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An impressive build up for such a short time, but not like the glory days
If only someone had warned them: 2 million jobs' worth of hours lost under ObamaCare
ObamaCare will force a reduction in American work hours — the equivalent of 2 million jobs over the next decade, Congress's nonpartisan scorekeeper said Monday.
The total workforce will shrink by just under 1 percent as a result of changes in worker participation because of the new coverage expansions, mandates and changes in tax rates, according to a 22-page report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
"Some people would choose to work fewer hours; others would leave the labor force entirely or remain unemployed for longer than they otherwise would," the agency said in its latest analysis of the now five-year-old law.
But I guess that's only bad if you want a productive society.
More bugs "features": Obama Administration: Obamacare Has Driven Health Spending Up, While Covering Fewer Than Expected
In 2010, when Obamacare was passed, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the law would reduce the number of uninsured in 2014 by 19 million, relative to the number of people without health insurance in 2010. By 2016, CBO estimated that 30 million fewer people would be uninsured.
Last week, CMS came to a different conclusion. According to their estimates, the number of uninsured fell by 12.6 million from 2010 to 2014. And 2010's uninsurance rate was artificially higher due to the Great Recession; if you use 2008 as the baseline, the number of uninsured fell by only 6.7 million.
A group of economists and statisticians at CMS described the 2014 health expenditure data last week in Health Affairs. The growth rate of national health spending in 2014 was 5.3%, they found: the highest rate since 2007. "The return to faster growth," they wrote, "was largely influenced by the coverage expansions of the Affordable Care Act."
Spending growth was up across the board: in private health insurance (4.4%), in Medicare (5.5%), and especially in Medicaid (11.0%), which Obamacare significantly expanded.
In 2014, U.S. government spending on health care neared $1.4 trillion. That's over $4,500 for every man, woman and child in the country: far more than we would ever need to achieve universal coverage in a rational, market-based system.
Will Obamacare put YOUR doctor out of business next?
The Democrats are continuing to stick Americans with bills for Obamacare – only this time, it's the hospitals and doctors who are sweating. Quick background on this: as most of you know, the Obamacare nonprofit co-ops are largely living up to the adjective, if you define 'nonprofit' as 'literally burning money in a pile on the ground.' They're collapsing left and more-left*; and the bankrupt ones are running into the problem that, well, they have no money, which means that they can't pay their bills. Tautological, nu?
This is the important thing to understand: hospitals and doctors are in trouble right now because of the Democrats. The Democrats decided to shove socialized medicine down all our throats. Not the Republicans. The Democrats decided to bribe insurers and prop up the entire rotten co-op system with a permanent 'temporary subsidy.' Not the Republicans. The Democrats decided to lie about how finally stable the whole thing is. Not the Republicans.
I have no intention of taking any blame, either individually or collectively, for this debacle. Blaming the Republicans for our horrid crime of insisting we don't spend money that we don't actually have is like blaming the surgeon for the gangrene. Cleaning this mess up is, in fact, going to be as painful as all get-out. That's why we fought Obamacare until the final black-out. We knew that it was going to fall apart. This was all inevitable, and none of us wanted any part of it.
Speaking of the Obamacare co-ops: LONE PROFITABLE ACA INSURANCE CO-OP LOSING MILLIONS
The lone health insurance cooperative to make money last year on the Affordable Care Act's public insurance exchanges is now losing millions and suspending individual enrollment for 2016.
Maine's Community Health Options lost more than $17 million in the first nine months of this year, after making $10.9 million in the same period last year. A spokesman said higher-than-expected medical costs have hurt the cooperative.
The announcement casts further doubt on the future of the cooperatives, small nonprofit insurers devised during the ACA's creation to inject competition in insurance markets. These co-ops immediately struggled to build their businesses. A dozen of the 23 created have already folded.
Obamacare is robbing resources from the developmentally disabled Children, mentally ill and disabled hurt worst.
"California was once known as a pioneer for spearheading alternatives to confining people with developmental disabilities in state-run institutions that were notoriously overcrowded and separated patients from their loved ones," but that progress is in danger of disappearing because the state is cutting back their spending on these programs.
Now, "more than $1 billion in state budget cuts threaten the system. In a grimly-titled report, On the Brink of Collapse, the Association of Regional Center Agencies (ARCA) noted that state has the lowest funding in the country for individuals with a developmental disability who qualify for services."
Ronke Sodipo, director of community services at the Regional Center of the East Bay said, "Recent changes in labor laws have exacerbated funding issues for the scores of organizations that provide services." California's new law that requires paid sick leave, "the Affordable Care Act requirement that employers with more than 50 full time employees provide health insurance; an increase in overtime pay; and the higher minimum wage in Oakland and Emeryville have all created additional costs for the organizations."
Yes, Obamacare is making it more expensive and harder for community service organizations to survive and the most vulnerable people they serve are losing the care they need.
This is even more egregious when you consider that those who benefit most from Medicaid expansion under Obamacare are able-bodied, childless adults, who can and should be working and buying their own insurance – and those who are hurt are truly in need of the help.
Children are being hurt too.
The work activity center at The Arc of Alameda in Union City is just one of the programs in the Bay Area that will be shutting down over the next few months because of funding issues. Luter also plans to close a child care program in Hayward, where he said deficits have run from $40,000 to $100,000 per year since 2010. The center serves children ages 2 to 5 with mild to moderate disabilities or developmental delays.
Innocent children and disabled adults are shut out in favor of the new recipients of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. Adherence to liberal ideology is hurting the poor and disabled, leaving them and their families with nowhere to turn.
But it's good because the "right people" are making money:
OBAMA'S HHS GAVE A SWEETHEART DEAL to a medical analytics firm owned by a company that had to settle a health data fraud case brought against it by the New York Attorney General for $400 million. Can you guess what the sole-source, five-year, open-ended "Blanket Purchase Agreement" is buying for the Obamacare program from the lucky firm? If you said health data – including an undetermined amount from the database used in the New York fraud – you get the gold ribbon.
Oh, and did I mention that Andy Slavitt, Obama's nominee as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (which runs Obamacare), is a former top executive with firm at the heart of the fraud? Maybe that's why he got an unusual ethics waiver from the Obama administration that allows him to participate in decisions affecting his former employer? Just saying ….
And one more thing: Not only does the contract's renewal not have to be made public, according to federal procurement regulations, nobody knows how much the deal is worth because there's no dollar amount affixed to it. Okay, that was two things.
Obamacare repeal bill offers something for everyone on Capitol Hill
Indeed, there was something for everyone in Republicans' successful effort last week to finally dispatch a health care repeal bill to President Obama's desk.
The fast-track legislation, which passed on a 52-47 vote near party lines, would dismantle Obamacare and strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood for one year in the wake of videos showing organization officials negotiating sales of fetal body parts, raising the stakes for Republican incumbents who might worry that women would have to scramble for non-abortion services.
Everyone knew the bill was doomed by Mr. Obama's veto pledge and was purely a messaging vehicle ahead of pivotal elections. . .
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As the Director of IT, Security and Privacy at Intermedia, Ryan Barrett has more than 10 years of experience in data security and IT leadership. Barrett has been integral in security with enterprises such as Qualys and WebEx where he helped build out the original security program. Currently, he is not only responsible for securing and maintaining the privacy of Intermedia's enterprise cloud service offering, but is responsible for maintaining the efficiency and security of Intermedia's unique IT infrastructure that leverages best-of-breed enterprise cloud services, alongside Intermedia's leading enterprise services.
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Parents of woman killed in SF sues city, feds
Eric Risberg

