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Lori Lightfoot's Claim That Mississippi Gun Laws Caused Chicago's Violence Is A 'Pathetic,' 'Ridiculous Conspiracy Theory,' Governor Says
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August 20, 2020 7:17 PM ET
Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves called Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's claim that Mississippi gun laws were to blame for her city's crime a "ridiculous conspiracy theory" Wednesday.
Lightfoot alleged in an MSNBC interview Tuesday that "60%" of Chicago's illegal guns are being imported "from Indiana, from Mississippi, from other states that have lax gun laws."
Chicago Mayor @LoriLightfoot blames Indiana and Mississippi for the spate of shootings in the city. pic.twitter.com/2C1iBvyB0L
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 18, 2020
Reeves called Lightfoot's assertion "bizarre and pathetic" in a statement to Y'all Politics, a blog that identifies itself as the longest running online political commentary outlet in Mississippi.
"This ridiculous conspiracy theory from the Chicago mayor—that Mississippians are to blame for the violence in her own city—is bizarre and pathetic," Reeves told the outlet. "No serious person could think that murders are out of control and people are burning police cars in Chicago because of Mississippi's commitment to the constitution."
The Republican governor also shared a response to Lightfoot's statements on Twitter, claiming her city is "letting criminals run free."
"The Chicago mayor says Mississippians are to blame for the out-of-control violence plaguing her city," his post read. "It's a pathetic excuse for the failure of left-wing experiments in undermining police and letting criminals run free."
The Chicago mayor says Mississippians are to blame for the out-of-control violence plaguing her city. It's a pathetic excuse for the failure of left-wing experiments in undermining police and letting criminals run free. https://t.co/AwM3lvx1c0
— Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) August 19, 2020
From 2013 to 2016, Chicago authorities seized nearly 7,000 guns each year that were either illegally possessed or used in crimes, according to a 2017 report from the city, which is the most recent version available. The number of seizures was higher than both New York City and Los Angeles, the data showed. (RELATED: 'I'm Out Of Here': Chicago Cops Are Leaving The Force At Twice The Normal Rate)
There were 406 total shootings in the city and 105 murders in July, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The number of murders in July increased 139% and shootings rose by 75% compared to the same month in 2019, the local outlet reported.
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Washington State Stuns Women of Troy
By Pac-12 Conference
PULLMAN, Wash. - Just one night after upsetting No. 3 Washington in five games, the sixth-ranked USC women's volleyball team watched unranked Washington State do the same. The Women of Troy fell 3-2 (32-34, 25-30, 30-18, 30-22, 15-17) to the Cougars in the final regular season match of 2004 on Saturday at Bohler Gym in Pullman, Wash.
With the loss, USC dropped to 19-5 overall and 14-4 in the Pac-10 to finish third behind Washington (16-2) and Stanford (15-3). Washington State completed its season with a 5-26 overall record and 2-16 mark in the Pac-10.
After dropping games one and two, the Women of Troy rallied to take games three and four and send the match to a decisive fifth game.
USC held an 11-7 lead in the final set when WSU used a 5-to-1 run to tie the score at 12 apeice, and again at 14-14. Keao Burdine collected her 35th kill of the night to put USC ahead 15-14, but the Cougars came back with a kill and a match-winning block for the victory.
Burdine led both teams with her career-high 35 kills - a mark which ranks fourth among USC's all-time records. Bibiana Candelas and Staci Venski added 16 and 15 kills apiece. Candelas also added a team-high eight blocks and libero Debora Seilhamer led with 20 digs. Setters Allison Dillon and Kimi Freeburg collected 40 and 35 assists, respectively.
WSU out-blocked the Trojans 17 to 12 and the Cougars hit .251 for the match, including a .458 fifth game. USC hit .288 for the match.
The Women of Troy now await the NCAA Tournament selections to be announced on Sunday, Nov. 28, at 3:40 p.m. PT on ESPN News.
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Directors Responsibilities – Additional provisions & Changes
CA Durgesh Kumar Kabra
| Company Law - Articles
Article discusses Changes in Provisions related to Directors Responsibilities as amended by Companies (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019. It discusses amendments related to Declaration by the Director under New Section 10A, Punishment for contravention under Section 159, Number of Directorships, Payment to director for loss of office, etc., in connection with transfer of undertaking, property or shares, Overall maximum managerial remuneration and managerial remuneration in case of absence or inadequacy of profits and Appointment of key managerial personnel,
Companies (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019- Directors Responsibilities – Additional provisions & Changes
Sr No. Particulars Under Section Timelines and Penalty before
amendment Timelines and Penalty after Companies (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019
1 Declaration by the Director
New Sec 10A – 1) Any company incorporated after the commencement of this ordinance shall not commence any business or exercise any borrowing powers unless :
(a) The director within 180 days makes a declaration which will be verified by the registrar that every subscriber to the memorandum has paid the value of shares agreed to be taken by him.
(a) The Company has filed with the registrar a verification of its registered office.
2) Penalty: On Company: Any default in complying with the said will invite a fine of Rs. 50,000 to be paid by the company.
On Officer : Shall be liable to a penalty of Rs 1,000/- for each day during which such default continues but not exceeding an amount of Rs 1,00,000/-
3) Where no declaration has been filed with the registrar within a period of 180 days of the date of Incorporation of the company and the Registrar has reasonable cause to believe that the company is not carrying on any business or operation, he may without any prejudice, initiate action for removal of the name of the company from the register of companies under Chapter XVIII
2. Punishment for contravention
Sec 159 If any individual or director of a company, contravenes any of the provisions of Sec 152 (Appointment of Director), Sec 155 (Prohibition to obtain more than one DIN) and Sec 156 ( Director to intimate DIN), then such individual or director shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to Rs 50,000/- and where the contravention is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to Rs 500/- for every day after the first during which the contravention continues. This section shall be substituted, namely :-
If any individual or director of a company, makes any default in complying with any of the provisions of Sec 152 (Appointment of Director), Sec 155 (Prohibition to obtain more than one DIN) and Sec 156 (Director to intimate DIN), such individual or director of the company shall be liable to a penalty which may
extend to Rs 50,000/-and where the default is a continuing one, with a further penalty which may extend to Rs 500/- for every day after the first during which such default continues.
3. Number of
Directorships Sec 165 No person, shall hold office as a director, including alternate directorship, in more than twenty companies at the same time: Provided that the maximum number of public companies in which a person can be appointed as a director shall not exceed ten.
Penalty : If a person accepts an appointment as a director in contravention of the Act, he shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than Rs 5,000/- but which may extend to Rs 25,000/- for every day after the first during which the contravention continues. No person, shall hold office as a director, including alternate
directorship, in more than twenty companies at the same time:
Provided that the maximum number of public companies in
which a person can be appointed as a director shall not exceed
ten.Penalty : If a person accepts an appointment as a director in
contravention of the Act, he shall be liable to a penalty of Rs
5,000/- for each day after the first during which the
contravention continues.
New Clause (i) inserted in Section 164 (1) states that, A person
shall not be eligible for appointment as a director of a
company if he has not complied with the provisions of section
4. Payment to director for loss of office, etc., in connection with transfer of undertaking,
property or shares
Sec 191(5) If a director of the company contravenes the provisions of this section 191, such director shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than twenty-five thousand rupees but which may extend to Rs.1,00,000/-. Subsection (5) shall be substituted, namely :
If a director of the company makes any default in complying with the provisions of this section, such director shall be Liable to a penalty of Rs 1,00,000/-
5. Overall maximum managerial remuneration and managerial
remuneration in case of absence or inadequacy of profits
Sec 197 (7) & (15) Sub- Section (7) – Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Act but subject to the provisions of this section, an independent director shall not be entitled to any stock option and may receive remuneration by way of fees provided under sub-section (5), reimbursement of expenses for participation in the Board and other meetings and profit related commission as may be approved by the members.
Sub – Section (15) -If any person contravenes the provisions of this section, he shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than Rs 1,00,000/- but which may extend to Rs 5,00,000/-. Sub – Section (7) has been omitted.
