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COVID-19: Privacy and Technology Related Risks
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our work life in a way that was never anticipated before. Due to the nature of the threat, social distancing and other challenges, such as non availability of key staff at offices, have forced many organizations to ask their employees to Work From Home (WFH). Since the start of COVID-19, this has rapidly become the norm and many people are working from home but, unfortunately, many Organizations have not considered the manifold technology related risk factors associated with WFH. The purpose of this short paper is to take stock of such risks so that companies can attempt to address them depending upon their own businesses and circumstances.
WFH is not a short-term Disruption
WFH will be the norm or business as usual for quite some time, given the fact that the "Lockdowns" along with the threat to human lives will remain even after the Apex has been reached in some countries. This is quite evident from the fact that the number of tests per one million of population, as of 8th April, 2020, for the following selected countries, are as follows (Source: Google/WHO) :
USA 6,291
U.K 3,929
Pakistan 191
The above seems to validate the assertion that there is a huge gap between the testing being done and the size of the population (one million sample size) that ought to have been tested. This seems to clearly suggest that even if the lockdown is lifted by the end of April, 2020 the implications of the virus, both from the point of view of health and economic considerations, will persist and there will be several out breaks (the Japanese Government has initiated a complete lockdown in Tokyo and some other cities as it fears a second, more severe outbreak), and hence the need to work from home is more likely to become the business as usual (BAU). Even the US has projected that the current wave might not be over until late June or early July, but there is a trepidation as to when, not if, a second wave might, also occur. The low figures of only 102 for India and 191 for Pakistan clearly indicate that this might just be the case.
Before discussing the risks faced by Companies insofar they pertain to employees working from home, it is pertinent to discuss the data privacy issues which have emanated from the approach adopted by Governments across the world. According to a BBC report, China attempted to trace cases using 5G technology as well as AI and Robotics. The US Government has hired services of companies like Palantir and Clearview AI for infection monitoring by surveillance, geolocation and facial recognition. There are, therefore, concerns amongst the global information security community about these infringements of privacy and associated data. Starting at the lower end of the scale, an article titled, "Protecting Privacy During an Infectious Disease Panic" was published in 2014. The focus of the article was on the Ebola outbreak, and the resulting situation in which media obtained and published information about individual Ebola patients to their individual detriment.
Unfortunately, data privacy issues came to light recently under the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan as well when the first patient's (Patient Zero) details were divulged by the electronic and print media. While this halted as a response to a public outcry, such risks continue to remain.
Many argue that infringement of data privacy, to save lives during the Pandemic, is justifiable, even if laws e.g. GDPR of EU, Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 of Pakistan, are broken. Some continue to argue that data is a corporate asset, able to be used in any way for commercial gain because of the investments the Organization has made in procuring and analyzing the data.
Organizations need to be careful in how they disseminate data of their employees, and ensure that there will be no misuse after the crisis is over. This could be done by obtaining documented requests from requesting organizations and limiting the data to the actual need.
WFH Protocols and Threats
In many countries, the Governments ordered lock downs with immediate affect (e.g. India) while in others a gradual approach was adopted (US, the UK, Pakistan, to name a few). Regardless of the Governmental approach, many Organizations asked their employees to work from home, without much preparation to address the related risks, besides the Privacy of data risks as discussed in the preceding paragraphs.
Many people commenced WFH using their company provided laptops but using internet provided by their ISPs. Quite a few are facing bandwidth issues due to their own use, e-learning by children (in many countries schools and colleges are closed) and spouse if he or she is also working. Many would think that this issue would only be related to developing countries (e.g. Pakistan) but it is not surprising to note that the example cited happened to be experienced by a manager level person in California, USA.. The result of the issue, mentioned in the example, was that the Internet collapsed and thus, important timeliness were missed.
There are other risks relating to ISPs, Routers, etc. It is not possible to discuss all such issues here as the circumstances of each person/employee would be different even within the same company. These would depend upon the company, designation within the company and Security provided e.g. a VPN, etc.
It is pertinent to note that the demand on maintaining confidentiality of data remains the same even if one is WHF compared to working from office – in fact it becomes even more stringent. In a typical office, one is working in a controlled environment with departmentalization, physical and logical access controls and supervisory controls etc. all in place to ensure that confidentiality of data is maintained. However, WFH presents a tough challenge. There is no supervisor physically present, segregation of work environment is not a privilege everyone can enjoy, and the list goes on. So how does one maintain data confidentiality and, more importantly, how does the management ensure that this is being done? These aspects need consideration and there is no single one size fits all solution.
Cyber Security Risk
It would be logical to imagine that Cyber Security (CS) in the office, say, together with a Security Operation Center (SoC), would need major enhancements in order to provide information security for personnel working from home. However, given the investments required, particularly in these tough financial times, as well as the practicality of implementing such solutions in a short time, largescale implementation would be unlikely. Consequently, there is a need for CS to be practiced from home. In order for this to happen, Organizations need to disseminate protocols for each employee to practice. As an example, this would require re-configuration of home routers, which of course, would vary depending upon the make and model. Additionally, before such a process commences, permission of the ISP would be needed.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) AND Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
BCPs and DRPs are normally prepared assuming that the Organization would be affected by incidents like Crashing of Primary Server or Primary Server site impacted by fire, earthquakes, floods etc. Plans to mitigate these include a DR site (where users can log in), an Alternate Processing Site (APS) where minimum staff can be moved to continue operations, policies and procedures to be adopted during the disaster etc. The prime assumption is that the disaster is company specific and the entire country is not in a lock down, similar to what happened after the death of Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, after her assassination in December 2007. While the country came to a halt and incurred huge financial losses, the duration was only for three days. However, typically no BCP/DRP accounts for a Pandemic like Covid-19 which, effectively, has brought all major countries to a lock down that has severely impacted business continuity as well plans in place to address organization specific disasters.
Notwithstanding the above, micro level BCPs have to be developed by organizations for use of their employees or personnel working from home.
It can be concluded that organizations need to assess their risks, modify controls wherever required, and make small investments. It is conceivable that majority of these risks, and consequently investments, will pertain to network security including cyber security and tools that each individual will need for implementation e.g. VPN.
Waqar Khan
Waqar is a former Partner of EY & currently the CEO of TRACS LLC, USA, a Technology Consulting Company, as well as CEO of TRACS (Pvt) Ltd., a subsidiary based in Pakistan.
He can be reached at waqar.khan@tracstechnologies.com or waqar.khan@tracstech.com
Note: TRACS has developed a Risk Model which calculates the overall WFH Technology Risk of a company, based on input of certain key information.


