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Wyden Unveils Plan to Protect Private Data, Restore 'Do Not Track,' and Jail Reckless CEOs
Filed to: Consumer Data Protection ActFiled to: Consumer Data Protection Act
Consumer Data Protection Act
Ron Wyden
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., center, speaks with reporters while Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Minority Leader Chuch Schumer of N.Y., watch following their policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018.
By the time it was clear the fallout from the Equifax breach reached roughly three-fourths of adult Americans, Washington lawmakers were already tripping over themselves to churn out a law that they hoped would, in some future, analogous disaster, hold accountable the negligent hoarders of Americans' personal, private data. By the time Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal reared its head six months later, however, nearly every effort to pass a comprehensive bill that might punish corporate data malfeasance had stalled. Today, only a handful of 2018 campaign websites even mention the issue at all.
On Thursday, the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, one of Congress' most vocal privacy advocates, began circulating a discussion draft of a bill aimed at bringing to heel Silicon Valley companies that have amassed billions trading in consumers' private data. The tentatively named "Consumer Data Protection Act" would force sweeping changes at companies such as Google and Facebook, granting consumers the ability to opt-out entirely from having their data sold off for marketing purposes, while dramatically increasing the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) authority to pursue privacy violators.
To start, Wyden's privacy bill sets forth a requirement that companies whose revenue exceeds $1 billion per year—or those who store data on more than 50 million consumers or consumer devices—submit to the government "annual data protection reports" outlining the measures taken to ensure the security of all collected personal information. Inspired by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires executive officers to certify and approve company financial reports, Wyden's bill would require data protection reports to be certified by top executives, including chief executive officers, who would face not only stiff fines but jail time if they were to fail to comply.
The bill's current language outlines up to 20-year prison sentences and fines not to exceed $5 million for executives who knowingly mislead the FTC, which at present has no authority to punish first-time corporate offenders. Companies that violate the standards established by the FTC under the law's authority would also face steep fines, up to 4 percent of their annual revenue. For perspective, a company such as Google could face up to a $5 billion fine for a serious infraction.
"Individual Americans know far too little about how their data is collected, how it's used and how it's shared."
But more than hanging a dagger over the heads of corporate officers, the purpose of the bill is to provide consumers with options—and in particular, the option to not be tracked with each click online. As Gizmodo reported earlier this month, the "Do Not Track" privacy tool that comes standard in all browsers currently does nothing to actually dissuade companies from tracking users; a chief aim of the Wyden bill is to resurrect the power of consumers to control who monitors their online activities through an enforceable, "one-stop shop" feature.
Ideally, consumers would be given the power to "opt-out" of being tracked by visiting an FTC website, and, as "Do Not Track" intended, their browsers would notify websites that their information is not to be shared with third parties. Relatedly, websites encountering do-not-track users would not be allowed to facilitate third-party collection either, meaning that ad network code added to websites for the purpose of vacuuming up information about users for third-party companies would essentially no longer be allowed
"Today's economy is a giant vacuum for your personal information. Everything you read, everywhere you go, everything you buy and everyone you talk to is sucked up in a corporation's database," Wyden said. "But individual Americans know far too little about how their data is collected, how it's used and how it's shared."
Keenly aware that such a move would drastically impact (read: crush) companies such as Facebook, whose business model revolves around its ability to track users for marketing purposes, the bill offers a simple, if not elegant, solution: Companies would be allowed to notify users that the only way to continue using a service or website for free is to allow tracking. But companies that choose to do this cannot simply deny service to anyone who desires not to have their data collected. Instead, they must offer a paid version of the service.
In practice, this would mean Facebook users would be faced with two options: allow Facebook to continue tracking them online so the company can continue to profit by targeting them with ads, or pay a monthly fee to offset the company's loss in revenue. The fee, as described in the bill's language, "shall not be greater than the amount of monetary gain the covered entity would have earned had the average consumer not opted-out." In Facebook's case, such a fee would be relatively small; in December 2017, the company said it made on average $26.76 per U.S.-based user. (A third option, floating by one Wyden aide, might include allowing users to agree to continue using a service even if they opt-out for free if they agree to, say, watch a three-minute advertisement beforehand.) What's more, when a user does agree to be tracked in exchange for using a "free" service, the bill requires that they be notified of which third-parties will be granted access to what specific information.
"It's time for some sunshine on this shadowy network of information sharing."
The bill also includes two important carveouts: Nonprofit organizations and news companies are exempt from the law, the latter having been excluded intentionally to protect reporters from being forced to surrender data they've collected on individuals in journalistic pursuits.
The technology to accomplish what the bill requires may not yet exist. For example, even if companies did pay attention to the "Do Not Track" feature, the feature has no impact on applications running outside of browsers. The law would require such a mechanism. (Wyden aides acknowledged the complexities involved in devising a system that would cover the full range of Internet-of-Things devices; TVs and vehicles that are now tracking users online habits, for example.) The hope is that the bill will spur innovation in the privacy arena, but it meanwhile places the onus on the FTC to devise the technological means to create this new opt-out system. The commission would be outfitted to accomplish this feat, however, with an influx of cash and staff, as well as the creation of a Bureau of Technology overseen by a new "chief technologist."
The draft suggests the appointment of up to 175 additional FTC personnel with technological expertise, such as software engineers, including 100 additional personnel to the commission's privacy division and 25 personnel to its consumer protection bureau. It also tasks these employees with establishing the minimum privacy and cybersecurity standards to be met by the companies. Lastly, the bill compels companies, for the first time in U.S. history under the law, to assess the algorithms with which they process consumer data to study whether they are inherently prejudicial toward certain people, a well-observed technological issue intertwined with Americans' civil rights.
Of the bill's purpose, Wyden said his ultimate goal is to bring about "radical transparency" while arming consumers with "new tools to control their information." The bill supports those efforts, he added, "with tough rules with real teeth to punish companies that abuse Americans' most private information."
"It's time for some sunshine on this shadowy network of information sharing," he said.
Read the full discussion draft below:
Sen. Wyden Urges DHS to Adopt New Encryption Tech to Protect .Gov Websites Visitors
U.S. Indicts Chinese Hacker-Spies in Conspiracy to Steal Aerospace Secrets
Hey, How'd That Facebook 'War Room' Fare During Brazil's Election Season? Oh.


ASUS has made official that South Korean actor Gong Yoo is the new ASUS ZenFone 4 Asia Pacific Brand Ambassador. Now many of you fangirls and fanboys must be wondering what's the deal with the ZenFone 4 which scheduled to be announced on 17th August.
Last week, PetaPixel reported a news regarding how over twenty students are suspended for liking an Instagram post about a school shooting. Reading through the article immediately sparks a long thought in my mind.
During Huawei 2017 Dealer Convention, we get our hands on the Dazzling Blue Huawei P10 which features Huawei's unique Hyper Diamond Cut back surface.


Discussion in 'OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)' started by rodknocker, Jul 28, 2012.
Has someone noticed that pictures of Notes.app not are synchronized to iOS?
It's probably an upcoming feature of iOS 6.
Notes in iOS doesn't support pictures, so it's not all that strange. Maybe we'll see it in iOS 6 though.
Can someone with iOS 6 test this?