Sub – Section (15) shall be substituted, namely:
If any person makes any default in complying with the provisions of this section, he shall be Liable to a penalty of Rs 1,00,000/- and where any default has been made by a company, the company shall be liable to a penalty of Rs.5,00,000/-
6. Appointment of key managerial
Sec 203(5) If a company contravenes the provisions of this section, the company shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than Rs.1,00,000/- but which may extend to Rs.5,00,000/- and every director and key managerial personnel of the company who is in default shall be punishable with fine which may extend to Rs. 1,000/- for every day after the first during which the contravention continues. Sub – Section (5) shall be substituted, namely:
If any company makes any default in complying with the provisions of this section, such company shall be liable to a
penalty of Rs 5,00,000/- and every director and key managerial personnel of the company who is in default shall be liable to a penalty of Rs 50,000/- and where the default is a continuing one, with a further penalty of Rs. 1,000/- for each day after the first during which the default continues but not exceeding Rs 5,00,000/-.
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Name: CA Durgesh Kumar Kabra
Company: DMKH & CO.
Location: Maharashtra, IN
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Central Council Member (CCM), Chairman of WIRC of ICAI for 2012-13, during his chairmanship WIRC got Best Regional Council award, Best Student Association award, and 8 awards to various branches, in all 10 awards which is highest ever achiever in the history of WIRC. View Full Profile
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Man mowing lawns across the country visits veteran in Baton Rouge near end of 50-state tour
Smith is mowing lawns all across the country with his brightly colored lawnmower decorated like the American flag. (Source: Rodney Osborne)
By Rachael Thomas | October 6, 2020 at 12:11 PM CDT - Updated October 6 at 11:07 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Rodney Smith Jr. is on a mission to mow lawns for veterans, the elderly, disabled individuals, and anyone in need of help in all 50 states.
Rodney Smith Jr. (Source: Rodney Osborne)
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, he visited Baton Rouge. Smith's tour ends Oct. 10.
"'Raising Men Lawn Care' just paid me a visit on his tour of the U.S. I am so blessed. I am recovering from eye surgery and my daughter nominated me for his lawn mowing service. He did a great job mowing and trimming, and I am so thankful for his expression of love," said Rodney Osborne, who lives on Woodlyn Drive in Baton Rouge.
At the end of his tour, Smith will reopen applications for his 50 Yard Challenge, in which kids can sign up to mow lawns for those in need. Kids who participate can earn different colored t-shirts depending on how many lawns they mow, and can even earn a new lawnmower, weed eater, and leaf blower.
Smith is traveling all over the country to mow lawns for those in need. (Source: Rodney Osborne)
Smith mows lawns for veterans, disabled individuals, the elderly, and anyone else in need. (Source: Rodney Osborne)
Currently, 18 kids in Louisiana have accepted the challenge, according to the Raising Men Lawn Care Service website.
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Rachael Thomas is a Digital Content Producer for WAFB.
La. man and cousin arrested following Capitol riot
FBI arrest records relating to the violence at the Capitol say Adams was arrested in the Eastern District of Texas, and Connel was arrested in the Western District of Louisiana.
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ONE-STOP-SHOP: Stats, links related to COVID-19
This is your one-stop-shop guide to everything you need to know about the impact of COVID-19.
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REPORT: Taysom Hill to miss game vs. Bucs
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Governor John Bel Edwards sends LA National Guard Troops to Washington D.C to assist with Inauguration
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Ambition Coffee & Eatery in downtown Schenectady wanted a new website that reflected the eclectic and eccentric style of what lies beyond the Betty Boop statue welcoming you into 154 Jay Street.
After a meeting with owner Marc Renson to discuss what his needs were in terms of site functionality, we took his non-negotiables to heart in our design… "Cyndi Lauper, Dolly Parton, Bottle Caps and Key Largo." If you've been to Ambition, that string of words will make complete sense.
We wanted to ensure that Ambition's new site be as memorable as the restaurant itself while including all the necessary options and features potential customers would be looking for. With more cafes and restaurants springing up downtown, we wanted to add a few new features to the redesign that would ensure Ambition stay competitive— such as an online ordering option and merchandise store.
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Tickets for Troops Ends Tuesday
University of Oklahoma officials announced today that the Tickets for Troops opportunity will end at 3 p.m., Tuesday. � The program allows fans to purchase tickets to the Sooners' appearance in the B
OU Bowl Notes from El Paso
Notes and Trivia from Oklahoma's first two days at the Brut Sun Bowl ... * The Sooners are practicing at Austin High School's R.E. McKee Stadium. The school was built in 1930, making it the second-ol
Wilson Remembers '82 Sun Bowl
With the strains of Marty Robbins' hit "El Paso" blaring over the loudspeaker, Oklahoma offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson walked out to the Sooners' first practice for the 2009 Brut Sun Bowl, Friday,
Coach Stoops on Bowl Preparations
Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops met with the media Monday afternoon to preview OU's Sun Bowl matchup with Stanford. � The Sooners meet the Pac 10's Cardinal on December 31 in El Paso, Texas. The game
McCoy to Graduate, Enter NFL Draft
Oklahoma defensive tackle Gerald McCoy announced today that he will forgo his senior year of football eligibility to enter the NFL Draft. A two-time All-American and a consensus pick in 2009, McCoy wi
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McCoy Tabbed Sporting News All-American
NORMAN, Okla. --The Sporting News slotted Oklahoma's Gerald McCoy next to Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh as first-team defensive tackles on their 2009 All-America team Tuesday. � It's McCoy's third All-A
Trent Williams Named AP All-American
Oklahoma offensive tackle Trent Williams earned first-team All-America honors from the Associated Press on Tuesday. The AP honor marks the third All-American team for Williams for the 2009 season. �


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Sen. Pederson Sworn in for Second Term
Mike Seals - November 17, 2020 9:29 pm
OKLAHOMA CITY – State Sen. Roland Pederson was officially sworn in for his second four-year term in the Oklahoma State Senate on Monday. The Burlington Republican represents communities in Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant and Kay counties.
Due to increased community spread, the oath of office ceremony was held in small groups in the Senate chamber to accommodate for COVID-19 safety protocols.
During his first term, Pederson served as the vice chairman of the Agriculture and Wildlife committee. He also sat on the Natural Resources and Regulatory Services committee and both the Education and General Government committees. He supported and helped passed a historic teacher pay raise for Oklahoma educators and a cost-of-living adjustment for retired state employees. Pederson also served as a voice for rural interests.
"We were able to make strides in supporting our educators, law enforcement officers and other state employees over the last four years, and I'm excited to see what we accomplish next," Pederson said. "2020 has no doubt been a challenging year for all of us due to COVID-19, and it's going to be important that we come together as a legislature to help the people of Oklahoma move forward during these trying times."
The Senate will hold a one-day organizational meeting on Jan. 5 and will kick-off the First Session of the 58th Legislature on Feb. 1.


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Welcome to Kennies Indoor Comfort Specialists
Building on the tradition of high standards and dedication set forth by our founder in 1954, Kennies Indoor Comfort Specialists, Inc. pledges to work hard to please our customers because we know that our reputation depends on our success.
We will provide only outstanding heating, ventilation, and air conditioning care for our customers in Kings, Tulare and Fresno counties. Our goal is to give quality service while solving your heating and cooling needs, and to provide value at every call.
Kennies won't cut corners when it comes to your comfort!
Located in the central San Joaquin Valley, Kennies Indoor Comfort Specialists, Inc. is a Heating and Air Conditioning Contractor committed to residential and light commercial HVAC customer satisfaction.
It all started around 1937 when Kennie Laughlin went to work for Marco Vucovich Radio (refrigeration was a side line at that time). Because it was during the depression years and money was tight, Kennie received an interest in the company in lieu of a paycheck. Marco and Kennie worked as partners in downtown Hanford until 1954 when the partnership dissolved. Marco kept the radio and television repair, and Kennie kept the refrigeration portion. Kennie and his wife, Wilma, moved their business, Kennies Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Service, to their home so Wilma could run the office portion while raising their two daughters, Myrna and Sharon. The office was set up in the kitchen, and Kennie worked out of his truck with the garage as his "shop". Kennie's focus was dairies and home repairs.
Right after the war, the work truck needed painting. Like everything else, paint was scarce. In fact, there wasn't even enough paint around to paint the truck all one color. So, the truck was painted Army surplus green and Army surplus red. Later, Kennie purchased a new truck. He had so many customers ask if he was still in business as they did not see his truck around, that he painted the new truck the green and red. Our company colors are green and red still today.
By 1960 Kennie had a son-in-law, Tom Stout, that he taught the trade. Tom and Myrna (Kennie's oldest daughter) had three children, Stephen (Steve), Ken, and Karen. When Steve was ten years old he rode along with his grandpa. It wasn't long before he picked up the mechanics of the industry and was working side by side with his grandpa. There are many stories of how during the summer Steve's grandma would drive him to the jobs. This would generate more than a couple of strange looks from customers when he was only fifteen and there to repair their $3,000.00 air conditioning system.