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CONCEPTION OF EJ'S PROMISE
EJ's Promise was conceived and founded by mother and daughter, Karen Sams and Elizabeth Simon. It was born out of the combined devastating events that happened in our family.
"E" is for Emery, daughter/granddaughter who was born on 12/29/17 with a fatal genetic chromosome disorder called Trisomy 18. Emery died on 6/16/18 at only 5 ½ mos. old
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EJ's promise is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization founded as a way to help the organizations, who were so instrumental in giving us the support we needed, to be able to continue to help other families like ours.
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This lovely ranch style home is located in a quiet and peaceful neighborhood, just steps away from the cities walking trail system and 2 neighborhood parks. This convenient location is just minutes from the Fort Missoula Regional Park and Community Hospital. Downtown and the University can be easily accessed in a quick 10 minute drive. The mall and many restaurants are within walking distance.
This is a new rental and has new beds and mattresses along with many other new items within the home.
Shelly es un Superhost · Los Superhost son anfitriones con mucha experiencia y evaluaciones excelentes que se esfuerzan al máximo por ofrecer a los huéspedes estancias maravillosas.


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Foreign investors pour US$194 billion into Vietnam's industrial and economic zones
Ngoc Thuy
In the first five months of 2020, industrial parks and economic zones drew 390 foreign projects worth US$4.3 billion.
Vietnam's industrial parks (IPs) and economic zones (EZs) have so far attracted 9,850 foreign-invested projects with total registered capital of nearly US$194 billion, 70% of which has been disbursed, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).
Foreign investors pour US$194 billion into Vietnam's industrial and economic zones.
Meanwhile, IPs and EZs have received VND2,300 trillion (US$99 billion) in terms of newly-registered capital and additional capital poured into 9,650 projects carried out by Vietnamese investors, stated a MPI's report, adding 45% of the said amount has been disbursed.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, revenues of enterprises operating in IPs and EZs suffered an 8% decline year-on-year in the January – May period to US$81 billion, while their exports rose 4% to US$58 billion.
Additionally, over 3.82 million workers are being employed in IPs and Ezs, down 0.77% against late 2019.
Since the beginning of 2020, around 120 enterprises in EZs and IPs were forced to suspend operations due to the pandemic, the majority of them were in southern industrial parks in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces.
Vietnam currently has 336 industrial zones covering an area of nearly 97,800 hectares as of the end of May, of which 260 are operational, other 76 are in the process of site clearance and construction. The occupancy rate reached 76.1% at operating industrial parks.
Additionally, the country has 17 coastal economic zones covering a combined area of approximately 845,000 hectares on land and water surface.
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Speak To Connect is currently hiring for a Speech Communications Adjunct Instructor for our South Brunswick, NJ class.
Speak To Connect, is an after-school enrichment organization that strives to improve students' communication skills. We offer a series of public speaking, leadership, entrepreneurship, writing, and reading classes to students in grades 7-12 in the South Brunswick, NJ.
We are currently seeking part-time Public Speaking teachers for our Fall 2017 classes and classes that start in January 2018.
Under the supervision of the founder and co-founder of the program, teachers will implement the approved curriculum and educational programs for students within their area of expertise. The position will instruct Public Speaking sessions as part of the Youth Leadership Education courses offered in various programs at Speak To Connect.
This is a fixed-term (renewable) position with a start date of November 10, 2017.
Primary teaching areas will be Public Speaking, Foundations of Public Speaking, and Communication.
Ability to adapt readily to change.
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and virtually.
Knowledge of academic and/or vocational education curricula.
Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant current education methodologies.


Some of the preliminary early findings of the Reinvent project indicate that Danish SMEs in creative sectors score higher than similar firms in other countries in terms of business model renewal. Business model renewal refers to radical changes to business models or entirely new business models.
Looking around the streets of a quiet "not-Copenhagen" city like Horsens this doesn't seem particularly likely. But apparently there is a lot of ferment and innovation going on beneath the peaceful facade!
This reminds me of the phrase "still waters run deep".


Pretty bubble gum pink Jade gemstones and 925 Sterling Silver. A charming pair of earrings indeed, simple yet eye-catching. An interesting fact about pink Jade is that it is believed to make one's mind lighter, while dispelling negative thoughts and uplifting moods. Looking at this item of jewelry, it is not hard to believe, given the blushing, pink glow of the 2 polished Jade gemstones.


Customer Agreement- The agreement that has been entered into between PALOMA IN SWEDEN AB ("Paloma") and the Customer.
Terms & Conditions- Refers to the terms and conditions in the current agreement.
Agreement Period- Refers to the period on which Paloma and the Customer have reached agreement for the use of the Service.
Credits- Refers to a pot of credits i.e. a pot consisting of the number of attendees in Magnet, the number of responses in Kurios and the number of mailings in Postman, which the Customer has purchased pursuant to agreement.
The Customer- Refers to the natural or legal person with whom Paloma has entered into a Customer Agreement for licence of the Service.
The Service- Refers to Paloma's products: Magnet, Kurios and Postman.
Recipient- Refers to the natural or legal person to whom the Customer sends newsletters, invitations and other services via the Service.
Intellectual property rights- Refers to all intellectual property rights of the Service to which Paloma has an exclusive right, including related rights, as well as the further development and updating of the Service.
User rights- Refers to the limited right granted to the Customer through the Customer Agreement and the Terms & Conditions to use the Service during the agreed Agreement Period.
Together with the Customer Agreement, these Terms & Conditions regulate the contractual relationship between Paloma and the Customer regarding the Service. In the event of discrepancies between the Terms & Conditions and the Customer Agreement, the Customer Agreement shall take precedence. Paloma and the Customer are hereinafter jointly referred to as the Parties and individually as Party.
Customer Agreement shall be deemed to have been entered into when Paloma has confirmed the order or when the Service has been opened for use.
The Customer selects a username and a password of his own choosing. Paloma reserves the right to change the Customer's identification data for technical reasons, for operational reasons or for other reasons, for example on account of a decision by a competent authority.
Notice of cancellation shall be provided in writing via email. Failure to pay an invoice is not deemed to constitute cancellation of the Customer Agreement. Paloma does not pay refunds of previously made payments, compensation for the unused part of the Agreement Period or Credits in any circumstance other than circumstances whereby the cancellation has been made on account of a fault or delay in the Service that depends on a circumstance on the part of Paloma, and such circumstance is not of insignificance to the Customer.
