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Club de Golf de l'Ile de Montréal
by Editor | Nov 1, 2010 | Montreal, Simon and Baker Travel Review
The Île de Montréal Golf Course is located 20 minutes from downtown Montreal, Canada at the eastern tip of the island. Two 18 hole golf courses make up this public golf club with a membership base established in 2003. Both courses were part of the Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary and promote nature conservation and the use of local plants that are native to the area.
Atlantide Golf Club Montréal
by Editor | Sep 1, 2010 | Montreal, Simon and Baker Travel Review
The Atlantide Golf Club, a private and public golf course (private members have priority on the reservations schedule), is located just off the Island of Montreal on the island of Ile Perrot, about 30 minutes from downtown Montreal. Located on the shores of Lake Saint Louis, the setting is bucolic and several holes play near the waterfront. Even on hot summer days a refreshing breeze comes off the water. Two 18 hole golf courses are part of this golf club, the Atlantide Course and the Don Quichotte Course. We have played both courses several times and find each one quite challenging.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)
by Editor | Apr 1, 2010 | Montreal, Simon and Baker Travel Review
Founded in 1860 as the Art Association of Montreal, the main building opened in 1912 and was designed by architects Edward and William S. Maxwell in the Beaux Arts style. Among the oldest art institutions in Canada, the museum is composed of three pavilions, with a fourth pavilion under construction. The original building is known as the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion. Annexed to the back of this building is the Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavillion and across the street is the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion designed by Moshe Safdie and built in 1991. Permanent and temporary exhibitions are located in all three pavilions.
City of Montreal, Canada
Montreal is the second largest city in Canada (after Toronto) and the largest city in the Province of Quebec. Located on the Island of Montreal, the city center revolves around the three peaks of Mount Royal, a 200 hectare park that was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead (also known for designing Central Park in New York). The city is easy to get around, be it on foot, by car or by bus, as the mountain acts as a compass. I am north, south, east or west of Mount Royal! Old Montreal, the historic part of the city, is located on the south end of the city near the Port of Montreal. Founded in 1642 by trench settlers, the narrow winding streets are frequently used for Old Europe in many Hollywood film productions. Visiting this part of town takes me a full day.
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We are doing our best to make Casa Fernando Pessoa more accessible to everyone.
In front of the entrance to Casa Fernando Pessoa, there is a parking space specially reserved for disabled people (this is available to the public on weekdays from 09:00 to 18:00).
Access to the building through the main entrance requires visitors to climb a few steps. There is an alternative entrance with a ramp, on the left side of the building, heading towards the restaurant. The inclination of this ramp is such that you may require help to go up it.
Most of the members of our team have been given training in welcoming and receiving people with special needs.
Casa Fernando Pessoa is equipped with a lift and toilet facilities that are accessible to disabled people. We also have a wheelchair in the reception that is available for use whenever necessary.
We regularly programme visits with audio description and with interpretations in Portuguese sign language.
In our library, we have ten books by Fernando Pessoa and the heteronyms available in braille. Also available in braille are the guide to Casa Fernando Pessoa, the information sheet provided in each room for visitors and the labels of the items displayed in the temporary exhibition Os Deuses debruçam-se do parapeito (The Gods lean over the stair rail). We also programme visits with audio description for disabled visitors. At the present time, these services are only available in Portuguese.
We are continuing to do all we can to improve accessibility and to welcome you in the best way possible.


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Child porn charge against DOD IPv6 director dropped
Investigation continues
By Patience Wait
(Updated) Two weeks after a Defense Information Systems Agency official was arrested on a charge of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's office handling the case dropped the charge. But a spokeswoman in the U.S. Attorney's Office said the investigation is continuing.
'This is an ongoing investigation, so we don't have any comments,' the spokeswoman said.
Charles Lynch, director of DISA's IP version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8 and indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia the next day on one count of possessing child pornography.
According to a statement by the DOD Inspector General's Office, court documents alleged that Lynch had been operating a peer-to-peer file-sharing program on a computer in his office at DISA. Agents confiscated several computers and more than 1,000 CDs from Lynch's office.
Lynch, 44, is on leave without pay from DISA.
The investigation is being conducted by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the FBI and the DISA OIG. Joseph McMillan, special agent in charge of the DCIS Mid-Atlantic Field Office, would not elaborate on why the charge was dismissed. 'It's our policy neither to deny nor confirm the existence of an ongoing criminal investigation,' McMillan said.
In apparently unrelated cases, a Homeland Security Department official was arrested earlier this week for soliciting sex with a minor. And last week, federal agents seized computer equipment from the desk of a NASA official, based on information developed during a U.S. Postal Inspection Service undercover investigation of Internet trafficking in child pornography.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The original version of this story, posted April 6, reported Lynch's arrest and indictment, but did not report that the charge had been dismissed. The U.S. Attorney's Office, when contacted April 6 about the arrest, said only that the investigation is continuing, but not that the charge had been dismissed.

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RemoteToPC is a software that make it easy to the IT administrators and networkers to give the remote support to their client and partner's PC. This software basically provides the all those tools that are considered to be essential for the purpose of remote PC access and various other types of IT management requirements… read more
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The Psychomanteum is a chamber invented by Dr. Moody, but inspired by the ancient techniques used for 2500 years at the Oracle of the Dead in Ephyra Greece. A visitor to the Psychomanteum often experiences contact with departed loved ones. For further explanation and understanding watch Through the Tunnel & Beyond.
Your mirror will become cloudy: Practitioners report seeing an image resembling the sky on a cloudy day; others find that the mirror seems to darken. This lets you know that visions are about to appear.
When they do appear, do not try to control them. Just allow them to flow by you passively. Attempting to manipulate these images will simply drive them away. When you become more practiced at mirror gazing, you can focus on specific questions before entering this trance or hypnogogic state. If your goal is self-understanding, this process will come more quickly.
How long do the images last? Initially, from one to ten minutes. It depends on how well you are able to say relaxed. The more you practice this and develop proficiency, the longer you will be able to view the images in the mirror.
Sometimes you may see nothing, but you may hear a departed person talk or feel their touch. You may feel a location, but not see anything. In his psychomanteum experience, Nostradamus had the sensation of passing into the mirror. Images can come out and visit with you. It will be obvious when the vision begins and ends: You will always know this.
Raymond Moody suggests that you immediately record your experience. As in writing down your dreams, put in as much detail as possible. Visions are often for life, and you can return to them at each stage of your life and draw more wisdom from them.
You can learn more about this in Dr. Moody's book, Reunions.


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Paris, voorheen bekend als Almacenes París, is een Chileense warenhuisketen, eigendom van de multinational Cencosud. Het bedrijf, opgericht in 1900, was lid van de International Association of Department Stores van 2000 tot 2005. De slogan van het bedrijf is es mi tienda (Het is mijn winkel).

Het bedrijf exploiteert tientallen warenhuizen door het hele land. París verkoopt kleding voor mannen, vrouwen en kinderen, huishoudelijke apparaten en meubels, en heeft een eigen reisbureau.