Kennie had health problems through the years, and Tom passed away in 1989. In 1990, Kennie's grandson Steve and his wife Karen, purchased the business. They continued to work out of his grandparents' home until he saw the need for some help. Steve hired his first two employees, one being his brother, Ken, to help with installations and sheet metal (Ken is still here today). Steve also was able to purchase a sheet metal shop. With this purchase, and the hiring of the employees, Steve decided to move the business from his grandparents' home. He built his shop not far from the original site. Steve's sister, Karen joined the staff in 1996. In 1999, Kennies Refrigeration incorporated and became Kennies Indoor Comfort Specialists, Inc. Kennie passed away in 2001. Kennies Indoor Comfort Specialists, Inc. has continued to grow, and in May 2004 moved to a larger facility on Hanford-Armona Road. Steve's hope is that the company founded by his grandfather will always be a family oriented business. Our focus now is on your total indoor comfort for which we have added many new services.
Kennies is an active member of:
Hanford Chamber of Commerce
Kings County Farm Bureau
Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES)
Kennies' staff memberships and affiliations include:
Soroptimist
Cash, Checks, MasterCard and Visa are all accepted at Kennies.
Financing options are available on system replacements.
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Discussion in 'General Tech Help & CD Burning Help' started by random, Mar 30, 2002.
I just burned a couple of games without converting the MP3s to WAV. Did CDRWin just convert them itself when it was burning? I've usually used MP3->WAV. What's going on? It couldn't have just copied the MP3s across right? or the MegaCD wouldn't run them.
I don't think it matters as i've burnt mega cd games in cdrwin before keeping them as mp3 and they worked... well ok they didn't work but that happend before i burnt them anyway.
yeah, the program decodes on the fly.
OK, so I don't actually need MP3->WAV when using CDRWin? Or are there other advantages?
You don't *need* to convert to wav first. However, if you don't, then burning will take a lot more cpu power, and on top of that, what if you are doing something on your computer, and cdrwin isn't decoding the mp3 fast enough? Also, I'm sure that cdrwin's (or any other burning program that decodes on the fly) method of converting to wav won't give you the best possible sound. Your best bet is to stick with converting to wav first.
i've actually used fireburner which converts the mp3 files before the burn then deletes the temp files and there is no degradation of sound.
I'm just speaking from experience. I used to always use fireburner and burn from the mp3 (dunno what version Ratamahatta had, but mine decoded on the fly) and before I had a burner with burn proof, I would get buffer underrun errors quite often if I was doing stuff. Maybe my computer doesn't multitask as well as yours, but that's just my experience.


except for those earning more than £42,285 a year. It's been reported that employers will save £500 per year for an employee under the age of 21 who earns £12,000, and over £1,000 if the employee earns £16,000.
The changes were made with the view to tackle youth unemployment but may lead to increased discrimination claims where a candidate claims that they have been discriminated against during the recruitment process in the favour of a "cheaper" candidate under 21.
Recruiters should remember not to ask a candidate for their age during the recruitment process, to avoid discrimination claims against them.


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Isn't that exciting!! The Build-a-Critter comes with six critters you can build unless you want to mix and mach them then you have loads more to create ... just think, you can have fun with a Mouse-aroo or possibility a Racoo-eaver! LOL Two other fun images are Angel Accessories or Daisy Rock which can be combined with almost any image in the store!
Congratulations!! My email address is in the sidebar to claim your prize!!
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With that note, we want to say a fond farewell to Sarah and wish her the best with her new adventures! She's been fantastic and so creative. :D It's been awesome to have her on the team and the DT gals and I will miss her. *Hugs and we hope to have you back sometime!
Lastly, just a reminder of the Anything Goes challenge that is currently going on! We all love anything goes and this time we have a special prize up for a lucky winner... THREE RUBBER STAMPS!! How cool is that?! Click HERE for this challenge and be sure to follow the rules for a chance to be the winner. Good Luck!
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US wants G20 to Ensure Rare Minerals Trade
October 6, 2010 — WASHINGTON (Source: AFP) — The United States called Wednesday for the world's major economies to look at ways to ensure a free flow of rare minerals used in gadgets after Japan said China cut off shipments for political reasons.
US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke praised the Asia's two largest economies for agreeing to talks next week and hoped "there will continue to be a free flow" of rare earths.
"That's something that I think all the countries perhaps will have to address in the upcoming G20," Locke said, referring to the November summit in South Korea of 20 major economies.
"We need to have that multinational dialogue, especially on some of these very, very rare metals that specific countries may have a greater abundance of," Locke said at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Locke said that rare metals were crucial for technological innovation, along with broader international trade.
China is the main source of rare earths which are essential to everything from iPods to hybrid cars and eco-friendly light bulbs.
Japanese industry reported that China cut off shipments of rare earths last month after a sharp deterioration in relations when Tokyo arrested the captain of a Chinese trawler near disputed islands.
Japanese Trade Minister Akihiro Ohata has vowed to press China not to hold up shipments of the minerals and other commodities during the talks next week to be brokered by South Korea.
China has denied it cut off shipments. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, speaking in Brussels on Wednesday, said that Beijing "will not block the rare earth market."


1 Complete the sentences. Use going to (+,-, or ?).
1 (+) Look! It be a lovely day!
2 (?) Bill see Dan tonight?
3 (-) I study this weekend.
4 (+) Be careful! You fall!
5 (-) We play football today.
6 (?) you cook dinner tonight?
7 (+) He pass the exam.
8 (-) I work tomorrow.
9 (?) they stay with us?
Rewrite the sentences. Use an infinitive of purpose.
1 I'm going out because I want to walk the dog.
2 They're saving money because they want to but a flat.
4 Nick is running because he wants to get fit.
5 You are studying because you want to learn English.


The students say the university is served electricity for about five hours in a week.
The lawmaker representing Chanchaga federal constituency, Mohammed Bago has urged members-elect for the ninth House of Representatives not to be intimidated by anyone who tries to impose a leader on them.
By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Distinguished Senator Shehu Sani has said that the deteriorating security situation in Birnin Gwari and environs deserves urgent interventions and funds.
The North-West regional version of The Farmers' Townhall & Training organized by Agro News Nigeria is set to hold in Kaduna on the 15th of May, 2019.


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Nike MagistaX Proximo "Silver Storm"
In continuing with shifting their on-pitch influence to the short-sided game, Nike have given their Magista Obra the tools necessary to perform off the pitch as the FootballX collection receives a Silver Storm colour update.
Nike continue to marry their on pitch boots with their short-sided armoury with the new Silver Storm MagistaX. Given the "Wolf Grey" treatment and complimented by the bright Turquoise to give it a high level of contrast, the MagistaX is the perfect option for anyone that felt the "Total Orange" MagistaX was a bit too aesthetically heavy. With Nike mirroring their key colourways on the small-sided game it's clear that they're taking the growing phenomenon of 5 and 7 aside football as seriously as the main event.
With a FlyKnit upper that gives a cushioned feel on the ball, the MagistaX provides an instant level of comfort for several different foot types from the very first wear. The MagistaX has been given some NikeGrind treatment on several areas of the boot to ensure that the demanding indoor or turf game doesn't take anything away from the durability of the boot. In order to provide added cushioning Nike have slapped their Lunarlon outsole on the MagistaX to ensure the comfort wraps around the entirety of the foot.
The full Nike FootballX collection is available at select stockists including Pro-Direct Soccer.
Nike MercurialX Proximo "Silver Storm"
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Nike Mercurial Vapor X "Silver Storm"
Nike MagistaX Proximo "Black/Wolf Grey/White"
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I recently joined a few of my gamedev friends to work on a stealth quadcopter-piloting game named FLY2K. Since graphics are my primary area of interest, I decided to dive in by fixing some issues with the volumetric vision cones used to indicate a camera's field of view. Their appearance is nothing fancy – they're basically just yellow cones. Here's what one of the cones looks like in our test level.
The purpose of this visualization is to show where the camera is looking so that the player can avoid being detected (and thus avoid having an army of guard drones set upon him).
As you can see, you start getting horrible clipping due to backface culling. What we want to happen is for the player's field of view to be filled with color to create the illusion that the cone is some sort of volumetric field instead of just a hollow geometric object.
There are a couple of issues here. First, and most obviously, the area of the cone that clips through the floor is hidden by the floor, which is shaded in its original grey color. The second issue is that the entirety of the cone's interior is shaded and lit, which makes it obvious that you're inside a hollow object. Illusion…. RUINED.