Cancellation of the Customer Agreement must be made prior to the commencement of a new Agreement Period. It is the Customer's responsibility to be aware of when a new Agreement Period starts. Paloma is entitled to invoice the Customer for each Agreement Period that has started. Paloma does not pay a refund as compensation for any time remaining in the period that has started in accordance with the Customer Agreement. This applies even if there is still a pot with Credits.
If the Customer Agreement has been cancelled, the Service is closed down automatically on the day after the final day of the current Agreement Period. It is up to the Customer to export the data the Customer wishes to keep prior to the day on which the Service is automatically closed down. Paloma cannot guarantee that the Customer's data from the Service will be saved, or that a backup of such data will exist, after the expiry of the Agreement Period.
The Customer Agreement is automatically extended if it has not been cancelled prior to the commencement of a new Agreement Period. A Freemium account or an account with Credits is closed down automatically if the Customer has not been logged onto the account for a period of twelve (12) months.
Paloma is entitled to cancel the Customer Agreement with immediate effect if Paloma intends to shut down the Service or incorporate it into another service, or if Paloma changes the Terms & Conditions for connection to the Service, e.g. due to an increase in functionality or the imposition of a charge for the Service. In such case, any outstanding payment will be credited to the Customer by means of a credit note.
With exception for the above, the following terms and conditions apply to payment with a credit or debit card. If there are insufficient funds to cover the automatic card payment, Paloma reserves the right to make further attempts to process the payment during the following ten (10) days. If there are still insufficient funds to cover the payment after this ten-day period, the Customer Agreement is cancelled with immediate effect. However, in such a situation the Service does not cease entirely, but rather continues to run as a Freemium account. In accordance with the above provision, the Freemium account is then closed down automatically if the Customer has not been logged onto the account within a period of twelve (12) months.
Through the Customer Agreement, the Customer is only granted access to a non-exclusive, time-limited right to use the Service. The Customer is also granted a non-exclusive, time-limited right to use further developments, updates or amendments of the Service. The Customer's user right is limited to that which is specified above and in the Customer Agreement. Otherwise, Paloma retains all rights to the Service, including all Intellectual Property Rights that the Service contains or may come to contain by way of further development, update or amendment of the Service. Paloma's rights and Paloma's Service's rights may not be used in connection with any product or service without Paloma's written consent.
The Service, or any part thereof, may not be sold, distributed, copied, reproduced or used in any way that is not in compliance with the Customer's user right pursuant to these Terms & Conditions and the Customer Agreement.
Payment for the Service takes place in accordance with the applicable pricelist. The price is stated exclusive of VAT or other comparable surcharges and public charges.
The Service is invoiced or paid for via a credit or debit card at the start of the Agreement Period or the extension period. When payment is made against invoice, the payment shall be received by Paloma no later than 15 days after invoice date (unless some other arrangement has been agreed between the Parties). If payment of an invoice is delayed, the Customer is obligated to pay penalty interest to Paloma in accordance with Section 6 of the Swedish Interest Act, calculated from the day on which payment should have been made.
If payment is made by credit or debit card, the amount is immediately charged to the card on purchase of the Service, and thereafter automatically each time the Customer Agreement is extended.
Paloma reserves the right to stop delivery of the Service (or part thereof) if payment is not made on time. It is up to the Customer to inform Paloma of any change of address.
The Service is normally in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Operation of the Service is unsupervised during certain times. Operational downtime may occur during such times. Furthermore, Paloma reserves the right, without prior notice, to restrict or stop the operation of the Service for service-related purposes, e.g. the rectification of bugs, maintenance and upgrades.
In cases where notification is sent to the Customer, such notification will be sent to the email address designated by the Customer for receipt of information concerning the operation of the Service.
Paloma provides the Customer with support if support has been ordered. The support takes place via email concerning questions and enquiries, operational downtime or other problems that arise in relation to the use of the Service. Support cases received during office hours (08.00-17.00 Swedish time) will normally be answered within four hours. Shorter opening hours may apply to the support function during the summer period. For emergency support cases, the Customer is referred to Paloma's switchboard, +46 (0)225 410 22, to report a case.
Through provision of the Service, Paloma also processes personal data on behalf of the Customer. Such data may, for example, concern subscribers to a newsletter or attendees at an event.
In relation to such personal data, the Customer is the personal data controller and Paloma is the Customer's personal data processor. By accepting these Terms & Conditions, the Customer also accepts the Personal Data Processor Contract below.
In its role as personal data controller, the Customer must comply with the requirements imposed by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is therefore required of the Customer to have lawful grounds for all personal data that is processed, and to ensure that the personal data is processed in accordance with the principles of GDPR.
In order to use the Service, the Customer's technical conditions must satisfy the minimum requirements for the Service as specified on Paloma's website.
Paloma reserves the right to examine the material that the Customer communicates via the Service, in order to ensure that the Customer is in compliance with its undertakings pursuant to these Terms & Conditions. However, Paloma undertakes no responsibility or liability for closely examining the Customer's use of the Service.
The Customer is only entitled to use the Service with observance of applicable legislation.
Paloma also reserves the right to immediately stop delivery of the Service if the Customer's use of the Service represents a breach of these Terms & Conditions or other reasonable written restrictions from Paloma. Paloma also reserves the right to immediately stop delivery of the Service in the event of some other use that is harmful to Paloma, the Service or the Recipients of the Service in some other manner.
the Customer sends emails in such a way that it entails, or may come to entail, some form of blacklisting, spam filtering or blocking of the Service's IP address.
If the Service (or part thereof) has been stopped due to use that is in breach of the provisions in this Section 9, this does not provide entitlement to any refund to the Customer. The Customer's right to use the Service ceases with immediate effect when the Service has been stopped. Paloma accepts no liability in relation to the Customer for the loss of data as a consequence of the Service having been stopped.
The Customer is responsible for ensuring that the Service is used in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, both in Sweden and internationally. The Customer undertakes to indemnify Paloma for all financial or other loss or damage that is related to the Customer's use of the Service.
The Customer undertakes not to reveal his password to any unauthorised person and to ensure that documents containing details of the password are stored in such a way that no unauthorised person can gain access to the password. The Customer shall immediately ask Paloma to block the password if it is suspected that an unauthorised person has become aware of the Customer's password.
The Customer is solely responsible in relation to Paloma for the information that is transferred, stored or provided through the Service.
The Customer undertakes to use the Service in accordance with the permission marketing principle. This means that the Service will be used to further develop existing relations. A Recipient of a mailing must have directly or indirectly consented to receiving information from the Customer. The consent from the Recipient may arise, for example, through an existing customer relationship, personal contacts or a request/application to receive information from the Customer via the Service.