Geschiedenis
De warenhuisketen werd in 1900 opgericht door José María Couso als Mueblería París in Santiago, Chili. In 1950 veranderde het warenhuis zijn naam in Almacenes París, als gevolg van de uitbreiding van het assortiment.

In 1970 introduceerde Almacenes París de eerste versie van zijn betaalkaart, de "Tarjeta París". Het concept werd al snel overgenomen door de concurrenten, Ripley en Falabella. In 1990 verwierf Almacenes París warenhuizen in Parque Arauco en Mall Plaza Vespucio, als gevolg van het faillissement van het warenhuis Muricy. Daarnaast is er een warenhuis in Plaza Lyon in Providencia.

Bovendien verwierf het de gebouwen in Coyancura met las Bellotas, waarnaar het hoofdkantoor van het bedrijf werd verplaatst. Het voormalige hoofdkantoor in Alameda werd Torre París gedoopt.

Op 30 juni 2020 kondigde Cencosud het einde van de activiteiten van París in Peru aan, waarbij alle winkels werden gesloten en de werknemers overgingen naar de Wong- en Metro-supermarkten.

Chileens bedrijf
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MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to lobby regional leaders to join him in condemning President Robert Mugabe's victory in last week's elections continues to suffer setbacks as more Sadc leaders this week showered the Zanu PF leader with congratulatory messages.
Tsvangirai has described the poll outcome as a "huge farce", saying the whole electoral process was fraught with irregularities.
By yesterday, six countries in the 15-member Sadc grouping — among them South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, Mauritius, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo — had endorsed Mugabe's victory and pledged to support his administration.
Mozambican leader Armando Guebuza yesterday became the latest leader to congradulate Mugabe. "While wishing you good health and success in the discharge of your noble duties, Mozambique and Sadc will remain Zimbabwe's partner in facing the new, many and complex challenges ahead," he said.
South African President Jacob Zuma, who is also the Sadc-appointed facilitator in Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement, led the way on Sunday when he extended his congratulations to the veteran leader.
"President Jacob Zuma extends his profound congratulations to President Robert Mugabe on his re-election as President of the Republic of Zimbabwe following the successful harmonised elections held on July 31," Zuma said in a statement.
He was followed by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete who in his congratulatory message said: "Under your able leadership, Zimbabwe has recorded tremendous socio-economic developments, despite some challenges.
Kikwete is the Sadc chairperson on Defence, Politics and Security.
Zambian President Michael Sata praised the way the polls were conducted describing the environment as free and peaceful.
Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba said: "The people of Zimbabwe have once again demonstrated their trust and confidence in the Zanu PF and your personal leadership.
But Botswana leader Ian Khama described the elections as unfair and called for an audit of the electoral process.
What a load of rubbish..and this is how the cookie crumbles in Africa.
Well they can go on and congratulate their old buddie but as for the many people of Zimbabwe who were robbed through the ballot- yet again- keep your congratulations. Isu tinochiziva chokwadi.
Well said Tsoro. Couldn't have put it better myself!
Unoziva chokwadi chipiko iwe tsoro chisiri chekuti VaMugabe vakahwina uyu Tsvangirai akaruza? Typical behaviour of African opposition parties – don't accept defeat at all costs. We told you a long time ago that the Kenyan situation was going to play again in Zimbabwe with the horse of the whites loosing by a wide margin. Icho!
You guys believe what you want to but the writting has and is on the wall zanu PF is the peoples party . Hopefully you vote just like me and sorry , it appears you lost .Why do you compete if you cant accept defeat .Its either you win or you loose and of cause you lost. Keep burrying your heads in the sand and see if Zimbabwe is going to wait for you .let those who want to congratulate do so and those being congratulated let them be congratulated. they deserve it for they sold their political ideology well . Isu chokwadi chatoziva ndechekuti Machinja anongo chinja chinja . When you were casting your votes you declared them free and fare. Soon after voting your polling station agents together with your respective potential MPs signed the forms acknowledging that they were free and fare. Counting started and when you realised that you were THOROUGHLY bitten you changed the song .Ahhh pathetic you guys . how can you have been rigged during counting ? shame !
Gunman achafa nenzara, kuita Gtel muhomwe its an insult, guys think twice.
You C.I.Os, do eat cogatulations?
A bunch of foolish old men. They still think the so-called fight against colonialism is still appealing more than 30yrs after independence. One should ask, if Bob and his stooges including them bootlickers were to use their brains for a moment, wouldn't it become obvious to them that times have changed and history is only relevant if it adds value to our future. Mapenzi evanhu!
Dream on toro. You think we will agree to a second poll just to satisfy your ego?
You say 6 countries but you list 7?
Zimbabweans will flock to those counties looking for food and jobs.ndoo pavachaona kuti havana kungwara.
Good jobs where? go and clean the old dirty british women,for only 30 pounds and as long as we have the us$ around munorira chete, Musika mutema hapachina tsvakai minda.
We already have great jobs in neighbouring countries. Tonganayi ikoko. Tichauya musivatichahwinavo hehehehede.
Ko ukazvitsenga rurimi mangwana uchada kutaura imhosva yani? Ane benzi ndeane rake kudzana kwaro iwe ingopururudza. Zimbabwe ibenzi guru muSADC. Chero ridzane risina nguvo SADC inopururudza chete. Hehehede.
When Mugabe, the defender of the marginalised black race, is dead and gone , we will print his name in gold in the future true African History .
Some of us will go back home when that person is GONE.
nhema dzako ,IWE Mu C.I.O. IF people voted zanu pf why are they not celebrating in large numbers zvinemutsindo? instead we see many people complaining zvinemutsindo kuti vakabirwa zvinemutsindo.
Rectify this Editor or it was deliberate.
They also did the same in 2008.
We all know exactly what took place before, during and after the 2013 harmonized election. Morgan Tsvangirai was never meant to lead Zimbabwe because of his westernized policies. The majority of Zimbabweans do not really care about sweet deals that do not last. Resettled farmers can honestly tell you that they willingly voted for Robert Mugabe because they know land will last forever with or without sanctions they will pull through. US, EU and British handlers should stop interfering in Zimbabwe politics and humbly accept the poll result. Representing millions of youth who voted for Zanu PF its indeed deceptive to say elections were rigged when in fact we voted for the party of our choice representing genuine democracy. let us concentrate on uniting the populace.
Cant blame SADC for saying this..they sent their observers and these are the people saying so far so good. Interestingly Botswana has stood firm in its condemnation, why is this? I thought SADC and AU said they had issued a preliminary report have they quietly finalised? If this were the case, then fine and dandy. My mind wants to ask, if things are not as clean as the MDC and Botswana are making out, why are these SADC countries doing this? Could it be, they will want something in return down the road??
Sadc is simply washing its hands after zimbabwe failed to implement the gpa fully before elections. They dont want to be seen to be formenting unrest in zimbabwe.
You hit the nail on the head Magame. SADC countries know that any unrest in Zimbabwe will heavily affect them especially South Africa , hence Zuma led the pack. On the other hand , SADC knows that Mugabe won't live long from now hence Zimbabwe is likely to get a chance for a free and fair election not in the so distant a future.
Muripi we munhu. You wish Mugabe dead. Who are you. You will probably die yourself before him because of your evil wishes.
The AU has not issued a final report, apart from the preliminary where they did not make any pronouncements on the fairness, credibility or freeness of the elections. On the record is a litany of irregularities. Whatever Oga and Madam may have said before or after the elections is not recorded as AU Observer Mission Report. This is the report that was used by USA, EU, Germany, Australia, UK, Canada etc to pronounce the elections a "farce". The fun thing is that most of the countries within SADC who have send in congratulatory messages, except South Africa, are heavily funded by EU, USA and Australia. Some for programmes in health, are funded more than the financial resources allocated to the entire Ministry of Health. Our systems are hellish-we just do not get it. In Zimbabwe for example, access to health is not a right because the right is subject to a limitation strangely coined "subject to availability of resources…" Instead resources should be allocated in response to addressing a right. SADC itself is a big recepient of EU dough.
Whatever congratulatory messages Zimbabweans never voted for a limping donkey,if we flock to their countries looking for food and jobs they must blame themselves for endorsing a shame and farce election.All old guards in Africa are the same that's why they support rubbish.That is why Africa does not develop and remain spiraling and crying foul for the WEST,what future does an old person like Mugabe can plan for a nation,nonsense….SADC,AU useless organisations.
Wena marigazvuru ungabosibhedela lapha, kungani ungahloniphi abadala. UMugabe uncono ngoba waphila isikhathi eside wena awusoze wenelise ngoba ingculaza (AIDS) izadlula lawe. Ungaze uthethe uthini iqiniso elikhona yikuthi iZANU(PF) iwinile. Wena lomngane wakho uTshwankilayi loyo hambani liyegezisa izalukazi zamakhiwa njengobana lithanda amakhiwa kangaka. Kanje kini amaxhegu lezalukazi liyabulala. Umoya omubi ngowani nxa ubona umuntu ugcinwe nguNkulunkulu wakhe okwesikhathi eside? If you have nothing to say don't say it.
Botswana, remember when they declared Uhuru Kenyatta persona non grata when he won the election recently? Botswana sees things very differently from everyone in Africa but shares its sentiments with USA et al.
Botswana "sees things" the way they are. Having haboured makwerekwere for such a longtime they know what stealing means. Huyayi tidye upfumi hwevanotongana zvakanaka takamirira maelections ekupera kwenguva pano pasi-aya kana mbavha huru dzinobuda musitaira. Hehehehede tonga zvenyu imi.
we voted for R.G Mugabe so please stop talking on our behalf in your comments. The result of the july is the people's voice. Thats our voice.
Mukagochemiyi imi muine Voice reVanhu? Tauraika.
Arikuchema ndimi not isu. Ok isu tingachemei tave kunotonga Tega.
GUEBUZA NDICHEMUSHANGO, MATSANGA CHAIYE. I WONDER HE CAN READ AND WRITE. MY SON AT A NURSERY SCHOOL IF MORE EDUCATED THAN THE AVERAGE MOZAMBIQUEAN – THEY SHOULD SIMPLY GO BACK TO SCHOOL.
Its a pity that these leaders are congradulating an 89 year old man, l think they just want to be taught how to rig. All those countries have changed their leaders unlike Zimbabwe that is stil being served by mugabe. I remember in the year 2000 he seized the farms which used to supply the country and gave them to the so called war vets, the economy nose dived, now he wants to seize the mines, expect the worst.
Wait for the Inauguration Day………Khama Khama Ian Khama, I feel pitty for this foolish boy with parents of different races. I usually respect vazukuru, but this one has failed me. He is also DULL like Teaboy coz mai vake namai vaTsvangirai vaiita zvemabasa omumba kuvarungu – similarities. U also expected Tsvangison to attack maGays iye achindotandara kumba kwa Khama, usually? Anywhere, Khama tatomumaka, haauyi kuno sepaGNU paakakokwa naTsvangison. About endorsements, those who sent messages were the non-so-clear sympathisers/leaders – vasara ndevedu. Gushungo ndevedu avo……….Tsvangison mutete paPolitics dzeZimbabwe uyo.
Iwe vakabuda mutest tube kani unotuka vanamai vevamwe?
Morgan you's been had bro. You's been played and manipulated like a fiddle.
@Reason. Dofo. Vanhu ndevapi kuZANU PF? MuZANU PF dictionary iwe hausi munhu usatombozvifadza. Imwi maipimirwa zvindima mupurazi, minister vachitora purazi rakazara nokuti munhu.
They have endorsed kuti zvivabve.
Nhamu yemumwe hairegererwe sadza. Kana uchizviurayira nyika yako nekuda simba vanongo kuendozaka. Hehehede.
varikudawo ngoda, these guys they want minerals they have been looting together with their buddie,platinum south Africa, our soldiers DRC etc that's wat they want from us, but definitely they can no feel the pain we are feeling as Zimbabweans..


