming months when he heads back to Dublin for work. On the coaching side, its also great to see Adrian Hiel, stalwart Belgium GAA goalkeeper, come back into the setup to help out with the training – you can never have too much experience around a side, and Adrian has plenty of it.
The team is in training ahead of the start of the season and had their first outing of the year on Sunday the 23rd of April with friendlies against Den Haag and Amsterdam. They will now be preparing to compete for an historic 5th Championship in a row.
Similarly to the hurlers, our Camogie team has been going through a particularly successful period and also completed an impressive 4-in-a-row in Dresden last October. With good numbers at training already, the girls will be looking to build on that success and have another great season in 2017.
On the management side, Grainne Corry and Meadbh Bolger will be at the helm this season and looking to drive the team onward towards an historic 5-in-a-row. Gráinne and Meadbh are both talented and experienced camogie players and both impressed greatly in 2016. They'll be looking to lead by example once again, improve the skills of the players and get the team working as impressively in 2017 as it has done in recent years.
The girls had their first outing on Sunday the 23rd of April with a narrow friendly loss to Holland. Additionally, members of the Belgium Camogie team travelled to London on the 29th of April to represent Europe at the Tara Camogie 7s tournament. Impressive performances throughout the day from the players from Belgium, Hamburg, Eindhoven and Amsterdam gave Europe the win. The Belgium players will take encouragement from the part they played London and indeed from their performances against Holland in the friendly, but will also now be well aware of the talented players the other European clubs have at their disposal; it's set up nicely to be a great Camogie Championship 2017!
Next up is the Eindhoven round of the Football Championships on the 6th of May. Our Men's and Ladies teams will be heading to Eindhoven with every intention of bringing home the silverware given the ladies won their first tournament in Den Haag and the men came within a whisker of winning theirs. Both will have strong panels travelling and it is set up to be a fantastic day of football.
On the hurling and camogie side, the 20th May will be the first tournament of the year in Luxembourg. The hurlers will see this as the perfect place to pick up where they left off last year, and indeed it was in Luxembourg where they convincingly beat a strong Amsterdam side in the final and got their successful season underway. The girls will also be looking to start the season off with a win, and will have a very strong side travelling with some new talented players having joined the panel during the pre-season.
The very best of luck to all our teams in the upcoming tournaments, and be sure to check in on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages to find out how they get on.
Also, always remember that newcomers are welcome at all times; this club is only as strong as its membership and we are constantly looking to grow. Would you like to come down and give it a try? You'll be more than welcome – get in touch!
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2016, Camogie, European GAA, Hurling, Ladies football, Men's Football, Training
Belgium GAA Are Recruiting For 2016
February 7, 2016 probelgiumgaa	Leave a comment
The 2016 season is almost upon us, and this year's a big one. Our hurlers and camogs are aiming for their 4th European Championship title in a row and our ladies footballers are aiming for their 9th!
Are you Irish and working/studying over here in Belgium this year? Keep your ties with the GAA and join our family. We're looking for new members for our Hurling, Camogie, Gaelic Football and Ladies Football teams. All skill levels are welcome.
All nationalities are welcome too. We have players from Belgium, Estonia, Spain, Serbia, Colombia and even Cork! Why not pick up one of our legendary Irish sports in 2016? We get to play in tournaments all over Europe and the craic is mighty! If you don't know what 'craic' is then come down to training to find out.
Training is at the VUB, Boulevard de la Plaine 2, 1050 Ixelles.
Ladies and Men's Football every Monday and Thursday night beginning the 15th of February. Hurling and Camogie training every Monday and Thursday night beginning the 3rd of March.
19:30 – 20:45 (warm-up at 19:15)
20.45 – 22.00 (warm-up at 20.30)
If you want to join up, email: pro.belgium.europe@gaa.ie
Or get in touch with us via Facebook or Twitter.
Camogie, Hurling
Camogie & Hurling round up
July 17, 2015 probelgiumgaa	Leave a comment
The Belgium colours have been well represented at the European small ball venues. Both Camógs and Hurlers alike have travelled to the four corners of the continent to battle it out. There is one tournament left, the home tournament. The pressure's on to perform. We look back at the season so far.
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15 a-side European Championship – a round up
15 a side European Championship comes around once a year. The winners go on to face their British counterparts.
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Amsterdam competition round up
Championship team return to winning ways
They say winning is a habit. It's a habit this team and this club have become especially familiar with over the past number of years. Not finishing the day at least in the final of a tournament has come to represent a failure. With our 3rd place finish after a poor day in Luxembourg fresh in the minds, the Championship team descended on Amsterdam intent on making amends. The fire and brimstone was kept relatively in check. Everybody recognised (after Luxembourg and in the trainings in between), that clear heads, with eyes up and open, was going to yield the biggest dividend.
We faced off against Amsterdam in the first match of day, albeit 20 minutes late and after some cuddles and kisses between Johnny O' and Collie Byrne. The warm up wasn't was it should be and we went pretty much straight from the dressing room to our positions, but we weren't unnerved. While Amsterdam kicked the first couple of points there was no sense of panic. Heads up, eyes open, ball to the man in the better position, cut out the turnovers and keep possession until we were into a scoring position in the green zone. Basics done well, support running, no panic, reuse, recycle, gaps open up, green zone, bang, point. By half time, there was a clear appreciation of the benefits of this approach. Disregarding our poor prep that morning, it was in that first 15 minutes that every member of the panel bought in to this approach. It was this first 15 minutes that set the tone for the rest of the day. We were defensively solid, cutting out the gaps through the centre which other teams had used effectively against us in Luxembourg. At full time, it was 11 points to 5. Never have we been more satisfied not to rattle the net.
There followed a lengthy break to our next game (about 2 hours). This break was spent watching the Shield lads power their way to a famous victory over Luxembourg in their group (and with it, a place in the semi-final) as well as with the usual lads chat regarding the breeding habits of orc type creatures. Despite the break and some alarming mental images, the lads never lost focus.
Our remaining two group games against Frankfurt and Eindhoven saw plenty of goals (for us thankfully).Strong running from Ciaran and Naoise caused havoc in opposition defenses, while Keary and Crusher in the full back line were maintaining a vice like grip on proceedings. Conor Mul got his usual stanchion goal which he celebrated with Mario Balotelli type nonchalance while the two Johnny's were ever calm and composed in possession.
As a result of topping our group, the two Belgium GAA teams lined up against each other for a place in the final. After a joint warm up, Olof (banisteoir, maor foirne and doctor) looking like a Clare Island café owner/madman/tour guide took the Shield aside for some final instruction. The Championship team, meanwhile, were reiterating the need to keep the heads up, to recycle, to move the ball and to work it to a shooting position. The game itself had some tasty personal battles. Naoise vs John Louis Sexton esquire made for compelling viewing, if not least for the belting. With each team having 11 players (and no subs) the somewhat better fitness of the Championship team came through in the end. With Scott and Conor Mescall running hard throughout though, it was never easy.
With that, a place in final. The very least, this team and this club has come to expect. Facing off once again against Amsterdam, we knew this would be a much different encounter than that of six or seven hours ago.Before the game we stuck to the same principles. Heads up, control possession, no turnovers, work the ball into space, recycle where necessary, wait for gap, bang, over the bar. Calm, composed teamwork. There really is no substitute for it at this level. The first half was once again defined by strong running by Ciaran and Naoise and by solidity in defence. The team is quickly coming to realise that if you have possession then you're not under pressure. A couple of goals (including an 11th or 12th of the day by Naoise) gave us a nice 8 point buffer at half time. However, playing against a very strong wind in the second half, we knew the need for composure was greatest at this point. And so it proved to be. Amsterdam kicked some lovely scores but by and large they were outside what you would consider to be the shooting zone. If you are restricting the opposition to kicking from here then great. If they put the ball over the bar from here, fair play to them. However, to win games, you really need to be threatening inside and taking the majority of shots from the shooting "green zone". This is what made the difference on the day.
Another goal was added in the second half after strong patient build up play and by the final whistle, we were about nine points to the good. One of the most pleasing aspects of the final performance was that it epitomised the approach we set out from the very beginning of the day. While there are tougher days ahead and opposition teams will have more players available to them, this victory can be the springboard for the rest of the year.
Afterwards, Crusher became the first Kilkenny man to win a player of the tournament since Pearse O'Caoimh kicked points for fun in October 2013, wearing a stiletto on one foot and a Adidas predator (with only 2 studs) on the other. Crush had a great day out and was well deserving of the award. Having said that, I feel that anyone of the lads could have won that award such was the teamlike performance throughout the day. This willingness to make the unselfish run, to give that unglamourous pass, to prioritise a block down as much as kicking a point is what shone through in Amsterdam. If we can keep this attitude and keeps our heads in games then we will give ourselves every chance of success and of maintaining that winning feeling.
A big thanks to Olof for his work on the line throughout the day as well as to Cluxton and Naoise for playing as floaters and giving it everything.
Belgium GAA abu, we're back baby!
And here's how it went from the point of view of the Shield team:
The shield team went into the Amsterdam tournament full of confidence after a defiant back against the wall performance in Luxembourg last month. Under the watchful eye of Olaf Gill the team had clearly grown since it had last played, exhibiting an understanding of a team that had clearly played together before.