A Recipient of information via the Service shall always be offered the opportunity of deregistering from further mailings through the use of a clearly visible, clickable link in each individual mailing. It shall be easy to de-register, and a Recipient's desire to do so must always be respected. Sending invitations to launch a newsletter is acceptable on condition that they are one-off invitations to each Recipient and are sent to a relevant target group that can be supposed to have an interest in the content.
The Service is otherwise used in accordance with the industry organisation SWEDMA's ethical guidelines regarding email marketing.
Paloma does not permit the Customer to enter purchased addresses or address lists into the Service.
The Customer understands that there may only be one registered sender per account. A Customer is entitled to open an account on behalf of a client. However, there may only be one such registered client/sender per Paloma account.
Paloma is not liable for inconvenience, damage or loss that is due to circumstances beyond Paloma's control or that Paloma could not reasonably have known about or predicted.
Such circumstances, constituting "Force Majeure" shall be deemed to include, but are not limited to: accidents, war, riots, severe weather, labour market conflict, faults in an operator's, a business partner's or a supplier's IT service, data network, payment solution or similar event that is beyond Paloma's control. Under no circumstances is Paloma liable for indirect loss or damage or consequential loss or damage. Consequently, Paloma is not liable for loss of profits or any other kind of indirect damage or loss.
Paloma's liability as a consequence of the Customer Agreement is always limited to a total amount not in excess of an amount that equates to the payments made by the Customer during the previous twelve (12) months prior to the occurrence of the loss or damage.
In the event of a fault or delay on the part of Paloma which is not insignificant to the Customer, the Customer may receive an adjustment through a free-of-charge extension of the Agreement Period in relation to the relevant part of service loss. Under no circumstances are damages payable for loss of service in accordance with the above.
If no claim for compensation is made within one month of the date on which the Service should have opened or the fault should have ceased, the Customer forfeits his right to compensation if the claim could have been made at the right time.
Paloma has the right to revise these Terms & Conditions by publishing an updated version on the website. The amended Terms & Conditions are applicable as of the date/time they are published on the website.
A change to charges is made by entering the change onto the pricelist that applies at any given time. If the Customer does not approve the change or surcharge, the Customer is entitled to cancel his Customer Agreement in accordance with Section 3. If such cancellation does not take place, the Customer is deemed to have approved the new terms.
The new terms are applied as of the start of the next Agreement Period, although always at least one (1) month after Paloma has informed the Customer of the impending increase. The information is sent to the email address designated by the Customer for receipt of information concerning the operation of the Service.
The Customer is not entitled to transfer this agreement to a third party without written consent from Paloma AB.
Paloma has the right, without having to obtain the Customer's consent, to entirely or partially transfer the Customer Agreement, or its rights and obligations under the Customer Agreement, to companies that are part of the same group as Paloma. Paloma has the right to engage the services of subcontractors for fulfilment of its undertakings pursuant to the Customer Agreement.
Each Party undertakes not to disclose to a third party, confidential information that a Party receives from the other Party, or which comes to light during the use of the Service.
Paloma is not entitled to give out address lists to a third party without the Customer's approval.
Paloma is entitled to change the design of the Service without prior notification, and irrespective of its reasons for doing so. Such a change becomes valid with immediate effect.
In connection with all changes that may conceivably affect the Customer's use of the Service, the Customer shall receive, within a reasonable period of time, an e-letter containing the relevant information, sent to the email address designated by the Customer for receipt of information concerning the operation of the Service.
The Customer is not entitled to transfer the Service to a third party.
Paloma enters into agreements with customers in several countries, and translates the Customer Agreement and the Terms & Conditions into various languages as necessary. If an agreement is open to varying interpretation due to language-related differences, the Swedish version of the agreement shall always be afforded precedence when it comes to interpretation.
The formalities for entering into an agreement and the matter of the validity of the agreement between Paloma and a Customer shall be settled in accordance with Swedish law.
An agreement that has been entered into between Paloma and a Customer shall be interpreted and have the legal effects pursuant to Swedish law.
Any dispute arising between the Parties shall be settled in accordance with Swedish law and by a Swedish court of law, whereby Stockholm District Court is the court of first instance.
1.1 The Customer and Paloma have entered into an agreement regarding the use of Paloma's services (the "Customer Agreement") and have approved the general terms and conditions of the agreement (the "Terms & Conditions").
1.2 This personal data processor contract (the "Processor Contract") only regulates matters concerning Paloma's Processing of Personal Data on behalf of the Customer. In the event of discrepancies between the Customer Agreement and the Processor Contract, the Customer Agreement shall take precedence.
2.1 Terms defined with uppercase letters in the Processor Contract, which also appear in the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR"), have the same definition as in GDPR.
The Customer Agreement refers to the agreement regarding the use of Paloma's services that has been entered into prior to, or in conjunction with, the entering into of this Processor Contract.
The Processor Contract refers to this Personal Data Processor Contract.
Legislation refers to the applicable Swedish legislation at any given time. Personal data is primarily regulated by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR") and the Swedish Act with Supplementary Provisions concerning the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2018:218). The Parties understand and agree that this Processor Contract shall be interpreted in accordance with the Swedish legislation that applies at any given time.
Personal Data Controller ("the Controller") refers to the Customer, who determines the purpose and means of the Processing.
Personal Data Processor ("the Processor") refers to Paloma, which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.
Standard Contractual Clauses refers to the clauses for the protection of Personal Data transferred to a third country in accordance with the European Commission's decision C(2010)593 of 5 February 2010, or equivalent clauses which replace these.
Sub-processor refers to a party engaged by the Processor with the assignment, and with the responsibility that rests on a Processor, to carry out Processing in accordance with this Processor Contract and the Controller's instructions.
3.1 The purpose of the Processor Contract is to establish such a binding written contract regarding the personal data processor as is required according to the Legislation.
3.2 Furthermore, the purpose is to ensure that the security and confidentiality of the Personal Data is maintained during the Processor's Processing of the Personal Data.
4.1 The Controller is responsible for ensuring that Processing takes place in accordance with the Legislation applicable at any given time.
4.2 The Parties understand and agree that, if the Legislation or applicable instructions from authorities change significantly, the terms and conditions set out in this Processor Contract shall be adjusted so that they equate, to the greatest extent possible, to the principles originally intended by the Parties when this Processor Contract was entered into.
e) ensure that the Processor has received all necessary information from the Controller in order for the Processor to be able to carry out the Processing in accordance with the Legislation.
h) maintain necessary registers concerning the Processing and provide the Controller with access to all information necessary to demonstrate that the obligations imposed on the Processor have been complied with as stipulated in the Legislation, and facilitate and contribute to audits, including inspections, that are carried out by the Controller or a third party thus mandated by the Controller.