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Three ways companies can be intelligent about artificial intelligence
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Gone are the days when artificial intelligence (AI) was merely a "someday" fantasy of science fiction.
Every day, developments in AI, machine learning and even robo-advisors appear in mainstream media headlines. Although most companies are just beginning their AI journey, the momentum in this field is growing rapidly.
While there is broad interest in its potential, achieving commercial results from AI in a socially responsible way is easier said than done. Most companies are still thinking through the implications of AI; some executives are still grappling to understand its relevance to their organizations, while others are considering how to manage its inherent risks. Among these is the potential impact on the world's workforce. For example, the 2016 MIT Technology Review revealed that 70% of Asian executives expect AI to result in substantial job losses in the next five years. Many are wondering if our society is moving fast enough to address that impact and the needs of an AI-enabled workforce.
There are other risks that have not been as widely publicized as potential job losses. For example, there is potential for systematic bias in decision-automation algorithms, either by accident or design. This can result in adverse social consequences, such as denying a segment of the population access to insurance.
To navigate a successful path through the benefits, opportunities and risks of AI, organizations will need to map out a thoughtful strategy that aligns technology with purpose. Then, they'll want to anticipate and prepare for the inevitable challenges in executing AI-specific programs. Here are three steps along the journey to consider:
1. Align AI with purpose
When imagining how AI might change their organizations, many business leaders become too narrowly focused on the tactical impact. In doing so, they risk missing the big picture. AI is fundamentally changing the role of people at work and thereby the very reason why organizations exist. When the AI focus is purely tactical, there is no impetus for the whole organization to respond to both the opportunities and the risks, across the value chain.
Instead, to derive the full value of AI, organizations will need to think more broadly about how, where and when to deploy AI technologies and processes to deliver meaningful top- and bottom-line results. To do that, they will need to align their strategy and their technologies with the company's overall purpose. Defining and developing a coherent AI strategy aligned with purpose will be essential to guide successful transformation.
2. Manage input to generate good output
Enterprise technology programs are not easy to execute in the best of circumstances. Implementing AI solutions is even more difficult, thanks largely to three key differences. First, AI solutions are (mostly) trained, not coded. That means that a significant amount of development work that would have traditionally fallen to an IT team now must shift to subject-matter experts who may have limited capacity to spare. Second, AI solutions consume unstructured data, such as documents and rich media. Managing the "ground truth" in real time becomes critical, while complying with data privacy regulations may become harder because sensitive data may be embedded in free-text documents. Third, the pace of AI innovation is unprecedented, and software vendors are under continuous pressure to stay ahead of the curve. Each of these characteristics will shape the way organizations will select and deploy AI solutions.
Meanwhile, in our work with a range of EY clients, we're seeing significant differences in the capabilities of AI software and their compatibility with established data and analytic platforms. Understanding these characteristics, and identifying which technologies and processes best suit the needs of the organization are at the root of developing successful AI solutions.
3. Consumption
Finally, there is no point in creating a great solution if no one uses it. In this new territory of AI, it is not uncommon for companies to work with providers to develop hundreds of predictive algorithms yet implement only a handful of them. Companies will need to build strategy and capacity for operationalizing AI processes and apply a rigorous approach to steering AI transformation programs to successful impact.
Companies will need to build strategy and capacity for operationalizing AI processes and apply a rigorous approach to steering AI transformation programs to successful impact.
AI is already altering business as we know it. Organizations that adopt purpose-led transformation as the guiding star of their AI journey will be better positioned to map the tremendous potential of these emerging technologies — and successfully navigate an intelligent path to future growth.
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Many of us would consider fax machines to be a thing of the past. But if you work in a more traditional organization (e.g. healthcare, legal, etc.), that needs to send documents containing sensitive info, you know that faxing is still a standard in some industries. One of our customers, in the healthcare industry, sends faxes to patients, insurance companies, and doctors on a regular basis. Previously employees were required to manually review and scan incoming faxes, manually create cover pages and letters to send with each fax, and identify the correct fax number to type into the fax machine. To eliminate these manual tasks, our engineers customized their Sugar instance which enables them to send a secure, templated fax at the push of a button without ever leaving the CRM. While viewing a case, users can click the custom option "Send Fax" under the drop-down edit menu. When a user clicks this option a drawer opens up within a record view that allows a user to walk through a three-step faxing wizard.
The wizard guides users through the process of faxing a doctor, insurance office, or patient. They are not able to access steps two or three until step one is complete, which ensures they don't forget any steps.
In step one, the user selects a recipient for the fax. This will automatically pull in the associated records from the custom Laboratory, Insurance Company, and Patient modules. A user can select one of those three options to send the fax to, or type in a custom recipient. When they select a recipient, this will automatically pull in the Contact's name and fax number into the template.
In step two, the user can select a template to create the fax form. The templates were built by W-Systems using Sugar's email template builder. By using this method, users can access and edit the templates without the help of a developer. At this step, the user can also choose to "Preview/Edit Fax" to make any one-off changes the document might require or insert special instructions not normally included in the templates.
The final step is to hit Send or Cancel the fax. Once a user hits send, the fax is automatically created, sent, and stored in the appropriate case and contact records.
This customization requires the use of a third-party service, sFax, which is an online faxing service designed for the healthcare industry. This service also includes a "barcode" on each inbound fax that allows Sugar to know what record to store incoming faxes with. This customization allowed our customer to spend less time processing and sending faxes, and more time on meeting organizational goals. How does your organization handle storing faxes or other documents? Let us know in the here.