n this Sept. 1, 2015 file photo, from left, Brad Steinle, Liz Sullivan and Jim Steinle, the brother, mother and father of Kate Steinle who was shot to death on a pier, listen to their attorneys speak during a news conference on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco. The parents of a woman killed on a San Francisco pier by a man in the country illegally is suing the city and two federal agencies that they say contributed to her death. Kate Steinle's parents filed the wrongful-death lawsuit Friday, May 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The parents of a woman killed on a San Francisco pier have sued the city and two federal agencies, accusing them of contributing to her death because the man charged in the slaying was in the country illegally.
Kate Steinle's parents filed the wrongful death lawsuit Friday, accusing the Sheriff's Department of failing to notify federal immigration officials that it was releasing Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez from jail.
They also are suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. A BLM ranger reported that a gun was stolen from his car while it was parked in downtown San Francisco.
Lopez-Sanchez says he found the gun and it fired when he picked it up, striking Steinle, 32, in the back. He has pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge.
Steinle's shooting death in July thrust San Francisco into the national debate over immigration.
Lopez-Sanchez was transferred to the city jail to face a marijuana sales charge after he completed a nearly four-year federal prison sentence for illegal re-entry into the country in March. The district attorney dropped charges and the sheriff's department released Lopez-Sanchez, ignoring an ICE request to keep him behind bars.
San Francisco's so-called "sanctuary policy," which was tweaked and re-affirmed last week, bars city employees from cooperating with federal immigration officials in deportation efforts. The law dates to 1989.
The sheriff at the time cited the law in defending the release of Lopez-Sanchez, a repeat drug offender and habitual border crosser.
Advocates of sanctuary protections say a clear division between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities is needed to foster trust.
Calling the entire episode a "tragic series of events," the lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
Steinle's parents allege that the sheriff had an obligation to alert immigration officials that Lopez-Sanchez was being released, despite the city's sanctuary policy. The lawsuit also alleges that ICE knew Lopez-Sanchez was in the San Francisco jail and that agents should have taken him into their custody regardless of the sheriff's actions.
Finally, the lawsuit alleges that the BLM agent was negligent for leaving a service handgun in a backpack in his government-issued car. A burglar broke a window and stole the backpack two weeks before Steinle was shot.
Lopez-Sanchez remains jailed in the murder case.
The San Francisco Sheriff's Department referred calls to the city attorney's office.
Matt Dorsey, a spokesman for the city attorney, said the city's "heart goes out to the Steinle family" but that the sheriff can't be "held liable for the conduct of a criminal."
Officials with BLM and ICE didn't respond to inquiries for comment Friday.

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Robbins Geller Wins Class Certification in Emergent BioSolutions Class Action
On June 8, 2018, the Honorable Roger W. Titus of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland certified a class and appointed Robbins Geller as class counsel in City of Cape Coral Municipal Firefighters' Retirement Plan v. Emergent BioSolutions Inc.
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. ("Emergent") is a specialty biopharmaceutical company. The company's anthrax vaccine, BioThrax (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) ("BioThrax"), is the only anthrax vaccine licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"). The case charges Emergent and certain of its officers and directors with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Plaintiffs allege that Emergent issued materially false and misleading statements regarding the renewal of its five-year exclusive BioThrax procurement contract. As a result of defendants' statements, Emergent common stock traded at artificially inflated prices and enabled certain of the defendants to sell their personally held shares of Emergent common stock for millions of dollars in proceeds.
On June 22, 2016, before the market opened, Emergent announced that the U.S. government would only be purchasing 29.4 million doses of BioThrax over the next five years – approximately one-third less than the 44.75 million doses in Emergent's prior contract and far less than the 20 to 25 million doses per year the company had told investors to expect. In response to this unexpected news, the price of Emergent common stock plummeted, falling approximately $8 per share – roughly 20% – from a close of $39.32 per share on the evening of June 21, 2016, to a close of $31.33 per share on June 22, 2016, on extremely heavy trading volume.
In granting class certification, the court found that "Lead Plaintiffs' proposal of an event study to measure out-of-pocket per share damages meets their burden to show that damages can be calculated on a classwide basis." The court also held that "[b]ecause Lead Plaintiffs additionally have shown that the fraud-on-the market presumption of reliance applies, the Court finds that the predominance prong of Rule 23(b)(3) is met."
In agreeing with plaintiffs' arguments and appointing Robbins Geller as class counsel, the court stated that "Robbins Geller has been appointed class counsel in hundreds of securities class actions and has competently met its obligations under Rule 23 in those cases. The Court has no doubt that Robbins Geller will meet its obligation here to vigorously pursue this litigation."
The Robbins Geller attorneys litigating this case on behalf of the class are Samuel H. Rudman, Jonah S. Goldstein and Robert D. Gerson.
City of Cape Coral Municipal Firefighters' Retirement Plan v. Emergent BioSolutions Inc., No. 8:16-cv-02625-RWT, Memorandum Opinion (D. Md. June 8, 2018).
Robert Gerson
Jonah Goldstein
Samuel Rudman


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Home › Botwc Firsts › Victoria Mahoney Becomes First Black Woman To Direct A 'Star Wars' Film
Victoria Mahoney Becomes First Black Woman To Direct A 'Star Wars' Film
30th April 2018 by BOTWC Staff
Photo credit: Rob Latour/Variety/Rex/Shutterstock
The "Star Wars" universe is adding some much needed diversity to its staff with filmmaker Victoria Mahoney being tapped by J.J. Abrams to serve as a second-unit director for the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode IX" film. This will make Mahoney the first African-American woman to hold a directorial seat in the franchise's history.
Fellow filmmaker Ava DuVernay announced the news earlier this month on Twitter via a picture of Mahoney and Abrams with the caption, "Happy to share this historic news. A Black woman directing stories in a galaxy far, far away."
Happy to share this historic news. A black woman directing stories in a galaxy far, far away. First unit director #JJAbrams. Second unit director @VictoriaMahoney. #StarWarsE9 #StarWars pic.twitter.com/s689jv9I4u
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) April 17, 2018
Mahoney comes to the project as an already established filmmaker whose debut feature film, "Yelling at the Sky" premiered in 2011 at the Berlin Film Festival. Since then, she's directed episodes for major television shows like "Queen Sugar," Grey's Anatomy, and "Gypsy." According to IndieWire, she recently just finished directing a pilot for the CBS show "Red Line," which was executive produced by DuVernay and Greg Berlanti.
Catt's outta the bag. Thank you @ava for putting my name in the #StarWars #LucasFilm hat. Thank you #JJAbrams for inviting me on your ferocious ride. *This one's for the outliers, dreaming big--in small corners of the Earth.
#MaytheForceBeWithYou https://t.co/G6ckWzCIwt
— Vic Mahoney (@VictoriaMahoney) April 17, 2018
As a household franchise, "Star Wars" has come under fire in the past for its lack of diversity behind-the-scenes and last year, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kenned, told Variety that finding a female director was its priority. Thankfully, Mahoney has been tapped to fill that void.
"Star Wars: Episode IX" is currently in pre-production and set to be released in December 2019.
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Hookups Cafe is totally going by the name with its variety of charms all in a single place. The cafe is lit with variety of colors.
Every table is unique with different patterns of seats and tables adding a lots of variety in every corner of this place with amazing music.
This place also has a rooftop to enjoy a whole new ambiance.