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We Are at War with ISIL but Not at War with ISIS
We are at war with ISIL, the White House has just announced. But only yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry said we are not at war with ISIS.
As mentioned previously there seems to be some confusion about what to call this entity: ISIS, ISIL, or Islamic State.
And that explains it. President Obama is talking about one enemy. John Kerry is talking about another. That is, we are at war with one but not the other.
Seriously, not being able to decide on what to call an enemy is not unimportant. But it pales beside not being clear, within the administration, about whether this is war. And then trying to reconcile it by saying that whether you call it war or not is splitting semantic and legal hairs.
The White House would have been better off pleading confusion about which names the President and the Secretary of State were using.
There is something deeper in this talk about war. The explanation by the White House is that it is just like the "war" against al-Qaeda. There is no mention of the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, or other quasi-metaphorical wars. It isn't that we haven't had military conflicts with non-state actors. And Obama was clear in his big speech about the maybe-war: "ISIL is certainly not a state." It's just that whenever we do have stateless enemies, things get very confused and confusing.
If you don't believe me, read our history. Or just watch and wait.
Syria: So This Was the Plan All Along
The Syria strategy may have looked improvised or haphazard. It turns out that all along it was a master plan. A sting. A long con. Aimed at having Assad turn over his chemical weapons.
It began with President Obama's mention of a chemical weapons red line two years ago. Even after there was evidence that chemical weapons were being used a year ago, it was too soon to make a play. And then it was time.
Everybody knew their part. The President beat the limited and unbelievably small war drums. The international community and Congress demurred, feigning reluctance. Most of all, John Kerry's penchant for overtalking was the most valuable tool. One loose remark after another, and then the trap was sprung. He mentioned the "impossible" possibility that Assad would turn over his chemical weapons in a week. The State Department would pretend that this offhanded remark was not administration policy. Assad and his Russian handler took the bait. Very soon—maybe not a week but soon—Syrian chemical weapons would be in the hands of the international community, ready to be destroyed.
Back in the real world, here is another possible behind the scenes scenario.
John Kerry continued to say stuff, lots of stuff. Asked if there was any way for Assad to avoid a strike, Kerry did indeed mention turning over the chemical weapons in a week. It was an accident.
Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad are power hungry political survivors, one more venal and voracious than the other. One or both of them sensed an opening.
It was Putin who may have said: This chemical weapons business is bad for all of us. The world knows you are our client state, and while I don't mind defending you most of the time, this isn't in either of our best interests. You can do whatever you want to hold on to power by conventional means; we will continue to help. The chemical weapons can be our trump card and it is time to play it. Once we come to the table, we can keep this negotiation going for months. As long as there is the appearance or the slightest possibility of progress, there will be no military action. Meanwhile, you can continue to pursue your war with no interference. I get to look a little bit like a hero and statesman—I don't expect miracles—and you get to look like someone who isn't averse to being part of civilized humanity. We both win.
The American scenario is already unfolding. While the administration is cautious about this latest development, it does claim that whatever good comes out of it will be due to their willingness to respond militarily. For the moment, it is hard to say who is more relieved, the President or Congress. The President may avoid having his request for authorization turned down. In Congress, those who continued to sit on the fence may be gloating, as a vote may be delayed or never taken.
And John Kerry? With all due respect, when you are smart and articulate, if you keep talking long enough, something good is bound to happen.
John Kerry: A Teeny, Tiny, Unbelievably Small Strike
Secretary of State John Kerry says the strike against Syria would be "unbelievably small" ("teeny, tiny" is inferred).
The job of Secretary of State is unbelievably big. More than just the nation's chief diplomat, the secretary is in the line of presidential succession, following the Vice President, Speaker of the House and President Pro Tem of the Senate. Six American Presidents have served in the office, along with two of the most famous Chief Justices—John Jay and John Marshall—and an army of legendary figures, including Daniel Webster twice.
Throughout the Syria crisis so far, John Kerry has had some trouble when he speaks. His appearance before Congressional committees has been widely viewed as underwhelming. His comparing Assad to Hitler, talking about a "Munich moment," was mostly ignored. And now he is trying to minimize attacking targets in Syria as "unbelievably small." It isn't clear that this is a diplomatic term of art. Hopefully, it is not a military term of art. If it is artful anywhere, it might find its place in a casual conversation between friends.
John Kerry has already been getting a pass from the media on past statements, no doubt out of respect for his no longer being a politician. So what he might have said as a Senator and presidential candidate may be out of bounds. Such as
"If you don't believe…Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me." February 11, 2003
The real dilemma is how to downplay the nature of the strike while maximizing its claimed ability to achieve either the stated aim to deter further chemical warfare or, as some would like it, to change the balance of power in the civil war. This is less like squaring the circle and more like rounding the tesseract (a four-dimensional cube).
Whatever the rhetorical trick that is being tried, it is not working. Or at least talking about a teeny, tiny, unbelievably small strike isn't.
John Kerry's Munich Moment: Is Political Reporting Too Polite?
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
About a week ago, President Obama said that if Syria's Bashar Assad was not stopped from using chemical weapons, we might find those same weapons used against America. When asked about this days later, a presidential spokesman ignored the question. This weekend Secretary of State John Kerry said that the decision to stop Assad's use of the weapons was a "Munich moment." Meaning: Just as the Munich Agreement of 1938 condoned Hitler's occupation of Czech territory, emboldening and enabling his vision of global conquest, so would our failure to respond to Assad's use of chemical weapons further his insidious master plan.
Experts who have bothered to talk about the prospect of these chemical weapons being used against America have dismissed it out of hand. As for the "Munich moment," that requires a bit more nuance. Nobody claims, at least not yet, that Assad has any extra-territorial plans or delusions of regional grandeur. His plan seems to be simply to punish any Syrians who stand in the way of him and his family fiercely holding on to power. Garden variety despotry; Assad is no Hitler. If "Munich" means appeasing his inhumanity, that is also silly. The bulk of Assad's inhumanity is also garden variety: guns, bombs, etc. Nothing that Obama has proposed is intended to take care of that.
The region really did have a Munich moment in 1990. Saddam Hussein invaded and annexed Kuwait. A thirty-four nation coalition, led by the U.S., pushed him back to his own borders. Both the history of the Gulf War and its aftermath—including the decision by Bush 1 to go no further and the decision by Bush 2 to finish the job—are beyond the scope of this note. This is just to say that if you want to know what a Munich moment looks like, that was it.
The authenticity and civility of our political life are always in question. We ask whether politicians and their supporters are speaking truth, saying what they mean, meaning what they say, and saying it all in a way that is reasonably respectful and polite. That's a lot to ask of them, and our expectations are right now pretty low. It's also a lot to ask of political pundits and commentators. Unconstrained by the limitations of office or election, some of them, left to right, go wherever their opinions take them. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly.
Then there are political journalists. This is where things get tricky. Calling a political statement a lie or stupid, or calling a politician a liar or stupid, is supposed to fail the professional standard on a few scores. It supposedly puts a journalist's objectivity in question; that sort of discourse is best left to political minions and commentators. And if not carefully couched or softened, it can come off as inappropriately impolite and uncivil, another professional faux pas.
We should all miss Hunter S. Thompson right about now. His suicide in 2005 left a gap in political journalism that hasn't been filled and probably never will be. He didn't begin as a political reporter. He came up as a writer during the time of the so-called "new journalism" in the 1960s (Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, et al), when the lines between the factual, the personal and the expressive broke down. By his own admission, Thompson was crazy, formally or informally; he was also a stunningly talented observer and writer. When he hit the political beat, it was right place, right time, right writer. If politics was an exercise in duplicity, venality and near-insanity, it needed a professional journalist just as insane. The collection of his Rolling Stone coverage of the 1972 presidential election, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, is not just on another planet from the classic campaign coverage up to then; it is in another solar system.
Thompson had a special relationship with Richard Nixon. He ended up respecting and applauding Nixon's brilliant mind as an expert football strategist, but otherwise Thompson despised him. He wrote a 1994 obituary of Nixon. In it he continues the case for that untempered loathing, but in this excerpt also explains why it is an appropriate attitude for a journalist:
Kissinger was only one of the many historians who suddenly came to see Nixon as more than the sum of his many squalid parts. He seemed to be saying that History will not have to absolve Nixon, because he has already done it himself in a massive act of will and crazed arrogance that already ranks him supreme, along with other Nietzschean supermen like Hitler, Jesus, Bismarck and the Emperor Hirohito. These revisionists have catapulted Nixon to the status of an American Caesar, claiming that when the definitive history of the 20th century is written, no other president will come close to Nixon in stature. "He will dwarf FDR and Truman," according to one scholar from Duke University.
It was all gibberish, of course. Nixon was no more a Saint than he was a Great President. He was more like Sammy Glick than Winston Churchill. He was a cheap crook and a merciless war criminal who bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II, and he denied it to the day of his death. When students at Kent State University, in Ohio, protested the bombing, he connived to have them attacked and slain by troops from the National Guard.
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.
It's not that we don't have good and great political journalists working today; we may have more than ever. And it's not that there aren't plenty of partisans pointing out gaps in someone else's facts and reasoning.
It's just that an amazing amount of stuff gets said and seems to get by far too unchallenged or challenged too narrowly or politely. It wasn't so long ago that the Republican party produced a nominating spectacle that is widely characterized as a circus or a clown car. But at the time, journalists were unwilling to even hint at how ridiculous some of it was, as the party of Lincoln earnestly considered nominating Herman Cain or Donald Trump as their standard bearer.
Sure we need objectivity, maybe now more than ever in a social media enriched/poisoned environment. What we shouldn't do is confuse objectivity with comity and politeness. If Hunter Thompson was shockingly blunt—and so much fun to read—it was to wake people up from the soporific effect of treating truth and lies, intelligence and stupidity, as rhetorical equivalents, in the name of objectivity, politeness and respect. In the name of keeping the peace. That would be the media Munich moment.
Update: Rereading this post, I have to add that the closest we come to Hunter S. Thompson's "gonzo" political journalism is The Daily Show on Comedy Central. This revelation came watching the first few days of Jon Stewart's return after his summer away, coming back to a grim and arguably ridiculous political crisis. The Daily Show's trick is to protest (too much) that it is a "fake" news show, which gives it total license to completely get its facts straight while speaking truth to absurdity. And when, as this week, vicious jokes aren't quite enough, Stewart vents his frustration directly and straight, no humor. Oh, to see what The Daily Show would have made of the Nixon Years.