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Paradise Hills es una película dramática de fantasía de 2019 dirigida por Alice Waddington en su debut como directora. Está protagonizada por Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, Jeremy Irvine, Arnaud Valois, Eiza González y Milla Jovovich.

En noviembre de 2017, Emma Roberts y Danielle Macdonald se unieron al elenco de la película, con Alice Waddington bajo el guion de Nacho Vigalondo y Brian DeLeeuw. Adrián Guerra y Núria Valls. La produjo Nostromo Pictures. En abril de 2018, Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Irvine y Awkwafina se unieron finalmente a la producción de la película.

Tuvo su estreno mundial en el Sundance Film Festival el 27 de enero de 2019.

Sinopsis
Uma se despierta en una isla llamada Paradise. Dirigida por la duquesa, esta isla se carecteriza porque llevan a mujeres jóvenes y les enseña a ser correctas. La isla proporciona curación emocional para quienes la necesitan y perfecciona a dichas jóvenes. Sin embargo, detrás del cuento de hadas como exterior, la isla esconde un siniestro secreto que amenaza a Uma y a los otros isleños.

Actores principales

 Emma Roberts como Uma.
 Danielle Macdonald como Chloe.
 Awkwafina como Yu.
 Eiza González como Amarna.
 Milla Jovovich como La Duquesa.
 Jeremy Irvine como Markus.
 Arnaud Valois como Hijo.
 Daniel Horvath como Favorito I.
 Julius Cotter como Cirujano

Enlaces externos

Referencias

Películas independientes de los años 2010
Primer largometraje de un director
Películas de ciencia ficción y suspenso de los años 2010
Películas de ciencia ficción fantástica
Películas distópicas
Películas sobre clonación
Películas rodadas en Barcelona
Películas rodadas en Canarias


Samford vs TCU Preview - FanGenius!
The Bulldogs finished the 2013 season with a record of 8-5, winning 6 of 8 games that they played within the Southern conference of the FCS subdivision. The Horned Frogs are coming off a rough season in which they finished with a record of 4-8, finishing with 2 wins in the 9 games they played within the Big 12 Conference.
The Bulldogs are looking to continue the success they enjoyed within the Southern Conference last season and within the FCS as they hope to continue to emerge as a prominent force within the FCS. Beating the Horned Frogs would be a good starting point for the Bulldogs, and a sign that will indicate that Samford will continue to be a team to be reckoned with in the FCS.
The TCU Horned Frogs are looking to bounce back from a rough season last year that saw them drop from the prominence they had enjoyed for the last few years. The Horned Frogs did not have a strong offensive season as they finished the season ranked 89th overall in scoring offense, scored an average of 25.1 points per game. As far as rankings go, the Horned Frogs did perform better on the defensive side of the ball, finishing the season ranked 54th overall in scoring defense, holding teams to an average of 25.3 points per game on the year.
While TCU is looking to bounce back from their rough season last year, Samford is not going to be an easy game by any means. While the Bulldogs are now pushover, they aren't a favorite. That said, the Bulldogs will have the edge in Saturdays game, picking up the upset 24-14.