Let's go over the solution at a very high level. Here's the full code for the shader, in case you want to follow along.
The lighting issue is the easier of the two problems to fix. To do so, we need to render the inside of the cone differently from the exterior of the cone. This can be easily achieved with a multi-pass shader. In the first pass, have backface culling on (via the "Cull Back" flag) and perform standard lighting. In the second pass, cull frontfaces instead (via "Cull Front") and don't do any lighting. Ez pz.
This is a bit trickier. To make the interior's volumetric color show through clipped areas (such as the area occluded by the floor in the previous image), I set ZTest to "Always" on the interior pass to make sure that the inside of the cone never gets clipped.
The issue with this, of course, is that this means that the inside of the cone will be visible through walls and also through the exterior of the cone, which is clearly undesirable.
Cone interiors showing up through walls due to "ZTest" being set to "Always".
To fix this, I employed a little-known but incredibly useful shader feature: stencil buffers. Stencil buffers are really handy any time you want to use one object to determine what parts of another object get rendered. They're great for any masking-related functionality that you want to achieve.
There are a few interesting things going on here.
I'm referring to a value named [_StencilID] in both blocks – the brackets are just the syntax for using an external property in the stencil buffer. This value is just a float named _StencilID that I pass into the shader. I use a different stencil ID for each cone because I don't want cone exteriors to clip each other (or else things look weird when you see a cone through another cone).
Notice I have "ZFail Replace" in the exterior shader stencil block. This tells the shader to set the stencil value even if the cone exterior is occluded by other geometry, such as a wall. If I don't do this, then the interior clipping won't work for cones that are behind other objects and the interiors will thus show through. This is because, by default, the stencil value will only get written if the depth test is successful. This line tells the shader to write the stencil value no matter what.
In a nutshell, this is the logic: first, write a unique stencil value into the stencil buffer when rendering the cone exterior (a different value per cone). When rendering the interior, clip it if the cone's stencil ID is written in the buffer since this means that we're looking at the interior of the cone through its exterior. Otherwise, render the cone no matter what's occluding it, since we're inside the cone and we don't want any occluding geometry to mess with the volumetric illusion.


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Category Archives: Turkey
Central Asia, Turkey, Uzbekistan
May 15, 2018 The EditorBukhara, Khiva, Samarkand
Nagihan Haliloglu is an assistant professor at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and a resident of Istanbul.
In his introduction to Mehmet Emin Efendi's 1877 travelogue on Turkestan, Ahmet Mithat Efendi says that anyone interested in Ottoman history and culture ought to visit Central Asia 'to appreciate how much a tribe that is originally Turkmen has changed in the six intervening centuries.' It is indeed difficult for a Turk to visit Central Asia and not to feel like the prodigal offspring who has consorted too long with strange folk too far away. I was able to visit Uzbekistan in April, with a group of friends and their families a few months after the visa was lifted for Turkish citizens, and two weeks after Turkish Airlines added Samarkand to its Uzbek destinations. You could say that as Turkmens of Ahmet Mithat Efendi's description we missed the target by a couple of hundred kilometers and landed in the wrong –stan. But we did make it to Khiva, the seat of the Turkmen state of Khwarezm, at the end of the journey. Before the trip I was telling myself that these borders in what used to be called Turkestan – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan combined – did not mean a thing. However, in Samarkand, Bukhara and even in Khiva shop owners kept asking me 'Turkmenistan?' when I tried to speak Turkish with them, and I thought there might, after all, be something to these distinctions. Continue reading →
Turkey: Diary of a Failed Coup
July 28, 2016 The EditorAKP, Ankara, Erdogan, Failed coup, Fethullah Gulen, Istanbul 2 Comments
Nagihan Haliloglu is an assistant professor at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and a resident of Istanbul. Here, she records her observations and thoughts on the recent coup attempt in Turkey.
I first heard that something was not quite right in Istanbul as I was sitting by the Aegean shore in Çeşme, supposedly looking over to Chios and admiring the lights and reflections, but in reality wasting my time on twitter. I saw a tweet that said that the bridges over the Bosphorus had been blocked by tanks. Most of my time line thought that this was due to a Daesh threat – the airport had been bombed only a couple of weeks ago – others joked that there had been a coup. One tweet said that the call for prayer in Acıbadem in Istanbul district had already been called out in Turkish, referencing a practice that the military likes to engage in when they take power in Turkey. When I left the sea and the stars and went back to the room to check the news on TV, it had already become official. My dad and I watched incredulously as a newsreader on state TV read out the declaration that said the army had seized executive power. We read news flashes that said that the Parliament had been bombed and fighter jets were flying low over Istanbul. 'Even if they should take over now, they will have to reinstate democracy at some point, and AKP will come back stronger' he said. Here was a man who had already experienced two coups in his life time. Continue reading →
Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey
The Hour of the Kurds
April 20, 2015 The EditorAnbar, Basra, IS, ISIS, Jalal Talibani, KDP, Kobani, Kurds, Nineveh, PJAK, PKK, PUK
Manuel Martorell is a Spanish journalist and one of the founders of the national daily El Mundo, where he held the posts of Editor-in-Chief and Foreign Editor. He has been covering the Kurds since 1983 and has published three books on the subject and produced a number of television documentaries.
8 February 2015. This will remain a historic day for the Kurdish people. On that day, French president François Hollande hosted an official reception at the Élysée Palace for two women from Kobani, the Syrian city where Islamic State (IS) had met defeat. One was Asya Abdullah, co-president of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main Kurdish party in Syria. The other was Nesrin Abdullah, who attended the meeting in combat uniform as commander of the Popular Defence Units (YPG), a powerful armed force composed of thousands of men and women under the direction of PYD.
The photo widely circulated by social and press media showing Hollande, Asya and Nesrin talking in the luxurious salon of the Élysée Palace had a three-fold symbolism. First it demonstrated that women in the Middle East were prepared to organise and combat radical Islam. Moreover, both women represented the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an organisation considered by the European Union and the United States to be a terrorist group. This was especially significant because for months American warplanes were supporting Kobani fighters in full view of Turkey, the US's closest Middle-East ally, whose government favoured an Islamist victory over the Kurds in that city. France and the United States were providing most of the military and economic support to Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq, but so were the UK, Germany, the rest of the European Union and other major countries, including Canada and Australia. This represented, in practice as well as theory, a strengthening of the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq and the PKK in Turkey and Syria, because both movements were bearing the brunt of the struggle against jihadism on the ground. Continue reading →


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ACES | Academy Color Encoding System
Since the arrival of digital cameras and the proliferation of formats, encoding type and a whole range of more or less high-quality equipment, film professionals are faced with a major problem: the constancy in the colors.
For over 10 years, "the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" devoted considerable resources to the development of a solution: ACES.
ACES 1.0 (January 2015), is a proven method to standardize the calibration process and improvement of color, "the look of the film."
Why encourage the use of ACES in the workplace? First reason: saving time and money, but also the safety of mind regarding archiving, data optimization (various types of cameras), consistency among stakeholders in post phase -production and finally, a simple but effective method to ensure that the products will be visually identical in any cinemas (DCI-P3), television (REC.709) and electronics (sRBG): a standardization the signal on different platforms.
For the rest? ACES is designed to continue to evolve over time and take into account the improvement of the cameras and the decoding algorithms of the video signal. ACES also recreates the master copies of the current ACES productions with future update RRT (Reference Rendering Transform) to conform to new media types, such as televisions and spaces 4K colors like REC. 2020.
To understand why ACES effectively controls whether the color management in a brief explanation, only the central section or, color correction, is left to the colorist. The rest is managed by the ACES standard and does not allow human interaction, which reduces errors.
Who should use ACES
Post-production company
VFX company
Are the producer should insist that their production should be subject to the ACES standards … Yes definitely!
What are the costs associated with the ACES update
When several post-production companies must work together on the same project, the adaptation time is quickly offset by improved operations and peace of mind. A profitable investment.
Input Device Transform (IDT)
Academy Color Encoding Specification (ACES)
Reference Rendering Transform (RRT)
Output Device Transform (ODT)
Ressources externes
OpenColorIO
OpenEXR
WHAT IS ACES?
The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is becoming the industry standard for managing color throughout the life cycle of a motion picture or television production. From image capture through editing, VFX, mastering, public presentation, archiving and future remastering, ACES ensures a consistent color experience that preserves the filmmaker's creative vision. In addition to the creative benefits, ACES addresses and solves a number of significant production, post-production and archiving problems that have arisen with the increasing variety of digital cameras and formats in use, as well as the surge in the number of productions that rely on worldwide collaboration using shared digital image files.