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The young man ran, fell to his knees, ran again. His breath was ragged, the swirling night mist a cold knife to his lungs. He fell again, groaned. Behind him in the darkness a light tracked from side to side.
His hands sinking in mud, he levered himself up and staggered on. The light drew closer then suddenly was gone. He crouched, breathed, swallowed a sob. The light snapped on again. he covered his eyes. "Yer da says hello." Two shots cracked and echoed.
On the phone there was the sound of breathing, of the wind and then silence.


Hungary's fence to keep migrants out Jump to media player Ed Thomas reports from Hungary where thousands of refugees have arrived this year in a bid to make it to other EU countries.
'Train track refugees' cross into Hungary Jump to media player The BBC's Nick Thorpe reports from a train track used by refugees crossing the Serbia-Hungary border.
Hungary station 'like a refugee camp' Jump to media player More than 120,000 migrants have travelled through Budapest so far this year - triple the numbers seen last year - with Keleti station now home to thousands of migrants.
Migrants escorted off Eurotunnel tracks Jump to media player A Eurotunnel freight train had to stop in the Channel Tunnel after a migrant was seen on wagons bound for the UK.
The number of migrants trying to reach Europe is continuing to rise, with many travelling through Hungary in an effort to get into the EU's passport free zone.
More than 120,000 migrants have arrived there this year, triple the number in 2014.
In an effort to stem the flow, the government in Budapest is building a 110 mile long fence along its border with Serbia.
Ed Thomas reports from the border between Serbia and Hungary.


The PMD Personal Microderm is an easy-to-use, at-home alternative to expensive professional microdermabrasion treatments, delivering bright, smooth, youthful, and even skin. It's sold on the PMD website as well as Sephora's site, with the full set costing $159.
The training DVD and instructional pamphlet give you all the information you need to use the PMD, and you can also find instructional information here, including a PMD training video and web manual.
To use the PMD, first cleanse and dry your skin, getting rid of any makeup, dirt, or oils. Then, plug in the electrical cord, turning the connector about a quarter of a turn to get it to lock in place.
Afterwards comes choosing the disc. The white disc is a training disc, so use this one when practicing. The blue disc is the most gentle and sensitive, perfect for your first treatment, while the green disc is more intensive.
Use the small discs on your face and the large discs on your body, assembling them by attaching the disc to the tool post and twisting on the properly-sized cap. Finally, to begin the treatment, pull skin taut and move the PMD in a quick, fluid upper motion across your skin.
After using the PMD, you should wash and dry your skin, applying moisturizer and softener if necessary.
I've been using the PMD for just about two weeks, waiting about 7 days between treatments, and my skin has become softer and smoother. I just use the blue disc, which works very well, though I think I don't need as many treatments and will probably only use it once in a while.
My skin is fairly sensitive but there were no side effects from using the PMD, and the results are noticeable.
Having great skin is important; not only does it look nice and signify physical health, but it also improves self-confidence and emotional well-being. My skin isn't too bad now, but I used to have a lot of acne, especially on my T-zone, and, even after the acne went away, I was left with tons of acne scars that I struggled to cover each and every day with concealer. So I can say from experience that having clear skin has improved my self-esteem, and that the commonplace mantra look good, feel good is right! I'm definitely a big fan of skincare (even though I'm lazy and often fail to follow my routine) and the PMD is a really amazing, innovative product. The price tag is a bit high, but much more affordable than professional treatments, and the effects are significant.
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Special Events (1880)
Smithsonian Institution, Office of Special Events and Protocol (1418)
Smithsonian Institution, Office of Special Events and Conference Services (1316)
National Air and Space Museum. Office of Special Events (801)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Special Events and Protocol (789)
National Museum of American History. Office of Special Events (718)
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of Special Events (340)
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (244)
Orth, Edward J. (244)
Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of Membership and Special Events (192)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of Special Events (184)
National Museum of Natural History. Office of the Director (179)
National Museum of the American Indian, Office of Special Events (164)
Custom Craft (163)
Rice, Moses P. (163)
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) (163)
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary (104)
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National Museum of American History. Office of Special Events. (86)
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Sidney, George (71)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Communications and Marketing (70)
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Query: Special events
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Event Files / Box 4 / Miscellaneous Events
McMillan Donor Recognition Event, NMNH, 4/23/2008
Event Files / Box 2 / McMillan Donor Recognition Event, NMNH, 4/23/2008
NASM Barron Hilton Event, 4/29/2008
Event Files / Box 2 / NASM Barron Hilton Event, 4/29/2008
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Event Coordinator Coffee with Secretary Clough, SIB Schermer Hall, 2/25/2009
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Steve Monfort Event Briefing, NZP, 4/23/2009
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Dr. Chivan Book Launch Event, NMNH, 5/7/2008
Event Files / Box 2 / Dr. Chivan Book Launch Event, NMNH, 5/7/2008
Ocean Hall Donor Event Briefing, NMNH, 5/8/2008
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Contee Farms Event and Advisory Board Meeting, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), 9/19/2008
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Zilliqa Price Analysis: What Next for ZIL Prices?
Nov 29, 2021, 08:36 GMT
The Zilliqa price bounced back on Monday as investors wait for the new website. The ZIL token has risen by more than 12% and is currently trading at $0.093. This price is about 83% above the lowest level in July. It is also about 63% below the highest level this year. Zilliqa has a market cap of $1.2 billion while its ranking has slowly dropped to 118.
Zilliqa is a blockchain project that is known for its sharding approach. Sharding is a process that seeks to speed processing power by dividing blocks into pieces. This is a technology that has been adopted by other well-known platforms like Elrond and Near Protocol.
While Zilliqa is a pioneer, its star has been fading in the past few months. For one, its ranking among cryptocurrencies has dropped from top-40 to the current 118. This retreat is mostly because many developers have adopted relatively faster proof-of-stake smart contract platforms like Avalanche and Solana.
Indeed, a quick look at the Zilliqa ecosystem shows that its biggest platform is XSGD, which is a stablecoin valued at more than $146 million. It is followed by XCAD Network that has a valuation of $112 million while the others are relatively small.
Zilliqa price prediction
The daily chart shows that the ZIL price has been in a tight range in the past few weeks. The price has remained stuck between the key support and resistance level at $0.075 and $0.1245. This price is at the same level as the 25-day and 50-day moving averages. It is also slightly below the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level.
Therefore, I suspect that the Zilliqa price will remain inside this range. A drop below the support at $0.075 will signal that bears have prevailed, which will lead to more weakness. A bullish move above $0.1260 will mean that there are still more bulls in the market.
Ziliqa