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Mitt Romney has a new job
CNN's Paul Steinhauser and Rachel Streitfeld
(CNN) - Mitt Romney will return to the private sector.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee will join Solamere Capital, the investment firm founded by his eldest son, Tagg.
Filed under: Mitt Romney
Romney, Santorum go after each other in debate
Mesa, Arizona (CNN) - Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum mixed it up over their records on the debt, taxes and earmarks Wednesday night in the first Republican presidential debate in almost a month, and the first before three contests in the next 10 days followed by the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses on March 6.
Answering a question from the audience on how to bring down the nation's debt, the former Massachusetts governor attacked Santorum's record when he was representing Pennsylvania in the Senate.
Filed under: 2012 • CNN Arizona Republican Presidential Debate • Mitt Romney • Newt Gingrich • Rick Santorum • Ron Paul
Romney emerges unscathed in contentious GOP debate
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - It didn't take long for fireworks to erupt at Saturday night's Republican presidential debate.
But while most of six candidates on the stage at Saint Anselm College traded barbs, Mitt Romney didn't field much incoming fire from his rivals, and didn't apparently do any damage to his front-runner status in the race for the GOP nomination.
Filed under: 2012 • New Hampshire • Republicans
2nd straight NH poll indicates Cain on the rise
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - A second state poll indicates that Mitt Romney's still ahead of the rest of the field of Republican presidential candidates in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, but that Hermain Cain's numbers are on the rise.
According to a new survey by Institute of Politics at Harvard University and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, 38% of likely Republican primary voters say they would definitely or probably vote for Romney, the former governor of neighboring Massachusetts who's making his second bid for the White House. Romney has been the front-runner in just about every GOP primary poll in the Granite State over the past year.
Filed under: 2012 • GOP • Herman Cain • New Hampshire
Poll: Romney front-runner in N.H. but Cain on the rise
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - Mitt Romney's still far and away ahead of the rest of the field of Republican presidential candidates in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, according to a new poll.
But a WMUR Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire also indicates that Herman Cain's numbers in the state are on the rise, and that only a tenth of likely Republican primary voters have definitely decided on which candidate they will vote for in the battle for the GOP nomination.
Filed under: Herman Cain • Mitt Romney • New Hampshire • Polls
Will first votes for 2012 start in 2011?
(CNN) - Iowa's Republican Party chairman doesn't sound enthusiastic about holding his state's caucuses in December.
Matt Strawn says it's "better for process, better for the voters, better for the candidates. if the process starts in January."
Filed under: 2012 • Iowa


Boston-area kids hoping for snow days probably aren't going to like this, but Boston's lack of snow so far this season is truly astounding.
Even after 2.4″ of snow and sleet on Tuesday – the city's largest snow event of the season, believe it or not – Boston's seasonal snowfall total now sits at just 4.7″. To put that into perspective, Boston's typically seen about 28″ of snow by mid-February, putting Boston around two feet below average.
It's been an unusual snow hole for Boston, no doubt. And there's little snow in the near-term forecast for the city, so the streak will likely continue. Sorry, kids.


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Xenu, también llamado Xemu, fue, según el fundador de la Iglesia de la cienciología, L. Ron Hubbard, el dictador de la «Confederación Galáctica» que trajo miles de millones de seres de su pueblo a la Tierra —entonces conocida como «Teegeeack»— en una nave espacial similar a un avión DC-8 hace 75 millones de años, los apiló alrededor de volcanes y los aniquiló con bombas de hidrógeno. Las escrituras oficiales de la cienciología mantienen que los thetanes (espíritus inmortales) de estos extraterrestres se adhieren a los humanos, causando daño espiritual.

Estos eventos son conocidos en la cienciología como el «Incidente II», y los recuerdos traumáticos asociados con él como el «Muro de Fuego» o el «implante R6». La narrativa de Xenu es parte de las enseñanzas cienciólogas sobre civilizaciones extraterrestres e intervenciones alienígenas en eventos terrestres, descritos colectivamente como la «opera espacial» por Hubbard. Hubbard detalló la historia en el nivel III del thetán operativo (OT, por sus siglas en inglés) en 1967, advirtiendo que el «implante R6» (trauma pasado) estaba diseñado para matar (por neumonía, etc.) a cualquiera que intentase solventarlo.

En 1988, el coste de aprender estos secretos de la Iglesia de la cienciología era de 6,500 dólares. A esto habría que añadir el coste de los cursos anteriores que son necesarios para alcanzar el nivel de OT III, que a menudo supera los 100,000 dólares. La creencia en Xenu y en los tethanes corporales es un requisito para el progreso de los cienciólogos a través de lo que cienciología llama el Puente a la Libertad Total. Se espera que aquellos que no experimentan los beneficios del curso del OT III lo hagan de nuevo y vuelvan a pagar por él.

A partir de 1968, las ediciones del libro Dianética: la ciencia moderna de la salud mental tienen en la cubierta un volcán en erupción, lo que es una referencia al nivel de OT III.

Resumen

Entre finales de 1967 y comienzos de 1968 Hubbard escribió la historia que se ofrece a los que alcanzan el nivel OT III. Por esta época se encontraba en las Islas Canarias, un archipiélago español de origen volcánico que ya había sido visitado por él en un par de ocasiones.

Hana Eltringham Whitfield se unió a la Organización del Mar en la década de 1960, cuando Hubbard se encontraba en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Hana llegó a capitán de uno de los primeros barcos. Cuando llegó al nivel OT III, en el barco, declaró que recibió una carta de Hubbard escrita a mano que hablaba de Xenu, un extraterrestre que hace mucho tiempo gobernó muchos planetas y fue quien trajo a los habitantes del planeta Tierra, entonces llamado planeta Prisión, y los puso en los volcanes, activó esos volcanes y mató a mucha gente y recolectó esos espíritus. Las personas estaríamos atrapadas por esos espíritus en la actualidad y la vida actual sería una manifestación de esos espíritus.

La historia es descrita de forma más detallada en una conferencia del 3 de octubre de 1968 y en «Revuelta en las Estrellas», un guion escrito por L. Ron Hubbard en 1977.

Hubbard escribió que Xenu fue el dictador de una Confederación Galáctica hace 75 millones de años, que constaba de 26 estrellas y 76 planetas, incluyendo la Tierra, que entonces era conocida como "Teegeeack". Los planetas estaban superpoblados, conteniendo un promedio de población de 178 miles de millones. La Confederación Galáctica era comparable a la nuestra, con alienígenas con ropas similares a las nuestras y usando coches, trenes y barcos similares a los que había en las décadas de 1950 y 1960 en la Tierra.