The day started off positive, every ones heads were clearly in the moment, with each man prepared to run him-self into the ground for his team mates – which is exactly what they did. Though we were soon knocked out of our stride – Dusseldorf failed to field a team, meaning the lads had warmed up only to be told there was no game. The reaction of everyone in the team is testament to winning mentality not only of the Shield team but of the whole of Belgium GAA, instead of criticising or complaining the lads kept warm and tuned in by running drills – which clearly helped in the games.
Officially our day started against Luxemburg, who had made it the final in their home tournament. Of course we felt the odds were against us but we went out there and did what we had to – play a simple passing game to retain possession. The new found confidence of Big Phil in the middle of the park played a huge role in defeating the odds and recording a confident victory. Ger O'Donoghue led the attacking line with confidence scoring a surprising goal – that in no way was helped by the wind, to place the furnishings on what, in truth, was a comfortable win.
After the win over Luxembourg we had booked our place in the semi-final – a huge step up from the drubbing we received in Luxembourg. We faced Den Haag knowing a win would mean we avoided our own championship team and a possible all Belgium Final. Unfortunately this was not meant to be, Den Haag were able to have a longer rest after their match due to Dusseldorf's absence and the freshness was clear to see. Especially in the middle of the park as no one could keep track of their midfielders bursting through the middle. Despite having our backs against the wall we were not deterred – this team had been christened in circumstances like this just over a month before. Chances were created with defiant attacks from Decy Hillary and beaming runs from Conchur de Barra from half back.
With defeat to Den Haag meaning we faced Belgium's Championship team – despite the odds against us the shield team went out and fought for every ball and every yard, which has become a hallmark of the team. The Championship teams fitness and strength soon eventually shone through with them recording an overly flattering win placing them into the final against Amsterdam. But in typical fashion the shield team did not lie down, creating chances only for Louis Sexton Esquires beautiful solo goal to be disallowed because of Niall Goodwins Oscar award winning acting.
Securing third place in Amsterdam showed to every one watching how much the shield team has come along. The tenacity along with the improved understanding is testament to the commitment showed by everyone. I am sure many will agree that if the same intensity is shown through the rest of the season we will continue improve and will be real title contenders in the Pan Euro Shield competition in October.
Belgium GAA goes to Abu Dhabi – GAA World Games 6th and 7th March 2015
April 22, 2015 probelgiumgaa	1 Comment
Belgium GAA were the team to represent Europe in the inaugural GAA World Games in Abu Dhabi. Here's an account of how it went for the men.
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BELGIUM GAA ABÚ (DHABI)
February 10, 2015 probelgiumgaa	Leave a comment
The season is under way and, if training's anything to go by, it's going to be a good one. Colin Byrne, who recently took up office as Chairperson of Belgium GAA, gets us going with his foreword to the season. He looks back on how far Belgium GAA has come as a club, the acheivements of last season and forward to the big one, the first ever World GAA Games.
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Nickkie, Voxing and sponsoring, and being an all-round legend.
November 20, 2014 probelgiumgaa	Leave a comment
I'm robbing and reposting with presumed permission from the wonderful Nicole Pacheco – hero, legend, all-star. Ms. Pacheco secured sponsorship for us to go to Birmingham this year (THANK YOU!) and has been a phenomenal force to be reckoned with this year, on and off the pitch. Here are her words about what playing GAA has meant to her.
VoxParallels: A Year in the Life of a GAA and Voxbone Newbie
Posted by Nicole Pacheco on November 20, 2014 in Life at Voxbone
The parallels one discovers in life are unmistakable.
I am an adventurer.
I am an explorer.
I believe in pushing the boundaries of the unknown.
Set me at a crossroads and every time, I will take the road less travelled.
Last year, at the dawn of my fourth decade I embarked on two adventures: joining Voxbone and joining the Belgium Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to play two of their sports internationally: Gaelic Football and Camogie. Both of these decisions meant diving into the unknown.
As someone with zero experience in telecom, starting a job in this industry was daunting. The biggest draw came in the form of Voxbone's company culture- a feeling of friendship and community in a highly diverse staff with a company-wide focus to plow through the year to meet lofty targets.
This vibe was echoed in my involvement with the GAA- a strong sense of unity and family, mingled with a burning desire to dominate the competition to become the Champions of Europe.
When Voxbone agreed to sponsor our team this year, it not only inspired us, but also felt very fitting to me. The parallels in my life felt as though they had intertwined. It left me inspired not only with how Voxbone works to cultivate a great vibe within the company, but also strives to foster this in the lives of their employees outside of the company structure.
For someone who initially only joined for the admin experience, I am more than ever motivated to explore the industry I work in in order to gain more knowledge. Evidence of this may be found on my desk, where several copies of Telecom for Dummies lie. With one year down, I am ready to tackle the one to come. Voxbone has been an adventure so far and if the past year is anything to go by, there is another wild ride to come.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
-Robert Frost
All-Ireland, Ladies football
Heartbreak, sadness. But heads held high, 2015 awaits.
The trip to Maastricht for the Ladies Football extra curricular bout with the Munster champions Murroe Boher will go down in history as a great day. A tough, sadmaking, heartbreaking sort of day, but one from which we can't but build and 'drive on' from (in the parlance of Aisling, Capitana the Great). We faced off against a team that were half-centaur, half-girl. Half-coltish girl, who had all perfected the art of telepathy and mid-jump turns, and who had yet, in the majority of players, to face that cruelest of tests, the Leaving Cert. We had them on seniority, fertility, disposable income (though thats perhaps debatible) and the many things that life has in store after the age of 16, but they beat us. They played the semis this Sunday past and held the team they played against scoreless. It's an interesting fact that they'll be promoted to Senior next year, as a quirk of being a Limerick team – having won their division this year, they will play senior next year. And, to be fair. . . they should be playing at that level. Our lovely Wicklow based ref (though this is not the time for a rendition of the Wicklow Song) did congratulate all present for the level of football played. But still. Hearts burnt, bruised and burning for next year. We'll see.
Here are some photos from the day itself. Taken by the lovely mamas and photographers on the sideline from Belgium GAA (I think we should give Maude some sort of stipend) and the Murroe Boher team – who would put Munich to shame with their coordination. We made it to Eurosport too – but the final score of 5-16 to 2-6 tells it all. A valliant attempt and a great success for our 3rd full game as a 15-a-side team – and to get to where we were is no great shame at all. Its just the dream. That terrible awful dream of getting futher along in the competition. Not that we have a heap of nay-sayers or begrudgers, but, I suppose in the words of Kanye, that its the beautiful twisted fantasy of continuing on – and the horrific what ifs. I couldn't write this post till now cause I was just too heartbroken to do so. But with the efforts and enthusiasm of the girls and shoeless wonders involved, who knows what 2015 will hold.
Elaine has a little nap
So the wrappings up of the season have well and truely got underway. We have the annual camogiehurling Christmas quiz, and the end of year dinner (to be held in the Old Oak on Saturday 6th of December, pester Sylvia with your registrations – but places are limited so do so soon). We've the European GAA AGM, to be held in Irish College in Leuven, and this year the position of Secretary is up for grabs, as Tony Bass retires after a decade at the helm of European GAA. There are few who would venture to take on what Tony has taken on, and in his farewell speach he sets out his reasons for stepping back from the role after a lifetime at the helm of European GAA – read it, it's worth the effort. . . So, if you'd like to get involved – please do – it's your club – it's what you make of it. Do consider getting involved next year. If you find these posts too long (not looking at you Conor Mull) – how bout taking on the PRO role next year? It's an interseting one I promise.
So for now, til the 6th of December and the annual danceoff of wonderfullness.
Ladies FootballMaastricht
European GAA, Ladies football, Men's Football, Pan Euros
The end of the 2014 season comes to a thrilling conclusion in Maastricht
October 22, 2014 probelgiumgaa	1 Comment
Monday always seems a surreal sort of day post tournament. Aches. Pains. Bruises. Strangely shaped strangenesses in places that you didn't know could hurt the way that they do now. But all that aside, what a weekend we had! What a weekend it was. It's 9 degrees now and the 23 degree scorcher that we enjoyed in Maastricht seems like a million miles away, but it's not really that far away, and yes, it really did happen.
Belgium GAA have finished the 2014 on an incredible high. Mens and women's football, and hurling and camogie: we've topped all of these competitions. It's insane. There were photographers and camera men abounding around the place on Saturday, so here's a collation of some of the coverage from the day. Breandán Kearney was there with his intrepid camera friends, so there's sure to be something wonderful to watch in the 'One Life, Two Clubs' documentary that he's been making over the course of the 2014 season.
The GAA were there in force, with the following video reportage from the day by Jerome Quinn – featuring the lovely heads from all over the European GAA clubs, but some familiar faces too – Diarmuid O'Loingsigh, previously from Naomh Abán captained the Belgian men's championship team, Club Secretary Jelena Radakovic, POT Margaux Mansarnez, Ladies Capitan Fantastic Aisling Fenton and several dancing and running body parts of everyone else who attended the day seems to have been captured in the background. Wait and see if you can spot yourselves in this one.
There'll be reports from all the captains and code officers in the week, but for the moment, it's worth just thinking back on the absurdly successful year that we've had as a club: and drive on for the next two weeks for the Ladies Footballers as they still pursue more football challenges in the shape of the Munster Club Champions in Maastricht on the 1st of November at 4pm. All support most definitely welcome.