An NRI filed a theft complaint on April 9 against the management and security staff of a star hotel in Central Bengaluru where he was staying.
Baba Sait Abdullah (51), a businessman from Canada, had come for his son's engagement. He was staying at the Taj on MG Road since April 6. Abdullah's 15,000 USD worth Rs 10.5 lakh and 100 Canadian dollars worth Rs 5,000 along with his Canadian health card, Canadian driving licence and credit card were stolen.
Abdullah and family had booked two rooms, 207 and 202, for their stay.
"On April 9, around 11 am, we left for shopping for my son's engagement and returned around 6.30 pm to find our valuables missing. We had even put a DND (Do Not Disturb) sticker on the door, taking along with us the room keys. But the hotel staff had opened the room for cleaning," Abdullah told DH.
When Abdullah asked the hotel staff why they had entered the room despite the DND sticker, demanding to view the CCTV footage, the staff turned rude and told him to do whatever he wanted to.
Abdullah said he was sure it was some of the hotel staff who were behind the theft. When he was going to the police, the staff came for a compromise that they could do away with the bills for their three-day stay.
Abdullah was firm about getting his belongings back as his health card and driving licence were important documents. He then filed a complaint with the Halasuru police station. The police have taken up a case of theft and are analysing CCTV footage to trace the culprit.
This is the second such incident reported from star hotels in the city in recent times.
On April 4, a woman, Tanvi Maheshwari, registered a complaint with the High Grounds police, complaining that she had lost two diamond rings at a washroom in the Lalit Ashok in Central Bengaluru.


Scandal Andreas Helgstrand under fire after public training photos.
I'd question the Boucher bit used as a snaffle, because that looks rather like a 2X curb in action rather than one of both.
The action of the snaffle is rather nice.
Okay, its an ugly photo. But that's it, without further evidence, an ugly shot.
And I'm out of the loop, so take it for what it is worth–almost nothing–but I had a horse once that with the thinnest bits you could imagine whose tongue would turn blue the moment one was put in his mouth. He had a fat tongue. We tried and tried to get bits that would not do this. Get a horse that pulls even a little with a tongue like that and well, you get a blue tongue.
Dressage rules state that you cannot ride in a bosal.
Look for a photo of the companion animal meat trade in China.
Look at the life of the average turkey.
Most upper level horse love their work and have superb riders.
Having a good rider is key to being happy.
If a horse is not happy to some basic and real level they will not work for you. Dressage riders know that–and good ones are in the business of making their horses both happy and working.
I went to look at him because he had interesting breeding and was advertized at 16 hands–a nice size for a young dressage horse.
In the end I had to send a student to buy him because the obese and frightened teenagers showing him resented my adjustment of his halter and pointing out his real size.
By the way, Wilson is safe now–got on a worming program, can be caught at will, no tight halter and now has a chance to make something of himself.
Lots of things can look bad with enough spin.


Moving to a new home for the first time can be both thrilling and challenging. It is thrilling as you'll get a chance to experience new things in a new place. It is challenging, especially during the moving processsince there's a lot of things to do.
One of the things that make moving a challenge is keeping every belonging you have to move safe and secured. But things can be easier when you listtrusted and cheap removalists Sydney like Bill Removalists Sydney to help you with your move.
Although there is no way to make sure that every belonging you have will be transported to your new home damage- free since accidents may still happen (this is something which is beyond our control), we can still do something to at least protect the belongings during a typical moving day.
For those who will be moving for the first time, here are some things to keep in mind.
Determine the most important items for you and pay attention to it. These items may not be the fanciest. The most important things we refer here are those which are valuable. It can be your simple stuffed toy.
Take photos of your items and do an inventory. List all those valuable stuff in a paper. It can be quite tedious but can help you in the long run.
Make sure you label all the boxes. You don't want to go through all the boxes just to find something so pack conspicuously. However, there is an exception. If the box includes your valuables, better make a less obvious marking. This is just a precautionary measure. It is better to be safe than sorry. Pack your valuables in the small boxes so it can go in the top load.
Let the experts handle the packing, lifting, and transporting huge valuable items.
For bigger valuables like the cabinet which has been passed down in your family for generations, let the expert handle it. They know the right practice to pack the items safely.
Check your things before letting the removalist go. After your stuff have been delivered to your place, check each item and see whether something has been broken or damaged. This is why taking pictures of each item is important so you'll immediately see which one has been damaged and make a claim. Make sure, however, to make the claim during the final walkthrough.
The best way to move huge valuables, your fine art, antiques, mirrors, etc. is to hire professional movers. Make sure, however, to look for movers with the knowledge, experience, and tools to do the job right. To know whether the company is the right option, watch out for particular red flags such as high down payment and company asking for cash payment right away.
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Today became a day to linger over coffee, watch wildlife, and take it easy.
I had some great visitors.
The little brown-eyed doe I wrote about a few weeks ago is still visiting us. Her front leg has stabilized and she is putting some weight on it as she makes her way across the fields. She keeps up with the rest of her herd and runs like nothing ever happened to her. She is an amazing example of determination.
The traditional bird house had two different birds putting a bid in for it today. A little wren and a titmouse had a rather serious discussion about who had first rights on the new little abode. The last time I checked it appeared the very vocal little wren had won.
Two yellow finches, a male and female, found the thistle seed. Made me wonder if they would find the little Hobbit bird house.
It was a restful, peace-filled day with Mother Nature entertaining me and recharging my spirit. I am blessed and grateful.