ACES is a free, open, device-independent color management and image interchange system that can be applied to almost any current or future workflow. It was developed by hundreds of the industry's top scientists, engineers and end users, working together under the auspices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
ACES 1.0 is the first production-ready release of the system, the result of over 10 years of research, testing and field trials. It includes support for a wide variety of digital and film-based production workflows, visual effects, animation and archiving.
WHAT PROBLEMS DOES ACES 1.0 SOLVE?
Today's motion pictures and television shows are complex collaborative efforts, involving many separate companies using digital image capture, image creation and editorial workflows that are much more difficult to integrate than film-based workflows.
On a typical production there might be three or four different digital cameras as well as a film camera in use, all recording to different devices and media using different data formats. During post-production, especially on major motion pictures, multiple facilities may be engaged for editing, visual effects, mastering and other work. Digital image files arrive at these facilities in any of a dozen (or more!) formats and color encoding schemes, often without essential metadata. At the end of the process, studio deliverables could range from large-screen film prints to mobile device encodings.
All along the way, the integration challenges increase – and on the horizon there are undoubtedly emerging technologies and new all-digital distribution platforms that will add complexities of their own.
ACES 1.0 solves numerous integration challenges by enabling consistent, high-quality color management from production to distribution. It provides digital image encoding and other specifications that preserve the latitude and color range of the original imagery, allowing the highest-quality images possible from the cameras and processes used. Equally important, ACES 1.0 establishes a common standard so deliverables can be efficiently and predictably created and preserved. ACES 1.0 enables filmmakers to manage the look of a production today and into the future.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF ACES 1.0 FOR SPECIFIC USERS?
Virtually everyone involved in production, post-production and archiving can enjoy ACES benefits.
For cinematographers, colorists and digital imaging technicians, ACES 1.0 preserves creative intent from on-set capture to presentation by:
Eliminating uncertainty between on-set look management and downstream color correction through standardized viewing transforms and equipment calibration methods
Preserving the full range of highlights, shadows and colors captured on set for use throughout post-production and mastering
Simplifying the matching of images from different cameras
Providing a means to repurpose source materials when creating alternate deliverables
For visual effects and other post-production facilities, ACES 1.0 streamlines digital workflows by:
Simplifying the interchange of unfinished motion picture imagery
Providing a standard color management architecture that can be shared by hardware and software vendors
Eliminating uncertainty associated with undocumented or poorly documented file formats and color encodings
Establishing standards for metadata
For producers and studios, ACES 1.0 reduces production costs and enables future-proofed archiving by:
Providing a free, open source color and look management architecture that can be shared by vendors whose hardware and software products are used on set and in post-production
Ensuring digital assets can be repurposed to take advantage of future high-dynamic-range, wide-color-gamut display devices
Ensuring the archive contains the highest fidelity digital source master possible, representing the digital equivalent of the "finished negative"
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Skyscape loose ends – still loose
Skyscape are late submitting their first statutory accounts to Companies House
There are more reasons to believe that HMG will lose control of our data once it is hosted in the cloud on Skyscape's servers
It looks as if GOV.UK is still not being hosted by Skyscape
Skyscape's non-existent track record
Source: Companies House, 30 January 2013
Skyscape Cloud Services Ltd were due to submit their first set of accounts to Companies House by 31 December 2012 and, so far, they're a month late.
How did the Government Procurement Service (GPS) and the G-Cloud team determine that it is safe to offer Skyscape's services on the Cloudstore?
What were the Government Digital Service (GDS) going on when they chose Skyscape to host GOV.UK, the soon-to-be-single face of government on the web?
How did HMRC decide to entrust its local office data to Skyscape?
BIS – redundant situation vacant
Reprinted below is the job description of a post currently being advertised by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS).
Not a bad job really. You get between £40,000 and £55,000, you don't need a medical, there's no Criminal Records Bureau check and you start at Grade 7, the bottom rung of the senior civil service.
There is one issue you might bear in mind before sending in your application.
"We are a busy team of digital specialists responsible for managing the Department's online presence, including our website and social media", says the job description, and "this will mean identifying our online influencers and forging relationships, creating digital content and opportunities for online engagement, and helping to develop the way BIS uses the web".
The issue is this. BIS don't have a website. Not any more. http://www.bis.gov.uk has been consigned to history, it is no more than a fond memory, time has been called, on the web at least, on the venerable Board of Trade, né 1621.
Inspector Harry Callahan's advice to GDS
"What's that?", said the punk, pointing at the books in Harry's arms.
This ... punk ... is the UK tax code. The longest and most complicated tax code in the world.
GDS and the new world
The previous post on this blog was written overnight, 22/23 January 2013, and published at 9:30 yesterday. The closing paragraphs read as follows:
GDS's new world
Martha Lane Fox describes her digital-by-default project as a revolution. Those of us who were born yesterday will have no trouble believing that we are living in a new world. First we believed that UC would be fully operational in 37 days time. Then seamlessly we believed that the target is 400 days.
And in 400 days time?
What will GDS have us believe then?
Later that same day, 16:02, Computer Weekly published Kathleen Hall's article Interview: Cabinet Office chief operating officer Stephen Kelly. The closing paragraph reads as follows:
"This world won't automatically switch to the new world, which is why I want to elevate the CTO [chief technology officer] role – to strengthen our core direction of travel. The new world is where we are going and we are putting a lot of resource and focus behind that."
Spooky?
From spring 2013
It is the Government Digital Service's dream to make all public services digital by default. To make that happy dream come true they need identity assurance – each UK parishioner needs his or her own electronic ID.
• 20 April 2011:
... To someone's dyspeptic eye, IDA looks like a non-starter, another elaborate and expensive plan which turns out to be fantasy, doomed to failure when it confronts reality. The timetable for IDA was presented and described as not over-ambitious. That is perfectly accurate. The timetable is not over-ambitious. It looks more like the psychedelic product of a prolonged session on hallucinogenic drugs. Far from being merely over-ambitious, it is quite simply impossible.
• 22 September 2012, Universal Credit and the December putsch:
... The revised notice was published on 1 March 2012 and the service has to be operational from the Spring of 2013? Barely a year later? Only six months after the contracts are awarded? 21 million claimants? Millions of whom have never used the web? Operational? Countrywide? ... It's a tall order.
• 25 September 2012, Identity assurance – the clock is ticking, ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken's chickens are coming home to roost:
... That's six months time if we measure to the start of next spring, or nine months if we measure to the end. Either way, DWP's Universal Credit (UC) scheme has to be up and running by October 2013 and UC depends on identity assurance as Lord Freud, the welfare reform minister, has emphasised – no identity assurance, no UC.
• 6 November 2012, Identity assurance – shall we vote on it?:
... That's what it says in the draft legislation. Ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken was meant to announce who would be the UK's so-called "identity providers" by 30 September 2012. We're still waiting ... He'd better hurry up. He's promised to have an identity assurance service "operational" for 21 million Universal Credit claimants by Spring 2013.
• 26 November 2012, Identity assurance – one under the eight:
More to the point, there are 21 million prospective claimants for Universal Credit in the UK. Identity assurance is meant to be operational by the Spring of 2013 for all 21 million of them. The chances of that happening are now nil. GDS's failure is extending the imprisonment in the poverty trap of millions of claimants who could be released by Universal Credit. Putting the wrong people in charge of identity assurance has miserable social consequences.
• 10 December 2012, Universal Credit – GDS's part in its downfall:
... That wouldn't be feasible, not now, December 2012, not even if the details of IDAP had all been worked out but they haven't been ("we now have a group of suppliers with whom we can work out the practical issues"). Why hasn't it already been done? How much longer will it take?
• 11 December 2012, GDS's identity assurance story continues to unravel:
... GDS went on in their blog post of last March to refer to the procurement of identity assurance services, needed by DWP for their Universal Credit initiative: "The initial DWP services will be required to provide identity assurance for approximately 21 000 000 claimants ... To support the rollout of universal credit and personal independence payments, identity assurance suppliers will be selected in summer 2012 and systems will need to be fully operational from spring 2013" ... Question – how did GDS come up with that timetable?
• 18 January 2013, #2 of many lessons about GDS and the external digital thought-leaders:
... it's impossible. Would you trust an organisation that promises the impossible?