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I Didn't Know I Couldn't Do That
June 5, 2018 Raw Regurgitated 0 Comments
It's hard to decide whether the aesthetics of Elias's fraying robe (kimono?) adds to the character's inherent sliminess or if it is just poor costume work (which seems unlikely). Either way, the weekly outfits of Elias do a surprising amount of the work to make his logic-straining character –we don't know who lets him play, when he work things out with the stage crew beforehand or if he's required to have a singer's permit like so much manager's license — seem more "real" than it probably should, simply because he seems to be the only person on the show that doesn't suffer from the Dylan Farnum problem.
Since the WWE has decided to vary the importance of a given segment by week — meaning, some weeks the 10'o'clock match is the actual marquee attraction, as opposed to whatever the announced main event at 11 might be — it's difficult to say just how significant Elias starting this week's episode of Raw is. He's clearly on a very rapid rise up the card, though whether or not he'll be joining Seth Rollins on his rise back to Roman Reigns' level or top out for the time being just above Jinder Mahal becomes the question now. Both roles are good work if you can get them, but Elias > even the most unhindered Jinder and in my heart of hearts I hope he gets treated accordingly.
The match was the kind of thing that makes you wonder why people hate Jinder so dang much. While in absolutely no way a technical masterpiece, it's clear that Mahal has been able in the past few months to find a balance between using his extra help to win matches he probably could by himself because he's a jerk and using his extra help to win matches because he's incapable. Which, thank God he wasn't holding an important title at the time he was trying to figure that out.
What *I* was unable to figure out was what exactly was going on with the steel chair in the ring towards the end of the match. They worked very carefully to make the chair spot work — they explicitly had Rollins bring the chair in, before having Elias (after having specifically not touched the chair) DDT him on it — but it still seems like the kind of leniency and "referee's discretion" that you're looking to avoid if the goal is verisimilitude.
Although he was eventually reprimanded by Constable Corbin (who we will definitely be getting to later) for a separate mistake later in the show during the six-woman tag, the announce team has to do a better job of telling the story of why something like that is okay given the context of a match or moment, instead of hoping nobody cares enough to wonder why chair DDTs are suddenly legal.
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Malaysian fintech, Finology has been crowned as Seedstars World 2020/2021 Competition winner. Representing Asia, the company was up against the top companies from 4 other regions – Africa, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Latin America (LATAM). The contestants were judged based on their products' traction, scalability, profitability, and defensibility.
Jared Lim, Co-founder of Finology shared, "It feels good to have been recognised for the work we do. Our team has been working tirelessly the last few years to pioneer seamless access to financial products. As pioneers in our region, our work is not very visible to people outside the industry and can feel thankless at times.
"We are humbled to have shared the stage with some of the most promising companies in the world. This validates our belief that we are providing a valuable service to society, and are on the right path towards building a great company."
Finology views this as a boost to visibility in its work to enable better delivery of financial services to people via means of technology. It provides a welcome lift in its mission to drive financial inclusion of the underbanked and under-insured segments.
According to the Center for Financial Inclusion, in 2012, 7 of the Top 10 countries with the largest financially excluded populations were in Asia i.e. China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Philippines and Vietnam.
That said, high mobile penetration rates and the rise of challenger digital neo-banks/insurers have rapidly improved the situation since then. For example, e-Wallets have seen tremendous growth in emerging Asia, serving as a path to wider financial inclusion.
Additionally, the ongoing pandemic has accelerated consumer digital adoption. The incumbent financial services industry is facing a host of challenges adapting their existing technology and processes to capitalise on these new trends. For this reason, Finology strives to assist businesses to tackle this matter via its instant underwriting technology and digital distribution channels.
Seedstars is a Swiss-based investment holding with a mission to impact people's lives in emerging markets, annually holds the Seedstars World Competition to scout for the most promising startups around Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Latin America (LATAM) regions.
After a 9-month journey that included classroom sessions, mentoring sessions, and multiple rounds of pitching before a diverse panel of judges, the competition has finally ended.
One of the judges, who is also the co-founder of Seedstars, Alisee de Tonnac commented, "Finology showed us a lot of promise in their mission to bridge together financial institutions and individuals by making financial products accessible for everyone. The Seedstars team believes that they will effectively help lead the way forward in the ever-increasing digitisation of the financial sector. A big congratulations from Seedstars to the Finology team!"
Moving forward, Lim is enthused about the upcoming collaboration with the industry players to amplify the efforts of making banking/insurance more accessible and affordable. He shared: "As for the future, we love working with forward-looking banks and insurers. We're all about using technology to deliver financial services to people in ways that are more meaningful to their lives. We look forward to rolling out more product offerings in emerging Asia that have been designed around a seamless delivery experience."
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My friend Larry came to town to stay with us for a night while he was here in Montana for business and last evening we went out for one of my favorite Blue Mountain hikes. The hike (near the top) goes through the burn area which is filled with charred black trees in stark contrast to the colorful fall underbrush and the blues and greys and greens of the sky and valley below. It is so gorgeous. During this hike I think my soul grew a size.
Larry is a friend I met while racing in Primal Quest 2006. He was on another team that we saw frequently throughout the race and at times we'd find ourselves marching through the night trying to find that next checkpoint together as a group.
This year Larry competed in the Wasatch 100 Endurance Race and took 5th.....so we decided maybe he should carry Astrid on the way up to slow him down a little.