6.2 The Processor does not have the right, other than in accordance with instructions from the Controller, to change the purposes or means of the Processing.
b) the risks that the Processing entails, in particular from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or unauthorised access to Personal Data that has been transferred, stored or in some other way processed.
7.2 The Controller is responsible for ensuring that the Processor is informed about all circumstances (including risk assessment and Processing of special categories of Personal Data) regarding the Personal Data provided by the Controller, which affect the technical and organisational measures covered by this Processor Contract.
7.3 The Processor shall notify the Controller, without unreasonable delay, although no later than 48 hours after the matter has come to the attention of the Processor, of the occurrence of, or risk for, a Personal Data Breach.
8.1 The Processor has the right to engage the services of one or more Sub-processors for the performance of the Processor's obligations according to this Processor Contract.
8.2 If a Sub-processor is engaged, the Processor shall enter into a binding contract with the Sub-processor, whereby the Sub-processor is bound by at least the same obligations as are imposed on the Processor pursuant to the Processor Contract. In such a binding contract, the Sub-processor shall provide sufficient guarantees concerning the implementation of appropriate technical and organisational measures in such a way that the Processing complies with the requirements in the Processor Contract and the Legislation.
8.3 The Processor shall maintain an up-to-date list of all Sub-processors whose services the Processor has engaged at any given time. At the request of the Controller, the Processor shall provide the Controller with a copy of the list of Sub-processors.
8.4 The Processor is fully responsible in relation to the Controller for how a Sub-processor processes personal data, including the security measures applied by the Sub-processor.
8.5 The Processor shall inform the Controller in advance of any and all planned changes, additions or replacements of Sub-processors, so that the Controller has the opportunity to object to such a change if there is objectively acceptable reason to do so.
c) to save the address list for the purpose of using the email addresses for a later mailing.
d) to Process Personal Data by offering a function for "checking in" registered participants to events.
c) to Process Personal Data by maintaining statistics regarding the outcome of the surveys.
9.4 It is the Controller who bears the full responsibility for ensuring that the Processing of the Personal Data in the Services fulfils the requirements in the Legislation. It should be noted in particular that special consideration should be given to the saving of address lists and the collection of survey questionnaires with free text responses when it comes to ensuring compliance with the Legislation's requirements regarding (among other things) legal grounds, correctness and erasure.
10.1 In the event that the Processor, in conjunction with the Processing, transfers Personal Data to a country outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") and which is not deemed by the European Commission to ensure an adequate level of protection in relation to the Legislation, the Parties shall enter into an additional contract based on Standard Contractual Clauses.
10.2 If the Processor has engaged the services of a Sub-processor, and such engagement entails the transfer of Personal Data to a country outside the EEA which is not deemed by the European Commission to ensure an adequate level of protection in relation to the Legislation, an additional contract shall be entered into based on Standard Contractual Clauses. Such additional contract shall be entered into between the Controller and the Sub-processor. In the event of discrepancies between this Processor Contract and the aforementioned Standard Contractual Clauses, the Standard Contractual Clauses shall take precedence. Paloma does not currently have any Sub-processors outside the EEA in countries that are not deemed to ensure an adequate level of protection.
11.1 If the Controller so requests, the Processor, without unreasonable delay, shall provide the Controller, or an independent third party engaged by the Controller, with access to such information and documentation as is necessary in order for the Controller to be able to carry out an effective check/review of the Processor's measures according to this Processor Contract or the Legislation.
11.2 The Controller shall bear the costs that arise in conjunction with a check/review of the Processing of Personal Data carried out by the Processor.
c) ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to a third party without the prior approval of the Controller, unless the Processor is obligated to disclose such information in accordance with mandatory legislation or regulation.
12.2 If a data subject or an authority makes a request related to the Personal Data covered by this Processor Contract, the Processor, as quickly as is reasonably possible, shall notify the Controller of such request before the Processor replies to the request or undertakes other measures regarding the Personal Data.
Processor is not obligated to notify the Controller of such request.
13.1 The Controller is responsible for ensuring that the Processing takes place in accordance with the Legislation and the Controller's obligations pursuant to this Processor Contract. The Controller is also responsible for issuing adequate and lawful instructions to the Processor.
13.2 The Processor is responsible for ensuring that the Processing of Personal Data takes place in accordance with the Controller's instructions and the Processor's obligations pursuant to this Processor Contract, as well as in accordance with the Terms & Conditions.
13.3 Each Party shall hold the other Party harmless for any damages or losses (including, for example, but not limited to, administrative sanction fines, damages payable to data subjects, or legal representation fees) which a Party incurs as a result of the other Party having acted in violation of the Processor Contract. However, the Processor's liability shall be subject to the same limitations as are specified in the Terms & Conditions.
13.4 In the event of the existence of some form of compensatory damage or loss as described above, the Party shall undertake measures to limit the damage or loss, provided such measures do not result in unreasonable costs or are not otherwise unreasonably burdensome.
13.5 If a Party has acted in violation of the Processor Contract in a not insignificant respect, the other Party has the right to enforce early termination of the Customer Agreement with effect from a point in time determined by the other Party.
14.1 This Processor Contract applies between the Parties as long as the Processor processes Personal Data as a consequence of its undertaking to deliver services to the Customer in accordance with the Customer Agreement. If the Customer Agreement is terminated or otherwise ceases to apply, and a new such agreement is entered into without the signing of a new personal data processor contract, this Processor Contract shall also apply in relation to the new agreement. This Processor Contract can be terminated on the basis of the terms and conditions that are set out in the Customer Agreement.
15.1 When the Processing has ceased, or prior to this if the Controller so requests, the Processor shall hand over or destroy all Personal Data Processed by the Processor.


Austin, TX – October 19, 2016 – SmartTouch® Interactive, an interactive real estate marketing agency, real estate marketing automation and home builder lead nurturing CRM solution company, today announced that Alan Daniel, CEO and Co-founder of SmartTouch Interactive, will present, "The Latest in Lead Management and Nurturing with Marketing Automation," at the first annual Latin American Real Estate Tech Summit 2016. The event will take place at the JW Marriott in Miami, Florida on October 20, 2016.
This one-day event presented by the Latin American Real Estate Technology Council brings together leaders from across the real estate technology industry and will focus on helping home builders and developers gain insight into the latest software, tools and strategies for improving real estate sales and marketing ROI.