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Extra opportunities put Griffith top of the list for scholarship recipient
Published January 15, 2018 January 15, 2018 AuthorElizabeth Best
Griffith University's most recent scholarship recipient hadn't even decided where she wanted to study until a visit to the Tertiary Studies Expo in 2017. But after discovering all the opportunities Griffith Business School could offer her in the tourism and hospitality sector, Georgia Kelly says her mind was made up.
"The staff really sold it to us," the 18-year-old explains. "They really took the time to speak to me and explain what the course and the University could give me. And Griffith had so much to offer in terms of scholarships and international experience and study abroad that it made the choice easy."
The incoming Bachelor of International Tourism and Hotel Management student was recently awarded the Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) Academic Excellence Scholarship, which will see her receive $15,000 over her degree to help with her educational aspirations.
"Having this scholarship will give me the safety of not having to work five days a week, so I can concentrate on my studies. I said in my application that I really value the balance between work, study and keeping up a social life, so winning the financial assistance will go a big way towards achieving that."
Having lived in China, Jakarta and Dubai for most of her life, Georgia also knows the value of international experiences and is looking forward to being able to partake in Griffith's global internship offerings. "My scholarship will allow me to buy flights, live, and have the financial security to have that time off work to further my international work experience. Having a global perspective will hopefully put me ahead in this business," she says.
Georgia Kelly at her Soda Apartments workplace.
Leaving her family and boyfriend behind in China – her parents are international teachers – Georgia made the decision to come back to Australia solo to further her education. She's currently working as a receptionist at Soda Apartments, a hotel in South Brisbane, and is really looking forward to applying the theories she'll learn in lectures to her work.
"I've really learnt how to communicate with people," she says of her workplace, "and I feel like that's really going to push me forward when I do go to get internships or jobs in the future.
"It's real-life experience. Everything I will learn at the University I can put into practice here."
She says everyone should have a go at applying for the Griffith scholarships because you never know the outcome, and the financial assistance can be life-changing. "I didn't really think I'd win and was so thrilled when I did. It's going to change so much for me.
"Also I can now say I'm a scholarship recipient, which will hopefully appeal to future employers."
She says she's so pleased she ended up choosing Griffith from all the other universities she was considering because they've already given her so much to aspire to and she hasn't even commenced her studies yet.
"Living in China has completely opened my mind to the importance of international experience so the options to study abroad really appealed to me. Not to mention Griffith is number one in Australia for the course I am going into."
Georgia says she felt instantly welcomed by the GBS Open Day crew and that helped make her mind up. "The staff were willing to stop and have a chat, told me I could contact them directly if I had questions… No other university took the time to do that. It makes potential students feel like they're really wanted and will be a great addition to the university, not just like they're another number in the crowd.
"The staff I spoke to even personally encouraged me to apply for the scholarships and sent me through the links I needed," she says. "I felt really welcomed and heard of all these great things that set Griffith apart, and knew I wanted to go there.
"I hope that I can show the University and from that show employers what I am capable of and I hope the scholarship allows me to do that throughout the whole course, rather than just at the end."
Griffith Business School Scholarship applications are still open. Apply now.
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Crypto threatens safety of payment schemes, Starling boss warns
Starling CEO Anne Boden.
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AMSTERDAM — The boss of Goldman Sachs-backed digital bank Starling has doubled down on criticisms of crypto, calling digital currencies a threat to the safety of payment infrastructure.
"It is very dangerous," Anne Boden, who founded Starling in 2014, warned Tuesday at the Money 20/20 fintech conference in Amsterdam. Based in Britain, Starling offers fee-free checking accounts and loans through an app. The firm was last privately valued at £2.5 billion ($3.1 billion) and counts the likes of Goldman and Fidelity as investors.
"A lot of [crypto] wallets are being connected directly to payment schemes," Boden said. "This is a threat to the safety of our payment schemes around the world."
Major payment players are embracing cryptocurrencies — credit card giants Mastercard and Visa opened their networks to digital assets, for example, while PayPal also lets users trade bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Regulators are concerned about the financial system becoming more entwined with the volatile world of crypto.
Roughly $400 billion has been erased from the combined value of all cryptocurrencies in the past month, as investors were rattled by the collapse of terraUSD, a popular so-called stablecoin that was meant to always be worth $1.
It's not the first time Boden has warned about the dangers of the crypto space. She has previously sounded the alarm about the risk of consumers falling victim to fraud as a result of investments in crypto.
"Customers are being scammed," the Starling chief said Tuesday. "We're spending far more of our time protecting customers from the scammers than we are trying to promote crypto."
Asked whether Starling would ever offer crypto, Boden said it was unlikely to happen in the next couple of years, adding crypto companies have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to anti-money laundering controls.
In April, the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority published the findings of a review that found online-only challenger banks aren't doing enough to tackle financial crime.
The regulator didn't name any names, but Starling confirmed it was among the firms whose systems were scrutinized, with a spokesperson saying the company has been "extremely vocal" about fighting fraud.
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I've never met a shade of hot pink I didn't adore--magenta practically courses through my veins!--so I was totally smitten with the wardrobe choices at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation's "Hot Pink Party" the other night. Which one is your favorite?
Model Erin Heatherton knocked it out of the park in a strapless neon number by Michael Kors. J'adore that ruffled asymmetrical hem--it shows off her Louboutins perfectly!
Fellow model (and longtime face of Estee Lauder, the company that founded the BCRF) Carolyn Murphy went for a slightly edgier look with a leather skirt and a pink and black patterned blouse, playfully paired with a topknot.
Loving this ruffled Donna Karan gown on Girls star Allison Williams (yep, her dad is NBC's Brian Williams!).
Miss USA Alyssa Campanella brought some sizzle factor to the pink carpet with a plunging-neckline dress by Marc Bouwer. Yowza!
Who was best dressed at the BCRF Hot Pink Party?


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For dinner that night we were lucky enough to get a same day reservations at both Alkimia and Moo, two restaurants in the same vein serving modern Mediterranean/Catalan cuisine. We ultimately decided on Alkimia since Moo seems to be falling out of favor with foodies lately. Alkimia is located in L'Eixample, a lovely area, but not exactly bustling in the evening. We walked through the doors and were greeted with a sparsely furnished, almost gallery-like space, complete white furniture and a somber feeling. It was almost like being in a library, where you feel as though you need to keep your voice down. Still, the space is quite gorgeous and our table was set back in an alcove, which I loved.
The lights above our table were strategically positioned in order to light the food at its best. We didn't realize that until we started eating, and I spent the rest of dinner trying to position my plates to catch the light in the best possible way. When I tried to explain my gluten-freedom to our server, he looked confused, but eventually he understood. In most restaurants of that caliber, the chef will usually augment the original gluten containing dish to be just as delicious, but with something as a substitute in place of the gluten. However, at Alkimia, they simply left the gluten out. So the amuse bouche we started with, which was a deconstructed bruschetta, served as a glass filled with fresh tomato juice, and olive oil ,with a slice of bread on top, was served to me sans bread, thus making it fail completely as a composed taste. The bread would have been the perfect balance to the acidity and oil, but instead it was cold tomato water festering in my stomach, not the most ideal way to start off a meal.
Alkimia traditionally does tasting menus, choosing from a shorter or longer version. I'm not a huge fan of tasting menus because the Virgo control freak within me wants to be able to customize my meal to my taste. They were pretty accommodating about letting us pick and choose what we wanted, but it tacked on quite a bit of cost. If you eat here, I suggest doing one of the tasting menus as is, otherwise you will pay at least 100 euro more than you intended.
For a starter I went with the Saffron & Langoustine Risotto, a beautiful dish of deep red risotto topped with delicate langoustine. The flavor was perfection, the saltiness from the broth, with the tomato and perfectly cooked langoustine formed a wonderful harmony in my mouth. The whole thing made me really excited for the main, which for me was the sea bass with vegetables.
My portion of sea bass was larger than the tasting menu version, but I didn't mind one bit. It was served with a confit onions and parsnip puree. I enjoy fish, but I wouldn't consider myself a fish lover by any means, and I finished the entire thing in short order.
For dessert I had an extremely dense chocolate mousse/ganache that was served with a burned rum ice cream. I couldn't taste rum in the ice cream at all, and as it melted, it was running off the slate plate that they served it on. Not exactly the best vessel to hold ice cream in my opinion. The ganache was amazing, rich and chocolatey, but I could only eat a small bit of it because it was just too rich after a few bites.
Some petit fours arrived after dessert and the majority contained gluten, except for a white chocolate "lollipop" that was filled with passion fruit. Amazing. I would have ordered 10 of those if they had them on the menu. Read more about my trip to Barcelona here.
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After the game on the ESPN broadcast, he said his teammates wanted him to play and Davis said that he was just happy to go out there and play basketball.
"I think with a player like Marc, we had talked about it for some time, it lined it up well for us I think (Gasol is still) a very strong player".
In a separate deal, the Raptors traded veteran center Greg Monroe and a 2021 second-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for cash considerations. He was a part of a core group of players that helped shape the identity of this franchise on and off the court and were embraced by the City of Memphis. Conley is third at 12 seasons.
The 26-year-old Wright, who was selected by Toronto in the first round of the 2015 draft, is averaging 6.9 points, 2.2 assists and 2.6 rebounds in 18.3 minutes of action per game this season. Anthony Davis contributes a team high 29.3 points, 13.3 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 2.56 blocks and 1.71 steals per contest.