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carlballou/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — Police have opened a homicide investigation after dismembered human remains were discovered in Los Angeles' Griffith Park.
A hiker stumbled across part of a decapitated body near the intersection of Griffith Park Drive and Camp Road around 9 a.m. on Monday and alerted authorities.
Police say they also found an encampment in the area and that it was possible that there was no foul play involved. An officer speculated that a homeless person may have died and been dismembered by an animal.
"We're not in the belief that there was a crime. It may have been just an individual that was staying up in the park," LAPD Lt. Ryan Rabbett told ABC affiliate KABC-TV.
Officers said they were investigating at two different scenes, one where the body was discovered and one where the head was discovered, and that recent rains had impacted their search for evidence.
The victim was identified as a male, either white or Hispanic in his 40s or 50s, and law enforcement believe him to have been dead for two to three days when he was discovered. His name has not been released.
Despite not suspecting foul play in the death, officers opened a homicide investigation as a matter of protocol. Police say they are investigating all possibilities.


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Minutes Attachment 14-10-16-a, Technical Committee Appointments (PDF, 704 KB)
Final Decisions
NFPA 70, National Electrical Code, 2014 edition
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Short Decisions
Hearings and Appeals Schedule (PDF, 97 KB)
Agenda (Updated with Supplemental Attachments on 10/20/2014) (PDF, 15 MB)
August 11-14, 2014, Quincy, MA
Minutes Attachment 14-8-53-a, Technical Committee Appointments (PDF, 562 KB)
NFPA 54, National Fuel Gas Code, 2015 edition
D#14-2, Standards Council Agenda Item 14-8-2-a-1
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, 2015 edition
D#14-3, Standards Council Agenda Item 14-8-4-c
D#14-4, Standards Council Agenda Item 14-8-4-d
D#14-5, Standards Council Agenda Item 14-8-4-f
NFPA 720, Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and Warning Equipment, 2015 edition
D#14-7, Standards Council Agenda Item 14-8-57-a
TIA No. 1133 on NFPA 70, National Electrical Code, 2014 edition
D#14-6, Standards Council Agenda Item 14-8-15-d
TIAs issued on NFPA 1 (2012 and 2015 editions), NFPA 10 (2013 edition), NFPA 101 (2012 and 2015 editions), NFPA 102 (2011 edition), NFPA 400 (2013 and 2016 editions), and NFPA 5000 (2012 and 2015 editions)
D#14-8, Standards Council Agenda Item 14-8-9, 10, 25, 26, 27, 29, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39
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Low-cost supermarket Aldi has announced it will start selling its first smartphone from August 7, in the form of the Medion Life E4001.
At just £79.99 SIM-free the handset is certainly affordable, but it looks less appealing when you check out the specs.
The 4-inch 480 x 800 display is the bare minimum we expect from phones these days, while the 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB internal storage, 2MP camera and 1300mAh are nothing to write home about.
Rather more disappointingly is the fact the Life E4001 is stuck on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - an operating system that's been usurped not once, but twice - and will be another generation older come September/October with the arrival of Android L.
For around the same price you can get the Lumia 520 or Lumia 630 - two Windows Phone with newer operating systems and better feature sets - the Moto E, the excellent Moto G or the 4G-enabled EE Kestrel. In short, you're spoilt for choice at this price point.
While Aldi's first foray into the smartphone market may not make many waves, it does show intent from the supermarket chain - imagine if it struck a deal with the likes Oppo, OnePlus or even Motorola - the latter of which is owned by the same outfit as Medion, Lenovo.
Suddenly low cost phones from Asia could flood the UK market, making it a lot easier for consumers to get hold of high-spec, yet affordable handsets, giving Samsung, Sony, HTC and LG something to really think about.
Of course this is all speculation, but while we recommend you skip this particular handset it's probably worth keeping an eye on Aldi for the future.