Alan is one of the selected expert speakers that will present during the intensive 30-minute hot topic sessions. During his session, Alan will provide the latest tips on how to use technology and content to track and respond to buyers' digital signals to ensure sales team members make the right communication, at the right time, with the right message. Attendees will learn how to develop a marketing automation strategy, including content and technology considerations, and walk away with a proven workflow that they can use now.
Alan Daniel is the CEO and co-founder of SmartTouch® Interactive, an accomplished entrepreneur and a sales and marketing specialist with more than 15 years serving industries such as real estate, banking, and television. Alan leads business development, financial and corporate development initiatives at SmartTouch®.


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Shares of Google (GOOG) tumbled as much as 9% Thursday afternoon after the tech giant's third-quarter earnings report showed that its core advertising business was slowing. Google's earnings shocker was accidentally released hours before the scheduled earnings announcement and Nasdaq halted trading of Google shares for almost three hours after the stock lost nearly $22 billion in market value.
Larry Page, CEO of Google, told investors that financial printer RR Donnelley "hit send on the release just a little early."
Related: Wall Street Is Worried About the Health of Google CEO Larry Page
Regardless of the premature release, Google's disappointing earnings raised questions about the company's future ability to reap profits from search and mobile devices. In a conference call with analysts, Page insisted that the company was in a good position to capitalize on its mobile business. He said Google generated $8 billion a year from mobile ads even though the revenue on mobile devices was significantly less than what the company earned from desktop ads. Google's cost per click dropped 15% from the same quarter last year, the fourth-straight quarter of declines.
As more and more consumers use mobile devices to check email, watch videos and read the news, it has become more challenging for companies like Google, Facebook (FB) and Microsoft (MSFT) to monopolize on the mobile trend. According to digital advertising research firm eMarketer, Google controls 55% of the market in mobile ad revenue and 95% for mobile search ads.
Howard Lindzon, CEO of StockTwits.com and a Google shareholder, says one shaky quarter has not changed his bullish view on the company.
"I am going to buy some more for my kids," he says in an interview with The Daily Ticker. "Google is kicking butt. You can't bet against Google. It's a great company and it's growing."
Related: No One Knows Why Google's Stock Is Soaring, But Stranger Things Have Happened
Lindzon says he will continue to add to his Google position if the stock price drops further. (In recent trading, Google shares were down 2.4% to $678.28.)
The anxiety over Google's mobile business should be directed toward Microsoft and Nokia (NOK), he says.
Larry Page is "managing the company as if the stock price does not matter. And that worked for Jeff Bezos a long time ago too," Lindzon says. "These guys could less about their stock price."
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Because of this, we developed our Tornado-stitch Kote futon which excels in absorbing impacts from getting hit, for example during motodachi practice. We also receive many requests for custom Men with extra padding. Considering how effective the Kote are, we have taken the tornado-stitch and applied it to both the Men and the Tare – creating a full bogu set specialised in protecting you where you need it.
Only making the futon thicker or harder would not make a good bogu. To make a bogu which not only protects, but is also flexible enough for vigorous practice, we needed to make something different: through extensive research and testing, we devised the Tornado-stitch futon.
This special type of stitching, featuring thick bands of padding, can absorb powerful strikes painlessly. The bands are orientated obliquely across the strike zones for maximum effectiveness, perpendicular to the lines where you get struck. Both the design and function of this futon are registered trademarks – Patent No. 5835363 and No. 5923840. This is protection and expertise you can find nowhere else, but at Tozando.
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We Don't Work on Companies, We Work on Humans
We don't work on companies, we work on humans.
As an entrepreneur, your top priority shouldn't be "penetrating a market", or "competitive advantage". You should be building a community of people that add value to one another.
Your customers should have better lives, your advisers and investors should feel that they are positively impacting the world, and your employees should feel that the work they do is getting them closer to their own personal and professional aspirations.
It is easy to get distracted from this priority, and I am one of the most distractible.
This might be because almost every conversation in a startup company is about the future. Where is this company headed? How long will it take to get there?
I'm surrounded by a motley crew of company CEOs, portfolio companies in various stages of growth, and my own company, which has its own dreams of grandeur. Existing in this milieu has an interesting effect on my mindset: I seem to inhabit almost every moment in time, except the present moment.
There are moments, though, when I am snapped back into the present.
In the present, we are early in our quest to demonstrate an alternative model for venture capital.
In the present, finding product-market fit is still really, really hard.
In the present, we have not yet helped 10,000 founders and funders find each other.
It is easy to get mired in speculation about how to achieve your wildest dreams. This can often obscure an important truth: we do not build technology, products, and companies. We build communities.
It took hearing difficult feedback from four separate portfolio companies in one week to jar me into actually noticing what people were trying to communicate to me about our own company. The message was, in essence, "all of the things you dream of doing are awesome. However, what you really need to master is not an alternative model for venture capital, product-market fit, and capital strategy. It is supporting people on their journey to be the best version of themselves, because that is what creates value."
Customer support is not sexy. I prefer conversations about the future of technology-enabled transaction, moats, Keiretsu organizational design, or equity crowdfunding.
These conversations are not the foundation of a valuable community, though. The foundation of a valuable community is trust; people who feel that you have their back.
Don't build a company that is valuable for yourself. Build a company that creates new value for other people. It takes a strong community to take on the most important problems, and communities are built one unsexy conversation at a time.
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Reflecting on Terrorism
It has always been a question for me.
As a human who has lived a beautiful life, loves my family, has called many places home, has believed lots of humbling and divergent things about divinity, loves my body, and is still scared of death, I have often struggled trying to grasp what would make someone die over a place, a boundary.
I generally understand terrorism to be when a people without an acknowledged place engage in warfare. Generally a statistical minority against a violent majority. It often takes the form of suicide, kamikaze flights into buildings, self-explosion in a crowd, the use of the self as a weapon, as an exclamation point in an argument.
And I have to ask myself, under what conditions would I kill myself?
I remember asking that question perhaps for the first time on 9/11. My response since then has been consistent: that the horror of oppression that exists leading up to an act of terrorism must be unbearable.
I have my own rhythms of melancholy and hopelessness, which undulate on a roughly five year cycle, and which I've learned to live through and with. My hopelessness is smart, sometimes smarter than I am. It has great reasons for existing, feels like a logical response to my experience in the world, to unavoidable suffering. But my hopelessness is regularly countered by reprieve from oppression, by great joy and love and abundance and freedom and periods of undeniable emotional and physical safety that counteract some of my other truths.