Xenu estaba a punto de ser destituido del poder, por lo que ideó un plan para eliminar el exceso de población de sus dominios. Con la ayuda de psiquiatras, reunió a miles de millones de sus ciudadanos con la pretensión de inspeccionar su impuesto sobre la renta, entonces los paralizó y los congeló en una mezcla de alcohol y glicol para capturar sus almas. La población secuestrada fue cargada en una nave espacial para su transporte al sitio de exterminio, el planeta Teegeeack (la Tierra). La apariencia de esta nave espacial era similar a la del avión Douglas DC-8 pero sin sus motores. Cuando llegaron a Teegeeack, los ciudadanos paralizados fueron descargados y situados alrededor de las bases de los volcanes por el planeta. Se bajaron bombas de hidrógeno en los volcanes y estas fueron detonadas simultáneamente, matando a todos los alienígenas excepto a unos pocos. Hubbard describe la escena en su guion, «Revuelta en las Estrellas»:

Las almas de las víctimas ahora incorpóreas, que Hubbard llamó thetanes, fueron lanzadas al aire por la explosión. Fueron capturados por las fuerzas de Xenu usando una "cinta electrónica" ("que también era un tipo de onda estacionaria") y absorbidos por "zonas de vacío" en todo el mundo. Los cientos de miles de millones de thetanes capturados fueron llevados a un tipo de cine, donde fueron obligados a mirar una "super colosal" película en 3 dimensiones durante seis días. Esto les implantó lo que Hubbard denominó "varios datos engañosos" (colectivamente denominados "Implante R6") en la memoria de los infelices thetanes "que tienen que ver con Dios, el diablo, la ópera espacial, etcétera". Esto incluyó todas las religiones del mundo; Hubbard atribuía la Iglesia católica y la imagen de la crucifixión a la influencia de Xenu. Las dos "estaciones de implantes" citadas por Hubbard estaban en Hawái y la provincia de Las Palmas de las Islas Canarias.

Además de implantar nuevas creencias en los thetanes, las imágenes les privaron de su sentido de la identidad personal. Cuando los thetanes dejaron las áreas de proyección, empezaron a agruparse en grupos de unos pocos miles, habiendo perdido la habilidad de diferenciarse los unos de los otros. Cada grupo de thetanes se reunió en cada uno de los pocos cuerpos restantes que sobrevivieron a la explosión. Estos pasaron a ser conocidos como thetanes corporales que se dice que todavía se aferran y afectan negativamente a todos, excepto a los cienciólogos que han realizado los pasos necesarios para eliminarlos.

Una facción gubernamental conocida como los Oficiales Leales finalmente derrocó a Xenu y a sus renegados, y le encerraron en "una trampa electrónica en una montaña" de la que no ha escapado. Aunque a veces se dice que la ubicación de Xenu es los Pirineos en la Tierra, esta es en realidad la ubicación que Hubbard dio en otro lugar para una antigua "estación de informes marcianos". Teegeeack fue posteriormente abandonado por la Confederación Galáctica y sigue siendo un "planeta prisión" paria hasta nuestros días, aunque ha sufrido repetidamente incursiones de "fuerzas invasoras" extraterrestres desde ese momento.

Doctrina de la cienciología

En la cienciología, la historia de Xenu es referida como el "Muro de Fuego" o el "Incidente II". Hubbard le atribuyó una importancia tremenda, diciendo que estos hechos eran "los secretos de un desastre del cual resultó la decadencia de la vida tal y como la conocemos en este sector de la galaxia".

El documento del OT III describe que Hubbard entró en el Muro de Fuego pero emergió vivo ("probablemente el único en hacerlo en 750 000 000 años"). Primero anunció públicamente su "avance" en «Ron's Journal 67» («RJ67»), una conferencia grabada el 20 de septiembre de 1967, para ser enviada a todos los cienciólogos. Según Hubbard, su investigación se logró a costa de una fractura en la espalda, la rodilla y el brazo. El OT III contiene una advertencia de que el implante R6 está "calculado para matar (por neumonía, etc.) a cualquiera que intente resolverlo".  Hubbard alegó que su "desarrollo tecnológico"—como sus materiales de OT—habían neutralizado esta amenaza, creando un camino seguro a la redención.

La Iglesia de la cienciología prohibió a los individuos leer la cosmogonía de Xenu del OT III sin haber tomado los requeridos cursos previos. Los cienciólogos advierten que leer la historia de Xenu sin la autorización adecuada podría causar neumonía.

Hubbard utiliza la existencia de thetanes corporales para explicar muchas de las dolencias físicas y mentales de la humanidad que, dice, evitan que las personas alcancen sus niveles espirituales más altos.

Xenu en la cultura popular

Versiones de la historia de Xenu han aparecido tanto en televisión como en producciones teatrales. El musical satírico Off-Broadway «Un espectáculo infantil muy feliz no autorizado de la cienciología» («A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant»), representado por primera vez en 2003 y ganador de un Premio Obie en 2004, muestra a niños con disfraces de alienígenas contando la historia de Xenu.

South Park

La historia de Xenu fue también satirizada en un episodio de noviembre de 2005 de la serie South Park, de Comedy Central, titulado «Atrapado en el armario». En el episodio aparecen Tom Cruise y otros actores pertenecientes a la cienciología. El episodio fue nominado a un Premio Emmy. Muestra la historia de Xenu con el letrero "Esto es lo que los cienciólogos creen realmente".

El episodio pasó a ser objeto de controversia cuando el músico Isaac Hayes, la voz del personaje "Chef" y cienciólogo, se marchó de la serie en marzo de 2006, justo antes de que el episodio fuese a ser emitido de nuevo porque la serie ridiculizaba la religión. El cocreador de South Park, Matt Stone, dijo que en 10 años nunca había tenido problemas cuando hacían bromas con el resto de religiones y que su partida se debía a que era cienciólogo. Comedy Central canceló la repetición del episodio y emitió en su lugar dos episodios en los que había participado Hayes, como si se tratase de un tributo a "Chef". Finalmente, volvieron a emitir el episodio el 19 de julio de 2006. Los creadores Matt Stone y Trey Parker sintieron que la empresa dueña de Comedy Central, Viacom, canceló aquella vez la emisión del episodio por el próximo lanzamiento de la película «Misión Imposible III», con Tom Cruise, de la Paramount, otra compañía de Viacom.

Más tarde, los creadores de la serie dieron un comunicado diciendo que ganaron la batalla pero que la pelea de millones de años apenas empezó y terminaron diciendo "Viva Xenu".

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So I guess this could be a little more timely, since Sunday was the last day for the Florida Renaissance Festival in Deerfield Beach. I visited it recently with my co-author Maggie Phillippi. I've been to the Arizona Renaissance Festival more times than I can easily count, and was interested to see how a Ren Faire a couple thousand miles away was!
Quite a few things were the same--a surprising amount of hand-crafted merchandise (like necklaces and even those little shoulder animals) were basically the same. But a lot was different. Unlike the Arizona festival, Florida's is set in a County park. That means that you have to pay $1.50 a person just to park.
Yes, seriously. I'd say on the up side that means you don't have to park in dirt, but actually, you park in...grass.
Since the festival is in a park, the buildings and stages are basically temporary.
Even the tickets look different than Arizona's!
So yeah, once you are inside, there are a lot more tents than Arizona's, and a LOT more trees!
Seemed to be a greater proportion of fried and fair-style food, but not sure. A lot more gyros than Arizona.
Two more things you won't see at Arizona's fest--numerous signs, and WATER!
On the other hand, some vistas in Florida are kind of wrong.
For entertainment, we saw the Daredevil Chicken Club. Don't want to spoil the show for you too much, but that is a piece of banana in the air there. Unabashed silliness (and kind of gross).
They had a musical version of Cinderella, which was rather unusual; I guess they do a different musical every year?
Florida really IS another world; it was rife with additional Disney references, like Cinderella singing "Godmother, please" (to the tune of "Under the Sea").
After a brief bit of rain (just enough to make the benches wet!) we saw the falcon/hawk show, which was mostly the birds flying around randomly or being hooded while the man in charge told us all about falcons and hawks. Some of the information was interesting and some was repeated several times.
Hawks attack animals on the ground, and tear them up so much that you can only use the remains for stew, whereas falcons neatly kill their prey. Falcons were the birds of the nobility and hawks were the birds of the common man, he said. And falcons and hawks only hunt when they're hungry; they don't hunt to refine their skills, like cats do.
The Florida Renaissance Festival also had a "model pirate ship" that I'd expected to be somewhat larger.
And fry bread (it felt wrong to eat fry bread in Florida for some reason). It was really crispy; I couldn't even finish it, even with Maggie having some!
And later, this monstrosity (chocolate covered bacon!).
It was cold and wasn't very good (and I LIKE crispy bacon! Maggie doesn't, so she didn't care for it at the start). The bacon and chocolate were both good quality, but they didn't go together. I think I ate a piece, just to say I did. But it did garner attention while I was holding it while we waited for Maggie's deep-fried Oreos (delicious!). Everyone wanted to know how it was, and someone advised me to call 911 in advance before eating it, just in case.
The last thing--unlike Arizona's festival, Florida's has the greyhounds OUTSIDE instead of inside!