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On Labor Day weekend 2007 the Guardian "Comment is Free" editor commissioned me to write a piece on labor and progressive possibilities. I published the piece posted below, which the editor titled "TO BE FRANKLIN: Seventy years on he is still under attack from the right, but Democrats should recall, this national holiday, what made Roosevelt truly great." So this Labor Day, as we once again look ahead – both to this November's congressional and state elections and beyond that to November 2016 and a new presidential Administration – let's not despair but rather think back in favor of moving progressively forward.
As we look ahead this Labor Day to the elections of 2008, those of us who call ourselves progressives should hope not only that the Democrats recapture the White House and additional congressional seats, but that those Democrats advance the memory and legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Why Franklin Roosevelt? While it's true that most Americans continue to consider FDR the greatest president of the 20th century, three decades of conservative ascendance have taken their toll on our political and historical imaginations. And just as their ideological ancestors did in the 1930s, today's right-wingers continue to accuse Roosevelt and his New Dealers of not simply failing to end the Great Depression, but prolonging it; of hijacking and trampling on the constitution; and of suppressing individual liberty and free enterprise in favor of bureaucratic collectivism.
This very summer  – presumably seeking some reason to feel good in the face of the disastrous Bush tenure and dreading the possibility of a Democratic presidency that may bring with it a host of liberal initiatives – conservatives have been hyping Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man, the latest literary assault on Roosevelt's presidency.
In fact, the effusiveness of the right-wing praise leads one to imagine they fantasize about being in the vanguard of a joint Wall Street and Cato Institute "free market" expeditionary force marching through Washington to the FDR Memorial and toppling the statue of Roosevelt in his wheelchair while chanting Shlaes' fallacious claim that he and his famous Brain Trusters modeled the New Deal after Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism.
Of course, liberals and progressives have not allowed Ms Shlaes to go unchallenged. Writing in Slate, historian Eric Rauchway has clearly identified her distortions. While acknowledging that the New Deal did not end the Depression, Rauchway reminds us that it most definitely did stimulate economic recovery and afford relief and jobs to vast numbers of the needy. And crucially, it did so without surrendering to either barbarism or totalitarianism.
Even more affirmatively, in The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, political columnist Jonathan Alter offers a rousing narrative of how Roosevelt rescued liberal democracy from the specter of dictatorship.
And in The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever, legal scholar Cass Sunstein presents Roosevelt as a visionary social democrat by redeeming his 1944 State of the Union Address, which advanced an agenda for postwar America that included establishing rights to employment, education, housing, and healthcare.
Progressives should applaud Alter and Sunstein. And yet, we should not fail to see how even these liberal writers, too, end up contributing to our amnesia, for they often ignore how the American people themselves encouraged and instigated their president to pursue the New Deal's grand experiments of recovery, reconstruction and reform. They fail to address how working people – labor unionists in particular – actually pushed FDR toward social democracy.
Compelling each other to try to live up to America's finest ideals, the President and his fellow citizens advanced those ideals further than either had originally conceived. They made serious mistakes and regrettable compromises, and they suffered terrible defeats. But they subjected capital to public account and regulation, empowered the federal government to address the needs of working people, established a social security system, organized unions, expanded the political nation and fabricated a new governing coalition.
Campaigning in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said she had three words to offer in response to Republican assertions that the Democrats had run out of ideas: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt." But we need to make it clear that there's more to it than that.
Given the prospects for Democratic victories in 2008, we need to remember what truly made FDR great. Redeeming the radical-democratic politics of the 1930s should remind us not only of what we might accomplish, but also of what we must do to turn rhetoric into policy and program.
As the political scientist Wilson Carey McWilliams warned back in 1984 – incited by Ronald Reagan's persistent abuse of the past and Orwell's haunting novel bearing that year as its title in mind – a "people's memory sets the measure of its political freedom".
Harvey J. Kaye is the Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the author of the new book "The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great" (Simon & Schuster). Follow him on Twitter: @harveyjkaye.