For me, the only external force that could make me take my own life, and perhaps anyone else's (still pretty sure this is not possible, though I have people in my life who make me feel violently protective) is feeling unheard in a cycle of hopelessness, in a trap of oppression, with no reprieve.
Powerless and still awake.
On 9/11, I walked from my midtown office to my friends' home in Brooklyn, through a city of rubble and blood. I ate a dinner of kielbasa and pierogies off a backyard picnic table covered in human and corporate ash. I'd lived in NY for five years that month, dreamed of it for a decade before getting there, and I thought it would always be my home. I loved it. When it was attacked, I needed to know why?
As a sci-fi writer, I get that the idea of hateful lifestyle fundamentalists is appealing, easy like a comic book villain. In a binary mind, it is so fulfilling to have a one dimensional bad person, or bad people. But in my life I have never met a bad person. I've met a lot of traumatized people, some of whom behaved badly.
I've met prisoners and bully children and drug dealers and sexual assailants and killers and thieves and hustlers. And each one was a human with a story, with learned behaviors and survival strategies, a sliver of life force that hadn't given up. Some of the people carrying these labels are amongst the most tender, brilliant people I've encountered.
People get traumatized individually and collectively. I have both experiences in my life and lineage. Responses to individual trauma can be privatized. Get a therapist, learn to love, stop overeating, forgive someone, choose life. It's a legitimate effort, a whole life's work, and for better and worse so much of it can happen behind closed doors, in rooms with sunlight and lavender and people who claim to know how to live.
Collective trauma is louder, harder to hide. It manifests as self-hate and internalized identity phobias, fear-based survival strategies, group violence at a gender or gang level.
It manifests, too, as terrorism.
At an international level, collective trauma is passed around, less like a hot potato, more like live coal in bare hands that no one will drop, believing it will cool to gold. It is searing everyone, leaving no one to offer comfort or a better option.
There is a deep desire to belong in this world, species, land – I have had many teachers say it is one of our deepest most common human longings, and the absence of belonging is one of the most common ways we experience trauma.
I've seen this phenomenon with children…my youngest niece wants to play soccer with the bigger kids, wants to be involved. She can't kick or control the ball with her feet yet, so she picks it up and runs off like Bonnie or Clyde towards the sunset.
Of course, while amusing, this strategy is not long lived. The ball is not meant to be used this way, the other kids cannot just let her take the ball. She won't have a moment's peace with that ball. She has to give it back, and be patient as she grows up, learns to play, learns that she belongs to the family whether she can kick the ball or not.
That is the simplest way I understand a conflict/place like Palestine. A traumatized people, left out, forced out of other homes, subjected to genocide, were offered something that was already in use. They ran with it. But the land is not meant to be occupied in this way, and so they have not had, and will not have, a moment's peace. It has been war, it will be war, until Israel finds a way to return what they can of what was taken, to return dignity to the relationship they have with the Palestinian people they appear to be trying to erase.
I live in a country where this same process happened. Indigenous people were pushed aside, murdered, manipulated, robbed. I believe many of our economic, environmental and health problems, as well as a general spiritual void, are directly linked to that trauma. I don't think America will be 'free' until there is a serious reckoning with that history, and what it now implies for other colonial efforts.
Accountability matters. Truth and reconciliation only works if the truth is really sought, really heard.
The truth, as far as I can tell, is that hate is not a root emotion. The why is not hatred, not at the root. My niece doesn't hate the other children…she wants to play with them. Israel wants to exist, to be recognized and respected. It wants the world to never again try to eliminate the Jewish people. It is a beautiful and noble desire.
But you cannot transform others.
Not with stolen property, not with apartheid practices of brute force, walls, passes, human rights violations and violence. What will continue to happen is collective trauma, and the growing, desperate need on both sides to end the trauma and begin to heal. The rhythms of Gaza, the demoralization of checkpoints, makes that impossible, currently.
The role the U.S. plays in it is so important. Certain states of mind and heart should not be weaponized and resourced. I can't imagine giving rape victims an AK47 and saying 'do whatever you need to do in order to feel safe from men.' Trauma begets trauma. Yet we pour funding into a situation where collective and recent trauma from a genocide is the undercurrent for decision making.
Of course, my mind comes back to the U.S. for other, current, reasons. A 2012 study found that every twenty eight hours a black person is killed by someone employed or protected by the US government. Stand Your Ground and Shoot First policies combine with white supremacy to devastating effect.
I feel and see us going through all of the options we can find to respond. Asking for justice, creating talking points and memes to educate ourselves and those who fear us, journeying across the country to focus our solidarity, meditating, praying, singing, screaming, grieving, demanding accountability, advocating for policy change, taking to the streets in nonviolent protest.
Movement is growing. I am inspired by the work being done under the hashtag/philosophy #blacklivesmatter – focusing on healing, solidarity, love, care and justice. These efforts highlight to the country and anyone else watching that, as a nation, we are only as far along as our oppressive tendencies.
But I also feel a growing danger. There is an exhaustion. One of my favorite exercise podcasts to listen to is The Read,. Cohosts Crissle and Kid Fury had some shows where they fully expressed their emotions about Ferguson. And Crissle particularly spoke my heart at one point when she said she was just so tired of watching black people be killed by authority figures. Deeply tired.
Yes, there is violence inside the community. Scarcity and poverty create a toxic and fatal self-image inside a people. Collective trauma, like individual trauma, does immense internal damage. The work necessary to restore and transform that self-inferiority has been in progress for years – black power, black love, building up our self-esteem as a people, generating dignity. That internal community violence is tragic and logical, to me. Slavery ended 149 years ago. Jim Crow laws, about 60 years ago. Blacks have been considered less than human in this country for the majority of our time here. Our statistics for prison, education, police brutality – there are few numbers we can look at see a story in which America loves black people more today, to see a story in which America is not still trying to rid itself of us. We have the Obamas, we have Oprah, but roughly every twenty eight hours or so, it feels like all we have are exceptions and skin that marks us like a breathing yellow star in a genocidal state.
In order for slavery and Jim Crow to end, there was a combination movement working the voting path, the legal path, the nonviolent movement path, and the path of armed resistance. And probably many many other paths as well. But in my reflections on terrorism, it feels important not to forget that there were slaves who fought back. There were black revolutionaries who armed themselves in response to the constant violent efforts of this nation to enslave and or erase them.
I was taught, in Department of Defense schools, that indigenous people were scalping and violent terrorists. But the more I have read, learned, listened to indigenous people today, I understand that that was the colonial view, a way to justify the unjustifiable and horrific violence of taking land and life from people.