And so was born GDS's Identity Assurance Programme (IDAP) [29.12.17: currently known as "GOV.UK Verify (RIP)"] which they have repeatedly promised would be "fully operational from spring 2013".
In the first instance, GDS need to provide identity assurance for the new Universal Credit (UC) system which is designed to rescue people from welfare dependency by making work pay. It's UC that needs identity assurance to be fully operational from spring 2013 and that's what GDS have promised.
Eight so-called "identity providers" have been appointed to turn IDAP into reality. The documentation on the IDAP contracts was published the other day, 16 January 2013, and includes this:
To support the rollout of universal credit and personal independence payments providers will be selected by June 2012 and systems will need to be fully operational from March 2013.
"... fully operational from March 2013" – 37 days away.
That deadline has seemed impossible for years, since at least 20 April 2011 (please see opposite), before GDS existed, but they (GDS) have never sought in public to change it and, even now with only 37 days to go, there may be up to 21 million prospective universal credit claimants out there who assume that the deadline will be met.
It won't. It can't be.
In his 22 January 2013 Computer Weekly blog the engaging Toby Stevens reports on the current state of IDAP and says:
And when does all this happen? We would expect to see the first pilots in October this year, with more widespread use kicking off in April 2014.
Fully operational from March 2013? No. October 2013. But that's just "trials". So not fully operational. Maybe more like April 2014. And maybe not.
Has anyone told Iain Duncan Smith that GDS have delayed his beacon policy by at least a year? Presumably not as he keeps telling Parliament that UC's going swimmingly. Has anyone told the press? Or the prospective claimants of UC?
GDS have kept quiet about it.
Instead, they have diverted us with scores of blog posts about how important the users are – excluding benefit claimants, presumably – and how the users' needs are GDS's only guide and only concern.
They trumpet the success of their single government domain project – "This website replaces Directgov [and] Business Link", it says on the home page of GOV.UK. Manifestly false. The IDAP documentation quoted from above, for example, is on businesslink.gov.uk.
They proudly announce that they will make a minimum of 40,000 public servants redundant thereby saving the government – but not the public – up to £1.8 billion p.a.
Cheekily, in view of UC, GDS claim to believe that they are dedicated to "delivery".
And on 21 January 2013, they held a jamboree, The future is here, attended by 300 civil servants to celebrate themselves and to announce vaingloriously that they would transform government in 400 days.
Who is this all for?
It's clearly not for the users. It's not for the 21 million prospective UC claimants. And it's not for the 40,000+ ex-public servants.
That's alright then
The executive director of GDS and senior responsible officer owner for IDAP is ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken. And on his website he modestly quotes these words of Martha Lane Fox's:
It is a rare individual that can take a bunch of ideas and turn them into a reality in any environment but particularly in government. Mike is doing just that for me and it has been a privilege to watch.
Ms Lane Fox was interviewed at the heady, revivalist, the-future-is-here jamboree by a Computer Weekly journalist, Kathleen Hall, who finishes her article with this:
Although Lane Fox has been digital champion for four years, she has no immediate plans to step down. "I think you have to be constantly appraising yourself as to whether yours is the best voice – or whether you are becoming a bit like white noise, and not doing a good as job as you could be. But at the minute I'm still having a great time," she said.
Skyscape Cloud Services push the boat out
Time was, when you went to the cinema, there was always an advert for the local curry house.
These short promotional films followed rules from which no deviation was permitted.
The cameraman had to have the shakes. The soundtrack had to be just as unsteady, as though it was hanging on, rather listlessly, and didn't much care if it lost its grip.
The first grainy shot would have the proprietor, off-centre, trying to smile naturally and failing. All expense spared, the film would cut to a close-up of congealed entrails in a cracked bowl and then pull back to show a lot of worryingly pasty-faced people with no make-up sitting round a table and looking as though they might try eating the entrails. Or not.
Finally, without warning, it would stop being daylight and while the sound recordist replaced the sitar music with something more Hawaiian a voice-over would explain to us that the restaurant was just three doorways from this very venue, as though we didn't know, next to the betting shop.
It's always been a mystery. What happened to the professionals who made these gems? Where are they now? Let's face it, we miss them, it's part of our heritage.
#3 of many lessons about GDS and the external digital thought leaders
Each week, ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service (GDS) and senior responsible officer owner for the government-wide Identity Assurance Programme (IDAP), writes up his diary for the previous seven days and publishes it. And on 11 January 2013, it was published in the form of a video. Tune in and learn, as he explains that:
Martha gave us our publishing mandate. And we've now got our transaction mandate [now that there are digital strategies for each government department].
"Martha", of course, is Martha Lane Fox DBE, the UK Machiavelli de nos jours, the Prime Minister's digital champion and chairman of the GDS advisory board (and now also a member of Richard Branson's/Virgin Media's 'Our Digital Future' campaign). It is thanks to her 14 October 2010 letter to Francis Maude – Directgov 2010 and beyond: revolution not evolution – that GDS exists.
Actually, that's not true.
#2 of many lessons about GDS and the external digital thought-leaders
Would you trust an organisation that promises the impossible?
It's a week now since ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service (GDS) and senior responsible officer owner for the government-wide Identity Assurance Programme (IDAP), issued his invitation to Sprint 13, The Future is Here.
What a party it promises to be. Come and meet "Government and Agency Board Members, Officials, Policy Makers, Ministers, Press and External Digital Thought-Leaders" in uptown SW1 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on Monday 21 January 2013 from 08:45 to 13:00 (GMT) – "jealousy" hardly begins to describe the state of those of us who have been uninvited.
midata – the simple question posed by Which?
BIS – abandon midata as a bad job. Now.
Is it safe? Yes or no?
In their 3 November 2011 press release Government, business and consumer groups commit to midata vision of consumer empowerment, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) said:
The following consumer groups and regulators are working with midata to represent consumers' interests and concerns. As well as working towards potential benefits, their input plays an important role in identifying potential risks and helping determine how these can be addressed:
- Citizens Advice
- Communications Consumer Panel
- Consumer Focus
- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
- OFCOM
- Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
- Which?
Now, 14 months later, we are still none the wiser how midata would "empower" consumers.
If the regulators in the list above had succeeded in their task, then no-one would be considering midata. We are still none the wiser how midata could succeed where the regulators have failed.
GDS, data-sharing, privacy and dignity
In February 2007 a man called Chris Lightfoot committed suicide. Many people paid tribute to him including Phil Booth, the National Coordinator of NO2ID, who wrote in memoriam Chris Lightfoot, 1978 – 2007:
Chris, more than most, understood how important it is that we should all have the choice of what about ourselves we share with others. His intellectual honesty and keen appreciation of human dignity informed all that he did ...
Now another man has committed suicide, Aaron Swartz, and again there are many tributes including one from Sir Tim Berners-Lee ...
The identity of the UK's eighth identity provider has now been provided, reluctantly
The acknowledged problems with public administration in the UK are to be solved, it is proposed, by making public services digital by default, which requires us all to have electronic identities (eIDs). These are to be provided by eight so-called "identity providers" of whom only seven were previously announced, please see Identity assurance – one under the eight.
The eighth identity provider is PayPal.
How do we know that?
Whitehall – front page misfeasance
... put the departments of state out to tender ...
This morning's Times newspaper leads with:
No, Minister: Whitehall in 'worst' crisis
Roland Watson, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson
Published at 12:01AM, January 14 2013
An increasingly bitter power struggle between ministers and mandarins is poisoning relations across Whitehall and threatening to derail David Cameron's reforms, The Times has learnt.
Tension over the pace and scale of coalition policy has given way to outright mistrust in some departments with ministers feeling blocked by an unwieldy and unwilling Civil Service.
One Tory Cabinet minister said that the working relationship was akin to both sides waging a permanent "cold war" ...
The Times have conducted an investigation they say involving "dozens of ministers, past and present", and the article names David Cameron, Michael Gove, Eric Pickles, Francis Maude, Tony Blair, Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield and Nick Herbert. Whitehall is in a power struggle with Westminster, apparently – not news to DMossEsq readers – and accuses Whitehall of being obstructive, untrustworthy and in need of reform. There is an accompanying editorial, Office Politics.
The public administration bubble was identified in OBITUARY: Whitehall 1947-2012. Is the bubble now, as predicted, bursting before our eyes?
Updated 14:30:
Ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service (GDS) and senior responsible officer owner for the government-wide Identity Assurance Programme (IDAP), produced not one blog post yesterday but two.
The Future is Here is an invitation to Sprint 13. Strictly limited to 300 guests, no more room in the Ark, be there or be nobody, this is the party for the "ambitious" (we're going to be seeing a lot of that word).