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Monitoring Selected National HIV Prevention and Care Objectives By Using HIV Surveillance Data United States and 6 Dependent Areas, 2019: Commentary
Report Contents
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects data to monitor progress toward achieving national goals and the objectives set forth in other federal directives, including the updated strategic plans of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) and for the United States [1–4]. This surveillance supplemental report complements the 2019 HIV Surveillance Report [5] and presents the results of focused analyses of National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) [6] data to measure progress toward achieving national goals [1–3]. Data in this report are also used to assess Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) core indicators [7, 8] and to monitor progress toward the HIV-related national objectives in Healthy People 2030 and the National HIV Strategic Plan for the United States: A Roadmap to End the Epidemic 2021–2025 (NHSP), and the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative [9, 10].
Report Changes
Recognizing the changing needs for data, CDC has transitioned this report to a new format that includes figures and tables, and includes data reported to CDC's NHSS through December 31 of the prior year. The use of data reported to CDC through December 31, 2020 will allow for a 12-month reporting delay and assessment of trends through the most recent diagnosis, death, and prevalence year (2019). Death and prevalence trends through 2019 should be interpreted with caution.
New to this report are the following:
This report is presented in a new, digital format that includes figures based on charts and maps from the former Selected National HIV Prevention and Care Outcomes slide set.
Tables now display additional geographic stratifications (i.e., region and population area of residence).
A special focus profiles section was added to highlight 6 key populations: (1) Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM), (2) Persons Who Inject Drugs (PWID), (3) Transgender Persons, (4) Women, (5) Persons With Perinatally Acquired HIV Infection, and (6) Young Persons. This section also includes the following topics: 2019 status and disparities for linkage to care within 1 month of HIV diagnosis and viral suppression by race/ethnicity, transmission category, and geography.
Supplementary Tables S1-S7b display 2017 and 2018 data (where indicated) that have been updated. Stage of disease at time of diagnosis, linkage to HIV medical care, viral suppression within 6 months of diagnosis, receipt of HIV medical care, viral suppression, and PrEP coverage are included. Tables S8a-S10b on stage 3 (AIDS) classification at time of diagnosis of HIV infection for older adults were added.
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Donate £3 to Poppyscotland by texting "poppy" to 70800.
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Olympic cycling star joins Scottish veterans to launch this year's Scottish Poppy Appeal
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Scotland's cycling star, Callum Skinner, added a touch of gold dust to this year's launch of the Scottish Poppy Appeal today (25 October 2016) at Waverley railway station in Edinburgh.
Callum, who has been dubbed the 'next Chris Hoy' after returning from Rio with a Gold in the Men's Team Sprint, joined Scottish veterans to encourage the public to go that 'Extra Mile' for the Armed Forces community in Scotland.
The Armed Forces community regularly go the extra mile in the course of their Service. This year, Poppyscotland is urging the Scottish public to go the extra mile for them by going above and beyond this year in their fundraising efforts.
Gordon Michie, Head of Fundraising from Poppyscotland, said:
"We are delighted that such a sporting hero has joined us today for the launch of this year's Scottish Poppy Appeal.
"Now more than ever before, the Armed Forces community needs the help of the Scottish public. The shocking reality is that one in 8 veterans have a fundamental unmet need for support, and more than half suffer from a long-term illness of disability.
"That's why we're calling for the Scottish public to go that extra mile in their support for this year's Poppy Appeal. Whether it's putting a little bit more in the poppy tin, or doing something completely different to raise money, every penny helps us to offer life-changing support so we can be there when they call for backup."
24-year-old Callum Skinner, who was born in Glasgow but grew up in Edinburgh, said:
"I'm honoured to be launching the 2016 Scottish Poppy Appeal for Poppyscotland. My Great Grandfather, Alfred Skinner, fought in the Great War, so I'm aware of the huge sacrifices the Armed Forces community make during their service.
"The charity, Poppyscotland, is one that is very close to my heart. I hope in the coming weeks that the Scottish public once again get behind the Scottish Poppy Appeal so that Poppyscotland can continue to offer their amazing support to our Armed Forces community."
One of the first people to go the extra mile for the 2016 Scottish Poppy Appeal was ScotRail Alliance Managing Director, Phil Verster. He completed a mile on a treadmill at Edinburgh Waverley station as part of a promotion aimed at raising additional funds for Poppyscotland by walking a mile in the shoes of veteran while listening to a recoding of their inspirational story.
ScotRail Alliance Managing Director, Phil Verster said:
"We're proud to support Poppyscotland and our veterans.
"It is hugely important that people find the time to remember and respect those whom have sacrificed, and continue to make sacrifices, serving their country.
"I would encourage everyone passing through the station to take the time and walk a mile in the shoes of a veteran."
The Scottish Poppy Appeal, which has now been running for 95 years, is Scotland's largest street collection. The Appeal runs until Remembrance Sunday on 13th November with volunteer collectors, poppies and tins out in force. A host of activities will take place, including poppy-up shops all over Scotland, Fields of Remembrance in Edinburgh and Inverness and the lighting up in poppy red of landmarks and structures across Scotland.
Members of the public can join in the Extra Mile promotion at various Scotrail Alliance stations: Edinburgh Waverley (25 & 26/10), Inverness (28/10), Aberdeen (29/10), Glasgow Central (01/11) and Glasgow Queen Street (02/11). Alternatively the Scottish Poppy Appeal podcasts can be downloaded from www.poppyscotland.org.uk/extra-mile.
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Responsible for running over 2,500 trains per day, managing and maintaining over 350 stations and nearly 3,000 miles of track, the ScotRail Alliance is a combined team of more than 7,000 railway staff across Scotland.
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A former military intelligence officer with the CIA said the Trump administration is "competently wrong in assessment" to label Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist group".
"In my opinion, the United States is completely wrong in its assessment. According to the definition provided by the United Nations and under international law, a terrorist group must be actively working to target civilians to weaken and destroy a legitimate government," Philip Giraldi told Tasnim news agency.
"The IRGC is a military organization which acts in response to direction by the legitimate government of Iran, just as the United States military acts on direction of the White House. To say that the IRGC is terrorist because Washington disapproves of Iran and its involvement in Syria using the IRGC as its instrument is completely inappropriate," Giraldi is a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said.


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Q: How to add dependency within the outcomes between records in a simulation For simplicity, consider a Generalized linear model (GLM) for the losses reported to an insurance company for damage to a building.  A standard GLM assumes the randomness of the outcomes to be independent of each other (all error terms are iid).
Which techniques can I use to incorporate dependency within the randomness of the outcomes between each record Y(i) (where Y is the reported loss and i is one row of a dataset representing a physical building)?  For example, I want to incorporate the dependency that some records share together, because their buildings are close together (ex: the randomness within the losses caused by an hurricane that hit this area will be share by multiple records at the same time, therefore, there will be dependency within the outcomes and a GLM will not catch it without any adjustment).
I want a solution that will not lose a lot of interpretability (I don't want my solution to be a black box for a non statistician).


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Q: Sound to 3 main frequencies(low, mid, high) I have made some research but I couldn't find what I am exactly looking for. At the moment, I have to send channel values by com port.
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low=0-xx khz;
mid=xx-yy khz;
high=yy-zz khz;

Then I will get values by percentage like

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lowPercent  = 10;
midPercent  = 77;
highPercent = 53;

So, I will be able to send these values by rs232 and my room will turn into club :) (I am using this code to illuminate LED strips). I have found some spectrum analyser projects but they all have 9 channels, that is, 3*3 combinations from low-low to high-high.
I know how to communicate with com port, but how can I get integer values of 3 frequency range I have set before?

A: I don't know if you still need of that but....
Do you want to know how to get a real-time spectral analsys of sound?
1.implement a queue to take a buffer of audio samples
2.take the product of buffer and a proper window function (tipically , Hamming or Hann) calculated by your program as float array
3.do FFT of yelded array: there are may algortihms out there for every language....find the best one for you, use it and take the square module from each output coefficent ( Real_part^2 + Imaginary_part^2 , if FFT returns you algebrical representation of coefficients)

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*sum coefficients across your bands: to know what coefficient is associated to a frequency you've just got to know that the k-th coefficient is at (SampFrequency/BufferLength)*k Hz.....so it's easy to find band boundaries

*if you need to normalize in [0 , 1] interval, you have to do nothing but divide each of 3 yelded bands value for maximum value between the 3

*pop your buffer queue by a Shift value that is Shift <= BufferLength and start again
the number of coefficients coming from FFT alg is equal to BufferLength (this is beacause the Discrete Fourier Transform definition) so, the frequency resolution is better when you select a long buffer, but the program goes slower. The light intensity wont' vary after BufferLength audio frames, buf after Shift audio frames.....and high ratio beetwen BufferLength gives you slowly light changes....so you must select parameters that fits your desires, remembering that you have just to turn on & off some light....make your alg fast and lo-fi!
The last thing to do is discover freqeuncy bands from your mixer's eq knobs....i don't remember if this information was on mixers handbooks