I believe in the power of nonviolence, it is where I have spent the majority of my political life, working in the realm of vision, conflict resolution, nonviolent actions, and so on. And from that place I find myself trying to understand how much oppression humans can ever be expected to bear? It is from that place that I find myself feeling a deep compassion and solidarity for those pressed into the small box of terrorism, globally.
It feels very important to me to relinquish the safety of victimhood in the context of terrorism. Particularly as an American. I no longer feel shocked, 'how could this happen?' I feel more like, with the way that modern colonization and power are being wielded at this moment in our human journey, it shocks me that incidents of terrorism are not happening daily, across the nation, across the world.
I work with a client who monitors prison conditions. The staff is made up of people who have never been incarcerated, and people who have been incarcerated. We were recently in a conversation about what the future looks like – is it better, more humane prisons?
One of the responses, from someone who had been incarcerated for over a decade, was that there is no such thing as a humane prison. It was a simple and deep truth to hear. It didn't mean that reform work is not useful in the short term, but it absolutely meant that we have to build a common answer to this question: what are the conditions by which we can stand together in our dignity as human beings?
There is no humane way to shoot a black child in the street or in the face. There is no humane way to bomb a city. There is no humane way to imprison another human being. There is no humane way to commit an act of terrorism.
In the same way that we must listen to those who have experienced incarceration if we want to craft a humane and transformative justice in our lives, in our nation, in our time…I believe we must learn to really listen to those we call terrorists.
We need to remember, always, to humanize, to seek compassion, to let no human be outside of the mirror in which we see our own responsibility and our own potential. These are other human beings who have been driven to this edge. Dismissing or demonizing them will not keep anyone safe.
We must know that within each of us, there is that same small blue fire for life, for love, that can burn everything in sight under the wrong conditions. We must learn to consider terrorism as desperation born of oppression and collective trauma, and listen all the way down to the root of that desperation, down to the human.
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Summary: All Alex's life he has worked for his father in the family's murder-for-hire business. Now his life is out of control. In the throws of a mid-life crisis, he wants out of the business and he wants change in his life. Unfortunately, his father won't let him quit.
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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Will & Grace. Season three
Summary: Will and Grace are best friends. Will is a gay lawyer and Grace is a straight interior designer. They both live in New York and have become quite comfortable living together. Jack is Will's flamboyant gay friend and Karen is Graces' secretary/assistant who come over all the time to spice up the friendships.
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Summary: Born to a peasant family, young Joan hears the voices of saints telling her to unite her beseiged nation. At seventeen, she leads one of the greatest campaigns for freedom the world has ever witnessed.
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The way of the gun
Summary: Convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother carrying the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple, two small-caliber crooks soon run into major problems.
Summary: An older couple agree to mind their estranged daughters' boyfriends child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
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Streets of Laredo
Summary: This sequel to Lonesome Dove pits legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call against his deadliest adversary ever.
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Entertainment 2001
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Little Rascals. Vols. 1-2
Summary: Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Stymie, Darla and the rest of the Little Rascals are back.
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment/Artisan Home Entertainment [distributor] 2000
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LIT
I am David
Summary: David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly...
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Summary: Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but their own descent into a horrifying encounter with the supernatural.
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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Summary: A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful sun god, Ra, before they can find their way home.
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The fighting Kentuckian
Summary: The Duke leads a regiment of Kentucky riflemen through a French settlement, falls in love with a general's lovely daughter, and locks horns with a rival suitor who has a nefarious land-grabbing scheme up his sleeve. The courtship battle escalates into a full-scale frontier war.
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Entertainment Inc. 2001
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Summary: America's most eligible and richest bachelor makes the acquaintance of a naive country girl transplant to New York City by splashing mud all over the young lady. He sends his brilliant young financial advisor over to the automat, where her roommate is employed, to apologize unsuccessfully until the tycoon appears in person and charms the unemployed young lady into a date. Later, while on a trip...
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Indiscreet
Summary: An American diplomat in London falls in love with an actress, but tries to protect himself by saying he is married.
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2001
Summary: Harry, his best friend Tyrone, his girlfriend Marion, and his mother all struggle with drug addiction against a backdrop of the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn.
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Amandla! : a revolution in four part harmony
Summary: Tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. Specifically considers the music that sustained and galvanized blacks for more than 40 years. Focuses on the struggle's spiritural dimension named for the Xhosa word for "power". An uplifting story of human courage, resolve and triumph.
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Summary: At the edge of the mortal world lies a mystical vortex leading to the Nine Kingdoms, a fantastic land where fairy tales are reinvented--and not with happily-ever-after endings. An evil queen has doomed Prince Wendell to life as a dog. His quest to recapture the throne leads him through a portal to the mythical Tenth Kingdom--Central Park! With the help of ordinary mortals Virginia and Tony, he...
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The Sarah plain & tall collection
Summary: "Sarah, Plain and Tall:" A mail-order bride from Maine travels to Kansas in 1910 to join a widower, John Witting, and his two children. "Skylark:" The Witting family is tested first by drought and then by separation, as Sarah and the children are forced to leave their Kansas farm to join Sarah's aunts in Maine while Jacob remains behind to try to save their livelihood. "Sarah Plain and Tall:...
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Summary: This rendering of Orwell's classic is set in the beautiful Irish countryside and populated with a wide variety of barnyard animals. Chaos ensues when the animals take over the farm.
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 1999
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANI
The last unicorn
Summary: A unicorn, believing herself to be the last, searches for any others of her kind, while avoiding the malevolent Red Bull, the agent believed to have destroyed the rest of her herd. Along the way she is mistaken, ignored, attacked, and absessed about. She finally finds help from a magician named Schmendrick and a knight named Prince Lir.
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment 2004
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Saturday night live. The best of Jimmy Fallon
Summary: Loaded with Jimmy's most memorable moments and sketches and includes Jimmy with Mick Jagger, Jarret's Room, Jeopardy with Jimmy impersonating Adam Sandler, Impressions Montage, and Weekend Update Montage.
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SAT
Down from the mountain
Summary: A documentary of the May 24, 2000 concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville TN, of traditional American music by bluegrass and country music superstars. Features the Cox family, Fairfield Four, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Thomas King, Alison Krauss, Colin Linden, David Rawlings, Peasall Sisters, Dan Tyminski, Gillian Welch, and The Whites. Includes interviews, rehearsal and concert...
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Summary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2004
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Chuck & Buck
Summary: Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken different paths. While Chuck moved on with his life, Buck remained emotionally immature and developed a twisted obsession for his friend, with comic and embarrassing repercussions.
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