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A barrister for Geoffrey Rush has launched a blistering attack on The Daily Telegraph as he accused the Sydney tabloid of destroying lives and careers and of "reckless" and "cruel" journalism.
In a savage opening to his closing submissions, Bruce McClintock SC, said stories containing allegations against his client were the most "recklessly irresponsible journalism that….has come before the court".
"The destructive effect is appalling," he told the court.
McClintock, speaking on the penultimate day of the three week trial, said the Daily Telegraph had been warned not to publish by Sydney Theatre Company amid concern of the damage it would inflict.
The Telegraph wielded "power to crush lives and destroy careers without responsibility", McClintock told the Federal Court.
Contrasting what the newspaper knew about the allegations and how the Telegraph presented the stories displayed "rank dishonesty".
"These articles are reckless and, indeed, cruel irresponsibility," he said, adding the newspaper "doesn't care whose life and careers they smash and ruin".
Taking over from McClintock, barrister Sue Chrysanthou emphasised repeatedly that it was not up to Rush to prove his innocence.
"The onus is on them," she said.
It was irrelevant what her motive was, she said, adding that "many people lie, we don't know why".
Chrysanthou sought to dismantle the evidence of Norvill, branding the 34-year-old actress a serial liar who made things up as she went along.
She told the court that Norvill couldn't keep track of her own lies.
"She has told so many false stories she can't keep them straight," she said.
"She was making stuff up in re-examination," Chrysanthou said.
Norvill, she went on, had testified that many people during rehearsals of King Lear witnessed the lewd gestures and remarks allegedly made by Rush. On one occasion the court was told there were "titters of laughter" as she lay on the ground as Rush made "groping gestures" over her body.
The barrister told the court that suggestions there was a generational divide in the rehearsal room, or a "cultural" difference between "young and old" over what was acceptable behaviour was "rubbish".
If that was the case why didn't younger members of the cast and crew come forward, Chrysanthou asked.
Chrysanthou later added that Novill's evidence "makes no sense whatsoever and the reason it makes no sense whatsoever is that it's a complete lie".
Among them were allegations Rush whispered in her ear during rehearsals, had fondled her hands as they waited to go on stage and that he stood too close to her during bows after performances.
A King Lear co-star, Nick Masters, has apparently seen Rush get too close, she told Justice Wigney.
"Where is Mr Masters now? It's another recent invention".
Nor did Norvill mention in her statement that Rush has called her "scrumptious" and "yummy", Chrysanthou said, even though she apparently "found them so offensive".
Chrysanthou quoted evidence given by Norvill last week in which she said people were "frightened" of speaking up.
But she said it was "absurd" to suggest experienced actors like Robyn Nevin and Helen Buday – who both gave evidence but denied seeing anything "inappropriate" – were "frightened of Mr Rush" or had "enabled" his behaviour.
"Her evidence makes no sense and that's because it's not true," she said.
Norvill's co-star Mark Winter earlier testified in support of Norvill, telling the court Rush had been "doing a bit of a Three Stoogey skit over EJ" as she lay on the floor during rehearsals.
"Mr Winter didn't even regard it as an incident," Chrysanthou said, to which Justice Wigney agreed.
Chrysanthou said Norvill had, on separate occasions, told Sydney Theatre Company manager Annelies Crowe and Winter that Rush had followed her into the toilets at the final night party in January 2016.
Chrysanthou also rubbished the allegation that Rush had touched Norvill's breast during a production of the play, arguing that "everyone would have seen it", including the audience who had a bird's eye" view of the stage and who would have been watching Rush.
"Not one of the 960 people have come forward and said they saw it," she said.
Another actor, Jacek Koman, was so close that he, too, must have seen it, Chrysanthou added.
Had Rush done what he is accused of doing "it would have made the scene a ridiculous farse", she said.
Chrysanthou added that evidence from Mark Winter who said he saw Rush touch her left breast "completely contradicted" Norvill who said it was her right breast.
The barrister also rejected the portrayal of Norvill during proceedings as a young, inexperienced actor who was intimidated by Rush.
She added that Norvill and Rush had, since 2014, been "communicating as equals and as friends". There was no "power imbalance", she told the court.
Earlier, The Daily Telegraph argued its stories concerning allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Rush did not depict him as a pervert or a sexual predator.
Barrister Tom Blackburn SC, continuing his closing submission in the defamation case bought by actor, said the word "pervert" described someone who is a "sexual deviant", such as a "peeping Tom".
Such an inference was not portrayed in the Telegraph's stories, he told the court.
Rush, who is suing both Telegraph publisher Nationwide News and its journalist Jonathon Moran, claims the stories portrayed him as both a "pervert" and a "sexual predator".
Beastiality was another example of a perversion, Blackburn said.
Asked by Justice Michael Wigney about the headline 'King Leer' which accompanied the first Telegraph story on November 30 last year, Blackburn argued that while 'leering' is "obviously offensive behaviour" it is not a "perversion".
It describes an individual who takes "calculated and cold-blooded steps to ensnare the prey" or who "grooms the victim" which the stories do not portray, Blackburn said.
"There is nothing to suggest the notion of predation," he said.
At one point, Justice Wigney referred to the Daily Telegraphs headlines.