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Zee Stars set to captivate South Africa
Zee TV in association with BU Media & Panache Promotions & Events proudly presents ZEE Stars Live in Concert on 31st August 2018 in Durban at the Greyville Convention Centre and 1st September 2018 at the Lyric Theatre – Gold Reef City, Johannesburg.
This unforgettable showcase of ZEE talent features the handsome men of Kundali Bhagya, Dheeraj Dhoopar (Karan Luthra) and Manit Joura (Rishabh Mahesh Luthra) together DID (Dance India Dance) Champion, Sanket Gaonkar and the adorable Li'l Champs Yumna Ajjin & Jayas Kumar with their band from India.
Dheeraj Dhoopar is a well-known face in the entertainment industry, he is one of the most popular among the leading men of Indian television industry right now. Dheeraj started his career as a model and featured in over 100 commercials for brands and popular TV shows. He currently plays the main lead role of Karan Luthra in Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms producing popular television show Kundali Bhagya, on Zee TV. Manit Joura made his Bollywood debut in Yash Raj Films' romantic comedy Band Baaja Baaraat in 2010, thereafter acted in an array of regional cinema, TV and web series. e currently plays Rishabh Luthra in the television show Kundali Bhagya.
Sanket Gaonkar went on to win the reality show Dance India Dance (DID) in 2017 and the popular Li'l Champs contestants Yumna Ajjin & Jayas Kumar who won our hearts in their previous live shows in Durban and Johannesburg will return with their band from India.
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The freedom to move has been of utmost importance to humanity since time immemorial.
When desktops reigned the industry, we had to sit glued on to the screen – all at the same place, every day, every time.
With the advent of laptops, things changed a bit.
People started carrying this neat little box around and started doing their job on the go.
Laptops have evolved a lot since then. The power, form factor, performance – every single aspect of these machines drastically changed over the course of the time.
At present, there are laptops that surpass even the desktop computers in terms of raw power output.
If you are an avid gamer or let's say a video content creator – taking the machine with you is of paramount importance.
Gamers seldom like to be AFK (Away from keyboard) so do the content creators who love to do their stuff roaming around frequently.
Ever thought about what makes this all possible in such a small device?
Powerful processors are one hell of a correct answer we'd love to give you the credit for.
Well, it's the graphics chip underneath responsible for that extra oomph by carrying out the graphics calculation on its own.
Are these powerful wonder chips limited to the expensive laptops? No.
Chipset manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD has made affordable yet powerful graphics chips to be used in budget laptops as well.
Today, we're discussing two of the most popular budget graphic chips used in laptops on sale in the market – the Nvidia 940MX and the Nvidia MX150.
The Nvidia 940MX is the elder of the two, having launched in the first quarter of 2016. It has been since then a favourite choice for various OEMs to be included on their budget laptops.
Even today, certain models in the market comes loaded with the Nvidia 940MX.
The Nvidia MX150, on the other hand, is a relatively new entrant to the market. It was launched to the public on may 2017. The company claimed a performance increment over 30% when compared to the Nvidia 940MX.
To brush off the dust, let's make things a little more clear.
Geeks may love this part but for the average joe reading this post, we have something for you as well.
Nvidia MX150 is much more powerful and efficient than the 940MX.
Should you buy a budget laptop with discrete GPU, always go for an MX150 over the 940MX.
The design of the 940MX GPU is based on the Maxwell architecture from Nvidia.
It is the successor to the Kepler architecture and came with 2x performance/watt as that of its predecessor.
The main hurdle for the engineers at Nvidia was to reduce the power consumption while at the same time extracting more power from the chip.
The Nvidia 940MX is designed and manufactured on a 28nm process.
To simplify things further, the 28nm refers to the fab size.
Or better, consider it as the size of the transistors inside.
The smaller the size, more number of transistors can be included on the die. This also results in decreased power consumption per transistor.
The L2 cache size on these chips are 2MB compared to the 256KB on its kepler counterparts.
So what does this cache does to the performance?
Cache is like a piece of memory built on the chip itself.
In the case of a GPU, this cache stores the frequent requests from the user side programs and anticipates these requests in the future.
When a request comes through, the GPU can process these faster without having the need to fetch it from the slower VRAM.
In short, more the cache size, better will be the performance.
The MX150 graphics chip is based on the Nvidia's new pascal architecture.
This new GPU microarchitecture features a 3x boost in memory bandwidth.
Consider bandwidth as a road with lanes on it.
More the bandwidth is, more the number of lanes.
This equates to an increased number of requests that can be sent to the GPU simultaneously.
This significantly increases the performance of the GPU.
Also, the Pascal architecture comes with 16nm FinFET process.
This reduced size increases the number of transistors that can be fitted into the die.
The number of transistors on a Pascal-based chip is almost two-fold of a Maxwell architecture chip.
This ensures better performance of these chips when compared with the Nvidia 940MX.
The power or capability of a graphics card is measured by its bandwidth.
More the bandwidth a graphics card offers better will be the performance of the laptop.
From the table listed above, it's clear that the MX150 is far ahead of its counterparts in the competition.
The Nvidia 940MX trails behind the MX150 in every aspects quite significantly.
It is clear from the data that the MX150 offers a major improvement in performance as well as power efficiency on budget laptops currently available in the market.
For content creators, the apps for photo/video editing loads much faster than the 940MX.
The rendering times also shows a significant decrease.
When the MX150 coupled with a capable processor, medium resource intensive games like CS:GO plays with an average 117 fps, DOTA 2 at 65 fps with 1080p at ultra settings.
Much more heavy games like Diablo can be played at a consistent 70+ fps at 1080p high settings and Overwatch at 1080p medium settings with 50+ fps at an average.
For these games to be playable with the 940MX, you will have to tone down the settings to the bare minimum with 720p resolution.
The hands down winner definitely is Nvidia MX150!
But remember the fact that the GPU alone won't do the magic for you.
If we're to give a tip specifically for the budget laptop consumers confused between a 940MX and MX150, always go for a better CPU + MX150.
For eg., an 8th generation Intel processor with MX150 performs way better than a seventh generation chipset with MX150.
The Nvidia MX150 GPU mostly comes on board with budget laptops priced under Rs.50,000.
Certain devices that we would recommend you to take a closer look are the Acer Aspire 5, Acer Swift 3 as well the Asus Vivobook S15.
Last but not least, thanks for your time on our website, have a fantastic day ahead.


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National Rifle Association medal - Robert Mackay
Circular bronze medal (a) with the emblem of the National Rifle Association on one side - two figures, one holding a bow and arrow, the other a rifle - with the motto SIT PERPETUUM and dates 1300 1500 beside the bowman and 1860 beside the rifleman. On the reverse is a laurel wreath with THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION 1860 in the centre. The medal fits into a square presentation box (b), which is covered in brown paper. The base of the box is lined with purple velvet and the lid with cream silk stamped with the name of the maker C C ADAMS SCULPTOR LONDON..
Part of the Robert Mackay collection.
Hello, I have one of the above medals which was given to me by my late grandmother. Unfortunately I have no further knowledge of the medal apart from it belonged to her grandfather. She also gave me a bronze Caledonian Challenge Shield medal which belonged to him however this is not in its box
How many people would have such a medal like the one above. Should I consider insuring it?
Thank you for your comment. The National Rifle Association first starting holding competitions in 1860 and continued to hold them every year except for the two World Wars so there will be quite a few bronze medals around. The price for one appears to be between £20 - £30 - Administrator
Added by Craig Tweed on 02 October 2011
Hi, I also have one of above medals which belonged to my grandfather. I have just found it in a draw, I have not seen it for a few years. It's in perfect condition.
Added by Neil Groves on 16 October 2014
I have one of the bronze medals which was my grandfater's and also a silver one dated 1902 Champion Recruit with Devon County Volunteers Assocation. Could you give me an idea of their worth. scornish52@gmail.com or steve cornish at 01803 856246.thanks
Added by Stephen cornish on 01 February 2017
I also have one of the above medals but on the reverse there are the words "ASTOR COVNTY CVP" & what appears to be a raised tankard.I would be grateful for any info. you can give me
Added by Yvonne Cook on 30 March 2017
The Astor County Cup continues to be a rifle shooting competition. Founded by Astor of the publishing family who gave the cup and funds to purchase the Astor tankards. The country is divided into areas. Rifle clubs in each area compete for the small bronze medals. The winning team in each area shot the final for the main trophy at the Imperial Meeting at Bisley each July. Teams of 8 shot at 300/500/600 yds. 7 rounds at each. The winners receive larger silver medals which have the trophy on the reverse in place of the tankards.
Unfortunately the bronze medals are quite common as the match started in the early 20th century and turn up on a regular basis on ebay etc. ~ Many thanks for the information. ~ Administrator.
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Q: Rest, ngresource, $resource not returning anything I'm trying to GET Rest data from a parse.com backend with Angularjs. I expect at least console log you can see in the code below to return something, but it returns nothing, and there are no error in the console.
Here is the code i'm trying:
Full Javascript code:
var todoApp = angular.module('todoApp', ['ngResource']);

todoApp.factory('todoFactory', function($resource) {
    return $resource('https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Professional', {}, {
        method: 'GET',
        headers: { 'X-Parse-Application-Id':'xxx', 'X-Parse-REST-API-Key':'yyy'}
    });
});

function TodoController($scope, $location, todoFactory) {
    function loadTodos() {
        $scope.items = todoFactory.query();
        console.log(todoFactory.query());  //i expect this to log something at least
    }

}

Full html code:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title></title>

 {{item.firstName}}

Any clue on how to give life to this dead code ?