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Monmouthshire County Council's preparations to assume responsibility for parking enforcement from Gwent Police are well underway.
Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE) will be introduced on Monday 8th April when the council takes on powers to enforce on-street parking restrictions in Monmouthshire – in addition to the off-street car parks that the council already manages. The police will continue to be responsible for dealing with dangerously parked vehicles, obstruction and moving traffic offences.
Councillor Bryan Jones, Monmouthshire's cabinet member for county operations said: "Inconsiderate parking can often lead to congestion or issues with public transport and prevent emergency service vehicles from accessing areas as well as causing problems for local businesses when vehicles overstay their time outside shops.
A penalty charge notice (PCN) will be issued to a vehicle when a civil enforcement officer witnesses it parked in contravention of an order. Two levels of penalty charge are set by the Welsh Government and will depend on the severity of the contravention. The charge will be £70 for the most serious contraventions and £50 for lesser ones.
If the PCN is paid within 14 days of receipt of the notice, the charge will be reduced by 50%. If no payment is received or no representations are made within 28 days, the council may issue a charge certificate and the charges will be increased to £105 for the most serious of offences and £75 for lesser contraventions.
Motorists will be able to pay PCNs by post, using the envelope provided with the PCN, online by visiting the South Wales Parking Groups page www.swpg.co.uk (credit/debit card payment) or by telephone on 033 332 008 67. Additionally, motorists will be able to appeal the charge if they believe it has been wrongly issued. It should be noted that the registered keeper, or user of the vehicle if hired, is responsible for paying the PCN.
Income generated by the charges will contribute to the cost of the service and any surplus will go towards the county's traffic initiatives and road improvements, in line with Welsh Government guidance.