Videos, speeches and workshops at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Monday, 21 January 2013 from 08:45 to 13:00 (GMT), come and meet "Government and Agency Board Members, Officials, Policy Makers, Ministers, Press and External Digital Thought-Leaders". Who could resist?
Mooncalves, marketing, midata, my money and yours
We live in a new world, so we're told. Revolution all around us. Is that true?
Is it dishwasher-proof?
Here's Murad Ahmed in the Times newspaper, 9 January 2013, reporting from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas:
For just £60, the world's first "smart fork" can be yours, boosting your cutlery drawer's IQ while changing your eating habits and making you thin ...
The HAPIfork gets smarter over time, tracking a person's rate of eating across several meals and slowly increasing the seconds before it buzzes as you learn to eat more slowly. After a meal, it send the information to your mobile phone.
"People have never questioned how a fork works before," said a rather trim Andrew Carton, the president of HAPIlab, who says that he once was obese. "They've been eating all their lives and think, who are you to tell me I'm not using a fork correctly? But we think the fork can and is evolving."
Good luck to Mr Carton.
English Defence – another success story for the UK Border Force 2
At 00:27 on 8 January 2013 DMossEsq published English Defence – another success story for the UK Border Force, an article about border control failures in the UK and the US.
The story concerns the leader of the English Defence League – a man known variously as Stephen Yaxley Lennon, Tommy Robinson and Paul Harris – and his trip from the UK to the US and back. There are many border control failures possible and many of them were exhibited in Lennon/Robinson/Harris's trip*. With all of those actual failures to choose from, DMossEsq managed nevertheless to focus on one failure of the UK Border Force that wasn't exhibited.
Facial recognition blarney
TheJournal.ie is an Irish news website that invites its users to shape the news agenda. Read, share and shape the day's stories as they happen, from Ireland, the world and the web. On 29 December 2012 TheJournal.ie carried the following article:
Facial recognition on the way for social welfare claimants
The rollout of a new Public Services Card will mean new technology to ensure claimants are who they claim to be.
SOCIAL WELFARE CLAIMANTS will be faced – literally – with cameras to determine their identity when a new generation of identity cards is rolled out early next year.
The new Public Services Card, which has already being phased in and will be introduced nationwide in 2013 – will require welfare recipients to stand in front of a camera so that their facial image can be recorded and printed onto their new card.
Once the rollout has been completed, visitors to Social Welfare offices will have another picture taken and referenced against the original to vouch for their identity.
The moves are the Department of Social Protection's latest attempts to clamp down on social welfare fraud.
Let's do a bit of sharing and shaping, as requested, with one of yesterday's stories from around the world – yet another revelation that facial recognition doesn't work, when it was reported that the leader of the English Defence League sailed through the Heathrow Airport security checks using another man's passport.
Good luck Ireland, but don't rely on Public Services Cards to "clamp down on social welfare fraud".
English Defence – another success story for the UK Border Force
The leader of the English Defence League is a man called Stephen Yaxley Lennon. Or Tommy Robinson. Or Paul Harris.
Whatever his name is, he has just been sent down for ten months for trying to get into the US with a passport he borrowed from Andrew McMaster. He succeeded in leaving the UK on the McMaster passport. But they rumbled him at the US border.
The Press Association story about Mr Lennon/Robinson/Harris's trip to New York is carried by just about every media outlet in the English-speaking world. See for example the Daily Mail's Leader of far-right English Defence League jailed for 10 months for using someone else's passport to get into the U.S. And just about everyone sees in it the story they want to see.
Fraser Nelson, the esteemed editor of the Spectator, sees it as evidence that flat print fingerprinting works – that's the technology used by the Americans to discover that it was questionable whether this traveller really was Andrew McMaster:
The head of the English Defence League has learnt the hard way that those fingerprint scanners at JFK actually work. gu.com/p/3cqgq/tw
— Fraser Nelson (@frasernelson) January 7, 2013
There are good reasons to believe that Mr Nelson draws the wrong conclusion about biometrics.
There are other questions.
How did Mr Lennon/Robinson/Harris manage to leave JFK and spend the night in New York? How did he subsequently manage to fly out of the US and back to the UK? He flew in as McMaster and out as Harris. There was no record of Harris having entered the US. How did the US authorities manage to let a man who had not come into the country leave it? I-94 exit controls are supposed to match entry controls ...
Let's leave all those complicated issues to resolve themselves as and when more detail is released. Let's look at something simple.
Public service in the UK 2013-style – ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken
Under the guidance of ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken, the Government Digital Service (GDS) have turned parts of Martha Lane Fox's digital-by-default revolutionary manifesto into reality. At least what passes for reality in the Cabinet Office.
Is her manifesto really revolutionary?
Public service in the UK 2013-style – Tim O'Reilly
Are they getting it right?
How would they know?
Public service in the UK 2013-style – Martha Lane Fox
Under the guidance of ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken, the Government Digital Service have turned parts of Martha Lane Fox's digital-by-default revolutionary manifesto into reality. At least what passes for reality in the Cabinet Office.
21 million prospective Universal Credit claimants,...
#3 of many lessons about GDS and the external digi...
The identity of the UK's eighth identity provider ...
English Defence – another success story for the UK...
Public service in the UK 2013-style – ex-Guardian ...
Public service in the UK 2013-style – Tim O'Reilly...
Public service in the UK 2013-style – Martha Lane ...


Consulting services and systems integration solutions company, Ammeon, this morning held a breakfast briefing aimed at giving IT executives a head-start with Agile, DevOps and Cloud Adoption, demonstrating how these components work together to accelerate delivery. The event took place at the Irish Aviation Authority Conference Centre in Dublin.
Titled "Getting Started with IT Transformation", Fred Jones, CEO of Ammeon explained that change is the natural order of business and that is both exciting and scary in equal measure.
"According to Professor Richard Foster (Yale University), the average lifespan of leading US companies dropped by more than 50 years in the last century. And by 2020, more than three quarters of the top 500 companies will be ones we have not heard of yet. So what's going on? Many traditional companies are being disrupted by faster, more agile new comers. Think Netflix / Broadcasting, WhatsApp / Telecoms, Uber / Taxis and China's Wechat / Banking."
Jones continued; "During the 1970s and the 1980s, new technology products and features required between one and five years to develop and deploy. By 2010, the introduction of DevOps practices and Cloud computing saw features (or even entire start-ups) being created in weeks. Now, new entrants can deploy hundreds or even thousands times a day which has resulted in unprecedented levels of innovation. But for those that can't or don't keep up, it poses a serious competitive threat.
Companies need a strategy to arrive at a future where they are relevant and still in business. Many believe, that in this rapidly changing landscape, IT transformation is the road to survival - and that Agile, DevOps and Cloud are the vehicles to success."
This topic will be explored at this morning's breakfast briefing, where Ammeon shared further knowledge of how Agile, DevOps and Cloud work together to reduce inefficiencies and speed the delivery of critical services. They also provided some valuable advice on starting an IT transformation.
Speakers included Michael Murtagh (pictured), Change Manager, Ericsson (Sweden) who has a strong track-record in Lean and Agile software development. He is charged with implementing a Commercial Release Management strategy in the Ericsson Group. At the briefing he shared how Ericsson implements Agile, DevOps and Cloud transformation at scale, including the lessons learned along the way.
Michael was joined by Ammeon's Head of Strategy, Sean Finlay and Head of Consulting, Dave Anderson.


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1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL
Stirling Moss/Denis Jenkinson 1955 Mille Miglia Reconnaissance 'Gullwing'
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The Ex-Paris Salon, London Motor Show, 'The Autocar' road test
1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL "Gullwing" Coupé
Registration no. PLB 23
Chassis no. 198.040-4500019
Engine no. 198.980-4500003
Here we offer this simply outstanding Mercedes-Benz 300SL 'Gullwing' Coupe, which is one of the earliest surviving, and most significant, of all the renowned Stuttgart marque's purebred production-series.
During the mid-1950s these super-sophisticated, 3-litre-engined rocket ships were the fastest road cars that money could buy. Amongst them all the individual 'Gullwing' presented here is chassis serial '4500019' which was the French and international model-launch vehicle displayed by Daimler-Benz at the 1954 Paris Salon de l'Automobile exhibition. It was a late arrival there, its place on the Mercedes-Benz stand having been occupied previously by a Formula 1 W196 model, similar to the ex-Fangio double-Grand Prix-winning example famously sold in our Festival of Speed auction last year.