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How to install SSD (Solid State Drive) in Computers. What is SSD – According to Wikipedia SSD (Solid State Drive) is a data storage device that uses integrated circuit … how to share photos on google drive privately Solid State Drivers (SSDs) are not only faster than traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) but also last longer. While many new PCs that are available in the market today come with SSDs, most of the PCs that have been purchased in the past couple of years can also be upgraded to SSDs to improve the overall system performance.
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Ohio University Back in News: Student's Motion to Quash Denied in Columbus, Ohio, in Arista v. Does 1-15
We have learned from The Post in Athens, Ohio, that an Ohio University student had made a motion to quash the RIAA's subpoena, back in July, and that his motion was just denied, in a decision finding that "the University maintains the log files containing the subscriber activities for only a limited time period". The name of the case is Arista v. Does 1-15, in the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern division, located in Columbus.
[Ed. note. This motion had not been on our radar. We learned about it from The Post. We are surprised at the Court's finding that the University would only maintain the records for a limited time and would then discard them, as we do not believe there is any evidence in the record supporting that finding, or that the University was asked whether it would agree to maintain the records long enough to afford prior notice and an opportunity to be heard to the affected students.]
[Ed. note. Ohio University has since gotten the RIAA to back off by paying $60,000, plus $16,000 per year "maintenance", to Audible Magic, the 'business partner' of the company part owned by the RIAA's "expert", Dr. Doug Jacobson.]
Motion to quash*
November 5, 2007, Decision of Magistrate Judge Denying Motion to quash*
Posted by raybeckerman at 11/07/2007 10:35:00 AM
Also, the RIAA typically sends colleges and universities "preservation notices" requesting that documents that identify the name, current (and permanent) addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and MAC (Media Access Control) address be preserved in the event a subpoena is served on the institution. It seems after receiving this notice it is highly likely that any university would maintain this information for as long as any cases are pending, and likely much longer.
November 7, 2007 at 12:32:00 PM EST
It is absurd to think that there is a college or university in the United States that would not agree, after being advised that a lawsuit has been commenced, to preserve the records pending determination of a motion for discovery of the John Doe identities.
If anyone needs a reason to despise the court system and feel its is highly biased against the little guy, just read the reasoning of the Magistrate Judge in this case. As was clearly and cogently pointed out in the Motion to Quash, the RIAA has no case.
Given the history of the RIAA suits, your innocence doesn't matter to them. If they can't punish you by an extortionaire settlement first, they'll punish you by immense legal bills afterwards. Such a pattern of behavior should have been taken into account by the Magistrate Judge, but to all appearances it hasn't been. Given that personal privacy is at stake, I would have hoped for a higher standard of proof before that privacy was allowed to be pierced, because allowing such discovery does impose a SUBSTANTIAL burden on any such Defendant.
Seems to me that Doe #13 could have strengthened his case to quash expedited discovery had it simply been made clear that the University has agreed to preserve any relevant evidence until a proper hearing regarding regular discovery could be held. Doing so would have removed one of the strongest arguments used in the need for expedited discovery. Chances are excellent that the University has already agreed to preserve this evidence, given that many, if not most, purge their logs after 30 days, and we're well past that time now. I'm certain that no reasonable case can be made that any evidence that still exists at this moment, is in any imminent danger of destruction in lieu of expedited discovery, which tramples on the rights of Defendants.
The Magistrate Judge also shows his ignorance of the technological truths here when he states (page 6) that "...only the University can identify the particular computer using the unique Internet Protocol ("IP") address..."
This is so wrong that [--deleting what I really want to say here because you won't put it in your blog--], had I actually said it in public myself, I would be so ashamed and humiliated afterwards that I would have needed to immediately resign my position afterwards, given that my decisions, when poorly made, can and do destroy people's lives.
The ONLY thing that the University can say with any certainty was that they assigned an IP address to some IP-enabled device with a specific MAC address itself. They cannot identify what kind of device it was (computer, router, cell phone, other IP device), exactly where that device was located (even if they could use their own router logs to identify a router port, a hub after that port can disseminate the connection far beyond any known end of the wire), who owned that connected device, if that device was connected to any, or how many, other devices, or who was sitting at the keyboard of any of them at the time(s) in question. Yet without any further proof, the RIAA -- who just demand a single name here -- will sue that name for up to millions of dollars, which have NO RELATIONSHIP to any Actual Losses they may have actually suffered.
And this Magistrate Judge is completely prepared to let that happen.