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#179: State championships on the line – 12/04/19
The football season, sadly, comes to an end this weekend in Hattiesburg. Six trophies will be handed out, and three area teams are in the mix to win them.
On this episode, Brad and Dalton preview the championships. First up is Oxford, which faces Oak Grove on Friday night for the 6A title (9:00). The Chargers are seeking their first state championship.
On Saturday, Corinth meets Poplarville in 4A (13:12). It will be a game featuring two big-time rushing attacks.
The final game of the weekend features West Point against Picayune (11:05). The Green Wave are going for their fourth straight 5A title, but Picayune is undefeated and boasts a 3,300-yard rusher in Cameron Thomas.
The guys also take a look back at last week's North finals. Oxford beat Starkville (1:43), West Point shut down Neshoba Central (4:53), and Corinth gained revenge on Greenwood (6:18).
Some big football coaching news dropped this week, as former Calhoun City head man Perry Liles was hired to lead Ripley's program (16:01).
On the hardwood, Tupelo's boys held off Booneville on Tuesday night (17:25), while South Pontotoc's girls beat rival North Pontotoc (20:30). And coming up this weekend is the Doc Vandiver Classic (22:05), hosted by Baldwyn.
There are multiple Shoutouts today (23:23), plus Athletes of the Week (25:16).
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#178: Football North finals on tap – 11/26/19
The MHSAA football playoffs continue this week with the North finals, and four area teams will be in action.
On this episode, Brad and Dalton preview the games, starting with Greenwood at Corinth in Class 4A (9:41). In 5A, West Point is seeking a fourth straight trip to the title game, with Neshoba Central standing in its way (12:05). And in 6A, Oxford hosts Starkville in a rematch of a regular season game won by the Yellowjackets (13:54).
The guys also recap some of last week's football action. Behind its stellar defense, Oxford shut down South Panola and its vaunted rushing attack (2:10). Corinth ran past Itawamba AHS (5:39), and West Point rallied to beat Lafayette again (7:59).
On the hardwood, Dalton talks about Baldwyn's boys, who edged Houlka on Monday night (16:12). Brad was at the Saltillo Shootout and has an update on Kossuth's girls (19:33).
The guys also have a Shoutout (21:32) as well as Athletes of the Week (23:16).
#177: Big-time playoff games on tap – 11/20/19
We've got a packed show for you this week.
The football playoffs are in the North semifinal round, and there are several huge matchups on the schedule. Brad and Dalton look at the 4A tilt between Itawamba AHS and Corinth (11:23), both of which feature dangerous rushing attacks. They also preview Lafayette-West Point (13:27), a rematch from the regular season won by the Green Wave. Oxford hosts South Panola (15:11) in a game featuring 6A's best defense in versus the best offense.
The guys take a quick look at a few other matchups, too, like Noxapater at Biggersville (9:50).
There were some good games last week as well. In the Football Rewind, the guys recap South Panola's win over Tupelo (1:37), Baldwyn's win against Tupelo Christian (5:35), and a last-second win for IAHS against West Lauderdale (8:34).
On the basketball court, Pontotoc beat Lafayette on Tuesday in a battle of the Daily Journal's top-ranked girls teams (18:07). On the boys side, Shannon rallied past Nettleton (21:00).
Also this week, the guys have a Shoutout for a couple of basketball signees (24:12), plus Athletes of the Week (24:31).
#173: Division races heating up – 10/23/19
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Football division races are nearing the finish line, with several critical games on tap this week.
On this episode, Brad and Dalton preview a 1-3A showdown between Booneville and Amory (6:09). The Blue Devils are coming off a tough loss to Kossuth, while the host Panthers are riding a six-game winning streak.
In 2-4A, Itawamba AHS hosts Pontotoc, with both teams sporting 3-0 division marks (8:43). But Pontotoc is a bit of a mystery, given how slowly it started the season.
And in 2-1A, TCPS visits Smithville in what's likely a must-win game for both teams in regards to a playoff berth (9:44).
Also, the guys take a look back at some Week 9 highlights. West Point held off Grenada (1:19), Starkville upended No. 1 Madison Central (2:53), and Tupelo blew past Lewisburg (3:49).
On the volleyball front, three area teams advanced to the state semifinals Tuesday (11:25). New Albany and Belmont are making their first trips to the Final Four, while Alcorn Central is there for the second time in three years.
The guys also have a Shoutout (13:21) and Athletes of the Week (14:46).
#143: Stacy lifts Lions; big events this weekend – 01/23/19
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'Tis the season for big division games in basketball, so Brad and Dalton are here to recap some of the more notable results from the past week.
In 1-1A, Biggersville's boys won an epic overtime battle against Wheeler on Tuesday thanks to Hunter Stacy (5:45), who had a late steal and basket to seal it. He finished with 35 points. Back on Friday, Ingomar's boys won a defensive struggle against 1-2A foe Baldwyn in a top-5 showdown (1:29). And Jaxon Orr carried Itawamba AHS past Shannon in a 2-4A matchup (3:34).
Looking ahead, Oxford visits Tupelo on Friday (10:02), with both the boys and girls games holding big seeding implications in 2-6A.
On Saturday, two annual showcases take center stage. The Hotbed Classic in New Albany features big-time boys matchups like New Albany-Holly Springs, and it will bring in some major out-of-state talent as well (12:03). On the girls side, the Robertson's Sportswear Lady Challenge in Booneville will feature eight teams ranked by the Daily Journal, with the premier matchup being No. 1 Pontotoc vs. No. 2 Lafayette (14:09).
In football news, Aberdeen has found a new head coach in Alex Williams, who was previously at West Point (16:02). Also today, the guys give a Shoutout to TCPS girls soccer (17:43), and they present Athletes of the Week (18:47).
#139: All-Area Football Team unveiled – 12/27/18
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The Daily Journal's annual All-Area Football Team was unveiled on Sunday. On this episode, Brad and Dalton take a look at the selections (1:20), including the players of the year and the coach of the year. Tupelo's Jaquerrious Williams won the honor on offense, Lafayette's Brandon Turnage on defense, and Biggersville's Quamon Davis captured the two-way player award. And Chris Chambless was named top coach after leading West Point to yet another state title.
The guys also talk hoops, as Brad recaps No. 1 Starkville's win over Tupelo on Wednesday (9:01). The Yellowjackets avenged an earlier loss to the Wave. And last week, Pontotoc's boys handed Nettleton its first loss (11:21).
There is plenty of basketball action this week, with several holiday tournaments on tap (14:32), including the Kiwanis Classic.
The guys also honor Athletes of the Week (15:46).
#136: West Point 3-peats; Ingomar wins epic game – 12/05/18
The 2018 football season wrapped up last weekend with the MHSAA state championships. On this episode, Dalton recaps West Point's third-straight state title and looks ahead to the Green Wave's 2019 prospects (1:31). This was the first year the championships were held in Hattiesburg, and Dalton said it's a better fit for the event than Oxford or Starkville (7:39).
There has been a lot of good action on the basketball court lately. On the boys side, Jumpertown edged Mantachie on Tuesday thanks to a couple of freshmen (10:42), while Saltillo held off Columbus with some good defense (13:38). Also, Brad enjoyed sitting near the Saltillo student section.
On Saturday, Starkville beat Okolona (17:32), which is not the same team it was when winning last season's 1A title, but is still tough to handle.
And in girls action, Ingomar won an epic three-overtime thriller against Pine Grove on Friday in a battle of defending state champs (18:57). Brad was very sad he had to miss it.
Also on the show today: A shoutout to Pontotoc girls hoops (20:44), discussion of the All-Area team (21:55), and Athletes of the Week (24:38).
#135: West Point playing for another state title – 11/28/18
The 2018 high school football season wraps up this weekend with the MHSAA championships in Hattiesburg. Northeast Mississippi has one team competing for a title: West Point.
On this episode, Brad and Dalton look at the six matchups (6:08), including West Point against West Jones in the 5A title game (7:30). The Green Wave are seeking a third-straight championship. They got here by turning in a dominant performance on both sides of the ball last week in a 35-0 win over Olive Branch (1:33).
Two other area teams came up short last week. Turnovers hurt Calhoun City in a loss to Scott Central (3:57), while Smithville couldn't capitalize on some opportunities against powerhouse Simmons (4:56).
There's plenty of basketball talk this week, too. Dalton has an update on the Potts Camp boys (11:09), who are off to a strong start behind the play of Mitchell Saulsberry. On the girls side, South Pontotoc rallied to beat Amory on Tuesday (13:45), while Tremont held off a furious West Union comeback (15:22).
Some big girls games are on tap for Friday night (17:00), including Pontotoc at Tupelo and Ingomar at Pine Grove.
The guys wrap things up with a shoutout to Houston's Aquana Brownlee (19:08) and Athletes of the Week (19:46).
#134: Three area teams seek title game berths – 11/21/18
The MHSAA football playoffs continue this week with the North finals, and three area teams will be on the field Friday night.
Brad and Dalton preview each of those games on this episode. In Class 1A, Smithville has the unenviable task of traveling to Simmons (9:23), which has won three-straight championships and is on a 53-game winning streak. The Seminoles' stingy defense will need to be in top form.
In 2A, Calhoun City visits Scott Central in a battle of two strong defensive squads (12:30). The Wildcats are making their third consecutive trip to the North final, while the Rebels haven't been here since 2003.
And in 5A, three-time defending state champ West Point hosts division foe Olive Branch (14:59). The Green Wave have handed the Conquistadors their only three losses over the last two seasons, including in last year's North final.
Brad and Dalton also look back at some of last week's results. Calhoun City, led by linebacker/tailback Anfernee Campbell, blanked Philadelphia and showed off a strong pass defense (2:06). Smithville beat Okolona for the second time this year (4:44), tossing a shutout in the second half. And Corinth fumbled the game away late in a 4A playoff loss to Greenwood (7:01).
On the basketball court, Brad recaps Ripley's big win against Booneville on Tuesday (18:26), and Dalton looks back at New Site's defeat of South Pontotoc on Monday (21:05).
The guys also present Shoutouts (23:08) and Athletes of the Week (23:53).
#133: Rematches headline football playoffs – 11/14/18
The quarterfinal round of the MHSAA football playoffs kicks off Friday, and it's highlighted by several rematches.
On this episode, Brad and Dalton preview three of the big games. In Class 1A, Smithville hosts Okolona (7:37), a team it beat in the regular season en route to a division title. It's a similar situation for West Point in 5A, as the Green Wave host Lafayette (9:08), which it defeated in a Division 1-5A game earlier this season.
And it 2A, Calhoun City welcomes Philadelphia (10:44), which it eliminated from the playoffs last year. The Wildcats also beat the Tornadoes earlier this season.
The guys also recap some of last week's games. North Pontotoc came up just short at North Panola in 3A (1:28), while Pontotoc rolled past Senatobia in 4A (4:32) and Booneville's perfect season ended at the hands of Water Valley in 3A (5:55).
And a bit of coaching news: Eric Spann is leaving Aberdeen after four seasons (12:59).
On the basketball court, Dalton says he was impressed by the Tupelo boys in their 30-point win over Shannon on Tuesday (14:04). Ingomar's girls also picked up a nice win Tuesday, defeating a strong Ripley team behind Gara Beth Self's 31 points (15:48). And Brad liked what he saw out of the TCPS boys in their win Monday against Walnut (17:26).
The guys also give shoutouts to Jumpertown's Austin Geno (18:44) and Kossuth's Morgan Hodum (20:50), and they present Athletes of the Week (21:17).