Denis Jenkinson – 'Motor Sport' magazine's illustrious Continental Correspondent (known universally as 'Jenks' and renowned for his rather acerbic take on high-priced cars) – reported in their November, 1954, issue: "Next door to Jaguar, and displayed in a rather exaggerated manner, was a 300SL Mercedes-Benz coupe fitted with fuel injection as standard and available in France for £5,000. In all major respects identical with the cars raced by Mercedes-Benz, the 300SL was given a slightly more saleable look by having more detail finish to the bodywork. It was displayed in a place of honour on the Mercedes-Benz stand, brilliantly illuminated and surrounded by chromium railings. This was seen on the Monday after the Show opened although the previous few days had seen a Grand Prix Type W196 racing car in the place of honour..."
This same car was then transferred to Mercedes-Benz (GB) Ltd in preparation for taking pride of place upon the marque's display stand at the following London Motor Show, staged in the British capital's vast Earl's Court exhibition centre. John Bolster in 'Autosport' magazine reported: Mercedes-Benz show all their normal models, and in addition they exhibit the much-desired 300SL. This is a very beautiful high-speed coupe, and with its fuel-injection 3-litre engine it is capable of exceeding 150mph. It is quite a practical car, having some luggage space in addition to the two seats. Although the spaceframe (chassis) naturally impedes entry (due to its high paneled and trimmed sills on each side) the gull-wing doors and the folding wheel make this as easy as possible...this is certainly a most exciting car..."
After its two starring appearances in Paris and London, '4500019' now offered here was UK road-registered under the serial 'PLB 23'- which it retains today –and served as the press road test and demonstration vehicle maintained by Mercedes-Benz GB, of Mercedes-Benz House, 58 Camberwell New Road, London SE5. They loaned it to 'The Autocar' magazine's highly-experienced road testing staff for full evaluation, the resultant report being published in the magazine's March 25, 1955, edition.
In part the report reads: "The 300SL, in addition to being very fast, is also very safe, and a brief description of the mechanical layout will point out some of the reasons why. The chassis frame is built up of a number of steel tubes of small diameter with two main engine cross-members. Suspension at the front is by coil springs and double wishbones, and the usual Mercedes independent rear suspension of coil springs and swinging half-axles is employed. The 3-litre six-cylinder overhead camshaft engine lies at an angle in the frame to assist in keeping the overall height down, and one of its most interesting features is the use of fuel injection. The light-alloy body structure is fabricated separately from the chassis, and the two combine to make what is without doubt a most astonishing car."
They described 'PLB 23' offered here as "...docile and tractable in dense city traffic...its true place is outside built-up areas, where it can be allowed to come into its own. After it has trickled along in third and top gears, the time eventually arrives when the driver is able to see the opportunity in front of him, and second gear can be selected, so that the car really comes alive.
"For a passenger who has not travelled in the 300SL before the effect is electrifying....(the passenger) receives at first a mild pressing back into the seat, and then, as the power comes in between 3,500 and 4,000rpm, he feels as though he is being rocketed through space. Up to 70mph is available in second gear...in the indirect gears, and indeed in top, the acceleration of this unusual car is indeed remarkable. Gradients, of course, have no meaning except to add to the exhilaration of driving the car...hump-back bridges have to be treated with real respect, as it is only by keeping a wary eye on the instruments that the driver is really sure at what speed he is travelling..."
They found that 'PLB 23' would accelerate from 0-60mph in 8.8secs, 0-100mph in 21secs and 0-120mph in 56.4secs – stupendous figures by the standards of 1954, sixty long years ago. They also recorded maxim speeds through the gears as 44mph in first, 70mph in second, 98mph in third and a best of 135mph in top (150mph-plus plainly being contemporary manufacturer's hype – ask any Jaguar owner...).
The test team further commented upon finding "The ride is by no means harsh; on one 400-mile journey a small child was able to sleep curled-up on what is essentially the luggage space behind the seats.
"When cornering at the speed of other traffic the 300SL goes round firmly on the proverbial rails. There are but two turns lock-to-lock and the driver is never conscious of actually turning the wheel to direct the car. It is reminiscent of a fast motor-cycle, which is steered more by leaning the body than by actual movement of the handlebars. When taking open, very fast swerves the driver can start to guide – this is the operative word rather than steer – the car round just before he enters the corner and then, using the throttle, make the 300SL come out on the straight in a beautiful movement. .."
In parallel, 'PLB 23' returned fuel consumption figures of 18.4mpg for the 746 miles covered during 'The Autocar' team's test period. All this for the premium UK price in period of no less than £4,392 15s 10d (including taxes).
During the month of April, 1955, meanwhile, the Mercedes-Benz Rennabteilung and works team was fully engaged in reconnaissance to prepare its crews, mechanics and engineers for the debut of the parallel 300SLR sports-racing cars in the world's most prestigious public road race, the Italian Mille Miglia.
Included in the extensive documentation file accompany 'PLB 23' is a letter from Sir Stirling Moss confirming his use of the car during that process. He was accompanied there by his factory team navigator – none other than 'Jenks' of 'Motor Sport' who was in fact 1949 World Champion Motorcycle Sidecar racing passenger, Denis Jenkinson. Although works team records concerning the 300SLs used during that reconnaissance period are non-specific about chassis identities, Sir Stirling's recollection that the Mercedes-Benz GB demonstrator was sent out in this manner connects '4500019' here with his and Jenks's stupendous subsequent victory. Indeed, that 300SLR win in the 1955 1,000-mile Mille Miglia round-Italy road race involved one of the most illustrious and legendary drives in all motor sporting history...
World-renowned in period – and much coveted by collectors today – the 3-litre 6-cylinder fuel-injected Mercedes-Benz 300SL 'Gullwing' Coupe was, from 1955-57, the world's fastest production supercar.
When Mercedes-Benz set out to add the Sports Car World Championship to its Formula 1 World title successes in 1955, the opening race of the series was the astounding Mille Miglia – one lap of a thousand-mile public road course starting and finishing in the northern city of Brescia.
On May 1, 1955, the new Mercedes-Benz team of open-cockpit 300SLR sports-prototype cars simply destroyed their Ferrari and Maserati opposition to dominate the Mille Miglia, scoring an historic 1-2 triumph, with Stirling Moss/Denis Jenkinson winning from reigning Formula 1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. Moss credited much of his extraordinary victory to navigator 'Jenks' who for the entire 1,000 miles had been able to warn Stirling "...of corners that could kill us, and of opportunities to stay flat-out and so save time".
Their knowledge had been accumulated from painstaking reconnaissance runs around the 1,000-mile course.
On April 1, 1955, they had driven their first 300SL 'issue car'– not '4500019' now offered here - out of Brescia – where the Mille Miglia would start a month later – in company with young German team-mate Hans Herrmann in the first of the full-race 300SLR open-cockpit cars. 'Jenks's diary for the day records: "Left Brescia 6.30am in 300SL – Herrmann in 300SLR. Averaging 78mph – crash with Army lorry at Forli. All day sorting things out with M-B technicians. Home in 220A" – Mercedes saloon car – "...by 1 am."
On Monday April 18 the duo again left Brescia in a replacement Gullwing – possibly this car - "7am in SL and drove to Florence, 1500 kilometres. Terrific fun helping driving on blind corners...Fangio passed in Verona – Herrmann later in SLRs...". Next day "...Left 9am and another good drive back to Brescia". On the 20th Moss/Jenkinson got their chance in the open SLR only for its crankshaft to break at Rimini, while "Fangio had broken SL...".
Jenks's diary entry for May 1, 1955, is astonishingly succinct. It simply reads: "Up at 6am for race day. WE WON. Party in evening with Mercedes-Benz. Bed at 1am". That was, for the team and for its all-British crew mission accomplished.
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Last night's Preview Performance went exceedingly well! Strong, confident performances and an enthusiastic audience response.
Here are some audience comments that popped up on social media immediately following the show….
"Disregard any preconceptions you might have about Gilbert & Sullivan, or hometown theater groups: this show is FUN! It is zany (a werewolf under a full moon? A troop of perpetual bridesmaids?) extraordinarily well cast and choreographed, with strong singing from leads, chorus, and royal chorus alike…. This is a polished production, a true jewel, with a very professional live orchestra accompanying the antics on the boards above them…. If you are local, I advise you to make every effort to see a performance this weekend: and don't leave at intermission: there's a surprise not to be missed in Act Two!
Might I suggest – after Ruddigore closes, Mad Margaret deserves her own one-woman show!