A: The problem is that you are not calling your function.
You have two options:
In your controller:
function TodoController($scope, $location, todoFactory) {
    function loadTodos() {
        $scope.items = todoFactory.query();
        console.log(todoFactory.query());
    }
    // You declare the function, now you can use this
    loadTodos();
}

But, in this way, the function isn't available in your view, because it isn't declared in the $scope. To that, you should declare like this:
function TodoController($scope, $location, todoFactory) {
    $scope.loadTodos = function() {
        $scope.items = todoFactory.query();
        console.log(todoFactory.query());
    }
}

You declare the function in $scope, now you can use in the view like this:
<button type="button" ng-click="loadTodos()">Get Items</button>

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Corner Table Restaurants was founded in 2001. With the senior leadership of CEO and Founder Jeffrey Lefcourt, Partner Michael Jacobs, VP of Operations Adam Burke, and Executive Chef and VP of Culinary Brian Ellis, Corner Table Restaurants is one of the most respected restaurant groups in New York City.
The Smith, a casual American Brasserie, opened the doors of its first location in 2007 in the East Village of New York. Fast forward, and The Smith has grown to operate seven locations – four in Manhattan, two in Washington DC, and one in Chicago with additional restaurants planned for the future. The Smith locations collectively serve over one million guests annually. In addition, Midtown, Lincoln Square, NoMad, and Penn Quarter are consistently in the Top 10 "most reserved" restaurants on OpenTable.
From the beginning, Corner Table has been obsessed with building a positive, supportive environment for its employees who in turn take great care of their guests. We care about every meal and every moment. We value our team and the culture we have created, and hire truly great people who get pleasure out of making people happy. We work closely with local farmers and purveyors that we trust to serve delicious food and drinks that people crave.
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Kathleen is the culture ambassador for our team and helps lead the recruiting, training, and leadership development of all employees. She brings extensive expertise in the hospitality industry and a genuine and caring approach to taking care of our teams. She works hard to make Corner Table one of the best places to work by implementing employee focused initiatives that keep our entire team happy and engaged.
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Chuck grew up in Rockaway Beach, New York and helps lead the culinary teams at all of our restaurants. He works to improve the structure of our kitchens and put systems in place that support our high volume enviornment. He assists with the development of new recipes to ensure proper execution across all locations.
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Do desejo (Del deseo) es un libro de poesía de Hilda Hilst, poeta, cronista y dramaturga brasileña, considerada por la crítica una de las escritoras en lengua portuguesa más importantes del siglo XX. La composición del poemario se sitúa entre 1986 y 1992, época de exploración de la trilogía pornográfica con ejemplares como O caderno rosa de Lori Lamby, y constituye una obra central de trabajo de subversión del lenguaje y de las nociones de deseo y erotismo, junto con la exploración de la relación entre los conceptos de lo alto y lo bajo Do desejo es la reunión de siete libros de Hilda Hilst: Do desejo (homónimo del título del conjunto), Da Noite, Amavisse, Via Espessa, Via Vazia (ambos títulos, estos últimos, que se encuentran en el original en el interior de Amavisse), Alcoólicas y Sobre a Tua Grande Face. Dispuestos no en orden cronológico, sino en un orden concebido por la propia escritora ofreciendo posibilidades originales de lectura. Do desejo representa un momento marcado en el recorrido de Hilda Hilst, un libro que, además de cubrir un significativo espacio de la trayectoria de la autora, concentra algunos de los temas, las inquietudes y los modos de expresión más característicos de toda su obra. Encontramos así en la obra una lírica intimista, existencial e interrogativa, cuyos primeros ejemplos modernos tendrían en los años 30 la poesía de Augusto Frederico Schmidt, Cecilia Meireles, Henriqueta Lisboa.

Contexto
En el contexto del siglo XX, en que suceden una serie de transformaciones filosóficas y científicas que apuntan al fracaso de algunos de los pilares del proyecto civilizatorio moderno, principalmente aquellos enraizados en las conquistas de la razón ligada a la autonomía del sujeto, la obra de Hilst nos sirve como un ejemplo de la búsqueda incansable de lo que no se puede definir, del eterno enigma que, aunque insistentemente buscado, resiste a ser descifrado y manifiesta de modo muy incisivo un irrevocable deseo de comprensión. Do desejo se publica a finales del siglo XX, momento en que con la influencia de los cambios que se dan en la política tanto brasileña como internacional (el Diretas Já, la caída del muro de Berlín, la apertura de la Unión Soviética) se modifica el paradigma de pensamiento y acercamiento a la literatura. Las formas de la literatura comprometida de la década de 1960 dejan de ser un punto de partida, del mismo modo, que la poesía orientada hacia una visión estetizante marcada por una generación que idealizaba la "poesía pura" en un momento de conflictos políticos disgregadores no solo en el país, sino también en el panorama mundial. La literatura vuelve la mirada sobre sí misma, así como los autores, que se exploran para escribir con la mayor individualidad posible, aunque a su vez intentan hacerse cargo de las herencias de las vanguardias y el Modernismo brasileño. De esta manera, Hilst pertenece a la generación de autores frecuentemente designada como "emparedada" entre los ecos aún vibrantes del canon modernista, el radicalismo de vanguardias como la poesía concreta y el lirismo comprometido surgido bajo el impacto de la dictadura militar.

En los últimos años, los estudios de género, que traen al primer plano la producción de las escritoras, han impulsado el estudio de la subjetividad y la diferencia, en particular en el terreno de la poesía lírica. Entre las escritoras que privilegian la subjetividad, destaca la poesía de Adélia Prado, publicada en 1976 con el libro Bagaje, que se presenta como un contrapunto a la lírica de Hilst, al estar impregnada de lo sagrado. No obstante, se distancia de la poética hilstiana al privilegiar una perspectiva luminosa de la existencia frente a la concepción desgarrada de la vida por la incesante búsqueda de la elevación que vemos en Hilst.

Resumen de la obra
Do desejo y Da noite componen la primera parte de la obra, aquella que reúne el material inédito hasta 1992, año de la primera publicación de Do desejo. Ambos están compuestos de diez partes y presentan, en muchos sentidos, una atmósfera temática y subjetiva similar. El cuestionamiento existencial forma el núcleo de la experiencia discursiva, en torno al cual se tejen las preguntas al respeto del paso del tiempo, del contacto con el otro y del sentido de las cosas, observadas siempre a partir de la intermediación del lenguaje. A continuación, ubicado en el centro del libro, se encuentra Amavisse, publicado anteriormente en 1989. Amavisse contiene en su interior otras dos secciones que se destacan en el poemario, Via espessa y Via vazia, y está construida por un total de 49 poemas que tratan desde la fragmentación de la identidad del sujeto y el deseo de retorno a un supuesto origen, hasta el desarrollo de la temática de la locura y la vena blasfema con la que se burla de la figura de Dios. Alcoólicas, publicado en 1990 y Sobre a tua grande face, de 1986, delimitan una tercera parte de la obra donde la temática del diálogo con Dios asume la forma más incisiva, recordando en algunos momentos una especie de oración invertida.

Nivel formal
A nivel formal, la poesía de Hilst parece privilegiar ante todo el aspecto semántico del lenguaje, despojándose de modos de significación o de una estructura formal nítida. Hilst abandona definitivamente en Do Desejo, la métrica, privilegiando la fluctuación y la polirrítmia. Utilizando un verso particularmente largo en gran parte de las composiciones, la autora se aproxima a la prosa, entrando paradójicamente en contradicción con la propia temática de su poesía, donde la preocupación por los aspectos más prosaicos de la existencia estaría sujeta, la mayor parte de las veces, a la experiencia de situaciones límite y cuestiones esenciales. De esta manera combina el lenguaje directo, construido a partir de una sintaxis apropiada para la comunicación, con la palabra usada como fuente de misterio o núcleo polisémico.