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MMLab
Semantic Media Retrieval
Computer Vision and Behavior Analysis
Multimedia Forensics
Published Datasets
Francesco De Natale
Position: Full Professor
Email: francesco.denatale@unitn.it
Bio: Prof. Francesco De Natale graduated in Electronic Engineering (M.Sc. level) in 1990 at the University of Genova (Italy) and got a Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 1994 at the same University. In 1996 he got a position of Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari and successively moved to the University of Trento, Italy, where he is Full Professor of Telecommunications Engineering (from 2003). He has been the Head of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) from 2006 to 2009 and currently leads the Research Lab on Multimedia Communications (mmlab.disi.unitn.it) and the MMSPI (Multidimensional Multimodal Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab) of the Italian branch of the European Institute of Technology (EIT-ICTLabs@Italy). His research interests are focused on multimedia communications, with particular attention to multidimensional signal processing, analysis, and archiving. His results are witnessed by the publication record, with more than 150 works published on major international peer reviewed scientific journals and conferences (see the link http://www4.unitn.it/Ugcvp/en/Web/ProdottiAutore/PER0004833 for a partial list). He was General Co-Chair of the Packet Video Workshop (PV-2000), Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-2005), and General Chair of the ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR-2011). He has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans on Multimedia and of the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, as well as a member of the IEEE Signal Proc. Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), chairing the Technical Directions Subcommittee. Currently, he is member of the Board of Governors of the Italian Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), and the UniTN delegate in the Assembly of the EU EIT ICTLabs. He has been scientific coordinator of many large-scale research and development projects, both at the national and international level (see, e.g., EU-IP GLOCAL project, 2010-13, one of the key EU initiatives in media retrieval. Prof. De Natale was appointed evaluator for several international bodies, including the European Commission, and the NSFs of US and Ireland. Prof. De Natale is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM and GIRPR.
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Giulia Boato
Position: Associate Professor
Email: giulia.boato@unitn.it
Bio: Giulia Boato was born in Rovereto (Trento) in 1979. In 2002 she received the M.Sc. degree in Mathematics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Trento. In 2005 she obtained the Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies, working in the Multimedial Signal Processing and Understanding Lab on innovative methodologies for secure multimedia communications using Birkhoff polynomial interpolation. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineerig and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento (Italy) and professor of the courses Digital signal processing and Data hiding within the M.Sc. Degree in Telecommunications Engineering. From 2008 to 2011 she has been coordinating the Multimedial Signal Processing and Understanding Lab. She was in the Project staff of some past projects (DIPLODOC, AIDER, GRID.IT, PERSEO) and on-going projects (EU projects: SAFESPOT, FP7 FET-IP LIVINGKNOWLEDGE, FP7 IP GLOCAL, FP7 CA ETERNALS). She is co-chair of the International Workshop Living Web: making diversity a true asset (Washington DC, October 2009) within the International Semantic Web Conference 2009 and of the workshop on Event-based Media Integration and Processing co-located with ACM Multimedia conference 2013. She is in the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) and of the International Conference on Communications (ICC); and Local Arrangements Chair of the International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks 2005 and of the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2011. She is reviewer for many international journals, e.g., IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transaction on Signal Porcessing, IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. In 2006 she was visiting researcher at the Signal Theory and Communications Department of the University of Vigo (Spain). Since 2006 she has been collaborating with the Signal Processing Department of the Tampere University of Technology (Finland), in particular with prof. Karen Egiazarian. Since 2009 she has been working with prof. Hany Farid of the Dartmouth College (USA) on digital image and video forensics techniques, co-advising a Ph.D. thesis. In 2012 she was visiting researcher at the Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab of the University of Delft (the Netherlands). Her research interests are focused on image and signal processing, with particular attention to multimedia data protection, data hiding and image forensics, but also intelligent multidmensional data management and analysis. On these topics she is active in the european prjects coordinated by DISI: in LIVINGKNOWLEDGE for the development of image forensics methods supporting opinion mining on the web, in GLOCAL for the desing of multimedia annotation and retrieval systems based on the concept of event.
Nicola Conci
Email: nicola.conci@unitn.it
Nicola Conci received the Ph.D in 2007 from the University of Trento, Italy. In 2007 he was visiting student at the Image Processing Lab. at University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2008- 2009 he was post-doc researcher in the Multimedia and Vision research group at Queen Mary, University of London (UK). Since 2009 he is assistant professor at the University of Trento, Italy. His research interests are related to machine vision for video surveillance and behavior understanding.
Post Doctoral Research Staff
Niccolò Bisagno
Position: Post Doctoral Researcher
Email: niccolo.bisagno@unitn.it
Bio: Niccolò Bisagno received his PhD in 2020 from the ICT International Doctoral School of the University of Trento, Italy, for the thesis "On simulating and predicting pedestrian trajectories in a crowd". In 2019, he was visiting PhD student at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. In 2018, he was visiting PhD student at the Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt , Austria. Prior to that, he received his BS and MS degree in Telecomunication Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2015 and 2016.
His research area focuses on crowd analysis with a focus on pedestrian trajectory prediction and crowd simulation in virtual environments. He is also interested in machine learning and computer vision, with special focus on open set classification and sports analysis applications.
Sebastiano Verde
Email: sebastiano.verde@unitn.it
Bio: Sebastiano Verde received his PhD in 2021 from the Doctoral School in Information Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy, for the thesis "Content integrity and origin discovery in multimedia forensics". In 2019, he was visiting PhD student at the University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, participating in the project DéjàVu. Prior to that, he received his BSc degree in Information Engineering and his MSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2014 and 2017.
His research interests lie primarily in the area of multimedia signal processing, with a special focus on image and video forensics. He is also interested in computer vision, 3D graphics and machine learning.
Nicola Garau
Email: nicola.garau@unitn.it
Nicola Garau received the BSc and MSc degree in data science from the University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy and from the University of Trento, Trento, Italy, in 2016 and 2018 respectively. He is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Trento. He was a visiting internship student at the National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, Poole, U.K. His current research focuses on human pose estimation and capsule networks, with particular application to ambient assisted living and human behaviour analysis.
Andrea Montibeller
Email: andrea.montibeller@unitn.it
Andrea Montibeller received his M.Sc. in Information and Communications Engineering in 2020. He was research fellow at the University of Vigo for 6 month during 2018, working for prof. Fernando Pérez-González and since November 2020 he is a PhD student with the ICT Doctoral School. His main research interests focused on multimedia forensics are: source identification of videos based on the use of noise residuals and recognizing video fully or partially generated by GANs.
Zeno Sambugaro
Email: zeno.sambugaro@unitn.it
Zeno Sambugaro holds an M.Sc. in Information and Communication Engineering. He is currently a Ph.D. student, member of the Multimedia Signal Processing and Understanding Lab (MMlab) at the University of Trento, Italy. His main research interests comprise machine learning and computer vision, with a focus on open set classification.
Giulia Martinelli
Email: giulia.martinelli-2@unitn.it
Giulia Martinelli received her M.Sc. in Mechatronic Engineering in October 2020 at the University of Trento. Now she is a research fellow at the MMLab group and she is currently collaborating in a project for the pose estimation from top-view RGB images.
Lorenzo Orlandi
Email: lorenzo.orlandi@unitn.it
Lorenzo Orlandi is a Ph.D. at the University of Trento, Italy. Before he started his doctoral research he worked at Arcoda s.r.l.. He dealt with discovering new applications of augmented reality technology in the workforce management. His current research interests are in 3D reconstruction of indoor environments.
Antonio Luigi Stefani
Email: antonioluigi.stefani@unitn.it
Antonio Luigi Stefani received his M.Sc in Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Trento in 2021. He joined MMLab as research assistant and currently works on crowd behaviour analysis and deepfake detection over social network.
Federico Marcon
Federico Marcon received his Master Degree in Information and Communication Engineering in March 2021. His interests include media forensics, computer vision and machine learning. In April 2021, he joined the MMLab as research assistant working on deepfakes detection over social networks and web platforms.
Cecilia Pasquini
Position: Assistant Professor (RTD-A)
Bio: Cecilia Pasquini received her PhD in 2016 from the ICT International Doctoral School of the University of Trento, Italy, for the thesis "Statistical and deterministic approaches for multimedia forensics". From 2016 to 2020, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Privacy and Security Lab with the Universität Innsbruck, Austria, and at the IT Security Lab at the University of Münster, Germany. In 2013, she was visiting PhD student at the University of Vigo, Spain. Prior to that, she received a BS and MS degree in Mathematics from the University of Ferrara, Italy, in 2010 and 2012.
Her research area lies at the intersection of multimedia signal processing and information security, with special focus on image and video forensics, multimedia security, adversarial signal processing and machine learning. She has participated in several projects on these topics, such as UNCHAINED (funded by DARPA), TRUEBEES (funded by EU), PREMIER (funded by MIUR), ITBDIF (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), J-MDS, NOTIS, ECMSF (funded by EUREGIO).
She has been General Co-Chair of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding & Multimedia Security 2018, and co-organizer of the special session "Information Security meets Adversarial Examples" at IEEE WIFS 2019. She is member of the Technical Program Committe of several conferences and workshops (e.g., ACM IH&MMSec, IEEE WIFS, IEEE ICASSP, EUSIPCO), and serves as reviewer for many journals (e.g., IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TIP, EURASIP JIS). She is an elected member of the Eurasip BForSec Technical Area Committee. She received the Top 10% paper award (IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2013) and the "F. Carassa" GTTI 2015 award for the best ongoing PhD.
She is main co-lecturer of the course "Trends and Applications of Computer Vision" (Master Program in Artificial Intelligence Systems).
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Federica Lago
Federica Lago received her M.Sc. in Computer Science in 2017. She was research fellow at the MMLab group, and since 2018 she is a PhD student with the ICT Doctoral School. Her main research interests are focused on multimedia forensics ad data analysis, and her research is currently focused on recognizing GAN synthesized human faces and deepfakes.
Giulia Tabarelli
Giulia Tabarelli received her Ms.C. in Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Trento in October 2019. Now she is a research assistant at the MMLab group, collaborating in a project with StreamOut, a local company. She is working on Shared.Media, an application which creates video highlights from sport experiences, such as rafting, paragliding or canyoning, identifying automatically the best and captivating parts of the recorded activity, to give a digital memory to the people who partecipate in it.
Andrea Montagner
Andrea Montagner is a research assisistant at the MMlab group since 2018. At the moment, he is working on a collaboration project with a local company, Antemotion, which is focused on developing a new state of the art simulator for the automotive industry. His main interests are computer graphics, game developing and software engineering.
Lorenzo Braccaioli
After earning my Master Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Trento, I entered the computer vision world to explore my interest for multimedia signal processing. As a research fellowship holder, I am collaborating with Streamout S.R.L. to develop an innovative tool for automated video highlights extraction.
Andrea Grisenti
Position: Project Manager Ausilia and Business Developer
Bio: Andrea Grisenti received M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering in 2010. From 2011 he worked as Sales Engineer and then as head of international markets in a company involved in the gas leak detection market growing his skills in International Business, Customer Relationship Management, Sales Management and Development of custom and innovative products . From 2016 he worked as COO of a small subsidiary involved Bioenergy industry for one of the major international players in the environmental sector based in the north of Italy. From 2018 he is the Project Manager of Ausilia Project, Ausilia is a territorial laboratory inside the Villa Rosa rehabilitation hospital (Pergine Valsugana, Trento). The aim is to test, develop and integrate solutions to foster independent living of subjects affected by disabilities or recovering from traumas (AAL sector). He's also following the development of potential Projects / Business for MMLab group in the sport research field.
Sebastiano Chiari
Sebastiano Chiari is a M.Sc student at the University of Trento. After a 6 months post-degree study grant at the MMLab on crowd analysis and simulation, he is continuing working on the development of a Unity based crowd-simulator.