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First published in 2006, this is the story of Polish war exile Julia Smollen who has escaped the horrors of Nazi labour camp to forge a new life in California with her daughter, Natasha.
It's an exciting time to be in America. With Sinatra and the ratpack dominating a golden Hollywood and the young Jack Kennedy emerging on the political scene, it's a time of optimism and opportunity. Under the protection of her former lover's great friend, Bill, Julia and her daughter thrive.
Yet Natasha remains unaware of her true identity. She knows nothing of her father, the courageous German officer Martin Hamer, fatally wounded helping the then-pregnant Julia flee her occupied homeland.
The life inside her didn't yet show. She was blossoming in that way he'd observed in the past that pregnant women sometimes did. But she was early in her term and thin anyway and there was no bump to speak of, no belly yet for her to fold her hands across and seek some kind of comfort from. Her condition had brought a flush of colour to her cheeks and her lips were blood-filled and her eyes were bright. But all this somehow emphasized the grief, rather than disguising it. Bill had seen grief before, was an expert in grief, had watched his first wife die amid its desolation. And despite that hectic flush above her cheekbones, he knew that Julia Smollen was desolate now.
He pushed her coffee across their table to her, pushed the bowl of brown sugar after it and watched as her thin smile briefly signalled thanks. But she didn't move to take it. So he spooned sugar into the coffee and added cream and stirred it for her.
She had slid a book onto the café table as soon as they had found a table in the shade from the sun and sat down there. One hand hovered over the book with the fingers spread, and then retreated into her lap. It was something she kept doing. He noticed that the fingers trembled when she did it and that her nails were badly bitten. He suspected that the shaking was something she would have to endure, would have to live with, for a while. He wondered at the toll her condition would take on the unborn baby. He wondered, more idly, at the contents of the book on the tabletop.
She was dressed indifferently in clothes for which he had wired her the money. She sat pale-skinned in a plain white cotton shirt and black, calf-length skirt. The skirt was the bottom half of a suit and its jacket hung over the back of her chair. She had only very recently escaped the fugitive cold of occupied Europe and it was very hot here and of course she was not acclimatised yet. Unless the damp of her forehead was a symptom of nausea. She might have morning sickness, he thought. It might be the effects of the pregnancy. Certainly she had not yet touched her coffee.
'How well did you know him?' Her eyes were searching. Had been ever since they had met in the hotel lobby and walked the short, sunlit walk to the café and sat down here. Actually, he thought, her eyes were pleading.
'Well,' he said. But not well enough to do what those eyes were imploring him to do and bring his dead friend back to life.
Bill thought about this. He wanted to be honest with her. It was tempting for him to slip into that easy, avuncular self who would soothe and insist she drank her sweet, creamed coffee. The role required no effort or thought and he did it all the time. But Julia Smollen merited more. He watched a tramcar take the corner outside the café. Two policemen in white gloves orchestrated limp traffic. Aboard the tramcar, Latin women in mantillas made from Spanish lace protected the skin of their shoulders and their modesty under splashes of floral silk. The European woman opposite him waited for a reply. She was really quite beautiful. She was nothing like he had imagined she would be. Mourning became her. It was a cynical observation. But it was one he couldn't avoid.
He was silent a moment. They both were.
He had met Martin Hamer on the Riviera one summer, honeymooning with his wife, Lillian. Bill had been with his own wife, Lucy. Actually he and Lucy had met Lillian first, plimsolls kicking over the red clay of the tennis courts where they encountered one another as the opening, halting, half-stalled sentences were exchanged, in the breeze from the sea, under the hot July sun. They had asked Lillian to bring her new husband for a day aboard the boat they had rented to fish. It had been Lucy's typically impulsive, generous invitation.
He had gotten to know Martin Hamer over beers cooled in a tub of ice on the deck as the skin of their shoulders burnt on the stern and the lines from their rods hung redundantly before them. That was after he had gotten over what Martin Hamer looked like. If you ever did. As if anyone ever could.
Lillian and Lucy were both dead, now. And Hamer was dead, too. If the woman in front of him was to be believed, she carried Martin's child in her belly. Bill did believe her. Had believed her from the first. He watched her as she tried to cope with the heat and the light of the southern hemisphere at a table outside a Mexican café. And her grief, of course. The heat and the light and the insurmountable obstacle of grief. He believed her. But in spite of what he'd just said to her, it was barely credible to him to think of Martin Hamer dead.
He'd known for almost two weeks now.
She smiled down at the book. She was nauseous, he saw, or feeling the heat. A trickle of sweat ran from her hairline at the temple down the side of her face. It was tear-sized. Smaller than a tear. She would never, he knew, acclimatize to Mexico. But she would not need to.
'The Pilgrim's Progress.' She picked it up. It was cloth covered, a cheap, mass-produced edition. He saw now from the title on the spine that the book was written in French. 'I stole it from the public library in Lucerne. I needed a vehicle, to transport something.' She allowed the book to fall open in her palm and took from where it parted a sealed envelope. When she held the envelope out, he saw his name on it, written in blue ink in a once familiar hand. He hadn't received a letter from Martin Hamer since the letter of condolence sent to him and Lucy after their daughter's death from scarlet fever. The war had interrupted their friendship, severed their correspondence.
'Dear Christ,' Bill said. 'Oh, Jesus.' It was true, then. Martin Hamer was dead. All their cherished history together was gone. He swallowed.
'Take it,' Julia Smollen said.
Bill took the letter and put it into a pocket. Julia snapped shut the book and put it back on the table. But there was something else between its pages, some faint troubling at the book's centre. He reached for the book and opened it and a wild flower fell, dusty, ochre with pollen, onto the sun-bleached table-cloth.
Breath shuddered out of Bill and a motorcycle backfired and birds flapped from balcony rails on the corner buildings around the café and took, black and reluctant, to the sky.
She unbuttoned her cuff and folded back the sleeve. Bill recognized the shockproof watch Martin had saved for and bought for his failed attempt in the Alps, on the Eigerwand. Shockproof, all right. It had apparently survived the Blitzkrieg assault on the East. Martin had campaigned in Russia, had been wounded and decorated there, according to the woman in front of him. Had fought through the cellars and street rubble and survived the battle of Stalingrad. Had played some crucial role in the German army's counter-offensive with the Dnepre River at their backs after the trudged, frozen retreat. The strap of the watch wore a fresh and clumsy puncture wound where the woman had pierced the leather so that the watch would buckle around her own narrow wrist.
Bill sat back in his chair. He gestured vaguely for the tab and blinked against the sunlight. The birds had settled again under tarry feathers on balcony rails and roof gutterings and even vacant tables all around the square. Guitar music squawked from somewhere, flamenco, distorted by amplification on a wireless, playing from the café kitchen.
Bill knew now that driving here had been a mistake. He could have, should have chartered a plane to Guadalajara or Mexico City itself. But he hadn't known how much danger Julia Smollen might still face from vindictive pursuers. Their communication had been cryptic, distant and necessarily brief. Three or four intimate and shockingly redolent phrases had served, over a long-distance telephone line, as proof of her intimacy with his dead friend. She had given her location and spelled out her predicament in stark telegraphese. He had then applied the lawyerly part of his mind to plotting the painstaking logistics of her escape.
And he had driven to their rendezvous because there was time and because the chartering of a plane was a conspicuous act for a Beverly Hills-based movie lawyer in a community always rife with gossip. But anyone could hire a Ford and fill the tank and nobody cared. So that was what Bill did, figuring his Jaguar, with its wire wheels and low-slung, English curves would fail to pass unnoticed on its route through a succession of flyblown Mexican towns.
But driving there had been a mistake. The vast distance had made him weary and stale and its endless, featureless monotony had revived his thirst for a drink. He had driven along the coast to San Diego and then headed east towards the fringes of the Sonoran Desert. Then he'd taken a route southward roughly parallel with the coast, with the waters of the Gulf of California occasionally glittering to his right and the foothills of the Sierra Madre undulating through heat haze to his left. There was no radio in the car. He drove to the sound of the big Ford engine labouring noisily under the hood and the spatter of occasional insects against the windshield. He reached Culiacan with the fine sand that was blown from the roads in his hair and under his eyelids and in his throat. By the time he got to Mazatlan, the engine of the Ford sounded as thirsty as he felt.
Bill pressed on towards Guadalajara and the mountains and the sight of the bruise-coloured peaks in the distance saddened and depressed him. He had never been here before. Mexico was where Gable and Wayne came, it was said, for nights with dark-blooded women. And he had heard that Flynn crossed the border sometimes for boys. Bill had never been to Mexico before. But he had been to Colorado with Martin and Lillian Hamer before the war. And being close to the mountains brought back memories of happy times he would visit again only ever in memory. He drove and he thought of the past. And the grit under the lids made his eyes water and forced him to take one hand from the wheel and wipe them.
After his first day of driving he stopped for the night at a fishing village about fifty miles south of Hermosillo. The village was a stumble of dark shacks at the edge of the sea with its boats pulled up on the sand above the tide line. Exhausted, he was reconciled to sleeping in the car. But there was enough light coming from one of the larger buildings to give him the optimism to investigate.
The cantina was four clapboard walls under a roof made from corrugated steel. The glow of light he'd seen from the road came from a pair of hurricane lamps. Their wicks were thick and filled the one room with a damp, paraffin smell that forced a brief, bitter nostalgia into Bill's mind before he banished it to take a look around. Three tables. No customers. A bar made from nailed-together pieces of driftwood timber atop a row of oil drums. The drums were rust coloured. On one of them, Bill could make out the ghost of the Shell symbol in faded yellow paint. The proprietress sat knitting in an armchair beside the bar. She was an old woman, knitting something for a child. When she rose and put the work down on her chair, he saw that her knuckles were purple and arthritic. But the knitting was very neat work. He doubted, over the decades, whether many of the fish enmeshed in them escaped the nets that had ruined her hands in their making.
He asked in Spanish if he could buy anything to eat.
She replied in English that he could.
She shrugged. 'Not much of a room,' she said.
She smiled, without showing her teeth. 'A bed, at least,' she said.
He ate fish stew spiced with searing peppers and served with a flat, sour bread. He drank two bottles of cold Mexican beer and cradled his exhaustion, watching the beads of condensation form on the cold glass and dribble down the sides of the bottles, with their unfamiliar labels. He listened to the sea break in ponderous night waves a few feet away. The woman resumed her knitting. Other than for the sound of the sea and the clack of bone needles, the village was silent.
It was camping that he remembered the paraffin smell from. It was being snug under canvas at Thanksgiving or Easter with his wife and daughter, with his family in Yosemite, or Banff, or pitched on the cool pine carpet of a Maine forest.
Bill called for Mescal and the old woman jumped and he apologized in his flawless Spanish for startling her. She brought the bottle and a glass to his table and he complimented her on the excellence of the food. Truly, he could not remember when he had eaten better.
She bowed stiffly at the compliment, obviously pleased, the fright he'd given her forgotten. She cleared away the debris of his meal. He was a big man. He had always been a big man and so his size and strength were natural to him and sometimes he was careless of the effect he could have on strangers. Most of the time he was gentle, too. Most of the time, anyway.
Bill looked at the Mescal bottle and the thick little shot glass on his table. The glass was scored with a million infinitesimal scratches, opaque with wear, with time, with use. He'd just have one, he told himself. He had to get away from the smell of those wicks. He was very tired. He'd just have one, and then he'd find his bed.
His second night on the road was spent inland, in the city of Guadalajara. Here, there were more hints than he was used to seeing that a large part of the world was at war. Mexico was no more involved in the war than was the United States. But the city still seemed full, to Bill, of heavily armed police foot patrols. And twice, from a seat at the same pavement café, he saw convoys of troop lorries rumble by. The fact that they travelled, portentous, bristling, in opposite directions from one another, seemed slightly farcical to Bill. But the expressions on the faces of the soldiers did not encourage laughter. They had that light, empty look of young men eager to pick a fight.
He thought that Guadalajara was what travel writers would be inclined to term a vibrant or exotic place. Bill thought it frenetic, loud and probably pretty dangerous. He hated the blare of the maharachi bands and the constant hoot of car horns and found the sight everywhere of wild dogs in scabrous, whining packs depressing. He didn't fear dogs and the thought of rabies never truthfully occurred to him. But watching them, with a drink in his hand, seeing their pack hierarchy determined and enforced by the endless snarls and scuffles among vicious and mangy animals, he found himself uncomfortably reminded of many of the people he had met and knew in Hollywood.
Uncomfortable on the street, unwilling to retire for the night to his room at a perfectly acceptable hotel, Bill eventually found a bar whose cavernous depths were cool and dark. Discrete lights were strung along its length. The furniture was made of some dense hardwood carved and polished in black and amber whorls. Several brands of tequila competed in jewelled bottles for the palate and there were cigars on display in humidors with plate glass lids. Best of all, though, it was a refuge from the gaudy chaos of the streets outside. Bill bought a drink and sat down at a vacant table. He sat alone with his thoughts and his fatigue. The concierge at the hotel had been tipped – with the promise of more later – to garage the car somewhere they could be trusted to change the oil and water, wash and wax the body and fill the almost empty tank. He would drive the remainder of his journey to Mexico City in the morning. All he had to think about, to trouble over, was his encounter with Julia Smollen. And so he pondered on that, reclining at his solitary table in a leather chair, looking at the oily yellow liquid in his glass. He tried and failed to picture the woman, unable to put a face to the fraught voice he had heard only over a long-distance telephone line. His only confident speculation was that she would be dark. He imagined dark, straight hair falling lifelessly to her shoulders. He saw thin, carmine lips. And her eyes were a brown in his mind, so dense they were almost black. Fierce and unreadable, her eyes, he thought; furious, lightless jewels.
Anger was all he had got from her. No fear, just anger. Anger at what had happened to her and the predicament it had put her in. It occurred to Bill there, in Guadalajara, that maybe Julia was angry, too, about what had happened to Martin Hamer. But he didn't know whether she was or she wasn't. Maybe she'd been simply indignant, inconvenienced by a death badly timed. He studied the viscous surface of his drink in the scant light from the bar and saw no point in giving Julia the benefit of any doubt until he met her and was able to come to an accurate judgement. He hadn't liked the sound of her. But maybe that was only because what she'd had to say had been such horribly unwelcome news.
He looked around the bar he was in, trying to determine what it was that made the place so foreign. Except that maybe foreign wasn't exactly the right term. Hollywood successfully achieved foreign all the time, and not just in the plasterboard exoticism of the studio back-lots. The scope and scale and story of film demanded a cast from all over the world and the money and the glamour – or at least the promise of these – delivered them. Pockets of LA were cosmopolitan enough. And if you had the money, you could eat in France and you could eat in Tahiti or London in southern California. But none of that felt foreign. The foreignness of Hollywood came in familiar clichés a person could feel comfortable with. But Guadalajara wasn't like that at all.