Por otra parte, la crítica ha identificado que el proyecto literario de Hilst pone en práctica una poesía caracterizada por la relación indisociable entre la autobiografía y la construcción del objeto estético, en que se hace del poema un espacio de búsqueda y encuentro de identidades. De esta manera Hilst enfoca su obra hacia un nuevo contexto, repensando el valor de la obra literaria e impulsando una nueva mentalidad crítica.

Nivel temático
Do desejo describe la revelación ante la Nada: destino y condenación de la existencia. Explicita el dilema de sentir una pasión voraz, dionisíaca, por la vida —presente, líquida— y el enhebrado ante la conciencia de saberse fugaz. En este conflicto, ella se adentrará en las vías del goce, de la locura, de la ebriedad buscando la afirmación de un sentido a la existencia para confrontar la Nada, contra la cual ella dispone solo del arma de la palabra poética, que transpone la temporalidad. Así, ella percibe impuesta la confrontación: la dualidad entre un cuerpo que se sabe orgánicamente falible y que busca una inmortalidad por medio del lenguaje, de la poesía que intenta transponer pensamientos y producir simbolismos que la elevan a la atemporalidad. Una relación condenada al conflicto y a la angustia, ya que incluso la palabra logrando elevarse a la eternidad depende de un cuerpo para ser dicha. A fin de cuentas, pues, la muerte vence siempre, no puede ser driblada.

La muerte
Alva Martínez Teixeiro explica que por oposición a la divinidad, que se manifiesta en una trascendencia extrínseca en relación con el hombre, la muerte se revela como una realidad inamovible e inmanente al ser humano. Hilst dice: "Un poeta y su muerte / Están vivos y unidos / En el mundo de los hombres". El yo lírico experimenta otra vía de relación con la omnipresente muerte centrada en el afecto y que articula la imaginación de la misma en un interesante desdoblamiento hacia el territorio amoroso, pues "no hay horror en la muerte hilstiana que ya no se haya convertido en una compañía íntima en la vida propia vida".

El deseo en Hilda Hilst
El conjunto de la obra hilstiana la temática erótica experimenta una evolución de tono. En sus primera obras, como Trovas de muito amor para um amado senhor (1960), parte de una poesía de dedicación lírica al amado inspirada en las cantigas medievales, y en su etapa de madurez el discurso desemboca en el ciclo obsceno, en la representación provocadora de la sexualidad, combinando sarcasmo, erotismo y humor. La poesía amorosa hilstiana, expresión de una pasión abrumadora en busca de la unidad tanto con el amado como con el Dios padre, fusiona esas dos representaciones del otro.

Según Blumberg, podemos aplicar al "golpe pornográfico" de Hilda el concepto bakhtiniano de la carnavalización entendida como parodia y transgresión. El carnavalesco medieval se apropia de manera burlesca de los símbolos de las instancias opresoras (nobleza y clero), transgrediendo barreras sociales y morales a través de la risa liberadora. También Hilst se libera del peso del mundo con una risa sonora. Sin respuesta ni respaldo ante la crueldad divina (que tolera el sufrimiento en la tierra) y de la superficialidad humana (interesada exclusivamente en el propio placer), usa la obscenidad transgresora como instrumento de provocación y rama. Se apropia de diversos discursos filosófico-eróticos, así como de estereotipos pornográficos, y los deforma paródicamente. Hilda Hilst logra romper y transgredir conceptos y posturas que hasta entonces permanecían en el nivel de lo que es bajo y despreciable, a empezar por el uso del lenguaje que muchas veces choca al lector por la vulgaridad y la crudeza.

Dios y trascendencia
Pese a sus afinidades con retóricas claramente reconocibles como la de la mística o la confesión, los conflictos "trascendentes" que se plasman en la obra de Hilda Hilst se desmarcan del discurso de la devoción cristiana. A su vez la poética de Hilst se distancia del discurso de la razón instrumental. Así pues, se desmarca de las posiciones platónicas y del ideario de la salvación del alma al mismo tiempo que propone un desafío que estremece los fundamentos de la racionalidad. Veremos que Hilda, cuando trata a Dios, entra con libertad en este campo, buscando deshacer muchos misterios alrededor de lo divino. Vemos en sus versos como la poeta propone la idea de un Dios como un ser común, que no puede actuar en favor del hombre, y con quien establece un intenso diálogo, tal como vemos en la última sección del libro, Sobre a Tua Grande Face.

Estructura de la obra

Primera parte: Do desejo
En los poemas dispuestos en otro de los poemarios de Hilst, Da Morte. Odes Contínuas, el encuentro con la muerte toma una forma erótica. Hilda parece querer acercarse a la muerte desde la poesía, para llegar a ser plena, como si el encuentro con la muerte fuese un goce que la liberase de la angustia de la dualidad vida-muerte, y esta tentativa de conquista se consigue mediante la palabra. En cambio, en esta primera sección de diez poemas, Do Desejo, vemos el desvío de esa conciencia ante el terror de la muerte, la fuga, el correr obstinado lejos de ella y al mismo tiempo el apego.

La poesía, hecha una forma de existencia en el mundo, se convierte en el medio de expresión que trae a la superficie lo que habría en lo profundo de la vivencia afectiva e intelectual de un sujeto en busca de la constitución de su propia identidad. Una identidad siempre trazada en contacto y en conflicto con inaccesibles alteridades. La relación sexual con un amante presente representa la primera experiencia en el itinerario del poemario, y simboliza el cobijo de la angustia provocada por la conciencia de la dualidad vida-muerte. La entrega a un deseo que no alcanza la plenitud, sino que nos hace sentir la existencia al mismo tiempo en que se muestra la misma como efímera.

Segunda parte: Da noite
También compuesto por una secuencia de diez poemas, Da noite guarda muchos puntos en común con Do desejo. En esta parte se radicaliza la visión del amado en nombre de un amor metafísico. Al hablar de la noche en el título, utilizando el mismo esquema que en el título de la parte anterior, se nos indica una reflexividad del discurso, y una posible analogía entre el espacio vital del día, y la cercanía de la muerte en la noche.

Tercera parte: Amavisse (incluyendo Via espessa y Via vazia)
En la tercera sección del libro, Amavisse (del latín: "haber amado"), la poeta se encuentra solo consigo misma y, si en los primeros poemas de esta parte la voz poética aparece alabando la poesía y rogando "llévame contigo. En el mañana", al final de esta parte termina "astillada, preñada de soledad". La palabra depende del cuerpo para ser dicha y de otro para ser oída. Es decir, tanto el deseo como la palabra son dependientes de complementos, ambos poseen parentesco en la falta, no están completos, como las astillas, como la voz poética. En el momento mismo que sacia el deseo y que expone la palabra, la poeta pierde: "Por perder el mundo / Me separo de mí. Por el Absurdo"

Cuarta parte: Alcoólicas
En Alcoólicas, la penúltima sección y formada por nueve partes numeradas por cifras romanas, la poeta aparece en un encuentro vigoroso y embriagador con la Vida. El alcohol representará la vía de acceso al ser, al mundo, al Todo, después de que ambas, la poeta y la Vida, se sientan a la mesa "ante el coraje de la bebida". Un encuentro intenso con la Vida, como una amiga, para que la existencia de la poeta sea marcada en el recuerdo de la Vida, cuando esta se aleje. Además, en esta parte hay una interrogativa existencial constante y la voz poética se enfrenta a los límites de la razón vislumbrando que el discurso, medio habitual para el esclarecimiento, se muestra del todo insuficiente ante la dinámica y los misterios de la existencia.

Quinta parte: Sobre a tua grande face
En Sobre a Tua Grande Face, el poema más antiguo de la colección, escrito entre 1985 y 1986, vemos los poemas más largos de toda la obra. Existe en esta parte una interlocución con una segunda persona identificada con Dios (el "sin-nombre" en el poemario), con el cual se establece un diálogo de seducción. La voluntad de que la expresión ante Dios se convierta en comunicación, pasa a reflejar abiertamente un deseo de trascendencia, de contacto con el otro en el plano de una imaginaria comunión que supere los límites de lo terreno, del entendimiento o del universo material.

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Otros artículos

 Cartas de un seductor
 El cuaderno rosa de Lori Lamby
 Hilda Hilst
 La obscena señora D

Obras de Hilda Hilst

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