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With 2022 U.S. News Rankings, 5 Shorelight Universities Stay in the Top 100
Which universities are the best in the nation? Check out the five internationally friendly colleges that U.S. News & World Report rank among the best for 2022.
The most-anticipated day in higher education has arrived: the announcement of the new U.S. News & World Report college rankings! For 2022, five Shorelight universities have again made the top 100, with many outstanding academic programs also receiving top-10 undergraduate degree rankings. Check out the highlights, then reach out to our advisors to start your journey to a top-ranked school that's looking to enroll international students like you.
Shorelight Universities in the Top 100 Best Colleges
For 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked:
U.S. News 2022 Best Colleges Ranking
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Additionally, the University of Illinois Chicago (#103), University of Dayton (#127), and Florida International University (#162) saw big jumps in their rankings for 2022 – which means that their outstanding academic programs, strong student outcomes, and overall quality experiences are getting much-deserved attention!
Shorelight Universities ranked in the 100-200 Best Colleges
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Check out the latest rankings for all Shorelight universities >
Shorelight Universities with Top 10 Undergraduate Degree Programs
Best does not just apply to an entire school – the experts at U.S. News & World Report also evaluate bachelor degree programs for academic quality, student satisfaction, and success after graduation. Here are a few standouts for 2022.
U.S. News 2022 Ranking
2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Ed Rankings
It's not just U.S. News & World Report that announced new rankings: Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Ed (THE) also recently released their 2022 report, featuring nearly 800 universities. Two Shorelight universities were included in the overall top 100, alongside several others recognized for excellence in highly competitive categories.
WSJ/THE 2022 Ranking
#91 - Best Universities in the US; #25 - Best Public Universities in the US
#96 - Best Universities in the US; #71 - Best Private Universities in the US
#34 - Best Public Universities in the US
#36 (tie) - Best Public Universities in the US
#66 (tie) - Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the US
#90 - Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the US
How to Use University Rankings
University rankings are a measure of quality that can help student applicants (and their families) during the university research process. Use university rankings as just one way to narrow down your choices about where to apply.
There are no official government rankings for "best" or "top" universities in the US. Different organizations, such as U.S. News & World Report, the Princeton Review, and Shanghai Rankings, among others, create their own criteria systems, evaluate schools based on that criteria, and then publish the results.
As just one example, U.S. News & World Report uses criteria focusing on reputation, research, and publication categories when it evaluates universities to be included in their annual global college rankings, Best Colleges list, and rankings by major.
Want to learn more about how to use college rankings in your college research process? Check out our Guide to US University Rankings & Accreditations or get in touch with our enrollment counselors. Our expert advisors can offer tailored advice, based on your goals and interests, on how to use university rankings based on what you want to study and your future career plans.
Remember, rankings are just one resource for you to use as you consider your study in the US plans – and they will not be able to cover all the different ways a college can offer an outstanding experience. In fact, many colleges not included in the top rankings still offer prestigious programs and amazing outcomes! As you start your US university journey, keep in mind that there are many places that will provide you with a great education, lifelong friends, and exciting opportunities. Start your research with the 2022 rankings – but remember not to end your search with them!
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