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HP and 3Par sign definitive merger agreement
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James Niccolai (IDG News Service) on 03 September, 2010 09:12
Hewlett-Packard and 3Par have signed a definitive agreement for HP to buy the California storage vendor for US$2.35 billion, the companies said Thursday.
The agreement was expected after Dell said earlier in the day that it wouldn't try to match HP's latest offer of $33 per share, ending a two-week bidding war that captivated the high-tech industry.
The transaction has been approved by both HP's and 3Par's boards of directors, and 3Par has paid Dell the $72 million termination fee that was part of their now-defunct merger agreement announced on Aug. 16.
HP commenced its tender offer for 3Par on Aug. 27, and it is scheduled to expire at midnight East Coast time on Sept. 24, the companies said. It is now up to 3Par's shareholders to accept HP's offer price and tender their shares in favor of the deal.
A simple majority of the shares must be tendered for the deal to go ahead, an HP spokeswoman said.
3Par sells a storage virtualization technology that allows companies to reduce the volume of storage they need to allocate to run their applications. 3Par President and CEO David Scott said in a statement that being part of HP will allow 3Par's products to "truly thrive."
HP expects to close the deal by the end of the calendar year. As a result of the bidding war it has ended up paying double the price that Dell bid for 3Par in its initial offer.
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European Parliament to Vote on Torture Resolution Over Italian's Death in Egypt
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
March 9 2016, 8:27 p.m.
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a resolution that strongly condemns "the torture and assassination" of Italian student Giulio Regeni in what the resolution describes as a pattern of "torture, death in custody, and enforced disappearances across Egypt."
Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian researcher, disappeared in Cairo on January 25, the fifth anniversary of the uprising that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak. Regeni's body was found last month on a highway on the outskirts of Cairo bearing signs of torture. Italy's interior minister said Regeni had suffered "inhuman, animal-like" violence. Egypt's security forces, notorious for arbitrary arrests and abuse of detainees, are widely suspected of being involved in his death, though the government has denied any involvement.
The resolution describes Regeni's murder as "not an isolated incident." The resolution's language — a draft was posted online today — marks the harshest rebuke of Egypt's human rights record by European lawmakers since 2013, when the Egyptian military ousted democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi following mass protests against his rule.
The resolution calls for the release of unjustly detained journalists and human rights activists, and it urges the Egyptian government to guarantee that civil society organizations and independent trade unions — the groups that Regeni was researching in Egypt — can operate freely. It specifically criticizes a government order from last month for the closure of the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, a prominent human rights group, as well as the ongoing harassment of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, another local advocacy group.
The resolution also urges EU member states to adhere to past commitments restricting the sale of military equipment and technology that could be used in human rights violations.
"There are strong pressures by France and the United Kingdom to lift the European Union Council position calling on states not to export weapons [to Egypt] that can be used for internal repression," said a political staffer at the European Parliament who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to discuss the issue. "There has been almost no EU voice against the degrading human rights situation in Egypt because of U.K. and French pressure."
France has emerged as one of Egypt's key military partners. Last year, the French government signed a $5.6 billion military deal with Egypt that includes the sale of 24 Rafale fighter jets, a naval frigate, and missiles. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has ramped up its arms sales to Egypt, authorizing over $70 million worth of military sales in the first three months of 2015, a 3,000 percent increase over the previous year.
Additionally, in a report last month, Privacy International, a London-based watchdog organization, revealed that European companies — including German, Finnish, and Italian firms — have been selling powerful surveillance technology to a secretive intelligence agency in Egypt.
"There's many issues with regard to repression and rule of law that have to be addressed, but there are a lot of members that want to look at security cooperation instead," said Marietje Schaake, a European member of parliament from the Netherlands, in an interview with The Intercept. "We have to address human rights violations in Egypt. I think it is a mistake to treat Egypt as a partner that will help us fight terrorism and create stability when in fact internal repression will achieve exactly the opposite. … We have to learn from the past." Schaake, who has lobbied for the resolution, said it is widely expected to pass.
The resolution comes as the Obama administration is looking to roll back restrictions Congress has placed on foreign aid to Egypt, which is the second largest recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel. Under current law, 15 percent of aid to Egypt is subject to being withheld based on human rights conditions — although even that can be waived if it is deemed to be in the national security interest of the U.S., as it was last year.
Secretary of State John Kerry defended the administration's stance in congressional budget hearings last month. "We've got a huge interest in making sure that Egypt doesn't go down into a more difficult status than it is," he said.
Top photo: Hundreds of people, including activists with Amnesty International, have demonstrated peacefully in front of the Egyptian Embassy to ask for clarity and justice in the death of Giulio Regeni.