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Impeachment a 'vote of conscience' for GOP
| Politics
While the vast majority of House Republicans are expected to oppose the article of impeachment on Wednesday, there are expectations there could be as many as 10 — maybe more, maybe less — breaking ranks, according to House GOP aides.
Democrats are nearly united in their belief that the President deserves to be impeached and removed in the fallout of the pro-Trump rioters that breached the Capitol and put the lives of lawmakers — and Vice President Mike Pence — in danger on January 6. The House will first vote on a measure Tuesday evening urging Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from power, which could signal how many Republicans will back impeachment.
Then on Wednesday, the House will take up a resolution and vote to impeach Trump for "incitement of insurrection."
Trump's impeachment for the second time in 13 months — which would make him the first President in history to be impeached twice — appears to be a foregone conclusion. The only question is how many House members vote in favor of removing the President from office eight days before President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in.
House Republican leaders won't whip their colleagues and tell them to vote against the impeachment resolution on Wednesday, according to leadership aides. Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 in GOP leadership who has been sharply critical of Trump's efforts to overturn the election, did not tell her members how to vote Monday, but she called the impeachment vote a "vote of conscience." Cheney has not said how she will vote.
The GOP strategy is another marked departure from the approach in 2019 when Republican leaders pushed their members to fall in line and no GOP House lawmakers defected. It shows the splintering of the GOP and how the party is deeply divided over how to respond to Trump after he incited last week's deadly Capitol riot.
Republicans tried to offer an alternative to impeachment, such as a censure vote, arguing it could win more bipartisan support than an impeachment occurring just one week after the riots. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her caucus Monday that censure was a nonstarter, and Democrats are not considering any off ramps to avoid a second impeachment.
Trump made his first comments on the looming impeachment vote and the Capitol riots on Tuesday, railing against impeachment as a continued "witch hunt" and taking no responsibility for his comments leading up to the riots.
"On the impeachment, it's really a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics. It's ridiculous, it's absolutely ridiculous," Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn Tuesday on his way to Alamo, Texas. "This impeachment is causing tremendous anger, and you're doing it and it's really a terrible thing that they're doing."
Trump took no ownership for inciting the riots last week. "It's been analyzed," he said of his remarks. "People thought what I said was totally appropriate."
Democrats, furious over the events of January 6 have coalesced around impeachment quickly as the only proper response to the President's repeated lies about the election being stolen from him that whipped up his supporters to the point where they tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power by invading the Capitol while the Electoral College votes were being counted.
"This was a brutal and violent attack on our democracy, and Donald Trump incited this by promoting the big lie that he, in fact, won the election by millions of votes but it was stolen from him," Rep. David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat and one of the authors of the impeachment resolution, said on CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday. "We'll demonstrate unequivocally that the President's language, the statements he made, the promotion of the big lie made violence at the Capitol inevitable. He's responsible for it. He needs to be removed from office immediately. he's a clear and present danger to the United States."
The procedural steps ahead of the impeachment vote began Tuesday in the House Rules Committee, which debated the 25th Amendment resolution sponsored by Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland that will be voted on Tuesday evening.
The Rules Committee meeting was the first chance for Democrats and Republicans to engage on the riots since they occurred last week, and Democrats alternated between telling personal stories about the danger they faced and clashing with the Republican lawmaker opposing the resolution, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. House Rules Chairman Jim McGovern repeatedly called on Jordan to say that Biden won the election fairly, but Jordan would not do so, saying only that Biden won while urging Congress to investigate questions about election irregularities.
Similar to other impeachment proceedings, the House Judiciary Committee will release a report detailing the argument for Trump's impeachment, a committee aide told CNN, even though in this case the House Judiciary Committee did not take any official action related to impeachment.
The House will vote late Tuesday evening on Raskin's resolution, before taking up the impeachment resolution at 9 a.m. ET Wednesday.
House and Senate Democrats have still not finalized plans for what to do after the House impeaches Trump. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who will become majority leader on January 20 when Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are sworn in, giving Democrats the tiebreaking vote in a 50-50 Senate, is trying to use a rare procedural tactic to bring the Senate back before January 20 — a 2004 resolution allows Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to avoid the requirement for unanimous consent during an emergency. But that would require cooperation from McConnell, who said the Senate will not return before January 19.
"We could come back ASAP and vote to convict Donald Trump, and get him out of office now before any further damage is done," Schumer said at a news conference in New York.
"The bottom line is that Leader McConnell has the ability to call us back into session," added Schumer. "And we can then move to convict Donald Trump in the impeachment trial and try him. And that's what we hope McConnell will do."
McConnell's office did not comment on Schumer's demand. If McConnell does not agree, Schumer and the incoming Biden team are preparing to split the Senate's days for an impeachment trial: Working to confirm Biden's Cabinet and pass legislation in the morning, and conducting the trial beginning at 1 p.m. ET each day, as the Constitution requires, in the opening days of Biden's presidency.
This story has been updated with additional developments Tuesday.
CNN's Alex Rogers and Betsy Klein contributed to this report.


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Attrition: The Kurdish Connections
December 24, 2015: Until early 2015 most Kurdish armed groups officially discouraged foreign volunteers. In most of the world foreigners fighting with the Kurds is illegal and the Kurds don't want to get into trouble with their foreign donors. Because of political problems with the Iraqi government (who don't like the Kurds up north being autonomous) the Kurds get few military supplies from Iraq. Instead Western nations quietly fly in weapons and ammo. But there are strings attached to this aid and one of those strings prohibits foreign volunteers.
Despite this over a thousand foreigners have gone to Iraq to volunteer and the Kurds eventually figured out how they could use these foreigners without endangering their foreign aid. First, they found support jobs the foreigners could do. This ranged from security to training and technical support. Many of the foreigners had technical skills and most had military experience. By mid-2015 many of the official military advisors (mostly from NATO nations) helping the Kurds convinced their governments to ease up on the prohibitions on "mercenaries" fighting with the Kurds. Thus was established an unofficial deal that allowed the Kurds to make use of the foreigners. Those with the most military skills were sent to fight in small units, usually of mostly foreigners. Particularly useful were foreigners with sniper experience. Some of these men managed to get sniper rifles and soon proved very useful. Most of the NATO veterans also had medical experience. Not so much as doctors or technicians but as combat medics. Most American combat troops have received a lot more medical training since 2003 and can serve as front line medics. Some of these men have contacts back home who can obtain and ship medical supplies needed by frontline medics. Some veterans have UAV experience and a few have brought commercial UAVs with them. Other Western veterans have communications experience and access to commercial radios that serve as effective substitutes for military radios.
All of these foreign volunteers are eager to teach Kurds their skills and the Kurds as quick to learn and absorb these skills. Many Kurds speak some English and the volunteers are willing to learn as much Kurdish as they can. Some of the older veterans who volunteer are persuaded to spend most of their time training or advising. Some of these volunteers had served that function in Iraq and Afghanistan when they were still in the military. By late 2015 these new rules and how they worked had spread to Internet locations where potential volunteers go to find out how to help. This makes the process of volunteering less chaotic and more useful for all concerned.
One things the volunteers have to learn is the unique position the Kurds occupy in Iraq and the Middle East. Since 2003 nearly all the violence you heard about in Iraq was in Sunni Arab areas of central Iraq and the Shia areas where the Sunni Islamic terrorists would make so many of their bombing attacks against civilians of all sorts (pilgrims, women, children) as long as they were Shia. Meanwhile the north has always been so peaceful that Western journalists, and just about anyone else, could move about freely, without fear of attack. How could this be?
Well, for one thing, the Kurds have tight controls on their borders and any Arabs entering are checked carefully. Arab Iraqis are welcome to visit, and many do, for vacations from the violence in the south or to do business (sometimes to meet with foreigners uneasy about coming to Baghdad). When asked, Kurds attribute their peaceful neighborhood to the fact that Kurds are not Arabs. But this is not the main reason, for the Kurds have, in the past, been as factious and violent as the Iraqi Arabs are now. It was during the 1990s, when the U.S. and Britain agreed to keep Saddam's forces out of the north (to prevent another large scale massacre of Kurds), that the Kurds sensed a rare opportunity and sorted out their differences and learned the benefits of cooperation, rule of law and civil order. In effect, the Kurds had a ten year head start on the rest of Iraq in the "how to create peace and democracy" department. The Iraqi Arabs, Sunni and Shia, who come north on business, or for a vacation, note this. The Arabs believe they are superior to the Kurds ("a bunch of hillbillies," to most Arabs), and find it irritating that the Kurds have made things work, while down south, especially in central Iraq, things are still a mess. Given time the Iraqi Arabs will probably catch up. But this is not a popular solution to the "Iraq problem," and no career-conscious journalist is going to talk about what the Kurds have done and why the Arab's haven't.
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