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Trump order would target high skilled worker visa program
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order that seeks to make changes to a visa program that brings in high-skilled workers. Trump is heading Tuesday to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he plans to sign an order dubbed "Buy American, Hire American," said...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order that seeks to make changes to a visa program that brings in high-skilled workers.
Trump is heading Tuesday to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he plans to sign an order dubbed "Buy American, Hire American," said administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity despite the president's frequent criticism of the use of anonymous sources.
The officials said the order, which Trump will sign at the headquarters of tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc., would direct the departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Labor and State to propose new rules to prevent immigration fraud and abuse. Those departments would also be asked to offer changes so that H-1B visas are awarded to the "most-skilled or highest-paid applicants."
The White House said the program is currently undercutting American workers by bringing in cheaper labor and said some tech companies are using it to hire large numbers of workers and drive down wages.
Administration officials said the order also seeks to strengthen requirements that American-made products be used in certain federal construction projects, as well as in various federal transportation grant-funded projects. The officials said the commerce secretary will review how to close loopholes in enforcing the existing rules and provide recommendations to the president.
The order specifically asks the secretary to review waivers of these rules that exist in free-trade agreements. The administration said that if the waivers are not benefiting the United States they will be "renegotiated or revoked."
During his campaign, Trump said at some points he supported high-skilled visas, then came out against them. At one debate, he called for fully ending the program, saying: "It's very bad for our workers and it's unfair for our workers. And we should end it."
The officials said the changes could be administrative or legislative and could include higher fees for the visas, changing the wage scale for the program or other initiatives.
About 85,000 H-1B visas are distributed annually by lottery. Many go to technology companies, which argue that the United States has a shortage of skilled technology workers.
But critics say the program has been hijacked by staffing companies that use the visas to import foreigners — often from India — who will work for less than Americans. The staffing companies then sell their services to corporate clients who use them to outsource tech work.
Employers from Walt Disney World to the University of California in San Francisco have laid off their tech employees and replaced them with H-1B visa holders. Adding to the indignity: The U.S. workers are sometimes asked to train their replacements to qualify for severance packages.
On the planned order by Trump, Ronil Hira, a professor in public policy at Howard University and a critic of the H-1B program, said, "It's better than nothing." But he added, "It's not as aggressive as it needs to be."
The tech industry has argued that the H-1B program is needed because it encourages students to stay in the U.S. after getting degrees in high-tech specialties — and they can't always find enough American workers with the skills they need.
Congress is considering several bills to overhaul the visa program. One, introduced by Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, would require companies seeking H-1B visas to first make a good-faith effort to hire Americans, a requirement many companies can dodge under the current system; give the Labor Department more power to investigate and sanction H-1B abuses; and give "the best and brightest" foreign students studying in the U.S. priority in getting H-1B visas.
Trump's stop at the world headquarters of Snap-on Inc. would come as the president faces an approval rating of just 41 percent in Wisconsin, a state he barely won in November. The visit also would take him to the congressional district of House Speaker Paul Ryan, who won't be joining the president because he's on a bipartisan congressional trip visiting NATO countries.
Trump has traveled to promote his agenda less than his recent predecessors. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump wanted to visit "a company that builds American-made tools with American workers."
Trump carried Wisconsin in November by nearly 23,000 votes — less than 1 percentage point — making him the first Republican to win the state since 1984. He campaigned on the promise of returning manufacturing jobs that have been lost in Upper Midwest states.
Founded in Wisconsin in 1920, Snap-on makes hand and power tools, diagnostics software, information and management systems, and shop equipment for use in a variety of industries, including agriculture, the military and aviation. Its headquarters are in Kenosha and it has eight manufacturing sites in North America, including one in Milwaukee. The company employs about 11,000 people worldwide.
Associated Press writer Paul Wiseman contributed to this report.
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